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(6 replies, posted in Effects Reviews)

I haven't had enough time to play with it yet to give a decent review.

So far I have set up the edit software on the computer. Without this I would find the whole process totally annoying and it would most likely put me off using the thing. For me to see the display I literally have to get down on my knees and put my head quite close which is not a comfortable position for tweaking - my eyesight is not the best but I am pretty sure it would be the same for most.

The editing software makes things much more straight forward. It still takes a little time but from what I can tell, for each channel you have a bank of 4 patches controlled by the lower 4 pedals, and you can assign individual effects to the top 4 pedals. So for example you could have a really nice tone and using the top pedals add or remove a chorus or delay without having to make a whole new patch.

So far I have been using this as effects only, plugged directly into my Blackstar 1W. I have created one patch myself and I downloaded another from the Line 6 patch site. They need tweaking to get the sound I want but so far pretty good - I have not tried what it is like going direct into the computer.

I will certainly be doing some more testing over the Christmas period as I have some well deserved time off!

177

(4 replies, posted in Your Recordings)

Nice!

178

(8 replies, posted in Guitars)

Thanks Alun

In the end I swapped the parts as mentioned and currently I have 2 of the 4 screw holes holding it in place. I'm going to drill new screw holes now - the guitar now tunes up fine so at least the problem has been resolved!

179

(8 replies, posted in Guitars)

Actually that idea doesn't work as the new tuners do not fit on the old plate. The new plates screw holes don't line up either!

180

(8 replies, posted in Guitars)

Unfortunately nothing is ever simple...

I got my new tuners but they wouldn't quite fit fully into the head.

It looks like they are slightly longer than the others.

So I thought I would swap the new ones with the old but they are slightly different.

So now I am going to have to mix and match parts to get it to fit - ie new tuners with the worm drive, using the old plate and gear and whatever the part is called the string wraps around!




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181

(23 replies, posted in Music Theory)

I certainly agree!

182

(5 replies, posted in Your Recordings)

Nice work there  Good tight rhythm!

183

(19 replies, posted in General Chat)

It certainly can be tough to give up but I think often it is actually easier than people expect as long as they have made up their minds to give up.

184

(23 replies, posted in Music Theory)

I have been counting the beats each time I listen to music. It is starting make sense a bit more now!

185

(8 replies, posted in Guitars)

Got my new tuners today so hopefully be able to get this guitar up and running within the next couple of days!

I must be getting more patient in my old age as I previously would have been tearing my hair out not being able to try a new purchase for this long!

186

(23 replies, posted in Music Theory)

Ok well thanks for your help. I will have to keep pondering on this until it becomes clearer.

187

(23 replies, posted in Music Theory)

I guess my brain is just not capable of grasping this.

Where or how is it the high hat being defined as not a crotchet in the first place? Assuming you just had the high hat there, how can anyone say that each sound does not represent 1 beat ie 1 crotchett?

I know I blocked it in 16 notes in my example above but in reality there is no end to the loop. It is just a solid tick tick ticking of the high hat?

188

(23 replies, posted in Music Theory)

The time sig is 4/4 - though I have never really fully grasped time sigs completely.

I still don't get where the n/8 comes from - if there is just the high hat could it not be counted as:

1234 1234 1234 1234  = 4/4 @154bpm


Confused!

189

(23 replies, posted in Music Theory)

Thanks for helping but you have lost me!  default/yikes  default/yikes  default/yikes 

I can definitely understand why, in the opening post example, you would count the bass and snare though I still don't get why you would do this over counting the high hats. Both are consistently laying down a beat - just which one counts for the BPM.

If there were no bass or snare then I can only surmise that the bpm must be that of the high hat - 154bpm.

For example, if you just took that high hat sound and put it into a metronome, it would be at 154bpm.

default/mad  default/hmm

190

(19 replies, posted in General Chat)

Keep  up the good work.

I gave up a couple of year back now. I did really enjoy smoking though I knew I had to give it up, mainly for health reasons!

191

(23 replies, posted in Music Theory)

Thanks for the explanation - I think I am getting confused with the high  hats as this is what I am counting (an tapping to) in this instance though I guess these are only half beats.

If I took out the snare and the bass drum, leaving only the high hats - would the bpm still be the same?

192

(11 replies, posted in Guitars)

Classical guitars use nylon strings and tend to have a wider neck. Not too sure on other differences!

193

(8 replies, posted in Guitars)

Thanks a lot

I'll look to getting a new set and hopefully this will be the end of the problem!

194

(23 replies, posted in Music Theory)

polyal wrote:

work for olley
re add mp3: "The file you are trying to upload does not contain expected data. Are you sure that the file is an MP3?"..... it is definitely an mp3...?????????? cant upload relevant info

Mail it to me, I will check it out - it could be due to the filesize maybe,

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(23 replies, posted in Music Theory)

polyal wrote:

77bpm precisely    btw nice sounding drum kit is it ez?

Yes this is EZ Drummer. And 77bpm is exactly what I had it set to.

There is a couple of things that confused me about this.

Firstly I am unsure what to count as the main beat - to me, if I were tapping the tempo I would be tapping the high hat beat, the bass drum falling on beat one and the snare on beat three. However this would make the tempo 154bpm.

I was trying to find the tempo of a song that had a similar drum beat to this, so I aligned it all up and came up with cubase saying 77bpm however looking online, most of this bands tempos are >120 bpm and picking another couple of their tracks, I find the same issue with cubase reporting them at 1/2 the speed suggested.

So I got very confused and I still am!

How did you find the bpm?

196

(5 replies, posted in Announcements)

I will try but I am not sure if I can get 100!

Wow I feel so proud. I never dreamed that this forum could create such a collaboration!

Sounds great guys. Really like what you have done there James!

I'm lost for any more words!

198

(23 replies, posted in Music Theory)

I know this is really basic but I am struggling a little bit with selecting correct tempo for a drum beat to start recording to.

So what tempo is this?

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199

(8 replies, posted in Guitars)

I don't seem to be having the most amount of luck with my new classical guitar.

I managed tog et my slipping string issue sorted but now I have broken one of the tuning pegs and I am not sure how to go about finding a replacement.

Once I brought the strings up to near tuned almost all the tuning pegs were REALLY difficult to turn. So much so that I really could not do it with my hands alone, so I was using my string winder to assist.

I know that they should not be this hard to turn but I am not sure what to do to ease it up.

Anyhow, I now have ended up snapping one of the plastic parts of the peg.

So is it possible to replace just this part or does teh stiffness mean I should look to changing all tuning pegs?


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(20 replies, posted in Your Recordings)

Looks good to me!