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  1. Beedster
    Great post, what a journey
  2. Beedster
    Yep, true but I don’t receive email notifications etc on my drum machine
  3. Beedster
    Keep hearing Akai MPC mentioned on other forms, any thoughts here?
  4. Beedster
    Tell me about it, I was doing Electronic Music Technology at the LCF in the early 80's, we were lucky enough to have a lot of decent tech including a Fairlight, but the prices were astronomical, to the point that it was simply cheaper to have a drummer and a bassist than a drum machine and a keyboardist, despite the trend for keys to encroach on the latter's territory (and the fightback from us lot with slap and fretless, which were beyond even the best keys players)
  5. Beedster
    Go over to Gearslutz and you'll find that it's not only a thing, but a time consuming and expensive thing
  6. Beedster
    Likewise, I spend enough time at a computer to not want to have to be in front of one when I'm playing music for pleasure
  7. Beedster
    Thanks BRX, funny isn't it that since reading that the TR-8 is essentially an 808-909 derivative I hadn't dug any deeper. I'd assumed that the S version would represent a minor refinement of the TR-8, especially given it was released pretty quickly afterwards, as opposed to pretty much a completely different proposition from my POV (I had 'digital' in my head, perhaps had I had 'sample' the S might have jumped out). So, new journey I guess, I've found drum machine demo vids (too much house/techno/electro effects) to suffer from the same problem that so many bass guitar demos experience (too much slap), but will have a good read around the TR-8S. It certainly looks like it might be the machine I was looking for with respect to the sounds I was able to get from my Roland electronic kit (on which I pretty much only ever used a small jazz kit setting). Thanks once again for your advice. Chris
  8. Beedster
    Yep, it’s the same principle that ensures that no matter how high quality is the gear I use, it still sounds like me playing it
  9. Beedster
    Early days with Modulus yes, but it was new technology then, and the rare exception now demonstrates that even the best technology is fallible. Moses have always been lower quality than Modulus
  10. Beedster
    That's about the truth of it
  11. Beedster
    Two graphite/carbon necks that come off the production line one after the other, that have been built using the same material, the same process and with the same quality control, will have similar if not identical characteristics in every respect (playability, acoustics, stability). This is rarely if ever true of two wooden necks, even if the blanks were cut from the very same tree. Carbon necks built by different manufacturers, or by the same manufacturer using two different materials/processes can of course have different characteristics, but that's not what the OP was referring to
  12. Beedster
    Yep, but I understand that there is less variability between graphite components than wooden components, all other thing being equal?
  13. Beedster
    Yep
  14. Beedster
    Graphite neck removes a lot of the variability I think?
  15. Beedster
    I agree, no amount of setup refinement can sort components, wood and metal, that don’t work together
  16. Beedster
    I'd happily still be there Nik, had an SVT and Boogie 1516 that I could rehearse at full volume. Wasn't great for the windows mind
  17. Beedster
    Ha ha, I can't go back there again mate, nice little jazz kit is going to do just fine
  18. Beedster
    Good thread folks. I've a Drumbrute and an Alesis SR-18 - very different machines - but I want a machine that sounds as much as possible like a real kit. The frustration for me is that having owned a decent Roland electronic drum kit, the sounds were great but my drumming was the problem, I would just love some of the sounds from the Roland kit in a relatively inexpensive machine. Any suggestions welcome (and I know I can get them in a virtual kit but I also like to use drum machines to jam to and it's nice to not have to have a computer around to do that). I don't need much, nice simple kit sound like this works for me
  19. Beedster
    The world has been waiting for this thread
  20. Beedster
    Wood, it's that simple. It's why bitsas and custom builds often make the best instruments, because the process of trial and error that results in the best neck ending up with the best body - and then hardware to suit (bit toppy so put on a BBOT not a Badass etc) - is not something that mass production allows for.
  21. Beedster
    Agreed mate. Mrs Beedster doesn't know about the drums yet BTW
  22. Beedster
    Marc, keep it mate, too good to sell at any price
  23. Beedster
    My spiritual home Ped, went there in the '80s and fell in love, jumped at the chance to work there in 2012 and stayed in love. If Mrs Beedster had liked it we'd still be there, but whilst I loved life in a Welsh Longhouse on the side of a Cambrian mountain, she was less keen. Still do the occasional lecture there by invitation, and love every second of it - the train journey itself is worthy of a Michael Portillo documentary. Met some great people there, Julian (from whom I bought the SVT) among them. This was where we lived, 25 miles outside Aber, and about a mile to the nearest neighbour
  24. Beedster
    Thanks mate, replied
  25. Beedster
    Thanks Nik, the times really are! It's an emotion machine for me, when I play it live it reorganises a whole lot of neurons and organs for the better. When I'm not playing it, even looking at it makes me feel better. But....... I really want to get more into recording, especially with my family and with close friends, it was a nagging thing before Covid, but Covid has really made me more aware that time spent with friends and family playing music for nothing more than the pleasure is a privilege, and contrasts substantially - at least for me - with gigging when all too often I'm spending time away from family and friends. I'm in an occasional band with two very close mates (one of whom you've met, Robbie), and these days - well, lockdown permitting - it's just more fun to sit around in the house, play stuff, and if it sounds good, record it. I'd love the SVT to be a part of that but, well, it's kinda overkill, and if I sell that I could buy my youngest a small acoustic drum kit, which would take things in a whole new direction Do I want to sell it, hell no
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