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I want an AT-AT that switches my pedals for me.

[quote name='cd_david' post='1304077' date='Jul 14 2011, 10:14 PM']Yeah, how did you guess its a Floyd Tribute[/quote] You gigging any time soon, Dave? I'd be up for hearing a bit of that. (And having a squizz at yer Eko pedals. )

[quote name='muttley' post='1303182' date='Jul 14 2011, 08:23 AM']I prefer the feel; it's like you are more "into" the instrument.[/quote] +1 There's a more direct connection with the note, for me. It's also much more the sound I [i]want[/i] to hear. String on finger and wood, not string on metal.

[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' post='1303163' date='Jul 14 2011, 07:24 AM']Disturbing.... but in a way that encourages you to press the reset button and throw away any preconceptions. The sound track is well crafted and knits with the video. I'll take a look at the others you've done on the same page.[/quote] +1. (Jase: I'd maybe add a note to the OP to say it may be NSFW, depending on your workplace's attitude to swearing and general disturbingness. Being self-employed, I can watch what the hell I want, of course. Bring on the dwarf pr0n! )

[quote name='silddx' post='1302812' date='Jul 13 2011, 08:17 PM']It is not, in any way, a piss-take.[/quote] Absolutely. It's a gem. For those who don't know, it's one of Zappa's experiments with what he called "xenochronicity": elements of music taken from different places and points in time, and layered together to create a new construction. In this case, the drums and bass were recorded on completely separate occasions, for utterly different purposes. Zappa happened to try playing them together, and it worked. By 'eck, it really worked.

If only I had a picture of my dad from 20 years ago.

Just throwing in here to say that I read [i]Bounce[/i] last month, and it was fascinating. The stories of László Polgár (who raised his three girls as a psychological/sociological experiment to be some of the greatest chess grandmasters the world has seen) and Richard Williams (father of Venus and Serena Williams, who decided to raise tennis champions -- and he had no real idea about tennis -- after seeing a tennis player receiving a hefty winnings cheque on TV) were at that crossroads between amazing and terrifying. A really recommended read. While reading it, I realised that my 10,000 hours have probably been spent playing, listening to and mentally analysing music, rather than physically practising any one particular instrument. That's why, as a general rule, if I've heard a pop/rock song a couple of times, I can generally sit down at any one of three or four instruments and play it for you. I'm not that great (by any stretch of the imagination) on any instrument, but I've got music [b]in[/b] me.

[quote name='Austin7' post='1301065' date='Jul 12 2011, 02:22 PM']"Owt" is a word in British English?[/quote] Oh aye. "Have ya had owt to eat, hinny?" That sort of thing. Just means "anything".

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1300327' date='Jul 11 2011, 09:31 PM']Agree'd - I'll sell mine too and we'll go down the shared ownership route! [/quote] So... Nottingham... Northumberland... we'll stick it in storage somewhere around Northallerton then? BTW, for those who are interested, an idea of the scale of the System 700... Yep, it uses full 1/4" jacks for patching. Beast.

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1300263' date='Jul 11 2011, 08:20 PM']I think the old Roland System 700 was less complex than your board(s). [/quote] I'd sell my grandmother for one of those. She's probably not worth enough to cover it, mind.

Tune using the 12th-fret harmonic! That's the easiest way to get a tuner to respond to low strings, and it's generally more accurate than using the open strings anyway (more cycles per second in the signal).

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1294646' date='Jul 6 2011, 12:46 PM']On the off-chance, you're welcome to give the Promethean a shot too, just in case that rings your bell...[/quote] I smell another mini-bash in the making here...

I don't have experience of those two in particular, but if you're after a taste of the PJB 5"-driver flavour, you're welcome to try out my Super Flightcase. I'm in the Corbridge/Hexham area, and I'm over Newcastle-way a fair bit. One thing to be very aware of with the PJB stuff is that the speakers aren't very sensitive at all. The 250W of the Super Flightcase doesn't [i]feel[/i] like the sort of 250W you'd be used to. It can just about cope against a sensible drummer if you feed it with a hot signal. Tonally, though... lovely. Sweet, no harshness, full, natural... can't think of a bad word to say about the tone.

You can't beat a bit of JM. And a gorgeous bit of electrickery/tape-delaytastic loveliness:

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='1293741' date='Jul 5 2011, 06:47 PM']I don't think many people would readily diss a 'Rays tonal quality.[/quote] This is a web forum. There are plenty of people who'll diss just about anything. Not me though. Love that Ray sound.

[quote name='51m0n' post='1293310' date='Jul 5 2011, 12:53 PM']Personally I find the videos fine to watch, but I forget what I've seen too easily - it is a completely in your face blast of information you see. You need to take notes on the videos![/quote] Yeah, I'd agree with this, although there tends to be a fair bit of repetition in videos like that, so some stuff just gets hammered home anyway. Personally, I lament the passing of the printed manual. I understand that it keeps costs and material waste down, but I'd never have learned how to use Finale at the age of 12 without the huge ring-bound monstrosity that came with it. Not so easy to read a PDF on the pooper (not without a germy iPad anyway ).

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1292481' date='Jul 4 2011, 05:44 PM']RTFM is a bit of a stickler for me, I have a pain in the ass reading disorder - so stuff like that is a fecking nightmare and that's even before taking into account male obstinacy with manuals. [/quote] What about tutorial videos? I believe there are a bunch of Reaper ones out there on the web for nowt, or you could [url="http://www.groove3.com/str/reaper-explained.html"]pay $30 for 4h40m of this[/url]. (Watch the previews first though. You might not get on with Kenny Gioia's voice; he talks really quickly with a strong Long Island accent.)

[quote name='silddx' post='1293124' date='Jul 5 2011, 10:02 AM']I think he means, "Kim Deal - who the f*** are you to tell me my business?!".[/quote] I know, it's just some early-morning sarcasm. I don't get on with that sort of attitude. Besides which, I don't recall her telling anyone what to do. In the video that Conan posted, she merely seemed to be pointing out (in a fairly self-deprecating manner, I feel I should point out) that "real" bass players tend to add things that she doesn't.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1292693' date='Jul 4 2011, 08:50 PM']Who the f*** is Kim Deal?[/quote] What an extraordinarily aggressive way to ask a simple question. I can only assume that Google and Wikipedia were having a rare simultaneous outage at the time of your post, so here you go: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Deal"]Kim Deal on Wikipedia[/url].