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Post by levon on Jun 19, 2014 3:45:37 GMT -6
Gets? You mean they weren't already?? They're owned by Google, so I guess you're right...
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Post by levon on Jun 18, 2014 23:57:04 GMT -6
YouTube Is About To Delete Independent Artists From Its SiteSo, basically, they put a shitty deal on the table and said take it or leave it? Or are the majors paying them to squash the independent competition? How about YouTube does something about the millions of copyright infringements on its site first?
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Post by levon on Jun 16, 2014 7:27:08 GMT -6
Yes, you're right, I missed that
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Post by levon on Jun 16, 2014 6:56:02 GMT -6
I almost gave up on that. Still like the 1973 EQ and I'm glad they finally made the move. However, it's a pity - too put it politely - that they retired Microschope. What, I paid money for it and now it's abandoned?
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Post by levon on Jun 11, 2014 7:39:58 GMT -6
Ha, I guess there's no overnight sensations. It always takes forever/before it happens over night (to quote one of my lyrics)
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Post by levon on Jun 10, 2014 1:42:15 GMT -6
Very good article, but I fear Van Dyke is only preaching to the choir. I think the real crux of the problem is that the 'industry' never had any consideration for the creators, the very people that made them big. Not now and not 50 years ago. Artists have always been fvcked by record labels and publishers. The labels have been replaced by the the Spotifys of this world, who are even worse in fvcking artists. With this attitude, the industry destroys itself. Unfortunately, it also destroys us, the artists, and has already robbed millions of consumers of meaningful entertainment. What's left is a generation of losers with ring tones and generic wallpaper music. The sad thing is that they don't mind. Maybe our children's children will rediscover the value of music and art, the current i-generation won't.
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Post by levon on Jun 6, 2014 6:17:46 GMT -6
Just a point of order, here... It's not really a Rev D clone, is it? More of a Rev E, from what I can tell from the history of 1176 variations. The Rev E is a Rev D with 220V switch for us Europeans. Otherwise identical.
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Post by levon on Jun 5, 2014 23:30:16 GMT -6
A guitarist-friend of mine recently brought a Mesa Thiele 1x12. It worked magic with my Marshall. We also tried my Marshall 4x12 with Greenbacks and my 2x12 with the Greenback/V30 combo. The Mesa sounded best for what we did that day. I'm thinking of getting one myself. This one had the cheap Celestion in it, you can also get them with an EV12.
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Post by levon on Jun 4, 2014 3:06:42 GMT -6
JK, Have you compared the scuffham s-gear to amplitude? I think you can still download a free demo. I have both and prefer S-Gear. Mike Scuffham was a product designer at Marshall, he sure knows about tone.
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Post by levon on Jun 4, 2014 3:04:08 GMT -6
Johnkenn you have to demo S-Gear!! I'd be interested in your observations about it. Absolutely. I was a skeptic too, but S-Gear 2 is amazing. Try it. There's a bunch of additional sounds by users on the Scuffham forum that you can download. I also just got a good deal on a Palmer PDI-03, looking forward to trying that. You can still use your good old tube amp but save the hassle of putting a mic up. And you play full tilt at night. You won't have the flexibility and choice that a Kemper gives you, but it's way cheaper.
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Post by levon on Jun 4, 2014 0:40:38 GMT -6
Using various tape machines as source will probably sound more different than various DAWs.
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Post by levon on Jun 3, 2014 23:38:10 GMT -6
I've wanted the UAD Studer for a while now, but I have a $50 coupon from Slate, and their Studer is on sale for $99, so it would cost me $49, ugh.. The thing is, I had Slate's Studer once, and didn't like it, but I was just starting then, so perhaps I might understand it better now. I'm trying to talk myself into it, but the UAD Ampex is so good, I'm sure their Studer kills. FWIW, I use the Slate more than the UAD...
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Post by levon on Jun 2, 2014 1:23:56 GMT -6
Don't worry John, a forum like this attracts all kinds of, ahm, elements. And see, it sorted itself out. Keep up the good work.
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Post by levon on May 29, 2014 23:46:14 GMT -6
I can't wait for the "d'oh" once I find out, but what the hell is "BOC"? Don't worry, you're not alone. I was wondering what 'BOC' has in common with Back in Black...
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Post by levon on May 24, 2014 1:29:31 GMT -6
I am having a TON of fun with these. You can use them to send midi messages into your DAW, so they're like V-Drums without the kit. http://instagram.com/p/oVGnQwQUUD yeah chuck, page not found?? "I got blista's on my fingas" name that tune...? Helter Skelter, what do I win, a drum track?
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Post by levon on May 23, 2014 2:01:09 GMT -6
Yes, I do cut remote organ tracks. Has anybody listened to the tracks in Popmann's signature? Man, this is some serious stuff, do yourself a favor and check it out. Amazing. Love it!! Jamie, can I only buy the download files or do you also have a physical CD available? I might have a need for some B3 tracks in the future, I'll pm you. Currently working on an up-tempo rockpop song, it's not there yet, but maybe a rocking B3 solo would fit nicely.
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Post by levon on May 22, 2014 23:43:34 GMT -6
Music is food for the soul. And I'll have that beer with it...
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Post by levon on May 22, 2014 23:38:51 GMT -6
I swear I'm not being disagreeable here - I agree - the Stairway thing was reaching a little. But I was just thinking about this and it made me think about the whole IO Audio U47 circuit thievery that went on recently. I don't really see this any differently. i'm not saying it was right, but it's different because thats what everyone did back then, including clapton, beck... all of them. They'd hear something, they'd play it their way, they made a record and put their names on it, i don't believe it was a sinister thing at all. I know in this day and age its a wholly different thing, and so do they i'd bet. It's also far from the ioaudio debacle, that yannick dude was emailing chung in 2013 to steal info from him straight up. I almost guarantee when they wrote whole lotta love, it was their idea of a tribute to dixon by using those words and applying them in an entirely different musical context, they are utterly unrelated by anything other than word, and they are not even that close. i've said all i will on this matter, they are an amazing band, they could have made any song huge! long live Zep! I think you nailed it, it's just what they did back then. Today is a different story, too many mediocre 'songwriters' (they call themselves beatmakers, shudder, these days) copying what's in the charts only to make money. No love for music, no passion. Now that's disgusting. Page took the stuff that inspired him one or two steps further. And created something new that was mind-blowing. Case in point: Whole Lotta Love, they didn't just recycled some lyrics, that very riff can be found if you look for Howlin Wolf's Who's Been Talking. Still, what a great song Whole Lotta Love was. Back then, it changed my world more than Howlin Wolf ever did, not to disrespect the man.
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Post by levon on May 22, 2014 2:55:52 GMT -6
Yeah, it's been known for a long time that Spirit's Taurus inspired the opening sequence of Stairway, and, yes, it is very close. But Spirit didn't write Stairway The Song, Jimmy Page did. BTW, I read that some guys from Spirit now sue Led Zeppelin over this, some 40 years after the fact. They claim they didn't have the money to go ahead earlier. And just when Page is ready to re-release the album again, they suddenly have the money? And it's not even the guy who wrote it, Randy California has been gone for a while, it's the freakin bass player.
I liked Spirit back then and maybe Randy California should have gotten a credit. But then again, there's a whole sequence in Stairway that's 'inspired' by All Along The Watchtower, so will Mr. Zimmerman be the next to sue?
I love Led Zep and will always love them. One of the greats, for sure. Saw them live in 1973. And, as Tony so rightly pointed out, a lot of people would have remained unknown without Zep. Those early bluesmen surely borrowed heavily from each other, just like the 1960s folk guys. I mean, even the Beatles plagiarized others and what great songs came out of that.
Long live Zep!
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Post by levon on May 21, 2014 2:33:19 GMT -6
Can I have one, please, pretty please...
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Post by levon on May 20, 2014 7:45:32 GMT -6
What? I've been giving it way all my life! How stupid of me! I could have been monetizing, um, it, all these years? Sheesh What! you can make money off selling sperm? Damn! i've wasted thousands of dollar$ on my carpet! Remind me to never step on your carpet...
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Post by levon on May 20, 2014 7:44:35 GMT -6
Your wrong Tony. It's "my daddy's tractor". A youngster would have to have a J.O.B. to be able to afford their own. That ain't happening with this generation of derelicts. I actually had a young man tell me once that what he wanted to do for a living was sell his sperm. And that he loves bro country. You guys make me laugh. I remember having the very same type of conversation with my buddy many moons ago, when you had to have 'neon city lights' in all lyrics. What about 'I woke up this morning', lol...
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Post by levon on May 20, 2014 7:40:14 GMT -6
And have been for a long time.
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Post by levon on May 20, 2014 7:16:37 GMT -6
Let me get a U67 first, then I'll look for a brighter alternative
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Post by levon on May 20, 2014 5:52:18 GMT -6
No need to be ashamed of listening to the Bee Gees, T. They did amazing stuff. Listen to Main Course or Odessa. All the early stuff was great. I didn't like the Saturday Night stuff, but with that, they pioneered disco, they were always inventive. Abba, on the other hand... . Well, Frida was very sexy, back then. My guilty pleasure? I don't know, maybe Slash, he gets so much flak, but I like him. Never liked GNR though. Anyway, I listen to what I like and don't give a rat's ass about what others think.
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