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Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:51 am

by surfindogg (Posted Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:51 am)

W.T.F???

I think someone just dropped a load of drugs in my morning tea!!!

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IGNs very own readers there is no question

Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:53 pm

by vwxy550 (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:53 pm)

It is one we feel offers proof cheap wow gold that while MapleStory might appear small at first glance - with its two-dimensional art and cute characters - it should not be cheap wow gold overlooked. Plenty of skeptics have wondered what a free to play game could offer, but with over six million registered users in North America (92 million worldwide), and an cheap wow gold average rating of 9.2 out of 10 by IGNs very own readers, there is no question it delivers a massive wallop cheap wow gold of entertainment.

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The change will help mages separate themselves from rogues

Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:53 pm

by vwxy550 (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:53 pm)

For example: shamans aion gold can not cure poison > NS heal as effectively. If rogues get temporarily peeled the de buff will still limit how quickly the enemy player can aion gold be healed up too to get wow gold. However, I think the intent with the design is to bring mages aion gold up with melee classes in killing targets by themselves and improving synergy with other classes. The change will help mages separate themselves from rogues and improve relations with aion gold warlocks/death knights.

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Acoustic Image Ten 2.. who's got one?

Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:55 pm

by Shedua511 (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:55 pm)

I just got a Coda +, which I'm extremely happy with. It's tiny and light, but with a big sound, both warm and transparent. For solo gigs and medium to low volume ensembles it will work great.
Having separate levels for the built-in effects would have been nice, but it is the only gripe... the input impedance is optimized for piezo pickups, and works very well with the Stick too. It also sounds wonderful with upright bass and electric bass.
A very nice addition to the new models is that the head can be removed and used with bigger speakers (I'm going to try different speaker systems, for gigs where I need more volume) or alone as a preamp/DI.
You could also get a Ten 2 cabinet as an extra cabinet, or with the removable head system ("cabrio docking system"), so you could use the Coda + or the Ten 2 depending on the gig.

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Physically challenged.

Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:03 pm

by LoopStationZebra (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:03 pm)

heartstrings wrote:

My whole left arm, from the shoulder blade to the fingertips, falls asleep and goes totally numb while playing.

Oof. I've got the same thing going on after about 45min of playing.

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Divided Truss - First impressions

Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:37 pm

by bizon (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:37 pm)

One thing to point out, and it may be because the Divided Truss, unlike the original one, is pinned down at the middle of the neck, is when adjusting it (at one end or the other) to that in-between point where there is no tension either way, the truss actually pops out about half an inch, so that the nut and washer are sticking out and away from the routed, T-shaped "thrust cavity". This in itself isn't a big deal, just unique to the Divided Truss and something to be aware of. To prevent this, the truss needs to be held in place with one hand while it's tightened or loosened to the point where it catches, otherwise it will not sit in the channel properly.

Just FYI.

Cheers,
James

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StickJan on Myspace!

Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:31 pm

by Radkon (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:31 pm)

While your listening to that, just imagine David Carradine saying...

"Now, if you don't settle down, I'm going to have to put one in your knee cap, and I here tell that's very painful place to get shot in....LOL I'm just #$%^ing with ya. End quote.

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Existential Bum Notes

Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:25 pm

by Radkon (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:25 pm)

Hang on.

The "bum notes" are where some of the genius of personal creativity lives, yes?!

Salvador Dali once said:

MISTAKES ARE ALMOST ALWAYS OF A SACRED NATURE.
NEVER TRY TO CORRECT THEM
ON THE CONTRARY: RATIONALIZE THEM,UNDERSTAND THEM THOROUGHLY.
AFTER THAT, IT WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO SUBLIMATE THEM.”

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New song on myspace

Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:37 pm

by bs_tritonus (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:37 pm)

Thanks!

I do not want to end up as a "ambient" artist just because I play "rubato" (timeless?) music, but I understand that the music I recorded sounded a bit that way..

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Thinking about getting a Stick..

Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:09 pm

by Nomad Monday (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:09 pm)

Well, after a lot of back-and-forth in my head, I finally called in an order for a new Stick It will be 10-string dark bamboo, chrome tuners, and PASV4 pickups. I asked if it can come in blue, and Yuta said they will make some samples for me. So color and inlays are still pending.

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The role of the Stick in music

Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:00 pm

by Per Boysen (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:00 pm)

embryo wrote:

Santa Cruz. Hope you will there this year for Y2KX Per!
Randolf Arriola

Hi Randolf,
I'll try to hit Santa Cruz om October 12-19. Long way from Sweden, so as I can't afford the travel cost I'm looking around here for art funds to put in a grant appliance. Are you going there? Anyone else?

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Great Sounding Bass

Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:48 am

by greg (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:48 am)

flynlion wrote:

Got a pretty good deal on a slightly used Peavy guitar amp, and the whole rig sounds MUCH better now. Stereo play through 2 amps is better than mono play through 1 amp, guess that's why Emmett designed it that way

Hi Leo,

The truss adjustment will also have a big effect on how you hear the instrument. If the action is too high, the strings will be too far away from the pickups, and the bass strings will be harder to play, especially if they are heavies.

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Stick site on Facebook

Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:54 am

by BasV (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:54 am)

I've added myself as well. I'm glad there's an SE maintained page now on Facebook
There's many many stickplayers on Facebook and personally, I think Facebook is a very good platform for branding, advertising and promotion.

Cheers,
Bas.

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Is the GK-3a still available?

Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:44 am

by greg (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:44 am)

grandstick wrote:

I just went to the SE website a moment ago to look at the GK-3 hex pickup and found the link is no longer valid.

http://www.stick.com/instruments/midi/gk2a

Is the pickup being offered anymore?

Paul

Hi Paul,

I guess you were trying to get there through the accessories page, which still had a (bad) link to the old gk2a page, it's been fixed. Try this link:

http://www.stick.com/instruments/midi/gk3/

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The everlasting fx topic.... Boss GT-10 + GT-10B.

Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:11 am

by StickJan (Posted Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:11 am)

diver7atms wrote:

I believe you can only link them thru midi connectors

Oki. Thank you. Have anyone here (Rob?) tried to do volume swells using a expression pedal plugged into one unit controlling the volume on the other unit via midi? My experience when doing this using a midi pedalboard controlling volume on rack fx´s is that it doesn´t work very well. Lag and unvanted noise..... So I have used a regular volume pedal instead. This was awhile ago so it might be that more resently made equipment doesn´t have this problem.

Sincerely//Jan

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The Stick is physically demanding.

Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:58 pm

by Nomad Monday (Posted Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:58 pm)

Radkon wrote:

Hey Nomad.

Having a drum background, the first Stick gig I did, I kept thinking I'd left something behind, simply because I had so little gear....!

Haha! I look forward to that day. I'm still playing drums in my band, but hopefully I'll be good enough to make the transition in a few months. Finding a new drummer will be a pain, though. Especially since I'll probably be more critical of the drummers we audition

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Pandora Radio With Tony Levin

Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:52 pm

by Nomad Monday (Posted Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:52 pm)

Just put "Tony Levin" into Pandora radio today. Some good prog and fusion stuff came up. Anyone have some favorite stations they want to share? Another one of my favorites is "Hella" - experimental noise rock-ish.

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What is a Mushroom?

Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:28 pm

by jeffcomas (Posted Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:28 pm)

Why was this posted?

May have something to do with the party at Glen's house.

seems they were both sorta right

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The best audience

Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:04 am

by jeffcomas (Posted Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:04 am)

I'm looking forward to hearing young Robert.

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Ten String Grand DBR - first impressions

Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:12 am

by locks (Posted Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:12 am)

comes to mind, but even that is a bit of a stretch.

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Presonus Audiobox usb - ACTV2???

Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:57 am

by arsacane (Posted Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:57 am)

surfindogg wrote:

...
Guess it would help if I read the manual
...

Experience is everything you get BEFORE reading the manual

Cheers, Daniel.

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Kaki King

Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:22 pm

by JRJ (Posted Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:22 pm)

Would have passed me by like a doppelgänger at the airport...

"A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass." That is, it is a group of people who outwardly choose or claim to have a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless."

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Symphony in J Flat

Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:38 pm

by Nomad Monday (Posted Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:38 pm)

Reading the article, I felt very intrigued by the concept. But I found myself disappointed by the video and sound clip they had on there. It felt directionally atonal. Like there was that scale there, but the style of music being played sounded like they could have achieved a similar result by jumping around a whole-tone scale.

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NYC gig

Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:45 pm

by diver7atms (Posted Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:45 pm)

I am from NY living in Florida. All my musician friends are still in NY. Where is that place? I will tell them about it. They will love it.
Joe

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Chapdoc - New Subforum

Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:38 pm

by LADC (Posted Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:38 pm)

Thanks NewbieWan for your reassurances and suggestions. This is a long-gestating project and while it certainly would have been faster if I had funds to work on it full time, it may not have been as in depth. It takes time to make a documentary. The average is 7 years. It takes a while to really understand what you're doing, the reason being that life doesn't always fit so neatly into anyone's pre-conceived ideas.

I've been working in the motion picture business for 27 years. Documentaries are a microcosm of the larger narrative film business. There are a lot of outlets for distribution on many levels of media. My main goal is a theatrical feature release. There are lots of distributors who do this. The multi-staged release is a definite possibility.

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Guilty pleasures

Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:11 pm

by AnDroiD (Posted Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:11 pm)

When I had my restaraunt and my staff saw me coming to a boil, they would quick put a quarter in the juke and blast "Witchitaw Lineman" by Glen Cambell. I'd start singin and calm down immediately. I think it's that ..."I need a small vacation..." line.

Marty

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Songwriting Workshop added to Vancouver Stick Seminar

Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:26 am

by Jim Meyer (Posted Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:26 am)

We are very happy to announce that Canadian Singer/Songwriter/Stickist Dale Ladouceur will be leading a Songwriting Workshop specifically for Stick players during the Vancouver Stick Seminar (May 27-30) this year. Dale has long histories with both Stick playing and songwriting, so she is an excellent addition for our 9th Stick seminar.

Dale Ladouceur
Songwriting for the Stick
Saturday, May 29

Seminar website:

http://www.jimmeyer.ca/stick

Thanks!

Jim

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FOR SALE: Graphite neck walnut body NS/Stick

Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:10 am

by thingsabove (Posted Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:10 am)

I put pictures of my NS in the Photo Gallery

gallery/menu.php?gallery=members&album_id=49

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"What" does everyone practice?

Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:09 am

by Per Boysen (Posted Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:09 am)

Roger that, Sir! Polypatterns rock!

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What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick?

Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:09 am

by Radkon (Posted Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:09 am)

Been playing drums since I was 10 and a half. It's been an amazing ride, but the Stick, well it's the Omni-instrument that makes all things possible.

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