General Music Chat

Planetguy, it seems you are being attacked by a certain fellow)s? whenever you post.. it could be the fact that although you are highly intellegent, you are even better at explaining your thoughts and your logic, perhaps better, or as well as anybody participating here, just wanted to let you know, don't let "them" silence you, stand up for the voice of reason, and let your gift of communicating with other like-minded sensible people continue on, fight the good fight! if need be!..

Planetguy, it seems you are being attacked by a certain fellow)s? whenever you post.. it could be the fact that although you are highly intellegent, you are even better at explaining your thoughts and your logic, perhaps better, or as well as anybody participating here, just wanted to let you know, don't let "them" silence you, stand up for the voice of reason, and let your gift of communicating with other like-minded sensible people continue on, fight the good fight! if need be!..

i have to say i'm very disappointed, dane. upon reading your thread title i thought perhaps you had discovered those long lost sweat sox of mine that had gone AWOL.

thanks for the kind words and props. rest assured i'm not going anywhere.

on the other hand, the words of anyone so small, petty, and pitiful...someone who takes delight and relishes in (unsuccessful) attempts at annoying others and counts them as "victories"....well, that's a sad, sad state of affairs and speaks to what their quality of life must be. sad stuff. they're to be pitied.

from the time, and energy wasted in their name calling and attacks, it's clear i'm under their skin and in their head. and that's too bad for them.

do you think I'm luring them in with my crafty sounding title? LOL

I've got some what I consider "better" music composed on guitar that I want to record but again no means to record it other than go to the 10-15 dollar an hour studio.. I really think I will impress people this time.. one of the tunes I played at a Glenworth auction over a week ago on a Sunday.. I was trying out all four of the Martin travel guitars they had up for auction.. they were the Felix The Cat collector series from around 2006? they had dust accumulation on them all the same type of dust accumulation as to suggest they were hanging in a music store for some time? looked to be NOS..all were out of tune and I did the auction company a service by tuning every one of them so I could check the tone and intonation.. all were great even though Chinese manufactured Martins.. I expect the DX1(correction: meant LX-1 date 11/4/13) is similar to these Felix The Cat series.. anyhow, a lady was so impressed by one of these originals of mine, she blurted out while I was in the middle of the piece, "you should be playing professionally"? in which I responded, I have played professionally but am happier being a peddler than playing for money at shows for the time being, she just smiled and walked away..the DX1 (correction: meant LX-1 date 11/4/13) is what I'm shopping for now, since the tone on those was EXCELLENT using I suppose the HPL "wood" DX1 (correction: meant LX-1 date 11/4/13) does use a real spruce soundboard though? all the guitars went 2 for $225.00 ea. and 2 went for $200.00.. my auction buddy Larry was there from Bolivar, and he said he would be going 80 on them I said you won't have a chance.. I was going $150.00 for the best sounding one of the four..

do you think I'm luring them in with my crafty sounding title? LOL

oh...most def!

Martin DX1...that's one of their lower end dreadnaughts, right?

i've not been too impressed w any of the "travel gtrs" i've played, but i think the Taylor "Baby" got my ankles harder than the others i've played.

I misspoke it's the LX-1 I was hearing good reviews about..a modified 0-14 body type.. which makes it a parlor guitar size..going to look up whether my GuitarCenter in Springfield has one at the store to go try out.. reason being, is I was really impressed by those Felix The Cat series Martins (travel guitar size) the tone was somewhat resembling a resonator guitar kinda??.. could not find much information about the Felix The Cat series Martins but did see a SRP of $449.00.. think the LX-1 is around $300.00 and am wondering how much of a premium Martin was putting on the Felix The Cat "brand: if a LX-1 sounds close to the sound of those Felix The Cat tones I would grab one .. get rid of my figured maple Hohner dreadnaught..older I get the smaller the guitar the more comfortable playing it is, or so it seems.. maybe the hands are getting where they don't want to function like 20 years ago?

i hear ya on the size/comfort bit. for yrs my go to acoustic has been a '36 Martin 0-17. great fingerpicker and super comfy axe. there are times i miss the low end booty ya get from a dreadnaught but i wouldn't trade that gtr for the world.

on the other side of things i have this big honking 17" Peerless Monarch archtop. maybe the best playing gtr i've owned, but it is one big suckah!

good luck on the quest.

you ever thought about getting a Gibson L-5 ? would prolly fit in well with your band's jazz stuff.. I think Ibanez has a archtop similar to an L-5 for much less money, and not readily distinguishable when blindfolded..

Dane - for recording demos, etc, you might consider getting a Zoom H recorder. The H1 is less than $100, the H2n $180 and the best of the lot, the H4n is $280.
All will let you export via USB to a computer have built in mics, and the H4n will also function as a direct audio interface if you decide to record direct to the computer at any time.

Dane - for recording demos, etc, you might consider getting a Zoom H recorder. The H1 is less than $100, the H2n $180 and the best of the lot, the H4n is $280.
All will let you export via USB to a computer have built in mics, and the H4n will also function as a direct audio interface if you decide to record direct to the computer at any time.

clock speed not fast enough on my 10 year old computer mike.. I've had a Line6 Toneport UX2 for years, and will probably be obsolete if not obsolete now.. dealing with buffering /lag time pops, whistles, screeches is not something I want to invest possibly many hours/days to figure out the real problem..sure the problem can be alleviated with throwing money and time at it, but easier with as few minutes of compositions as I have to go pay somebody 10 bucks an hour with 10 times better sound than I will achieve, w/o pouring money into it.. I am really cautious when it comes to throwing good money after bad..

you ever thought about getting a Gibson L-5 ? would prolly fit in well with your band's jazz stuff.. I think Ibanez has a archtop similar to an L-5 for much less money, and not readily distinguishable when blindfolded..

you buying? start saving...my b-day is in july!!!

yeah, i'd love an older L-5 (or L-4) but they're too much money for me.

true 'nuff...Ibanez does some really nice archtops for the money. i've always hankered for a GB 10 G Benson model. and of course their older pre lawsuit stuff is killer. same for most of the stuff (Aria, Greco, Ventura, etc) from that era that came out of the Matsumoku and Fugi-Gen factories. there's good reason Gibson felt threatened by them.

these days i feel i have it covered in the jazz box dept between my Peerless and my little 15" Eastman 803 CE.....at that size the Eastman is a great gigging gtr. not that i'm by any means done lusting for the next one.

Dane - for recording demos, etc, you might consider getting a Zoom H recorder. The H1 is less than $100, the H2n $180 and the best of the lot, the H4n is $280.
All will let you export via USB to a computer have built in mics, and the H4n will also function as a direct audio interface if you decide to record direct to the computer at any time.

clock speed not fast enough on my 10 year old computer mike.. I've had a Line6 Toneport UX2 for years, and will probably be obsolete if not obsolete now.. dealing with buffering /lag time pops, whistles, screeches is not something I want to invest possibly many hours/days to figure out the real problem..sure the problem can be alleviated with throwing money and time at it, but easier with as few minutes of compositions as I have to go pay somebody 10 bucks an hour with 10 times better sound than I will achieve, w/o pouring money into it.. I am really cautious when it comes to throwing good money after bad..

Record on the Zoom, then you just transfer the files to the computer to burn on CD (or edit in software). No buffering, latency, noises that are associated with direct computer recording.

Mike and space cadet, you two are now even bigger assholes and more hated by me than I though that jimmy could ever be. GODD JOB!!!! You have beaten even me in the world of rectum hollars. So hollar on anus lickers!!!!

Dane - for recording demos, etc, you might consider getting a Zoom H recorder. The H1 is less than $100, the H2n $180 and the best of the lot, the H4n is $280.
All will let you export via USB to a computer have built in mics, and the H4n will also function as a direct audio interface if you decide to record direct to the computer at any time.

clock speed not fast enough on my 10 year old computer mike.. I've had a Line6 Toneport UX2 for years, and will probably be obsolete if not obsolete now.. dealing with buffering /lag time pops, whistles, screeches is not something I want to invest possibly many hours/days to figure out the real problem..sure the problem can be alleviated with throwing money and time at it, but easier with as few minutes of compositions as I have to go pay somebody 10 bucks an hour with 10 times better sound than I will achieve, w/o pouring money into it.. I am really cautious when it comes to throwing good money after bad..

mike, what about this ? I have recorded with this and could use the Toneport as just an interface? no mike, I want better quality sound but it's not bad, could be considered satisfactory..


Record on the Zoom, then you just transfer the files to the computer to burn on CD (or edit in software). No buffering, latency, noises that are associated with direct computer recording.