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In that case he most definitely does not need the amp to be cranked..!

'The Sound' (any sound...) is easy enough to get from a decent pre-amp, instead of from 'cooking' the output bottles, and is then available at any volume, including DI or recording with no amp at all. Our Eldest gets 'The Sound' from a Mesa Tri-axis and a G-Force, which drive a Mesa Simul_Class 2:90 valve amp. It's true that the 2 x 90 valve watts can take paint from the neighbours wall (and they're nearly a kilometre away...), but he gets the same juicy valve sound at any level at all. He still plays too loud, of course, but that's not the point. One doesn't need to drive the bottles to get The Sound, and any guitarist that says that's the only way is out of touch by half a century or so and/or delusional. Yes, the Tri-Axis is expensive (or was, at the time...), and the G-Force has been superseded, but their modern equivalents are more than capable of producing The Sound, at any chosen volume, so there's no real excuse.

Good evening, @charlie_groove, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

No, no; not at all. I have pretty decent MIDI hardware for my own instruments (Sonuus i2m, or how to play oboe on a bass etc...); the idea was to test stripping an audio file into MIDI. I only used one of my own poor samples by commodity; in 'real life' I'd be wanting to 'decompose' a stretch of Sonny Rollins, Joe Pass or the like. If I wanted to change my own major chord to minor, I'd just play it again, Sam..! The deconstruction of third-party samples would be interesting, but ten seconds doesn't go very far. Thanks for the tip, though; it's the Thought that counts. ... (I was tempted to add 'Bless...', but thought that it might come across as Condescension rather than Humour, so I didn't. ...) ...

Well, it certainly works, but it'll make heavy weather of composing whilst it retains its limitations. Ten seconds is no time at all, and it takes a lot longer than that to process those seconds, so cutting a longer sample into ten-second slices is going to take a while. The result is good; too good, in fact. It depends a lot on the quality of the audio for rendering a clean result; my poor guitar strumming brought out a fit of ghost sounds, absolutely true to the original, but with all the noises, squeaks and rumbles (yes, so much in ten seconds. I play badly, OK..? Wanna make something of it..?) all translated into MIDI notes. True, yes, but difficult to manipulate, as they're very much interdependent. Reaper didn't allow 'drag'n'drop of the audio, so I had to firstly render the ten seconds, before importing the rendered audio into the Vst. To be followed; maybe I should try again with cleaner samples, rather than my own playing (OK, I play badly; I know. I know, alright..?). I don't know what Melodyne would make of the same samples, and I haven't the cash to find out; it'll be good to see how far this can evolve. What it did do was very good; it'll be of limited practical use for the moment. To be followed, then, whilst saving up, if this is a real need. Thanks for the tip; it's interesting.

The whole album, but this is the track that just finishing. Good Stuff...

Why..? Just 'Why'..? Why can't folk just let it be..? T'was never a splendid song in the first place, Spector or not. I don't hear much difference anyway, certainly nothing that now makes it worth playing. Beatles fan..? Up to a point, yes, I am, but not for this stuff. Weak before, it's weak now.

Not quite the same situation, but close enough. We don't play excessively loud, and our floor monitors are rather good, but it's true that the singer (he's very good, too...) needs to hear himself to be at his best. Our two guitars are the problem when rehearsing, as their cabs are facing each other, with the singer right in the middle, between 'em. No, it's not ideal, and there are other arrangements that could be made, but there's a certain amount of stubbornness in the mix, it seems. One solution that I suggested : IEM's. As a trial, I got a wired pair of earbuds, to see how it would work without too much initial expense. No good, as the singer couldn't get on with them (he's not very 'techy'...); he couldn't get them to stay in place around his ear, and the experiment failed. The issues are still there, but one needs some cooperation and 'buy-in' for any solution to have a chance. Luckily, we'd not invested in a quality IEM set; it would have been wasted. I'm OK; I can hear just fine, the instruments and the vox, but, although the singer would be better off with IEM, it's not going to happen, I fear.

Looks like he's caught his fingers in the strings, though. Is the Gibson version just as painful to play..?

Keith Moon..?

Ahem...

Good afternoon, Skilamalink, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

What, one in each door panel for listening to R4 on the move..? Right... It might knock the fuel consumption a bit, though.

Fixed.

Going for 'zero' might be the best starting point..? No idea otherwise; I'm a drummer, so 'Pitch..? Schmitch..!'.

Good evening, Ian, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good afternoon, HD, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share. Recommended topics..? Hmm... Bassless, you say..? Hmm Marketplace, maybe..? Be warned: there be Dragons..! Phil Lesh..? Ambitious; one of my all-time favourites. Good Stuff.

'Best' I don't know, but we use a Smooth Hound, and it's darned good. The sound is right, it's lightweight, the batteries last ages and it was affordable when we bought it, a few years ago now. I'd buy another with no hesitation.

You are @Leonard Smalls and I claim my £5..! ...

Good afternoon, Dave, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

It depends, partly, on where you live.

True, today, for us, but there are plenty enough on the Planet that live without access to oil products, living off what Nature can provide for them. A diminishing way of life, but one that has done not so badly for Humans for the past... well, maybe even longer than that. I'm rather of the conviction that, for better or worse, our present life-style is rather the exception, and many would agree that it's not sustainable, whatever its advantages. Not that, for myself, now, I'd be willing to adopt a 14th-century way of life, but there's something to be said for keeping a hold on the past; it may be Our Future, as a species.

It's only in very recent times that leather has become, to some, a 'waste product'. Traditionally, tanning and leather goods were a major industry. Much has been taken over by motorised transport (less call for horse harnesses etc...) and petro-chemical garments (nylon, or PVC instead of leather jackets and shoes...). Once oil production dries up, I suspect these 'natural' products will have a second heyday. The alternative could be cotton, but it's not as hard-wearing, and difficult to water-proof. Just sayin'.