The Song Fight Bulletin Board

I picked up my desk today, and I'm about to try to get it out of my van by myself. I don't know if I'll be able. It took 3 people to get it out of the store.

Pics, maybe less than Nevada-size, when it's set up.

What kind did you decide on Sober?

Oh and be careful man. I had a hernia once. I got it from trying to outmuscle an inanimate object. It hurts like a bitch.

Here's the new setup, in bite-sized pics:




Now I just need 10 more peices of rack gear to fill all that space

Oh, and a few more guitars to finish up that right wall.

*edit: oh, and the desk is a kk audio KDSDP1. Worked a super-shady deal through a Guitar Center in Tennessee and picked it up right here in Dallas.

If you want a desk like this, you can probably grind a GC guy down to $400. The pro audio guys at GC get paid on gross sales, not on profit margin, so it shouldn't be all that hard.

This desk, however, is about the heaviest thing on the planet. Only took about 2 hours to assemble. If anyone else gets this desk, make sure you have someone help you bring it into the house, for fuck's sake.

And the bottom-right is the beast. Even from the other side of the wall, I can still hear it wailing.

jack wrote:i love my mesa sober. best production amp you can buy i think. an arsenal of sound

i'm looking to get a simple sort of MIDI controller setup. or maybe something like the MicroKorg, if I could find one cheap enough (150-200 bucks). any suggestions?

Shit, I guess I missed this one. I hated the Mesa, don't know why. Maybe I didn't tweak it enough, but with three different guitars, the distortion channel sounded like someone with a sweaty, hairy ass taking a greasy shit onto a microphone.

As for a simple controller, the Oxygen8 is pretty solid. $139 at my store.

But I'd say be a man and get a Motif

The Sober Irishman wrote: As for a simple controller, the Oxygen8 is pretty solid. $139 at my store.

don't buy that.

-craig

I own a microphone!

The Phuntman wrote:More affectation!

starfinger wrote:

The Sober Irishman wrote: As for a simple controller, the Oxygen8 is pretty solid. $139 at my store.

don't buy that.

-craig

Agreed.

Hey, I just borrowed a small set of drums (snare, kick, ride tom, floor tom, high hat, crash cymbal, no ride cymbal yet but maybe soon) for recording purposes. I've already got Blue's previously described setup for recording in stereo (It's around here somewhere find it. It involves measuring with a piece of string). Anyway, the set is mostly for having on hand so real drummers who know how to play can easily stop by and play tracks without having to bring their set by. But I thought, hey it's here, I can play a little bit already, I might as well try and get some practice in and get better.

So, any drummers (Blue / Leaf/ Others) have any suggestions on how I should practice? And on what?

Edit: I added the word "others" along with Blue and Leaf. I don't want to eliminate any suggestions.

The Sober Irishman wrote:

starfinger wrote:

The Sober Irishman wrote: As for a simple controller, the Oxygen8 is pretty solid. $139 at my store.

don't buy that.

-craig

Agreed.

I'm confused. But regarding the Oxygen8, I have one and it's good for portability but at home you'll want to use at least a 49-key controller, whether you play any piano or not. A friend of mine uses the Edirol PCR50 and likes it. You can get them under $200.

i use the pcr30, and occasionally i miss having more keys, but it is nice to have a smaller keyboard if you're cramped for space. i do have bigger keyboards i can use if needed but it's good to have the small one in general use.
-bill

BAM!

Bluemic.

Sample coming.

where i usually do my recording:

and my studio watchdogs:

Fuck yeah! $70 and 60 miles on my van is all (~15 miles/gallon @ $3/gallon makes an extra $12 or so, but whatever).

It sounds fricking great, but it's kinda noisy. I'll work on fixing that soon enough.

Eat your heart out, ken

Damn it, Sober, it sounds awesome! Noisiness and all.

/jealous

The PSS-130, pretty much the best keyboard ever made. Features a staggering two notes of polyphony, eight "different" voices, and rhythm section. I'm throwing my Motif in the trash.

That quick recording is made with the board in my lap, and my dragonfly mic right up to the speaker, as the peice has no outputs. I plan on opening it up and giving it one, as well as maybe doing some crazy mods with it, like this guy did:

http://www.thesilencebureau.com/PSS-130.htm

Also, for more cool "circuit-bending" check out this guy:

http://www.khate.org/bent/index.html

Jute, surely you're familiar with this practice?

Khate's a girl. I should know, I did a concert with her (ambientlive 2k4). Silence Bureau was there, I think, but he didn't perform ... so yeah I know them.
Khate's set was cool. All or mostly circuit bent.
-bill

Nothing in the world makes more sense to me than you having a connection with those people.

Just swapped my Motif ES7 in for the new XS6. Gladly took the reduction in size and weight after killing myself hauling it to gigs for a year. I am once again on an industry-standard board, so my snobbery may resume unabated.




Also, if anyone missed it in the review thread:



Hammond M100. Same model heard on Green Onions (that song from the Sandlot and like 50 other movies).

Will post more pics of the whole studio once everything's really set in.

So I've been trying to collect junk for a few years now and here is the list. Epiphone LP Classic Quilt Top, cheap ass Carlo Robelli acoustic, gemeinhardt flute, King Super 20 tenor saxaphone, Yamaha SY22 synthesizer, some harmonicas, a $5 jewharp, Line6 Toneport UX2, Shure bg 1.1 mic, FL Studio 5 Producer Ed., Sibelius 3, and Adobe Audition 2. I use an Onkyo home theatre amp with a pair of Hafler M5's. It's working pretty well. I can't wait to get out of college and get some space to myself so I can set everything up in a way that's actually productive.