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Post by bleatoid on Jun 8, 2019 11:29:12 GMT
It's arrived!
What a neatly produced package.
That's me sorted for the day then.
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Post by bleatoid on Jun 6, 2019 21:14:14 GMT
That instrument looks absolutely beautiful. Congratulations on your workmanship francis and on your ownership fatfingerjohn! Oh, and welcome, John, to that elite club of people lucky enough to own a Milsom. Peter (AKA #9)
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Post by bleatoid on Jun 4, 2019 8:11:37 GMT
Jackson C Frank is another one who i mention to folk and they say who? You’re a cruel man, Mr. bellyshere....
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Post by bleatoid on Jun 3, 2019 21:12:04 GMT
Hmmm - right - well I've had a look through Amazon's offerings and they're a mixed bag - a few remixes, a few albums only available on vinyl, a few post mortems, some out-takes / unreleased stuff, retrospectives, a few very rather pricey ones, a cheap best of.....
Grateful if you TVZ afficionados could shout out a couple of classic must-have, definitive albums.....(in general, I'm not a great fan of "best of" collections)
Thanks!
Postscript - and at the risk of starting a thread branch line...... while I was thinking about asking the question above I thought to myself - "is that reasonable? if someone said to me they'd never heard a Bob Dylan song and wanted 4 CD's that would paint a picture of his work" what would I do - well first I'd tell them that they had definitely heard a BD track - they just didn't realise it was one of his and then suggest that they'd make a good start with Freewheelin' / Blonde-on-Blonde / Street Legal / Infidels / Time out of Mind. Which is five albums - before I even went back and added the other four absolutely definitely must haves.....
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Post by bleatoid on Jun 3, 2019 19:59:13 GMT
Dang - missed ‘em! When I saw your post hughesy I went to check out tour dates, and their UK visit seems to have been very brief! Maybe next time. I see Pattengale has a signature Martin out - looks like a 00-15 derivative - I quite fancied one of those 00-15 e-retros (the original ones) but never found a really sweet one. Peter
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Post by bleatoid on Jun 3, 2019 11:03:23 GMT
Is that you regularly get to realise how little you know, how little you've heard and how little you can do. I just listened to bellyshere's excellent Plucky D rendition of "Nothin'" by Townes Van Zandt. I'd never heard of Townes Van Zandt. How can that possibly be? I thought I was reasonably well clued up in the American side of the folk / blues world. So much to listen to, so much to learn, so little time. When it comes to playing, I'm still in remedial class with guitar, well behind that on banjo, mandolin and harmonica and I haven't even got the cello and tuba that I want to learn. But before you get any time to improve you take a quick glance on here and suddenly you have a mountain of back catalogues that you need to start tucking in to, of artists that have somehow passed you by for the last few decades. Or some immense assortment of bizarre tunings await your attention in the unlikely event you ever get past elementary major open chords in the first position in standard tuning. Perhaps we need a separate forum area ("The Creche") for those of us who know nothing and can do nothing - where the timid can languish in elementary stuff with like minded simple souls. I'm off to spend the day in the Ikea ball room. Peter
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Post by bleatoid on Jun 2, 2019 20:05:03 GMT
Right - the headphones are fantastic - but completely useless for monitoring while in bluetooth mode - the lag is atrocious.
The do come with a cable - and work fine plugged in, obviously, but I've rather failed to achieve my main objective here.
Still - they are lovely to look at.
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Post by bleatoid on May 30, 2019 22:42:04 GMT
Good point about checking the mix speaker-wise Jonny - I use a pair of Edirol (Roland) monitor speakers when playing back and they tend to be fairly brutal - I often end up sanity checking through my hifi.
Be interesting to how the new headphones compare.
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Post by bleatoid on May 30, 2019 22:12:48 GMT
As part of my mission to simplify and improve my recording environment - and hopefully thereby enable some audio quality improvement, I have recently resolved two issues with the help of forumites' genius and wisdom here: DAW-wise, we are sticking with GarageBand but going Mac for ease of use (over iPad) and I've also been shown how to get mono into my headphones. Thank you all, you mighty acoustic audio warriors. Now one of the slightly irritating events that occurs whenever I'm recording something is the periodic self-garrotting and/or equipment demolition resulting from the use of my cheap, ancient, very long wired on-ear Roland headphones which I have to wear with the wire running behind me, out of the way. But usually in the way, if you see what I mean. It therefore gives me great pleasure to announce the result of a recent investment in a decent pair of bluetooth headphones; I just got some of these AKG ones from Richer Sounds for £99 delivered. Excellent service and (so far as I am able to tell) excellent headphones. Excellent service in the sense that delivery from RS was faster than an Angus Young riff and an online question into AKG was similarly swift and accurate response-wise. (As I just put the link in above, I notice they've gone up in price now to £149 ...? Sorry about that.) Anyway, at this rate I shall have no excuses for my atrocious audio quality and without significant improvement I shall have to resign myself to playing only the banjo. Watch out.
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Post by bleatoid on May 28, 2019 20:47:53 GMT
I agree - it's a faff John - and worse - I can easily clunk the headstock while turning to the controls - but more technology is probably not my best option....
But this is getting worrying - only a few short years ago you just bribed a twelve year old with a fiver to set up your technology for you - I don't think any of them know what a PC is now.
Is this the end of civilisation? Perhaps it explains the Apple pricing structure...
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Post by bleatoid on May 28, 2019 19:56:45 GMT
I agree entirely Gregg - I’m not passing a judgement on Reaper, I don’t have one as I couldn’t get it to work in my Windows environment in an hour - and that’s too long - as Mark suggests - the same pain is likely to be had with any Windows based DAW - so for the impatient, the pre- and fully integrated Garageband is a low hassle option.
But not low cost.....
Peter
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Post by bleatoid on May 28, 2019 11:37:18 GMT
Good choice, what Mic do you have? I have an Apogee One with a SE2200 J Hi John - yep - like you said, simple as I need it to be and I can open the box of toys if I need to. mic - wise I have a AKG P170 small dia condenser and like you, a Se2200. tend to use the sdc for instruments - plan to experiment more with the ldc - I think it might be more forgiving....I need lots of forgiving..
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Post by bleatoid on May 28, 2019 11:04:07 GMT
Thanks Cams. Well - I’m able to announce that following an hour with Reaper this morning, my decision is made. I’m getting a Mac and sticking with Garageband. As soon a we got into the palava of drivers, scanning for this and that and finally a complete lock out, I suddenly remembered how easy GB was to get into - like vikingblues said - it just works. What I actually need is closer to a tape recorder with a couple of toys, than the contents of Abbey Road. Sorted! Thanks everyone. Peter
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Post by bleatoid on May 27, 2019 22:14:01 GMT
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate your helpful and knowledgeable insights and experience - they are so much more trustworthy and valuable on a forum like this, than the results of searching a mass of (sponsored) product reviews online. Mixing together all the common sense you offered, and adding a couple of thoughts of my own... Garageband on a Mac would be the obvious path of least resistance - but the (eyewatering) price of a new Mac could go a long way towards a nice new instrument.. .. .......so as I already have an old win 7 PC and win 7 lappy, the free download / evaluation path seems sensible - not least as, like PistolPete, I have some historical experience of Cubase (mine was made of wood and dexion too). Hence tonight I mucked out and tidied up the lappy and have just downloaded the evaluation copy of Reaper as a starter for 10. Must confess, I do like the way Reaper introduce themselves - very no nonsense. So I'll have a bit of a tinker about with that and then checkout Studio One as a comparator. If I find I'm in bewildering alien territory due to my extreme ancientness and feeble mind, I might bite the Mac bullet and revert to GB. If not.....then be forewarned that I'll be coming back and asking you about audio interface recommendations....my Irig will work with a PC, but I have a suspicion that some of my recording difficulties relate to the rather minimal interface capability (a single gain control dial) on the irig - in my old Cubase / Win 98 world I had an audiophile card that worked very well. I'll let you know where I get to - thanks again all. Peter
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Post by bleatoid on May 26, 2019 23:43:21 GMT
Hmmm - interesting.
Did the rat say anything before it drew its last?
Unfortunately, I'm reading this as a pointer away from a D28 and towards a Collings 12 fret slope shoulder dread.
Bugger of a thing to restring, what with those slot heads an' all.
Please keep us posted on any further portents.
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