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Post by mastercaster on Sept 3, 2006 13:47:21 GMT
Hi, I am a bedroom picker when it comes to playing my guitar 90% of the time. As a result I am an avid user of midis. My setup consist of a Hamer Eclipse guitar, a Zoom 503 amp simulator, a mac mini computer, and I use Easybeat as my midi player and sequencer/editor. Any midi using guitarist care to share their setups. Also I have been looking at Fenders G-dec series of amps with their onboard midi file player, an upcoming release will have onboard midi file storage. Any midi using guitarist use a G-dec?
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Post by rockabilly on Sept 4, 2006 10:38:29 GMT
Hi mastercaster
I have 7 guitars - Gibson les Paul 1975, Gretsch White Falcon, Carlo Robelli (setzer type), Epiphone .335, Fender Highway Strat, Ibanez Strat copy, Yamaha 12 String acoustic (with bridge pickup) and a Yamaha 4 string bass with active pickups. Plug them in to respective amps, Marshal Valvestate 80, Behringer 212 stereo with MIDI, and Hartke 350 bass rig into a 12 port DI box to a Behringer 800W mixer/amp to a Tascam 2488 recorder. The raw product is then ported to Adobe Audition and Cakewalk Pro for tweaking and mastering on the 'music' computer. I also use a Behringer FB1010 MIDI foot pedal for switching the Amp built in effects and volume etc. (Also have a V-AmpPro2). Other than that I have a 3/4 double bass and a set of Pearl drums which are fully microphoned up (never did the get hang of beating the skins!!). I use MIDI for Drums and Bass mainly and wished I could use the Casio 61 key CK keyboard.
I've played through a G-Dec - very nice unit - better than my studio Behringer version!! However, I record the backings etc in the 'studio' and plonk them on to disc and use a CD player set up for live performances/sequencing etc.
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Post by Steptoe on Sept 7, 2006 11:25:43 GMT
After 30 odd years of playing guitar and being a traditionalist I have gone digital. I now use a Line6 Variax guitar and a Line6 Flextone 3 Amp, They are perfect for playing covers, I can switch from a gretch duo jet through a 56 Tweed Bassman to a 58 Strat through a Vox AC30 and dozens of more combinations at the click of a footswitch!
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Post by nevnbron on Nov 9, 2006 22:45:19 GMT
Why is it that guitar players in particular wax maudlin' on their gear. Tears come to their eyes when they recall the first time they saw their dream model sitting on the shop wall followed by months of figuring out how to aquire it and then with it just within reach some other ne'redowell snaffles the prize. "Twas ever thus, but in Australia we have one extra dimension, "Maton"s. Just saying the word I can feel the wood beneath my fingers and a gap into the heavens opens recalling the sound. Not to bright not to sweet,but perfect for every occasion. They are able to do it to on the solid-bodies. I've had many over the years and nothing in my experience comes so consistantly close to magic - more power to their elbow - Nev.
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Post by rockabilly on Nov 10, 2006 22:42:44 GMT
Hi Nev
It's true - in the early days we used to look dreamily in to the music shop window at the 'dream guitar' and amps etc. In 79 I spent a fortune (then) on a 2nd hand dream guitar, Gibson LP which I would never part with. The Maton is a different breed of guitar and I've played a couple - they don't age so well and the finish is suspect (especially for the price) - personally I'd go a Taylor if acoustic was my main guitar. Having said that, a mate of mine picked up a brilliant sounding hollow bodied Maton for $150 from a pawn shop and it sounds pretty cool
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Post by Steptoe on Nov 11, 2006 1:39:09 GMT
I don't think the current production of Matons are as good as those of years gone by.
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Post by nevnbron on Nov 12, 2006 23:03:20 GMT
Am I surrounded by Phillistines. However I do think they improve with age. The best sounding instrument I ever played was at a friends house. A person unknown had left it at his house some years previously and it just sat gathering dust in a corner. It had rusted strings and a cobweb or two inside the body but it was an early 70s Maton 12 string. I took it home cleaned it up and put on some Dr Tomastics and it sang like Ella Fitzgerald. Nothing like it before or since has left me so breathless with the beauty of the sound of that thing, not even my own favorites, and after I took it back it went straight into the corner where it remains to this day. I've never seen problems with the finish, this is a new one to me, maybe they don't travel well. They did make a Les Paul knock off ( a forerunner to the Phil Manning) in 1970 which was a superior instrument to the original. Though, for balance, their Strat knock off was a dog. Nev.
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Post by Steptoe on Nov 12, 2006 23:41:27 GMT
Even Phil Manning doesn't use the Phil Manning ;D
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Post by nevnbron on Nov 13, 2006 22:15:17 GMT
There's no answer to that except that. Nev.
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Post by peternoone on Nov 26, 2006 1:12:15 GMT
Has anyone heard of "cole clarkes"they are a brilliant acoustic guitar!!!
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Post by Steptoe on Nov 26, 2006 1:52:30 GMT
Hello Cummo.......  From what I've been told Brad Clarke was the CEO at Maton guitars and then left to start his own company, Cole Clarke. |
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Post by peternoone on Nov 27, 2006 8:26:58 GMT
Thank you,Mr Moderator
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Post by dixon on Dec 9, 2006 11:05:10 GMT
Hey Mastercaster Welcome to the world of midi. My setup is a Charvel TX Custom guitar with a Roland GK-2 midi pickup, Roland GR-1 Synth, Alesis QS-6 Keyboard, Laptop with Yamaha Sound Card, Power Tracks Pro & BIAB (PG Music). I have not used the Fender, but I would be concerned with the midi sound canvas. It might sound good or cheezee, how polyphonic 32 notes or 64 @ a time. Try before you buy.
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