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here's an excerpt of a fast mix I did of this live triphop shit my buddy and his friends created at the big studio on new years day.... its all board EQs and summing, I used compressor plugins and not hardware except the master bus because I was still wiring stuff up that week... in fact I'm still wiring stuff up now in the home studio LOL its brutal in there!

https://soundcloud.com/james-marchione-1/trash-godz-live-20210101-excerpt-ramsa-rough-mix/s-kft2y2nqJn6

I was really impressed with the quality of this recording, Jim. All of the stuff on your Soundcloud is quality, and clearly crafted by someone whose composition and mixing skills are highly-developed... but there is something especially pleasing about the sonic quality of this recording here. If this is the only recording on your SC mixed/summed on this old board, then it is indeed a very effective pitch for what this thing can do.

What about a Jaguar-bodied short-scale? Fender has done quite a few different pickup and bridge configs with the jag's strat-width, offset, tummy-cut body style over last few years. You'd get same scale length as Mustang, plus the body-beef you crave, no?

I've purchased from Plugin Boutique and similar. I like the concept, like the experience. LOVE that you're going to put your own spin on it!

This news makes my week!

https://66.media.tumblr.com/f28ee113ae9fe02e412be5ecac651438/569d225ccef76ebe-85/s400x600/500a939fdbc29dd07561c10f4f9677b1531f356b.gif

Just noticed this today:

https://imgur.com/pRsln0r

Payments for what? What is there to buy here?

A buddy of mine just got one of the new Mexico-factory PJ Mustang basses. He was doing a show & tell over Zoom and I asked him about body thickness, and he showed me the profile "too thin to even warrant a tummy-cut contour" he said.

I have this same reservation about Mustangs, but I've yet to see one that is anywhere near as thick as a Strat. Definitely curious if such a thing exists, though.

allen and heath hasn't made a reliable small format board since the venerable mix wizard.... honestly the difference between an onyx and a zed is really sonically negligible. The summing is better on the zed, but the EQ is dead similar as are the line amps. The "perkins" EQ isjust a copy of all these trident 80 derived brit EQs from A&H or soundcraft.... soundcraft has been riffing on the same design since the model 200 replaced the series 1! A&H seems to think their sound is like if Mallcolm Toft tried to make an SSL LOL

This is good info. Cheers!

I have a soft spot for Soundcraft, my first mixers were those smaller Spirit mixers from the late 90s... I have zero doubt that a real, non-budget mixer made with fewer cost-cutting ICs would be a nice sonic upgrade, but I just never seem to get excited-enough about consoles to put down the $$$$.... one day!

mackies never die, never.... they always sound just as mediocre year after year.... when we're gone and the cockroaches evolve a culture they will mix their music on ancient mackie 8 busses and onyxes...

If you can't be better, at least be tougher. :D

This is a small, high quality board to learn on, vastly superior to a mackie, even the onyx... like a slightly less well engineered Yamaha PM1000 ;-)

As a fellow Onyx owner, I assure you none of us are the least bit surprised, nor offended at this assertion, LOL.

Like 8 years ago, I had a colleague who's father was a soon-to-retire exec at GC, offered me the ultra-insider discount, so I swooped in and got some big items in that tiny window. I wanted a a 16 x 16 interface and a decent 4-bus mixer, didn't want to fuss with discrete, and narrowed it down to the Allen & Heath ZED R16 or the 1640i. There was no question the R16 was the superior-sounding analog mixer, but it had 2 strikes against it: 1) It wasn't fully-capable of operating as a driverless audio interface in OSX, which meant eventually, the audio-interface portion would become unsupported and useless and 2) John Maclean had trashed A&H in social media for providing horrific customer support when his 16R went bad on him... he switch to a 1640i and pulled no punches regarding it being inferior analog, sounding "neutral (at best)... not sounding like anything"... but at least it worked.

8 years on, the darn thing still works as-new... the latency is pretty trash by today's standards, and most of the gain on the preamps being in the last 25% of the knob sweep is so bafflingly bad for a company that has been making analog mixers this long... but it's the big slice of joyless, bland, reliable utility I knew it would be.

Anyway... Good luck with the sale on this beauty!

Ha! "Can you draw this turtle?"

that's what I was thinking of! catch the alan moore reference though?

I didn't, sadly... but isn't it Pyramid Transnational, not Transglobal?

(I don't think I would have caught it either way, though I love me some Watchmen)

Ive found it hard to find stuff about mixing that allows me to learn at home at my own pace...

Seriously? I just Googled "mixing and mastering courses" and got hit after hit of courses consisting of on-demand videos + downloadable materials. Who is even able to offer in-person mixing courses in the US right now? It's all virtual at the moment, and some of those virtualized classes are at your own pace.

sounds like correspondence courses from my youth.... learn to be an architectural draftsman from home with this easy 4 week certificate program! YOU are an artist, unlock your gift with an exciting course from Pyramid Transglobal, send your check or money order to...

Ha! "Can you draw this turtle?"

in ym day there were actual studios you could call and beg to intern at.... failingthat you went to someone with a minor dance hit and slaved for him and then parleyed that into an assistant/receptionist gig somewhere more commercial.. I liked the apprentice system a lot, I learned more that way, even by seeing what NOT to do LOL Books helped but for isntance I'll never forget the first time I tried to set up overhead mics myself on a paying session.... ah the mockery, there are thigns books don't teach as well as hands on screwing it up with a boss who will tease you about it for months on end

I took that approach to break into video editing in LA the late 90s... it was the way of our people back then. But is Ajaik even looking to record live singers and instruments, or is it all hardware synths and ITB sounds? Good to be well-rounded and skilled enough to handle any potential situation, but if one already has a full-time career in another field and is just looking to mix and master their own electronic instrumentals...

Ive found it hard to find stuff about mixing that allows me to learn at home at my own pace...

Seriously? I just Googled "mixing and mastering courses" and got hit after hit of courses consisting of on-demand videos + downloadable materials. Who is even able to offer in-person mixing courses in the US right now? It's all virtual at the moment, and some of those virtualized classes are at your own pace.

Now... as to which of these are worth the time to watch, which is what you're probably asking anyway: that's a great question I don't have an answer to.

That said, in my personal experience, Software Engineers have a better handle on how to push themselves through learning new things than the population at-large. You've probably had to learn a few different languages and new design patterns, etc over the course of your career.

So my advice would be:

1. Use whatever approach to learning new things has worked best for you thus far, and ignore anyone who insists you deviate too far from that.

2. Prioritize advice from artists and mix engineers who are directly-responsible for tracks you personally love, tracks you'd be happy to use as mix reference tracks for you own work... and take any advice from anyone else, especially internet people with no tracks posted (like me) with a grain of salt. ;)

cover bands are incompetent?

no.

The Beatles, The Who, and the Rollings Stones all started as cover bands. Not everyone loves those bands, but few would call them incompetent.

Don't you think that the cover band is a complete wreck and just losers

no.

Есть лучшие способы начать разговор, чем этот, друг. Пожалуйста, оставайтесь позитивными.

I love the industrial design of this MicroFreak. Looks great in grey.

I found a listing for this style of SG of dhgate, but i can't speak for the quality of said instruments, nor the ethicality of the production, as they come from china.

https://www.dhgate.com/product/1963-sg-custom-classic-white-electric-guitar/523430415.html?f=bm%7cGMC%7cpla%7c10936260131%7c108807309058%7c523430415%7cpla-297845415828%7c113003009%7cUS%7cac_dc%7cc%7c2%7c&utm_source=pla&utm_medium=GMC&utm_campaign=ac_dc&utm_term=523430415&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6t6ABhDMARIsAONIYyyufiFhtz2vK1ykZoxVepSTgtiB_yAQTKUsEY7YlMS9X7f4KhB-EyQaAgcGEALw_wcB

This is an impressively on-point find seedystrums.... dang. They even ship free to Russia (where ebebebeb is).

New month, new CSS. I like it.

Clean, sharp, easy on the eyes.

:D

Late to the party, but that's so cool!

What I like most is that EB itself solves the problem I was having discovering the maker of these speakers. Now anyone Googling "Charlotte de Witte speakers" is likely to get Charlotte's EB page as a high-ranking hit. Problem solved. :D

Congrats on your success!

Covid shuttered one of the more prominent neighborhood conservatories/practice spaces up the street from me, so I'm glad to hear things are still going OK-enough for your business through all this.

Not my call re: whether or not this form of promotion crosses the line, but you've got a long-established profile, have made substantive contributions over the past 5+ years, and are promoting with some self-awareness of the potentially dicy optics... so OK by me, FWIW.

Is there somewhere online those interested could go to see what brands you currently carry?

• Im waiting to see the M1 version of Apple MBPs or iMac (I'd probably want the M1 version of Ableton Live 11 when the time comes).

I have very high hopes for the M1X MacBook Pros rumored for Q3. My current 2013 MBP is nearly unusable due to battery swelling and just plain old march of time... had to settle for a much more powerful (but still Intel) iMac as a stopgap. I know I pitched Logic and FL if cost is a concern (and I do own them and love them), but Live is where I spend most of my time these days. Hard to beat the Ableton community. I'm hopeful that native M1 support in Live happens faster than Retina display support took years back.

Im happy to see Steinberg are still around even if its a totally different product. But you have to laugh when you see something like the PolyEnd Tracker or this thing.

I would have laughed at dedicated hardware trackers a few years ago, but the tracker workflow does force/inspire a different compositional approach that can pay dividends for some. Also: Amiga jungle. After a lifetime of being a never-tracker DAW snob, I'm opening up to the benefits of different compositional constraints.

Ha! Is that how that works? Does a PolyBrute trump a Pro3?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHGZsq10nFV-txtM5h1xZ8vynQwQR4QWE

Remembering back to when buying an Alesis Andromeda was the only new analog poly on the market... what a glorious time for analog synths we currently live in! I'm sure I'll love the PolyBrute once I get a chance to actually play one. :)

I have a bit of a story about DAWs: I was very much into hardware as a kid in the 80s but dabbled with things like Steinberg Pro24 and still own two Atari STs (you may recall they came with MIDI ports :-)

MIDI ports wired directly to a realtime OS. I've logged a nauseating number of Atari ST users here on EB. I'm perhaps a bit obsessed with that era.

Fast forward 20 years though, DAWs have become commonplace and very sophisticated (also expensive) and for awhile it felt like hardware was in decline and I wasn't interested in music software much.

Ableton Live and Pro Tools cost a decent amount, yes, but I don't think FL Studio or Logic Pro are expensive by any measure... US$200 for a lifetime license is a screaming deal, especially compared to the hardware we're talking about here.

... but the past few years we've come full circle because of the renaissance in synth hardware. Its kinda ironic to me that companies like Arturia now make hardware dontcha think ?

I can see the irony angle, but I think Arturia's (and IK's, Ableton's, etc) hardware play has more to do with how difficult it is for companies in the MI space to grow past a certain size purely on software revenue streams. Once you've reached a certain market saturation point, selling the same customer base on expansion packs and upgrades every year only works so well... and we're probably 5-10 years away from paid subscriptions being the dominant form of software distribution in this market, if it ever really takes off.

To state the obvious, people currently value physical objects differently than software... A person who kicks and screams over a $150 DAW upgrade fee once every 3 years might gladly shell out $800-$1200 for a new piece of hardware from the very same company. They may see themselves as a broke musician being fleeced by a greedy corporation when they have to pay for something as essential as a codebase overhaul for 64-bit support, but offer the same person a box of flashing lights or a sacred configuration of transistors, and they'll suddenly scrounge up 10x's the money and race to the preorder list.Though, to Arturia's credit, the jump from vintage emulation VAs to original analog hardware was a lot bigger gamble when they first tested the waters with the Minibrute... that was a very bold move, and I'm happy to see that it paid off for them.

...What's weird is I don't remember WHY I know this.

because internet.

Awesome insights. Given ebebebeb has been asking about a lot of metal and metal-adjacent artists, I'm guessing the extra sustain of a more conventional tailpiece would serve their aims well.

@eyeseeofficial, nice work finding below list prices.

@ebebeb what country do you need it shipped to?

Don't forget that this Epiphone also comes in an awesome olive green that you don't see very often.

On a side note, you don't need to give your posts such urgent titles! We're here to help you.

I'll second this. Make your forum titles clear and concise re: a specific topic.

A good title for this post would have been:

"Help finding SG Vibrola"

or "Best price for SG Vibrola?"

...anything that gives users a sense of what topic might be, WITHOUT EXCLAMATION MARKS... save exclamation marks for when you have very happy news you are excited to share. :)

(but we DO appreciate being called good people, you're on the right track there, lol)

its a custom casio.... its actually a VL80 mini synth/calculator circuit in a different case, because a crappy pulse wave synth that's also a calculator is funny, but a pulse wave synth that LOOKS LIKE a calculator is pure genius.... if you want the sound of it get a casio VL80 with the plastic calculator style keys laid out in a keyboard pattern, remember that one? I do, but I'm getting old. Other than this one off I'm unaware of a casio calculator that's also a synth, just the synth that's also a calculator.

Impressive display, Mr. Marchi1. I doff my hat.

This is now live. Filtering can be sloowwwww... we'll work on making it snappier, but at least it's possible now :)

Nice! You're not kidding re: speed... yikes.

Does this list really need to include stuff submitted 6 years ago?

What if it was capped at the last 18 months? Would that improve performance?

I mean, MY untouched first submission is in there somewhere in this feature's current state... the window to improve my first-use experience is long gone, friend :). I had to face the hard truth that nobody gave a $#@%.... persisted anyway, lol.

Also, might want to flag user sbs_bang for vandalism, eg on Lounge Lizard Session: https://equipboard.com/items/aas-lounge-lizard-session

I saw that mess last night. Why not just ban the user outright when it's that malicious and egregious?

$750 used, $1500 new these days

nice.

Alternate title: Dr. Strangeclone, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the TD3

I think that's exactly what Jim was going for... at least that's how I read it :)

@jim & others, what do you guys feel is the current threshold of diminishing returns for new guitars?

Meaning, the value for your $$$ drops off dramatically after that threshold.

$900? $1500? $2000?

I've always viewed the Fender American Standards (or whatever they've renamed them to) as sort of the benchmark of "decent value for your dollar"... one could buy one and reasonably expect any American Standard to play well, sound as expected, have decent fit and finish, and expect the hardware to hold up for at least a decade... and that once you move above that price point, that's when you're being a posh Daddy Warbucks who is out to make themselves feel special with a luxury item***... but I haven't purchased a guitar in like 20 years... educate me.

Personally, I know any decent Mexican-factory Fender or Epiphone would probably be just fine for my personal needs, and sound great recorded... but I'm not touring... crap tuners aren't going to embarrass me in front of my fans, and my fingers haven't yet been spoiled by the height of luthier overkill.

***AKA the high-income, modest-talent middle age and older collector/hobbyists whom the guitar industry seems to have been catering to and entirely dependent upon for decades.

Everyone deserves an instrument that is comfortable to play, and has an inherently pleasing sound. Both of those things are highly subjective, but if your don't feel this way about your current guitar, then yes, you need to get something better.

Per comments above, I 100% agree that "better" doesn't have to mean "very expensive". If you're coming from a guitar you don't like much at all, even an Epiphone (any well-reviewed one) will probably feel like a huge improvement. The important things are this:

1. Get the guitar that feels best to YOU and YOUR playing style. This could be a guitar that costs US$400, or US$4,000, but there is no universal standard, it's a highly-subjective, personal decision you should only make after you've played many instruments in-person with your own hands.

2. Spread your money across your signal chain. Don't be the guy playing a $4,000 guitar through an $80 amp. If funds are limited, I'd look at pairing a well made guitar that costs no more than US$1500 with a mid-priced combo amp or amp/cab that compliments the sound you are going for... you'll get a much better end result for your investment than putting all the money into just the guitar, obviously.

It's a black Ampeg Dan Armstrong. That's a great performance!

Nice one eyesee, I was stumped!

I've never owned a bassbot, but I recall the sequencer section being pretty generous on those. there's even a generative component that goes beyond just a pseudorandom grab bag, if memory serves?

yeah, you can degrade a saved pattern like when you had a 303 with a bad battery and the patterns you saved would slowly turn screwy

That's love right there. Impressed.

The average life expectancy is 7 years from diagnosis. Next month I enter year 8.

I'm very sorry to hear this, Marlie. 😔... but #$%& being average on this one. Blow up that bell curve. Put in another 8 years... make that average jump to 7.01 years for everyone else.

Fill your Soundcloud with tracks.

$#%& average.

It is a Behringer cable. Sadly, it is probably too late to return the mixer. But on the bright side, I only paid about half that much for it thru the Wal-Mart site.

Well the mixer is working as advertised at least, right? They keyboards are still working as they are supposed to. The only component not doing what it is supposed to do is the Behringer interface, correct?

The fact that you plugged the cable into a mixer, a keyboard, or anything else with a 1/4" jack is 100% irrelevant to it's current condition. Nothing involving the mixer would have impacted the Behringer's performance... it's just coincidence.

The Behringer cable is interesting in that it's a USB interface that is input-only, no device support for output... so Windows has to "split" it's audio i/o and have one device for input (the behringer) and another device for output (whatever internal chipset the laptop uses by default to push should out of it's laptop speakers). This would have been begging for trouble back when I still used Windows for audio (XP era), but, obviously, it's doable now. (I know you know all this, just thinking out loud)

From everything you described, it just sounds like a Windows system update of some kind fouled up your laptops ability to run the Behringer cable as a class complaint (driverless) audio device in a split i/o capacity. The problem could be as simple as a basic system setting that got reset without your knowledge. I don't have access to a Windows system right now to help walk through further troubleshooting, but unless something has shorted out or failed on the Behringer cable, you'll be up and running soon one way or another.

My advice:

Reach out to Behringer support on Monday. DON'T MENTION THE MIXER. The mixer is working as it should, and will just confuse things (as it kinda did here, lol). Just focus on whichever keyboard worked with the cable previously, and focus on getting back to where you were, pre-mixer. If the Behringer cable is working with the keyboard, it will work with the mixer (better, in fact, as the mixer has a left and right 1/4" output pair, unlike your keyboards, which are both single 1/4" stereo output, as far as I can tell... which is one of the reasons you got the mixer... it's all making sense now... sorry I keep jumping to wrong conclusions).

If Behringer fails you, I'm not sure what other forum or third party would be best to reach out to, but they're out there. Maybe someone here has a suggestion?

Is it too late to return the Ammoon mixer and get your money back? The only Amazon review for F7 said the USB interface was non-op, just as you're experiencing, and checking their website they don't even have a copy of the F7 manual available, nor any mention that the F7 ever existed. Best course of action is to get that $80 back if it's at all possible still.

Update: ok, looking at other Ammoon products, it seems the USB connection on these mixers is only for feeding audio in from an MP3 player or phone, not out to computer, thus the little LCD display with basic play controls... you know this already, I just had a hard time deciphering from description, sorry.

So it seems you're trying to solve the issue by using a simple USB audio interface you already own. This interface is a cable with USB on one end and stereo in/out via two 1/8" plugs on the other end, correct?

What is the make/model of this interface cable?

I like to link cv/gate out of the bassbot into the td3. The bassbot has this cool feature where you can play your slides, accents, up and down in a live fashion. So program two different patterns in both machines and sliiiiide away. You re welcome :)

excellent. I've never owned a bassbot, but I recall the sequencer section being pretty generous on those. there's even a generative component that goes beyond just a pseudorandom grab bag, if memory serves?

... I am kinda broke right now, so I bought a very inexpensive Ammoon 7 channel mixer (The model is not even available to tag on this site). I can't get it connected, and would appreciate any suggestions...

Is this the culprit?

https://www.amazon.com/ammoon-7-Channel-Equalizer-Recording-Appreciation/dp/B078JJR9XZ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Windows 10? OS X?

Sorry to hear of the frustration... it's the worst when you get something you think should be dead simple and it fails you, hard.

I'm retiring for the night, but I'll check in tomorrow.

Aye, therapy is killing me. The injured finger is basically useless at this point, may require another operation, and while only one finger is injured, due to the way the surgery was done, I've only got 7 functioning digits. Bugger that. To answer your question on the post over on the gearpage, nah, it's my pickin' hand, but I fingerpick mostly, so it is causing a blow to my playing. Quite a bit of one, actually. It's also my traffic finger, so no more Jersey Salute when people cut me off!

I can't even brave a crosswalk without my traffic finger. I feel for ya! Hang in there, do the exercises, keep your therapist happy over next few months and you'll be good as new by the time this pandemic is no longer news.

OK. So if I'm understanding everything correctly, doing what I want to do is going to require quite a bit of kit (yay!), and I'll still need an external controller for polyphony. Controllers I have.

Just to clarify, in the synth world, a "controller" is something that outputs MIDI or CV signals to control other synths (as I'm sure you know)... controllers don't output audio. To do polyphony in the eurorack domain, you don't just need a controller, you need something that converts polyphonic midi to separate CV outs for gate and pitch PER VOICE, and then an array of VCAs, VCOs, VCF, etc etc for EACH VOICE to actually hear a chord... generating polyphonic voices in eurorack is an uphill climb -- eurorack is primarily a monophonic endeavor for this reason.

So... I'm suggesting, given you want lots of dreamy chord pads, to get an external, self-contained synth with a good 6+ voices of polyphony, something that will cost you maybe 1/5 of what it would cost to get even basic polyphony in the euro domain, AND provide a great basic starting point for those dreamy pads, and then treat your eurorack investment like a big, chainable FX unit... something that could be used to process and mangle both external synth AND external guitar input. Best of all worlds: dreamy polyphonic synth pads, new hardware synth to learn and play with, unique Eurorack sound processing, AND the bulk of your euro investment goes to cool audio-processing units that can process any instrument in your studio, instead of the case full of redundant utilities you'd need to try generate polyphonic voices from VCA/O/F units in the rack itself.

I'm sure you already grokked all this, just making sure everyone reading is on the same page.

https://vk.com/photo229602_457242940

Agreed. ebebebeb, going forward, could you please put the link to the video in the body of your message instead of the title? You're making everyone that wants to help take an unnecessary step.

Could be any number of black HSS Fender Stratocasters that have been issued in the last 30 years, but I'll take a wild guess that it's this one:

https://reverb.com/ca/item/288507-fender-deluxe-lone-star-stratocaster-black-used

no guarantee I'm correct.

What?

They're looking for recommendations for lightweight electric basses that aren't short-scale.