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    Posted: October 29 2004 at 09:58

I got interested in them after hearing The The's "Dusk" album.

They're also great for getting that Peter Hook-style "lead bass" thing, but I guess that's not a very trendy sound these days

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Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

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Has anybody had any experience with baritone guitars?

Just a little- the Danelectro Baritone is about the only one out there I could afford, and I've played it a few times in the store but never took it home. I just don't know if I'd use it enough to make it worthwhile. It's a cool sound, though- great for double-stops especially (or 'diads' for you serious theory types ).

Thanks JL. I've been toying with buying a baritone for ages but trying to find one to try out is proving to be a little harder than I expected. It was a very 'Post Rock' instrument I'm told and fell in and out of fashion in a matter of months. There seem to be a lot of them second hand on eBay in the USA but practically none in the UK. Also, after the Danelectro version, the price tag of a decent baritone guitar leaps dramatically.

 

 



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Originally posted by sigod sigod wrote:

Has anybody had any experience with baritone guitars?

Just a little- the Danelectro Baritone is about the only one out there I could afford, and I've played it a few times in the store but never took it home. I just don't know if I'd use it enough to make it worthwhile. It's a cool sound, though- great for double-stops especially (or 'diads' for you serious theory types ).
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Originally posted by Velvetclown Velvetclown wrote:

Hmmmmmm  Well Peter you know what they say about men with large feet !!!  

They wear big shoes.

I always refer to bariton guitar's as bassguitar, but I could be wrong off course Sigod



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Has anybody had any experience with baritone guitars?
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 It's a frikkin'brilliant idea I hope that we'll have that different section!
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Hmmmmmm  Well Peter you know what they say about men with large feet !!!  
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Stern Smile Velvet, Dearest Pumpkin Pie, the "16" does not refer to my age....Evil Smile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Peter, being 16 you have no saying at all in this site, go back to wheel of fortune
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[QUOTE=Jim Garten]Oh - she can scream![/QUOTE]

No, that's just the Missus telling you to "Turn that bloody racket off!", Oh Jimson King.Wink
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Oh - she can scream!

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sweet! Not too convenient for road trips, but an awe-inspiring sound I'm sure
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OK, OK - I have to jump in here.

I have been trying to resist, as some of the older members have seen all this before, but as we now have a dedicated instruments section.........

1971 Hammond L122 through a Leslie 145 - I'll see if I can get a piccie on the board

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Hmmm a DAW debate. Cubase v Sonar v Reason v etc etc

Reason - great for some sequencing and drum editing etc as a Rewire but crucially no audio!! But i love its reverb, it's cool

as for the rest, i like drum programming in fruity loops for some bizarre reason but wouldn't bother with it for anything else. Cubase SX I'm using but it lile all the other major DAWs is complicated and i'm thick soooo...

I'll either entrust all the engineering end to my much more techno-friendly mate or else for quick and dirty recording (and i can't recommend this highly enough) I'll go with Traktion. It's cheap, incredibly cheerful, has the best workflow you can find and supports pretty much everything (rewire, vsts etc) It also has a freeze function, which took most of the big budget DAWs ages to incorporate.

I guarantee you will have a track up and running in Tracktion in 10 minutes.

All this for 80 odd bucks! Can't go wrong. It's the computer equivalent of having a tape deck and a tandy mic.

Check it out at http://www.mackie.com/products/tracktion/ and www.tracktionfaction.com

 
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Acid is great for recording (zero monitoring latency for me) and plug-in effects do unexpectedly wonderful things sometimes- when they work at all. I have a little trouble with detailed MIDI editing in Acid, though. I like to be able to get in and tweak each note position by a few ticks 18,000 times until I give up in frustration . But for some reason, the exact same audio file seems to sound better in Acid than anything else- why would that be? The same tracks also seems to sound a little better in Cubase than Sonar.

Music software is like MMORPG's...take the best bits of each one and you might have one decent program.

I know many people who swear by Fruity Loops- I can't stand working with it, personally. Reason never did much for me either, which is too bad because it has lots of killer features. I liked Logic a lot, but software that requires serious learning just to get a basic track sounding right is a little scary.

My basic criteria for a music app is: how quickly can I open it up and record something before I lose the inspiration (or in Cubase's case, the will to live)?

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What you need is Acid

Sonar is good for final tweaks and mixdowns, but Acid is better by far for multitrack recording, and I use Magix (horrible name, but dirt cheap and a very useful tool) for when I need to do loads of cut/copy paste operations, because Acid can be a pain.

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Just needed to vent- I HATE SONAR!!!! Why must it make the simplest tasks so difficult...and also make a simple wayward click able to wreak so much havoc? Just once I'd like to just cut and paste a section without having to go around and clean up the mess (especially those pesky hidden duplicate notes!). I'd actually be missing Cubase...if only Cubase would play nice with my PC and soundcard...the latency just plain stinks.

Sigh. Back in the Pentium 2 days I used Voyetra's Digital Orchestrator...and that was such a simple joy to work with, even though the digital audio quality wasn't great. It's just so hard to resist plug-in FX (especially the free ones!), and nearly impossible for me to work without virtual instruments now.

When I was a little mulletheaded youngster I used a little Radio Shack cassette recorder with a built-in condenser mic. If I wanted to overdub I'd have to play the first tape on my stereo (also a 'quality' Radio Shack product...that's Tandy to you folks overseas), record another track on the portable and live with the noise...I still have a few of those tapes somewhere; everytime I get angry with my software I should pull them out and compare the results.

Hmm, I feel better. This sure beats breaking stuff!

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i've got a natural Epiphone ES335 (Dot) (pictured below), a black Squier Strat and a classical guitar by Alhambra handmade in Spain.
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peavey classical acoustic guitar, squier precision bass, squier fat strat (completely buggered) and on the 14th of october a brand spanking new gibson SG special.

41 days and counting

 
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FAO James Lee - Regarding mellotron sounds - your using sonar, so just go for G-Media's super M-Tron vst instrument. If you're using sonar 3.0 you can host the m-tron and as far as I know they now do a standalone version anyway. It rocks!!! and their are three or four tape banks available. It's cheap too - abhout £30 sterling.

Also check out their ImpOscar version of the old Oscar synth from the early 80s. It's astounding!! Though Native Instruments' Pro-53 is similarly fab

I'm currently working with a bunch of stuff. Pentium 4 3ghz, 1gig ram, cubase sx, monitored through a roland vs2840 and alesis active monitors

native instruments b4 (hammond), g-media imposcar, a great rhodes sample in reason and some cheesy string synth downloads, a roland jv1010 with vintage keys card for keyboards

garritan personal orchestra for strings overload

guitars: fender tele, a bunch of honher strat copies (which kick ass) and epiphone g1275 double neck 6 &12, a vintage amg1 resonator, a tanglewood 12 string acoustic, a yamaha fg365se elecrto-acoustic 6 string and a yamaha sa245 classical and cimar and hohner basses

too many toys - not enough techno- savvy, hence zero productivity - DOH!

anyone looking for advice help suggestions and free downloads of vast instruments effects etc should check out kvr-vst.com it is a fantastic resource. Also the people at betamonkeymusic.com have the best rock drum samples I've heard and they're cheap and Chris is a nice guy. They're also soon to bring out some weird timing samples specifically for prog.

Hope this is of help
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