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Good evening, Quevlar, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

At least you weren't swindled out of your gig money. It can happen if you're playing with Pros and Cons. ...

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1504942243' post='3368407'] In what situation does a drummer need to hear vocals? Is he on backing vox duty? [/quote] I'm a drummer... 1 - On odd occasions, I think it helps the show if I know just where we are in the song, or repertoire. The singers vocals help with that, sometimes. 2 - Our singer is rather good. I [i]like [/i]to hear him sing 3 - Someone has to listen for the cock-ups and fluffs, to deflate his ego afterwards 4 - I need to be able to hear when someone's shouting 'shut the f... up..!' at me. 5 - It makes me feel as if I'm part of the group (I'm easily fooled...). 6 - Folks think I'm good because I'm wearing 'phones; little do they know... Enough..?

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1504918701' post='3368357']... Any input would be greatly appreciated! [/quote] My only suggestion would be to look at 'sports' ones, that clip around the ear and stay in place, like these... [url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-MDR-AS210-Sports-Splashproof-Headphones-Black/dp/B01LDKH2PG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504919643&sr=8-1&keywords=sony+earphones+sport"]Sony MDR-AS210 Sports In-Ear Splashproof Headphones ...[/url] Drumming can be quite physical (depending on character and repertoire...), so he'd want 'em to stay in place. I can't think of anything special, otherwise. He sounds like a bit of a cheapskate, really, unless he's simply skint, of course. Hope this helps.

Good afternoon, Chris, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1504795008' post='3367382'] This guy impresses me... [/quote] Amazing..! A bass player with (at least...) seven tee-shirts and polos..! Wow..! I wonder where he got the TAB for that from..? ... No, seriously; that's seriously Good Stuff.

Good evening, Nelson, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share. There are many Continental forum members here (several from Portugal...), so you're far from alone.

If there was to be an 'evil' side to TAB, I'd suggest that it's its very existence, surely designed by the Beelzebub himself as a sure-fire way of causing strife between musicians..! Those that use it: carry on. Those that don't: carry on. It's become akin to the Jonathan Swift fictitious debate on which end of a boiled egg should be opened..! Tolerance, anyone..?

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1504701571' post='3366694'] I am not a drummer, but I can't help but feeling that you could improve on the layout of those drums for optimal access [/quote] 'The long arm of the law'..? No, the front tom is for our singist (also a good drummist, as it happens...) to beat during 'There, There'.. [media]http://youtu.be/bwYDRS4o9qg[/media]

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1504700189' post='3366667'] So vous pensez en francais? [/quote] Bien sûr, comme tout le monde. Pas toi..?

When I'm typing out these posts here, I find it best to use a language that the target audience (you, dear reader...) will (mostly...) understand. In fact, I'm 'thinking' in French, and translating it into your idiom. It's handy, when wanting something to be communicated, to use these techniques. Similarly, with music, I use the form that will best be correctly interpreted by the intended receiver. If it's a drum score for myself, I'll use standard drum notation, in the knowledge that not all pianists would be able to read or play it; it's not directed at their instrument. If I want to write a piece for Vincent, our second guitar, standard notation would be useless. A TAB, however, would take him little time to work out and play. I don't have either the skills nor opportunity, but if I was writing pedagogic pieces for a guitar magazine, I'd probably write stuff in both, so that an extended readership could benefit. That's the beauty of being polyglot; more doors are open. Being expert in only one or another language is fine, but limits one to only that lone system. More is more, not less. All is good.

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1504693211' post='3366575']... it has a lot of advanced features/options exposed all the time... [/quote] On the other hand it's editable; there are 'skins' and themes readily available (and free...), some of which reduce the on-screen elements, and menu entries, to just the essentials. Just sayin'. I use Reaper 'standard', and use most of the stuff there most of the time, so I don't know what I'd want removed; it's all useful, I find.

[quote name='Vinny' timestamp='1504645151' post='3366366'] Insert appropriate euphonium joke here. [/quote] Fixed.

Ah, that makes sense. I remember now; I [i]did [/i]have a 'Waves Central' installed a while ago with some of their stuff, but removed it, as it just wouldn't remember what I had and what I hadn't. No problem, it must just be me, but it bugged me, so I scrapped it.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1504627892' post='3366171']...they are selling the G Channel separately at the moment... [/quote] Sorry, but it's still not clear to me; I'm reading "...[color=#800080]Please note: When purchased as a single plugin, SSL G-Channel is available for Waves v9.91 only.[/color]" If I purchase this G-channel plug-in [i]only[/i], as a Vst for Windows, will it work with Reaper, with no other Waves products necessary..? It must just be me, but it's confusing, I find. Old age..?

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1504599534' post='3365881'] I have problems with hand written charts; too small, written in fading pencil, dots indistinct, chord extensions too small etc. [/quote] This ^^, especially with scores I've written out myself..! ...

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1504561241' post='3365757'] But trail blazers and pioneers are by definition breaking new ground. There hasn't been a truly new genre since hip hop, forty or so years ago. I'm not holding my breath [/quote] Some said much the same when Mozart died.