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I would go a bit tighter on the bottom skin, just the slightest bit higher pitch, kills a lot of awful overtones. Try without any skins on just tapping the side of the tom and listening for the natural tone of the shell, and aim for something that matches that when tuning the top head, they will ring nice when you find the sweet spot. That said I've always found modern coated tom skins to sound comical and quite frankly awful...I've heard them sound good on some kits, it might depend on the space they are being played in. (don't start me on coated kick skins!!!) Can't go wrong with Remo clear pinstripes on toms, but Evans EC2 are starting to be my fave.

Hehe cool man, the Octatrack by all accounts smokes this thing for breakfast (and then some) in terms of capability, but this does have very distinct character sound which is why I went for it, I think you'd have to be a fan of that sound to want to go for it tho! You must have come across the monomachine aswell then? Another thing on the want list but just in the price range which I can't justify as I don't use these enough. Im using my minibrute to create drum sounds and bass sounds, then sampling them into the emax, it has a built in 16 track scratchpad sequencer which is very handy, it can also be the midi master clock, so locking up the minibrute and the jp to it is a breeze then can build tracks from there. Have all the toys but lacking in the time ( and talent!) just now I'll try work on some tracks in case anyone wants to hear a demo...

EMU EMAX1 - Classic 80s sampler keyboard + loadsa discs Reluctant sale but drug habits aren't cheap to maintain. The EMU EMAX1 is a sampling keyboard from 1986 made famous by the likes of Depeche Mode. 12 bit sampling (compressed in 8 bit) which means very lofi grungy sounding samples (altho sample rate can go up to 42khz), and with only 512kb RAM it lends itself more to sampling single sounds rather than multisampling a Steinway grand piano! Everything sounds 100 times heavier once sampled into the emax, especially drum/percussive sounds, everything gets a more percussive quality. Only the sampling section is digital, the filters and VCA are analogue (unlike later EMAX models) You can loop and splice samples (albeit in an archaic fashion) and apply evelopes to the filters and vca to create all sort of pad sounds or thudding bass/drums sounds....8 outputs The keyboard hasn't really stood the test of time and has a strange feel to it, but still very playable and no dead keys. Everything works as expected. There are about 10 factory discs and the rest are copies, all the standard EMU libraries.... £350 ONO

£80 for the 8080?

Both now sold, many thanks guys!

Dark Time sold!! Dark Energy still for sale...I have just bought the Arturia Minibrute which suits me more so will drop price to 350.

Bit of a long shot on here but am selling two quality pieces of analogue synth equipment by german manufacturer Doepfer. Doepfer Dark Energy synth (left) Doepfer Dark Time Step sequencer (right) Both are serious bits of kit, if you know anything about synths you'll know what these are. The Dark Energy is the original MKI version, with much loved CEM filter, this chip is no longer in production thus there is now a MKII version with vastly inferior filter. This is essentially a modular synth in one with break out points on the LFO and EV, CV inputs for pitch, filter, vca etc. and an integrated MIDI/USB to CV (with outputs for all CV) so it could double as a midi to CV converter. Great sound is possible , 100% fully analogue, check videos on youtube etc for an idea. As its no longer made and much revered Im looking for £375. Yes you can buy a MKII for £399 new but it wont sound like this. The Dark Time is a 2x8 step sequencer with CV/Gate and MIDI output. Various timing patterns, adjustable clock speed/source/shuffle/gate time , the two steps can be combined to give 16 steps, or it can be used in a special mode where the second row adjusts gate time. Forward/Backward/Random stepping. The dogs bollocks. I have owned this for about a week and really only opened it to see it working and take this picture, a bit of an impulse buy I am regretting now so looking to sell for £350, I paid £389. The thing is literally brand new and have receipt to prove it. Was ordered just before new year and arrived last Friday. Save £40 if you were planning on buying one new at least. Not really open to deals unless someone wanted to buy both together, £700. You wouldn't get both for that 2nd hand off ebay.

Everytime I've used covers as a way of getting a new band at least playing a tune together they've never got the past of stage covers and get trapped doing that, from that perspective I really hate people who value covers over original stuff, its the laziness of learning/writing new songs, playing to empty bars full of people who aren't familiar with your music and trying to win anyone over....that should be a challenge but its too easy for folk to do a third rate cover band playing covers everyone else has done in past. Fuck that. Where I don't mind it is when its done very well and better than the original, there are a few bands I really like who I would never see live now because they are no longer any good and there gigs are far too big, if I could see a decent cover band play a small venue who played with the energy the bands originally had....i would enjoy that. i wouldn't take it very seriously tho and wouldn't exactly go out my way to see it. Anyone who doesn't find doing a cover of their favourite song fun (even if just kept within the practice room) has serious ego issues if they believe their music is vastly superior....its either pretentious or a cover up for the fact the lack the simple of skill of hearing a tune and being able to play it immediately... Difference between people who learned their instrument by picking it up and playing and those who went to tuition, music college, paid their way there....meh

Provisionally sold....unless someone wants to offer over the odds just kiddin..cheers

For quick sale ... Marshall jcm2000 dsl100 + 1960a cab. £375 no more no less....paypal preferred. In good condition 10 years old £1200 new then and now. Cab has slight tear amp has 2 valves for 50w...more than ample. Want to shift it quick can u help?

I have a Yamaha MD8 and blew the first channel after some idiot (a drummer) plugged a mic with phantom power into the 1st channel while phantom power was turned on....it blew the channel and now it is useless for playback or recording....7 tracks are 3 more than you really need anyway. Looking at a photo of it(the fostex), it looks like you have direct outs for the 8 channels, so try plugging the direct out into one the aux returns (if available) and see if you can hear it that way. If that works, then you can try the suggestion above of bouncing a track to track 3 and getting round it that way. But yes, sounds like its shagged. They are probably a nightmare inside but if you find a schematic you could try opening it up and probing about, checking continuity from jack to preamp/eq/fader/etc is in line with what you see on the working channels. If theres a weak link you could replace a part. Oh reading it more....how do you switch from playback and recording? is it digitally or is there a latching switch? may just be the switch that changes from line to playback, it could have been on the way out, and after fiddling youve broke it completely That woul dbe a nice easy part to replace! Good luck

Is that a sampler? Any good? How much?

Backgammon! Granted its only for 2 players, but you can play double matches, or a chouette match (1 vs everyone else, in a winner stays on format, never tried it/understood it). How anyone can play monopoly longer than 15 minutes is beyond me, but I've been kicked out of several bars for not finishing an all too important game of BG before closing time...get a few boards and play a shoot out format playing down to a winner, everyone whos out is in charge of keeping the beers poured and crisps/dip replenished....

Will be soldering together one of these soon I think http://mutable-instruments.net/shruthi1 But if I had money to burn..... http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/products/p8pe/

Heading in offspring territory....

I like that nobody got that.

I don't do chord names...but I always played it -1- -1- -0- -0- -0- -3- sounds alright to me...it seems to be a different chord they play on different takes...think I have heard three versions...the one with the shimmery intro is definetly a different chord from the version everyone knows...of course I havent heard it in about 10 years... haha now I've listened to it and it sounds nothing like it....oh well.....it will be a combination of two chords, bass and piano....all of which will be recorded on one track along with the drums vocals and hand claps, track 2 kept spare for out of time tambourine and the odd backing vocals, panned hard left and right because no one at home will ever have 2 speakers anyway...

Been revisiting Welsh recently, well Trainspotting, Porno and Acid House...all courtesy of MCCABE. All excellent, especially porno, sick as fuck in places.....bloody marvelous No time for reading but the audio books are excellent (save Trainspotting which is ruined by passages from Welsh himself....disappointing!!) Tam Dean Burn nails them so good though.... Really want to get skagboys but at £26 on audible it will have to wait....dubious about a prequel aswell as porno feels too much like a sequel for seqeuls sake, and essentially same story in the end.....seems unlikely they will ever make a film out of porno but what about skagboys?

One of my all time favourite Aberdeen bands....criminally overlooked now, but hot shit in their day CLAN - Eat The Jam - recorded 1991(?) at The Mill Gotta love the mullets!

Someone on this board offered me 300 for my DSL100 head *AND* 4x12 cab....considering the blood sweat and beers i sacrificed in order to pay for it I doubt I will ever sell my amp, I wouldn't stoop as low as 300 for the head personally....no point ripping yourself off!! Can't believe the price of them new though...usually the price of these things come down...Marshall's prices have been jumping about a bit lately no?

On an eighties trip just now....one finished tune http://www.anticitizen.co.uk/mp3/eightiestune.mp3 one unfinished, which is similar...both of these were made with soft synths and sound a bit thin, but deliberately lofi, 80s-ish http://www.anticitizen.co.uk/mp3/eightiestune2.mp3 Not very 80s-ish also not finished... http://www.anticitizen.co.uk/mp3/synth1.mp3 Using the JP8000, a bit of a muddy mix tho and stupid song...no sequencing except the drums, i like the looseness http://www.anticitizen.co.uk/mp3/stupidsong.mp3

They must be clutching at straws....buy all your VST plug ins again in new proprietary format? Sequencing in Reason is horrible....I've always rewired it so I can use those same plug in in Cubase happily alongside reason with far easier sequencing...or does anyone actually like working in Reason?!

I'm glad RockAustin didn't mention to you that he was selling one! I am now the proud owner and it is an amazing machine... Im not much of a synth head but have been using soft synths for a while now but not having to use a computer (and clicking about on one parameter at atime) and having EVERY parameter ready to control with knobs and sliders is just awesome..... I tried that JP6K vst, doesn't sound a thing like the 8000 to me, woul highly suggest picking one up!! I am ditching my cubase setup and just using a Roland JP8000 and Korg EA1 (as a primitive sequencer, although its sounds are ok) recording on an old blackface ADAT. Using the SPLIT on the JP8000 I can program some drum sounds on the lower part (combination of white noise and triangle wave with creative filtering and using keyboard tracking to get the low keys thudding and the high keys noisy, then using the arpeggiator (or better, RPS) you can get some rhythyms going) I do the same trick on the Upper part to get a bass in the low keys and lead in the high keys, and drive the bass from the Korg EA1 with the EA1 clock being sync' withthe JP8000, play lead/chords in real time, record, overdub...no sequencing or computers or ground loops (only draw back of the JP8000, its not double insulated!) Now have my heart set on something else for drums and something better for bass (like a doepfer dark energy) but I need to finish off paying the JP8000 first! hehe...

Could I pay you up for the Roland over 2 months? :D200 is a bargain but its also roughly how much I lose in bank charges each month so I'm already down this month and have the missus birthday this month....but I could give you 100 deposit and 100 next month, or if you're willing to let it away early 125 this month and 125 the next....we work at the same place so it would be hard to do a runner

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