Recent content by MichaelE

I hope no one ever tries stealing my Turner. But if that should ever happen, they should hope that I never find them. Piano wire is an excrutiating death.

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My Turner is 1" at the third fret. In fact, it's a 1" all the way up and down the neck. It's very comfortable for chording. Lead play is fine too. I don't want the guitar getting away from me and would rather have a baseball bat to hang on to rather than a yardstick.

Yep. I find that most tabs I've ever used will get me to the point that I can figure out what the correct notes are. Very few complicated tabs are correct. For that matter, few few pieces of sheet music are correct either. I wonder if any of the sheet music published ever has to go past the...

I'll sell you this one for $7500. That way you'll be sure to have a better one than even Buckingham.

Until Chuck Norris visited the Virgin Islands, that's what they used to be called. Now they are known as just 'The Islands'

After shopping for several months for an affordable eight buss, doing a lot of searching, reading, and question asking, I decided on the new Behringer SX4882 console for the studio. The kicker was 15% off through the 4th of July holiday. I looked hard at the Mackie eight bus, but even with 15%...

I've been a RUSH fan since the mid '70's. Love 'em to death and been to quite a few shows. Unfortunately, none lately. I have the utmost respect for all three of those guys as musicians and as people in general.

You got it right regarding the channel count. A send parallels the signal from the channel strip to an effects loop and is returned on the 'send return' jack. It splits the signal in other words. One is the dry signal running through the channel strip, the other through the effects send and...

A lot of marketing hype calling them that. Yamaha calls theirs a 24 channel 14 buss. It doesn't even have eight. They count all the sends, the stereo buss, and anything else they can think of into their "14 busses". It's a frikin' four buss board. :thwap

Not enough channels. That's not a true 12 channel board. Half the inputs are stereo and leaves you with only six balanced mic inputs.

This is an array installed under the Kurzweil so I can see the Yamaha underneath. These are obviously yellow, but they come in several colors.

Peavey has been building road worthy equipment for decades. Mostly powered mixers for small and medium size bands. Their stuff is not high end but it always gets the job done and lasts forever. Carvin is another name that's been around forever and they make decent live equipment as well. Very...

You can go to nearly any auto parts store and buy an array of LED's on a flexible strip that uses 12VDC. Pre-wired (except for the PS), and has 3M adhesive tape for mounting. Several colors to choose from including the cool blue you have now.

As a basic consideration, figure out how many channels you think you need and double it. You can never have too many channels or too many sends.