Hey guys, long long time
Hey,
Havent posted here in a long time, thought i would check in and give you all a shout!!!
Still have my gnx3000, use it for late night practice and band rehearsal
Hope you all are well
Havent posted here in a long time, thought i would check in and give you all a shout!!!
Still have my gnx3000, use it for late night practice and band rehearsal
Hope you all are well
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I still have, use, and adore my GNX4...even though it's an antique by music-gear standards.
And no...Anne Hathaway is STILL not returning my phone calls... :P
Good to see ya back man. I still have my GNX3000 that I pull onto my projects.
Cheers Mark
Sadly, Anne H has not acknowledged my undying loyalty to her, and has yet to return my phone calls. Shania either. I'm sure Megan Fox is dying to hear from me, but there's only so many hours in the day, right??? :P
What's up guys. Long time. I still rock the GNX3, but I picked up a Roland GR-55, and after the learning curve, I am amazed by this thing more everyday.
Still have my 3000 and I use it mainly at home for recording and sometimes at gigs were amps aren't needed.
It is sad to see less activity each time I come around, but it was predictable as GNX series ended.
Shredd still chasing hotties? Little has changed!
Take care
Made the move to Sonar X1 and X2 now for daw. I can't get enough of pro channel, and X2 really expanded that. This coming from a guy who ran nothing but Pro Tools for years. It's just so much nicer and the workflow of Sonar X series is unbelievably fast.
Cubase always had an edge on anything for midi imo, but now X2 seems to have closed the gap there.
Pers- Pretty much same ole same old, just a little older. Wife and I are fine, sons are graduating soon, and time flies.
Even though I travel more often now, I like to kick back in the room and jam. A couple of guys I work with from time to time bring a jam hub. That's kind of cool too.
As far as the SuperModels...check the website, linked in guitar3456's signature... (above)
Thanks, I tried the email address on that site twice, bounced back both times. Made me think it just might be a derelict website, though I do see 3456 posted here not long ago.
Personally I've taken on a lot of different tunings and exploring. Took me a while to wrap my head around the Gambale tuning, but its pretty cool.
What you chaps been up to?
So I continue to do open mic...weekly 12-15 minute sets of 3-4 songs, in order to get my stage fix. Most of the people doing it are in the same boat...even though many of them are very talented. But no one will pay for talent; we all seem to do it for the satisfaction, not the money. And believe me - some of the players coming to these open mics would be worth whatever they were paid....sigh...
I also leave my GNX safely at home...I have a DT RP155 that I take to open mic...it's small, expendable, and privides good enough sound to play a few songs. I'd surely rather have my GNX - have great patches and backing trax to use - but it's a big unit to lug for 3 songs; besides, the sound-guy running the open mic wouldn't know an XLR from a XXX movie. :P
Many of the small bars around here are going out of business. They just do not have the patronage they had 10, 15, years ago. The smoking ban inside venues hurt the bar owners, and the cops sitting outside the bar at closing has really intimidated lots of patrons. Even my soda drinking mother got pulled over by the highway patrol after one of my gigs that she came to see. Never had a drop of alcohol, never did anything wrong with her driving, just driving on the road after bar closing....
So I know the bar owners are not making big money either, and if they can get free entertainment, all the better for them. My band only plays weekend gigs and we do get paid the prevailing band wage, but when you divide that up 4 or 5 ways, it's not a lot. But it does pay for my G.A.S. attacks and my wife does not complain when something new shows up on the UPS truck. If you are into gigging only for money, you're in it for the wrong reasons. Or, you better have a girlfriend with a good job.
Concerning talent, over the past few years, I have discovered there is all kinds of different talent. I know some guys who really have a lot of talent that don't come out anymore. There are other guys who are really good at a few songs, but that's about it. There are some guys who are great at original music, but can't play cover music true to the original. I'm in a cover band that plays as close to the original as we can, but we don't have anyone in the band willing to write originals.
My talent is that I show up, get along with my bandmates, and can play about 6 hours of cover tunes that we keep in our song rotation. When I think about it, that's what I find successful in other bandmates. First of all, they just need to show up for practice, and gigs. You'd be surprised to learn how many musicians can't meet that minimum standard. The second thing, despite talent, you have to get along with your bandmates, on a professional level if nothing else. After that, it's just putting time in the woodshed to build up your songlist.
Despite the band getting better all the time, we don't get paid all that much more than when we started 5 years ago. The band rate is more or less determined by how much the venue can afford. Don't know if that is the same elsewhere, but that is the way it is around here. I guess we just take pride in knowing that we have come along way in our musical journey, even if the paycheck at the end of the night doesn't reflect it.
Best wishes.
nooooooooooo...
heya friendly ol faces, ltns!
Still carrying the GNX4 to gigs, but strictly as a back-up. Rocking the Boss GT-10 now. Looking at the guitar synth by Roland as well, but the learning curve looks intimidating. Hahahaha.
Later,
JV
Still using the GNX3 in my home studio which is currently being redesigned after we moved into a bigger house this past July. 4th iteration the setup, so I'm expecting it to be pretty awesome. Converted to ProTools 9 (then upgraded to 10) over the past year, so the quality of recordings has improved drastically over my previous sessions.
The new room has a HUGE closet that I've already run power and network to. Next will be painting and sound proofing so it can be used as a sound booth, complete with video conferencing out to the control desk.
2013 will be the year that James St. Station Studios becomes a commercial endeavor offering radio voice-over recording, karaoke vocal takes, and simple demos. A friend from school has a similar operation and it's a lucrative small business. I hope to grow JSSS into something I can continue doing well into retirement. That's still quite a few years away (I'm not *that* old
In my spare time I might fire up another band to play live and have some fun on the side.