The Song Fight Bulletin Board

A thread for when you find cool stuff somebody might want.

M-Audio recording interfaces are supercheap on musiciansfriend.com right now:

USB Omni Studio $199: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=h ... id/701369/

Delta 66/Omni Combo $249: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=h ... id/701343/

Blemished Delta/Omni $199: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=h ... d/701343X/


For those who aren't aware, the Delta 66/Omni Studio combo is what I use for recording. Got mine like, four years ago, and have been incredibly satisfied with it.

Freddie Jones, a regular performer at my work is selling a complete Rogers drumset for $200. 3 toms, ride, and 2 crashes (I think). All hardware, etc., included. Brand new heads.

What a fucking deal. PM me if you want me to hook you up.

Note: I payed $300 for basically the same set, but with old heads, no crashes, and no hihats. God damnit.

If no one here jumps on this, I'll buy the set myself and resell it.

Musician's Friend is having a holiday deal thing for phone orders only.

Call 1-800-790-5876 before midnight, November 28, 2004, mention the code TN4L when placing your order, and we'll knock* $10 off orders over $99 and $20 off orders over $199.**

Combined with Free Shipping on most orders over $199

Hey All,

I just got the new Guitar Center flyer. It seems the M-audio Audio Buddy is on sale for $50 right now. If you go in on 11/26 between 8-10, they will pay the sales tax. That's a pretty good deal on a good preamp. Those of you looking to improve the quality of your recordings would do well to pick one of these up.

If you aren't near a Guitar Center, I may be persuaded to pick one up for you if you are willing to pay the shipping. Send me a PM.

Be well,
Ken

If you need real multitracking software, the Tracktion that people were talking about a few weeks ago is now FREE..

I payed for this last year, and I know somebody else just bought it, so this is kind of a slap in the face, but supposedly we'll get a discount on the forthcoming Tracktion 2.

anyway, I highly recommend this. It's a no-brainer if you are currently recording with Microsoft Sound Recorder, or whatever the hell some of you guys are using.

http://my.mackie.com/profile/member.asp?t=tnfra


-craig

New stuff on sale via the jazz club:

We've got a pair of Alesis reverb units. One of them is a midiverb, the other is a digiverb or something. I think I'm gonna take the midiverb, but the digiverb he's selling for like $40. PM me, and we can hook you up.

Also, there's a DAT for sale, I'm not sure how much, though. If you're interested, PM me and I'll get you some details.

If these auctions are legit, I expect they'll be bargains, since nobody's bid on them yet:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 56349&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 56686&rd=1
-bill

HeuristicsInc wrote:If these auctions are legit, I expect they'll be bargains, since nobody's bid on them yet:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 56349&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 56686&rd=1
-bill

He should get himself a good agent.

Not quite sure where this should go, but...

http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/12/10 ... /index.php

Which is an article about a website called MacJams which offers free music hosting for songs created on a Mac.

Don't know any of the whithers, dithers, or other peckish points about it, so caveat emptor, yo.

Sennheiser HD600 headphones for $200.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... S&v=glance
don't have any personal experience with these, but supposedly they are real good.

EDIT: uh.. never mind. i guess they sold out (this was on slickdeals.net today)

-craig

Here's an auction for a cheap ART Tube MP mic preamp.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 58349&rd=1

It will certainly improve your recording if you don't have a dedicated mic preamp.

ken

i just got the new Musician's Friend catalog (aka Musician's Crack) and they are selling off Propellerhead Reason 2.5 for $200 (normal list is $500, usually sells for about $350). this is an unbelievably good price for this software, and if you're unfamiliar with it, i'd say it is the single most powerful and utilized piece in my recording studio right now.

jack shite wrote:i'd say it is the single most powerful and utilized piece in my recording studio right now.

Me too (besides the guitar and Pro Tools).

These guys: http://sytek-audio-systems.com/ are selling their 4-channel mic pre for half off during January. I might pick one up and if it sounds better than the Mackie I'm using, keep it. IIRC, Steve Albini has some of these in his studio.

jack shite wrote:they are selling off Propellerhead Reason 2.5 for $200

they dropped the price so they could justify not having a grace period to give new users an updgrade to the forthcoming 3.0 for free. still a good deal!

-craig

Sennheiser HD49s with free bonus crappy in-ear headphones, $43: http://cheap.typepad.com/cheapster/2005 ... d49_1.html

I suppose I could start a thread, but this seems like a good enough place for this link:

http://www.stewmac.com

Everything for repairing/building your stringed instrument. It looks fantastic, I think I might have to try building my own pickups. And who wouldn't want to build their own acoustic guitar...buy the Kit!

TheHipCola wrote:I suppose I could start a thread, but this seems like a good enough place for this link:

http://www.stewmac.com

Everything for repairing/building your stringed instrument. It looks fantastic, I think I might have to try building my own pickups. And who wouldn't want to build their own acoustic guitar...buy the Kit!

I was totally psyched until I started to think about it in detail.
I downloaded the 40 page build 'manual' http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/i-5297/i-5297.pdf
and then looked at the tools required to do the job.
I'm not the most patient of people, I used to get frustrated building model aircraft - they never got finished, pilots got lost, glue in hair, paint on carpet etc.
Anyway to cut a long waffle short, you really need a fully equiped workshop to build one of these.
the best required tool imo is the Half-round bastard file. Useful either way.

TheHipCola wrote:I suppose I could start a thread, but this seems like a good enough place for this link:

http://www.stewmac.com

Everything for repairing/building your stringed instrument. It looks fantastic, I think I might have to try building my own pickups. And who wouldn't want to build their own acoustic guitar...buy the Kit!

They're good. Also check out http://www.lmii.com, which is where my dad gets most of his supplies (all of my acoustics were built by him).

Thanks Josh, that looks like a great place too. Do you have any experience with the pickups they sell for electric guitars?

TheHipCola wrote:Thanks Josh, that looks like a great place too. Do you have any experience with the pickups they sell for electric guitars?

Unfortunately not. Ask me again when he builds me an archtop. ;-)

Kamakura wrote: I was totally psyched until I started to think about it in detail.
...I'm not the most patient of people, I used to get frustrated building model aircraft - they never got finished, pilots got lost, glue in hair, paint on carpet etc.
Anyway to cut a long waffle short, you really need a fully equiped workshop to build one of these.

that's funny, it describes me to a "t". Similarly, I thought "HEY...why don't I just build my own pickups for my crappy guitar?" Then I looked at the pickup winding machine, and realized that winding by hand would be arduous, long andprobably would not give me the result I wanted. sigh....

boing!

Musiciansfriend.com has the M-audio Quattro on sale for $149 right now. It is a 4-in/4-out usb soundcard used by Loyalty Day and Glenn Case. You need preamps for this thing, but this is still a good deal.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/fg= ... id/701375/

Ken