RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

For those of you who're feeling a bit of deja vu, here's what we all 
said *last time* this subject came up, in December 2001:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&th=b3045cbc0dc46563&rnum=1

Our jokes were better back then.

xo

Ross

Evan Rowe wrote:

> Every time I go into a Guitar Center-type store I can't tell if
> A-these are fads, e.g. headless guitars and double-locking tremolo
> systems, or
> B-I should be paying more attention.
> But Cat-5? This seems like a cart-before-horse sort of thing.  While I
> appreciate the idea of 128 inputs from a broadway stage going to the FOH
> desk over two cables, I can't see an advantage yet of sending a guitar
> signal 15 feet to a d/a converter in front of an amp.  And who wants to
> try to maintain digital stompboxes on a tiny, smoky, beer stained stage?  
> That said, I played a Line 6 amp a long while back, and at low volumes it
> was pretty fun.  But it kind of takes the "magic" factor of tubes' quirks
> away.  Of course it also takes away their heat, and their replacement,
> and the biasing, and....
> And Bose should probably stick to headphones and home theater.  The
> animation on that link shows exactly what the line array (which is what I
> assume they're getting at with the tall cylinders) is supposed to
> avoid--a ton of phase interference and comb filtering.
> All that said, there's some situations where a guitar signal sync'd to a
> midi clock might be useful.  Has anyone done anything like that?  Just
> wondering.
> Thanks for the article
> 
> =Evan
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Jim Brantley" <brantley19 AT hotmail.com>
> To: "Chapel Hill Music Lovers" <ch-scene AT listserv.unc.edu>
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:58:49 -0500
> Subject: Re: Les Paul over IP
> 
> Bad idea.  This seems similar in spirit to that new Bose PA system thing
> (long link below), where each musician plugs into this tall cylindrical
> thing.  These companies should do focus groups with some of us
> trogolodyte
> guitar players before they put products like this on the market.  It
> would
> be a hard sell to convince even the nerdiest guitar players I know to
> plug
> their electric guitar into a laptop with an ethernet cable and then into
> a
> big cylinder thing.  That said, those new Line 6  Variax modeling guitar
> things are pretty cool.  But give me my crackly passive pickups and
> smelly
> tube amp anyday.
> 
> http://www.bose.com/controller;jsessionid=1xerpdXVlTz4RyK9W2fS11z7XknKlOuAIK
> R9SWMyhD1VhEHNWud7!322864188?event=VIEW_STATIC_PAGE_EVENT&url=/musicians/sol
> utions/new_approach.jsp&pageName=/musicians/solutions/index.jsp
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bendy" <bendy AT example.com>
> To: "Chapel Hill Music Lovers" <ch-scene AT listserv.unc.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:38 AM
> Subject: Les Paul over IP
> 
> 
> 
>>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/guitar.html
>>
>>Seems like it's a long shot, since so many guitarist still play through
>>tube amps. Does anyone find this intriguing? If you're going to spend a
>>grand to get a Les Paul, I'd think you'd want the real thing. Seems like
>>a waste of mahogany to me.
>>
>>Oh yeah, Cris Krikwood from the Meat Puppets is dead.
>>
>>Bendy, who died when he joined the army.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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