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Getting it to term abuse, the AudioPhile is an 'Audio Interface'. A sound card is also an 'Audio Interface'. The difference, the audiophile uses firewire, a sound 'card' is a 'card' that goes into a 'card' slot. So, you can turn off the cheezy AC97 internal audio on the system, the AudioPhile will replace it. Laptop memory is typically easy to change out, usually the only limitation is how much it can handle.

Stretch it a bit before hand and be mindful to relax it between tunes. I've never had a problem with the picking hand, but have had situations with the left after playing many tunes without stopping. When I did stop and dropped my left hand away from the fretboard, a nasty pain would shoot up my arm. I've found it helps to just stretch a bit, massage it and relax it.

Actually it doesn't 'do' anything. Think of it as an old time telephone switchboard. Example, you have a keyboard, and two mixers. The keyboards 'outs' are wired to the back of the patch bay. The Mixer(s) 'ins' are also wired in the back of the patch bay. Now from the front of the patch bay, you can run the keyboards outs to the first mixer with patch cables, or the second mixer. Or lets say you have a stack of effects, running them trough a patch bay gives the ability to change the chain order without having to rewire anything.. Silly simple example but basically it gives you the ability to 'patch' things in different ways without having to rerun cables all over the place. help?

'IF' is out of scope here!?! The material being referenced ONLY concerns itself with 'Major Key Signatures', nothing more!! Do you not get that? Going beyond the scope of what was referenced is not appropriate, it's like talking about Physics before someone has taken Algebra (extreme example). It’s simple as that. In summary your original post included incorrect information, 'Major Key Signatures' DO NOT contain natural signs. What you are referring to is called ‘Modulation’ or simply ‘Key Change’.

He's right. Dell actually uses 4200 RPM drives (really slow) in their laptops. I use a Firewire audio interface and have been happy with it (on a laptop) Firewire hard drives have only about half the bandwidth as one directly on the PCI bus but other than that is your best bet. You really don't want to use USB for anything but MIDI I/0 units and dongles. The laptop you've described should be able to handle quite a bit, especially with lots of ram and a good drive. But for what you will have to pay for it, you could have a desktop unit that kicks severe hiney.

If you change keys in the middle of the song, natural signs are written (if a sharp or flat is removed from a key signature). It doesn't stay that way for the following lines, but they do put them in key signatures to make sure players don't miss a note. And this has what to do with learning basic key signatures? Someone comes saying they're confused, and you want to confuse it even more by adding more than what was asked?

No...there is no natural sign in a key signature. Only sharps and flats. Naturals only appear as notes in the following measures IF the note being played is a natural (not the sharp or flat) within the given key signature. As it applies to guitar, a Major scale starting from the same string always has the same 'shape' no matter what key you're in. So if you start playing a G-Major scale from G the 7th note is F# and hence, the note F has one # on it for the key signature for G-Major. All the rest of the notes for G-Major are natural notes. So, key signatures don't only tell you what key you're in, they also tell you what notes in the following measures are assumed to be sharp or flat without notating them as such. This stuff you need to cast to memory. It's the only way to make it useful in furthering theory study.

I believe federal government and religious organizations don't fall under OSHA in the US. Only private sector.

Three rules of thumb when getting familiar with midi anything: 1. You'll always want to do something it won't let you. 2. It will always do 128 things you really don't care about. 2. Throwing it against the wall will void your warranty.

I don't know their setup but when ever main sound is in front of them and/or people are more that 20 ft apart, monitors are essential or you will not be able to hear the main mix and/or be far enough apart to be out of sync. It's pretty typical. I helped setup a church near by about a year ago (a member is my youngest kids soccer coach) and their worship area is as big as a gym and the main stage is a full size stage. This really isn't all that unusual.

I'm sorry I got you backwards. For definition, you have 7 monitors (assuming they are powered or have a power source). You need to get an independently adjustable signal to each. The most logical way to do this is with an 8-bus sub mixer and anything with 8-buses is never cheap. The other way I could think of doing this is how many 'sends' does the current mixer have and are they being used? If you have 8 or more sends, you could use those as independent signals out to monitors using the sends level as the volume control. Example my Mackie 1604 has 4-buses and 4-sends so I could independently control the levels for 4 channels on the sends. Direct outs typically don't work because they're usually prefader and volume adjustment is not independent. The next way you could help me help you is to tell me what mixer is being used and if possible how it's wired. Sometimes options are available on some mixers that aren't on others.

You can use ANY mixer as a sub mixer into your main mixer. The typical limitation is buses on the sub mixer and/or do you want your monitors to feed more than 2 channels on the main mixer? Otherwise it's very easy and can be inexpensive. I recently replaced my synth rack sub mixer (old one developed a nasty hum and isn't worth fixing) with a Behringer RX1602 single space rack mixer and it works great, only costs ~$110.00 Behringer's mixer. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home...ase_pid/631243/ Pic

Anvil is my preference, the ATA's are really expensive but you could drop it off the roof of your house and it and it's contents will likely survive. I have 4-space AFX I've had forever and a 3-space that have held up for a VERY long time. I also have a Grundorf 20-space and a Raxcess 8/12 space slant and neither are even close to as sturdy as the Anvils. You can at least check some out at Sweetwater but they're available in many places.

Was really hard this month. I would have voted for bigd IF the trem was a lefty (like the true SRV) but it wasn't.. LGM, dude just makes killer guitars but I voted for him a few months ago. Went with Daveq, simply beautiful quilt and a nice RG style with EMG's. Bet it's an awesome sounding and playing guitar.

I played it for a talent show followed by you really got me in 8th grade back in 1981. (Gawd I'm getting old), haven't tried to play it in years.

No problem. For power up, that's where the power conditioner comes into play. Most have a switch so you can safely turn everything on with one flick. As for racks, anything that is leaving the saftey of a home would be ANVIL ATA Flight cases. They're pricy but last forever. Hey Dave, it is hard to describe the BBE. I use one in my studio and a plugin on my DAW as well. The best description I've seen is it takes low frequences and high frequences and staggers they reproduction ever so slightly to cause them to not step on each other as much in turn giving more definition (detail) to the sound as a whole. The second best description, it just makes stuff sound better! But use it in moderation, like anything, too much of a good thing usually turns out bad.

For what it’s worth the rack I use is quite dated but still nothing I’ve played with compares to it…IMO ADA MP-1 Preamp Digitech DSP-128 MultiEffect Alesis Quadraverb MultiEffect BBE 362 Sonic Maximizer (always at ~25%) Furman P8 Power conditioner NADY 501 Wireless ADA MC-1 Midi controller All programmed to switch to what I want when I want it (which takes a while to get dialed in). The MP-1 uses Groove Tubes and has a mid-eq mod as well as my amps. The MC-1 midi controller is on its last legs and I expect to replace it with the Behringer controller eventually. I use to use a Mesa Strategy 295 and it was nice but let it go in favor of an amp no one has ever heard of. Nomad (not Mesa’s) made by a guy in Berkeley CA named Eddie Spitzer who had closed his doors years ago now. In any case, I use Groove Tubes religiously. For a very long time, this rig got me though many shows in San Francisco / Oakland area during the metal years with one board on the floor. For a while, I had someone changing the sounds for me backstage so all I had to do was play. Ahh...those were the days! For what it's worth Drak.

Ahhh...Winston Churchill is back! Just kidding...beautiful baby.

but that doesn't make alex any less of an awesome talent You're right, he's a level headed guy. He was way different than he looked back in those days. Looks more like he really is now. Think it was a good move for him.

Has been for some time, another dude I have known. Skull's gone jazz, knew he would, saw it back in the early 90's when we went to see DiMeola togather.

I wouldn't call any of them shredders. Great players but not shredders. My little bro has recorded releases with all the above.

Only problem with that is once you have kids you don't have money to make stuff anymore. Or worse yet they have no interest in being a musician! CONGRATS DAVE!

I agree, great job! Congrats!

Ya..and after meetings Drak will give all Marylanders one of his Tele's!

Depends on what you make, at the wage I make I pay 43% of it in taxes. Granted I manage to find some deductions but it's a lot of money. 43%, *** dude, I think that way too much, and your in FL right, and you don't pay state taxes, I think that's kinda out of range! And remember that Bush gave the big cut to Millionares, so that's why you are getting taxed up th e A. I'm in the lower braket so I always get everything back, and then some, it's like a second Christmas time on Refund time. cant wait, tools, necks, wood... You too Wes, were are you guys filling taxes at, or you are making 100K a year in Texas! I don't go pass the 35K and always get about 5K back. And I pay about 3.7K during the year. You guys must be single with no dependeds No I'm in Maryland, and as I said before, at what I make, my tax rate is 43%. I'm not going into how much I make (believe that shouldn't be discussed). Don't know how it's done in Germany but here in the US, the more you make the greater the tax percentage. The offset is usually those that are in the high tax brackets also have the means for deductions (stocks, properties..etc). Sorry for the thread hijack Dave, we've gone way sideways on this one.