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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Raptor on February 10, 2008, 02:06:00 AM
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Anyone here play an instrument?
What is your all time favorite instrument?
I play the Alto Saxophone, currently looking to buy a jazz style mouthpiece.
I have a weakness for the Piano, the violin is a close second however.
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Piano. 9 years of lessons. Best I can muster now is "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" :)
Want to learn: Electric Guitar
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Play guitar but would love to play the piano and the sax.. Think i'd be afraid to even try the sax though.. lol Would have to run off to some island first maybe hehe
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Compared to the guitar I found the saxophone to be a piece of cake.
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I ended up giving my Gibson SG and Marchall Amps to my 14 year old nephew. I stopped playing years ago, no point in all that expensive equipment going to waste.
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Holy crap...why couldn't you have been my uncle...damn, Angus Young tone right out of the box!
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Sousaphone, Tuba, Baratone, French Horn, Trombone, Fluegalhorn, Alto Sax, Coronet, Bugel, Drums.
Proud Member of The World's Largest Non-Nuclear Coast Guard Marching Band (1979)
Also trying to learn the Bass Guitar (and I suck at it).
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Played Bass Guitar for a while. Havn't picked the thing up in at leasr 2 years.
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I actually got really, really good on bass...was a dead ringer for Iron Maiden's Steve Harris' playing style. Then I promptly joined the Navy and brought it all to an end.
RPM, what would be the world's largest nuclear marching band?
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Used to play the piano, but I've been slipping alot since I stopped taking lessons.
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Originally posted by rpm
Sousaphone, Tuba, Baratone, French Horn, Trombone, Fluegalhorn, Alto Sax, Coronet, Bugel, Drums.
Proud Member of The World's Largest Non-Nuclear Coast Guard Marching Band (1979)
Also trying to learn the Bass Guitar (and I suck at it).
hmm... always had you pictured as a skinflute.
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Originally posted by cuisinart
hmm... always had you pictured as a skinflute.
Appropriate coming from a bearded clam.
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spend much time here, diablo?
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41 (30.85 posts per day)
Obviously not as much as you do.
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new job, wanna make an impression. you do realize wooderson was meant to be a chick thing, right:huh
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Put down the Pusser's and go to bed.
Nice :cool: by the way...
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I'll consider it stolen.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
RPM, what would be the world's largest nuclear marching band?
I have no idea. But I was not about to question the words of Senior Chief King.
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Originally posted by cuisinart
hmm... always had you pictured as a skinflute.
That's funny, I thought you were a picklelow player.
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compromised.
*edit all you want, chuckle- I'm here all night.
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Originally posted by cuisinart
compromised.
*edit all you want, chuckle- I'm here all night.
and yer still a butterin Idiot!
Mac
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Like most Eskimos, I play the didgeridoo.
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Was self taught on the drums and played for 14 years.
Taking up the guitar now.
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I know how to play the Bass Guitar. However I'm currently learning Electric Guitar. Tonight if I work up the courage I'll be headed to an open mic night to embarass myself. I can't sing for ****.
I also used to know how to play piano, but it's been a while since I've done that.
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Been playing bass for 17 years.
Been playing guitar for 12.
Can hold a beat on the drums, but suck at double bass.
I've always been more into song writing than being a shredder that practices 8 hours a day.
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Guitar, bass, drums, some keys... I mainly taught myself guitar to accompany myself. Never desired to be an instrumental virtuoso.
myspace (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=93742988&MyToken=b9734279-7702-42fa-8b74-8b379ba496ef)
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Bagpipes for about 10 years but havn't played them very much in the last three years. Shame on me. :( Pipes made by Kron with McCallum, Gibson, Kron and Naill chanters.
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Guess
(http://[IMG]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/419/guitarbrarylrhj6.jpg)[/IMG]
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Gibson snob.
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Amps>Kendrik 4212(blows away any half-stack),Ampeg SVT2
Guitars/Basses>2 strats,Jazz bass & Godin acoustic fretless.
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Originally posted by Thruster
Guess
(http://[IMG]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/419/guitarbrarylrhj6.jpg)[/IMG]
That a Vintage 70's Strat?
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No, it's actually a vintage 70's Aria Pro 2. My second guitar and the first electric. The photo doesn't show but it has a dragon carved into the body which as I understand is extremely rare.
As much as I beat up on fenders, I gotta say they play like butter. This one has the sweetest neck of any guitar I own. If I could actually play I'd probably have a few more of 'em.
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Used to play the piano, and I bought a guitar while I was in Korea but 12-14 hr days and working on my MBA caused me to stop taking lessons.
I plan on taking them both back up when I'm done with my MBA. Gonna have to buy a piano, but I've been saving my pennies for that :)
I also played the clarinet for a short while when I was a kid, but I didn't really enjoy that too much. My wife played the piano and flute as a kid, so she'll also enjoy the piano when we finally buy one.
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halfway decent at electric guitar, starting to learn to use a bass...
played french horn in high school, and i have mad one handed skillz with a piano.
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I played the trombone in high school.
Now I play the marching baritone/euphonium in a local all age drum corps. Check out our site here (http://www.gulfcoastsound.org)
We compete around the country as a member of Drum Corps Associates. We are looking for horn players and drummers if anyone is interested. We have rehearsal this Saturday. Maps are on the website.
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I am as tone deaf as they come but I spawned a kid who's rather brilliant on the piano. He's 14yo now and we started him on it at 5yo. Actually he plays three instruments.
And daddy is starting to think full college scholarship now.
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I play the set. Also in a concert band. We have gone to 8-9 competitions and taken 1st or 2nd every time.
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This one time at band camp... ummm :confused:
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Originally posted by Thruster
Guess
(http://[IMG]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/419/guitarbrarylrhj6.jpg)[/IMG]
Can I have your Les Paul?
:p
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Kazoo
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Guitar a lil......I love the piano. Maybe someday Ill learn it more than just a couple of songs.
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I try to play keyboards.
This is a site I just set up for the band http://www.theroguerageband.com the audio is not the greatest..but they are live multitrack takes, with minimal mastering.
Ahem..I'm also singing one of the songs. Bunch of old hippies still livin the dream on weekends :D
Jenksie
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Played piano for 2 years (forced piano lesson at age 11 and 12) Started playing 6-string guitar at 13. Got a Fender at age 16 and sold it at age 18 in order to buy a train ticket headed west. :cool: Haven't picked up a guitar since.
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My latest baby
(http://www.sidesconsulting.com/misc/guitar.jpg)
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I can play a mean Kazoo!
LOL
Played a litle guitar when I was a teen
And I DO mean a little
Took the bass fiddle in grade school.
But only cause I couldnt join chorus for another year.
Used to by all accounts actually have a a pretty good singing voice.
But smoking ruined that
Now I can just play a mean kazoo
:p
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(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/skilless/100_0224.jpg) These three are my babies. I've had the Hagstrom for twenty-three years. The Line 6 is unbelievably versitile, and you just can't beat the spank of a Tele...
I've put a lot hours on each of these and beat the hell out of them equally.
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A good friend of mine rep'd Hagstrom's in Texas a coupla years ago before they got bought and changed wholesale distributors or some such. Really nice guitars. I offered to buy one of his demos but he wouldn't let it go.
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I have around 10 Guitars. Stratocasters, Jackson etc. Been playing off and on most of my life.
My room looks like Thrusters. I currently have 7 sitting on stands and 4 or 5 more I'm working on. Going to sell off some this year so I can have some room to add a couple of Gibsons. Like a custom built Explorer, Les Paul, and a SG.
:D
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Originally posted by Thruster
A good friend of mine rep'd Hagstrom's in Texas a coupla years ago before they got bought and changed wholesale distributors or some such. Really nice guitars. I offered to buy one of his demos but he wouldn't let it go.
Mine's a '73 Swede. Bloody heavy. Makes a Les Paul feel like a Rik.
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Started on Symphonic percussion in 7th grade. Played snare then Bass. Played ever since but switched to kit and drum corps styling in high school. Play mostly Christian Rock and Worship music now. Love jazz, blues, rock and folk. Played this morning.
Also started rhythm guitar in high school. Have tinkered ever since. Own a few mid-range brand acoustics. Played bass for a few years in a Christian Rock band back in Phoenix. Nothing too awful complicated. :)
:aok
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I think the guitar is harder to learn than the saxophone. I started teaching myself the guitar but didn't progress far before I quit.
However the saxophone does become difficult to play once you get into more Jazz/Rock types of music where you start bending notes and "growling." This I find more difficult than the guitar, but that's like comparing apples to oranges.
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For me, the sax was the most difficult instrument I ever studied. Maybe it was just a matter of my background but over the years I took guitar, flute, piano, violin/viola/cello and sax and the only one that made me feel stupid was the sax. Never could get my mind around it.
By the way, Sluggish and Jenks, good stuff. I've contemplated a myspace, thing for a while but never took the time. I know it's lazy but too many decisions to make with web sites, I'm never happy with the final design or content. I used to do it for clients and it was easier when I was supplied with raw media and just had to write some text and assemble the page.
As for writing original stuff, Sluggish. Of all the challenges I've undertaken that's one that to this day remains beyond my reach. Not to mention playing all the parts is pretty impressive. I've never known a singer that can play a decent Persian rug.
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Gotta love da drums!
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/DaninCage.jpg)
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Thanks Thruster, and Sluggish I agree with Thruster... nice stuff, especially considering you play all the parts. :aok
VonMessa,
I assume you're behind the glass for isolaton for recording, but believe it or not I played in a band where we put our drummer behind glass because he was just so dang LOUD! I remember he had a cymbal by woohan, I swear to gawd, the loudest, cheesiest crash I ever heard. Funny thing about this guy was he played percs. for a new age piano guy and he was all sweetnest and light! He just didn't have any control when it came to playing rock and blues.
Jenks
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Originally posted by Jenks
He just didn't have any control when it came to playing rock and blues.
Why the hell should he?
I've used iso-panels and gobo's in a few live situations. You need the P.A. for it but if I had a choice I'd have 'em up at every gig.
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Why the hell should he?
Lol, Because that was what the job called for, we were a club band, not a touring concert. I've played with drummers who had that control and it is like night and day, its called finesse and dynamics. If you play at full bore all the time there's no place to go but down. You can't impart emotion and feel. Your instrument can't speak it can only yell. Just a wall of noise. Don't get me wrong I'm not tryin to rag on drummers or hard rockers or anyone. Play the way you feel on your own dime, but when you are hired to play cover you gotta do it right or your audience will leave.
Getting down from soap box and hangin up preacher robes.
Jenks
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its called finesse and dynamics.
you can't impart emotion and feel.
Who are you? Barry fluff'n Mainlow?
I've got something you can finesse and impart emotion on. RIGHT HERE
Rock Music=Seismic wall of sound.
If the club won't sign our medical liability waiver, We Don't Play. The audience leaves who cares? It just helps the acoustics. Nobody wants to jam for a bunch of pansies anyhow.
J/k of course, I hear you, that's why I like to isolate the kit, cleans everything up and in small clubs I can actually reinforce the drums. Otherwise it's all faders down and no cool snare verb.
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I've also run sound for years as well as playing the drums.
EVERYBODY goes in the cage. That way when I am running FOH (front of house)
I can get a perfect level on every mic in the cage. There is no substitute, and I haven't looked back since. In fact, you can't see it in this pic, but all the amps are isolated, also. This cuts down on stage noise. Using this in tandem with noise gates and compressors, I have complete control of ALL sound coming from the FOH speakers. For anything less than a full blown rock venue this is the way to go. Also, this approach used in conjunction with the Aviom (TM) in-ear monitors, you cant go wrong. It gets rid of all the stage monitor clutter. You want more of a particular instrument? Pick it on the remote box next to you and dial it up or down. No more need for "Can I get more of my crappy guitar tone out of the monitor?" Also cuts down on an extra person to run the monitor mix. A quality stereo mic hanging midway from stage to back wall gets piped into the Aviom, also. That way if the (usually fussy guitar player, no offense to anyone) wants some "room" sound, that is there as well.
As for the snare, Thruster my favorite thing is to use 2 mics. One on top, in phase, and one on the bottom, 180 degrees out of phase. That way you get a good level for the attack AND the nice sharp clean smack of the snares on the bottom head.
As for a full blown rock show? I still say tear down the walls and let it rip, baby!
As long as I'm not responsible for the mix. :aok
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Originally posted by Thruster
Who are you? Barry fluff'n Mainlow?
I've got something you can finesse and impart emotion on. RIGHT HERE
Rock Music=Seismic wall of sound.
If the club won't sign our medical liability waiver, We Don't Play. The audience leaves who cares? It just helps the acoustics. Nobody wants to jam for a bunch of pansies anyhow.
J/k of course, I hear you, that's why I like to isolate the kit, cleans everything up and in small clubs I can actually reinforce the drums. Otherwise it's all faders down and no cool snare verb.
Put the reverb on an aux send channel with a pre-fader option. Now you can put snare verb in the mix without amplifying the drum. Having played in cover bands for a good chunk of my youth and adult life, I understand how a drummer without finesse can get you canned.. It's usually a volume war between the drummer and the lead guitarist. These are usually the two guys in the band who constantly get after the sound tech to somehow make everything louder than everything else.
Playing in a cover band reminds me of being a cross between a circus performer and a carnival worker. If I never did it again it would be too soon.
Thanx guys for your compliments. I am always reluctant to post any music here since I hold the opinion of most of those on this board in high regard. Since we moved into the new house the boss (read wife) says I can't have the living room double as a recording studio any more. I told her I was cool with that as long as I could build one in the back yard. I got it roughed in before the money ran out...
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Who are you? Barry fluff'n Mainlow?
:rofl I did sound a little like him didn't I? You're right! Pizz on the pansies, and when they're all lined up at the back of club sayin"Great band" "What?" "Great band!" " What?" "Great band!!!" "What?!!, I can't fargin hear you!!!!" "Dude is that blood comin outta yur ears!?!" I'll be thinkin' "I bet Barry Mainlow never had to play a crappy hole like this place":rolleyes:
An Aviom system? VonMessa I'm jealous, its on my wish list but prolly not anytime soon. I would be happy if I could afford to pay someone else to do the sound besides me., But here in Mudflat, OR. the venues are few and the owners are CHEAP! You guys have heard the the saying, "we pay to play" apparently that is some sort of unwritten law around here, sheesh.
I used to bring subs, amps, effects, lights, strobes, back drops, band banners. Mic the drums, my leslie, three separate monitor mixes. But nobody gave a crap. So now, its a basic PA, couple monitors and maybe a 300wt colored flood, if I'm feeling good and have time I'll throw a mic on the kick...sad ain't it? And the thing is I want to bring all that stuff and give a great show, but at the end the night the club owner doles out a few hundred bucks and wants my SSN so he can 1099 me at the end of the year. But I'm prolly not tellin you guys anything you don't already know,am I? I still do it because I just get a thrill when the band is clickin and the crowd is into it and standin and dancin right up front, doesn't happen as often anymore but when it does...
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Played guitar now for 3 years. Got an Ibanez Artcore and :noid :noid Epiphone les paul special II. When i get the money im getting a Epiphone Les Paul Custom.
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Jenks, understand that none of it is mine. I wish.
I worked for a long time (and played on one of the teams) at a local church. That particular pic is from an evening show we did for a good friend of mine and her husband at that church. They rent a venue once a year an throw a huge show with all of their musical friends.
That church fits about 1800 people all said and done. That translated into a $350,000 fun house for me. LCR speaker setup (Renkus Heinz) Avioms, 48 channel Crest board (and a few 20's for mixdown) all to equal INSANE. I worked there until I couldn't stand the politics any longer. Do I miss it? Hell yes (and no). I'd rather be in some sweaty club schlepping my own gear anymore.
On a side note, I just got the newest Fender Passport (PD-500) for the DJ business. Celestion speakers (Bose in the PD-250). Talk about PUNCH. Try one at your local music shop. It all wraps up into a suitcase-type rig. You GOTTA hear one. You won't believe the sound you can get outta these things. Well worth it.
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Clarinet and tenor sax, slow tempo fake book keyboards.
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Put the reverb on an aux send channel with a pre-fader option.
Remember we're talking small venues here. Small venue usually means small P.A. Small P.A. means (usually) limited sends.
My mini system has an AH 16. It's got 2 pre fader and 2 assignable. These days I'm usually running 2 wedges and 2 in ears so the best I can do is send the snare to the vocal verb (from the fx bus) and try to dial in a nice patch that works for both. Problem is I prioritize vocals over instruments so the snare verb is usually sent to a med. plate, un-gated. Not a cool drum verb. If I have the "room" I'll usually insert the units but with limited fader input, it can get lost.
On the bigger system (AH 40), I have the extra channels. I return effects to a separate fader, much better control and I can drop the fx between songs with a simple group mute.
And how about those monitors? When I started playing clubs, monitors were like roadies. Only rock stars had 'em. And when there were wedges on the stage they were all but useless unless you needed a foot rest Capt. Morgan style. Nowadays half the work is getting the monitors right. I do work with one guitarist who's been around forever and he doesn't even use em.
God bless him, he keeps his volume down, never leaves his stack and never complains about anything. He's even got better vocal control than the front man, I need guys like him on every gig.
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I use a Mackie 1604 vlz. It's got two pre and two post fader aux sends. Since I usually only have one monitor mix, that leaves a pre-aux send to use for unamplified drum effects. In throoms I play micing the drums is unnecessary. Only the kick gets a mic.
I'm using (or used, all the gear is just sitting right now) a Mackie 2600 for the subs, a Mackie 1400 for the tops and another Mackie 1400 for the monitors. Cerwin Vega speakers all around. I'm using a Beringer 32 channel digital EQ and a TC Helicon dual effects processor. Minimal set-up means easy in and easy out and this more than enough gear to fill a small to medium sized room.