RTP-area local music and culture

["Evan Rowe" <evanrowe AT fastmail.fm>]

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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