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| Little Black Francis |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 23:12:22
Today I bought a
1.Wave maker (a plastic tube with a bunch of plastic beads inside of it with little holes and you tip[ it over like a baby rattle and it kinda sounds like a wave, like my lame keyboards, the music store owner was like what is that 10 $ peice of plastic and I was like it's a wave maker... oh well, she's on hjer way to Montana where's she is from.. fuck me, I'm goinbg to bed)
2. A tin Whistle, (it's yellow, I almost got it figured out, not quite yet, 10$ as well, and optional 10$ book and CD.. I choose not to buy that booky thingy)
3. Tamborine (double layered, hand fitted, red, and black, 34$
4. My Sweet Potato (My folks have an antique Sweet Potatop, I bought a 3$ peice of shit plastic peice of shit.. hehehahahaehahh
um...
My ma played Joy to the World on the old one for me when I brought home the 3$ peice of shit one. She tried to give me the old one and I knew I would soon break it, so I said no thank you)
What'd you get today?
hehehaa
leifde bang botsing |
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 06/30/2004 : 08:42:59
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Originally posted by ivandivel
Cult of Frank - why spend 3000$ on a piano-keyboard when you can get yourself a good laptop, soundcard and a decent midikeyboard for allmost the same price with infinite more flexibility? We use a laptop live with excellent rhodes and wurlitzer patches, AND you can load all the patches you'll ever need and switch switch switch. Yep. It is good. My setup cost about 3000$ - including an USB soundcard. Works well, never crashed live.
I've thought of the laptop route and am undecided which is the only real reason I've not gone ahead and bought this thing. That said, a large part of the reason I love this particular piano is the feel. The way it plays. Yeah, the piano sound is fantastic, but it also feels like a piano, and that's really important when you're trying to put some feeling into the music. For some songs, I could get by with a $200 keyboard with no touch sensitivity. If I were only doing synth stuff, then that'd be enough. Certainly my WK-1800 is far over qualified for that job. For other songs, I'd like a piano that I can work my fingers on, y'know. It's difficult to explain how feel makes a difference, but it does and it's huge... I suppose it's like someone wanting a guitar that gets a certain tone or maybe it's also true of guitars that certain ones feel 'easy' and comfortable and others not as much. Finally, I'm moving out of my home eventually and I really will miss not having an acoustic piano or at least something that feels like one.
But the good thing with a laptop and a good USB sound solution is that it would also let us record in the garage without me hauling my desktop from the house. And it would probably give me the power to do some more complicated stuff on stage, loops, samples, etc. What software are you using? So many tough choices.
Andy/LBF, I'd love to hear/see your one man band. Though I must admit that I'm actually not in a one-man band. Speedy M (Mike) and I have been working together for a couple years and now we have a drummer and bassist (since this winter), a few shows under our belt, and a website. FB.Net watch out! :)
 "When 5000 posts you reach / Look as good you will not, hmmm?" |
| The Calistanian |
Posted - 06/30/2004 : 08:01:38
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Originally posted by Opaque
Kinda like those lil plastic shaker eggs too. Don't have any to speak of hanging around the house, but I do believe they can be purchased very inexpensively at the local geetar shop. I'll let ya know if I hafta go get one now.
"You've gotta listen for a weird, strange noise. Something out of the ordinary." - John Crichton
Those things are awesome! I bought myself a couple recently. They're a great thing to throw into a recording...adds a lot.
1. I am a fsh with no i's.
2. You must be wearing Zubaz, 'cause you're daring to be different.
3. I am a man with 3 fingers...but that doesn't count my index finger nor my thumb. |
| ivandivel |
Posted - 06/30/2004 : 05:30:44
Nice to see that there are more one-man-bands here. I've given up performing alone though, got me a band. Bought a Farfisa organ at a flea-market for 30$, which is outstanding. Gonna buy a new guitar this weekend - thinking of buying a telecaster. And I need a good accoustic for recording, i fell while playing my old fender acc and broke the neck. Cult of Frank - why spend 3000$ on a piano-keyboard when you can get yourself a good laptop, soundcard and a decent midikeyboard for allmost the same price with infinite more flexibility? We use a laptop live with excellent rhodes and wurlitzer patches, AND you can load all the patches you'll ever need and switch switch switch. Yep. It is good. My setup cost about 3000$ - including an USB soundcard. Works well, never crashed live. |
| n/a |
Posted - 06/30/2004 : 03:49:42
I'm saving for a guitar, I was going to but a mint green fender telecaster but 50% of people have said thats good and 50% said bad so I'm confused
You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it."
- Charles Bukowski
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| Opaque |
Posted - 06/30/2004 : 01:08:06
Kinda like those lil plastic shaker eggs too. Don't have any to speak of hanging around the house, but I do believe they can be purchased very inexpensively at the local geetar shop. I'll let ya know if I hafta go get one now.
"You've gotta listen for a weird, strange noise. Something out of the ordinary." - John Crichton |
| The Calistanian |
Posted - 06/29/2004 : 12:35:36
I recently found a Peavy 15 watt guitar amp at a pawn shop for $25. It works perfectly. I didn't really need it I guess, but I couldn't pass it up...
1. I am a fsh with no i's.
2. You must be wearing Zubaz, 'cause you're daring to be different.
3. I am a man with 3 fingers...but that doesn't count my index finger nor my thumb. |
| Little Black Francis |
Posted - 06/29/2004 : 12:24:51
I'm the one man band now Daen. I made a make shift moog deal out of an old old cheap ass keyboard with 1000 sounds, 10 drums beats and a 30 second recoprdable path... I run that through a guitar pedal, a Zoom pedal with 36 sounds, and 12 programable and run that through a peice of shit pPevey guitar amp... it's wil though... I need a real keyboad, I will be a dangeroursman when I get a real jkeyboard... this set I have now has well of 50,000 sounds, and play my Tele at the same time and do slam poetry and use all my little weird topys... my music style has completely changed in the mpast little while
cool
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| WolfManMikeLonely |
Posted - 06/29/2004 : 09:09:28
I just got a Highway 1 Telecaster with some Seymour Duncan pick ups and other new hardware in it, got it pretty cheap too. Great guitar.
"Hey fuck you if you don't like it."
-Johnny Thunders
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| NimrodsSon |
Posted - 06/29/2004 : 08:34:17
I've recently bought an accordian--a $300 Sophia Maria, only 32 of the chord keys, but I'm still very much in the learning stage so I guess it will do for a "starter" accordian, for now at least. Right now I can play "Just Another Sucker on the Vine" by Tom Waits (which is a Harmonium song but you can play it on the accordian) and "Particle Man" by They Might be Giants.
I also bought recently a Schoenhut toy piano which sounds really cool and will be very useful for recording purposes.
ˇViva los Católicos! |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 06/29/2004 : 07:43:46
I've been looking at a new keyboard for a while. Actually, an electric piano. The problem is that I tend to switch instruments at least once during many songs and:
a) Not many electric pianos have a good library of patches.
b) Those that do tend to make them fairly inaccessible.
There's a $3000 Yamaha I've been looking at though that's just weighted perfectly, sounds absolutely authentic, and is pretty overall nice, but suffers from a serious dose of b. Maybe I'll have to buy a second new keyboard as a controller or use my old one. But I still have a lot to learn about MIDI...
"When 5000 posts you reach / Look as good you will not, hmmm?" |
| Opaque |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 23:57:37
Not too terribly long ago I bought a mandolin. And I don't know how to play it yet. Thing is... I was one of those "I sing in a band" people that didn't know how to play instruments other than kinda sorta some stuff on guitar but not really. But I can play kazoo. Yep. *AHEM* I can run a sound board like it's nobody's bidness... but I digress... after the band stint was over, I just started painting.
Anyways, I got the mandolin thinking it might be a place to start. But the middle finger on right hand is still crumped up from where I broke it a couple of years ago. And I just can't seem to compensate for it yet.
And all I can think is... man. That dude in Def Leppard lost a frikkin' arm and he still plays drums. And I'm over here whining 'bout my messed up finger.
Anyways. Yeah. I bought a mandolin not too long ago... 
"You've gotta listen for a weird, strange noise. Something out of the ordinary." - John Crichton |
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