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  1. MichaelE

    Mandatory Death Penalty for guitar thieves!

    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.
  2. MichaelE

    Just For Fun!!!!! String Poll!!!

    Thomastik-Infeld - .011-.053
  3. MichaelE

    How thick is yer neck?

    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.
  4. MichaelE

    Paying to have a song tabbed

    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...
  5. MichaelE

    What's more important: sound or playability?

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

    Chuck Norris Facts

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

    The Dreaded 'B' Word

    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%...
  8. MichaelE

    RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage

    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.
  9. MichaelE

    Small versatile PA systems

    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...
  10. MichaelE

    Small versatile PA systems

    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
  11. MichaelE

    Small versatile PA systems

    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.
  12. MichaelE

    LED's Help with Wiring

    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.
  13. MichaelE

    Small versatile PA systems

    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...
  14. MichaelE

    LED's Help with Wiring

    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.
  15. MichaelE

    Small versatile PA systems

    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.
  16. MichaelE

    Wow...music theory

    I had two years of music theory in college along side composition, ear training, and piano. It's all you do every day. Eat, breath, and sleep music theory.
  17. MichaelE

    Your musical family

    My mother used to play the piano quite well but hasn't in years. I had a Great Uncle by marriage that was quite an accomplished piano player. Learned a lot of the Tin Pan Alley stuff from the '20's and '30's when he was young, and then a lot of the Big Band numbers when he was older. He's...
  18. MichaelE

    Exotic strings on guitars..?

    I've always used EB Slinky's with good results. They don't break easily and retain their sound for a couple of months, maybe a month if you gig and practise. I have one guitar with Thomastik Infeld strings that blows anything away I've ever heard on a guitar. They last for eons too and are...
  19. MichaelE

    Playing seems to be causing me stress

    This is very true. Not only playing an instrument, but anything that requires body movement, or parts of your body. I break down lead parts into pieces and I may practice each section for five or ten minutes very slowly several times and a bit faster (but not up to speed) a few minutes later...
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