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Title: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 27, 2012, 07:16:34 AM
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Even non member "Guests" stumble in here and read this thread after a Google Search on "GR-55 Guitar to MIDI"
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There is pro-active organization of placing important threads with Reference Materials to gain knowledge on a specific subject in the
"Top Things to Know " areas here for popular processors  - to ease finding important information.


The GR-55 FAQ thread is a must read
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3137.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3137.0)

VGuitarForums Glossary of Terms
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13765.msg100749#msg100749 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13765.msg100749#msg100749)

EDIT: Get External Inline GK  Input Subsonic Filter here:

DR Joness  Filter/Buffer - Guitar Synthesizer Processor with Subsonic Filters, Auxiliary Inputs and Master Effects Loop
http://www.joness.com/gr300/Filter-Buffer.htm (http://www.joness.com/gr300/Filter-Buffer.htm)
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=9692.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=9692.0)

CodeSmart GKFX-11 Subsonic Filter
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11884.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11884.0)

Quote
QuoteI'm completely new to gk3/midi setups.

For "newbies" - Its best to watch all the related youtube videos on the other related Roland VG/GR gear  - as these have been out there much longer and most of us here have been using VG / GR hex PU devices over 30 years.   

Here is a good list of starting reference material for new GP-10 users :

Roland Canada VG-99 Tutorials
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2971.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2971.0)


Roland GR-55 Training Videos
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=7327.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=7327.0)



http://roland.com/V-Guitar/howto.html (http://roland.com/V-Guitar/howto.html)

Roland COSM Reference Library

Read ALL the docs in the Roland COSM Library thread  - that has links to PDF docs that explain all VG/GR/GP/GT features in far greater detail
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88.0)


Roland GS-10 COSM dynamic processor
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=88.0;attach=68 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=88.0;attach=68)

Roland GS-10 COSM Speaker
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=88.0;attach=69 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=88.0;attach=69)

Boss_GT-x_Set-up_v02.pdf
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=88.0;attach=462 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=88.0;attach=462)


Boss_GT-8 Brilliance.pdf
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=88.0;attach=464 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=88.0;attach=464)

Learn about the Roland / Boss "Internal Pedal" and "Wave Pedal" here:

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8782.msg92882#msg92882 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8782.msg92882#msg92882)


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Based on recent questions like  :
"Where do I find Discussions on Guitar Modeling?"
"How to get my GR-55 Guitar output Jack to Work?
" Where is the user to user patch exchange?

And Stats  - It would appear our Home page (see below)  is the least visited area of the forum

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The Vguitarforums Homepage includes a "NEWS area at the top,  which apparently most folks never read/ see - since they surf in here to vguitarforums via google to a specific post, and never bother to check out the Vguitarforums home page.


We have other important links in the News area that auto update every 15 seconds to a new important URL link of important information like:

Boss GP-10 F.A.Q.
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11796.msg85343#msg85343 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11796.msg85343#msg85343)

GR-55 F.A.Q.
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3137.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3137.0)

GR-55 FloorBoard Editor Help
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=86 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=86)


* GR-55 Documentation Library
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2953.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2953.0)
Download and Read ALL GR-55 Setup docs here - these are only available here at VGuitarForums and developed by our members 
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=downloads;cat=18 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=downloads;cat=18)

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*GR-55 Control Assignments
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3868.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3868.0)


VG-99 F.A.Q.
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13.0)

Fishman Tripleplay F.A.Q.
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Tyler Variax HD Workbench Patches
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Many forget - but you MUST be consistent and use the Exact same physical USB Port on your PC/Mac that was used during the GP-10 USB  driver install.

If you forget,  and attempt to plug any Roland VG/GR/GP/GT product  to your computer using the "wrong" USB port"  = failure to load the Roland USB driver.

Thought I would start a thread with a collection of my past present and future tips and free advice. This might look redundant to old timers, but in the future I hope to be  adding more and more here.
Although it could be argue'ed that one could simply click on my profile name, and then click on "Show Posts",
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=4 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=4)
and just spend a few days reading those.  True my opinions are often the polar opposite of what others will think, and it has ruffled feathers in many camps. Also pardon me from locking this thread, so only i get to post here -  But hey its my Blog!

My Bio
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=82.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=82.0)


The story of VGuitarForums
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=7912.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=7912.0)

Newbie help
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10301.msg74558#msg74558 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10301.msg74558#msg74558)

How to always see all "Recent Posts"

1) Click "Home"

2) Scroll / Page down all the way to the bottom of the page.

3) Find the area called "Recent Posts"

4) Click on the 45 degree stack of paper "Icon" underneath the text "Recent Posts" (see on far left here).
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or here:
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5) Finally you will see 10 pages of All Recent Posts, and all the contents, sorted recent ones first, regardless of the specific Topic or Board these were posted.


Its absolutely crucial to review all the files included in the downloaded file from the Main Roland site.
www.Roland.com (http://www.roland.com)

www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=downloads (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=downloads)

Bulk of user problems with no connectivity to the Editor or Audio/Midi problems can be all traced back to the user ignoring to read these installation instructions provided by Roland - but it seems many folks never see/read them. 

Many times they include a "Readme.htm" file that gets extracted when you un-archive the zip file. These are the Roland Installation Instructions and  must be viewed in a web browser and the user must follow all the step by step instructions in the exact order they describe - else failure.



MUST Read  - Roland COSM Reference Library
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88.0)


NEW TO ROLAND GR-55?
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GR-55 F.A.Q.
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3137.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3137.0)

* How to prepare your new 13 pin cable prior to use:
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3132.msg20110#msg20110 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3132.msg20110#msg20110)

* Make your GK-3 "Guitar/Mix/Synth" Switch work with GR-55 Work (step by step)
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3402.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3402.0)

* How to enable  the GR-55 "Guitar Output" jack:
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4682.msg31583#msg31583 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4682.msg31583#msg31583)

* Guitar Out Noise in Live Rigs
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5456.msg37493#msg37493 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5456.msg37493#msg37493)

*I should note that the Metal guys report the GR-55 Guitar Out is noisy when feeding their ultra high gain Tube amps on Lead channel. An external Noise gate pedal in front of the Tube preamp may be required if you play metal or lots of hi gain.

* GR-55 - Configure MIDI Program Changes and MIDI CC# Transmission
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4021.msg27215#msg27215 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4021.msg27215#msg27215)

* Debug GR-55 MIDI Transmission data with a third party free MIDI Monitor:
Windows - MIDI-OX
http://www.midiox.com/ (http://www.midiox.com/)
MAC - SNOIZE
http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/ (http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/)

*GR-55 Control Assignments
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3868.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3868.0)

* GR-55 Ultimate Multi Control patches (solves the GR-55 long Patch change delay (with mute) issue)
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5647.msg38806#msg38806 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5647.msg38806#msg38806)

* Guitarplayer_10's  GR-55 Ultimate Multi Control patch step by step
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=7267.msg50612#msg50612 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=7267.msg50612#msg50612)



* GR-55 User Created Guitar Patches:
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=67.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=67.0)

* Get all the GR-55 Guitar Mode Forum Patches Here
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3684.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3684.0)


* GR-55 User Created Documents Downloads area
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=downloads;cat=18 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=downloads;cat=18)


GR-55 Mods
*  Add a Normal Guitar Input jack on your GR-55
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4624.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4624.0)

* DIY GR-55 guitar pickup input output fx loop Mod with Pictures!
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3994.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3994.0)


Roland Social Network Contact Links
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13299.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13299.0)



Roland Corporation U.S.
5100 S. Eastern Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90040-2938
Customer Service Tel: (323) 890-3700


Roland & BOSS U.S. Service Center
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Roland Canada
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Fender Customer service in Arizona
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
Attn: Consumer Relations Dept.
17600 N. Perimeter Drive, Suite 100
Scottsdale, AZ 85255
Telephone: (480) 596-7195
Fax: (480) 367-5262
E-mail: consumerrelations@fender.com

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Baie-D'Urfe Quebec Canada
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Tel (514) 457-7977 ext.135
Fax (514) 457-5774

info@godinguitars.com
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RMC Pickups
http://www.rmcpickup.com/ (http://www.rmcpickup.com/)
info@rmcmusic.com

or write us at

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Remember No forum post, photos, spoken words, MP3 audio recordings, or Youtube videos can effectively communicate or act as a substitute for real hands on experience and actual one on one "play time" with any piece of music gear you intend to use to create "your sound" for recordings or live performance use.


At this time ( July 2014) the Boss GP-10 is just another tool, I've determined its exactly the right tool for my specific needs. 

I'll leave it to a guitar center salesman to convince you to use "Gear A" over "Gear B".

I'm just reporting what gear I'm currently focused on using for my specific needs and requirements , and how I'm accomplishing those goals. 


If I'm playing live, I want the Guitar with hex PU to be focused on having the option to augment my straight guitar tone (using normal pickups) with Fast Acting On Guitar Control for my occasional Synth use. Since I tend to play in small trios, I often change my guitar tone or engage / disengage the Synth Voices several times during each song.   
Its extremely effective to have a dedicated 3 way "Guitar / Mix / Synth" switch mounted on the guitar, as I may use this switch for Synth guitar solos, or Horn stabs at the end of each chorus, or Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) type FX mid solo. But 80% of the time I'm playing straight guitar  - the synth aspect can get boring if over used. Ive seen audiences leave early if they cant wrap their brain around: "who is playing the keyboard parts?"   

I find Guitars with hex PU that lack this important 3-way switch less desirable and too clumsy for live use. and "pan pots" for "Guitar  to Synth" are just too sluggish to use for my playing style at a live show.
   
I feel the Fender Roland Ready Strats controls provide  a minimum set of controls I rely on, they got it right.

I have plenty of dedicated "Synth Only" Guitar shaped controllers that I use at home in the studio, but these stay home since they can not easily deliver normal guitar sounds too.

In today's world, I only bring the minimum gear to setup / tear down at the gigs so I prefer to bring one guitar that satisfies all my needs for the show.


Also a note about the distinction between topics in "General Discussion"area vs the  "Top Things To Know" area.
I feel if a thread contains IMPORTANT information, I will move this to the Top Things To Know area.
If the thread with crucial information were left in the Discussion area, in three months it would be buried and forgotten among the hundreds of other existing threads in Discussion area.

My philosophy is the "Top Things To Know" areas here at VGuitarForums should be the "Go To" Areas to learn important  Essential  / Crucial techniques and operational concepts.
We can continue to discuss ANY Topic in Any thread - Even those threads which have been moved to the "Top Things To Know" areas.


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With all my Gear I always

1)  Read the Manual

2)  Update to the latest  Firmware

3) Install all the official apps and follow along with the owners manual  -  Exploring all the features and follow the official work flow operational "paradigm" - and get comfortable that the product actually works

Only after I have accomplished all three things above - that's when I pursue alternate creative ways to use the tool
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 27, 2012, 07:16:54 AM
Fix your Audio Ground Loop Buzzes and Noises
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2078.0


USB Noise - audio output has enormous noise with USB cable connected
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=367.0



In "Roland speak" ,  the term  "GK" means  ANY 13 PIN GUITAR ( Piezo, magnetic, or photo-optic hex PU) requires the GK TYPE setting to be correctly set on your "GK Processor" ( GP-10, GR-55 VG-99, VG-88) to match your "GK" 13 pin Guitar  ( Piezo, magnetic, or photo-optic hex PU)


Refer to your GK Processor's  Owners Manual for the topic "GK SETTINGS" or "GK TYPE" - for instructions on these crucial settings.
Here is full list of "GK" Guitars
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=19.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=19.0)
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=4.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=4.0)


Optimal GK TYPE Hex Pickup Settings.
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=1060.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=1060.0)



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Read my opinions on New Computers for Music here:
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6104.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6104.0)

Have too much gear and no time to read all the Owner's manuals?

I load the Owners manual up in Adobe Acrobat Reader, and simply CTRL+F to bring up the search tool to only read the topic I'm interested in.


I will also use the text to speech processor built into all recent versions of Adobe Acrobat  - Open up a new PDF  User manual  and  let the computer read it out loud to me.  I may use my 900MHz wireless headphones and be mobile around the house as I listen to my PDF Owners Manuals being read aloud to me.

http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/reader6/sec2.html (http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/reader6/sec2.html)

If I'm doing other tasks, (like cleaning, laundry, chores)  In this manner I  can grasp functional concepts of the new gear much faster, then - when I'm finally able to sit down and play with it later - i have a head start as I use "Find text" in Acrobat to fine tune my knowledge and master the unit in question.   

FWIW - the Mac with OSX (and any IOS5 device - iPhone, Ipad, Ipod Touch) can read aloud any text you highlight on the screen , and read entire documents  with a much clearer voice I can understand 90% of the time  I do that all the time  - rather like having a  "books on tape" version of my all my Owners manuals.

Prior to my iPhone, i would make MP3 recordings of these - so i could listen on headphones at work at my day gig.
But the recent IOS5 has a method of enabling text to speech right on the device. 

And these days there is always youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/macProVideoDotCom (http://www.youtube.com/user/macProVideoDotCom)


Need an answer fast for your new audio toy? Download the product Owners Manual (PDF), then launch in Acrobat Reader and use Search on the term of interest.



Remember All These devices provide icing, a few more colors to your "sonic artist palette" - not talent, and you certainly don't need anything on this entire forum to find a job and much success as a working professional guitarist.

Speaking from experience - if not kept in check, its too easy to be stuck in an endless cycle of G.A.S -   with its never ending stack of manuals to read , only to discover the "known bugs" the manufacturer will never tell you exists, which forces you to find yet another solution -  can actually hinder your progress as a musician.


Remember Music is a means of non verbal communication.  Advanced musicians with soul and mastery of their instrument can instantly move the human spirit like a puppet master.  - don't fall into the trap of thinking that stepping on that shiny new FX pedal will ever replace learning new scales, studying harmony and composition, and improvisation, working on your timing, learn how to listen to the rest of your band and find your role to contribute everything you can to each bar and measure of the song you are currently playing  - often that means channeling the gods, and knowing when to play a spontaneous improve solo that blows peoples minds, or play one well placed chord stab, or just one note, or  know when its best to stand still and play nothing at all.

(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independentrecording.net%2Firn%2Fresources%2Ffreqchart%2Fimages%2Fmain_chart.jpg&hash=d3233037584ba02773c76c6b80037614c2cb7aaf)
http://www.independentrecording.net (http://www.independentrecording.net)


I abandoned further effort on all IOS/ USB Audio Interfaces that restrict all Audio I/O to iPad to 16 bits - Modern IOS Amp Sims ( Positive Grid BIAS/JAMUP PRO) reveal the shortcomings of 16 bit USB Audio. The latest iPads running IOS6-7 now support Multi-channel 24 bit Audio.
http://auriaapp.com/Support/auria-audio-interfaces (http://auriaapp.com/Support/auria-audio-interfaces)

You need 24 bits to run Modern IOS Guitar Amp Sims to get anywhere near a Kemper experience using Positive Grid Bias.  16 bits reveals its sonic limitations under this specific condition

Here's a rundown of my own discovered work around on trying to successfully get 3 different iPads (and now an Iphone 6 Plus on IOS 8 )  working with USB Class Compliant Audio and MIDI gear
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10323.msg74428#msg74428 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10323.msg74428#msg74428)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 27, 2012, 07:18:28 AM
Being a Guitarist today - you just need to think like an modern Auto Mechanic and be well rounded with knowledge of hand tools and computers.

Which is:  Know all the tools at your disposal, be equally proficient with your Live bar band Guitar amp and stomp FX, and know LA/Nashville/NYC / Muscle Shoals  / Memphis / Abbey Road Studio Production Techniques , and be the Geek and understand audio engineering and laws of physics and their implications for making music in 2014


competent Variax Luthier, like

Thermal Relief Guitar
730 West Cheyenne Ave. Suite #120 N. Las Vegas NV, 89030
(702) 395-7005
info@thermalrelief.com

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?



Training Videos
[url=https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.msg81450#msg81450]https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.msg81450#msg81450 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=17712.msg122030#msg122030)

MUST Read  - Roland COSM Reference Library
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88.0)


other good resource of info.
http://lifehacker.com (http://lifehacker.com)
http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/ (http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/)

http://www.gmarts.org/index.php?go=321 (http://www.gmarts.org/index.php?go=321)

But I can tell you SRV never had to worry about this $%^& , but he had equal trial and error before he hit it big.
(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mylespaul.com%2Fforums%2Fmembers%2Fstang90gt-albums-misc-picture65431-srv.jpg&hash=e060d887058e8b2105590d121a615d7f0c410743)


Not all unusual Guitar techniques require super Hi tech - check out these vids of Paolo Angeli using a custom guitar with Cello Bridge  / strings and motorcycle clutch cable pedals.
Tra una gamba e l'altra (Paolo Angeli) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwnMdmheHyE#)

Paolo Angeli a UN PAESE A SEI CORDE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6Lb8Bh27k#)


one of my favorite street performaers
http://youtu.be/Owh2cjTmiuc (http://youtu.be/Owh2cjTmiuc)

And know that for most of the knowledge dispensed here is more targeted to "Guitar Techs" and not Artists - but when you are starting out - you have do do it all with tools available at your disposal - even if you find in 2014 the crucial critical path is a 51 year old '63 tube reverb

While Im passing out tips - I highly recommend Scribd.com  - as its a huge repository of Knowledge.

Its great to finally locate PDF versions of bulk of my Reference Library bookshelf,

www.scribd.com (http://www.scribd.com)


It used to be free  - but last year they made it a subscription site, but its well worth the annual $60 fee.

(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi412.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fpp208%2Felantric%2FScreenShot2012-05-26at90523PM.png&hash=582eca5c1a2104ea8f313725ddc10e83ab295b5d)



http://www.digitindex.com/ (http://www.digitindex.com/)

(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snapagogo.com%2Fuploads%2Fsource%2F2732014%2F1412200417_477628933_digit_index.PNG&hash=74e2c7fdd7cf3ec19b741bf62976d6042ecca706)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 27, 2012, 08:35:12 AM
I have found the "fast track" to gaining knowledge on any piece of gear you own, or are considering.

Use a search tool - at present I still use Google 99% of the time .

As a PCB Designer by trade, Im more visually oriented (Yes a Picture  =  a thousand words)

I will often begin my search using Google Image  Search:

For example - lets say I wanted to learn about VG-99, so I would use the search term in quotes "VG-99 Audio Routing" in Google and Click "Images" - and I will see this page.

(https://s6.postimg.cc/5xc038l7l/VG-99_pic_routing.png)
https://www.google.com/search?q=Roland+VG-99+Routing&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjE-N2W1fnaAhVCz1QKHW8ZALYQ_AUIDCgD&biw=1022&bih=580 (https://www.google.com/search?q=Roland+VG-99+Routing&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjE-N2W1fnaAhVCz1QKHW8ZALYQ_AUIDCgD&biw=1022&bih=580)
Well, just like the saying:  "Life is what happens while you were busy making other plans "
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Lennon (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Lennon)

Among the mass of images, this one looks interesting and something I have not seen before:

(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi412.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fpp208%2Felantric%2FScreenShot2012-05-27at74438AM.png&hash=893bb40f6208e91ea9c5e89d460ce460d8f84449)

So I click the pic and it takes me to the site with more details on a nice compact mobile VG-99, EMU Proteus rig by our forum member musicman65 (CruzerRocks), which i think is worth reading.

http://www.cruzerrocks.com/VG99/VG99_Case.htm (http://www.cruzerrocks.com/VG99/VG99_Case.htm)

(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cruzerrocks.com%2FVG99%2FVG99_Case_Setup.JPG&hash=5c1230e444bcb1e4e67f8f8ebb158c6f4d37815e)


Also you may have noticed many of my posts include screen shots or pics from PhotoBucket. now using  snapagogo.com

Look here for more
http://s412.photobucket.com/albums/pp208/elantric/?start=60 (http://s412.photobucket.com/albums/pp208/elantric/?start=60)


Roland GR-55 pics
http://s412.photobucket.com/albums/pp208/elantric/ROLAND%20GR-55/?start=20 (http://s412.photobucket.com/albums/pp208/elantric/ROLAND%20GR-55/?start=20)


We all should know many gear forums are often filled with more Trolls and self serving egos, than actual real shared hands on knowledge and good advice. I call that type forum as having  a poor "signal to noise" ratio.

But when i do find someone who posts good solid advice, I will remember the name of that user, and try to search for more info on what that person might have shared about other concepts.
If I'm a member of that forum i will always click on their user name and "show posts" - and I often find that I can gain a lot of useful information rapidly, instead of wading thru page after page of arguments and counterpoints and drivel.

Conversely  - if I find a user on some forum who may appear to never posts anything constructive,  I may click on their user name and "show posts" and scan a few pages to see if they are nothing but a Troll.

On some forums, you can setup an option for - Never show posts by "insert name of troll" - and that helps you maximize your time by only reading valuable posts - instead of getting sucked into someone else's battle.

For example - here at VGuitarforums, we have few folks who are very disciplined and have taken the time to contribute great stuff.

At this hour (May 2012) I would suggest "scanning" all posts by these members, as I feel they have contributed their fare share of  good solid info  (PM me if i omitted anyone else)   

Brent  Flash
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=28 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=28)

Gumtown
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=2962 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=2962)

Jim Williams
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=921 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=921)


Bill Ruppert
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=1888 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=1888)

Cricket
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=4500 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=4500)

Vance G
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=75 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=75)

Germanicus
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=371 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=371)

Shawnb
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=2695 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=2695)

musicman65
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=733 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=733)

mbenigni
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=3016 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=3016)

A2DCONVERTER
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=3500 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=3500)


drjones2001
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=83 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=83)

A to the T
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=38 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=38)

aliensporbomb
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=1000 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=1000)

Elantric
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=4 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=4)

fokof (good Bass info)
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=1301 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=1301)

I try to read every post here, and very happy we have a good community of helpful members - Im sure I have forgotten many other great contributors. 


In my pursuit of sound - we find the same guys are always getting the latest toys, and these are a few names I trust and read frequently on the internet.

Peter Kirn
http://createdigitalmusic.com/staff/peter/ (http://createdigitalmusic.com/staff/peter/)

Tweakheadz
http://tweakheadz.com/ (http://tweakheadz.com/)


Scott Peterson
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php? (http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?)

Ben Vesco (Malhavoc)
http://www.benvesco.com/blog/ (http://www.benvesco.com/blog/)

Tom Engdahl
http://www.epanorama.net/ (http://www.epanorama.net/)
http://www.epanorama.net/blog/ (http://www.epanorama.net/blog/)

http://www.vettaville.nl/news.php (http://www.vettaville.nl/news.php)

AndyZ
http://www.instituteofnoise.com/ (http://www.instituteofnoise.com/)

Armin
http://www.soundside.de/ (http://www.soundside.de/)

Dieter Waechter (GSP-2101 Mods)
http://www.tube-tester.com/ (http://www.tube-tester.com/)



Zoetrope (Zoom Info)
http://zoomforum.us/ (http://zoomforum.us/)




At the Kemper Amp Forum
#1 would be read all posts by Chris Kemper:
http://kemper-amps.com/forum/index.php?form=Search&searchID=420399&highlight= (http://kemper-amps.com/forum/index.php?form=Search&searchID=420399&highlight=)

#2 Read all posts by Bill Ruppert:
http://kemper-amps.com/forum/index.php?form=Search&searchID=420397&highlight= (http://kemper-amps.com/forum/index.php?form=Search&searchID=420397&highlight=)


#3 Read all posts by Senior moderator  Guitarnet70:
http://kemper-amps.com/forum/index.php?form=Search&searchID=420398&highlight= (http://kemper-amps.com/forum/index.php?form=Search&searchID=420398&highlight=)

#4 Read all posts in the Troubleshooting section:
http://kemper-amps.com/forum/index.php?page=Board&boardID=6 (http://kemper-amps.com/forum/index.php?page=Board&boardID=6)

Do that and you will find that 99% of your KPA questions / problems will have already been covered and solved / answered.

Often I find the "fast track" to locate info  / posts / patches submitted by others is click on their user name to jump to a users Profile - here is Smash's
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=1679 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=1679)

Then look on the far left -  click "Show Posts"
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=1679 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=1679)

Then I navigate and browse and often the info I need is right there.
Neal Schon Live 2012 patch
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10572.msg76510#msg76510 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10572.msg76510#msg76510)


Search on  "Patch" will take you to these areas of VGuitarforums

Boss GP-10 Patches
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=151.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=151.0)

Boss GT Series (older models) - Patch Exchange
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=161.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=161.0)

GR-55 Guitar Mode Patch Exchange
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=67.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=67.0)

GR-55 Bass Mode Patch Exchange
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=84.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=84.0)

Roland VG-8 Patch Exchange
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=122.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=122.0)

Roland VG-88 Patch Exchange
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=121.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=121.0)

Roland VG-99 GK 13 Input Patch Exchange
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=35.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=35.0)

Roland VG-99 Mag PU 1/4" Input Patch Exchange
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=48.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=48.0)

Roland VB-99 Bass Patch Exchange
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=59.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=59.0)

Original Variax Workbench Patch Exchange
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=139.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=139.0)

Tyler Variax WorkBench HD Patch Exchange
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=138.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=138.0)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 08, 2012, 02:40:31 PM
http://awtfy.com/category/music/ (http://awtfy.com/category/music/)

Free neck radius gauges you print out
http://www.pickguardian.com/pickguardian/Images/Pickguardian%20Neck%20Radius%20Gauges.pdf (http://www.pickguardian.com/pickguardian/Images/Pickguardian%20Neck%20Radius%20Gauges.pdf)

Custom Pick Guards at PickGuardian
http://www.pickguardian.com/pickguardian/ (http://www.pickguardian.com/pickguardian/)

GUITAR EFFECTS FAQ
http://www.geofex.com/effxfaq/fxfaq.htm (http://www.geofex.com/effxfaq/fxfaq.htm)

Get the straight dope on new IT tech.
http://www.theregister.co.uk (http://www.theregister.co.uk)


http://patentyogi.com/category/american-inventor/ (http://patentyogi.com/category/american-inventor/)


--


Here is a partial list of USB Class Compliant Audio Devices.
http://iosmidi.com/devices/ (http://iosmidi.com/devices/)

Starting with IOS 4.1, Apple placed a restriction on the amount of power an external USB device can draw from the  Iphone / Ipad's Dock port  / Lightning port to 200mA  MAX.


To overcome this external USB device power restriction, use a Powered USB Hub between the Apple USB Camera Adapter and the Target USB Class Compliant Audio Device.

Background: Here is a site which explains typical USB Client USB architecture, and how many USB Audio and MIDI devices USB - UART chips are powered.


http://www.chameleon-dev.com/pmwiki.php/Community/AvrHardware (http://www.chameleon-dev.com/pmwiki.php/Community/AvrHardware)
and a typical schematic:
(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chameleon-dev.com%2Fpub%2Fuploads%2FCommunity%2Fpic_ftdi_usb_uart.png&hash=fb161ecf49022edaa01b4efd3c2c4c9f41472b7c)

At the top of the schematic above, you see an Arrow with the signal USB_5VOUT, this is the power coming in from the USB port (H1), which in our case is the IPAD. Many USB Audio and MIDI device's internal USB - UART chips (like U6 above) must be powered by the external USB Host device, and some of these chips draw excess of 200mA "in-rush current" momentarily while bulk 4.7uF Capacitors become charged, so you must use a Powered USB Hub which often can provide +5V @ 500mA, far in excess of the limited USB 5V @ 200mA supply current available by iPhone / iPad USB Camera Connection Kit adapters.

(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.murata.com%2F%7E%2Fmedia%2Fwebrenewal%2Fproducts%2Femiconfun%2Femc%2F2012%2F10%2F29%2Fen-20121029-p1%2Fen-20121029-p1_img0001.ashx%3Fla%3Den&hash=f56ba5bc130392123913043fd69cf3b18dcaf016)

For mobility, I prefer a "self -powered" four AAA Battery operated  - Powered USB Hub with my iPad and some USB Class Compliant devices which require it.

I use a hard to find CyberPower Mobile Battery Powered 4-Port USB Hub (CP-H420MP)
(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fecx.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F31UlNKFq%252ByL.jpg&hash=225dbce002f3fbabc7e9aa649fefd1d422222072)
http://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-Mobile-Battery-Powered-CP-H420MP/dp/B0002UQALQ/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top (http://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-Mobile-Battery-Powered-CP-H420MP/dp/B0002UQALQ/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)



Here are plans for similar tech
https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=162744 (https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=162744)


--

Its really hit or miss on knowing which USB Audio / MIDI devices require the Powered USB Hub, and which ones dont.
To work with Ipad, many AC Powered USB Audio / MIDI Devices still require an external third party Powered USB Hub to power their internal USB - UART chips's  "in-rush current" for their bulk 4.7uF Capacitors.

More reading
http://community.algoriddim.com/algoriddim/topics/djay-2-7-with-traktor-audio-2-on-ios-8-x-fix (http://community.algoriddim.com/algoriddim/topics/djay-2-7-with-traktor-audio-2-on-ios-8-x-fix)
Quote
So how did I get the Audio 2 interface to work with the iPad?

The problem seems to be an odd combination of power, initialization of the audio 2 interface and the way IOS 8.1 handles usb in general. (yes the prefs of Djay 2 didn't have anything to do with it but hey! you can backup your analysis data like a pro now).

If the iPad is fully charged there is no problem. If your battery indicates roughly 96% or less it will become an issue. The iPad will start the draw charging power from the Audio 2 interface and that seems to come at a price. The Audio 2 interface is rated for use with DC power 9V-20V. So we are all using those cheap 12V 1.5 Amp wall outlet adapters (I used one that came with an external harddrive). Well not so fast. When the iPad is charging it uses a lot of current and with cheap adapters the voltage will quickly collapse. Especially if Djay 2 is active. So you need a more robust power supply. This will also prevent you from getting humming sounds that can plague the master output. I use an 19V 2 Amp power supply that came with an Toshiba Laptop. No humming works perfectly even if the iPad is charging.
THE POWER SUPPLY IS IMPORTANT!
The Audio 2 interface will not initialize properly if it is only connected to an iPad and that iPad is running on roughly 96% battery or less.

Here are the steps to make it all work:

1 make sure all active application on the iPad are closed (double click home button and swipe them up to quit)

2 shut down the iPad (hold the top button untill turn off appears and turn it off). Completely shutting down might take a while a dim wait circle is visible.

3 connect the Native Instruments Audio 2 interface to the iPad (and connect the main output to whatever amplifier you want to use, the headphone connection to the headphones). Make sure you've read and understood what I wrote about power usage and adapters.

4 turn the iPad on and wait until it has started up

5 Confirm that physical audio volume on the iPad (right hand side top buttons) is all the way up and not muted. It turns out that the physical mute and volume buttons on the ipad are passed through to the Audio 2 interface (took me quiet a while to figure that one out).

6 start the music app (the default music app on your iPad aka iTunes). Start a song and make sure that you can hear it though the output of the Audio 2 interface (the green light will litt up on the beat if you don't have the Audio 2 connected to an amplifier. You can use this as a visual confirmation). If the sound is coming from the headphone connector (and is muted) then you have a POWER issue. read above about the power issues! and start from step 1.

6 quit the music app (swipe up) and start Djay 2. Check in settings that the audio interface is recognized (picture 0. interface recognized)

7 Load a song on one of the decks and turn it on. Most likely you will NOT hear a thing. Confirm the Vue meter of the playing deck is having audio and the mix slider is toward the playing deck (so you should have heard the music play picture 1. mixer on).

8 go to the preferences and turn down the "Master Volume" down a bit. (picture 2. Master volume down a nodge)
THERE is your audio :) Master output works now and you can adjust the level of the master volume as needed. I like to leave some headroom for the extra bang so I usually put it at 85%. Leave the settings we will make the headphones work now.

9 Move the mixer slider to the opposite direction of the playing deck (so no audio from the master) then move it to the middle a tiny bit (so you can hear some muted audio from the master). (see picture; 3 Mixer almost off)

10 goto settings again and make sure under "Advanced" the "Show Cue/Mix Slider" is on (picture 4. show cue/mix slider) leave settings

11 goto settings. under "pre-cueing" put both sliders to the middle. (picture 5. cue in the midle)

12 when you put your headphone on your ears you might hear some dim sound. This is dripping in from the master output. On the physical Audio 2 interface box turn the headphone volume dial (the one on the right side of the box) all the way up (max cueing volume level from the headphone). Then goto the dial on the left side (the one that mixes cue with master output) turn it all the way up (meaning cue audio only).
Basically turn the volume of the headphone all the way up on the physical interface box (you can see the green light under headphone litt up) and then make the headphone audio cue only (the green light goes off again).

13 Now the Audio 2 interface should be properly initialized (that was what the turning dials in step 12 is for). In Djay press a playing deck's headphone icon in order to cue that deck. That should work now but some master output might be audible as well.

14 Goto settings under "pre-cueing" turn the first slider all the way to the right (max volume headphone) or any volume you prefer. And turn the mix slider all the way to "cue" (left) or anyway you like it.

If you did all steps above all should work. In my configuration its 100% reproducible. (picture 6. my settings)

It all comes down to initializing the audio 2 interface manually and power regulations introduced in ios 8. I think Native instrument's Traktor sends some kind of proprietary reset command to the audio 2 interface box in order to initialize the interface. Keep in mind that if the Audio 2 interface has no power (= not connected to iPad and no power supply connected) it will lose its settings and you'll have to start over again. To cut back time before performing you can start with step 5 (so you don't reboot the iPad) if that fails you have to start at step 1.

Just another tip:
If you are working clubs / festivals with serious PA equipment and you want to use your laptop/ipad/iphone then get rid of line signal levels as soon as possible so you don't introduce (unintended?) noise and humming. I carry an stereo Direct Injection Box (DIB) with ground loop isolator with me. These boxes are cheap (Eu 45,-). Work without batteries and convert the line level signal to 2 XLR signals. My box is the SDI-1 by SYNC Audio Research and I can highly recommend it (no affiliation but donations are always appreciated).Keep your line leads as short as possible (and away from the power supply)

Now all I want is the ability to make multiple cue lists for different gigs.

cheers!

MixMasterG

twitter @ATGR_Production


But not every USB Class Compliant Audio device needs the Powered USB Hub.
See this link below for a list of Ipad compatible Audio interfaces and look at the column "Works without Powered Hub?"
http://auriaapp.com/Support/auria-audio-interfaces (http://auriaapp.com/Support/auria-audio-interfaces)

I can tell you the following all work directly with iPad+USB Camera Adapter without need for an external Powered USB Hub.

Vox VXII Amp

Fender G-DEC 3

Korg Pandora PX5D

Fender Mustang Amps and Mustang Floor






also for reference

Avoid All guitar to iPad audio interfaces that connect using the iPad's 3.5mm TRRS Headset jack as a Guitar Input - you WILL suffer poor results, and white noise, due to the non bypass-able Apple iPad Microphone preamp.

Use a Guitar Audio Input interface that connects directly to the Lightning port works much better.

Then its a short list of guitar interfaces that provide true 24 bit audio into the ipad.

I would say these are the top runners

* Apogee Jam
http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/jam.php?gclid=CLza6ZWEmLsCFRHZQgodDToANg (http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/jam.php?gclid=CLza6ZWEmLsCFRHZQgodDToANg)


* Peavey Ampkit Link HD
http://www.peavey.com/products/ampkitlink/ (http://www.peavey.com/products/ampkitlink/)

* IK Multimedia iRig Pro
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigpro/ (http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigpro/)

* IK Multimedia iRig HD
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irighd/ (http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irighd/)

* Line-6 SonicPort VX
http://line6.com/sonicport-audio-interface/sonicport-vx/ (http://line6.com/sonicport-audio-interface/sonicport-vx/)



For latest news on iPad/iPhone 24 bit recording

read

* Best 24 Bit IOS Audio Interface for Live Guitar
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10138.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10138.0)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 16, 2012, 03:56:29 PM
Just wanted to bump this thread so newbies can learn.

How to search the forum
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2978.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2978.0)


How to Read the most recent Posts
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4973.msg33776#msg33776 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4973.msg33776#msg33776)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 16, 2013, 10:34:55 AM
Its a new year, and I will be in Anaheim California at Winter NAMM  next week. Send me a PM if you are also at NAMM show and want to meet up.

Also just a reminder to those who are taking the time to fill out the registration and become a member of VGuitarForums. I personally review all applications, and if you write jiberish as your reason for joining our forum, or fds543, or "none of your business" or "To Hack your Forum" - I will reject your application.  And I have a tool to check if your email has a track record of being a spambot.   

I currently reject 20% of those who attempt to join, and that helps maintain our focus here , with potentially less off topic SPAM
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 28, 2013, 10:11:36 AM
Many excellent tutorials here.
http://www.geofex.com/ (http://www.geofex.com/)
http://www.colomar.com/Shavano/ (http://www.colomar.com/Shavano/)

http://www.ecircuitcenter.com/ (http://www.ecircuitcenter.com/)

http://www.epanorama.net (http://www.epanorama.net)

http://homerecording.com/bbs/equipment-forums/other-equipment-reviews/monster-vs-mogami-146583/ (http://homerecording.com/bbs/equipment-forums/other-equipment-reviews/monster-vs-mogami-146583/)

Here is a good discussion on Audio Cable for Guitar
http://www.head-fi.org/t/563603/guitar-cables-evidence-that-they-do-make-a-difference-to-sound-quality (http://www.head-fi.org/t/563603/guitar-cables-evidence-that-they-do-make-a-difference-to-sound-quality)
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and tools
OTC 4467 Automatic Wire Stripper,
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http://www.epanorama.net/links/wiring.html (http://www.epanorama.net/links/wiring.html)

This another good resource of info.

http://www.gmarts.org/index.php?go=321 (http://www.gmarts.org/index.php?go=321)

http://www.andertons.co.uk/blog/posts/guides-tutorials (http://www.andertons.co.uk/blog/posts/guides-tutorials)

Some GR-55 users complain there is no Global Final Stage EQ, but forget to learn how to use the 5 separate Virtual Mic selections listed above, and learn basic concepts like on/ off axis mic positioning and its impact on tone.  This is  major tool box of EQ, seldom understood and worth getting to know and use when needed.

1) Find a Pink noise  / Audio Sweep generator app on your smartphone
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tone-generator-pro/id396062821?mt=8 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tone-generator-pro/id396062821?mt=8)
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2) Run Pink Noise into GR-55 / VG-99 by feeding a cable from from  Iphone headphone out into the GK3 Guitar Input, while adjusting GR55 Mic settings.


3) Use Visual Audio Spectrum Analyzer in your DAW app - and use the VG-99 / GR-55 Audio over USB (with Roland USB Audio Driver+ a USB cable) to see and hear and train your ears on the impact of all the VG-99 / GR-55 FX Controls have on the sound
hint: Depending on your prior Audio experience this could take weeks / years to comprehend)     
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar11/articles/logic-tech-0311.htm (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar11/articles/logic-tech-0311.htm)
http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicstudio/effects/index.html#chapter=5%26section=5%26tasks=true (http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicstudio/effects/index.html#chapter=5%26section=5%26tasks=true)
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Read my Tips and Blog for the fast track on learning and knowledge.
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.0)
Forget browsing the forums for hours  - instead ONLY read the posts by those here who have shared essential core knowledge, as all are explained here:
  Tips and Blog: https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.0)


Go to a used book Store and get a copy of this

"AudioCyclopedia" by Howard Tremaine

http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Cyclopedia-Howard-M-Tremaine/dp/0672206757 (http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Cyclopedia-Howard-M-Tremaine/dp/0672206757)
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This was my Bible - I got my  1st copy at age 16


By the time I went to college I studied this (actually met the author John Backus who knew my professor)
http://www.amazon.com/Acoustical-Foundations-Music-Second-Edition/dp/0393090965 (http://www.amazon.com/Acoustical-Foundations-Music-Second-Edition/dp/0393090965)
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Locate a Schematic
http://servicerepairmanuals.net/ (http://servicerepairmanuals.net/)
http://elektrotanya.com/ (http://elektrotanya.com/)
http://experimentalistsanonymous.com/diy/Schematics/ (http://experimentalistsanonymous.com/diy/Schematics/)
http://ortizaudio.blogspot.com/search/label/DIY (http://ortizaudio.blogspot.com/search/label/DIY)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 13, 2013, 04:12:55 PM
Audio links

http://www.audioasylum.com/ (http://www.audioasylum.com/)

http://www.diyaudio.com/ (http://www.diyaudio.com/)

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/ (http://www.theabsolutesound.com/)

http://www.iar-80.com/ (http://www.iar-80.com/)




Good articles on the state of USB Audio in 2013-2014
http://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4376143/Fundamentals-of-USB-Audio (http://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4376143/Fundamentals-of-USB-Audio)
http://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4419643/Select-your-USB-audio-MCU-with-care--Scary-stories-from-the-test-bench (http://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4419643/Select-your-USB-audio-MCU-with-care--Scary-stories-from-the-test-bench)
http://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4424103/USB-audio--Asynchronous-is-the-only-choice-for-compromise-free-audio- (http://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4424103/USB-audio--Asynchronous-is-the-only-choice-for-compromise-free-audio-)


http://www.edn.com/design/consumer (http://www.edn.com/design/consumer)

I suggest try to resist impulse buying and do more research before dropping $1K on any piece of gear.
a simple google search on "GR-55" shows VGuitarforums on the first page or two, and we have a rather realistic perspective on what the GR-55 can and can't do - as we are isolated from the hype machine of the manufacturer.

Regardless of the technology, be it a new camera, or new multitrack recorder or Guitar synth, I use a search tool, and search on
"(insert name of proposed gear + Forum", and "(insert name of proposed gear + Problem"
and  only buy gear that has a user forum I can read for a few days to compare notes and get ideas on how to use this tool, and understand its shortcomings, and see how well it suits your intended implementation in your rig. And never trust an unknown salesman at guitar center trying to make his sales quota that day

(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snapagogo.com%2Fuploads%2Fsource%2F172014%2F1390063070_1256539975_ScreenShot20140118at8.36.51AM.png&hash=a0ec79900fc3b152546c588b81128bf6220e2650)

http://youtu.be/l-fAGN7m0Gg (http://youtu.be/l-fAGN7m0Gg)
http://www.theregister.co.uk (http://www.theregister.co.uk)



For inspiration I go here
http://www.matrixsynth.com (http://www.matrixsynth.com)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 27, 2014, 01:42:13 PM

QuoteVery few beginners will spend the time required to do the above and hence why a lot of people write the unit off  and sell it or take if back to the shop

Once again of you are expecting to plug in , download a satch tone and sound like satch this is NOT going to happen.

Last few days I dusted off my old Vox Tonelab SE  - and for live use, the ToneLab SE's InStant Patch changes (with no gaps) and great Tube amp emulation - and the #1 feature  - Real Knobs for all FX (!) these combine to work refreshingly well for my needs and tones.
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and just feed its 3.5mm headphone out to the MP3 input on rear of my Roland CUBE-80XL - and that is very good sounding and simple to navigate / edit tones mid song at live gigs / rehearsal. I got it used for $250 a few years ago, but this is about as easy as it gets and has 90% of what I need.

Since it has 5pin MIDI I/O it can also serve as a MIDI foot controller for GR-55, Kemper, ipad  / BIAS rig too
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 21, 2014, 01:52:44 PM
If you want to obtain more incite and better explanations of how Roland gear works - review the OWNERS MANUALS for the earliest examples of current gear.

For example the GR-55 Owners Manual just lists the various FX functions and Control Features, but skips explanation and examples of how to use these.

Here is the 1999 Roland VG-88 Owners Manual  - ITS A MUST READ!  - it lays a better foundation with explanations of how the Internal Wave Pedal and Expression Pedal Min/Max FX range,Assign Hold, etc,  work.
http://lib.roland.co.jp/support/en/manuals/res/1811457/VG-88_e5.pdf (http://lib.roland.co.jp/support/en/manuals/res/1811457/VG-88_e5.pdf)

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MUST READ!
Roland COSM Reference Library
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88.0)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 30, 2014, 11:32:58 AM
https://www.avid.com/US/avid-tv/tom-petty-mojo (https://www.avid.com/US/avid-tv/tom-petty-mojo)

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkiC21kJxYO_eUEJ5GgFLnw (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkiC21kJxYO_eUEJ5GgFLnw)


Many good  / free Music app tutorials are here
http://music.tutsplus.com/ (http://music.tutsplus.com/)

Apple Logic-X Tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXmi76euGSyzX8KMPAHJPyOSZy5w4CsV9 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXmi76euGSyzX8KMPAHJPyOSZy5w4CsV9)


AudioTuts Youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/audiotuts (http://www.youtube.com/user/audiotuts)

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http://www.youtube.com/user/pointblankonline (http://www.youtube.com/user/pointblankonline)
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http://www.youtube.com/user/FutureMusicMagazine/videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/FutureMusicMagazine/videos)
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http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerMusicMag/videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerMusicMag/videos)
http://www.snapagogo.com/uploads/source/1192014/1398885702_445794974_CM.PNG (http://www.snapagogo.com/uploads/source/1192014/1398885702_445794974_CM.PNG)


http://www.youtube.com/user/NativeInstruments/videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/NativeInstruments/videos)
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http://www.youtube.com/user/soundonsoundvideo/videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/soundonsoundvideo/videos)
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http://www.youtube.com/user/macProVideoDotCom/videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/macProVideoDotCom/videos)
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https://www.creativelive.com/catalog/all (https://www.creativelive.com/catalog/all)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 22, 2014, 02:22:34 PM
Interesting story at Incompliance Magazine
http://www.incompliancemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2923:the-linoleum-press-job-and-the-meatball-a-cautionary-tale&catid=60:reality-engineering&Itemid=200 (http://www.incompliancemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2923:the-linoleum-press-job-and-the-meatball-a-cautionary-tale&catid=60:reality-engineering&Itemid=200)


And
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
http://www.incompliancemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=87&Itemid=240 (http://www.incompliancemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=87&Itemid=240)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 22, 2014, 11:01:11 PM
Large repository of old 1980's Roland Service notes:
http://www.synthfool.com/docs/Roland/Roland_Service_bulletins/ (http://www.synthfool.com/docs/Roland/Roland_Service_bulletins/)

http://www.synthfool.com/docs/Roland/ (http://www.synthfool.com/docs/Roland/)

http://www.bossarea.com/default.asp (http://www.bossarea.com/default.asp)

Boss Pedal User Forum
http://www.stompboxzone.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3 (http://www.stompboxzone.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 31, 2014, 03:51:31 PM
This works - I lost my Android phone, as luck would have it I stumbled on this and found my phone

http://www.wheresmycellphone.com/ (http://www.wheresmycellphone.com/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 03, 2014, 12:52:02 PM
Between 1977 and 1986 I lived downtown LA,  - rented a Victorian house where I rehearsed  / recorded several bands.

One morning I was late to work because my neighbor Tom Waits had a film crew and cast of midgets doing take after take of filming the video below

To me this video below is like having an old home movie from 1981 Los Angeles, specifically the alley behind Union Ave near Beverly Blvd. and a glimpse of my back porch, and the old AT&T  / Pacific Bell parking lot full of old cars 

http://youtu.be/HLDA3GQpYJ4 (http://youtu.be/HLDA3GQpYJ4)

Well, the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan
And the whinin' dog pidgeons by the steeple bell rope
And the dogs tipped the garbage pails over last night
And there's always construction work bothering you

In the neighborhood
In the neighborhood
In the neighborhood

Well, Friday's a funeral and Saturday's a bride
And Sey's got a pistol on the register side
And the goddam delivery trucks, they make too much noise
And we don't get our butter delivered no more

In the neighborhood
In the neighborhood
In the neighborhood

Well, Big Mambo's kickin' his old grey hound
And the kids can't get ice cream, cause the market burned down
And the newspaper sleeping bags blow down the lane
And that goddam flatbed's got me pinned in again

In the neighborhood
In the neighborhood
In the neighborhood

There's a couple Filipino girls gigglin' by the church
And the window is busted and the landlord ain't home
And Butch joined the army, yeah, that's where he's been
And the jackhammer's digging up the sidewalks again

In the neighborhood
In the neighborhood
In the neighborhood

In the neighborhood
In the neighborhood
In the neighborhood
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 23, 2014, 01:02:07 PM
I have been reviewing all alternatives for my Live Performance Control, and targeting products which offer the best complement of features and price for my needs.

After my excellent result with an old 2005 Digitech GNX-3000
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8291.msg80295#msg80295 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8291.msg80295#msg80295)
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I recently located a gently used Digitech GSP-1101 and Control 2 Foot Controller  - ($320 for the pair - which is about $500 savings over new)
http://digitech.com/en-US/products/gsp1101 (http://digitech.com/en-US/products/gsp1101)
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http://digitech.com/en-US/products/control-2 (http://digitech.com/en-US/products/control-2)
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http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/digitech-gsp1101-guitar-multi-effects-processor (http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/digitech-gsp1101-guitar-multi-effects-processor)

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/digitech-control2-foot-controller (http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/digitech-control2-foot-controller)


I have loaded all the latest Firmware and this is working very well for me

http://www.mustbebeta.com/ (http://www.mustbebeta.com/)

http://feki99.wix.com/feki#!__gsp-1101 (http://feki99.wix.com/feki#!__gsp-1101)

(Read More about GSP-1101's ability to load third party Cab IR files here)
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11541.msg83890#msg83890 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11541.msg83890#msg83890)

- Each Control 2 Foot Controller's Bank has 5 presets on the lower array of foot switches , with the Digitech exclusive feature of "Preset Bounceback" - where if you press the currently playing preset's footswitch again, it automatically returns you to the just prior last played preset - extremely valuable for live gig patch navigation.

The Top Row array of foot switches on the Control 2 can be Assigned to transmit unique MIDI CC# On/Off messages for controlling other gear.

And there's a jack for a 2nd Expression pedal, and separate foot switch's  dedicated to Tap Tempo and Tuner - so no Train wrecks at gigs as tends to happen with GR-55,

and the GSP-1101 DSP Amp Sims are not too bad, and it has an excellent Harmonist function, and Stereo FX Loop. This is where I employ a "4 cable method" approach using the GSP-1101 with my Kemper in the FX Loop of the GSP-1101 - and its working very well for me.

I should also point out the  GSP-1101 also works as an IOS 24 bit USB Class Compliant Audio / MIDI I/O Interface for my iPad - so I can record my Kemper at 24 bits. Very easy to wrap my brain around compared to other rigs i have tried.   

I still love my VG-99 and FC300 - but that combo is missing several features I prefer for live gigs. I actually prefer the pedal arrangement on the older Roland FC-200
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  compared to the FC-300       
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FWIW -the Digitech GSP-1101 with the "C63" Firmware and third party apps G-IR-Loader (GIRL) allows custom IRs to be used instead of the factory Speaker Cabs. Details here:

http://www.frugalguitarist.com/post/2012/03/16/Digitech-GSP1101-Beta-C63.aspx (http://www.frugalguitarist.com/post/2012/03/16/Digitech-GSP1101-Beta-C63.aspx)

Digitech GSP1101 Beta C63
Friday, March 16, 2012| by Will Chen
For those who've followed FrugalGuitarist.com for a while, it should be no surprise that I'm a fan of Digitech gear. I've owned a piece of their gear for just about as long as I've been playing guitar as they are one of those companies which always offers a great balance of professional features at a relatively affordable price. As such, it was only a matter of time before I got my hands on their flagship processor the GSP1101. The GSP1101 was initially announced in 2007 and was quickly adopted by many professional players. However, Digitech continued to build new features on the AudioDNA2 platform which appeared in new lines of the company's RP processors. By the time the RP1000 had been announced at the end of 2008 the GSP1101's features already appeared rather dated by comparison. Stan Ripley and mustbebeta.com to the rescue! Though unofficial beta firmware updates, the GSP1101 has been updated to stay extremely relevant in a market which has grown increasingly competitive since 2007. The latest firmware as of this writing is C63, which may very well be the last as its been a year since its release. As the GSP1101 has been on the market for some time and reviewed thouroughly, I'm only going to focus on the beta C63 upgrades and whether the GSP1101 is worth the upgrade for owners of the current Digitech RP series. For opinions on general Digitech amp modeling and effects (the same algorhythms used in the RP series are in the GSP), be sure to check out my reviews of the RP255, RP350, and RP500. Before I get into the review, a few links. The latest GSP1101 beta update and release notes can be found here, the GSP Impulse Response Loader (G.I.R.L.) can be found here, and the official Digitech GSP1101 page here. Potential owners should really take a read of the beta release notes as all updates are covered.



While the GSP1101 C63 firmware offers numerous updates, perhaps the most intriguing new feature included is the ability to load third party Impulse Responses (IR). An IR is essentially the sonic signature of an environment, in the case of the GSP1101 a guitar cabinet. While this technology is fairly commonplace in DAW plugins, and is the backbone behind the vast majority of speaker cabinet emulation in multi-effects units, the GSP1101 is the only multi-effects device under $1,000 which allows loading of third party IRs. That said, the GSP1101 only supports mono impulses and additionally only loads the first 128 samples of the IR (the left channel in the case of a stereo IR) to both left and right channels, or alternatively the first 256 samples to the left channel (mono option). I must admit to being very skeptical that a truncated file could impart the realism typically associated with IRs. My first experiment was downloading the free Marshall 1960A Celestion G12M-25s cabinet pack available at redwirez.com. After some brief experimentation, it was obvious that a third party IR can indeed offer tonal advantages over many of the stock cabinet models in the GSP. I quickly got drunk on the experimenting which ate up many hours over the course of a few days...which I have extremely mixed feelings about. Yes, experimentation is often needed to wrangle the best tones from gear but I believe its also important to remember that putting tones under a microscopic level of scrutiny can be counterproductive and any guitarist (including myself) would be much better served by putting in some extra practice time than performing a similar experiment.

...if you dig the tones your getting from an RP unit, you'll love the tonal advantages the GSP has to offer
After getting past the IR experimentation, the GSP1101 beta updates offer some additional very cool functionality such as parallel effects processing, custom assigns when paired with the Control 2 footswitch, pre/post compressor placement, and many other goodies. All that is in addition to all the cool features the GSP1101 already offered such as disabling cab emulation on the 1/4" outs (so the XLR can still be sent direct), global cabinet modeling, and global EQ.

So is it worth the upgrade for an existing RP owner? Depends. If you're an RP1000 user who makes use of that unit's dual loops, you loose one with the GSP1101. Also, while the vast majority of amps/effects have been ported to the GSP1101, there's still a few missing (most notable the lofi and reverse delays). And despite all the GSP1101's strengths, the one nagging weakness is the unit's inability to run pitch and modulation effects simultaneously. This is a feature offered by the older GNX series as well as the newer iPB series and a frustration many current RP owners are likely familiar with. Now, if those features aren't that important and your not one intimately in love with the floorboard format, the GSP1101 offers a pretty big advantage when going direct into a full range system. That said, an IR is not a silver bullet which will completely transform the GSP tones. If you generally don't like the Digitech tonal signature, loading an IR likely won't change that...but if you dig the tones your getting from an RP unit, you'll love the tonal advantages the GSP has to offer. And then there's all the little things like the GSP's excellent strobe style tuner, global EQ, and excellent controller integration. All in all, unless your a player who absolutely must have a specific feature in an RP unit not offered in the GSP1101, its well worth the price premium especially considering the fantastic deals to be had on the unit due to the length of time its been on the market.

Price: ~$400 to ~500 USD (GSP alone) or ~$600 to ~800 (Control 2 Bundle)
Pros: Great Tones, Impulse Response Loading
Cons: Only one Modulation/Pitch effect available at a time



http://www.mustbebeta.com/ (http://www.mustbebeta.com/)

http://feki99.wix.com/feki# (http://feki99.wix.com/feki#)!__gsp-1101



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Kemper Dark LCD Stompbox Editing Fix
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13485.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13485.0)

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 01, 2014, 05:02:46 AM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/analoguehaven (https://www.flickr.com/photos/analoguehaven)

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 12, 2014, 08:57:10 AM
Ive been in Brea, California at Underwriters Laboratories learning the new IEC 62368-1 Compliance standards for A/V gear as I'm also the Compliance Engineer for my company that sells Cinema A/V products around the globe.

After the session Friday late afternoon I had an hour to kill so I walk into the local Brea Guitar Center. Seems there is a corporate floor plan because if you travel a lot and visit guitar centers, its tough to remember what town you are in  - since the "wall of pain" , er I mean the wall of poorly setup new guitars is full of the typical examples of corporate ordering departments  - very  typical array of Epiphones, Ibanez, Fender, and off brands . 
Upon Arrival I was met by the Guitar Floor manager and I told him I was from central california coast and make it into a guitar center twice a year, so I want to look around a bit, and also told him I ran VGuitarforums where we discuss Guitar modeling and MIDI guitar - His eyes just turned into the long stare, as it was obvious he did not know what I was talking about, nor cared. I also told him I played in a surf band, and then he came back to life and said - then you will want to check out the Fender Tele Baja model on the wall 
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TeleCPBjBl/ (http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TeleCPBjBl/)

(which since this has no Vibrato holds no interest for me)

Roaming the floor I saw the Kustom PA50 That Marc Benigni recommends on sale but for $99, not the advertised $79
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Kustom-PA50-Personal-PA-System-106388085-i1934071.gc (http://www.guitarcenter.com/Kustom-PA50-Personal-PA-System-106388085-i1934071.gc)

and I played an Akai Max49
http://www.akaipro.com/product/max49 (http://www.akaipro.com/product/max49)
Terrible keys that feel like hard springs - must be designed by a family of  carpel tunnel surgeons trying to drum up new future business.

But endless noise of the typical bad guitarists demoing floor model Amp playing poorly executed "cliffs of dover" over and over ( I may one day do a Tommy James cover with those lyrics)
Lots of Acoustic Brand  amps ( which since resurrection a few years ago I understand Guitar Center is part owner  - so its a "house brand" these days.
Nothing grabbed my attention, I noticed they had one Variax JTV-69 - but it was hung 15 feet up on the side of an opposite wall, high above the acoustic guitar room,   They place all the ipAd IOS Guitar stuff over on a rack in the keyboard department, and there was a Roland  / Boss Demo station - but located over in the Music Book area, with the GR-55 and demo ESP guitar with 13 pin well hidden from view - you would never even see this unit unless you walked over to the Song Book area, and turn 180 degrees.

As I said, I value our community and wish it would grow, but know we are not the general public with "monkey see, monkey do"

It won't be until Mylie Cyress does the twerk dance (?) holding a Boss GP-10, before anyone will care about this product or take notice.

Face it, 99.9% of guitarists and Guitar salesmen today think our site is not worth their time.   

Which only reminds me of an old interview of Jeff Beck in 1999 discussing his new Snarling Dogs Wah Wah - when He explained the feature that he admired most, he contacted the factory  - he was told that was a bug only on the first production run, most of the later production models of that specific Snarling Dogs Wah Wah don't work like that Jeff"  - to which he replied:

"This is Great news - because then I'll be the only guitarist on earth with this sound

Use that an example to create your own voice using tools that work for YOU.



I'll add reading others reviews and words regarding the
Boss GP-10 Owner Experience, is akin to (as Zappa said)  "Dancing About Architecture"

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11862.msg85999#msg85999 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11862.msg85999#msg85999)


No forum post, photos, spoken words, MP3 audio recordings, or Youtube videos can effectively communicate or act as a substitute for real hands on experience and actual one on one "play time" with any piece of music gear - including the Boss GP-10.


While the Boss GP-10 is just another tool, I've determined its exactly the right tool for my specific needs. 

I'll leave it to a guitar center salesman to convince you to use "Gear A" over "Gear B".

I'm just reporting what gear I'm currently focused on using for my specific needs and requirements , and how I'm accomplishing those goals. 

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 23, 2014, 12:01:04 PM
Good source of info comparing latest info on Chinese Android / Win8.1 Tablets
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/ (http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/)

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/9-7inch-Pipo-M6-Pro-3G-Tablet-PC-RK3188-Quad-Core-Android-4-2-IPS-Retina2048/1423620837.html (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/9-7inch-Pipo-M6-Pro-3G-Tablet-PC-RK3188-Quad-Core-Android-4-2-IPS-Retina2048/1423620837.html)

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fitem.jd.com%2F1173688.html&edit-text= (https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fitem.jd.com%2F1173688.html&edit-text=)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 23, 2014, 01:03:25 PM
(https://s6.postimg.cc/aii4g08m9/national_reso_bigsby.jpg)

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5152.msg87302#msg87302 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5152.msg87302#msg87302)

Its all boils down to playing technique.
My right hand always rests on the bridge of my guitars bulk of the time - for string control and muting.  I own a few Floyd Rose guitars with full floating bridge, but some are far more touchy compared to others.
For example, 7 months ago thru Thomas Nordegg, I had the opportunity to actually play one of Steve Vai's Ibanez Jem guitars, and while this might have been someone else's idea of a great guitar experience dream  -  in my case I found Vai's iBanez JEM  horribly impossible to play "in tune" with my technique,  as anytime I plucked any string on this guitar with full floating bridge, I had the classic "self oscillating diving board "Boing! sound" (similar to the Warner Bros Cartoon "Road Runner  / Wylie Coyote" sound. And for me it was very tough to play, as most of the time  all notes sounded 1/4 tone sharp, because my right hand palm muting the bridge always forced the bridge to "tilt" sharp.    Very unpleasant experience for me , and reminded me everybody has a unique playing technique and guitar setup.     
Myself - I'm moving towards Bigsby or Jazzmaster type tremolos - these provide a stable bridge for palm muting, but also allow the up / down chord shimmers
Maybe I'm nuts but I'm considering installing a bigsby on my xtSA and add rubber mutes for the length of string between the Bridge and the Bigsby

Ive even considered getting a used Godin LGX, and swapping out the RMC guts from my 2012  xtSA, and add a Bigsby.


I recently won an ebay auction for a recent 2013 Godin LGX-SA, and I intend to install a Bigsby type tremolo
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Similar to my JTV-59
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EDIT:

Here is my -2013 Godin LGX-SA with GFS Xtrem
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and my current favorite "Acoustic" guitar -

a highly modified Oscar Schmidt / Washburn OR6CE Resophonic with 21 fret Neck
(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fecx.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F51XAtC%252BlN3L._SL1500_.jpg&hash=57e249c1068029383c7be38970b0de107bccf2f1)
added Piezo biscuit saddle  / Condensor mic preamp / XLR out

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281270404082?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT (http://www.ebay.com/itm/281270404082?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT)
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GFS Xtrem
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Xtrem-Top-Mount-Flat-Surface-Vibrato-Nickel-Finish-_p_4428.html (http://www.guitarfetish.com/Xtrem-Top-Mount-Flat-Surface-Vibrato-Nickel-Finish-_p_4428.html)
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and the major important mod -  I swapped out the Chinese thick "hubcap" Reso-cone for a a genuine National Resophonic 9.5" Hand spun aluminum Cone  - and now the guitar sounds and plays better than a genuine National with 
http://www.beardguitars.com/Old%20Beard%20site/resocones.html (http://www.beardguitars.com/Old%20Beard%20site/resocones.html)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 25, 2014, 11:27:32 AM
The "PostMod" Music scene explained
http://musea.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/the-catch-22-of-rock-and-roll-or-why-it-cant-get-better/ (http://musea.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/the-catch-22-of-rock-and-roll-or-why-it-cant-get-better/)

The Catch 22 of Rock and Roll – or why it can't get better
August 20, 2014
Rock has got itself into a Catch 22 that guarantees the music will get worse.

Here's how it works. Because no one dare attack the rock band format, we are stuck with it, and within that generic structure just about all music is done in the electric guitars, bass and drums format, and just about all the music has been done, and been done better about 60 years ago.

There will not be another golden age of bands to match what we had in the 60's, and there will not be a golden age of pioneers in rock and roll like we had in the 50's. The formula is too restrictive now, the times have changed, the music has cloned itself out of business – so the innovation and rebellion and vitality that began it all, is no longer allowed.

The only way to break the cycle is to oppose what rock and roll has become, just like the great early rock and roll opposed big band music that had lost it's vitality.

Postmod Music- its 3 things, a revolution against what rock/rap/country/pop have become, its back to early rock and roll's simple honesty, directness, and passion with an emphasis on melody and great SONGS, and it's a music that includes all types of music from every place in the world.
(and It's part of the overall art and media revolution).

Music media, if you won't talk about the backlash against all this, we need a new media that is open enough to cover all the music news.

http://musea.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/post-bands-music-revolution-quick-summary/ (http://musea.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/post-bands-music-revolution-quick-summary/)


http://musea.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/post-bands-music-revolution-quick-summary/ (http://musea.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/post-bands-music-revolution-quick-summary/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 29, 2014, 02:44:33 PM
Here is my 2013 Godin LGX-SA with black GFS Xtrem - I Love it!
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Xtrem-Top-Mount-Vibrato-Four-Finishes_c_376.html (http://www.guitarfetish.com/Xtrem-Top-Mount-Vibrato-Four-Finishes_c_376.html)
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(https://i.postimg.cc/yYLvHFnt/1410382141-1872904793-20140909-2227131.jpg)


I have a 2012 re-issue Epiphone Wilshire that had a  doggy factory tremolo, as delivered stock there was not enough downward pressure at the bridge saddles for the upper strings = thin sound and strings falling off the T.O.M Bridge saddles during chord strumming.


No more ! - now this guitar sings like a Les Paul after swapping out the old factory tremolo for an X-Trem.
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 09, 2014, 09:53:32 AM
SouthPark lampoon of DAWs and modern music creation
(full episode here:)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/694071 (http://www.hulu.com/watch/694071)

http://youtu.be/o-oHYTQyTEk (http://youtu.be/o-oHYTQyTEk)


Its actually more funny to read the YouTube comments from so called "producers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-oHYTQyTEk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-oHYTQyTEk)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 10, 2014, 10:23:20 AM
https://youtu.be/W3aSzFEoMMc


My all time favorite gear for live performance

Lasko Pro Performance Blower Fan, 4900

Keeps me cool and sweat free at front of the stage when I play 3 hour shows
Dual AC Power outlets are a nice help too when stage power for pedal boards is scarce. 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DNGSCM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DNGSCM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fecx.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F515LYCIlRIL.jpg&hash=e1de5bc24788775881b250810f845609cc0ef30c)

Perfect tagalong fan for cooling off at any job
High-velocity motor provides powerful air circulation
2 120-volt accessory outlets with safety circuit breaker and 10-foot power cord with grounded plug
Pivoting blower head for adjusting airflow angle
1-year limited warranty, ETL listed
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 30, 2014, 10:09:24 AM
This guitar has become one of my favorites - sings like a Les Paul after swapping out the old factory tremolo for an X-Trem.
2012 '66 Epiphone Wilshire re-issue
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Sadly last weekend I had a mishap and the guitar above  fell off a table in a cheap gig bag  and the resulting impact damaged the guitar   - neck  / body joint cracked - I have repaired / re-glued the guitar - but these Epiphone Wilshire re-issue's today  are getting rare,

Clamping the Neck to Body for 24 hours with TiteBond Glue
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Completed Repair - new battle scars, but the guitar actually still sounds better than ever.
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What I like most about these guitars are:

* Gibson 24 3/4" scale length

* 6 on a side Tuners with Angled Headstock  = no string trees  and straight path for the strings in the Nut  = Just add locking tuners and a TUSQ Nut and it stays in tune during Tremolo Use

* Very light guitar under 7 pounds that sings

* The stock re-issue Alnico Mini Humbuckers sound great!

so i located another one with better fretboard on Ebay very cheap $200) and I'll add the Xtrem to that too and a GK internal Kit



Here is the 2012 Epi Wilshire deluxe with Xtrem and Planet Waves Tuners

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 14, 2014, 04:29:21 PM
Ive been casually looking for one of these for past 10 years - and one finally landed for sale at a price I could not pass up
http://www.phantomguitars.com/mando.html (http://www.phantomguitars.com/mando.html)

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These are heard on many hit records, from Beach Boys to U2 Joshua Tree to Buddy Miller backing Emmylou Harris
http://youtu.be/mvE19JD2d1A (http://youtu.be/mvE19JD2d1A)


http://youtu.be/uOEFNZJDXGM (http://youtu.be/uOEFNZJDXGM)


http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f195/the-edge-bbc-story-of-the-guitar-video-190108-2.html (http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f195/the-edge-bbc-story-of-the-guitar-video-190108-2.html)

Quote
Originally Posted by europop2005  View Post
what is that mini guitar hanging off the edge of the rack???
That there is a Vox Mando-Guitar.

I think it's Danny's. I've seen Danny play one often. (You can see Danny using one in the Classic Albums: The Joshua Tree video)

Mando-Guitar // Octave Twelve

The octave twelve is a purely electric hybrid with a short-scale 12-string guitar neck and a small solid electric guitar body. It is tuned one octave higher than a standard guitar with the pairs of strings tuned in unison rather than in octaves as is the case of standard 12-string guitars. This puts the instrument in the same range as a mandolin. Most are fashioned afted the old Vox MandoGuitar, as shown to the right.

The MandoGuitar was originally made by Vox, then copied by Hammertone, and is now produced by Phantom Guitars, which seems to own the trademark on the name 'MandoGuitar' as well as the body and head shapes. The others are now calling their instruments an 'Octave Twelve'.

The double strings should give this type of instrument more of a mandolin flavor than the 6-string mandolins, but they tend to sound more like electric 12-string guitars played at the 12th fret. This is probably because no attempt is made to replicate the attack and sustain characteristics of a mandolin. However, they're a good size and shape for practicing mandolin-guitar, and they are a uniquely fun little instruments in their own right.

A relatively new addition to the pack breaks the Vox mold and uses the old Danelectro Guitarlin-type body with a short-scale 12-string guitar neck. It's a Neptune "Shorty" Octave 12 String by Jerry Jones Guitars, pictured to the left. The main difference here is obviously the body. Holding it like a standard mandolin may prove something of a problem with the base of the body so wide. Then again, you probably wouldn't be playing this instrument in a mandolin orchestra.

A bit more...
http://www.mandolin-guitar.com/types/OctaveTwelve.jsp (http://www.mandolin-guitar.com/types/OctaveTwelve.jsp)


(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3893/14338559960_f5e83780ca_s.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nR3Sk3)Emmylou Harris (2014) 06 - Daniel Lanois (https://flic.kr/p/nR3Sk3) by KM's Live Music shots (https://www.flickr.com/people/52996072@N04/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 06, 2014, 09:17:54 AM
QuoteI had wondered if it this forum would be deserted as the VG is no longer sold .
. . .

Sadly, I get the impression this is not such an active board now. 


I guess its all a matter of perspective - I learn crucial concepts about the VG-99, by reading all posts here - (the whole enchilada)  every day.

I know a few VG-99 folks frown on reading about GR-55 / GP-10 / Fishman Tripleplay / Boss GP-10 - but to me its analogous to being an electronics tech - but then focusing your entire  electronics experience around the Tektronix 454 oscilloscope..
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while ignoring all the other electronic test tools,   because they are a distraction.

I try to learn 10 new things about my guitar rig everyday, and I accomplish that by reading this link everyday
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=recent (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=recent)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 07, 2014, 09:57:18 AM
My trick for slide ( and my main interest for DSP Alt Tuning - regardless if GR-55. VG-99 or Tyler Variax) is Tune the real guitar strings to an Open tuning - for George Harrison that would typically be Open G - And i would kick on a Compressor for Slide Solos. This allows me to play Open Tuned Slide guitar parts with much sustain - but when the Slide solo is over, I use the DSP Alt tuning to convert my Guitar's Natural String's Open G tuning back to a DSP generated "Standard EADGBe Tuning"  - which allows me to play Rhythm Guitar in standard tuning.   
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 06, 2015, 11:25:18 AM
Many "user to user" patches for lots of Guitar gear is here:
http://guitarpatches.com/units.php (http://guitarpatches.com/units.php)

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 06, 2015, 11:44:08 AM
Its a new year, and I will be in Anaheim California at Winter NAMM 2015. Send me a PM if you are also at NAMM show and want to meet up.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 13, 2015, 03:58:24 PM
If you are feeling overwhelmed in your PM inbox here:

How to disable personal messages
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13367.msg97795#msg97795 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13367.msg97795#msg97795)

Please if you are new and have questions - use:

Advanced Search
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2978.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2978.0)

But please respect the other members time, and  do not overburden with constant barrage of personal messages  seeking answers to questions  - many of which are already answered within the valuable info filled posts here on VGuitarforums.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 16, 2015, 02:06:23 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-secret-keyboard-controls-of-youtube-maybe-you-108153153539.html (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-secret-keyboard-controls-of-youtube-maybe-you-108153153539.html)


The Secret Keyboard Controls of Youtube

J: Jumps back 10 seconds. Great if you didn't catch the words.
K: Play/Pause. (In case your space bar is broken.)
L: Jumps forward 10 seconds. Great if the introduction is taking forever.
M: Mute the audio.
(Isn't it neat how those four keys are all clustered together under your right hand?)

<-    -> (arrow keys): Rewind, fast forward
Home: Jumps to the beginning.
End: Jumps to the end.
The number keys work, too. You can press 0, 1, 2, 3, and so on to jump to points in the video at those percentages in.
0 means "the beginning." 1 means "10 percent of the way through." 2 means "20 percent through," and so on up to 9.

These keyboard shortcuts don't work in full-screen mode, by the way (except M for mute and space for pause). Still, they're great to know!


QuoteThe ability to slow motion and stop the dvd would be real handy.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-secret-keyboard-controls-of-youtube-maybe-you-108153153539.html (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-secret-keyboard-controls-of-youtube-maybe-you-108153153539.html)
If your browser supports HTML5 you can opt into the experimental HTML5 video playback on YouTube. Not only will you get smoother video playback—goodbye Flash!—but you'll be able to speed up and slow down your videos.

The variable speed control is great for seeing things in slow motion. DIY and tutorial videos often go too fast and watching something in slow motion is usually better than having to watch the same section over and over again to see what is happening. Conversely you can speed up to make finding a section of a long video easier than hopping around from point to point trying to find it.

Visit the link below to opt into the HTML5 beta test. You'll need a browser that supports HTML5 like Chrome or Apple Safari to participate. Check out the link for more details and sound off with you opinion on the new video playback in the comments.

http://www.youtube.com/html5 (http://www.youtube.com/html5)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 03, 2015, 12:45:25 PM
Video production resource
https://www.creativecow.net/ (https://www.creativecow.net/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 06, 2015, 02:48:22 PM
PU Wiring reference

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Test PU Polarity with analog VOM Meter
http://youtu.be/7UfxQBhqen8 (http://youtu.be/7UfxQBhqen8)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 20, 2015, 03:03:11 PM
Now that we have Google working again  - we have a return of the typical 20-30 "guests" browsing old posts here at VGuitarforums, and often its valuable to read what others are reading  - based upon a search on techniques used by old timers here.

I recommend set this as a bookmark on your browser  - and read what interests you for a fast track to learning

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=who (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=who) 
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Just be mindful of the date of the posts in the thread, as many go back to 2008, and a few of us here have changed opinions several times over the years. 
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 24, 2015, 07:42:53 PM
http://qz.com/349775/watch-this-smart-watch-make-millions-in-real-time/ (http://qz.com/349775/watch-this-smart-watch-make-millions-in-real-time/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 25, 2015, 08:13:44 AM
 I abandoned further effort on all IOS/ USB Audio Interfaces that :

* Use the headset connection ( terrible audio performance always restricted by the internal mic pre inside the iPad/iPhone) !) 

* Use a Lightning or USB connection that restricts all USB Audio I/O to iPad to 16 bits - Modern IOS Amp Sims ( Positive Grid BIAS/JAMUP PRO) reveal the shortcomings of 16 bit USB Audio. The latest iPads running IOS6-7 now support Multi-channel 24 bit Audio.
http://auriaapp.com/Support/auria-audio-interfaces (http://auriaapp.com/Support/auria-audio-interfaces)

You need 24 bits to run Modern IOS Guitar Amp Sims to get anywhere near a Kemper experience using Positive Grid Bias.  16 bits reveals its sonic limitations under this specific condition



I use a typical electric guitar with its volume rolled down to "3" when judging the audio performance of the USB iPad Audio interface under review ,  as the signal must now compete with the noise floor and hiss of the audio interface's pre amp, and USB streaming interface .


Playing with an electric guitar with its Vol Pot set to "10"  -you may not hear the difference between 16 bit and 24 bit Audio Interface.


Also you must disable any Noise gates in your Guitar Amp sim software - remember my whole point for recommending 24 bit audio interfaces over 16 bit interfaces is not for recording - its for live iPad Guitar Amp simulation software - this is where you really need a 24 bit high SNR Audio interface, else you must use Noise gates all the time, and that ruins your dynamic range  - and you loose the ability to "roll the guitar volume down to clean up" a high gain Amp sim in Positive Grid BIAS (my main objective here) 

read
IOS 24 bit Audio / MIDI + TriplePlay on Battery power
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10323.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10323.0)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 28, 2015, 12:43:56 PM
http://www.postseek.com/ (http://www.postseek.com/)

One Search Engine, 10 million Tech Posts, 150 Million Tech Replies
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 03, 2015, 09:35:03 AM
Googles recent decision to change its Search Tool engine, to downplay popular web sites in favor of elevating Web sites which have more "Truth" has me concerned that Orwellian days are ahead.   

luckily I see this as an alternative search tool
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=VG-99&ia=answer
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 03, 2015, 04:16:33 PM
Read about Audio Latency in todays DSP systems

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4828.msg32720#msg32720 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4828.msg32720#msg32720)

Excellent article about DSP's and Latency by Peter Mapp

from a recent issue of SoundCommunications Magazine
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/55b91be6#/55b91be6/12 (http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/55b91be6#/55b91be6/12)


While geared towards the Live Sound Reinforcement audience, its worthy reading for MIDI Guitarists.


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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 06, 2015, 05:27:01 PM
Another alternative ASIO driver -provides many interesting options

VB-Audio  Virtual Audio Cable, Voicemeeter Virtual Audio Mixer
http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/ (http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/)

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13328.msg97464#msg97464 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13328.msg97464#msg97464)

and


Just a heads up! This should be a clear wake up call for WinXP users


http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/02/live-9-warp-automation-tuner-pad-features-asked/ (http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/02/live-9-warp-automation-tuner-pad-features-asked/)


QuoteAbleton is dropping support for some older Mac and Windows operating systems. (10.6 and earlier / Vista and earlier, respectively.)

This should be a clear wake up call for folks still using Windows XP 
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 16, 2015, 12:10:46 PM
Boss GP-10 - Add missing 5 pin DIN MIDI I/O with $35 Raspberry Pi
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11998.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11998.0)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 27, 2015, 03:16:06 PM
Hard to find Roland Part Number reference

Roland Japan Online Store

http://www.roland.mu/shop/parts/index.html?ctype=PARTS&kwid=PARTS,OTHER_PARTS,2393 (http://www.roland.mu/shop/parts/index.html?ctype=PARTS&kwid=PARTS,OTHER_PARTS,2393)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 10, 2015, 11:41:26 AM
Click link below to view Advanced Search  in action

http://bit.ly/ZPdbIH (http://bit.ly/ZPdbIH)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 29, 2015, 09:54:49 PM
QuoteAny idea on how long the VG88 was discontinued before the VG99 was released?

Roland builds in batches based upon projected sales, and inventory, and market demand.

Typically there is a gap of non production of older models  right before the new generation device is released from R&D to Production.


Roland GR-500 production - (1977-1978)

Roland GR-300 production - (1980-1983) 

Roland GR-700 production  - (1984-1987)

Roland GM-70 production - (1985-1988)

Roland GR-50 production (1989-1990)

Roland GR-1 production (1992-1994)

Roland GR-09 production (1994-1995)

Roland VG-8 production  - (1995-1997)

Roland GR-30 production - (1996-1999)

Roland VG-8EX production  - (1997-1999)

Roland VG-88 production  - (2000-2005) 

Roland GR-33 production - (1999-2004)

Roland GR-20 production - (2004-2009)

Roland VG-99 production  - (2007-2013)

Roland GR-55 production  - (2011-Current)

Boss GP-10 production  - (2014-Current)

Boss SY-300 production  - (2015-Current)

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 30, 2015, 09:32:35 AM
Fix your Audio Ground Loop Buzzes and Noises
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2078.msg11723#msg11723 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2078.msg11723#msg11723)

USB Noise - audio output has enormous noise with USB cable connected
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=367.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=367.0)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 01, 2015, 12:03:15 PM
VGuitar Forums > MIDI Controllers / Interface / Adapters > MIDI Controllers / Interface / Adapters
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=7.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=7.0)

MIDI Tutorials
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2977.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2977.0)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 10, 2015, 12:48:11 PM
The current trend for many manufacturers for user control is "island sandboxing" .

They have an agenda to never implement user assignable MIDI CC# targets for their pedals, foot switches and restrict any possible connection that would allow external control of third party gear.

No doubt its motivated to reduce customer support calls, and finger pointing at "incompatible third party gear   

Makes me admire my Roland /Boss gear. Review the GP-100 MIDI Spec  vs the KPA . Even a 10 year old ( and 20 year old Digitech GSP-1101, GSP 2101 with their Digitech Foot controllers have far deeper MIDI Control implementation and ability to function as the central hub of a live gig system.

This is an aspect where Fractal Axe-FX+MFC-101, or even a Boss GT-100, or the "king" (VG-99+FC300)  clearly wins hands down over the tunnel vision control implementation in the  KPA + Kemper Remote.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 16, 2015, 06:44:27 PM
Quote below was given me by Thomas Nordegg, as he thought it best described what we all do here at VGuitarForums with sharing real useful knowledge. It's unprecedented, and I wanted to capture the quote.


Quote
The true gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety and whose self control is equal to all emergencies, who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity...

Who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another, who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power or boast of his own posessions or achievements, and who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy...


Whose deed follows his word, who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own, and who appears well in any company, a man to whom honor is sacred and virtue safe...

but a few posts here confirm another old quote:
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http://tinyurl.com/kxajhdv (http://tinyurl.com/kxajhdv)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 16, 2015, 07:25:12 PM

Useful for when your Phish cover band does a 10 hour version of the  Doors "Riders on the Storm

or insomnia

http://youtu.be/jCRJQqylQ4A (http://youtu.be/jCRJQqylQ4A)

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 18, 2015, 05:23:30 PM
Interesting details on digital audio snake
AudioRail
http://www.audiorail.com/simple.htm (http://www.audiorail.com/simple.htm)

http://www.audiorail.com/technical.htm (http://www.audiorail.com/technical.htm)


more

http://searchfiletype.com/ (http://searchfiletype.com/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 03, 2015, 02:32:05 PM

http://startrekcontinues.com/ (http://startrekcontinues.com/)


http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=216&doc_id=1326476& (http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=216&doc_id=1326476&)

By Max Maxfield, Designline Editor
4/29/2015 01:10 PM EDT

Do you miss the original Star Trek series? Would you like to see some more episodes? If so, this is your lucky day!

Well, you could knock me over with a feather because I just heard the most amazing news with regard to Star Trek. The first series, now referred to as The Original Series debuted in 1966 when I was only nine years old. I can't tell you how much of an impression this program made on me; suffice it to say that I was riveted to the screen. I used to love the opening voice-over saying: "These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise on its five year voyage behind the beyond, behind which few men have gone behind, beyond, before" (or something like that).

Actually, considering they were going where no man (or woman) had gone before, it was amazing how often they ran into people out there, but let's not quibble over details. (And don't even think about getting me started talking about the technical errors in Space 1999.)

As an aside, do you remember Episode 22 of Series 3 of The Big Bang Theory? This is the one called The Staircase Implementation in which we travel back in time to when Sheldon is interviewing Leonard to see whether they will become roommates (check out this site to see transcripts of all the episodes):

Sheldon: All right, next question. Kirk or Picard?

Leonard: Oh, uh, well, that's tricky. Um, well, uh, Original Series over Next Generation, but Picard over Kirk.

Sheldon: Correct. You've passed the first barrier to roommate-hood.
Now, even though I really did enjoy Star Trek TNG, I must admit that I'm with Leonard and Sheldon on this one. Do you miss the original series? Would you like to see some more episodes? If so, this is your lucky day, because my chum Rick Curl and his wife just sent me the following message:

Hi Max, I don't know if you're a fan of the original Star Trek series, but we are. Yesterday, we discovered this site: StarTrekContinues.com, which is a continuation of the original series by a bunch of Star Trek fans. They've only got three full episodes out so far, but I'm very impressed. They absolutely nailed the sets down to the tiniest detail. The guy who plays Kirk has Shatner's swagger down to a tee; Sulu is played by Grant Imahara, originally from the Mythbusters series and more recently a spokesman for Mouser Electronics; and Scotty is played by Chris Doohan, who is the son of James Doohan. I hope you enjoy this as much as we did!
Well, of course I immediately bounced over to this site, and Rick is absolutely right -- they have totally nailed the sets and costumes, right down to the strange 1960's shiny fabrics and the green alien makeup.



This is such an unexpected treat. It had simply never struck me that anyone would do something like this. Now I'm thinking of some of the other TV series I used to love in those days of yore. It would be so cool to see an equivalent treatment of some of my other favorite programs. But it isn't all about me (it should be, but it isn't) -- if you had a choice, which program(s) would you like to see augmented in this way?


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http://startrekcontinues.com/ (http://startrekcontinues.com/)

http://startrekcontinues.com/episodes.html (http://startrekcontinues.com/episodes.html)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 05, 2015, 10:25:11 AM
Qi Hardware is sharing hardware.
We document all steps necessary to build hardware so anyone may join us or reproduce our hardware.
The ultimate goals are:
to bring people together to share
to fully document our hardware platform
to share plans + software for manufacturing
Do it by yourself? Let's share together!
http://en.qi-hardware.com/planet/ (http://en.qi-hardware.com/planet/)
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Main_Page (http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Main_Page)
http://en.qi-hardware.com/planet/?pagew.%3C/a%3E (http://en.qi-hardware.com/planet/?pagew.%3C/a%3E)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 10, 2015, 01:05:50 PM
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mathstudio/id956033107?mt=8 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mathstudio/id956033107?mt=8)

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 11, 2015, 09:45:28 AM


Show Networks and Control Systems
John Huntington (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Show-Networks-Control-Systems-Ebook-ebook/dp/B00B11PPNO/ref=pd_sim_351_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1S9MWSZRD48DVCX44EEW (http://www.amazon.com/Show-Networks-Control-Systems-Ebook-ebook/dp/B00B11PPNO/ref=pd_sim_351_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1S9MWSZRD48DVCX44EEW)
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Show Networks and Control Systems* has been the industry standard reference in backstage control technology since 1994. With a unique combined focus on computers, networks, control systems, art and practice, the book offers an in-depth examination of the control and networking technology used in lighting, lasers, sound, stage machinery, animatronics, special effects, and pyrotechnics for concerts, theme parks, theatre, themed-retail, cruise ships, museums, interactive performing arts, and special events. This completely revised, reorganized and updated edition includes more than 30 new pages and dozens of brand-new graphics, with dramatically expanded coverage of show networking technology and fresh real-world examples. Drawing upon his extensive experience in the field and classroom, John Huntington clearly explains everything that goes on behind the scenes and inside the machines to bring bold visions to life in real-world settings.
* Formerly Control Systems for Live Entertainment
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 12, 2015, 11:09:53 AM
http://www.audiodesignguide.com/ (http://www.audiodesignguide.com/)

http://www.audiodesignguide.com/HiResolution/ (http://www.audiodesignguide.com/HiResolution/)

http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/hardware_matrix (http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/hardware_matrix)

http://www.audioresearch.com/ContentsFiles%5CDAC8_white_paper.pdf (http://www.audioresearch.com/ContentsFiles%5CDAC8_white_paper.pdf)

http://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/HW/USB_DAC_Async.htm (http://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/HW/USB_DAC_Async.htm)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 16, 2015, 02:07:56 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 23, 2015, 11:05:59 AM
The Ben Heck Show
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChturLXwYxwTOf_5krs0qvA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChturLXwYxwTOf_5krs0qvA)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 25, 2015, 10:41:55 AM
http://www.ti.com/ww/en/analog/Soundbar-Design-eBook/ (http://www.ti.com/ww/en/analog/Soundbar-Design-eBook/)

http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/newsletters/newsletters.page?contentId=29570 (http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/newsletters/newsletters.page?contentId=29570)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 26, 2015, 02:41:24 PM
http://youtu.be/Y7aEiVwBAdk (http://youtu.be/Y7aEiVwBAdk)
http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html (http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 07, 2015, 10:25:13 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 08, 2015, 07:14:24 PM
Nigel is not getting any younger
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 11, 2015, 08:19:04 AM
 When I must play low volume gigs I make sure I can hear myself with my own guitar monitor amp mounted on a folding bar stool I carry
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Here is what I use ( Low volume to High volume)

Low Volume gig
If its cramped small stage and venue and very low volume ( and drummer plays a suitcase kit with "wrapped stick" for low decibels
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I play my GP-10/GT100 into  a TC Helicon FX150
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11801.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11801.0)

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sitting on my bar stool less than 6 feet away  - point speaker at my head, ( if needed) feed  FX150 XLR out into the PA
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Mid Volume gig

Lately I play DSP Guitar Modeler in Stereo and just use a  Roland Cube Street EX
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https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11600.msg82997#msg82997 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11600.msg82997#msg82997)

Sitting the amp on my bar stool  less than 6 feet away   - point speaker at my head, typically plenty loud enough with no further amping  - If the mix out front needs more I'll just feed its stereo outs into the PA

High Volume gig

Feed my GP-10- / GT-100  ( with Master Level knob midway up ( at 12:00 o'clock noon), Output MODE set to Line/Phones) and establish my own EQ on the Roland Cube 80XT
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5077.msg44731#msg44731 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5077.msg44731#msg44731)

by feeding into the Cube 80XT's Top 1/4"  Guitar input - switch the Cube80XT to the  left Volume knob "JC Clean" channel set the JC volume around  9:00 o-Clock, set all the EQ knobs midway up at 12:00 o'clock noon - as a starting point, and adjust what I need only on the Cube 80 XT EQ .  Mic the speaker into the PA.


--

If its a straight up guitar only blues rock  gig - my basic FX pedal board ( Xotic SP Compressor, Low gain distortion (EHX Glove), High Gain distortion (WayHuge Fat Sandwich) , tremolo, gain boost, delay  into the   Roland Cube Street EX set for a clean fender tone or a Vox Pathfinder 15R
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( I'm not always playing with a DSP modeler.  tone is in your fingers)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 20, 2015, 03:58:57 PM
One thing -  after obtaining the  TC PolyTune Clip as seeing how precise it is , I'm removing the Tronical C1 Tuners from my Variax  -

What passes for "In tune" with the Tronical Robo Tuners, totally fails when scrutinized by the the PolyTune Clip. - Typically most strings are a few cents sharp or flat - yet inconsistent.

For various reasons I'm no longer happy with the Tronical Tuners - if you break a string mid song - the Tronicals are a major hassle, and in manual mode its very hard to tune the guitar, far too easy to over torque and destroy one servo tuner that cost $40 each(+Shipping from Germany)  to replace.

Ive found I much prefer using my Antares ATG-1 for swiftly exploring Alternative Tunings during song writing at my home studio, then map out the four Alt tunings  I need for my my GP-10 at the gig.   

Today my Top choice for tuners are Ned Steinberger designs:

Steinberger Gearless (40:1)
(https://guitarchitecture.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/dsci0174.jpg)
http://www.stewmac.com/Hardware_and_Parts/Tuning_Machines/Guitar_and_Solid_Peghead/Steinberger_Gearless_Tuners.html (http://www.stewmac.com/Hardware_and_Parts/Tuning_Machines/Guitar_and_Solid_Peghead/Steinberger_Gearless_Tuners.html)
http://www.stewmac.com/How-To/Online_Resources/Hardware_Installation/Steinberger_Gearless_Tuners_Installation_Instructions.html (http://www.stewmac.com/How-To/Online_Resources/Hardware_Installation/Steinberger_Gearless_Tuners_Installation_Instructions.html)
http://guitarchitecture.org/2010/10/13/steinberger-gearless-tuners-review/ (http://guitarchitecture.org/2010/10/13/steinberger-gearless-tuners-review/)

Planet Waves Locking Tuners
http://www.planetwaves.com/pwProductDetail.Page?ActiveID=4115&productid=513&productname=Auto_Trim_Tuning_Machines_6_in_line (http://www.planetwaves.com/pwProductDetail.Page?ActiveID=4115&productid=513&productname=Auto_Trim_Tuning_Machines_6_in_line)
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HipShot Staggered Height Locking Tuners
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ABLI0IC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ABLI0IC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 30, 2015, 05:24:48 AM
The Guitar FX/AMP landscape has dramatically changed, Lately I'm trying to avoid buying closed end Hardware systems that don't expand with iPad/MacOSX -  getting very good results using this rig feeding my Cube Street EX and run 100% on Battery power.


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Positive Grid BIAS FX+BIAS
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=14655.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=14655.0)

- running on

Ipad AIR
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=9882.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=9882.0)

inserted into
Focusrite iTrack Dock
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10364.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10364.0)

- feeding Stereo line Inputs on

Cube Street EX (Stereo Mobile Amp 50 watts (25 per side)
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11600.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11600.0)

controlled by

KMI SoftStep2
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3242.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3242.0)

and running on  Battery

Poweradd Pilot Pro
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10662.msg77071#msg77071 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=10662.msg77071#msg77071)
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Tone is right up there with Kemper, and far easier to setup and expands with Flux:FX I can insert as IAA FX 
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11646.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11646.0)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 04, 2015, 03:22:07 PM
Typical Windows 10 Audio / MIDI Problems

https://www.steinberg.net/nc/en/support/knowledgebase_new/show_details/kb_show/product-compatibility-info-regarding-microsoft-windows-10.html (https://www.steinberg.net/nc/en/support/knowledgebase_new/show_details/kb_show/product-compatibility-info-regarding-microsoft-windows-10.html)

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/daw-operation-slow-down-win-7-win-10.1676141/ (http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/daw-operation-slow-down-win-7-win-10.1676141/)
----

Windows 10 - please do not upgrade! Discussion
http://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=226&t=83587&start=75 (http://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=226&t=83587&start=75)

Quote
We discovered a serious issue for Audio/MIDI applications on Windows 10. After some time (a few seconds or a few minutes) audio recording or playback will contain noise (drop outs).
Steinberg Cubase 8 application shows this usually after a few seconds.

During our analysis we discovered the following behaviour of Windows 10:
The Windows MMCSS services will get disabled for any audio application when the user interacts with the computer. As a result the audio processing/streaming threads get suddenly the same importance as non time critical programs. Frequent audio drop outs will start to happen. We observed that moving windows and switching between running applications will result in this issue.

We currently work with Microsoft to investigate and hopefully soon resolve the issue.
Ed Doll, Support Manager
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
Hamburg, Germany

QuoteYes, now I noticed something similar on my setup. When I start cubase, all runs smooth as long as focus stays on cubase. Then if I switch to another window (like file explorer), and back to cubase, I get spikes even if I just move mouse over the project. Restarting cubase helps. Or opening empty project in parallel, activating it and the reactivating previous project - VST performance meter is back to normal. It is annoyance, I hope it is fixed soon.
Otherwise win10 works great, much smoother than win7 before. Cubase UI is also better, no borders around windows, so you can stack windows to each other without those ugly thick lines. Win10 fells so much better than win7, that I will not go back to win7 although there is above described annoyance.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/08/05/windows-10-charging/1/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/08/05/windows-10-charging/1/)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/08/05/windows-10-charging/2/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/08/05/windows-10-charging/2/)


https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GSP2101 (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GSP2101)
QuoteHi Graham,

   I was actually going to email you about this exact issue, but I had been on the phone (on hold) most of the day Wednesday, Thursday and Friday trying to rectify it with Microsoft. The windows 10 update really screwed up my laptop (and my Mom's too, who was also running 8.1), and it's only about 5 months old. It locked it up to the point where I had to actually remove the battery in order to get it to re-boot....not once, but 4 separate times within about an hour and half.

   After I was finally able to get past the login screen, the first thing I did was check my MidiWizard program. I don't know if you remember, but with your help I had previously set it up in Windows 8.1. But once I opened it up after the 10 update, I got the pop up window saying "Failed to launch Help". I knew this came up the first time I opened MidiWizard in 8.1 before the midi driver was set up, and would explain how to set it up. After the midi driver was set up, the Help window didn't come up again when I opened it. So when it came up again, I thought "Oh no.....the update wiped out all my settings and I'm gonna have to start all over." Well, guess what? Windows 10 has no WinHlp application/program. But Windows 10 not having the WinHlp wasn't that big of a problem, because I had printed out the set up instruction from the Help in 8.1 after I set it up the first time and I thought I could set it up from the print out. But it not recognizing the midi driver was a problem, so I called them immediately after encountering this Wednesday and they verified that there is no WinHlp for Windows 10. I tried going back to their webpage and downloading the latest version of WinHlp, but it was for 8.1 and is not compatible with 10. Something changed in the 10 update and all the settings in MidiWizard were wiped out and I needed to set everything up again. My midi driver for the 2x2 was not being recognized and without that, I cant re-set it up.

   I called them again on Thursday to explain what happened and after sitting on hold for several hours, they said it was a problem my midi device. I explained to them that I thought that might have been the problem too, so I tried to install it on my wife's laptop the night before and it worked with no problem. Then they said it was an issue with my laptop and I needed to call HP. I explained to them that this wasn't a problem with my laptop, that both my laptop and MidiWizard were working fine before the 10 update. Basically, I sat on hold with them for hours, only for them to tell me it wasn't their problem. So, since the 10 update gave me so many problems, I asked if there was any way I could uninstall 10? They walked me through it and I was able to get back to 8.1 fairly easy. But it took a while and they told me to call back if I had the same issue once it reverted back to 8.1

   Now 8.1 is having the same problem with the midi driver as 10 was, it will not recognize it. When you open MidiWizard to set up the midi driver for the first time, there is a drop down menu for the "midi out" and "midi in". In this drop down menu, "Midisport 2x2" and "Midisport 4x4" used to be listed to choose from (the 4x4 uses the same driver as the 2x2). But they are not there now. The only thing that is listed to choose from is something called "Windows GS wavetable synth". I uninstalled and reinstalled the M-Audio Midisport driver 3 times and it still would not recognize it. I called them again on Friday and after several hours on hold, I was told by a Tech Support guy that I should try and do a "System Restore". He walked me through it, and once it was started, he said it would take about 45 minutes and told me to call back if I was still having the same problem. After it reverted back, I opened MidiWizard with the same result....no Midisport 2x2 listed in the drop down menu. I called them back and after another 2 hours on hold, I got through to someone who said they would escalate it to level 2 support and wanted to put me on hold again. I told them no, because I had to get some sleep for work that night and asked if they could call me back on Saturday. They said yes and we agreed on Saturday morning at 8am when I got home from work. By 8:30am Saturday morning, no one had called, so I called them and sat on hold for another hour only to find out that it was never actually escalated to Level 2, and I would have to call back on Monday. As you can imagine, by this time I'm pretty fed up with the whole situation and said "no, I want to talk to a supervisor." As soon as the supervisor came on the line about 10 minutes later, the call "mysteriously" got disconnected from their end. So, another call back to them and another 2 hours on hold before speaking with someone who would actually listen. This person was actually really helpful and dialed into my laptop to try and figure it out. But after almost 2 hours of troubleshooting, they couldn't make it work, even after uninstalling and reinstalling both the Midisport driver and MidiWizard, and rebooting my laptop several times. So he decided it would be best if another tech from level 2 called me back to see if they could dig into it a little more Monday afternoon.

   So that is where it stands now. No midi capabilities and unless they can figure out what when wrong Monday, I will be out of luck. I know this problem isn't with your MidiWizard, it's a Microsoft problem with the windows 10 update that screwed everything up. I guess I could try buying another midi device, but I don't really want to, and I shouldn't have to, it worked fine before the upgrade. Plus, even if I did buy another midi device, how do I know it will work? I mean, windows 8.1 could have the same problem not recognizing the midi driver as the one I have now and then I would be back to square one again.

   I just wanted to let you know what was going on since this upgrade to Windows 10 seems to have something missing on the midi side. If you end up doing the upgrade yourself, be sure to make a system restore point so that you can go back if you have any issues. And even then, it may not work, and your issues might still exist. Please let as many users of MidiWizard know about this issue and warn them that there might be some minor or major issues with the 10 upgrade and midi driver installation. I would really hate for anyone else to go through the frustration that I have just gone through the past several days.

Thanx again for all your help and concern Graham....I wish Microsoft had people like you in their technical support staff.......who really care about their product actually working.

Bearz

and

http://line6.com/support/topic/14991-windows-10-no-sound/ (http://line6.com/support/topic/14991-windows-10-no-sound/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 10, 2015, 05:10:28 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 02, 2015, 09:07:51 AM
Myself - I can repair guitars -  I purchased my Godin LGX-SA AAA top for $650 - but it had a cracked headstock.

But luckily 18 months before i purchased two Godin xtSA's at $520 each  - and I swapped necks from one of the xtSA'a

Today I have

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* One 2013 LGX-SA AAA tobacco sunburst with xtSA Neck and GFS Xtrem tremolo  and Planet Waves Locking Tuners


 
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* One 2012 XTSA Black Sunburst with Fishman Tripleplay and Duncan Tripleshot humbucker puckup rings on GFS Rectotron Liverpool ( these sound like TV Jones Gretsch Filtertron PUs   
One day I'll find time to install Black PU Rings  - but i use this in the studio
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with a Mag-lok

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* One gig bag with the Body only of a 2012 XTSA Black Sunburst, and the cracked neck from the LGX-SA  - Intend to use the RMC Piezo 13 pin for a future custom guitar 


I only see Godins at NAMM show - but each is a bit different  - the "AAA" top rating has a bit more flame to the top  - but Ive also seen some great looking "AA" tops  - its wood so each is unique.   
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 12, 2015, 06:08:27 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 23, 2015, 03:08:01 PM
AVH Guitar Repair Blog
http://avhguitarrepair.com/ (http://avhguitarrepair.com/)

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 23, 2015, 03:33:37 PM
https://youtu.be/ZelMNqVjoO8
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 08, 2015, 10:28:17 AM
Many here will know I grew up playing vintage Gibson Necks, and that I have strong feelings regarding my preferred '50's Fat Neck profile.

Today in 2015, very few off the shelf production guitars offer this type neck. Closest would be the PRS SE models, or Custom Shop Fender '52 Telecasters, or Custom Shop Gibson.

I've been looking for an affordable ES335 - and could never justify the high $3,500 price for a genuine Gibson ES-355 Memphis "Fat Neck"
http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/ES/Gibson-Memphis/ES-335-Dot-Fat-Neck.aspx (http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/ES/Gibson-Memphis/ES-335-Dot-Fat-Neck.aspx)
   
But I recently stumbled upon this 2007 Yamaha SA-500, and it has the perfect 50's Fat "C" neck profile, that typically is only found on premium priced guitars , and preloaded with Seymour Duncan PUs ( courtesy of a prior owner)  - Ebay $280

http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/el-guitars/sa500_bl/ (http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/el-guitars/sa500_bl/)
QuoteThe SA2200 has always been the pinnacle of perfection in Yamaha semi-hollow archtops. With its 24 3/4" scale and the Alnico V humbuckers, the SA500 is ideally suited for rock and blues, while the thinline semi-hollowbody design makes it just as well suited for pop and jazz. The SA500 features a maple top and a mahogany neck with an Rosewood fingerboard. The push-push tone pots switch the pickups from humbucking to single-coil. The beautiful Violin Sunburst finish of this versatile guitar. The SA500 maintains the tradition of the SA2200 while adding its own unique spin with Yamaha's signature tailpieces and original "F" hole design. Black and Brown Sunburst finishes complete the look.
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 14, 2015, 11:01:23 PM
Fun browsing TC Gakki music store in Tokyo
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 16, 2015, 03:44:47 PM
QuoteDo you know the round trip latency on a new Mac for the GP-10 vs say, an RME interface (which promises 2 ms roundtrip)?
No Roland  / Boss gear I know will ever match the low round trip DAW audio latency of RME gear.

Which explains why Burr Johnson uses an RME audio interface when demoing the Fishman Tripleplay at NAMM shows
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But typical  Roland  / Boss round-trip Audio latency on a well setup DAW on a Mac OSX Core Audio USB driver  is  5.2ms at 44.1kHz  - for audio alone.

Add 32 ms latency ( low E string) for Guitar MIDI
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 22, 2015, 04:11:39 PM
http://historysdumpster.blogspot.com/?m=1 (http://historysdumpster.blogspot.com/?m=1)
History's Dumpster = GLORIOUS trash! Kitsch, music, fashion, food, history, ephemera, and other memorable and forgotten, famous and infamous pop culture junk of yesterday and today. Saved from the landfill of time...
http://historysdumpster.blogspot.com/2015/09/dance-slurp-1967.html?m=1 (http://historysdumpster.blogspot.com/2015/09/dance-slurp-1967.html?m=1)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 30, 2015, 05:10:26 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 04, 2015, 02:07:18 PM

Annual report for iCloud services backblaze, stats
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/ (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/)



As for OS X upgrades, you ALWAYS need to check for compatibility before doing that (alongside never upgrading to a new whole number until it's at least on X.1 or X.2 as in 9.2)

You can check here:
http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/hom...1-el-capitan-compatibility-update-compilation (http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/hom...1-el-capitan-compatibility-update-compilation)

And here:
http://www.timespace.com/software_updates/ (http://www.timespace.com/software_updates/)

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 06, 2015, 09:04:51 AM
Back in 2009, I could use my MOTU 828 Fireware interface on both MACS AND PCS - but try to find a 2015 Mac or Windows PC ( or Camcorder) with a Firewire (IEEE488) port

Thunderbolt has already gone through version 1 and faster version 2  - There remain very few Windows PCs that have Thunderbolt ports ( HP and Asus high end models do)  - but locating Thunderbolt Audio drivers for Windows becomes a hurdle.
 
If you have a big music project today - a modern Mac and the  UAE Apollo Thunderbolt Interfaces seem attractive - but know in a couple years both will be obsolete.

I would not invest too heavily in Thunderbolt - since the new "USB C" standard is growing strength - the roadmap is now clear

I imagine by 2019,  "USB C " will be desired audio interface for  Windows PC and Mac


Not every new 2015 Windows PC's with only USB 3.0 ports can work with the USB Audio interfaces  - without randoms pops and crackles  - or simply not work at all.   
(Read our Audio Interface area) 
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=193.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=193.0)

Windows PC USB 3.0 compatible chipsets for Audio Interfaces
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8562.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8562.0)

2016 is approaching, and  USB 2.0 Ports are history on most new computers ,  its time to google search your Computer Model number and specific USB Audio Interface model  to find if  its works or if  there will be problems.

Luckily my 2015  Asus Q551LN laptop with only USB 3.0 ports works fins with my USB audio interfaces designed for USB 2.0  - but some machines are not capable and will have problems for any pro audio use.

Its an era of transition for sure.

--


http://www.geckoandfly.com/10123/usb-3-0-vs-thunderbolt-transfer-speed-comparison/ (http://www.geckoandfly.com/10123/usb-3-0-vs-thunderbolt-transfer-speed-comparison/)

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02 – Advantage of USB Type-C

Entirely new design tailored for emerging product design including Apple laptops.
New smaller size with reversible plug and orientation cable.
Supports scale-able power charging.
Designed to establish future USB performance needs.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on December 16, 2015, 12:40:41 PM
info worth spreading
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/first-real-gig-with-the-fx8.1650934/#post-21075309 (http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/first-real-gig-with-the-fx8.1650934/#post-21075309)

QuoteJust a suggestion for those in bands with loud drummers, where your band is trying to reduce the overall stage sound: Our drummer just purchased Remo heads that reduce the sound of his acoustic drums by 80%! Then he put triggers on each drum and ran them through the electronic module of his Yamaha electronic drum kit.

I could not believe how much volume was reduced from the acoustic kit without it affecting how hitting the heads did not affect his playing technique at all. Adding the triggers gives him all the electronic drum sounds he has with the Yamaha set up but now he gets the benefits of both an acoustic set and the electronic set.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SN0014\ (http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SN0014%5C)

These are the snare heads, but they come in all sizes right up to full bass drum heads.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 17, 2015, 01:23:14 PM
Most folks are aware of the Gibson Jumbo guitars - like the J-200 / Everly brothers model

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Martin is now getting a piece of the action

new  Martin CEO-8

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The back story i heard is Henry J at Gibson was very upset seeing this new Martin model, with its "crown in mother of peal" inlay on the headstock that clearly resembles the Gibson J200's and the ES-345 style fret inlays  - needless to say a terse exchange between CEO's ensued

so Martin had to remove the headstock inlay for the current production run


http://www.samash.com/special-edition-ceos-choice-ceo-8-grand-jumbo-acoustic-electric-guitar--38-sn1867445-m1867445x-p (http://www.samash.com/special-edition-ceos-choice-ceo-8-grand-jumbo-acoustic-electric-guitar--38-sn1867445-m1867445x-p)

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http://onemanz.com/guitar/reviews/acoustic-guitars/martin/ceo-8/ (http://onemanz.com/guitar/reviews/acoustic-guitars/martin/ceo-8/)
QuoteNote: this model was changed to have a traditional Martin logo on the headstock. So if you got one with the slanted logo, your great grandchildren might just sell it for a lot money someday.
https://www.martinguitar.com/new/item/3761-ceo-8.html (https://www.martinguitar.com/new/item/3761-ceo-8.html)


My 2 cents - having played both  - the Martin sounds 2000% better!, while all the new Gibson Acoustics all sound like dead planks  - regardless of price, nothing a genuine pre 1965 Kalamazoo model
http://www.heritageguitar.com/history.html (http://www.heritageguitar.com/history.html)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 31, 2015, 03:53:33 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 06, 2016, 11:00:23 AM
Review the US-20 GK A/B/Y Selector circuit,
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although the US-20 is marketed as an A/B/Y switch box - technically no audio paths are actually switched - instead a Voltage Control (GK-3's  GK-VOL signal) on Pin#8 is employed to effectively "Mute" the undesired connected 13 pin processor (VG-8, VG88, VG-99, GR-55, GR-30, etc)


QuoteWhat I've determined is that its strictly related to the GK Volume Knob in the Control Assignment.
If the VG-99 Patch has something other than [A]COSM GTR: E.GTR:VOL assigned to the GK Volume Knob then VG-99 sound will output while you are playing even when the US-20 only has the GR-55 selected.

It's by design. The production Roland US-20 is full of flaws, since it does not actually switch any audio signals.
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=7423.msg51872#msg51872 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=7423.msg51872#msg51872)

Also many non Roland 13 pin guitar have problems with GK Volume not being able to fully turn volume off on the connected 13 pin processor ( VG-8,VG-88,VG-99,GR-30,GR-20,GR-33,GR-55) when guitar mounted GK-VOL pot is fully counter-clockwise. More details on this "bug" here:
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=434.msg1567#msg1567 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=434.msg1567#msg1567)

I would prefer redesigning an improved US-20, using analog switch IC's ( like several Vishay DG-202) - so it actually does switch all the string audio signals and Normal guitar audio signals. 

Here is the stock Roland US-20 - the underlying "A/B", "Both" Foot switch circuits focus on Moving the GK-3's "GK-VOLUME" Control Voltage signal to "0V" (GK13, Pin#8) for the currently non-selected target Roland 13 pin device (GR-55, VG-99, etc)  - effectively making the deselected target device silent (as long as GK Vol is mapped to patch Volume on the connected GK13 processors / Guitar Synth units) . But in practice this method is full of flaws. 



That design decision by Roland might have been fine back in 1996 when the US-20 was designed, but today the Roland US-20 is terribly inadequate for bulk of today's 13 pin gear, where we often have GK-3's "GK-VOL" pot remapped to other non volume related functions.


Manipulating the "A/B" or "Both" foot switches on the US-20 simply re-routes the GK-3 S1 & S2 control lines and the GK-3 Volume control voltage to the target 13 pin processor device selected by the US-20:  Unit A or Unit B or Both.

Observe in the US-20 schematic All 6 string signals (as well as the "normal guitar signal") from the GK-3 are non switched and actually always connected and all GK-3 audio signals are sent to both 13 pin processing units the US20 is feeding. (Unit A & Unit B)

The 20 year old US-20 design relies on the GK-3 Volume control to be assigned to the Master Volume parameter of the connected units (VG-99, GR-55,etc).
When the US-20 "deselects" a connected 13 pin device, it sets the "GK-Vol" control voltage to zero - which essentially "mutes"  the deselected device -therefore: The Roland US-20 A/B box will only work, AS LONG AS you have the GK-3 VOL control set to control Master Volume or PATCH VOLUME (or "GUITAR VOLUME [A&B]") on the connected device! (VG-99,VB-99,GR-55, etc)!!

The problem is in this era of COSM processing, to showcase the new FX parameters for remote GK-3 control, the GK Synth Volume Pot is re-assigned to many other functions / uses besides Volume, (including the factory presets of the recent Roland products) far too many times the US-20 will appear to not be functional and "broken". This is normal.

So the US-20 will not function if you have reassigned the GK-3 Vol control to another parameter, such as Delay level, or EQ control, .

Also note that you MUST connect a 13 pin processor to the US-20's "UNIT A" jack, as this supplies +/-7VDC power to the US-20.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 07, 2016, 12:08:37 PM
https://youtu.be/V7JXufR0h4w
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 08, 2016, 05:00:12 PM
http://www.scoop.it/t/diy-music-electronics (http://www.scoop.it/t/diy-music-electronics)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 15, 2016, 11:21:03 AM
http://www.wirelesshack.org/best-wireless-mobile-wifi-hotspot-devices-2016.html (http://www.wirelesshack.org/best-wireless-mobile-wifi-hotspot-devices-2016.html)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 15, 2016, 06:56:33 PM
http://www.circuitnet.com/web/experts.html (http://www.circuitnet.com/web/experts.html)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 16, 2016, 10:10:26 PM
http://stephan.win31.de/music.htm (http://stephan.win31.de/music.htm)

http://stephan.win31.de/home_en.htm (http://stephan.win31.de/home_en.htm)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 18, 2016, 01:13:15 PM
Good reference for understanding control of EMI /RF Emissions

http://www.audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf (http://www.audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf)

http://www.audiosystemsgroup.com/ (http://www.audiosystemsgroup.com/)


https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/23e9z4/desktop_computer_shieldingrfi_hitchiking_on/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/23e9z4/desktop_computer_shieldingrfi_hitchiking_on/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 18, 2016, 06:13:22 PM
http://zaardvark.blogspot.com/ (http://zaardvark.blogspot.com/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 18, 2016, 07:41:30 PM
http://8tracks.com/nickislander/surf-rock-vintage (http://8tracks.com/nickislander/surf-rock-vintage)

http://8tracks.com/hogefan/essential-surf-guitar-collection (http://8tracks.com/hogefan/essential-surf-guitar-collection)

http://8tracks.com/surf/early-60s-mix (http://8tracks.com/surf/early-60s-mix)

http://8tracks.com/stoned-immaculate/summer-rumble (http://8tracks.com/stoned-immaculate/summer-rumble)


http://8tracks.com/sonicsalad/stoked (http://8tracks.com/sonicsalad/stoked)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 22, 2016, 09:58:09 PM
http://joshlinkner.com (http://joshlinkner.com)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 23, 2016, 09:17:07 AM
NAMM has been great this year, seen many old friends in the industry.

Been brainstorming opportunities for modern guitar with Aure Prochazka ( original founder of www.vg-8.com (http://www.vg-8.com)), Vance Galoway, Thomas Nordegg, Don Ramsay ( Linear Tremolo)

Talked with Mr Yoshiro Ikegami ( President of  Roland /Boss Corp) I asked what the furture holds for Roland GK divided PU guitars and processors.
He told me : " We are proud of our GK products and will continue to introduce more new GK products in the future".


Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 12, 2016, 12:50:25 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/03/30/df/0330dfbb839fff0ad44cf8dce370f4ad--les-paul-standard-gibson-les-paul.jpg)
^ Genuine 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard  - always wanted one.


Ok this post is NOT typically of interest for many folks on this site -
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My 2015 Les Paul CS8 VOS arrived ! (Sunrise Tea Burst) (thanks to a Sweetwater sale )
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/CSLP8VOSTBNH? (http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/CSLP8VOSTBNH?)

http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2015/Custom/CS8-50s-Style-Les-Paul-Standard-VOS.aspx (http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2015/Custom/CS8-50s-Style-Les-Paul-Standard-VOS.aspx)
Wow! - this is the best guitar I ever purchased without playing it first. Fresh out of the box the setup and frets are perfect, and the guitar has a great 3D flame top that looks like a genuine "real deal" - very close to the genuine '58 - '59 LP Standards I have worked on in the past at Valley Arts Guitar (1980-1986) . Back in 2009, I was doing consulting for Gibson / Tronical and had an opportunity to visit Rick Gembar at the Gibson Custom Shop in Nashville and play several high end models.


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Back then, the Billy Gibbons Signature "Pearly Gates LP" was being produced at the Custom Shop at that time and I fell in love with the fat 50's Neck profile - to me,  the guitar below delivers that experience
http://www.gibson.com/news-lifestyle/features/en-us/219-gibson-custom.aspx (http://www.gibson.com/news-lifestyle/features/en-us/219-gibson-custom.aspx)

If only regular production Gibsons contained this level of attention to details and quality - but then they would all have to be $3K 
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http://youtu.be/lL4kJL_NDR0 (http://youtu.be/lL4kJL_NDR0)



and it was much lower cost than this one

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https://reverb.com/item/526454-1959-gibson-les-paul-standard-grainger-burst?_aid=criteo-ads (https://reverb.com/item/526454-1959-gibson-les-paul-standard-grainger-burst?_aid=criteo-ads)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 14, 2016, 11:27:23 AM
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/recommend-fret-tools.1672573/ (http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/recommend-fret-tools.1672573/)

When someone says that pricing is steep that implies that the price is not commensurate with value. When someone else reads what is essentially a review on the internet, their impression is based on that value judgement. Which, in many cases, is an opinion given by someone who neither owns the item or has experience doing the work the tool is designed to do and therefore does not have the knowledge on which to base an opinion.

The reality is that quite often when someone makes this kind of comment it really means that they cannot afford the item in question. Or it might mean that they do not understand the pricing in terms of the quality of the item. Unfortunately, others who read it don't get that message.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 18, 2016, 08:07:05 AM
Among the general populace of guitarists There exists huge incorrect assumptions regarding how these 13 pin  system work
More here :
How the "13pin MIDI Cable" damaged the "Roland GK" VGuitar brand
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=14088.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=14088.0)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 18, 2016, 09:29:37 AM
Sending data using 4 pin 3.5mm jack into smartphone
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/74393/sending-data-using-4-pin-3-5mm-jack-into-smartphone (http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/74393/sending-data-using-4-pin-3-5mm-jack-into-smartphone)

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 22, 2016, 02:12:37 PM
(https://christopherave.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/line-6.jpeg)

Just one Line short?
http://www.gearbest.com/speakers/pp_27488.html (http://www.gearbest.com/speakers/pp_27488.html)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 25, 2016, 10:52:57 AM
http://community.playwithyourmusic.org/t/module-3-project-share-musical-structure-graphs/1518/22 (http://community.playwithyourmusic.org/t/module-3-project-share-musical-structure-graphs/1518/22)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SSP4imxXVyN6le_JfqMo9UfpR_MZpQbWh3QK8OLjxG8/edit#gid=0 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SSP4imxXVyN6le_JfqMo9UfpR_MZpQbWh3QK8OLjxG8/edit#gid=0)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 27, 2016, 01:33:29 PM
Reference material all guitarist should own IMHO
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/0672206757/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc? (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0672206757/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?)
https://books.google.com/books/about/Audio_cyclopedia.html?id=9NpEAAAAMAAJ (https://books.google.com/books/about/Audio_cyclopedia.html?id=9NpEAAAAMAAJ)

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http://www.amazon.com/dp/0672227525/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc? (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0672227525/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?)

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http://www.amazon.com/dp/0976982250/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc? (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0976982250/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?)

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http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1? (http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?)
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/electronics-physicists/art-electronics-3rd-edition (http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/electronics-physicists/art-electronics-3rd-edition)

http://www1.appstate.edu/~curtincm/sculpture/suppliers/gizmos/Practical_Electronics_for_Inventors.pdf (http://www1.appstate.edu/~curtincm/sculpture/suppliers/gizmos/Practical_Electronics_for_Inventors.pdf)


http://www.uneeda-audio.com/ (http://www.uneeda-audio.com/)

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on February 27, 2016, 01:47:12 PM

Reflections on a year of Macbook Pro gigging...
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/reflections-on-a-year-of-macbook-pro-gigging.1668036/ (http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/reflections-on-a-year-of-macbook-pro-gigging.1668036/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on March 02, 2016, 12:40:32 PM
Japanese site with many Gk Synth ideas
http://www.gs-universe.com/repair/guitar_synthesizer.html (http://www.gs-universe.com/repair/guitar_synthesizer.html)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 02, 2016, 01:36:41 PM
https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/gil-orr (https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/gil-orr)

Gil Orr played a part in the era of popular music known as the Surf Sound. With the steady growth of instrumental hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Orr performed and recorded his guitar-playing style with boardwalk bands on the California coast. The Surf Sound hit its zenith when a group called the Beach Boys added vocals. Gil has toured in recent years with Paul Johnson who also made a significant impact on instrumental music of the 1960s as a songwriter and guitarist.
Interview Date:
June 5, 2004


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chantays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chantays)


http://www.ocregister.com/articles/spickard-652922-chantays-pipeline.html (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/spickard-652922-chantays-pipeline.html)
QuoteOrange County surf rock pioneer and 'Pipeline' guitarist Brian Carman of the Chantays dies at 69
March 3, 2015 Updated March 5, 2015 10:15 a.m.
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The Chantays, from top left, Brian Carman, Bob Welch, Ricky Lewis, Bob Spickard and Gil Orr, are shown in a publicity photo.
THE CHANTAYS.COM
BY PETER LARSEN / STAFF WRITER
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You probably don't know Brian Carman's name today, if ever you did. But odds are good that you do know his most famous riff, that rapid-fire burst of sound that flew from Carman's fingers and the strings of his guitar, turning the instrumental "Pipeline" into one of the most legendary hits of surf music and transforming the Chantays from five Santa Ana teenagers barely old enough to shave into the brightest stars of pop music for a brief period as 1963 arrived.

Carman, who was 69, died Sunday, said Bob Spickard, who co-wrote the "Pipeline" with Carman and continued to play with him in the Chantays off and on until a year or two ago.

"To me, he's like my brother," Spickard said on Tuesday, taking a break from the weekly jam session he plays in at the American Legion hall in Newport Beach. "It's one of those situations where he had been in ill health for quite awhile. He battled with a lot, and basically his heart just gave out."



Though his fame had faded quickly – the surf music scene was quickly overtaken by the British Invasion and the rise of other forms of rock 'n' and roll – in that world, he and the Chantays and "Pipeline" always held a place of honor.

"We lost another good soul," said Dick Dale, the 78-year-old surf guitar legend who already was famous for his fiery gigs at places such as Balboa Peninsula's Rendezvous Ballroom and other venues around Orange County when the Chantays got together as students at Santa Ana High School in 1961.

"There were other surf instrumentals that were national hits between 1961 and 1964, of course," said Domenic Priore, a writer and music historian, in a Facebook post on Carman's passing. "But this and (the Surfaris') 'Wipe Out' were good representatives of the wild side, and the tone side, of surf music."

To Dean Torrence, of the rock duo Jan & Dan, "Pipeline" remains an icon of its time and place: "The Chantays were right in there with a pretty important record, and I think that's pretty cool."

Like many a band before them, the Chantays got together for the simplest of reasons, Spickard said.

"We were inspired by another local group called the Rhythm Rockers, who ended up backing up the Righteous Brothers" – who'd gone to Santa Ana High a few years earlier, he said. "We figured, 'Hey, these guys were making money and getting all the girls, so maybe we ought to think about that."

They'd met in the eighth grade when Carman moved from Lathrop to Willard middle school, Spickard said. By the time they started high school the two pals were hanging out after school, teaching each other how to play the guitar, and eventually recruiting three more friends – Bob Welch, Warren Waters and Rob Marshall – to form the Chantays.

Though some of them surfed, the Chantays thought of themselves as a rock 'n'and roll band more than a surf band at first. "Pipeline" started out as a song called "44 Magnum," and after the guys saw the Jimmy Stewart Western "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," they renamed it "Liberty's Whip."

"What evolved, Warren, our bass player and I went to a Bruce Brown (surfing) movie at Santa Ana High School, and they showed the Banzai Pipeline," Spickard said. "And Warren and I looked at each other and said, 'Hey, why don't we call it 'Pipeline'?"

They recorded it in the back of Wenzel's Music Town in Downey, a record store with a small studio in the back. In the conversation that developed on Priore's Facebook page on the thread about Carman, he and others reminisced about how owner Tom Wenzel kept the master tapes for recording sessions in the bathroom of the store, where you could enter on the pretext of needing to go and instead hold the holy relic of the "Pipeline" master in your hands for a minute or two.

After it broke out as a hit in early 1963, eventually reaching No. 4 on the Billboard charts in May, the Chantays found nationwide fame, earning them a spot on "The Lawrence Welk Show." Spickard, who nervously introduces the band in a wonderfully innocent clip on YouTube, says he believes they were the only rock act ever booked by Welk, who sent them Christmas baskets for the next four or five years.

"That was quite a thing," Spickard says of appearing on the Welk show. "I can remember some of the administrators at our high school were miffed at that because we had to take off a couple of days to go up and shoot that."

At the time, none of them realized what a big deal "Pipeline" was or the legacy it would provide.

"We were young and naive and didn't realize what kind of an impact we were having," Spickard says.

Dale, whose hits such as "Miserlou" helped define the surf guitar sound, is one of the many artists who have covered "Pipeline," in his version playing with the late Stevie Ray Vaughan.

"We were going to do it with Eddie Van Halen," says Dale, who spends most of his time on his ranch in the desert though he still has a boat docked in Newport Beach where he and his wife Lana spend a few days now and then. After Van Halen backed out – the song and their performances were to be featured in the 1987 movie "Back To The Beach" – Vaughan signed on instead, Dale says.

The timelessness of the song takes people back, Dale says of why "Pipeline" has endured: "People remember where they've been when they hear that song."

Torrence, a longtime resident of Huntington Beach, with his partner the late Jan Berry, had already scored a handful of hits when "Pipeline" arrived. While he didn't know Carman (though he is friends with Spickard) he appreciated the Chantays' hit for the way it seemed to really capture the feel of surfing in the music.

"To me it had that kind of laid back quality that some of the other surf songs didn't have," Torrence said. "And it seemed to shift gears as it went along, which is kind of what the art of surfing would pretty well be. If you're trying to structure a tune around the art of surfing, it's just a guy on a surf board in the water, what the hell.

"It would be hard to do that, and this was one of the songs that really did capture surfing."

Eventually, the arrival of the British Invasion in the form of the Beatles, and the huge changes in the pop landscape that floowed, caused the Chantays to fade, Spickard said. They all started families – Carman, who girls in school thoguht looked like Ricky Nelson, was the first to get married, the first to have a child, Spickard said – and with that came responsibilities and eventually day jobs.

Carman went to work for Rickenbacker, the longtime guitar and bass company based in Santa Ana, and later for Music Man, the company Leo Fender started after he sold his namesake firm. Still, the Chantays would play shows regularly over the years, with Carman, Spickard and drummer Welch the main original players in the group.

"The thing we enjoyed most was the camaraderie, the guys in the band," Spickard said. "We played all over the country pretty much, and it's memories now, but it's good memories.

"My main philosophy right now is thinking about all the good times and the fact that nobody gets out alive."

Contact the writer: 714-796-7787 or plarsen@ocregister.com

https://www.moptwo.com/Warren~29957 (https://www.moptwo.com/Warren~29957)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 06, 2016, 09:36:23 AM
http://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w (http://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w)


http://youtu.be/2fjcJp_Nwvk (http://youtu.be/2fjcJp_Nwvk)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 16, 2016, 07:57:12 AM
I'm using these new Planet Waves Locking Guitar Straps  - no mods to the guitar required, and the Strap stays right where I want it.
http://www.planetwaves.com/pwStraps.Page?sid=5b2a05e3-9c5c-431f-86d5-e28b82c3e61b (http://www.planetwaves.com/pwStraps.Page?sid=5b2a05e3-9c5c-431f-86d5-e28b82c3e61b)
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Planet Lock:
Planet Waves patented Planet Lock system fits virtually any guitar and stays locked in place until you release the side pin. Unlike ordinary strap lock systems, the Planet Lock is designed to fit securely on your guitar's existing end pins, eliminating the need to change the hardware on your guitar. Plus, you can use the same strap on different guitars.

The Planet Lock is safe, secure, and easy to use.


https://youtu.be/zITpo1w1HD8 (https://youtu.be/zITpo1w1HD8)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 18, 2016, 11:52:39 AM
YOUTUBE ADVANCED KEYBOARD SHORTCUT CONTROLS
Maybe you already know that tapping the space bar is your Play/Pause control for a YouTube video.
But lots of other keys are available to you, too. Check it out:
J: Jumps back 10 seconds. Great if you didn't catch the words.
K: Play/Pause. (In case your space bar is broken.)
L: Jumps forward 10 seconds. Great if the introduction is taking forever.
M: Mute the audio.
(Isn't it neat how those four keys are all clustered together under your right hand?)
←, → (arrow keys): Rewind, fast forward
Home: Jumps to the beginning.
End: Jumps to the end.
The number keys work, too. You can press 0, 1, 2, 3, and so on to jump to points in the video at those percentages in. 0 means "the beginning." 1 means "10 percent of the way through." 2 means "20 percent through," and so on up to 9.
These keyboard shortcuts don't work in full-screen mode, by the way (except M for mute and space for pause). Still, they're great to know!
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 20, 2016, 04:23:52 PM
http://youtu.be/eBDQPYcyjqs (http://youtu.be/eBDQPYcyjqs)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 22, 2016, 04:23:27 PM
https://oldrecordclub.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/3-chords-the-truth/


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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 23, 2016, 03:16:00 PM
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http://youtu.be/ckGnE42oMhg (http://youtu.be/ckGnE42oMhg)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 25, 2016, 12:22:44 PM
http://www.tvtechnology.com/broadcast-engineering/0029/for-audio-over-ip-aes67-is-just-a-start/277728# (http://www.tvtechnology.com/broadcast-engineering/0029/for-audio-over-ip-aes67-is-just-a-start/277728#)
For Audio Over IP, AES67 Is 'Just a Start'
Console vendors approach AoIP standard in myriad ways
February 5, 2016

By Steve Harvey
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LOS ANGELES—The ability to pass audio over IP between different brands of mixing consoles and other equipment potentially became somewhat easier with the publication of the AES67 standard in late 2013. AES67 may not be as comprehensively functional as other currently available audio networking protocols. Nevertheless, it offers a standardized method by which equipment can share signals, alongside those other networking protocols as well as transports such as AES3 and AES10, otherwise known as MADI.
Television broadcast appeared to reach something of a tipping point in 2015 with regard to the acceptance and adoption of IP-based audio and video workflows and infrastructures. But the industry's wider AoIP adoption has lagged slightly behind other sectors such as live sound and radio broadcast, where audio networking has been in use for quite some time via various protocols, including AVB, CobraNet, Dante, EtherSound, Livewire, RAVENNA, WheatNet-IP and others.
INTEROPERABILITY TRANSPORT STANDARD
AES67 was not developed to supplant existing AoIP networking platforms; indeed, it lacks certain features found in other AoIP protocols, such as a specified method for channel or device discovery, signal routing and labelling, and system control. But AES67 is essentially a subset of RAVENNA and is supported by Dante and other audio networking protocols, enabling broadcast consoles of various brands to interoperate with a very wide variety of IP-enabled products and, potentially, with each other.
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SSL's System T broadcast audio production system environment, incorporates networked audio, control, and processing based around Dante networking technology. Paul MacDonald, spokesman for U.K.-based Solid State Logic, a Dante licensee, said "AES67 is an interoperability transport standard—control and discovery are intentionally not defined—and as such we don't view it as a competing technology to Dante, but a complementary standard. However, we think there are developing standards, within the AES and beyond, that have the potential to provide future extensions to standards-based interoperability alongside AES67."
SSL's latest broadcast audio production environment, System T, incorporates networked audio, control, and processing based around Dante networking technology, according to MacDonald. "Dante is by far the most widely adopted and, we believe, the most complete and practical audio networking solution," he said.
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Wheatstone, whose Series Four, Dimension Three and other IP consoles route and control audio through the company's proprietary WheatNet-IP Gigabit Ethernet network, values AES67 for its ability to bridge between its network and others. Phil Owens, head of Eastern U.S. Sales for the New Bern, N.C.-based company noted that AES67 "provides the common synchronization, clock identification and session description we can all share in order to transport audio between our various systems without jitter, delay and data dropout."
Wheatstone was one of the first to add AES67 to its WheatNet-IP system as another way to "get in and out of our system," alongside analog, AES, MADI and HD-SDI, Owens said, adding that AES67 is complimentary to WheatNet-IP's full system approach.
A European plugfest held in October 2014—the first for AES67—led to revisions in the standard, published as AES67-2015, that included some minor updates. At the 2015 AES Convention in New York the Media Networking Alliance (MNA), founded by a group of manufacturers to promote awareness and uptake of AES67, held its first public display of audio networking using the interoperability standard. That demonstration included 22 products from 18 different companies.

Wheatstone products interconnect through the company's proprietary WheatNet-IP Gigabit Ethernet network. Wheatstone Engineers Kelly Parker and Dave Breithaupt participated in the second AES67 plugfest, held recently in Washington, D.C., and reported on the event on the company's website. AES67 requires support for both unicast and multicast streaming, the latter requiring SIP, the Session Initiation Protocol that is also behind Voice-over- IP (VoIP) communications, for connection management. According to the report, WheatNet-IP supports SIP, but SIP interoperability was not achieved by every product at the plugfest. It notes that a subsequent AES report "suggests that an SIP technical overview and recommendation be published prior to subsequent AES67 plugfests." The next plugfest is currently planned for the U.K. during 2016.
Calrec, which has been refining its Hydra2 networking scheme for the past 15 years, is the only broadcast console manufacturer to support all current protocols, including RAVENNA, AVB, Dante, and AES67, according to Dave Letson, vice president of sales for the U.K.-based company. Hydra2 provides a layer of management over all those signals, he noted, providing a multitude of additional functionality like port protection, alias files, virtual patchbays, and access rights. "Uniquely, Hydra2 provides the ability to apply the same management functionality to any supported protocol, providing control and functionality irrespective of which protocol our customers choose for their facility," Letson said.
A NEW ALLIANCE
An AES standards project, designated X210, is currently addressing an interoperable control protocol. Open Control Architecture (OCA), a technical descendent of AES24, first published in 1999, appears to be on track for ratification as a control and monitoring standard providing interoperability across audio—and, eventually, video— transports. A group of manufacturers has formed the OCA Alliance to actively promote the adoption and standardization of the architecture.
"The lack of an accepted standard is frustrating for both broadcasters and manufacturers alike, and so the main value of these alliances is to provide information and support so that we can all make informed choices for the future," said Letson. "We are all coalescing protocols into a unified standard and there is still some cautiousness amongst broadcasters and manufacturers in committing to a single standard."
Lawo has always been aligned to open standards, be it SMPTE 2022-6/-7 and TR-03 in video, AES3, MADI, RAVENNA, or AES67 in audio, or Ember+ in control, according to Andreas Hilmer, director marketing and communications with the German-based company. "We strongly believe in these standardized, open approaches in order to come to best possible solutions with a solid and secure long-term perspective for our clients," said.
Lawo recently announced that it had joined AIMS, the Alliance for IP Media Solutions, "an independent trade association founded to ensure that all IP solutions brought to market offer complete interoperability and are based on open standards for seamless integration into media workflow environments," according to an AIMS statement.
"AIMS's support of open standards and technical recommendations such as TR-03, TR-04, and AES67 afford us an opportunity to eliminate the fragmentation of implementations that our industry has endured over the last 20 years. It's our big chance to avoid repeating expensive and time-consuming mistakes of the past," said Hilmer. "In order to support the transition to IP-based infrastructures, we encourage all manufacturers to come together and embrace interoperability and open standards as the best solution for our mutual customers."
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 26, 2016, 08:50:16 AM

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 27, 2016, 10:10:13 AM
One of Gibsons first "re-Issues"
http://youtu.be/MqKSs1qaHAY (http://youtu.be/MqKSs1qaHAY)


1972 Gibson Les Paul Custom´54 Reissue - Ebony inkl. orig. Case.

Extreme rare Reissue of a ´54 Les Paul Custom, only a few where made in 1972/73. This guitar is in excellent+x+ condition, only very little playwear, no weathercheckings, nicely faded yellow binding. The original frets are just like new, only the gold plated hardware does show little wear from playing! This instrument is very ligtweigt for a custom with only 4,4 Kg (solid body! ...no weight-relief holes!). This guitar sounds terrific and can easily compare to a 50´s Les Paul Custom! Including the original Gibson hardshell case and Gibson Instruction-manual/-waranty card. Hard to find in this condition, great sounding instrument and solid future investment!

Techn.Details:

1-piece mahagony body,
1-piece mahagony neck (no volute),
Multible-binding on body, neck and headstock,
6-digit serialnumber with "LE"-pefix,
Ebonyfretboard with 22 original frets and block-inlays,
1x AlNiCo - PU /neckposition,
1x P-90 - PU / bridgeposition,
Tune-o-matic bridge, (studs directly into the wood),
Lightweight tailpiece,
Gold plated hardware,
6x Grover "waffleback" tuners,
2xVolumen/2xTone/3-way toggleswitch,
4x matching Centralab pots, all dated 1972,
2x Spraque "Black Beauty" capacitors,
Untouched solderjoints!,
Incl. orig. Gibson black hardshell case +manual/-waranty card.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 28, 2016, 06:40:01 PM
https://youtu.be/gvY3kRWuyIM
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 29, 2016, 01:28:26 PM

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several photo pages worth of live performance guitar rig with ipad ideas
http://tinyurl.com/gomvvxh (http://tinyurl.com/gomvvxh)

http://www.elevenrackpresets.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=40013 (http://www.elevenrackpresets.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=40013)
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mark c wrote>
Quote
It's compact, lightweight and the backup units are in the same case. It sounds fantastic and is as versatile as a setup possibly could be.

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 30, 2016, 06:13:34 AM
QuoteI have a favorite guitar I want to install an internal GK PU and I'm lost - Help!

If you are new to the 13 pin guitars, I advise temporarily install the External GK-3 before making wood dust with a Router.

Read all these areas of the forum

For "global axioms"  all 13 pin Guitarists must know - read:

VGuitar Forums > GK-13 Reference Knowledge > GK-13 Interface Top things to know
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=65.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=65.0)

And info specific to Mag Hex Pickups like the Roland GK-3 / GK-KIT-GT3
VGuitar Forums > GK-13 Reference Knowledge > GK Mag Hex (GK-2A,GK-3)
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=11.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=11.0)

For installation  / control configuration / location ideas  - Find a 13 pin guitar similar to yours by browsing here

Post Your GK / VGuitar Pic Here! ( 26 pages worth)
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=359.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=359.0)

For detailed internal GK installation info :
VGuitar Forums > GK-13 Reference Knowledge > GK-13 Luthier / DIY Info
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=183.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=183.0)



and


i would not get too obsessed with the fact the GK-3 PU is wider string spacing than the Bridge, it typically means both High E and Low E Strings will have less output.

But some mod the GK PU to be more precise so each GK Pickup pole piece sits directly under each string

Roland GK Mag hex pickup mods for Spacing & Radius
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=410.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=410.0)
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but remember "GK String Sensitivity"  in the GK Processor ( GR-55/GP-10/VG-99) can be adjusted to compensate and allow all strings to have equal volume.


Many folks still become overwhelmed, and I suggest have the GK-KIT GT3 installed by a local Luthier - I always tell folks to refer to the comprehensive worldwide RMC Pickups Installer List  - as those same shops are "GK knowledge aware" 
and capable of installing the Roland GK-KIT GT3 efficiently
http://www.rmcpickup.com/authorized_installers.htm (http://www.rmcpickup.com/authorized_installers.htm)

In the old days finding a good guitar you could bond with required luck and knowing a good music shop. 
I advise for your first GK install, resist the temptation of cutting into your #1 Guitar -
Today thanks to CNC machines, there has never been an age with so many plentiful low cost "good guitars".  advise locate a similar type guitar as your #1, and use that as a "Internal GK stunt double"  - to gain experience and have no regrets

and Good Luck with the sonic exploration!
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 30, 2016, 10:02:28 PM
http://www.gearnews.com/ (http://www.gearnews.com/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 31, 2016, 04:23:27 PM
Gundy Keller in the Studio.

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2972.msg17974#msg17974 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2972.msg17974#msg17974)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 07, 2016, 02:56:54 PM
MARC BOLAN'S (T-REX) '58 LES PAUL FOUND
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http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62384 (http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62384)

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/vintage-les-pauls/352625-possible-58-59-les-paul-no-serial-no.html (http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/vintage-les-pauls/352625-possible-58-59-les-paul-no-serial-no.html)

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 09, 2016, 06:54:42 AM
American Master of film
Buster Keaton - worth watching chase scene in last 15 minutes
(No CGI)
http://youtu.be/zTwfCyWKYYc (http://youtu.be/zTwfCyWKYYc)

https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/keaton-seven-chances-filmed-close-to-studio/ (https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/keaton-seven-chances-filmed-close-to-studio/)
https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/charming-third-time-for-seven-chances/ (https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/charming-third-time-for-seven-chances/)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 11, 2016, 08:18:38 AM
QuoteSorry Elantric, may you explain me what kind of appareil is a breakout box?

RMC Fanout / Break out boxes for creative uses.
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=9733.msg69854#msg69854 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=9733.msg69854#msg69854)
http://www.separate-strings.co.uk (http://www.separate-strings.co.uk)

This is approach to trigger special soft synths with direct audio input alone - separate audio channel per string ( no MIDI )for use with


u-he Zebra,
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13010.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13010.0)

Pure Data,
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8207.msg58296#msg58296 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8207.msg58296#msg58296)

Reaktor  / GSynth2:  Software Based Guitar Synthesizers
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=7772.msg54665#msg54665 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=7772.msg54665#msg54665)

Read more in this area

Guitar to MIDI - USB to Softsynth
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=51.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=51.0)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 12, 2016, 04:53:13 PM
http://youtu.be/9e-vMhU8WBA (http://youtu.be/9e-vMhU8WBA)


http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBmR5mvRhWkF27v077VEvEDO88iQmKTKo (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBmR5mvRhWkF27v077VEvEDO88iQmKTKo)


Edit APRIL 19, 2016
----------------------------
My Supro 1648RT Saturn Reverb arrived, Using just a straight cord I tried 1648RT with a Reverend Spacehawk or my Gibson  '58 LP CS8 reissue - this amp sings!

In this age of DSP Amp Modelers, this Supro is a great "reality check" for what a good Tube Amp does and how it react to your touch. Excellent Amp
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 14, 2016, 04:22:41 PM
1968 Spirit's "Taurus"
http://youtu.be/gFHLO_2_THg (http://youtu.be/gFHLO_2_THg)

vs


1971 Led Zep's "Stairway to Heaven"
http://youtu.be/8pPvNqOb6RA (http://youtu.be/8pPvNqOb6RA)


Roots

1955 Chet Baker's "My Funny Valentine"
http://youtu.be/jvXywhJpOKs (http://youtu.be/jvXywhJpOKs)


1964 Chim Chim Cher-ee (from "Mary Poppins")
https://youtu.be/k_mpaF5-SlU (https://youtu.be/k_mpaF5-SlU)

1968 Johnny Rivers "Summer Rain"
http://youtu.be/Xa9vWVEYojg (http://youtu.be/Xa9vWVEYojg)

1969 Jethro Tull's "We Used To Know"
http://youtu.be/EgO7MamJnqM (http://youtu.be/EgO7MamJnqM)


Similar chord progressions
1972 Jim Croce - Time in a bottle
http://youtu.be/dO1rMeYnOmM (http://youtu.be/dO1rMeYnOmM)

1976 the Eagles Hotel California
http://youtu.be/lrfhf1Gv4Tw (http://youtu.be/lrfhf1Gv4Tw)





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kurt-ellenberger/and-shes-buying-a-lawsuit-to-heaven-_b_6717680.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kurt-ellenberger/and-shes-buying-a-lawsuit-to-heaven-_b_6717680.html)
QuoteThe Song (or at least the bass line) remains the same. Another second-tier band wants a piece of the first-tier pie, and thus, the battle for ownership of one of the most iconic songs from the classic rock era, Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" is heating up. The surviving family members of Randy California, the late guitarist of the band "Spirit," are suing Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement claiming that "Stairway to Heaven" is based on Spirit's song "Taurus." To begin with, here are the two songs:



It's easy to hear the relationship between these two songs. The similarities are, however, limited and superficial, residing in just three measures (12 beats or about 9 seconds) of chords that are generated from a chromatic bass line that is found in both songs.

However, this chord progression and the bass line that generates it are quite common. Here is a sketch of the melody and the chords from the first verse of "Stairway to Heaven," which was released in 1971:

StairwaytoHeaven(Note the descending bass line that moves chromatically A-G#-G-F#-F (bass clef) and the chords that are generated by this bass line.)

This is not, however, the only song that utilizes this progression.


TimeinaBottle

Jim Croce's big hit "Time In A Bottle" uses the same chord progression and was released in 1972. Unlike the other pieces that are in 4/4 time, this piece is in 3/4.

[Note: All notated examples have been transposed to the key of A minor (the key of Stairway to Heaven) thereby removing the distraction of key and allowing easy comparison of the various pieces cited. For those who cannot read music, look at the notated examples simply as graphs. In this manner, the similarities, which can be heard, will also be visually apparent.]

HotelCalifornia

The Eagles' smash hit Hotel California uses the same progression, and was released a few years later in 1976.

That's three songs, all of them huge commercial successes, in three different genres, and all released within a few years of each other. That may lead us to conclude that this chord progression is somehow "era specific," but it is not.


FunnyValentin

Chet Baker's recording of "My Funny Valentine" features the same chord progression. Baker, however, did not write the tune. It was written in 1937 by Rodgers and Hart and recorded by Baker in 1956. It was also recorded by hundreds of other musicians including Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Costello and many others.


HowInsensitive

A famous latin composer, Antonia Carlos Jobim, composer of "The Girl from Ipanema," used the same progression in his song "How Insensitive" which was recorded in 1967 by Frank Sinatra.


ChopinPrelude

The chord progression thus stretches back into the '60s, '50s, '40s, '30s, and by '30s, I am actually referring to both the 1930s and the 1830s. Jobim's song is itself based on Chopin's "Prelude No. 4 in E minor." (In the Chopin piece, the descending bass line is found in the upper voice of the accompaniment, but Jobim placed it in the lowest voice, as is found in the examples above. It is also more complicated because the other voices in the accompaniment wind downwards chromatically and unexpectedly. The foundation of Jobim's song and the chord progression in question is, however, found intact. This Prelude is quite famous, and one could easily imagine that it was well-known to Rodgers and Hart as well.)

But it goes back even further, back to the 17C and Henry Purcell, whose opera "Dido and Aeneas" prominently features this chord progression in "Dido's Lament (When I am laid to earth)."


The works referenced so far are all quite famous, which might lead us to believe that this chord progression is a recipe for commercial and artistic success, but alas, it is not. There are other examples that did not result in commercial success, of which Spirit's "Taurus" is but one.


For example, Jethro Tull's "We Used To Know" uses the same progression. It was released in 1969 on the band's "Stand Up" album. Ian Anderson, the group's leader, apparently without realizing that others had utilized this chord progression long before he did, actually talks about the chord progression as being the basis for "Hotel California!"


Another example from a more contemporary band is "Crucified" by Ghost B.C., which is not their tune, it is a cover of the song by Army of Lovers from 1991.

There are also many songs that use most of this chord progression, but not all of it. One of the most popular variations omits the second pitch (G#) and moves from A-G-F#-F-natural. This is found in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Dear Prudence" (the first version in my list that is in a major key-the others are in minor keys) by the Beatles, both released in 1968 on The White Album, "25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago, released on their second album in 1970, and "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" from Led Zeppelin's debut recording in 1969. The latter song, interestingly, was not written by Led Zeppelin, it was written by Anne Bredon in the late 1950s and was also recorded by Joan Baez in 1963.

There are also countless songs that use yet a further truncated version of this progression. In this version, both G# and F# are gone, and the progression moves from A minor-G-F. This is found in Ray Charles' "Hit the Road Jack" and, surprisingly enough, it is the progression found at the end of Stairway to Heaven in the anthemic chorus when Plant sings "and as we wind on down the road." This more simplified version is found in so many songs in so many genres—rock, pop, soul, motown, disco, country, etc.— that if one were to remove it from the entire collection from 1960 through today, the result would look like a 50-year old picket fence in a state of disrepair and neglect—huge gaps throughout, and some songs missing entirely (like Ray Charles' "Hit the Road Jack").


What do all of these songs, some famous, some not, have in common?  Certainly they share the same chord progression, and although there are variances in tempo, meter, instrumentation, drum patterns, and other elements, the defining element is found in the melody and the lyrics. "Stairway to Heaven" begins with a memorable melody in the guitar, which everyone recognizes, and continues with a series of verses, interludes, and that powerhouse third section that ends the piece. These melodies and the chords that accompany them change ever so slightly throughout, providing a continuous but subtle variation on what is presented in the introduction and the first verse of the tune. None of this happens in "Taurus"-there is no memorable melody to be found. The piece opens with a meandering attempt at being "symphonic" but lacks any real melodic or harmonic direction. That section is then followed, without rhyme or reason, with the chord progression in question, and even that progression falls short of the mark because the phrase is not concluded in a very satisfying manner. "Stairway to Heaven," on the other hand, is one continuous and meticulously constructed and executed "build" to the end.

Lyrically, "Stairway to Heaven" is poetic and evocative, telling a melancholic story of the futility, hubris perhaps, of the Lady who is trying to attain salvation and contentment through materialism (at least that is my interpretation, and I am sure there are others equally as satisfying!). Yet, it also contains hopeful elements-there are, after all "two paths" that we can go on, and there is "always time to change the road you're on." Throughout their early years, Led Zeppelin overtly referred to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy in some of their songs, and in this one, though perhaps not directly linked, we sense a deeper mythology at play-this is not party music, this is an attempt to convey a deeper message and it seems that the attempt was extremely successful in that successive generations have embraced the song and the band that their parents and grandparents first listened to many decades ago.

What is perhaps most impressive about "Stairway to Heaven" is how the melody, harmony, rhythm, lyrics, form and orchestration function to complement and reinforce each other in musically telling the story and conveying the narrative. Like great music of all kinds, one could not remove a single measure from this piece and have it remain intact. Unlike a great deal of pop music, form and orchestration really do make a difference here (as they do in many Led Zeppelin songs). The song begins with just acoustic guitar and flute, then adds voice, then with each new section, new instrumentation is added while at the same time the harmony and melody are varied subtly until the final section brings the song to its thunderous climax. If we graph the form and the instrumentation, we get something that indeed looks like a stairway:

2015-02-20-STHGraph.jpg

At the end of the song, as it appears that the Lady has attained her goal, the music begins to fall apart rhythmically, signaling a metaphorical fall or stumble, and the edifice collapses; the Lady plummets back to earth, alone and destitute as portrayed by a short reprieve of the verse, a final, plaintive cry, a cry of warning perhaps, that salvation or satisfaction cannot, in the end, be purchased.

"Stairway to Heaven" endures as a masterpiece of songwriting whose many qualities have absolutely nothing in common with Spirit's "Taurus," except for nine seconds of a common chord progression that they share (along with dozens of other songs). Copyright law has generally sided with the idea that it is melody that is the unique part of any song, and this analysis strongly supports that position. If the courts decide otherwise, it will be a free-for-all of frivolous lawsuits, a veritable "open season" on the most successful groups of the last 50 years. Hopefully common sense will prevail, because in this case, the Spirit is willing, but the evidence is weak, very, very weak which is why the lawsuit should crash like, well, like a lead zeppelin.



http://youtu.be/YPhVIoCpPWs (http://youtu.be/YPhVIoCpPWs)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 18, 2016, 04:09:52 PM
Listen to popular radio

pick a decade

pick a country

http://radiooooo.com/ (http://radiooooo.com/)

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 18, 2016, 04:13:21 PM
https://medium.com/kickstarter/the-genius-of-weirdness-3e8a5bc1d85#.vk90ajvrc

Quote"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."
― Frank Zappa


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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 19, 2016, 03:14:23 PM
http://spectechular.walkme.com/the-voice-of-the-product-infographic/ (http://spectechular.walkme.com/the-voice-of-the-product-infographic/)

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Post by: Elantric on April 20, 2016, 01:41:01 PM
https://youtu.be/udxL00dR7qE
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 21, 2016, 01:50:22 PM
I plan on attending this
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-mega-concert-folo-20160420-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-mega-concert-folo-20160420-story.html)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 22, 2016, 03:43:10 PM
http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/ (http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 22, 2016, 04:29:29 PM
http://www.rack-a-tiers.com/ (http://www.rack-a-tiers.com/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 27, 2016, 02:02:00 PM
http://blog.rfvenue.com/video-how-to-war-game-transmitters/ (http://blog.rfvenue.com/video-how-to-war-game-transmitters/)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 05, 2016, 12:31:50 PM
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IMHO - what Mike Bloomfield achieved on "Stop" is the standard by which i measure all Blues Guitar Solos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Session (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Session)

https://youtu.be/OVq6F2dMhXU (https://youtu.be/OVq6F2dMhXU)


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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 13, 2016, 02:02:15 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 29, 2016, 10:29:55 AM
http://www.newschannel5.com/news/first-burst-for-sale-at-carter-vintage-guitars-with-a-price-tag-of-625000 (http://www.newschannel5.com/news/first-burst-for-sale-at-carter-vintage-guitars-with-a-price-tag-of-625000)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 02, 2016, 09:46:56 AM
https://youtu.be/VAWwBEx3Qkc
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 14, 2016, 12:08:06 PM
Rubber washer under the knob trick... Prevents knobs moving on your stomp pedals

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 22, 2016, 08:29:07 AM
https://youtu.be/Ggv7p3sA8pM
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 23, 2016, 03:42:26 PM
as reported earlier as reported earlier

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.msg127644#msg127644 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.msg127644#msg127644)
-There are many other tunes that share Stairway to Heaven chord structure

Today in a Los Angeles courtroom,  the final verdict came  and Led Zeppelin prevailed
https://www.yahoo.com/music/led-zeppelin-prevail-stairway-heaven-lawsuit-172700158-rolling-stone.html (https://www.yahoo.com/music/led-zeppelin-prevail-stairway-heaven-lawsuit-172700158-rolling-stone.html)
I think justice is served.
But I got tired of the past month all Ive heard from friends, is:

Quote"Did you hear that Led Zeppelin must pay Randy California's estate millions for stealing the the opening chords from the 1968  Spirit song "Taurus" for Stairway to Heaven ?" 

. . . like this was already the final outcome of the copyright trial.     

IMHO - This shows how poorly the news coverage was / is  , and how poorly the public's comprehension of this case is.


Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 08, 2016, 11:12:21 AM
QuoteI do the old "loop the gk cable behind the bottom strap button" thing.  Never had a loud pop yet.

same here  - same as all my guitar cables since 1967
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How to check if you are playing with a "rookie / inexperienced guitarist:

* They do not know about the above Cable strain relief method, and always accidentally "unplug" themselves as they step on their own guitar cable mid solo.

* During a break,  they forget to move their Volume knob to "0" when they set their guitar down near their powered up amp, and then the guitar starts to self oscillate with feedback within 20 seconds 
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 12, 2016, 11:40:23 AM
Audio Calculators
http://www.doctorproaudio.com/doctor/calculadores_en.htm (http://www.doctorproaudio.com/doctor/calculadores_en.htm)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 16, 2016, 12:43:27 PM
http://www.epiphone.com/MBCentury.aspx (http://www.epiphone.com/MBCentury.aspx)

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 22, 2016, 11:35:50 AM
https://www.bitwig.com/en/16/the_future_of_midi.html (https://www.bitwig.com/en/16/the_future_of_midi.html)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 06, 2016, 07:48:22 AM
Reviewing old threads , it's interesting what I predicted back in 2011 came true

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4186.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4186.0)

Quote
In tough economic times like these, Roland Japan (who designs all the products) will be responding by re-prioritizing and re-tasking its limited engineering workforce to focus on creating brand new lower cost gear (with reduced feature set), to generate new sales revenue in the lower cost product market segments, as a response to today's cash strapped world economy.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 07, 2016, 07:11:37 PM
I will on KPIG Radio this next next Sunday live in studio with Kristen Black
It must be a pure acoustic set.
I intend to play this guitar
2016 Epiphone Masterbuilt Deluxe with Bigsby B6

It has a big sound  - even non amplified, and the stock Shadow Nanomag PU sounds very natural 
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 09, 2016, 04:31:14 AM
Many good articles on using Ableton with Guitar
http://www.abletonguitarist.com (http://www.abletonguitarist.com)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Surfin' Guitars
Instrumental Surf Bands of the Sixties
Authored by Mr. Robert J. Dalley
Edition: third edition

Surfin' Guitars Instrumental Surf Bands of the Sixties was first published in 1988 by author Robert J. Dalley. Bob is the founding member and lead guitar player of the well-known and highly respected instrumental surf band, The Surf Raiders. He spent almost 10 years (1980-1988) researching, locating and interviewing former band members of various 1960's surf bands. Surfin' Guitars was the first publication documenting the bands and the music they produced. The first pressing of 2600 books sold out and it became known as the "Bible of Surf Music".

Surfin Guitars, second edition in hardback, was published in 1995. The second edition included updates on many of the bands and added ten additional groups. The second edition is also sold out.

Between 1995 and 2015 Bob continued updating the original stories, adding 9 more groups to the book bringing the total to 59 bands. It soon became apparent to Bob that a 3rd edition of Surfin' Guitars was needed. He contacted all previous groups and managed to uncover many rare color photos which will be added to the new edition. Due to the establishment of the internet and social media Bob solicited record collectors all over the world obtaining color scans of 45 rpm record labels and album covers to use in the 3rd edition. He has also made contact with a new generation of musician who have embraced the sound of instrumental surf music and are looking forward to the 3rd edition of Surfin' Guitars Instrumental Surf Bands of the Sixties
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About the author:
Robert (Bob) J. Dalley's passion for instrumental surf music began in 1963 when he was 14 years old. He grew up in Southern California. Early on he was inspired by The Apollos, who performed at his eight grade graduation dance. While attending Northview High School he witnessed the Victors playing Baja. These musical events caused Bob to search out albums at the local record store and he began to teach himself how to play guitar.
During the mid 60's Bob played in The Iron Horse, a top 40 group. He enlisted in the US Navy in 1969. While stationed on Midway Island, he performed in a group with fellow sailors, called the Spinning Wheels.
In 1980, the desire to play instrumental surf music resurfaced. He purchased a vintage Fender Strat, a Fender reverb unit and a dual showman amplifier. Bob formed the instrumental surf band, The Surf Raiders in 1980. The Surf Raiders went on to record three albums and a CD plus appeared on various compilation items and performed at many of the top Los Angeles area clubs and performing venues.
Wanting to get that true splashy wet guitar sound, Robert started looking up musicians who played in surf bands in order to learn the secrets of getting the perfect instrumental surf sound. Bob located Jim Pash, of the Surfaris, who lived a few blocks away in Azusa, California. Bob put together a story about the Surfaris which he submitted to Gold Mine Magazine in 1980. By 1987 Robert had published numerous stories of instrumental surf groups, record reviews, LP & CD liner notes and columns on surf music in various formats.
In 1988 Robert self-published a collection of his stories on instrumental surf music groups and Surfin' Guitars Instrumental Surf Bands of the 1960's was born. The first edition quickly sold out. In 1995 the second edition of Surfin Guitars was updated and published in hardback by Popular Culture Ink. The third edition is an updated edition, adding color photos and nine additional groups for a total of 59 groups.
Bob currently lives in West Jordan, Utah with his wife Linda. He has worked for more than 26 years as a professional genealogist. Bob volunteers as the curator of our local community living-history museum. He is the father of two children and the proud grandpa of one.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 17, 2016, 09:20:52 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 25, 2016, 04:16:41 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 31, 2016, 09:59:29 AM
I was in LA yesterday - got to meet up Eric Klein ("Digital Igloo"  Helix Product manager) at  Line-6) 

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 01, 2016, 08:48:35 AM
http://www.ikebe-gakki.com/web-ikebe/grandy_GR-GK/index.html

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http://www.ikebe-gakki.com/web-ikebe/evo/topics/index.html
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 09, 2016, 10:57:08 PM
http://www.roland-museum.de/index.php?l=en
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 17, 2016, 03:16:24 PM
https://youtu.be/RVOlAPVO7tM
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 23, 2016, 09:23:59 AM
https://youtu.be/gNpyCG32aGI
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 29, 2016, 07:33:56 AM
If your DSP Amp Modeler patches exhibit excessive low frequencies, they might sound great at low volume at home, but know this has the effect of minimizing the maximum sound pressure level available at your live gig for guitar frequencies from your FRFR powered PA cab. If you feed a lot of bass into your Powered PA cab, its power amp will work harder and generate heat and most modern Powered PA cabs have built  thermal management and compression  that kicks in and will minimize the possible max volume level. If you cut the bass, the PA cab will get louder SPL.     On your DSP Amp modeler,  create patches with more midrange and lower the Bass frequencies  - leave room for your Bass player to handle those low notes and your band's live  sound will improves and be less muddy with more note definition.     

The dbx GO-Rack set to Mid Boost inserted between your DSP Amp modeler and your FRFR Power PA cab might instantly solve your problems of being heard on stage at live gigs. 
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 13, 2016, 09:58:01 AM
I can judge ANY DSP TUBE AMP Modeller in a few easy steps.

1) crank the amp up to gig volume with a high gain patch , stand 6 feet away from the Amp with a well setup Les Paul on Bridge PU, Guitar Vol on "10"  and a straight 1/4" guitar cord plugged straight into the amp under review.

2 )  Fret an E power chord ("A" position at 7th fret) with open low E string  - ), and with one Pete Townsend style power strum hit all the strings once , and then

3 ) hold the chord with your left hand and spend the next full minute carefully listening to what the DSP Amp delivers as the strings vibration naturally decay


I analyze the following :

The initial Attack transient ( was it too spikey or too spongy with too much sag)

The sustain , (a good DSP Amp sustains just as well as the real tube amp)

Around 15-30 seconds after the one power strum and all string vibration decays to a low level and have less energy/ less amplitude delivered into the Guitar input jack is the key area of interest for me.
At some point specific to each Amp under review (with all noise gates disabled and off ) a poor designed DSP amp will no longer deliver the remaining sound of your barely vibrating strings , instead it delivers its own poor noise floor of hiss and noise , and bury the sound of the last remaining string vibration energy.

The best ones (like my AXE-FX into a QSC K12 cab, Boss Katana Amps ) will deliver a complete range of musical expression for nearly a full minute after the one power chord strum

The poor ones will begin to sputter and choke around 15- 20 seconds. Lacking good dynamic range makes it impossible to play many styles of music
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 31, 2016, 10:21:27 AM
Download the 2014 Boss FX Catalog  - these are no longer distributed.

https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/boss_catalog_2014.pdf
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 06, 2016, 07:58:43 AM
Updated growing list of USB Drivers for Roland / Boss products

https://www.boss.info/global/support/


https://www.roland.com/global/support/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 22, 2016, 03:15:19 PM
http://www.guitarworld.com/why-do-experienced-musicians-make-mistakes

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Why Do Experienced Musicians Make Mistakes?
I spoke to Paul Jackson Jr. at a recent Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. The talented Jackson used to be the guitarist in the American Idol house band.

"It blows my mind that you never make mistakes," I told him. "I couldn't do your job."

"Nah, don't say that," Jackson said. "You could do it. I make mistakes; it's just that no one can tell—unless I'm playing something like 'Reeling in the Years,' because everyone out there knows that guitar solo note for note."

He was just being nice. The guy is a machine. And if he does make a mistake, it's some incredibly tiny thing even other good musicians wouldn't pick up on—minor faults he creates or imagines—because, as a bandmate of mine once said, we (musicians) are our own worst enemies.

My band often performs at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill on 42nd Street in New York City. But I remember our first gig there really well. The place was packed; the band was well-rehearsed; the staff fed us well and poured red wine (and Red Bull) down our gullets, treating us like the swell blokes we are. Our friends were there, plus plenty of strangers. The sound crew did a great job. We even had chord charts right there in front of us. Yet we all made careless mistakes throughout the show. Now, before we get carried away, let me put this in perspective. I don't mean "regular person" mistakes (gigantic errors even your Aunt Paula and Uncle Ronnie would notice). I mean "musician" mistakes (errors other serious musicians might notice). These include playing a wrong chord or a bum note, coming in early, dropping out late, playing a quick E chord instead of a G, etc.

Why? Nerves! Well, that and unfamiliarity with some of the material or the situation. Come on, we were standing on the same stage where Jeff Beck and Billy Gibbons have stood in recent years. And why the hell was the place so packed? Who are we, Gwar?

But, like anything else, mistakes fade with repetition. When I toured California in ancient times (2007), our first show—a radio station in San Diego—was a clumsy affair. Yeah, we were tired, but we also were distracted by the whole San Diego-ness of it all, and we let some errors (again, "musician" errors) creep in. But by the last show of that tour (a dark, moody place in El Segundo), we were perfect. I couldn't screw up if I tried. I even tempted fate by playing things I'd never even tried before—and I could do no wrong. All three of us sounded like the guys you hear on your favorite live albums.

And that's the point, really. The best live albums are recorded near—or at—the end of long tours. All the kinks have been worked out, all the uncertainty is gone. All the "Hey, Jeff Beck played this same note on this same stage!" is out of waaaaay your system (I mean, who gives a rat's ass?).

I'm not about to run to Best Buy, snatch up the first few seasons of American Idol and see if Jackson screwed up in the first few episodes. But, if I were to do that, I wouldn't be shocked if he played with a little less certainty back then. Ah, who am I kidding? The guy's a machine!

Damian Fanelli is the online managing editor at Guitar World.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 30, 2016, 03:45:56 AM
Around this time of year 50 years ago the Sears Roebuck Christmas Wishbook would arrive and I'd review this page several times a day the whole month of December

And wishing Santa would leave one for me under the tree Christmas morning
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More memories of 1966

http://192.185.93.157/~wishbook/1966_Sears_Wishbook/index.htm
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 01, 2016, 11:35:57 PM
This might solve the DSP fizz
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 03, 2016, 09:53:19 PM
This Japanese site is following and translating my VGuitarforums posts in Japanese

I'm humbled



https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://d.hatena.ne.jp/mitsubamushi/20160205/p1&prev=search (https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://d.hatena.ne.jp/mitsubamushi/20160205/p1&prev=search)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 04, 2016, 09:15:46 AM
2016 and the clash have never been more relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lfInFVPkQs
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 22, 2016, 02:48:13 PM
Understanding your System Gain stage structure  is crucial for best audio performance and lowest noise and distortion. 

recently found an old 1980's Ramsa Mixer manual with a helpful signal level (Solid Line) vs noise floor (dashed Line)  diagram

(https://s6.postimg.cc/ejce3pdz5/Gain_Structure.png)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 30, 2016, 11:47:21 AM
Music to shop by - or use in your next infomercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLRQKT-Cu2_2TM_k6gHwXw_t89H3OdhUKd&v=iNMx9F5acXs

https://youtu.be/Y7aEiVwBAdk


and when you want to impress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_calculation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_complements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two's_complement
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 04, 2017, 12:05:17 PM
http://hardway.quantum-foam.com/daf.html

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This is an old, old, trick that I learned from a guitar store owner in the 1960s. If you take your solid-body electric guitar and press the end of the headstock against a door, it will amplify the sound of your playing very considerably.

I do this all the time with my Strats on 6-panel pine doors, but it works well with hollow doors, too.

This also confirms that the headstock and neck have a lot to do with the resonance and tone of a guitar.

I know a lot of people already know about this, but this is for those who have maybe never tried it.

I am not sure what the DAF (Door Amplification Factor) is, but I am going to do some measurements and get back to you. In my house, the solid pine doors are loudest, followed by the hollow slab doors. The metal entrance doors are not very good at all.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 09, 2017, 04:41:42 PM
https://www.facebook.com/turkbateristlertoplulugu/videos/1292360604108091/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 11, 2017, 11:11:56 AM
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153970586479308&set=a.10152286978279308.1073741850.772499307&type=3&theater

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1972 - By the time of the Who's Next tour, the (Bob Heil) FOH mixing position had moved towards the back.

Here's a photo of (opening act) West, Bruce & Laing's backline from FOH position.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West,_Bruce_and_Laing
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 11, 2017, 02:48:42 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 11, 2017, 03:37:07 PM
https://wikipedals.com/allpedalboards

https://wikipedals.com/browse/brands
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 11, 2017, 10:47:59 PM
Stock Gibson T.O.M style bridges have fixed 12" radius

Here are two Problem solver T.O.M Style bridges from Gotoh with adjustable radius to accommodate alternate radius fretboards




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Gotoh 510BN Height Adjustable Saddles Tune-O-Matic Bridge
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191854458626?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT



and

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http://g-gotoh.com/international/product/510fb.html
Gotoh 510FB Height Adjustable Saddles Tune-O-Matic Bridge
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 18, 2017, 04:38:23 PM
https://youtu.be/sVNeZJu3aXE
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 19, 2017, 03:13:25 PM
You know you are getting old when


people you used to hang with are no longer around

I used to see him at Steve Lukather shows at the Palamino in LA 20 years ago.

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/miguel-ferrer-dies-ncis-los-211527976.html

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 25, 2017, 09:15:47 PM
Interesting blog from Byron Fry , an LA session player that I was recently made aware of

http://byronfry.com/2016/02/22/burning-electric-wheels-on-auto-tuned-horseless-carriages/
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My exposure to and indoctrination into all of this was thanks to my having recently made the acquaintance of the aforementioned Don Ramsay, a very gentlemanly, unassuming, soft-spoken mechanical genius, who in turn introduced me to Thomas Nordegg, the mad genius behind some very audacious guitar-techery.  Thomas, Don and Steve Conrad (the most knowledgeable guy alive for guitar electronics, according to Don) kept feeding me hi-tech weaponry at the Bogner booth, ceaselessly flipping switches and changing sounds as I played, from various open tunings, to bass, to 12-string acoustic, to a piccolo mating with a canary.  I was so far outside my comfort zone I couldn't even see it from where I was.
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In my world at least, these guys occupy the headwaters of the guitar invention river and the tip of the spearhead.  They have such a healthy and complete disregard for tradition, just to be around them I have to re-evaluate what is and isn't sacred between me and my instrument, and in a broader context, humankind's relationship with technology.  This last is of course a long-standing area of concern for me; I'm writing this piece as much to define my new personal boundaries as anything else.  That said, let's introduce the players and set the stage:


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Thomas Nordegg with "Sonica"

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Meeting with Mr Yoshihiro Ikegami ( Head of Roland / Boss Guitar products)
(with Thomas Nordegg)
https://www.vintageguitar.com/26857/thomas-nordegg/

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 03, 2017, 10:05:10 AM
https://www.facebook.com/inspiremoreofficial/videos/1120862574672493/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 10, 2017, 07:19:07 AM
https://youtu.be/gxHeKzgDP-g

https://youtu.be/kK9DMAhohlA

https://youtu.be/eeSRNQ7K6yk

https://youtu.be/GE6WpMQS6I8
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 24, 2017, 09:21:17 PM
https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%A5%BD%E5%99%A8-%E4%B8%AD%E5%8F%A4%E6%A5%BD%E5%99%A8-%E9%80%9A%E8%B2%A9/b/ref=topnav_storetab_mi?ie=UTF8&node=2123629051
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 29, 2017, 05:52:28 PM
View of PCB Inside Steve Fryette's VHT amps (circa 2004)
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 29, 2017, 06:12:49 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 06, 2017, 12:19:57 AM
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1047522

Ralph Napier wrote.
QuoteThe wiring on my tele... It's a little crazy...



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Quoteinside view
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Yikes!

Meawhile for conventional wiring  diagrams
https://www.siglermusiconline.com/pages/diagrams-telecaster-5-way

and extreme tele wiring
http://awesome-guitars.com/
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 06, 2017, 08:13:50 AM
Could also happen today if you post a bad review of music gear ??

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/iot-garage-door-opener-maker-bricks-customers-product-after-bad-review/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 20, 2017, 11:37:27 PM
https://www.facebook.com/inspiremoreofficial/videos/1120862574672493/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 09, 2017, 01:54:51 PM
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Jamin at Fito de la Parra's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_de_la_Parra
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http://www.cannedheatmusic.com/book.htm

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 18, 2017, 04:00:14 PM
https://support.fender.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002476526-Fender-Catalogs-From-1953-to-1979


https://support.fender.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000746086-Archived-Fender-Price-Lists-1968-2010-

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 24, 2017, 11:49:12 AM
Found this bit of info on the Native Instruments site  - which might be valuable info worth knowing regarding your "USB Powered" or AUDIO/MIDI  devices


http://www.native-instruments.com/en/support/knowledge-base/show/2085/choosing-the-correct-usb-cable-for-your-ni-hardware-device/ (http://www.native-instruments.com/en/support/knowledge-base/show/2085/choosing-the-correct-usb-cable-for-your-ni-hardware-device/)
Choosing the Correct USB Cable for Your NI Hardware Device
Native Instruments is investigating hardware issues caused by poor USB cables. Inadequate cables can cause a variety of issues, including:

Loss of USB connection
Erratic display and LED behavior
Audio distortion
In order to avoid these problems, we recommend to use cables with a maximum length of 2m (preferably 1,5m or shorter). Additionally, we found that certain cable types are not suitable for use with our hardware devices since the diameter of their internal power wires is too small. This draws additional power along the cable, exceeding the capacity of USB bus-powered mode. Below you can find information on how to identify the correct cable type.

Identifying the Correct Cables Type

Most USB cables are labeled with two identification codes following the AWG (American Wire Gauge) standard:

The code ending with /2C (or X2C) shows the specification of the power wires in the USB cable (relevant for this test)
The code ending with /1P (or X1P) shows the specification of the data wires in the USB cable
The number at the beginning of the codes reflects the diameter of the internal wires:

AWG 24: 0,511 mm
AWG 28: 0,321 mm
Our tests have shown that you should always use USB cables carrying a /2C (or X2C) code beginning with 24 (e.g. 24/2C, 24AWGX2C, AWG 24X2C). As described above, this means the power wires have a diameter of 0,511 mm, which will reduce the power lost in the cable.

If your cable is showing a /2C (or X2C) code beginning with 28 (e.g. 28/2C, 28AWGX2C, AWG 28X2C), it is not suitable for use with our hardware devices and needs to be replaced.

Note: If your USB cable is not labeled with the 2C code, it may or may not be suitable for use with our hardware devices. Therefore we recommend to replace it with a cable showing the correct 2C code.
Examples

Below you can find two examples of USB cables with different /2C (or X2C) codes. Note that the /1P (or X1P) code is not relevant for this test. Ensure to always check the first two digits of the code ending with /2C (or X2C).


The following picture shows a cable labeled with the code 24/2C. This cable is suitable for use with your NI hardware device:
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The following picture shows a cable labeled with the code 28AWGX2C. This cable is not suitable for use with your NI hardware device:
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 31, 2017, 11:31:41 AM
Some good ideas here
https://facebook.com/5min.crafts/videos/1038710166271568/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 08, 2017, 01:28:07 PM
https://youtu.be/5VAmWs5vH1o
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 13, 2017, 07:07:59 PM
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Still extremely happy with my Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.msg123696#msg123696
It was built during the Rick Gembar era at the Custom shop

Sad those days are over
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?posts/24367020/
Gibson Net income
2012 $1.1B
2013 $-3.4B (that's minus)
2014 $-2.4B
2015 $-15.6B (right, MINUS 15.6 BILLION, I'm guessing it's the robot crap)
2016 $-1.8B


http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showthread.php?205115-The-absolute-end-of-an-era-Rick-Gembar-is-no-longer-with-Gibson
http://www.mylespaul.com/threads/what-is-going-on-at-gibson.387170/
https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/a-modern-history-of-the-gibson-custom-shop-1
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/okonw/til_gibson_disguises_a_050_capacitor_in_order_to/


https://youtu.be/99goZptQFQM


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http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/revenue-financial.gibson_brands_inc.b1826f5356393af3.html


IMHO  - Gibsons $$ problems and poor net income are in large part due to  Henry J's buying spree spending habits.
He has the ultimate G.A.S.

While we all know he bought Steinberger and Opcode systems and Kramer guitars and Valley Arts guitars and killed those brands

He was using Gibson guitar manufacturing profits to finance purchasing non guitar related companies : Baldwin piano Wurlitzer jukeboxes, Cakewalk, Onkyo (Pioneer), Stanton, Cerwin Vega, Tascam (TEAC), Phillips Electronics, KRK , the Universal Ampitheater) - to pursue his "LifeStyle Brand" goals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Guitar_Corporation


He  purchased harmony-central a few years back to manage the online  Forum Content ,

remember Gibson is no longer just a guitar company - it's Gibson Brands - and those net profit losses reflect a lot of non-Guitar related negative cash flow
Quote
In 2011, Gibson acquired the Stanton Group, including Cerwin Vega, KRK Systems and Stanton DJ. Gibson then formed a new division, Gibson Pro Audio, which will deliver professional grade audio items, including headphones, loudspeakers and DJ equipment.[23]

Gibson announced a partnership with the Japanese-based Onkyo Corporation in 2012. Onkyo, known for audio equipment and home theater systems, became part of the Gibson Pro Audio division.[24]

In 2013, Gibson acquired a majority stake in TEAC Corporation.

In 2014, Gibson acquired the consumer electronics business of Royal Philips.

In 2014, Gibson acquired the R&D team from Blue Microphones and founded Neat Microphones with Skipper Wise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipper_Wise

http://www.neatmic.com/




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And throwing millions $$ away on R&D for Auto Tuners few folks want
https://www.tronicaltune.com/about-us

The issue is his "cash cow" ( the Gibson Les Paul) sales have declined  -in large part due to Slash and GnR ( or suitable equivalent popular act playing Les Paul's )not being as popular on the Billboard charts , the high $$$ Gibson dealer "buy in" terms and rising costs for the desirable New LP models priced more than a grand piano, and larger market competition from Used Gibson Guitars in effective global used gear marketing channels that never existed decades ago (Reverb, Ebay, Cragslist).


And "new" Gibson being blown out below Dealer cost
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_88

Rocket 88
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the song. For the band, see Rocket 88 (band). For the namesake car, see Oldsmobile 88.
"Rocket "88""
Rocket "88" single cover.jpg
Single by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats
B-side   "Come Back Where You Belong"
Released   April 1951
Format   10-inch 78 rpm
Recorded   March 3 or 5, 1951
Studio   Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre   Rhythm and blues, rock and roll
Length   2:48
Label   Chess (1458)
Songwriter(s)   Jackie Brenston (credited), Ike Turner (uncredited)
Producer(s)   Sam Phillips
Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats singles chronology
"Rocket "88""
{1951)   "My Real Gone Rocket"
(1951)
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"Rocket 88" (originally written as Rocket "88") is a rhythm and blues song that was first recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 3 or 5, 1951 (accounts differ). The recording was credited to Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, who were actually Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm.

The record reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart. Many music writers acknowledge its importance in the development of rock and roll music, with several considering it to be the first rock and roll record.

Contents  [hide]
1   Original version
2   Influence
3   Cover version by Bill Haley
4   Later versions
5   References
6   Additional sources
7   External links
Original version[edit]
The original version of the twelve-bar blues song was credited to Jackie Brenston (Ike Turner's saxophonist) and his Delta Cats, which hit number one on the R&B charts.[1] The band was actually 19-year-old Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm band, who rehearsed at the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Brenston sang the lead vocal and was credited with writing "Rocket 88". The song was a hymn of praise to the joys of the Oldsmobile "Rocket 88" automobile which had recently been introduced, and was based on the 1947 song "Cadillac Boogie" by Jimmy Liggins.[2][3] It was also preceded and influenced by Pete Johnson's "Rocket 88 Boogie" Parts 1 and 2, an instrumental, originally recorded for the Los Angeles-based Swing Time Records label in 1949.[citation needed]

https://youtu.be/XKbMF-TtZfM[



Drawing on the template of jump blues and swing combo music, Turner made the style even rawer, superimposing Brenston's enthusiastic vocals, his own piano, and tenor saxophone solos by 17-year-old Raymond Hill (later to be the father of Tina Turner's first child, before she married Ike).[4] Willie Sims played drums for the recording.[5] The song also features one of the first examples of distortion, or fuzz guitar ever recorded, played by the band's guitarist Willie Kizart.[6] The song was recorded in the Memphis studio of producer Sam Phillips in March 1951, and licensed to Chess Records for release.[7]

The legend of how the sound came about says that Kizart's amplifier was damaged on Highway 61 when the band was driving from Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee. An attempt was made to hold the cone in place by stuffing the amplifier with wadded newspapers, which unintentionally created a distorted sound; Phillips liked the sound and used it. Robert Palmer has written that the amplifier "had fallen from the top of the car", and attributes this information to Sam Phillips.[8][9] However, in a recorded interview at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, Ike Turner stated that the amplifier was in the trunk of the car and that rain may have caused the damage; he is certain that it did not fall from the roof of the car. Peter Guralnick, in his biography of Sam Phillips has the amplifier being dropped from the car's trunk when the band got a flat tire and was digging out the spare.[10] Link Wray explains the development of his fuzz tone with a similar story.

It was the third-biggest rhythm and blues single in jukebox plays of 1951, according to Billboard magazine,[11] and ninth in record sales, reaching first place on 9 June 1951 and staying there for five weeks. Ike Turner's piano intro to the song was later used nearly note-for-note by Little Richard in "Good Golly Miss Molly".[12]

Ike Turner was only paid $20 (US$185 in 2016 dollars[13]) for the record.[14]

Influence[edit]
Many writers have suggested that "Rocket 88" has strong claims to be called the first rock'n'roll record, but others take a more nuanced view. Charlie Gillett, writing in 1970 in The Sound of the City, said that it was "one of several records that people in the music business cite as 'the first rock'n'roll record'".[15] It has been suggested by Larry Birnbaum that the idea that "Rocket 88" could be called "the first rock'n'roll record" first arose in the late 1960s; he argued that: "One of the reasons is surely that Kizart's broken amp anticipated the sound of the fuzzbox, which was in its heyday when "Rocket 88" was rediscovered."[16]

Music historian Robert Palmer, writing in The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll in 1980, described it as an important and influential record. He noted that Hill's saxophone playing was "wilder and rougher" than on many jump blues records, and also emphasized the record's "fuzzed-out, overamplified electric guitar".[17] Writing in 1984, Nick Tosches, though rejecting the idea that it could be described as the first rock'n'roll record "any more than there is any first modern novel – the fact remains that the record in question was possessed of a sound and a fury the sheer, utter newness of which set it apart from what had come before."[18] Echoing this view, Bill Dahl at AllMusic wrote:[19]

Determining the first actual rock & roll record is a truly impossible task. But you can't go too far wrong citing Jackie Brenston's 1951 Chess waxing of "Rocket 88, "is a seminal piece of rock's fascinating history with all the prerequisite elements firmly in place: practically indecipherable lyrics about cars, booze, and women; Raymond Hill's booting tenor sax, and a churning, beat-heavy rhythmic bottom.

Rock art historian Paul Grushkin wrote:[20]

Working from the raw material of post-big band jump blues, Turner had cooked up a mellow, cruising boogie with a steady-as-she-goes back beat now married to Brenston's enthusiastic, sexually suggestive vocals that spoke of opportunity, discovery and conquest. This all combined to create (as one reviewer later put it) "THE mother of all R&B songs for an evolutionary white audience".

Michael Campbell wrote, in Popular Music in America: And The Beat Goes On:[21]

Both the distortion and the relative prominence of the guitar were novel features of this recording – these are the elements that have earned "Rocket 88" so many nominations as "the first" rock and roll record. From our perspective, "Rocket 88" wasn't the first rock and roll record, because the beat is a shuffle rhythm, not the distinctive rock rhythm heard first in the songs of Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Still, the distortion and the central place of the guitar in the overall sound certainly anticipate key features of rock style.

Ike Turner himself said, in an interview with Holger Petersen:[22]

...Anyway, we recorded "Rocket 88" and you know that's why they say "Rocket 88" was the first rock'n'roll song (well, they use the language "It's been said about 'Rocket 88'"), but the truth of the matter is, I don't think that "Rocket 88" is rock'n'roll. I think that "Rocket 88" is R&B, but I think "Rocket 88" is the cause of rock and roll existing ... Sam Phillips got Dewey Phillips to play "Rocket 88" on his program – and this is like the first black record to be played on a white radio station – and, man, all the white kids broke out to the record shops to buy it. So that's when Sam Phillips got the idea, "Well, man, if I get me a white boy to sound like a black boy, then I got me a gold mine", which is the truth. So, that's when he got Elvis and he got Jerry Lee Lewis and a bunch of other guys and so they named it rock and roll rather than R&B and so this is the reason I think rock and roll exists – not that "Rocket 88" was the first one, but that was what caused the first one.


https://youtu.be/TPLS2i9dSy0
Cover version by Bill Haley[edit]
A second version of "Rocket 88" was recorded by the then-country music group Bill Haley and the Saddlemen (who would later rename themselves The Comets) at a recording session on June 14, 1951, a few months after Turner recorded his version.[23] Haley's recording was a regional hit in the northeast United States and started Haley along the musical road which led to his own impact on popular music with "Rock Around the Clock" in 1955.

Upright bass player Marshall Lytle commented on his playing on this recording. "Before we had drums, I was practically the whole rhythm section. Since we didn't have any amplification, I slapped it so hard the neck had big grooves in it. Bill liked it loud, so he'd scream, 'Play loud!'"[24]

Those who subscribe to the definition of rock and roll as the melding of country music with rhythm and blues believe that Haley's version of the song, not the Turner/Brenston original, is the first rock and roll record.[citation needed] No matter which version deserves the accolade, "Rocket 88" is seen as a prototype rock and roll song in musical style and lineup, as well as its lyrical theme, in which an automobile serves as a metaphor for sexual prowess.[25]




https://youtu.be/AbBMzGUlIRw
Later versions[edit]
The song is featured in the 1984 film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Buckaroo Banzai and his band, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, perform the song at a bar early in the movie, but the song itself (which was a  3⁄4 time sped-up instrumental version) was actually recorded by Billy Vera and the Beaters. "ROKIT 88" is the New Jersey vanity license plate on the jet car, named HB 88, that Buckaroo uses.

References[edit]
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https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.msg123696#msg123696
It was built during the Rick Gembar era at the Custom shop

Sad those days are over
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?posts/24367020/
Gibson Net income
2012 $1.1B
2013 $-3.4B (that's minus)
2014 $-2.4B
2015 $-15.6B (right, MINUS 15.6 BILLION, I'm guessing it's the robot crap)
2016 $-1.8B


http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showthread.php?205115-The-absolute-end-of-an-era-Rick-Gembar-is-no-longer-with-Gibson
http://www.mylespaul.com/threads/what-is-going-on-at-gibson.387170/
https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/a-modern-history-of-the-gibson-custom-shop-1
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/okonw/til_gibson_disguises_a_050_capacitor_in_order_to/


https://youtu.be/99goZptQFQM


--
http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/revenue-financial.gibson_brands_inc.b1826f5356393af3.html


IMHO  - Gibsons $$ problems and poor net income are in large part due to  Henry J's buying spree spending habits.
He has the ultimate G.A.S.

While we all know he bought Steinberger and Opcode systems and Kramer guitars and Valley Arts guitars and killed those brands

He was using Gibson guitar manufacturing profits to finance purchasing non guitar related companies : Baldwin piano Wurlitzer jukeboxes, Cakewalk, Onkyo (Pioneer), Stanton, Cerwin Vega, Tascam (TEAC), Phillips Electronics, KRK , the Universal Ampitheater) - to pursue his "LifeStyle Brand" goals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Guitar_Corporation


He  purchased harmony-central a few years back to manage the online  Forum Content ,

remember Gibson is no longer just a guitar company - it's Gibson Brands - and those net profit losses reflect a lot of non-Guitar related negative cash flow

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And throwing millions $$ away on R&D for Auto Tuners few folks want
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The issue is his "cash cow" ( the Gibson Les Paul) sales have declined  -in large part due to Slash and GnR ( or suitable equivalent popular act playing Les Paul's )not being as popular on the Billboard charts , the high $$$ Gibson dealer "buy in" terms and rising costs for the desirable New LP models priced more than a grand piano, and larger market competition from Used Gibson Guitars in effective global used gear marketing channels that never existed decades ago (Reverb, Ebay, Cragslist).


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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 04, 2017, 08:03:57 AM

Bryan Bassett laying it down with Foghat

coolest College Professor I know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Bassett









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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 04, 2017, 09:10:11 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 10, 2017, 05:01:31 PM
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Sharp Announces 8C-B60A 8K Professional Camcorder
World's First*1: Realizes Shooting, Recording, Playback, and Line Output of 8K (60p*2) Images in One Package*3
Sharp Corporation announces the release of the 8C-B60A 8K (60p) professional camcorder, a world's first, integrating capabilities for video shooting and recording, playback, and line output. The 8C-B60A was developed with technical cooperation from Astrodesign, Inc.*4 (Head office: Ota, Tokyo; President and CEO: Shigeaki Suzuki), a company possessing 8K image technologies.

Besides the ability to shoot images in high resolution 8K (60p), this camcorder is designed to offer ease of use in shooting and recording and to lessen the burden on the camera operator in the post-recording editing process. The 8C-B60A's image pickup device is a large, Super 35-mm-equivalent CMOS image sensor with 33 million pixels. Compression utilizes a coding method*5 that exerts minimal burden on the CPU, thus enabling efficient 8K (60p)-image editing and approximately 40 minutes of continuous recording (when using the bundled 2-TB SSD pack). Because it allows real-time output of 8K uncompressed images at the same time that recording is taking place, the 8C-B60A can be used for live transmissions as well.

With this professional-use camcorder as the entry point to the creation of 8K images, Sharp is striving to disseminate 8K image content in its aim of establishing an 8K ecosystem at the earliest possible date.

The 8C-B60A 8K professional camcorder will be on display at the Sharp booth at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition 2017 (Inter BEE 2017) at the Makuhari Messe in Mihama, Chiba, Japan from November 15 to 17, 2017.

Product name   8K Professional Camcorder
Model name   8C-B60A
Suggested retail price   8,800,000 yen (tax not included)
Date of introduction   December 2017
Major Features

1. World's first camcorder integrating capabilities for video shooting and recording, playback, and line output for 8K (60p).
2. Compatible with 8K (60p) shooting thanks to a large, Super 35-mm-equivalent CMOS image sensor with 33 million pixels.
3. Realizes 4:2:2 sampling*6 and 10-bit recording of 8K (60p) images. A compression method that exerts low burden on the CPU makes editing more efficient and allows approximately 40 minutes of continuous recording (when using 2TB SSD pack).
4. Real-time output of uncompressed 8K (60P) images can be performed simultaneously with recording (equipped with quad-link 12G-SDI output terminal), making possible live 8K transmissions and replay output after recording.
5. Built-in SSD back slot for recording media. Realizes one-person operation at 8K shooting with V-mount battery drive.
*1 As of July 2017. (based on Sharp survey)
*2 Displays 60 frames per second (progressive).
*3 The 8C-B60A requires a commercially available lens, viewfinder, microphone, etc.
*4 Business fields: Design, manufacture, and sale of video and still image peripherals and software, HDTV studio peripherals, digital-broadcast-related peripherals, and display measuring instruments; sale of modules and systems related to communication, control, and measurement.
*5 Grass Valley HQX Codec
*6 One of the standardized methods for sampling digital video signals.


Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 14, 2017, 10:12:20 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 16, 2017, 03:46:56 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 17, 2017, 09:57:11 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 30, 2017, 12:49:44 AM
Rider for the ZZ Tops ( Tribute band)
http://www.thezztops.com/2012Pix/Graphics/zz%20tops%20tech%20spec%20%202012.pdf

THE   ZZ   TOPS   TECHNICAL   SPECIFICATION   2012
This document has been put together with help from a crack team of technicians, and
other highly trained monkeys . The aim is to help THE ZZTOPS show run as smoothly as possible
and so that we, you and most importantly - the audience, has a great time!
If you have any further questions, please contact NIK via email bigguns1@btinternet.com or
telephone 07533306975.
Thanks for reading!
STAGE   DETAIL:
Drum Riser*
A straight forward 7ft x 7ft drum riser is required. The band do carry their own if one is not
available in house.
Custom Stacks
1 1/2 full size stacks (1 on restricted stage size) will be positioned each side of the drum riser,with
video projections shown onto cabs on either side.
Custom Truck Exhaust Mic Stands
2 Truck Exhaust Chrome Mic Stands with neons inside will be placed front of stage left and right
STAGE   NOTES:
Please keep the stage as clear as possible and move any monitors to the side of the stage as side
fills as Billy and Dusty have worked hard at their funky dance steps and the audience would be
shortchanged by only seeing them from the knees upwards !
STAGE   SETUP:
STAGE LEFT – Nik (Billy Bigguns) Lead Vocals & GUITAR
2 x 50 watt Marshall Amp Heads & 3 x 4 x 12" Speaker Cabinets.
FEED 1 DI via Palmer Speaker Simulator XLR
FEED 2 MIC`D ISO CAB VIA HEIL PR30 MIC JUST NEED XLR
We bring our own custom mic stands and mics AKG D5 just need XLR at front of stage
STAGE RIGHT – Col (Dusty Thrills) ocassional Lead Vocals& BASS GUITAR
Tech 21 Bass DI Pedal (Needs Phantom Power )into poweramp feeds 3 x 4x12" Speaker
Cabinets.
DI`d via XLR
We bring our own custom mic stands and mics AKG D5 just need XLR at front of stage
STAGE CENTRE – Matt (Franks Weird) – DRUMS Mapex 6 Piece Drum
Kit consisting of:-Kick Drum, Snare Drum, 3 x Tom, 1 x Floor Tom, Hi
Hats & Cymbals. The drums are triggered through a Roland Drum
Module which comes to you via a di box needs an xlr The kit needs 2
overheads and a mic for the snare and hi-hat.
ONSTAGE Backing Track Pedal The Backing Pedal supplys any synthy type noises and needs
an xlr
TECH SPEC
Stage Setup THE ZZ TOPS
CHANNEL   LIST:
1 – Drums via Roland TD 6Vdrum module
2 – 2X Cymbal o/heads
3-- Guitar Mic Heil PR30 supplied xlr
4 – Guitar DI (via palmer speaker simulator)xlr
5 – Main Vocals (Billy) stage left (most of the time !)xlr
6 – Bass DI from sansamp pedal xlr
7 - MainVocals (Dusty) stage right (some of the time!)xlr
8 - snare drum sm57 supplied xlr
9 - Backing Track pedal (Keyboards &Odd noises FOH only!)xlr
RETURNS
1. Vocals to trantec s4000 iem transmitter identical mix for both Billy and
Dusty
2. returning to Franks in ear amp
He needs Drums,Bass,Vocals guitar in there too and backing track !
MIX   NOTES:
Firstly, its ROCK 'N ROLL – So turn it up, it needs to be loud. Deep and thundering
loud. We don't lug all those Marshall's around just for fun you know!
ZZ TOP are guitar orientated, so the guitar should be loud (can you see a theme emerging
here?) and full sounding, not tinny like 80's pop guitars so roll off the 10k and push those warm
soundin mids to achieve cut through the mix.
There are no whizz-o guitar effects, or "clean" sounds to worry about. Simply raise the level of Nik
(Billy) when he does the solos – don't forget to turn him down again once he's done though!
Next up, the bass drum!
This should also be loud and thumping, it should basically pound you into the ground from a
distance
of 50 meters. It shouldn't be "clicky"!
Bass Guitar
As you might have noticed, this has been transcribed here after the bass drum, as the bass drum
should be slightly dominant in volume over the bass guitar. This isn't down to an ego spat between
the bass player and drummer, but just the way ZZ TOP have always done it. The bass needs to be
heard (and felt), but not to the point where the sensation of the big bass drum is lost.
Lead Vocals.
These should be "surfing on the mix". Not too loud, but clear and intelligible (well, as intelligible as
they get!) On the Blusey / Ballady song we would like some Reverb on the vocals a nice big hall if
at all possible.
Backing Vocals
Don't mix them too high! Dusty is a very exitable chap especially if he spies a gaggle of dusky
maidens dancing in front of him !
Backing Track Pedal
Don't forget the Backing Track Pedal,During the 80`s the ZZ`s decided to add synths ,boings and
bangs to their brand of BBQ Boogie and during the show this will on occasion be brought into play
PLEASE PLEASE (PLEASE)
keep the Backing Track channel open at all times during the show !
Mix everything else around this and you should have it sounding
basically right!
But really.. You never heard any ZZ TOP before ???

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 30, 2017, 04:50:11 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 30, 2017, 10:12:49 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 05, 2017, 05:21:54 AM

GT100- Guitar Input Level
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=12822.0
Gumtown wrote
Attached below is a calibration patch to set the input level (due to the lack of metering), set the input level so the EXP pedal led is just peaking on.
The GT-100 won't clip with high input levels, but it does compress beyond a certain point, making the preamps less responsive to volume change on the guitar.

An average passive humbucker input level setting sits around -7dB

You load the patch into the GT.
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=12822.0;attach=10471
Then with hard picking on the guitar, adjust the system setting for "guitar input level" until the EXP pedal switch light is only just peaking 'on'.

Typically a hot output/humbucker guitar will require the input level reduced down around the -12dB to -8dB range.



Dont forget the VG-99, GR-55, and GP-10, GT-1  all have "Normal PU Input Level controls as well
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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John Lennon's Weirdest Guitar: The Sardonyx
Christopher ScapellitiOct 8, 2016
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Think of John Lennon's guitars and most likely his Epiphone Casino comes to mind, or maybe his Rickenbacker 325 or Gibson J-160E acoustic-electric. You almost certainly don't think of the Sardonyx 800 D II.

But as the above photograph shows, Lennon—who died 35 years ago today—used the Sardonyx during the making of his last album, 1980's Double Fantasy.

So what exactly is it?

As it turns out, the Sardonyx is something of a mystery guitar. Its builder, Jeff Levin, was a guitar repairer at Matt Umanov's guitar shop in Manhattan's West Village back in the Seventies. He built his Sardonyx guitars at home and sold them through Umanov's, which is most likely where Lennon acquired his

"[Levin] and I went to Brooklyn Tech high school together on the subway every day," Umanov told Guitar Aficionado magazine. "We sold a few through my store and John Lennon ended up with one. He might have bought it from us, as he had an apartment a few blocks away and came through a lot."

From the earliest days of the Beatles onward, Lennon was on the lookout for new sounds, and the unusual design of the Sardonyx most likely drew him to the instrument. Although the guitar looks as if it's made of a synthetic material, it actually features a wooden body and an ebony fretboard. The matte black finish has a thick lacquer clearcoat that gives the Sardonyx a plastic appearance.


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The guitar's electronics are as unusual as its appearance. Its two Bill Lawrence pickups are connected to a complex, three-output wiring system that allows the player to send completely independent pickup combinations, including different phase-reverse and series-parallel configurations, to two separate stereo outputs or to a single mono output. Other features include Schaller hardware, a pair of stainless-steel "outrigger" bars with anti-skid rubber feet, and an adjustable balance arm on the upper bout.

"Back then, Brooklyn Tech was still based on a Twenties and Thirties curriculum that included a lot of technical stuff, like a machine shop, technical drawing, and pattern making," Umanov says. "There was even a foundry. You can see all of that training in the design and execution of this guitar. If you look at the work of some of the most famous industrial designers of all time, like Raymond Loewy, who designed the most iconic Studebakers, or Henry Dreyfuss, who designed the Princess phones, the lines are sharp and deliberate, just like they are on this guitar."

Only 15 to 20 of the Sardonyx 800 D II were built, making it one of the rarest guitars associated with Lennon, a guitar legend who remained an original right up until the very end of his life.

You can learn more about the Sardonyx and see a photo of Lennon playing the guitar in the video below.


https://youtu.be/MH5ENQ4wPD0
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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When presented with new concepts, its likely to be initially misunderstood and castigated as worthless by a few "trusted sources" . All too often its human nature for many to join in with their fellow masses like lemmings and say  "Yes- I'm just as you, I hate it too!", in an effort to remain secure and and feel part of the herd.

Folks often misunderstand many new tools and technology today, or cant think past the marketing hype

People who possess genuine critical thinking skills are becoming rare.  Sadly too many folks read the word "critical", then assume this must mean:  "How many ways can I express to my peers my hate for this new concept! " then spend boundless energy selling their negative judgement to their peers,   convincing others to share one common global one size fits all negative collective belief system,  where all can be full of hate for anything outside the norm.
   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking

One thing I know, if you seek conformity with the masses, you are reading the wrong forum.

https://youtu.be/9woRJ7-mD7Y
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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http://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Gibson_Elec_1956_cat.pdf


Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 09, 2018, 06:27:11 PM
https://youtu.be/wYtlFoe-biY
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 10, 2018, 05:14:36 PM
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Was scheduled to head south to Thousand Oaks late Monday night for FCC testing Tuesday Morning ,  - but my plans changed due to a bad cable.

- which turned out to be a  good thing since this is what HWY 101 looks like just 80 miles south.  - and  I luckily avoided being "stuck" or worse.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 11, 2018, 04:40:30 PM
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Rocket launch at 4:59pm today 

https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/01/10/delta-4-nrol-47-mission-status-center/

https://youtu.be/3rCjIaCBldY


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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 13, 2018, 02:20:28 PM
http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/gibson/catalogues/1960_index.php
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Folks who read old 1960 Gibson Catalogs might see Tiny Timbrell in the Artist section of that catalog. ( center page far right above)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Timbrell
Back in 1980 when I worked at Valley Arts Guitar - Mr Timbrell was our Gibson Sales Rep, and he shared many old stories with us, as he worked for Gibson as a sales rep in southern California for years, as well as being an LA session player .
- my favorite story from Tiny was hearing about when back in 1958, an LA based Gibson dealer ( Fife & Nichols, a Hollywood musical instrument store located at the corner of Sunset & Vine inside Wallach's Music City) had ordered a new batch of the latest Gibson models for 1958, but Mr Timbrell was surprised to find the new '58 Gibson Flying V Guitar was not on the wall , but instead was hung from the ceiling with chains - pointing to the right where a large inventory wall of Gibson guitars were stocked at the store .
The store manager used eyebolts and small chains to mount the new 1958 Flying V (hung from the ceiling) so customers entering the store could locate where the Gibsons were located , and he told Tiny:
"Really Love that new Gibson ARROW SIGN you guys sent !

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 14, 2018, 08:39:56 AM
https://bombardsbodylanguage.com


https://aim4truth.org
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv0dEcvXLOf4ZFvjCahK4Lw
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 15, 2018, 09:00:00 AM
https://youtu.be/clBIJK5iCqw
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 15, 2018, 09:43:34 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 16, 2018, 12:15:22 PM
https://www.gearnews.com/youtube-star-jared-dines-i-scam-victim-17-string-guitar/
(https://www.gearnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Jared-Dines-17-String-Guitar-A-cheap-Chinese-knockoff.jpg)
https://youtu.be/UIF91NghD4Q


Jared Dines 17-String Guitar - A cheap Chinese knockoff?  ·  Source: Jared Dines/Olson GuitarWorks/Facebook

I think everyone has seen the behemoth 17-string guitar that YouTube channel owner Jared Dines ordered from a luthier in the US called Olson Guitarworks. The story has been doing the rounds all week on social media. Now Jared is back on YouTube saying he was the victim of a scam.

Olson Guitarworks scam
Long story, short: YouTube star Jared Dines orders a custom one-off 17 string guitar for his YouTube channel via custom guitar builder Nicholas Olson of Olson Guitarworks. A deal is struck between Jared and said custom guitar builder for $1000 upfront for the guitar and that Jared will 'shout out' the name of Olson Guitarworks as often as possible during his YouTube presentations online.

Every guitar website wrote about it last week including Musicradar and Guitarworld, so it was pretty big news. Now Jared claims that it he has been scammed, that the instrument wasn't a custom guitar after all, but a cheap knock off.

Djent 2017
Jared has a pretty large YouTube following on his channel, so this would seem like a fairly good deal. Well, it turns out that it wasn't so great, and here is why.

According to Jared's version, Olson Guitarworks kept asking for cash top-ups of $200 and pushing back the date of when the guitar would be finished, which is something that can happen on custom builds. Unforeseen price increases for materials are not unheard of.

Now Jared says that his research indicates that Olson Guitar works actually ordered the guitar from a Chinese website for $400 and that it wasn't 'custom' at all!

Jared states:

He doesn't make these guitars, apparently. He orders them from a Chinese website for $400, which is verified. The exact same guitar that he says he made for me is being sold on a Chinese website for $400. Coincidence? Maybe. So this came to my attention that he ripped me off, charged me about $1,200-1,300 for this guitar that costs $400, said that he was making it and that's why it was taking so long.

Facebook hiding
Olson Guitarworks Facebook page has now been pulled and is not available any more. It has been down for about 72 hours now – not a good sign.

I would suggest you watch the video below of the whole debacle in Jared's own words. It is pretty damning and, if true, suggests that the Olson Guitarworks has a lot to own up to.


https://www.facebook.com/dreamforwhatcost/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 19, 2018, 09:54:35 AM
https://youtu.be/kmP9z-xTRz0

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 19, 2018, 09:54:41 AM
https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/5121/spinal-tap-new-album
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 19, 2018, 11:55:26 AM
https://www.midi.org/articles/does-midi-have-an-image-problem

https://youtu.be/TSwqnR327fk
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on January 25, 2018, 03:48:06 PM
https://newatlas.com/most-valuable-guitars-ever-sold/38147/#gallery
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 25, 2018, 04:37:27 PM
Quote from: creative360, post: 25698634, member: 108030The only time I got to see Stevie Ray Vaughan live was at a post-Grammys party at the Palladium in New York City. The band was comprised of a bizarre assortment of winners/nominees including Verdine White on bass, Herbie Hancock, Dweezil Zappa, and yes among others, Jan Hammer on keytar. Stevie was playing a Les Paul, and even though Dweezil's guitar was twice as loud, each time Stevie stepped forward for a solo—and he did that about twelve times—he literally ripped-out my aorta and blew the roof off of the building. It was insane. Everyone on stage looked as if Stevie was blowing their minds as well. Jan Hammer was pretty good too.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan: PLAYING GIBSON LES PAUL; RARE EXCLUSIVE.Live: NAMM SHOW 1987;.Photo Credit: Eddie Malluk/Atlas Icons.com
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 26, 2018, 03:24:59 PM
http://www.rocknrollrelics.net
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 31, 2018, 10:44:16 AM
https://www.facebook.com/CandideThovex/videos/10155038627933204/

https://www.facebook.com/CandideThovex
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 05, 2018, 02:20:40 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 06, 2018, 12:40:03 PM
http://www.harmonycentral.com/articles/guitar-quotes
Guitar Quotes

Here's proof that your guitar does more than gently weep for you...



by Michael Leonard







I went a-searchin'– for quotes, wisdom, truths and quips about what guitar playing is all about! And here's some fun ones that I found.

Inevitably, pretty much all these quotes are from books, video, magazine interviews, various websites etc so their 100% accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Yep, it's a shame but true – I haven't actually questioned both Andres Segovia and Waylon Jennings. (Jimmy Page and John Lee Hooker, on the other hand...)



Also, these quotes are, in turn, erudite, off-the-cuff, dismissive, deep-thinking, downright silly and often completely contradictory. Who ever said all guitar players thought the same, anyway? Some are from players you'll love and listen to. Others from people you ignore or have never even heard of. So what? To paraphrase what Jimmy Page says later on, everyone's got something to say and everyone's got something valid to say.

Ignore them all over again if you wish... but we trust you'll find at least some of these nuggets of wisdom inspirational. Here we go...



1. This instrument we call guitar...



"To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em, but you do." — Waylon Jennings



"First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable." — Author and player Tim Brookes in his book, Guitar: An American Life



"I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off." — Jeff Beck



"You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar." — Novelist Stephen King, in The Stand



"Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar. Except, possibly two." — Frederic Chopin



"The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well." — Andres Segovia



"The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else." —  Brian May



"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice." — Andres Segovia



"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar." — Maybelle Carter



"The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal." — Novelist Milan Kundera



"If ever there's an obscene noise to be made on an instrument, it's going to come out of a guitar...Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That's why I like it... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of good time." — Frank Zappa, in The Guitar Hand Book



Chet Atkins was in a Nashville studio warming up for a session. A studio technician came into the studio and stood watching open-mouthed until Chet finished. "Gee, Mr Atkins, that guitar sure sounds fabulous!" Chet placed the guitar on its stand, smiled at the tech and said, "Well, son, how does it sound now?" — Oft repeated music industry anecdote





2. Learning and practice



"I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout [Vai's famous teaching column] was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment." — Steve Vai‎



"A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard." — Frank Gambale



"If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you." — Nuno Bettencourt



"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." — B.B. King



"Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom." — Al Di Meola



"I just play, just you know, If I just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, a half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me." — Slash





3. "Ommm!" The philosophy of music and the guitar



"Where words fail, music speaks." — Author Hans Christian Andersen



"You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concentrate on the music, focus on what you're playing and let the playing come out. Once you start thinking about doing this or doing that, it's not good." — Joe Pass



"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song." — Louis Armstrong



"I played the guitar for ten years before I realised it wasn't a weapon." — Pete Townshend



"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins." — Carlos Santana



"Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch." — Amit Kalantri, magician and self-professed "mentalist"



"Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life." — Keith Richards



"Listening is the key to everything good in music."  — Pat Metheny



"For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level." — Scott Henderson



"When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do." — Eric Clapton



"If you make the same mistake three times, that becomes 'your arrangement.'" — Jefferson Airplane's Jorma Kaukonen



"There is two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind." — Louis Armstrong



"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war — for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more." — John Lennon





4. So, folks. How do you get good?



"I don't know sh** from shinola. Maybe that's why I'm so original!" — Ace Frehley



"Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it." — Frank Zappa



"I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus." — Larry Carlton



"If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be." — Eddie Van Halen



"Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time." — Eric Clapton



"When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast." — Miles Davis explaining soloing



"Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid." — Jimmy Page



"You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions." — Chuck Berry



"My best songs come from making a lot of mistakes and playing a lot of garbage." — Eric Johnson



"A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else." — Willie Dixon



"You don't find a style... a style finds you." — Keith Richards



"I often discover that what sounds great at home sounds hideous in public." — Tuck Andress





5. Hey Jimi! It's a Special Hendrix Section!



"The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar." —  Jimi Hendrix



"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out." — Jimi Hendrix



"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." — Jimi Hendrix



"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded." — Jimi Hendrix





6. The guitar, music, life and all that stuff



"I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems." — Chris Cornell, in the 2000s



"Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off." — Woody Guthrie



"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space." — Bob Brozman



"For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The music is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument." — Jerry Garcia



"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." — Elvis Presley



"It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care." — Chet Atkins



"If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it." — Ani DiFranco



"Bad music can make you weak." — Ry Cooder



"Playing the guitar is like telling the truth. You never have to worry about repeating the same lie if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend or cover up. If someone asks you again you don't have to think about it or worry about it. It's you." — B.B. King. What a wise man he was.



"All the moneys right down here." — Roger Miller in an interview, pointing to his guitar neck's first three frets



"I told my parents that when I grew up I wanted to be a musician. They said it had to be one or the other." — B.B. King again!



"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." — Frank Zappa



"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." — Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and writer



And finally...



"If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV." — Homer Simpson

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 06, 2018, 12:54:21 PM
Eddie Peabody

https://youtu.be/RFlOxk_gkwM

https://youtu.be/-mJ_51z6Cxw

https://youtu.be/TxI79Yjy4jQ
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 08, 2018, 10:00:33 AM
https://www.facebook.com/mary.carr3/videos/10156085141181204/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 09, 2018, 02:45:50 PM
https://youtu.be/lnlliexxXr8
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 09, 2018, 06:25:41 PM
I attended this same concert when I lived in Chicago

Keith Moon on Drums

https://youtu.be/B9y_XqFBZeE
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 17, 2018, 08:23:26 AM
(https://drowninginguitars.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/wurlitzer-cougar-1.jpg)

https://drowninginguitars.com/2014/11/13/wurly-bird-1966-wurlitzer-cougar-guitar/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 17, 2018, 09:04:14 PM
https://youtu.be/TSGd2Om7Fiw

https://youtu.be/NEuqgZzKxC4

https://youtu.be/d-knWrDYBOc
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 20, 2018, 12:17:22 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 23, 2018, 04:02:53 PM
https://youtu.be/Uy2tEP3I3DM

https://youtu.be/LWLAAzOBoBI
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 24, 2018, 11:29:35 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 26, 2018, 03:38:26 PM
https://youtu.be/RW7W-OKZBsw
The Hillbillies of Beverly Hills Umaired Pilot Episode' for 'The Beverly Hiillbillies Full Episode
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 28, 2018, 01:18:43 AM
free speech is still alive

https://www.bitchute.com/

https://d.tube/


Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 06, 2018, 09:29:28 AM
https://youtu.be/DJMVcq07fdU
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 06, 2018, 04:03:05 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cipollina

Born in Berkeley, California in 1943, Cipollina attended Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California (as did his brother, Mario, born 1954) and sister, Antonia (born 1952). Their father, Gino, was a realtor, and their mother, Evelyn, and godfather José Iturbi, were concert pianists.

John showed great promise as a classical pianist in his youth, but his father gave him a guitar when he was 12 and this quickly became his primary instrument.[1]

Equipment and technique
Cipollina had a unique guitar sound, mixing solid state and valve amplifiers as early as 1965. He is considered one of the fathers of the San Francisco psychedelic rock sound.

"I like the rapid punch of solid-state for the bottom, and the rodent-gnawing distortion of the tubes on top."[2]

To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed a one-of-a-kind amplifier stack. His Gibson SG guitars had two pickups, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack, each equipped with two 15-inch speakers. The treble pickups fed two Fender amps: a Fender Twin Reverb and a Fender Dual Showman that drove six Wurlitzer horns.[3]


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https://youtu.be/Dn1BdhuyN5U
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 06, 2018, 04:40:25 PM
https://www.facebook.com/ChopUniversity/videos/1350389691773101/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 06, 2018, 05:02:04 PM
https://www.facebook.com/ChopUniversity/videos/1322787311200006/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 08, 2018, 11:40:05 AM
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/most-reliable-loyal-product-endorser.1919879/page-4

Quote from: ripgtr, post: 25984519, member: 153767
I did read somewhere where (BB King)  said he liked the hollow/semi hollow {Guitars} better because he could hear himself better,when he was practicing in a hotel room.

This is a significant fact and IMHO explains why the Beatles settled upon using Hollow Body guitars ( Epiphone Casinos & Hofner Violin Bass ) while on world tour 1965-66 to compose songs unplugged in the hotel rooms

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 08, 2018, 04:38:58 PM
https://youtu.be/iC4O1ncLjMw

A working version of the huge hit "Secret Agent Man," "Danger Man" was demoed by writers P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri in April of 1965 -- quite a long time before Johnny Rivers made it a standard. One of the interesting things about this early demo is that it includes literally all of the ingredients of Rivers' later version. Rivers later claimed to have come up with the fabulous guitar riff that reoccurs in the song, yet this version proves that it was all Sloan's doing all along, and it could have been a hit on its own, with the title change.



P.F. Sloan was jaw-droppingly prolific in the years 1965 to 1967, not only writing, producing, and playing on numerous fine hit and non-hit pop and folk-rock records by other artists, but making two good solo albums. It didn't stop there: he also recorded quite a few unreleased demos, 20 of which make their first appearance on this compilation. Most of these were recorded and released by someone or other, and in one case ("Miss Charlotte") redone by Sloan himself later in the 1960s. No one sings Sloan like Sloan, though, and it's quite a treat to hear him as the performer on these largely outstanding, rousingly melodic pop-rockers. Some are well known ("You Baby" and "Can I Get to Know You Better" were hits for the Turtles, "Another Day, Another Heartache" did okay for the Fifth Dimension, and, of course, "Secret Agent Man" was big for Johnny Rivers), and others not so well known, but in the same class ("Child of Our Times," the Beatlesque "You're a Lonely Girl," "I've Got No More to Say"). Although these were demos, the production is sometimes as state-of-the-art as anything in L.A. in the mid-'60s, and the fidelity, performance, and arrangements are up to release quality on almost everything. The only reason this rates just a little below his first two solo albums is that it's lighter on the personal folk-rock and social consciousness statements ("Child of Our Times" being an exception); much of this is like a link between L.A. folk-rock and L.A. sunshine pop. It's very good, though, and enthusiastically recommended to anyone who enjoys the albums that Sloan did release in the mid-'60s.

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 10, 2018, 12:38:38 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 15, 2018, 11:05:35 AM
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I bought a plastic power steering fluid funnel in the automotive section at Walmart for about $1.80, cut it, ground a 90 degree notch in the skinny end, then melted the notch edges with a candle to round them up.

Fits in the back of the amp and weighs nothing.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 27, 2018, 10:07:32 AM
QuotePlayed the Amos a couple times at Sam Ash amid the hype. Just in terms of geometry the neck carve was a generic 60's C (not the fatty I expected) and had that lack of shoulder like a lot of imports do

100% my experience

The neck profile on the Amos I recently acquired (online purchase via Reverb) is NOTHING as I expected.

All prior Joe Bonamassa Epiphones have had a massive 50's neck profile - the Amos specifications even say '58 rounded profile"
http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Designer/Ltd-Ed-Joe-Bonamassa-1958-Amos-Korina-Flying-V.aspx
Neck Profile Rounded-C 1958 profile

they lied 

When my new Amos V  arrived , I was instantly disappointed to find the Amos Neck is a thin 60's profile - thinner than most SGs. thinner than my 2010 Epiphone Wilshire
So look elsewhere if you seek a 50's neck profile

I'm pursuing making my Amos V neck thicker -to match my '58 LP


http://www.tdpri.com/threads/enlarging-a-strat-neck.166154/#post1885650
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 27, 2018, 03:21:13 PM
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I got a limited run 2016 Freddie King ES-345  - but damn this neck is nice and  fat  -  must be closer to .950" thick at 1st fret ( I love it!)
http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2016/Memphis/Freddie-King-1960-ES-345.aspx


Great guitar - but it comes wired Stereo, required a 1/4" Y cable to gain access to both pickups - but there's an optional trick

old timers know you can just insert the  1/4" mono plug on your guitar cable 1/2 way in, and the guitar works like a mono ES-355  - and all Vol / Tone controls react like a Les Paul.

( I believe they employ a switching female jack on this version Freddie King Stereo ES-345 !)     





Turns out the limited run Freddie King ES-345 has its pickups "wired in phase" -  and using this Swithcraft # 430 short 1/4" male plug  above plugged in "all the way"  - makes a positive connection with the ES-345 Ring  / Sleeve connection = and misses the internal  Tip connection

Result?  - now the "Stereo Freddie King ES-345" works same as a Mono Varitone ES-355 - and all Vol / Tone controls react like a stock LP - and Varitone rotary control  on Positon 1 disables the Varitone circuit, then kicks in using positions 2,3,4,5,6

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 28, 2018, 10:34:08 AM
http://www.guitaristsreference.com/index.php?action=chords&id=1


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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 29, 2018, 10:45:44 AM
And there is another online chord generator by our member Les Pauled  here


I don't know if I posted it on this site, but I created a site that shows you all the notes for any chord/scale on the fretboard in any tuning.  The only current limitation is that it only shows 6 string guitars.   I might update that in the future.  I didn't highlight the chords, like they did, because I wanted the user to find new fingerings/inversions that they never though of before.

In any case, please check it out and let me know what you think.

http://lespauled.com/FindNotesOnFretboard/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 03, 2018, 07:48:47 AM
QuoteHave too much gear and no time to read all the Owner's manuals?

I load the Owners manual up in Adobe Acrobat Reader, and simply CTRL+F to bring up the search tool to only read the topic I'm interested in.


I will also use the text to speech processor built into all recent versions of Adobe Acrobat  - Open up a new PDF  User manual  and  let the computer read it out loud to me.  I may use my 900MHz wireless headphones and be mobile around the house as I listen to my PDF Owners Manuals being read aloud to me.

http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/reader6/sec2.html

https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 03, 2018, 12:51:50 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 18, 2018, 12:37:25 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 19, 2018, 10:19:39 AM
http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 19, 2018, 10:23:59 AM
Any Mac does this already,

Now all my other computers  / tablets / phones that run Chrome can too

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-aloud-a-text-to-spee/hdhinadidafjejdhmfkjgnolgimiaplp/related?hl=en
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 19, 2018, 07:11:03 PM
Quote
Think about it, eventually the VG-99 will be worth money as a "collectors item."
Much like my old Uni-vibe. It was the first one to feature an attachable pedal to control the speed.

I'm very sure that will occur

Many of us here also own  or have migrated over to JTV Variax and Helix  ( and some went back to their VG-99 ;)

in fact we are the largest host for Variax user patches on the net
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=138.0


Myself I  also own a few JTV Variax's
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=9291.0


and Helix
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=199.0



, I still continue use my Boss GP-10 far more  - due to  its small efficient size and ( to my ears and hands) better sound and feel for my needs
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=146.0



I do recommend wax potting the GK Mag pickup ( improves Guitar to MIDI tracking and less Alt tuning warbles ),
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=43.msg71#msg71

and using Gumbos improved GK 13 jacks ,
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8888.0

and Codesmarts GK 13 cables   
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13234.0


Roland / Boss has a new high speed  / high MIPS  DSP platform ( 1st used on GT-1000) which should yield new opportunities for modern Roland / Boss VGuitar / Synth products, hopefully before this decade is over 
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 20, 2018, 09:41:24 AM
Same as it ever was . . 

https://youtu.be/8yteMugRAc0
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 24, 2018, 11:22:28 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 30, 2018, 01:00:47 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 01, 2018, 11:14:01 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 01, 2018, 08:25:43 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 04, 2018, 07:45:55 AM
I know from years of playing guitar live that its important for each musician to stay clear of the audio frequency spectrum of the other musicians in your band -  and don't solo when the vocalist is singing. ;)

For example its all too easy to create a patch that sounds wonderful in headphones at home, but at the live gig are way too boomy with far too much low end below 250 Hz , and too much brittle sizzle above 8kHz  - so at home I intentionally use an outboard EQ that boost those frequencies and cut the midrange during patch creation at home .


As an aid in programming live patches at home or in a hotel before the gig with any DSP Modeling unit,  I feed it's output into a multiband EQ that boosts the low end below 250hz  and  bit of the high end above 8kHz)  - this "smiley face EQ" enhancement with a third party box I feed my DSP Amp Modeler dujour into  is only used at home during "live" patch creation  on Headphones  to compensate for the Fletcher-Munson effect and the wider frequency response of a large Professional PA system

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The net result: When programming patches,  this forces me to cut the bass and high treble and dial in more Midrange (frequencies between 250hz  thru 8kHz)  with my live patches  on my DSP Guitar Amp MFX Modeler and that helps get in the ballpark for  live patches that translate better when feeding a large PA in a live band context

my current trick weapons for this while on the go is a portable headphone Amp with built in EQ
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Creative Labs E5
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=18649.msg133059#msg133059

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There are many other DAC Headphone amps today  that can apply a real time multiband EQ on a TRS stereo line input
http://www.fiio.net/en/products

FIIO E6 DAC Headphone amp
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The live PA mix engineer has an easier time  / less work using minor  EQ tweaks on his Mix board on the board  - and Ive never been told i have too much mid range EQ content in my live signal feed to the PA

Solo musicians can ignore most of this strategy as they can get away with covering a broader frequency spectrum at a live show.

Metal guys love low sub  - frequencies, but that typically translates into trampling  / competing with your Bass players audio frequency domain and creating a terrible muddy live sound mix  and a train wreck with no groove with the rhythm section

Fletcher-Munson Effect
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=18865.msg134562#msg134562
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 05, 2018, 10:24:35 AM
https://www.facebook.com/GuitarLegacy/videos/1936625229689349/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 15, 2018, 03:48:47 PM
Good catalog of Pro A/V cable and gear for installations

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 27, 2018, 01:20:41 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 11, 2018, 12:49:35 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 19, 2018, 08:56:39 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 30, 2018, 12:52:34 PM
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The video shows a boy, virtuoso of the ukulele, called Feng E, playing on the streets of Taipei, Taiwan's capital. The phenomenon performs an incredible performance of Tommy Emmanuel's version of Mason Williams's "Classic gas", After a look at the facebook profile and feng's Youtube channel we discovered that he is self-taught. He learned the basics with his father and in less than a year the old man could no longer keep up with him. The Mother says that when he goes well at school, he lets him introduce himself alongside musicians whetherpolicy concorridíssima capital of Taiwan.
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 30, 2018, 12:56:41 PM
https://youtu.be/AI1RhFYwAc4
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 03, 2018, 12:37:07 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 07, 2018, 09:58:53 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 23, 2018, 10:34:47 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 11, 2018, 09:48:38 AM
Why Crowd Funded Hardware Projects Fail
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 13, 2018, 09:50:27 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 14, 2018, 09:40:21 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 16, 2018, 11:47:01 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 23, 2018, 12:13:07 PM
https://youtu.be/Az2rHv57zq4
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 02, 2018, 01:50:31 PM
https://www.neowin.net/news/obs-studio-2202

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OBS Studio is software designed for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content, efficiently. It is the re-write of the widely used Open Broadcaster Software, to allow even more features and multi-platform support. OBS Studio supports multiple sources, including media files, games, web pages, application windows, webcams, your desktop, microphone and more.

OBS Studio Features:

High performance real time video/audio capturing and mixing, with unlimited scenes you can switch between seamlessly via custom transitions.
Live streaming to Twitch, YouTube, Periscope, GoodGame, DailyMotion, Hitbox, VK and any other RTMP server
Filters for video sources such as image masking, color correction, chroma/color keying, and more.
x264, H.264 and AAC for your live streams and video recordings
Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV) and NVIDIA NVENC support
Intuitive audio mixer with per-source filters such as noise gate, noise suppression, and gain. Take full control with VST plugin support.
GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming
Unlimited number of scenes and sources
Number of different and customizable transitions for when you switch between scenes
Hotkeys for almost any action such as start or stop your stream or recording, push-to-talk, fast mute of any audio source, show or hide any video source, switch between scenes,and much more
Live preview of any changes on your scenes and sources using Studio Mode before pushing them to your stream where your viewers will see those changes
DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc)
Powerful and easy to use configuration options. Add new Sources, duplicate existing ones, and adjust their properties effortlessly.
Streamlined Settings panel for quickly configuring your broadcasts and recordings. Switch between different profiles with ease.
Light and dark themes available to fit your environment.
...and many other features. For free. At all.
OBS Studio 22.0.2 changelog:

Fixed a bug where the program could sometimes mistakenly use a different server than the one selected
Fixed a bug where copying and pasting sources would not paste the transform
Fixed a bug where using a custom server with authentication would no longer work
Fixed a bug on macOS where the browser source would not update properly
Fixed a bug on macOS where leaving the browser source interaction window could cause a crash
Fixed a bug on macOS where the lock icons in the source list would disappear under the scrollbar if the scrollbar was visible
Fixed a case where the multiview could crash on certain Linux desktop environments
Fixed a potential crash on startup that could happen under rare circumstances
Fixed a few cases where the "Start Streaming" and/or "Stop Streaming" hotkeys could mysteriously disappear from the hotkeys section of the settings window
Fixed a bug where the filters window would show the preview very squished
Fixed a bug where the browser source sometimes wouldn't paint properly
The "Make projectors always on top" option now also properly applies to windowed projectors as well
When using Windows 7, the browser source's hardware acceleration is now disabled by default due to potential incompatibilities with older drivers
When using Intel video adapters with the program, the browser source's hardware acceleration is now disabled by default due to incompatibilities with many Intel integrated video adapters
Removed the "Beta" warning from the Auto-Configuration tool
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 02, 2018, 03:51:47 PM
https://youtu.be/2njlqzIKhgI
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 04, 2018, 08:14:21 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockestra_Theme

https://youtu.be/SI4YZLP9XWU

It was recorded on 3 October 1978 at Abbey Road Studios by an all-star collection of musicians dubbed "Rockestra", although the song is technically credited to Wings. It was recorded as part of Wings' 1979 album Back to the Egg and released as a single in France.

Musicians who performed on this song (and on "So Glad To See You Here", also on Back to the Egg) included: Denny Laine, Laurence Juber, David Gilmour, Hank Marvin, Pete Townshend (guitars), Steve Holley, John Bonham, Kenney Jones (drums), Paul McCartney (piano, bass[1]), John Paul Jones, Ronnie Lane, Bruce Thomas (basses), Gary Brooker, Linda McCartney, Tony Ashton (keyboards), Speedy Acquaye, Tony Carr, Ray Cooper, Morris Pert (percussion), Howie Casey, Tony Dorsey, Steve Howard, Thaddeus Richard (horns).

One person taken out of the Rockestra supergroup was Jeff Beck. After being asked to join by McCartney, Beck wanted to be able to have veto power over his own guitar parts, subsequently, McCartney withdrew his invitation.

In a 2001 interview on VH1, McCartney said Keith Moon was to have taken part in "Rockestra" but died one month before the recording sessions took place. Kenney Jones, who replaced Moon on drums within The Who, appeared instead. In the book Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013) Wings' drummer Steve Holley recalled the session in an interview, saying "it was daunting".[2]

Live
The song was performed again at the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea and released on the album and EP of the same name. This was a series of concerts featuring Queen, The Clash, the Pretenders, The Who, Elvis Costello, Wings, and many more artists which took place at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, England during December 1979 to raise money for the victims of war-torn Cambodia. The event was organized by McCartney and Kurt Waldheim, and it involved older artists such as McCartney and The Who as well as younger new wave acts like The Clash and the Pretenders. The last of the concerts was the last concert of Wings.

Most of the Rockestra wore silver suits for this performance. On the Concerts for Kampuchea home video, McCartney can be heard making a comment about Townshend before playing the song, making reference to Townshend being a "poof" (gay in British slang). "Thank you, Peter. Only lousy sod who wouldn't wear the silver suit. Cuz he's a poof." Townshend made comment about it in several interviews following the performance.

Juber can be seen walking up behind Townshend after McCartney's comment, and placing a silver top hat on his head. Townshend quickly grabs the hat and flings it into the audience.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 04, 2018, 09:52:34 AM
https://youtu.be/lPkz_ippXfw
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 04, 2018, 12:47:50 PM
Catch up on reading

https://archive.org/details/additional_collections
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 04, 2018, 09:37:23 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 12, 2018, 08:40:40 AM
https://youtu.be/ZG-S5Z38Ens
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 13, 2018, 06:09:14 PM
https://youtu.be/J9b0J29OzAU
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 20, 2018, 11:59:44 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBnDWSvaQ1I

One solution

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 21, 2018, 08:58:07 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 22, 2018, 10:47:39 AM
DSP Guitar Modeler Size Comparison

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 02, 2018, 10:50:09 PM
https://youtu.be/jh5kbCyHhEA
NEW VAULT SESSIONS: ERIC JOHNSON!!!!!! In this episode, Eric discusses regretful guitar mods, develops his love of Esquires, plays a one-of-a-kind Stratocaster that was made for Jimi Hendrix, and shares some influential licks from Wes Montgomery, Eric Clapton, Jerry Reed, and more.

The guitars in this episode are famous in their own right— a 1966 Fender Marauder prototype, 1969 Solid Rosewood Fender Stratocaster that was made for Jimi Hendrix, 1952 Copper Esquire, and more. These guitars are all on display at the Songbirds Guitar Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Marauder

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http://www.fenderforum.com/forum.html?db=2001&topic_number=107568
http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19787
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https://www.reddit.com/r/guitars/comments/6pvo5w/what_did_all_of_the_fender_marauder_switches_do/

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QuoteHey everybody,
Yes folks, I am the lucky owner of Porky Freeman's original prototype Marauder guitar! I have seen and photographed a few original surviving Marauders over the years including the Strat version (once Freddie Tavares') and later proto models (Marauder II's as some call it) with exposed pickups, rocker switches and some with slanted frets. All the fine details will be covered in my Fender Legends Volume 2 "The Sixties".
One of the two samples pictured in the '65 catalog was actually Teal Green just like the other one that Porky had. Norm Harris bought four Marauders from him (including two Rickenbacker models!) and an original '61 blonde 2-10" Super Amp. They all had four hidden pickups while the first Fender prototype, a '63 modified sunburst Jaguar has the only hidden vibrato system! One Ricky had a round banjo type body while the other had a really cool shape they never put into production on any other model. I photographed them and traced the unique shape too. Both had Fireglo finishes with those thick white almost translucent pickguards. Norm sold them to Howie who let them go while in North Hollywood. I believe they were constructed in 1964 before the two shown in the 1965 Fender catalog. I've recently found Porky and will be interviewing him shortly for the whole development scoop.

This is what I have ascertained on the Marauder guitars thus far; The first Fender version, which he set up on the '63 sunburst Jaguar body, has four submerged Rickenbacker coils with 12 poles per pickup (with extended polepieces deep into the body), four 3-way switches, a custom tortoise style pickguard and a long arm connected through the body to the Jag vibrato. It comes up to a small steel plate (flush with the pickguard) with a hole in it just big enough to grab with a right hand finger and ride it while picking. Another mysterious switching setup was later filled in. Seymour Duncan and I examined it and did pickup specs on the guitar many years ago when I first got it from Norm. I actually use it in the studio for finding the just the right sonic nitsch in the mix for overdubs parts. It also has a fantastic tone for reggae type music. Rosie Flores (whom I grew up with) and I recorded one of our reggae tunes with it back in the early eighties.

The standard version (shown in the '65 catalog) had sixteen polepieces (two rows of eight) all flush to the custom deep square bobbins. They really don't have that normal Fender sparkly tonality or quite the string output without the magnetic polepiece in close proximity to the string. Even with the slightly lowered neck set it still sounded a bit muffled compared to Leo's popular models. That's exactly why it didn't take off for a production model. The interview conversation I have with Bill Carson and Bob Perine discusses their early impressions of the upcoming (and doomed) stealth pickup Marauder model.
However, despite it's brightness limitations, the extra four poles help to balance the field for an even response on the outside strings. The same idea with a Stringmaster 8 pole pickup would certainly help the Stratocasters outside string continuity to the inside 4 strings. But that's another magnetic field story... The large pickup was quite deep too. It required a hugh routing area on the body (another tonal compromise).
I feel Fender Marauders actually have a very special tonality and are especially versatile electronically. I love to surprise people live with it's honky out of phase sounds for crazy solos and make funny faces!! It's a fantastic instrument in the studio for unique sounding overdubs that cut through the busy mix.
The 4 switch control plate from the second version Bass VI and four 3-way Mustang switches comprised the pickup selection setup. It can be utilized for 48 tonal variations along with the pre-set Jaguar/Jazzmaster rhythm/takeoff lead assembly. What a wild electric guitar!!

The body shape is actually derived from the offset Jazzmaster style of course but with the upper horn of the Bass VI. It's lower horn is very unique with a little deeper cutaway than the other three models. The lower offset is like the Fender XII string solidbody which is centered closer to the middle unlike the Jaguar and Jazzmaster. Incidently, many people don't know that the Jag is shorter than the Jazzmaster body.

Freddie's non-contoured unfinished Strat version had the same pickups but with a black vulcanized fiberboard pickguard and four three-way CentralLab switches. They threw a plasticoat maple neck on it with a straight Lead styled headstock. The body was later painted black by our friend about five years ago. Sorry, not for sale.
The Teal Green Marauder that actually belonged to Porky I sold to a very dear friend of mine who used to play with Santana. He uses it regularly in the studio too. He loves it and would never sell it in a million years!
I first photographed a sunburst one (with Steve Soest) that the owner of Risson amps had many years ago. I then removed the pickguard to examine and photograph the pickups. It later belonged to Roger McQuinn's bassist (an employee) and was refinished white with an added smoked grey see through pickguard.. it was unfortunately stolen in Marin County. Keep your eyes open for that one!
Another Candy Apple Red one I tracked down was traded for a pre-war Martin 000-45 in Canada many years ago! This was an unusual trade but the original Marauder back then as today was quite valuable compared to most Fender guitars. I would venture to say the pearl Martin is worth three to four times the Fender Marauder today.

While consulting with Freddie Tavares and Dan Smith on the reissue series at the old Fender factory in the early eighties, I saw a few later Marauder II prototype models and one in Lake Placid Blue with Jag style pickups and an early version of the Starcaster headstock. I was hoping to get it but they had other plans for it. John Page actually knows quite a bit about the second version. He worked with Freddie for many years. Steve Soest also had a Marauder II in LPB with a normal head. Phil Kubicki, who built many Fender prototypes during the sixties (rosewood Harrison Tele and Jimi's Strat), also has a second version in sunburst. They had a number of versions with various rocker switch layouts and Mustang vibratos. I have photos of all of these variants.

I collaborated with the Custom Shop on the recent Marauder version a few years ago. I loaned them some close-up photos, the various patent material and discussed the original pickup output and early and later pole designs. They in turn reciprocated to help me equip my RL Custom Sonic Blue Marauder with some hidden pickups.
My personal custom version has a thicker ash body with a left-handed Strat vibrato for Hendrix tricks and six pickups wired as four. I also built a small 8 string Marauder Mandola in beautiful Candy Emerald Green. Seymour did a special pickup for me and I used an old Fender mandolin bridge. I displayed it in his 1983 NAMM Show booth with the sonic blue custom Marauder. I also showed to Leo Fender and George Fullerton and Leo said, "Robby, you might want to put an 8 piece bridge on it someday". It's a
lot fun for stage work and I also used it for the soundtrack of the Surfer Magazine movie filmed in New Zealand.

Personally I feel the Marauder guitar was a really good idea way before it's time and should be made available someday to have it's rightful place in the guitar palette for the discerning musician. I hope this info illuminates you to some of the history the rare Fender Marauder model. Thanks to Porky and Leo, it is another Rarebird in the Fender nest!
Robb Lawrence
Strats and Coupes
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 02, 2018, 11:56:57 PM

I like this strategy for debuggin DSP Modeler Tone

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?posts/27434440/

ColdFrixion wrote >
I've done it a number of times as a troubleshooting exercise for users on the FAS and Kemper forums who've complained about tone related issues. I often ask people to post a clip of the issue, and if the problem doesn't seem obvious on first listen, I'll ask them to post a DI sample of their guitar as well as the preset they're using. Once you've got those two things, you simply re-amp the DI through their preset and compare the output with the audio clip they originally uploaded. Unless there's a discrepancy between your system configuration and theirs, or there's a problem with their unit, the results will be identical. Why? Because you're using a sample of their guitar with their preset. I generally opt for this route when people suspect their unit is faulty because it isolates any differences in tone to the unit itself. Plus, it beats spending hours or days going back and forth with troubleshooting tips. If you have their DI and preset, you can tweak / troubleshoot their tone oriented issues directly on your end.

In Top Jimi's case, he specifically states he doesn't post process his demos.


Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 03, 2018, 12:28:14 AM
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Inside the basement studio at Capitol Records , Hollywood

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 12, 2018, 04:06:13 PM
https://youtu.be/KIR7tcS5d8A


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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 14, 2018, 11:47:14 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 14, 2018, 06:07:13 PM
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https://youtu.be/LmzdRaWO1L4

https://youtu.be/f9qvkBOc2kg


https://youtu.be/NxmIpPebjO0
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 27, 2018, 10:58:44 AM
https://youtu.be/cgnaWbPLAks

https://youtu.be/Jk2PTW86AEY
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 30, 2018, 08:36:15 AM
https://youtu.be/3LxWKaiZ5o4
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 07, 2018, 11:13:10 AM
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(https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--cRbbOjl7--/a_exif,c_limit,e_unsharp_mask:80,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_south,h_1600,q_80,w_1600/v1490649785/kguwhlfk1guwxm0egkmo.jpg)
(https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--Afx6quQ1--/a_exif,c_limit,e_unsharp_mask:80,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_south,h_1600,q_80,w_1600/v1490649801/tfpjcp7lt4ijym1iyr2r.jpg)
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https://reverb.com/item/4738498-sony-hr-gp5-guitar-processor-multi-effects-rare-made-in-japan-vintage-fx
http://www.synthmania.com/hr-gp5.htm

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 13, 2018, 01:02:54 PM

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 14, 2018, 08:20:40 AM
https://youtu.be/K6KbEnGnymk
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog%
Post by: Elantric on December 14, 2018, 07:53:50 PM
https://youtu.be/ji6IV-LYA3A

http://rockandrollroadmap.com/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 18, 2018, 11:38:56 AM
https://www.facebook.com/events/467043800485602/




Pending wind acivity, At 5:57PM Pacific Time this evening there will be a Delta4 Heavy rocket launch from Vandenburg AFB.  If you live in the SoCal area, look to the west and you should see it (skies will be mostly clear).



Dec. 18/19Delta 4-Heavy • NROL-71

Launch time: 0157 GMT on 19th (8:57 p.m. EST; 5:57 p.m. PST on 18th)
Launch site: SLC-6, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket will launch a classified spy satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The largest of the Delta 4 family, the Heavy version features three Common Booster Cores mounted together to form a triple-body rocket. Delayed from Sept. 26. Moved forward from Dec. 3. Delayed from Nov. 29. Scrubbed on Dec. 7 by an issue with holdfire circuitry. Scrubbed on Dec. 8 at T-minus 7.5 seconds. [Dec. 13]



you can watch the live stream here:



https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/07/delta-382-mission-status-center/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 18, 2018, 02:05:58 PM
The long-anticipated Delta IV rocket launch, which was supposed to happen Tuesday evening, has been delayed due to high winds, according to the United Launch Alliance.

The rocket launch is now planned for Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 5:44 p.m., the agency said.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 19, 2018, 04:51:54 PM

https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/07/delta-382-mission-status-center/

https://twitter.com/spaceflightnow/
United Launch Alliance's Delta 4-Heavy rocket is fully fueled on historic Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The rocket now weighs 1.6. million pounds & its three RS-68A main engines will produce 2.1 million pounds of thrust.
United Launch Alliance's team has set a new target launch time of 5:49 p.m. PST (8:49 p.m. EST; 0149 GMT).
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/07/delta-382-mission-status-center/

https://youtu.be/Cwb0leeydEs
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 02, 2019, 02:28:59 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpVI7_xqZOw
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 07, 2019, 02:30:41 PM
https://youtu.be/HSMLRMU2kZA
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 11, 2019, 02:31:44 PM
free online shortwave radio

http://www.tecsunradios.com.au/store/tecsun-sw-radio-online/
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 11, 2019, 07:39:36 PM
https://youtu.be/eVabz8LneI4

https://youtu.be/1z2xtmkqaAs
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 12, 2019, 03:21:29 AM
https://youtu.be/PKyqn9wU_vE
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 29, 2019, 05:28:24 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/13kR36zp/gilmour.png)

https://www.christies.com/features/David-Gilmour-legendary-Black-Strat-comes-to-auction-9637-3.aspx

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-gilmour-guitar-auction-785547/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 31, 2019, 07:28:04 PM
https://youtu.be/nRembAbea9k
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 07, 2019, 10:00:34 PM
https://youtu.be/ZPMa4c_NNyg
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 14, 2019, 09:33:59 AM
http://cdm.link/2019/02/oscilloscope-nuuun-atom-tm/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 14, 2019, 09:56:25 AM
https://indepth.professional-sound.com/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 22, 2019, 06:39:55 AM
https://youtu.be/bJUZB75kYg4
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 22, 2019, 04:04:01 PM
https://youtu.be/u-SAdjoFVHk
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 06, 2019, 08:00:19 AM
https://youtu.be/48RVcbkhNHQ
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 28, 2019, 11:49:10 AM
(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.j-paine.org%2Fdobbs%2Fphones_have_won_472.jpg&hash=71b16fb6a9191d130bdabb2f968c00d7b952cb64)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 03, 2019, 08:11:21 AM
https://youtu.be/Ict7tNC7hQo
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 05, 2019, 11:12:26 PM
https://youtu.be/R3YBrFk_OQQ
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 20, 2019, 07:08:50 PM
https://youtu.be/gtOMsQIGRhc
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 21, 2019, 03:20:14 PM
Having had a lot of fun with all of these in our home in the 1960's  - Apparently I barely escaped serious injury- or passed the survival of the fittest test

https://youtu.be/4Er6MdUJVvM


Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 24, 2019, 08:45:44 AM
https://youtu.be/nVlmPEtNyMg
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 03, 2019, 03:58:37 PM
https://youtu.be/YHBAMrOi5Bg
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 10, 2019, 11:44:49 AM
https://youtu.be/cJNFqhMJ4DA
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on May 14, 2019, 09:34:28 AM
Acknowledged as the best hand vibrato in rock in 1970

Leslie West & Mountain 1970
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_West
https://youtu.be/oLzjl7tjfL0
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 02, 2019, 12:03:47 PM
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2015/07/27/on-the-bloat-of-extravagance-satire-in-automotive-renderings/

(https://images.app.goo.gl/xuk6a1MpjGyBaFB67)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 18, 2019, 07:25:44 PM
https://youtu.be/M8mhIdZoVow
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 21, 2019, 11:22:44 AM
https://youtu.be/3F-vMXuyE5k

https://youtu.be/nV0Q8e4Mp1c

https://youtu.be/PCfYrNOnxw8

The harmonic tempos are demonstrated in order starting with the fundamental tempo at harmonic 1 with  C#-3/D#-3 (just above 2HZ or 120BPM) and then proceeding with  harmonic tempo 2 at C#-2, harmonic tempo 3 at G#-3, harmonic tempo  4 at C#-1, harmonic tempo  5 at F-1, harmonic tempo 6 at G-1, harmonic tempo 7 at B-1, harmonic tempo 8 at C#0, harmonic tempo 9 at D#0, harmonic tempo 10 at F0, harmonic tempo 11 at G/F# (in this case "G") and  harmonic tempo 12 at A#0 (just beneath 31HZ or 1860BPM) We can make the harmonic series of tempos starting from any tine so in any temporal "key signature" we like on the Harmony Array Metronomes 96 tines
20190520 232840
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 26, 2019, 10:20:48 AM
https://youtu.be/mTUGKhrt7fM
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on June 30, 2019, 07:51:39 AM
https://www.gearnews.com/cryptocurrency-mining-trojan-found-in-pirated-music-software/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 11, 2019, 08:29:54 PM
https://youtu.be/XbUE0uahrBE
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 15, 2019, 12:54:06 PM
(Listen to me now and believe me later;)
place dry ivory soap flakes in the nut grooves when changing strings = lubes the nut = tuning stability and learn to restring with a "Lock wrap" for your new strings on the tuning posts.


(https://i.postimg.cc/j55Hv74Y/LockWrap.jpg)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 23, 2019, 11:14:09 PM
https://youtu.be/ceNvbYZ2p8o
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 20, 2019, 02:04:25 PM
https://youtu.be/afU76JJcquI
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on August 30, 2019, 10:41:51 AM
Convert / Translate  PDF documents into your native language

https://smallpdf.com/blog/translate-pdf
 
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 09, 2019, 10:10:13 AM
https://youtu.be/zPmfk7S2nrk

This silent film made by Western Electric Co. details the manufacture of vacuum tubes for electronics. It likely dates to the early 1930s. The film starts with images of stems being made (1:00)  with women feeding leads into die block at (2:00). At 2:20 finished stems are placed in an annealer from the die block. At 2:57 the Assembly Department is shown with staff, most of them women, working on the tubes by hand. At 3:58 spot welding of tubes is shown, with a woman dexterously moving a stem into the welding gun.  At 5:18 the assembly is sealed in a bulb. At 7:31 vacuum tube exhaust stations are shown. At 7:55 a tube is sealed on an exhaust header. At 9:25 magnesium getter is flashed using high frequency electric current. At 9:50 filament, grid and plate leads are disassembled. At 11:30 the fire setting without measured pressure is shown.

Western Electric Company (WE, WECo) was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that served as the primary supplier to AT&T from 1881 to 1996, and to the local Bell Operating Companies until 1984. The company was responsible for many technological innovations and seminal developments in industrial management. It also served as the purchasing agent for the member companies of the Bell System.

In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube or valve (British usage) or, colloquially, a tube (North America) is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.

The type known as a thermionic tube or thermionic valve uses the phenomenon of thermionic emission of electrons from a heated cathode and is used for a number of fundamental electronic functions such as signal amplification and current rectification.

Non-thermionic types, such as a vacuum phototube however, achieve electron emission through the photoelectric effect, and are used for such as the detection of light levels. In both types, the electrons are accelerated from the cathode to the anode by the electric field in the tube.

The simplest vacuum tube, the diode invented in 1904 by John Ambrose Fleming, contains only a heated electron-emitting cathode and an anode. Current can only flow in one direction through the device—from the cathode to the anode. Adding one or more control grids within the tube allows the current between the cathode and anode to be controlled by the voltage on the grid or grids.[5] These devices became a key component of electronic circuits for the first half of the twentieth century. They were crucial to the development of radio, television, radar, sound recording and reproduction, long-distance telephone networks, and analogue and early digital computers. Although some applications had used earlier technologies such as the spark gap transmitter for radio or mechanical computers for computing, it was the invention of the thermionic vacuum tube that made these technologies widespread and practical, and created the discipline of electronics.

In the 1940s the invention of semiconductor devices made it possible to produce solid-state devices, which are smaller, more efficient, reliable and durable, and cheaper than thermionic tubes. From the mid-1960s, thermionic tubes were then being replaced with the transistor. However, the cathode-ray tube (CRT) remained the basis for television monitors and oscilloscopes until the early 21st century. Thermionic tubes still have some applications, such as the magnetron used in microwave ovens, certain high-frequency amplifiers, and amplifiers that audio enthusiasts prefer for their tube sound.

Not all electronic circuit valves/electron tubes are vacuum tubes. Gas-filled tubes are similar devices, but containing a gas, typically at low pressure, which exploit phenomena related to electric discharge in gases, usually without a heater.

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 09, 2019, 10:36:18 AM
https://youtu.be/1339crjmJl0
"Industry On Parade was a television series created by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) from 1950-1960. The series consisted of weekly episodes that highlighted American manufacturing and business. Hundreds of companies and products were documented during the [program's] decade-long run."

"Sounds That Can't Be Heard" is an episode that takes viewers on a tour of the industries that are using or developing ultrasonic technology. A man performs a hearing test with woman to see the range of sound she can hear (00:44). The episode shows a farm where two men operate an electronic device that produces ultrasonic sound. The device is used to beam ultrasonic waves on a bull to determine how lean its meat is. At Gulton Industries in Metuchen, New Jersey (02:01), a variety of ultrasonic devices are manufactured. Women build the parts for ultrasonic devices (02:40). At the Danbury, CT plant of Sperry Products, Inc., reflectoscopes are manufactured by women on an assembly line. At Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, Long Island, NY (04:01), men immerse aluminum in a tank of liquid to test its conduction of high frequencies. The pattern of movement is recorded with ultrasonic waves to determine flaws in the metal. A man tests a railroad wheel for soundness using ultrasonic technology (05:55). A Raytheon ultrasonic impact grinder is used for precision cutting and drilling (06:18). People clean glass using ultrasonic vibrations in a liquid bath (06:55). A man cleans grease off machine parts in a solution using ultrasonic vibrations (07:40). At a supermarket, ultrasonic vibrations are used to weld tin foil for packaging cheese (08:22). An Army Engineers research boat, the HC Rickett (08:57), motors out in the harbor with the New York City skyline in the background. The ship uses sonar equipment to record the depths of the harbor. At the Ultrasonic Cleaning building (10:02) of Acoustica Associates, Inc. in Glenwood Landing, NY, men work on ultrasonic industrial cleaning equipment. The episode then shows the firm's new building where fuel gauge systems for ICBMs are created on a production line. The episode concludes with a man testing an ultrasonic water pump (12:09).
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 12, 2019, 11:39:25 AM
https://youtu.be/HlSpc87Jfr0
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 25, 2019, 07:35:52 AM
https://youtu.be/8tGYAJWAHQg
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 28, 2019, 09:28:43 AM
Chester Thompson & Lee Sklar

https://youtu.be/e1Ea5RtNwa0
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 05, 2019, 12:43:04 PM
Nuts

https://youtu.be/lv2sb4LJq2g
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 18, 2019, 07:59:37 AM
 Fresher Strat with built in Drum Machine. - stock late 1970s model.

https://reverb.com/item/25578429-rare-vintage-70s-fresher-straighter-protean-series-avec-boite-a-rythmes-etui-made-in-japan


(https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--tYI80aIu--/f_auto,t_large/v1561204681/xzxltfotdkwrr4vaafmu.jpg)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 06, 2019, 01:20:22 PM
https://youtu.be/BeJyRusQ9e0
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 11, 2019, 08:02:19 AM
https://youtu.be/wPIS257tvoA
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on December 21, 2019, 06:42:54 AM
https://youtu.be/DT1NJwEi6nw
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 10, 2020, 07:08:16 AM
https://youtu.be/t8bEcgJRShw
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 13, 2020, 02:27:22 PM
https://youtu.be/n_Cfsktanus
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 20, 2020, 02:26:43 PM
https://www.mickeyhart.net/news/all-about-the-beam-baby-5211

(https://www.mickeyhart.net/userfiles/kcfinder/images/1.jpg)
(https://www.mickeyhart.net/userfiles/kcfinder/images/4.jpg)
The Apocalypse Now Sessions

After attending a Grateful Dead concert, director Francis Ford Coppola asked Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann to record drum music for his film Apocalypse Now. They improvised the music at the same time a rough cut of the movie was being screened. Some of that music ended up being used on the final soundtrack. The recording sessions took place over a period of ten days. Following that, selections from the sessions were remixed and assembled into the final album.

An unusual percussion instrument built for the sessions, variants of which have been built and later used in Grateful Dead concerts and Mickey Hart's solo touring bands, was "The Beam". This is a large (8 foot in length) aluminum I-beam (actually a "C" shaped beam facing down with the strings across the flat outside-top surface) strung with 13 bass piano strings all tuned to the note of D (a Pythagorean mono-chord at various octaves). The Beam has a heavy-duty bridge and string anchor at one end and a nut with tuning hardware at the other end. It has a movable magnetic pickup block to facilitate capture and transmission of various tonal qualities. The pickup block feeds a volume pedal and various audio effects units, which route the signals through an amplifier or sound system. The Beam generates a large variety of low frequency primary tones and harmonic overtones, and is played by hitting the strings with a percussion mallet, plucking the strings by hand or with a plectrum, scraping them with various implements (fingernails, plectrums, metal bars), or by pounding on The Beam frame itself to induce a bell-like resonance of all the strings simultaneously. [1]

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 23, 2020, 07:58:04 PM
https://youtu.be/y4DbsNsK3jY

This is a Danish TV recording of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends performing. This is the rare complete recording in good quality. Note: The "Friends" is really the future Derek and the Dominos in the making.

Line-up:
Bonnie Bramlett : voc
Delaney Bramlett : voc, g
Eric Clapton : g, voc
George Harrison : g
Carl Radle : b
Jim Gordon : dr
Bobby Whitlock : kbd, voc
Billy Preston : org
Jim Price : tr
Bobby Keys : ts
Rita Coolidge : voc
Tex Johnson : perc

Set list:
Poor Elijah 
I Don't Know Why
Where There's A Will, There's A Way
My Baby Specializes
I Don't Want To Discuss It
That's What My Man Is For 
Comin' Home 
Encore:
Tutti Frutti / The Girl Can't Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 27, 2020, 01:16:35 PM
When I was first starting to play the guitar  - I viewed walking into a Music store rather like walking into a Dentist office to get a tooth pulled.

Like a used car lot - I was always pounced upon by a salesman looking to make a sale, and if they took one look and sized  me up, they would typically tell me "If you are not ready to make a purchase today then get out of my store".

Pre internet  - I lived in the Library -  learned bulk about guitar effects by building them mail order from PAIA Kits,
http://www.paia.com (http://www.paia.com)

or buying discreet parts (Sylvania ECG Transistors) at the local Olson Electronics Store (now history)  after careful study of Howard Sam's Photofacts ,
http://www.americanmicrosemi.com/information/tutorial/index.php?t_id=6 (http://www.americanmicrosemi.com/information/tutorial/index.php?t_id=6)

https://www.samswebsite.com (https://www.samswebsite.com) 
and Craig Anderton Guitar Effects Books. and Jack Darr's Electric Guitar Amplifier HandBook 
http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Guitar-Amplifier-Handbook-Jack/dp/1882580486 (http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Guitar-Amplifier-Handbook-Jack/dp/1882580486)
and I have most of Kevin O-Conner's' Ultimate Tone books
http://www.londonpower.com/audio-design-books (http://www.londonpower.com/audio-design-books)
and Don Lancaster's CMOS Cookbook
http://www.amazon.com/CMOS-Cookbook-Second-Edition-LANCASTER/dp/0750699434 (http://www.amazon.com/CMOS-Cookbook-Second-Edition-LANCASTER/dp/0750699434)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lancaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lancaster)

Howard Tremaine's AudioCyclopedia
http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Cyclopedia-Howard-M-Tremaine/dp/0672206757 (http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Cyclopedia-Howard-M-Tremaine/dp/0672206757)

John Backus "Acoustical Foundations of Music"
http://www.amazon.com/Acoustical-Foundations-Music-Second-Edition/dp/0393090965 (http://www.amazon.com/Acoustical-Foundations-Music-Second-Edition/dp/0393090965)


Today I use google to search on a term and typically stumble upon valuable info.
http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~winton/classes/ece3243/ (http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~winton/classes/ece3243/)
http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/ (http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/)


I'm not alone in these pursuits for info,yet most of this type activity of finding advice seems to fall into the category of too many options, too much info and not knowing where to start to build your electronic music knowledge.

But as Steve Ciarcia once said - "My favorite programming language is Solder"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ciarcia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ciarcia)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 28, 2020, 08:43:32 PM
https://youtu.be/nEtGZyfms7E
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 01, 2020, 11:56:00 PM
https://youtu.be/fw1kRz83Fj0

https://youtu.be/l_ffdarcJiQ
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on February 13, 2020, 08:51:09 AM
Wanna take you higher . . .
https://youtu.be/6qzBc8bcuY4
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 06, 2020, 06:53:04 AM
When buying any guitar today that costs over $1K  online without playing from an independent party, I want the seller to:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61CLtIFdhsL._AC_SL1500_.jpg)

own a  $10  Caliper


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61YLjACz8kL._AC_SL1500_.jpg)

and a $9  Luggage scale ( under $20 total)


Then Measure &  Weigh the Guitar and provide these details
1 ) Lots of pics and list any flaws, history, refret, refinishing, headstock break repairs, etc,

2 ) Neck Width at Nut

3 ) Neck Width at 12th fret

4 ) Neck thickness from back of neck to top of 1st fret

5 ) Neck thickness from back of neck to top of 12th fret

6 ) Weight of the Instrument
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 22, 2020, 04:38:56 PM
https://youtu.be/K2lL-EciRf0
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Post by: Elantric on March 24, 2020, 12:29:11 AM
https://jhgraham.com/category/the-sunset-strip/
https://martinturnbull.com/hollywood-places/
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https://joshwilltravel.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/9039-sunset-blvd-on-the-strip/
https://walkerart.org/collections/artworks/every-building-on-the-sunset-strip
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https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Bing_Crosby_and_the_Recording_Revolution

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Post by: Elantric on March 31, 2020, 09:36:21 PM
http://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/vintage-young-men-hobbies-list.htm

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According to what I have found during Internet searches, this "The G-Engines Are Coming" article is a much-sought-after story. It appeared in the November 1956 issue of Young Men magazine (a 13-month-long title existing between Air Trails and American Modeler). An article in the October 1958 issue of American Modeler titled "Anti-Grav" referenced this story. Until Mr. Bob Balsie for scanned the pages from his rare copy of the original magazine, it was available nowhere. Science fiction writers are fascinated with the concept of anti-gravitational devices. More than one false premises forms the basis of this article, the most notable of which is a claim of the existence of a "g-particle" (that which is responsible for the gravitational force). Although the postulated possibilities for exploiting the misconception are fantastic, we now know that only extragalactic beings possess such knowledge. Do they walk among us? See the true documentary titled Men in Black for the answer.

The G-Engines Are Coming!

By far the most potent source of energy is gravity. Using it as power future aircraft will attain the speed of light.

By Michael Gladych

The G-Engines Are Coming!, November 1956 Young Men • Hobbies • Aviation • Careers - Airplanes and RocketsNuclear-powered aircraft are yet to be built, but there are research projects already under way that will make the super-planes obsolete before they are test-flown. For in the United States and Canada research centers, scientists, designers and engineers are perfecting a way to control gravity - a force infinitely more powerful than the mighty atom. The result of their labors will be anti-gravity engines working without fuel - weightless airliners and space ships able to travel at 170,000 miles per second.

If this seems too fantastic to be true, here is something to consider - the gravity research has been supported by Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Co., Convair, Bell Aircraft, Lear Inc., Sperry Gyroscope and several other American aircraft manufacturers who would not spend milli0ns of dollars on science fiction. Lawrence D. Bell, the famous builder of the rocket research planes, says, "We're already working with nuclear fuels and equipment to cancel out gravity." And William Lear, the autopilot wizard, is already figuring out "gravity control" for the weightless craft to come.
(https://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/young-men/images/g-engines-coming-young-men-november-1956-1.jpg)
Gravitation - the mutual attraction of all matter, be it grains of sand or planets - has been the most mysterious phenomenon of nature. Isaac Newton and other great physicists discovered and described the gravitational law from which there has been no escape. "What goes up must come down," they said. The bigger the body the stronger the gravity attraction it has for other objects ... the larger the distance between the objects, the lesser the gravity pull. Defining those rigid rules was as far as science could go, but what caused gravity nobody knew, until Albert Einstein published his Theory of Relativity.

In formulating universal laws that would explain everything from molecules to stars, Einstein discovered a strong similarity between gravitation and magnetism. Magnets attract magnetic metals, of course, but they also attract and bend beams of electronic rays. For instance, in your television picture tube or electronic microscope, magnetic fields sway the electrons from their straight path. It was the common belief that gravitation of bodies attracted material objects only - then came Einstein's dramatic proof to the contrary.


(https://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/young-men/images/g-engines-coming-young-men-november-1956-2.jpg)
The G-plane licks "heat barrier" problem of high speed by creating its own gravity field. Gravity generator attracts surrounding air to form a thick boundary layer which travels with craft and dissipates heat. Electronic rockets provide forward and reverse thrust. Crew and passenger cabins are also within ship's own gravity field, thus making fast acceleration and deceleration safe for occupants.

Pre-Einstein physicists were convinced that light traveled along absolutely straight lines. But on May 29, 1919, during a full eclipse of the sun, Einstein proved that the light rays of distant stars were attracted and bent by the sun's gravitation. With the sun eclipsed, it was possible to observe the stars and measure the exact "bend" of their days as they passed close to the sun on their way to earth.

This discovery gave modem scientists a new hope. We already knew how to make magnets by coiling a wire around an iron core. Electric current running through the coiled wire created a magnetic field and it could be switched on and off at will. Perhaps we could do the same with the gravitation.

Einstein's famous formula E = mc2 - the secret of nuclear energy - opened the door to further research in gravitation. Prying into the atom's inner structure, nuclear scientists traced the gravity attraction to the atom's core - the nucleus. First they separated electrons by bombarding the atom with powerful electromagnetic "guns." Then, with even more powerful electromagnetic bombardment, the scientists were able to blast the nucleus. The "split" nucleus yielded a variety of heretofore unknown particles.

In the course of such experiments, Dr. Stanley Deser and Dr. Richard Arnowitt of Princeton Institute of Advanced Study found the gravity culprit - tiny particles responsible for gravitation. Without those G-(gravity) particles, an atom of, say, iron still behaved as any other iron atom except for one thing - it was weightless.

With the secret of gravitation exposed, the scientists now concentrate their efforts on harnessing the G-particles and their gravity pull. They are devising ways of controlling the gravity force just as the vast energy of a nuclear explosion has been put to work in a docile nuclear reactor for motive power and peaceful use. And once we have the control of those G-particles, the rest will be a matter of engineering.

According to the gravity research engineers, the G-engine will replace all other motors. Aircraft, automobiles, submarines, stationary powerplants - all will use the anti-gravity engines that will require little or no fuel and will be a mechanic's dream. A G-engine will have only one moving part - a rotor or a flywheel. One half of the rotor will be subjected to a de-gravitating apparatus, while the other will still be under the earth's gravity pull. With the G-particles neutralized, one half of the rotor will no longer be attracted by the earth's gravitation and will therefore go up as the other half is being pulled down, thus creating a powerful rotary movement.

Another, simpler idea comes from the Gravity. Research Foundation of New Boston, N. H. Instead of de-gravitating one half of the rotor, we would merely shield half of it with a gravity "absorber." The other half would still be pulled down and rotation would result (see sketch).


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The anti-gravity engine rotor is partially shielded by the gravity absorber. The gravity force acting only on the exposed half of the rotor which creates a powerful rotary motion. This particular device is suitable for powering ground vehicles.

For an explanation of how the gravity "absorber" would work, lets turn to gravity's twin brother - magnetism. If you own an ordinary watch, you must be forever careful not to get it magnetized. Even holding a telephone receiver can magnetize the delicate balance wheel and throw the watch out of time. Therefore, an anti-magnetic watch is the thing to have. Inner works of such a watch are shielded by a soft iron casing which absorb the magnetic lines of force. Even in the strongest magnetic field, the shielded balance wheel is completely unaffected by the outside magnetic pull. In a similar manner, a gravity "absorber" would prevent the earth's gravity from acting upon the shielded portion of our G-engine.

Applied to engines, a gravity absorber would be a boon, but its true value would be in aircraft construction where the weight control engineers get ulcers trying to save an ounce here, a pound there. Of course, an indiscriminate shielding of an aircraft and the resulting total weightlessness is not what we would want. A de-gravitated aircraft would still be subject to the centrifugal force of our rotating globe. Freed from the gravity pull, a totally weightless aircraft would shoot off into space like sparks flying off a faster spinning, abrasive grinding wheel. So, the weight, or gravity, would have to be reduced gradually for take-off and climb. For level flight and for hovering, the weight would be maintained at some low level while landing would be accomplished by slowly restoring the craft's full weight.

The gravity-defying engineers claim that the problem of this lift control is a cinch. The shield would have an arrangement similar in principle to the venetian blind - open for no lift and closed for decreased weight and increased lift.

No longer dependent on wings or rotors, the G-craft would most likely be an ideal aerodynamic shape - a sort of slimmed-down version of the old-fashioned dirigible balloon. Since weight has a lot to do in limiting the size of today's aircraft, a perfect weight control of the G-craft would remove that barrier and would make possible airliners as big as the great ocean liner the S.S. United States.

A G-airliner would be a real speed demon. The coast-to-coast flight time would be cut to minutes even with the orthodox rocket propulsion. You may wonder about the air friction "heat barrier" of high-speed aircraft, but the gravity experts have an answer for that, too. Canadian scientists headed by Wilbur B. Smith - the director of the "Project Magnet" - visualize an apparatus producing a gravitational field in the G-ship. This gravity field would attract the surrounding air to form a thick "boundary layer" which would move with the ship. Thus, air friction would take place at a distance from the ship's structure and the friction heat would be dissipated before it could warm up the ship's skin (large diagram).


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When electric current from battery is switched on the coil will create a magnetic field which repels the aluminum disk and makes it shoot upward. Future sips may be built of diamagnetic metals with specially rearranged atomic structure.

The G-ships own gravity field would perform another useful function. William P. Lear, the chairman of Lear, Inc., makers of autopilots and other electronic controls, points out, "All matter within the ship would be influenced by the ship's gravitation only. This way, no matter how fast you accelerated or changed course, your body would not feel it any more than it now feels the tremendous speed and acceleration of the earth." In other words, no more pilot blackouts or any such acceleration headaches. The G-ship could take off like a cannon shell, come to a stop with equal abruptness and the passengers wouldn't even need seat belts.

This ability to accelerate rapidly would be ideal for a space vehicle. Eugene M. Gluhareff, President of Gluhareff Helicopter and Airplane Corporation of Manhattan Beach, California, has already designed several space ships capable of travel at almost the speed of light, or about 600,000,000 miles per hour. At that speed. the round trip to Venus would take just over 30 minutes. Of course, ordinary chemical rockets would be inadequate for such speeds, but Gluhareff already figures on using "atomic rockets."

At least one such "atomic rocket" design has been worked out by Dr. Ernest Stuhlinger, a physicist of the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Stuhlinger's rocket would use ions - atoms with a positive electric charge. To produce those ions, Dr. Stuhlinger takes cesium, a rare metal that liquefies at 71° F. Blown across a platinum coil heated to 1000° F., liquid cesium is ionized, the ions are accelerated by a 10,000 volt electromagnetic "gun" and shot out of a tail pipe at a velocity of 186,324 miles per second.

The power for Dr. Stuhlinger's "ion rocket" would be supplied by an atomic reactor or by solar energy. The weight of the reactor and its size would no longer be a design problem, since the entire apparatus could be de-gravitated - made weightless. Revolutionary as Dr. Stuhlinger's idea may seem, it is already superseded by the Canadian physicists of the "Project Magnet." The Canadians propose to do away with the bulk of the nuclear reactor and use the existing magnetic fields of the earth and other planets for propulsion.

As we well know, two like magnetic poles repel each other, just as under certain conditions, an electromagnet repel the so-called diamagnetic metal, such as aluminum. Take a flat, aluminum ring, slip it over a strong electromagnet and switch on the current. Repelled by the magnetic field, the disk will fly off with quite a speed. (see sketch). Of course, the earth's magnetism is too weak to repel a huge G-ship made of a diamagnetic metal. However, the recent studies of the atomic nucleus and the discovery of G-particles make it possible to rearrange the atomic structure so as to greatly increase the diamagnetic properties of metals. Thus, a G-ship with a magnetic control could be repelled by the earth's magnetic field and it would travel along the magnetic lines of force like the aluminum ring shooting off the electromagnet.

The entire universe is covered by magnetic fields of stars and planets. Those fields intertwine in a complex pattern, but they are always there. By proper selection of those fields, we could navigate our G-ship in space as well as within the earth's magnetic field. And the use of the magnetic repulsion would eliminate the radiation danger of the nuclear reactor and the problem of atomic fuel.

How long will it take to build the weightless craft and G-engines, the gravity experts don't know. George S. Trimble, Vice-President in charge of the G-project at Martin Aircraft Corporation thinks the job "could be done in about the time it took to build the first atom bomb." And another anti-gravity pioneer, Dudley Clarke, President of Clarke Electronics Laboratories of Palm Springs, California, believes it will be a matter of a few yeas to manufacture anti-gravity "power packages."

But no matter how many years we have to wait, the amazing anti-gravity research is a reality. And the best guarantee of its early success is the backing of the U.S. aircraft industry - the engineers and technicians who have always given us tomorrow's craft today..

https://www.scribd.com/doc/99590056/Secrets-of-Magnets-and-Hidden-Sciences-Jason-Verbelli
https://www.scribd.com/document/232602194/SPACESHIP-THAT-CONQUERS-GRAVITY-by-Michael-Gladych
https://epdf.pub/3
https://metallicman.com/
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Post by: aliensporebomb on April 01, 2020, 07:46:01 AM
If you're interested in that topic, there's a book I've read on the subject that explores the topic further by Paul LaViolette PHD called "Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs and Black Aerospace Technology" by Paul LaViolette Ph.D.   Well worth a read if you are into this subect.
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Post by: admin on April 09, 2020, 12:49:17 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erfXf08tuFg
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Post by: Elantric on April 29, 2020, 07:32:16 PM
https://youtu.be/Hxyon6mBXfU
Everyone thinks they know what killed Tower Records: The Internet. But that's not the story. "All Things Must Pass" examines this iconic company's explosive trajectory, tragic demise, and legacy forged by its rebellious founder Russ Solomon.
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Post by: Elantric on April 30, 2020, 01:31:37 PM
We know the power amp type employed by several amps we talk about.
Some experience their Sold State Guitar Amp "farting out / or not keeping up with a Tube Amp under the same stage conditions

I always have an AC distribution box so I can monitor the actual AC Mains Voltage available for my Guitar Amp and FX - it can vary per venue.
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/21O5vk9dHdL._AC_.jpg)
In North America it typically reads  117VAC



But Often it can droop down 107VAC with transients coincident to the signal peaks of the mic'ed kick drum if its in a venue with poor AC , with all the old PAR stage lights or a cheap rehearsal room  / garage with a miked drumset and Bass player and other gear DI'ed to the 5000 watt PA during middle of a loud  jam.

And the resulting AC Mains power "Brown Out" situation makes  Katana / Marshall MG Solid state Class AB IC Power amps fart out , while the old Ampeg VT40 or '66 Fender Super Reverb Tube Amps still sings.
EVH used to use 85VAC for AC Input to his 50 watt Marshall - to  get the brown out sound.
https://superuser.com/questions/113113/why-are-brownouts-so-harmful

can get more with creative uses of AC Variac
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There's a company called Juice Goose that got its start by making a large rack mounted  auto tracking AC Mains Auto Transformer that could deliver a steady 120VAC to your rig, while the stage  lights and house P.A. were in brown out land

Today they use internal Battery backed high current UPS ( Uninterruptible Power Supply ) technology

https://www.juicegoose.com/
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https://www.juicegoose.com/products/sbn-series


on a budget can accomplish similar by seeking a modern UPS with the wattage / current you need for your rig or band and a "Pure Sine" wave output
https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/products/ups/pfc-sinewave/


FWIW - Katana, gets a lot of its tone at higher volumes from the ST Micro TDA7293 Class AB DMOS IC output stage ( same type used in many Marshall MG series and Roland Cube 80 ), and along with a true Guitar speaker explains its guitar amp like tone  - very little DSP cab modeling employed
http://www.st.com/en/audio-ics/tda7293.html
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Boss Katana Amp - Inside View
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=19475.msg138982#msg138982
https://www.amplifiedparts.com/products/integrated-circuit-marshall-tda7293-amplifier



While latest Mustang GT/GTX/ToneMaster Amps get all the Amp modeling and Cab Modeling in the DSP ( like Fractal) - then use very low THD High efficient ICEPOWER AS SERIES CLASS D Power Amp modules into a specific type speaker the respective DSP has  characterized for their intended target tone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICEpower
QuoteThe AS series is ICEpower's latest range, combining high performance class D
amplifiers with a universal mains switch mode power supply.
Standard features include ErP and Energy Star compliant stand-by functionality,
regulated auxiliary power supplies, wake-on signal sense, balanced audio
input and a DC-bus output for powering additional ICEpower 300A1 amplifiers.
The AS series is based on ICEpower's patented modulation and control
techniques, which achieves efficient output power combined with exceptional
audio performance, while keeping the cost competitive. Reliability has also been a key
focus, carefully designed in at the start and using brand name components and
meticulous testing and burn-in in mass production. Every single module goes
through a comprehensive functional test before delivery to the customer
https://icepower.dk/products/amplifier-power-modules/as-series/
https://icepower.dk/about/#history-expand (https://icepower.dk/about/#history-expand)
https://icepower.dk/products/amplifier-power-modules/as-series/#comparison-chart (https://icepower.dk/products/amplifier-power-modules/as-series/#comparison-chart)
(https://i.postimg.cc/09hDXZYN/Mustang-GT-100-Inside.png)

(https://icepower.dk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/100AS1_scale.png)
Mustang GT 100 / GTX 100 use ICE100AS1 100watt @ 4 ohm module w/ Celestion 4 ohm Speaker
https://www.profusionplc.com/parts/icepower100as1


(https://icepower.dk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/100AS2_scale.png)
Mustang GT 200  uses ICE100AS2  2x 100watt @ 4 ohm module w/ TWO Celestion 4 ohm Speakers ( one per channel for Stereo)
https://www.profusionplc.com/parts/icepower100as2

(https://i.postimg.cc/XN2tNFkx/above.png)
Fender ToneMaster uses ICE200AS1 200watt @ 4 ohm module - but with a more traditional Celestion 8 ohm Guitar speaker for 100 watts, but with a DSP voiced Variable power Control on the rear chassis.
Fender ToneMaster Twin and Deluxe Reverb ARM Quad Core Amps
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=26506.msg193491#msg193491


The Marshall MG and the Katana are Class A/B with linear power supply (no voltage regulation for the power amp),
where the Mustangs are Class D with SMPS power supply (regulated and works with a large variety of A.C voltage supply).


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gkIAAOSwgENeL-5e/s-l500.jpg)
Once a year I do apply Caig DeOxit to all audio/ power jacks and inspect internal ribbon cables- particularly when same gear is stored in same garage as the clothes Dryer which often pumps out variable  humidity or been in an outdoor storage subjected to wider temperature extremes
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Post by: Elantric on May 20, 2020, 06:49:08 PM
https://emeapp.org/2019/08/14/frank-zappas-amp-rigs-a-look-inside/

https://youtu.be/ZMGeoignqeU
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Post by: Elantric on August 18, 2020, 10:45:18 PM
1964  - A 21 year old George Benson, playing his 1959 Les Paul Standard 

https://youtu.be/ivYFzlapYTA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Benson
Benson attended and graduated from Schenley High School.[8][9] As a youth he learned how to play straight-ahead instrumental jazz during a relationship performing for several years with organist Jack McDuff. One of his many early guitar heroes was country-jazz guitarist Hank Garland.[10][11] At the age of 21, he recorded his first album as leader, The New Boss Guitar, featuring McDuff.[3] Benson's next recording was It's Uptown with the George Benson Quartet, including Lonnie Smith on organ and Ronnie Cuber on baritone saxophone.[3] Benson followed it up with The George Benson Cookbook, also with Lonnie Smith and Ronnie Cuber on baritone and drummer Marion Booker.[3] Miles Davis employed Benson in the mid-1960s, featuring his guitar on "Paraphernalia" on his 1968 Columbia release, Miles in the Sky before going to Verve Records.

https://youtu.be/SvFuh-o2w7E
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Quote from: Elantric on March 31, 2020, 09:36:21 PM
http://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/vintage-young-men-hobbies-list.htm

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According to what I have found during Internet searches, this "The G-Engines Are Coming" article is a much-sought-after story. It appeared in the November 1956 issue of Young Men magazine (a 13-month-long title existing between Air Trails and American Modeler). An article in the October 1958 issue of American Modeler titled "Anti-Grav" referenced this story. Until Mr. Bob Balsie for scanned the pages from his rare copy of the original magazine, it was available nowhere. Science fiction writers are fascinated with the concept of anti-gravitational devices. More than one false premises forms the basis of this article, the most notable of which is a claim of the existence of a "g-particle" (that which is responsible for the gravitational force). Although the postulated possibilities for exploiting the misconception are fantastic, we now know that only extragalactic beings possess such knowledge. Do they walk among us? See the true documentary titled Men in Black for the answer.

The G-Engines Are Coming!

By far the most potent source of energy is gravity. Using it as power future aircraft will attain the speed of light.

By Michael Gladych

The G-Engines Are Coming!, November 1956 Young Men • Hobbies • Aviation • Careers - Airplanes and RocketsNuclear-powered aircraft are yet to be built, but there are research projects already under way that will make the super-planes obsolete before they are test-flown. For in the United States and Canada research centers, scientists, designers and engineers are perfecting a way to control gravity - a force infinitely more powerful than the mighty atom. The result of their labors will be anti-gravity engines working without fuel - weightless airliners and space ships able to travel at 170,000 miles per second.

If this seems too fantastic to be true, here is something to consider - the gravity research has been supported by Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Co., Convair, Bell Aircraft, Lear Inc., Sperry Gyroscope and several other American aircraft manufacturers who would not spend milli0ns of dollars on science fiction. Lawrence D. Bell, the famous builder of the rocket research planes, says, "We're already working with nuclear fuels and equipment to cancel out gravity." And William Lear, the autopilot wizard, is already figuring out "gravity control" for the weightless craft to come.
(https://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/young-men/images/g-engines-coming-young-men-november-1956-1.jpg)
Gravitation - the mutual attraction of all matter, be it grains of sand or planets - has been the most mysterious phenomenon of nature. Isaac Newton and other great physicists discovered and described the gravitational law from which there has been no escape. "What goes up must come down," they said. The bigger the body the stronger the gravity attraction it has for other objects ... the larger the distance between the objects, the lesser the gravity pull. Defining those rigid rules was as far as science could go, but what caused gravity nobody knew, until Albert Einstein published his Theory of Relativity.

In formulating universal laws that would explain everything from molecules to stars, Einstein discovered a strong similarity between gravitation and magnetism. Magnets attract magnetic metals, of course, but they also attract and bend beams of electronic rays. For instance, in your television picture tube or electronic microscope, magnetic fields sway the electrons from their straight path. It was the common belief that gravitation of bodies attracted material objects only - then came Einstein's dramatic proof to the contrary.


(https://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/young-men/images/g-engines-coming-young-men-november-1956-2.jpg)
The G-plane licks "heat barrier" problem of high speed by creating its own gravity field. Gravity generator attracts surrounding air to form a thick boundary layer which travels with craft and dissipates heat. Electronic rockets provide forward and reverse thrust. Crew and passenger cabins are also within ship's own gravity field, thus making fast acceleration and deceleration safe for occupants.

Pre-Einstein physicists were convinced that light traveled along absolutely straight lines. But on May 29, 1919, during a full eclipse of the sun, Einstein proved that the light rays of distant stars were attracted and bent by the sun's gravitation. With the sun eclipsed, it was possible to observe the stars and measure the exact "bend" of their days as they passed close to the sun on their way to earth.

This discovery gave modem scientists a new hope. We already knew how to make magnets by coiling a wire around an iron core. Electric current running through the coiled wire created a magnetic field and it could be switched on and off at will. Perhaps we could do the same with the gravitation.

Einstein's famous formula E = mc2 - the secret of nuclear energy - opened the door to further research in gravitation. Prying into the atom's inner structure, nuclear scientists traced the gravity attraction to the atom's core - the nucleus. First they separated electrons by bombarding the atom with powerful electromagnetic "guns." Then, with even more powerful electromagnetic bombardment, the scientists were able to blast the nucleus. The "split" nucleus yielded a variety of heretofore unknown particles.

In the course of such experiments, Dr. Stanley Deser and Dr. Richard Arnowitt of Princeton Institute of Advanced Study found the gravity culprit - tiny particles responsible for gravitation. Without those G-(gravity) particles, an atom of, say, iron still behaved as any other iron atom except for one thing - it was weightless.

With the secret of gravitation exposed, the scientists now concentrate their efforts on harnessing the G-particles and their gravity pull. They are devising ways of controlling the gravity force just as the vast energy of a nuclear explosion has been put to work in a docile nuclear reactor for motive power and peaceful use. And once we have the control of those G-particles, the rest will be a matter of engineering.

According to the gravity research engineers, the G-engine will replace all other motors. Aircraft, automobiles, submarines, stationary powerplants - all will use the anti-gravity engines that will require little or no fuel and will be a mechanic's dream. A G-engine will have only one moving part - a rotor or a flywheel. One half of the rotor will be subjected to a de-gravitating apparatus, while the other will still be under the earth's gravity pull. With the G-particles neutralized, one half of the rotor will no longer be attracted by the earth's gravitation and will therefore go up as the other half is being pulled down, thus creating a powerful rotary movement.

Another, simpler idea comes from the Gravity. Research Foundation of New Boston, N. H. Instead of de-gravitating one half of the rotor, we would merely shield half of it with a gravity "absorber." The other half would still be pulled down and rotation would result (see sketch).


(https://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/young-men/images/g-engines-coming-young-men-november-1956-3.jpg)
The anti-gravity engine rotor is partially shielded by the gravity absorber. The gravity force acting only on the exposed half of the rotor which creates a powerful rotary motion. This particular device is suitable for powering ground vehicles.

For an explanation of how the gravity "absorber" would work, lets turn to gravity's twin brother - magnetism. If you own an ordinary watch, you must be forever careful not to get it magnetized. Even holding a telephone receiver can magnetize the delicate balance wheel and throw the watch out of time. Therefore, an anti-magnetic watch is the thing to have. Inner works of such a watch are shielded by a soft iron casing which absorb the magnetic lines of force. Even in the strongest magnetic field, the shielded balance wheel is completely unaffected by the outside magnetic pull. In a similar manner, a gravity "absorber" would prevent the earth's gravity from acting upon the shielded portion of our G-engine.

Applied to engines, a gravity absorber would be a boon, but its true value would be in aircraft construction where the weight control engineers get ulcers trying to save an ounce here, a pound there. Of course, an indiscriminate shielding of an aircraft and the resulting total weightlessness is not what we would want. A de-gravitated aircraft would still be subject to the centrifugal force of our rotating globe. Freed from the gravity pull, a totally weightless aircraft would shoot off into space like sparks flying off a faster spinning, abrasive grinding wheel. So, the weight, or gravity, would have to be reduced gradually for take-off and climb. For level flight and for hovering, the weight would be maintained at some low level while landing would be accomplished by slowly restoring the craft's full weight.

The gravity-defying engineers claim that the problem of this lift control is a cinch. The shield would have an arrangement similar in principle to the venetian blind - open for no lift and closed for decreased weight and increased lift.

No longer dependent on wings or rotors, the G-craft would most likely be an ideal aerodynamic shape - a sort of slimmed-down version of the old-fashioned dirigible balloon. Since weight has a lot to do in limiting the size of today's aircraft, a perfect weight control of the G-craft would remove that barrier and would make possible airliners as big as the great ocean liner the S.S. United States.

A G-airliner would be a real speed demon. The coast-to-coast flight time would be cut to minutes even with the orthodox rocket propulsion. You may wonder about the air friction "heat barrier" of high-speed aircraft, but the gravity experts have an answer for that, too. Canadian scientists headed by Wilbur B. Smith - the director of the "Project Magnet" - visualize an apparatus producing a gravitational field in the G-ship. This gravity field would attract the surrounding air to form a thick "boundary layer" which would move with the ship. Thus, air friction would take place at a distance from the ship's structure and the friction heat would be dissipated before it could warm up the ship's skin (large diagram).


(https://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/young-men/images/g-engines-coming-young-men-november-1956-4.jpg)
When electric current from battery is switched on the coil will create a magnetic field which repels the aluminum disk and makes it shoot upward. Future sips may be built of diamagnetic metals with specially rearranged atomic structure.

The G-ships own gravity field would perform another useful function. William P. Lear, the chairman of Lear, Inc., makers of autopilots and other electronic controls, points out, "All matter within the ship would be influenced by the ship's gravitation only. This way, no matter how fast you accelerated or changed course, your body would not feel it any more than it now feels the tremendous speed and acceleration of the earth." In other words, no more pilot blackouts or any such acceleration headaches. The G-ship could take off like a cannon shell, come to a stop with equal abruptness and the passengers wouldn't even need seat belts.

This ability to accelerate rapidly would be ideal for a space vehicle. Eugene M. Gluhareff, President of Gluhareff Helicopter and Airplane Corporation of Manhattan Beach, California, has already designed several space ships capable of travel at almost the speed of light, or about 600,000,000 miles per hour. At that speed. the round trip to Venus would take just over 30 minutes. Of course, ordinary chemical rockets would be inadequate for such speeds, but Gluhareff already figures on using "atomic rockets."

At least one such "atomic rocket" design has been worked out by Dr. Ernest Stuhlinger, a physicist of the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Stuhlinger's rocket would use ions - atoms with a positive electric charge. To produce those ions, Dr. Stuhlinger takes cesium, a rare metal that liquefies at 71° F. Blown across a platinum coil heated to 1000° F., liquid cesium is ionized, the ions are accelerated by a 10,000 volt electromagnetic "gun" and shot out of a tail pipe at a velocity of 186,324 miles per second.

The power for Dr. Stuhlinger's "ion rocket" would be supplied by an atomic reactor or by solar energy. The weight of the reactor and its size would no longer be a design problem, since the entire apparatus could be de-gravitated - made weightless. Revolutionary as Dr. Stuhlinger's idea may seem, it is already superseded by the Canadian physicists of the "Project Magnet." The Canadians propose to do away with the bulk of the nuclear reactor and use the existing magnetic fields of the earth and other planets for propulsion.

As we well know, two like magnetic poles repel each other, just as under certain conditions, an electromagnet repel the so-called diamagnetic metal, such as aluminum. Take a flat, aluminum ring, slip it over a strong electromagnet and switch on the current. Repelled by the magnetic field, the disk will fly off with quite a speed. (see sketch). Of course, the earth's magnetism is too weak to repel a huge G-ship made of a diamagnetic metal. However, the recent studies of the atomic nucleus and the discovery of G-particles make it possible to rearrange the atomic structure so as to greatly increase the diamagnetic properties of metals. Thus, a G-ship with a magnetic control could be repelled by the earth's magnetic field and it would travel along the magnetic lines of force like the aluminum ring shooting off the electromagnet.

The entire universe is covered by magnetic fields of stars and planets. Those fields intertwine in a complex pattern, but they are always there. By proper selection of those fields, we could navigate our G-ship in space as well as within the earth's magnetic field. And the use of the magnetic repulsion would eliminate the radiation danger of the nuclear reactor and the problem of atomic fuel.

How long will it take to build the weightless craft and G-engines, the gravity experts don't know. George S. Trimble, Vice-President in charge of the G-project at Martin Aircraft Corporation thinks the job "could be done in about the time it took to build the first atom bomb." And another anti-gravity pioneer, Dudley Clarke, President of Clarke Electronics Laboratories of Palm Springs, California, believes it will be a matter of a few yeas to manufacture anti-gravity "power packages."

But no matter how many years we have to wait, the amazing anti-gravity research is a reality. And the best guarantee of its early success is the backing of the U.S. aircraft industry - the engineers and technicians who have always given us tomorrow's craft today..

https://www.scribd.com/doc/99590056/Secrets-of-Magnets-and-Hidden-Sciences-Jason-Verbelli
https://www.scribd.com/document/232602194/SPACESHIP-THAT-CONQUERS-GRAVITY-by-Michael-Gladych
https://epdf.pub/3
https://metallicman.com/


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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: aliensporebomb on December 23, 2020, 05:27:16 PM
If you enjoy antigravity as a topic I recommend two books on the subject:
"The Hunt for Zero Point" by Nick Cook.
and "Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion" by Paul LaViolette Ph.D.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on December 23, 2020, 06:20:00 PM
Quote from: aliensporebomb on December 23, 2020, 05:27:16 PM
If you enjoy antigravity as a topic I recommend two books on the subject:
"The Hunt for Zero Point" by Nick Cook.
and "Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion" by Paul LaViolette Ph.D.

To think just a short time ago there once was a market for a zero gravity Marshall Stack - before Covid 19 laws made it illegal to play guitar outside for more than 5 people here in California
https://www.emergencyslo.org/en/currentrestrictions.aspx

There goes my plans for a Woody Guthrie / Country Joe & The Fish Tribute band concert outdoors.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: gumtown on December 23, 2020, 07:50:06 PM
Only problem with this design is the gravity generator is in the wrong place, it works much better slightly further forward.

(https://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/young-men/images/g-engines-coming-young-men-november-1956-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on January 12, 2021, 08:55:44 AM
Do this now

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on January 21, 2021, 03:34:21 PM
Direct Inspiration for Duane Allman

1968 Jesse Ed Davis w/ Taj Mahal

https://youtu.be/rQPdqw1xQHk
Statesboro Blues · Taj Mahal

℗ Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

Guitar: Jesse Edwin Davis
Drums: Sanford Konikoff
Composer, Lyricist: Willie McTell
Bass: James Thomas
Producer: David Rubinson
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Post by: admin on January 23, 2021, 09:21:47 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on February 20, 2021, 09:14:20 AM
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https://www.amazon.com/RTL-SDR-Blog-RTL2832U-Software-Defined/dp/B011HVUEME/ref=mp_s_a_1_1

http://www.arrl.org/news/eagles-guitarist-joe-walsh-wb6acu-promotes-amateur-radio-in-media-announcements

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on February 23, 2021, 02:24:03 PM
Find the best PU location for YOU!


https://www.myrareguitars.com/bass-style-1986-westone-rail

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on February 23, 2021, 02:40:55 PM
Vacuum Tube Triode Nonlinearity as Part of The Electric Guitar Sound
T. E. Rutt, Aardvark Audio, Red Bank NJ
Presented at the 76th Convention of Audio Engineering Society
0ctober 8-11, 1984, New York (Preprint 2141 F-5)

https://robrobinette.com/images/Guitar/Overdrive/Rutt_Overdrive_Paper.pdf

https://robrobinette.com/How_Spring_Reverb_Works.htm
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on February 26, 2021, 09:36:28 AM
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Post by: admin on March 02, 2021, 08:32:51 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on March 05, 2021, 08:50:45 AM
"How can I actually do hex processing in series to external hardware, since the Roland devices don't have hex analog outputs?"
a bit of a workaround is

* Use a GP-10 or SY-1000, either provide 8 USB Audio Channels output ( one per string+ Stereo Out)

* Use a third party multichannel USB Audio Interface with 8 Output channels ( Focusrite Scarlet 18i20

* Use a Mac computer, create an "Aggregate Core Audio device" with GP-10/SY-1000 as 8 channel USB Audio input, and Scarlet 18i20 as 8 Channel USB Audio Output

Use Rogue Amoeba Loopback to make the I/O connections
https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/

(there is some minor latency added  - but it accomplishes net result of 8 Live Audio analog output channels sourced from GP-10/ SY-1000 for real time use with third party hardware


Not found a similar solution for Windows
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on April 16, 2021, 10:56:06 AM
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PRS SE Hollowbody w/ Bigsby
Surf gig with Boomer Surf Band

1st gig of 2021 , was going to play my 2020 Fender Jazzmaster , but during sound check the PRS SE just had better note definition and puncher tone -stock G&B pickups. I have a coil split mod switch but ended up not using it as stock PUs sounded open, airy, bright yet meaty

My rig that day:
(64 Fender Tube Reverb, Barber Tone Press, EHX OD Glove, Artist Tweedtone 20 watt el84 tube Amp
https://www.artist-guitars.com/products/artist-tweedtone20r-20-watt-valve-guitar-amplifier-14945
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on June 18, 2021, 11:26:11 AM
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https://www.jimmypage.com/discography/sessions
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Post by: admin on June 18, 2021, 11:37:54 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on January 30, 2022, 09:42:32 PM
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An enormous range of approaches and sounds exist in the modern guitar. The instrument can howl, scrape, scratch, scream, sing, pluck, and soothe. What stands out in this book is not so much the instrument itself, rather the wonderful and idiosyncratic personalities of these bold souls, their sometimes wild, often zigzagging, and ultimately profound journeys toward beauty, meaning, and excellence in their work.

We find out that jazz icon Bill Frisell won a high school band contest playing R&B tunes, beating out future members of Earth Wind and Fire. We learn which of Nels Cline's compositions he wishes to have played at his funeral. Michael Gregory Jackson recounts painful episodes of racism as he stretched between the chasm of avant jazz, rock, and blues in the 1980s. Many more revelations, amusements, and philosophies abound.
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on March 30, 2022, 11:34:22 AM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: admin on July 15, 2022, 10:38:26 PM
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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 21, 2023, 08:52:44 PM
https://youtu.be/H-7kQmpjBds

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on April 23, 2023, 12:52:06 PM
Roots of Tangerine Dream
https://youtu.be/UUR3I3PiXMc
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on July 08, 2023, 11:51:33 AM
Been playing a lot of live gigs past year  with two local bands - one is a 4 piece, (more like a zep/who trio line up + a female singer) , and I play rock covers and vintage surf tunes lately using a small pedal board ( Mooer Blues Driver, Mosky Timmy clone , Boss DD-500 delay, '64 Fender Reverb unit, into a 15 watt 12" Celestion tube combo amp .  Last week I had played Saturday evening (2 hours) , Monday evening (5 hours) , and then Tuesday was a 2 hour 4th of July concert in the park to a packed crowd before sunset.  At the last gig on the 4th the 20 year old soundman was running up to my pedal board to change settings , but he was confused and left it alone, but he indicated he was not too happy with what he was hearing - as he's used to Metal bands, Dance DJ /rappers. Or SRV Blues bands - and not aware of Dick Dale Surf guitar tones - it was a windy day and I thought I delivered an average performance despite the flak from the soundman. Was happy to leave and get some rest. Today I found out several other guitar players who I consider the top tier in my community- a few former GIT/Dick Grove jazz cat guitar teachers ive known 40 years ( since my Valley Arts days as a repairman) who've never seen me play before contacted me to say they were happy to finally hear me play guitar, saying "great tone! And great playing"!
Its a reminder that you never know who might be in the audience at every performance, and always deliver your best, and not get thrown off your game from negative actions of a small few.     
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on September 05, 2023, 11:06:15 PM







Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on October 04, 2023, 02:01:10 PM
On Facebook Guitar Groups, must recheck any technical advice provided

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Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on November 19, 2023, 10:47:32 AM
Best $200 guitar I ever purchased

2023 Firefly FFLP LP with Floyd Rose w/ Matte finish

Upgraded the factory copy floyd ( which had a short 32mm trem block  )  to genuine Floyd Trem with taller 43mm block I've had in a drawer past 25 years, and swapped stock pickups for Fishman Fluence Classic pickups I purchased in 2019  for a different guitar - Tone push/pull pots for High frequency shift, and Voice2 - versatile. Rear cover plate rechargeable battery.
All mahogany , no maple top guitar ( like a genuine LP Custom) has a bit more high end. Matte black satin finish means its not a horrid sticky gloss polyurethane on the neck.
Factory stainless steel frets-   amazing fretwork , plays like butter, and 50's neck profile

Will give it a test at todays live show  with my band - should stay in tune
(https://i.postimg.cc/Kz6hhqqb/20231119-083551.jpg)
 
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 07, 2024, 07:46:20 AM
Given a choice, I always prefer lower output pickups. The sweetest sounding pickups I own are TV Jones Filtertrons in my Gretsch Brian Setzer Signature 6120- can feed those into a DI box and never experience the typical transient spike clipping distortion - common with higher wound Dimazio "Super Distortion" type pickups. 

I can hear the difference in Alnico vs Ceramic magnets- lower wound pickups have higher frequency response, while pickups with overwound coil bobbins often are too muddy, and lost clarity.

I prefer a P.A.F. humbucker with 7k-8k DC Resistance , vs the 16k high output focused midrange, and no top end types.

The Resonant Peak frequency of a specific pickup type often is the main characteristic which impacts preference for specufic music genres .

When I watch Youtube, it offends me that 80% of what todays guitarists think of as "Clean tone" is often way over the top distorted,  and when they kick in the Lead Solo tone, most result in a tone where you cant tell a Bridge pickup from a Neck pickup.

I end up bulk of my live playing with stock guitars, stock pickups, always add a few stomp boxes as needed (compressor,  blues driver, Timmy clone, Delay) into a 15-25 watt Tube Amp with a Celestion 12" speaker  and play all the music styles I wish to play, at any venue.

I tend to play more this style
https://dripfeed.net/listen.html

Im not stuck in metal legato / chug land all night - my current band rejected a dozen guitarists because thats all they knew, and most could not play rhythm guitar, as they didnt know too many chords

Compared to other local bands, suddenly Im unique ;)

These are my general experience observations  having played and setup hundreds of guitars since 1967

More reference reading
https://dylantalkstone.com/blogs/dylan-mckerchie/the-resonant-peak-of-a-pickup-what-is-it-and-does-it-matter
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 09, 2024, 10:48:48 AM
Some of my current ebay  china project guitars

I prefer 24.75" scale fat necks, which these deliver

(https://i.postimg.cc/vHwzkVT1/20231219-110506.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/pL2BXMDR/20231214-151422.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/3rv1tB85/20240108-145513.jpg)


Rewiring the Firebird
(https://i.postimg.cc/Dw7yjnGV/20240110-141721.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/Z5h1T8zk/20240111-145433.jpg)

Mods in progress on the fat neck SG with Floyd

(https://i.postimg.cc/cHppZrMm/20240203-114559.jpg)
My latest solution for playing live with arthritus

1 inch thick "Fat 58"  neck profile is stock  on Chibson LP ( $250 on Ebay from LS Customshop))
Then requires a few upgrades and setup ( Gotoh Floyd, Gotoh Nut, Peavey T60 rewire for coil taps , push push pots for bridge PU phase /Single coil select, Volume Bypass for Solos


(https://i.postimg.cc/NjGNpz81/Screenshot-20240219-151005-Gallery.jpg)
Will add an internal GK Kit this summer - will use a spare Gibson/Tronical PU Select switch /Pot for stealth GK VOL , and two Shadow Kill Switch tone potentiometers for GK  S1, S2 switches = stealth GK Install


https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ls+customshop&form=HDRSC3&first=1 (https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ls+customshop&form=HDRSC3&first=1)

Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 10, 2024, 08:04:27 AM
I used one in my 1970s Guitar Rig as needed

(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=32792;image)
https://www.electrosmash.com/mxr-distortion-plus-analysis (https://www.electrosmash.com/mxr-distortion-plus-analysis)
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 17, 2024, 09:16:15 AM
https://vocalremover.org/
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on January 28, 2024, 12:11:11 PM
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Post by: Elantric on January 31, 2024, 10:54:18 PM
Title: Re: Elantric's Tips and Blog
Post by: Elantric on March 20, 2024, 12:32:24 PM
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/3gsAAOSwOh9lwf0p/s-l1600.jpg)

Ebay $250 guitar to be used for my next GK Internal Kit build .

Its ideal type guitar because custom pick guards allow testing/trial various GK  control configurations , and plenty of room for installing a Sustainer , MIDI Controls, and  reversible to stock. 
Easy access with top mounting on pickguard , and decent padded gig bags for Flying V are $29

8.12 pounds
Ok 1960s Profile Neck - seems nobody makes a Flying V with a fat 50s neck profile :( but this one is thicker neck profile than my Bonamassa Epi Amos Flying V
(https://i.postimg.cc/ZYcbtWZd/20240315-122027.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/HskppTsP/20240315-125013.jpg)


Room to install modifications
(https://i.postimg.cc/gJ5FWtmS/20240315-231057.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/dtVRDgh3/20240319-110518.jpg)

Wax pot stock pickups (Neck=8.2kohm), (Bridge=11.2kohm)
Rewire with
500k Volume (push-push solo bypass)
500k Shadow Tone Mute Kill switch
PMT HCP Dual mode Coil selector.
Full aluminum foil pickguard Ground

(https://i.postimg.cc/gj6kSvsf/20240319-204653.jpg)
Swapped bridge for genuine Floyd , and added a tremolo stopper

(https://i.postimg.cc/23RjPVX3/20240319-204944.jpg)

Turned out pretty well - will add a GK internal kit