For me an "average joe" is a regular guy. I mean, you sound like a regular and normal guy. Not nasal or anal, LOL...Pls tell me if I am wrong about my definition for "average joe"
Amplitube 2 Jimi Hendrix RELEASED this month!!!
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2035 posts since 6 Sep, 2005
LOL...Did I just insult you without me knowing it?
For me an "average joe" is a regular guy. I mean, you sound like a regular and normal guy. Not nasal or anal, LOL...Pls tell me if I am wrong about my definition for "average joe"
For me an "average joe" is a regular guy. I mean, you sound like a regular and normal guy. Not nasal or anal, LOL...Pls tell me if I am wrong about my definition for "average joe"
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
Squids have thick skin. But, I am not nasal or anal (would be really bad to be both eh? 
Not a good combination: nose and ass).
Average joe is not flattering but I know what you meant so thanks. I am pretty straight forward when I present things such as on videos. I don't know if I will be doing the AT2 video (maybe not) but I just did a Philharmonik video that will be on line very soon. It goes in depth on some cool stuff you can do with the product like I did for SampleTank 2 on www.sampletank.com if anyone is curious.
Not a good combination: nose and ass). Average joe is not flattering but I know what you meant so thanks. I am pretty straight forward when I present things such as on videos. I don't know if I will be doing the AT2 video (maybe not) but I just did a Philharmonik video that will be on line very soon. It goes in depth on some cool stuff you can do with the product like I did for SampleTank 2 on www.sampletank.com if anyone is curious.
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- KVRAF
- 4878 posts since 13 Jun, 2002 from Montreal
Yeah we do many in respects. These is one exception : Genesis. I believe Squids is a fan whereas I am anything but - I never cottoned to their whole concept, which I found cold and pretentious.Squid and Beardedone share the same musical tastes
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
Pretentious? Maybe. Cold? IMO, anything but. Well, at least from Abacab back to Trespass. The Bearded Juan and I share the sort of Steely Dan side I think. MikeM and I probably have more similar tastes. Funkybot shares the sort of Crowded House/Jellyfish side a bit I think.Beardedone wrote:Yeah we do many in respects. These is one exception : Genesis. I believe Squids is a fan whereas I am anything but - I never cottoned to their whole concept, which I found cold and pretentious.Squid and Beardedone share the same musical tastes
But, I like a lot of music really.
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
You didn't kill anything. By the way, I finally posted some pics from the Stones concert. Here, check it out:
That was taken backstage on a little camera phone. We didn't even ask to see it, this was just how it was when we walked up. (if we had asked to see it the whole plug would be showing...)
This was right behind that ProTools rig... and there was many more guitars back there as well! The opening act (Joss Stone) was playing in front of a transparent curtain where we could see out but people couldn't see in so we wandered around the stage before the Stones went on. Pretty cool to check out the gear that close.
I tend to get along well with the keyboard players of bands. Chuck is very nice and was really excited about Philharmonik, SampleTank and Sonik Synth. That was really great to hear for me. Felt proud and lucky I guess.
This is sort of a side benefit of what we do that makes it extra fun. Going to concerts and studios, meeting great musicians and having them know or care about what we do is gratifying in some way. I am not saying it makes us any more important or anything like that. Just kind of cool is all, at least for me. Thought I'd share it with you so I could at least back up what I was saying a few pages back (how many pages????
).
Cheers.
Sq
That was taken backstage on a little camera phone. We didn't even ask to see it, this was just how it was when we walked up. (if we had asked to see it the whole plug would be showing...)
This was right behind that ProTools rig... and there was many more guitars back there as well! The opening act (Joss Stone) was playing in front of a transparent curtain where we could see out but people couldn't see in so we wandered around the stage before the Stones went on. Pretty cool to check out the gear that close.
I tend to get along well with the keyboard players of bands. Chuck is very nice and was really excited about Philharmonik, SampleTank and Sonik Synth. That was really great to hear for me. Felt proud and lucky I guess.
This is sort of a side benefit of what we do that makes it extra fun. Going to concerts and studios, meeting great musicians and having them know or care about what we do is gratifying in some way. I am not saying it makes us any more important or anything like that. Just kind of cool is all, at least for me. Thought I'd share it with you so I could at least back up what I was saying a few pages back (how many pages????
). Cheers.
Sq
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- KVRAF
- 13444 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
Chuck Leavell. Live keyboarder of the Stones.A3ntar wrote: Who is "chuck" btw?
Also played with the Allman Bros, if memory serves me right.
Anyways, maybe it's been Joss Stone using AT, eh?
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
Surely not Joss Herself. And even if it is, that's still a professional guitarist, someone who may or may not be even more discriminating than the decidedly low-tech Stones.
Greg
And even if it is, that's still a professional guitarist, someone who may or may not be even more discriminating than the decidedly low-tech Stones.Greg
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
hey squids, growing up in the 60's and 70's there was this awesome band....some of those guys in your pictures look like they could be those other guy's father's...
BTW quick stones trivia...what word was dropped from the original name?...if you get that, who did the stones drop when they signed their first contract? He was dropped because they thought 6 would be too many, but he stayed with stones for many years and was often called the 6th stone....
BTW quick stones trivia...what word was dropped from the original name?...if you get that, who did the stones drop when they signed their first contract? He was dropped because they thought 6 would be too many, but he stayed with stones for many years and was often called the 6th stone....
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
and a good one at that, not correct...but the right instrument...A3ntar wrote:is Chuck Leavell the 6th Stone?
Isn't it The Rolling Stones?
To be honest, I have no idea....Just guessing
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2035 posts since 6 Sep, 2005
Btw Squids, or anyone who have seen the Stones live recently. I don't mean this as an insult, but doesn't age play a factor? I mean mr. jagger is 62 yrs old. What happened to his voice? What about the rest of the band...are they slowed down by arthritis?
This is not to make fun, seriously. I am just wondering because to me they look like a bunch of "gold age" people having fun. But what about an unpartil judgement about their present "talent"?
This is not to make fun, seriously. I am just wondering because to me they look like a bunch of "gold age" people having fun. But what about an unpartil judgement about their present "talent"?
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
A3ntar, thank you...see that's been my point for a while and what generation rock at spe3ds auditorium is about.
I'm 46, I have done an informal poll of my peers by asking one question over the last few months "how many cds do you have that were recorded this century?" The numbers are as I thought and I really wonder why the music industry isn't seeing that they are missing a big marketplace...see I could of seen the stones this summer, like many bands...but seeing these guys is depressing when you get older...no way I look close to my age...I'm still young...many of my age group (who really were a big part of the explosion of rock and roll into mainstream aociety) have raised their kids, made their money but are several score of years from a home, we're not dead...we wanted to rock then and we want to rock now..what I dont understand is how the industry misses the fact that difference between now and then is now most of us have our own money and now we actually know how to play (even if some of us have our phrasing all wrong)...sorry but it's just plain the truth...today's 50 is yesterdays 30...time to make the world aware...of course one could assume why it's this way is because we wont fall for their baited traps...
I'm 46, I have done an informal poll of my peers by asking one question over the last few months "how many cds do you have that were recorded this century?" The numbers are as I thought and I really wonder why the music industry isn't seeing that they are missing a big marketplace...see I could of seen the stones this summer, like many bands...but seeing these guys is depressing when you get older...no way I look close to my age...I'm still young...many of my age group (who really were a big part of the explosion of rock and roll into mainstream aociety) have raised their kids, made their money but are several score of years from a home, we're not dead...we wanted to rock then and we want to rock now..what I dont understand is how the industry misses the fact that difference between now and then is now most of us have our own money and now we actually know how to play (even if some of us have our phrasing all wrong)...sorry but it's just plain the truth...today's 50 is yesterdays 30...time to make the world aware...of course one could assume why it's this way is because we wont fall for their baited traps...
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
Couple of things... one is, AT pictured was used with the Stones because the tech told me it was and I saw it in action. We were backstage. This picture is the Rolling Stones' set up, not Joss's which was in front of that curtain I was telling you about. In fact, if you look at the third picture, this ProTools rig is behind the middle of the stage where that taller thing is. Imagine there is a Wizard of Oz back there tuning guitars, soldering leslie cables and pulling out plug-ins, changing presets and other more high tech things. That'd be Will. Chuck I would say is medium tech in the sense that he mainly played a real Wurly, Hammond B3 and then he had an 88 key midi keyboard (I think it was a Yamaha) which was midied up to the back rig with a Receptor, SampleTank and Sonik Synth 2 installed. They're adding Philharmonik too and wouldn't stop talking about it. The other guys in the band I would imagine are a bit more old school than that with their Tweed Fenders and Ampeg rigs. But, when it comes to getting ANOTHER sound than the rig you have this is where AmpliTube comes in handy... or this is what Will actually said to me. Makes sense though. To be honest I was surpised to hear he was using it for live processing as opposed to on pre-recorded tracks. But, this is what he said so you want to speculate or take his/my word for it?
As for how they were being in their 60's... all I can say is that they rocked. They are incredible for still touring like that and they really put their all into the show. Mick is running around like he's 20. Plus all of them still playing together after all of these years is so great to see. It's a real rock band! One that is durable and has lasted such a long time at a high level. The place was PACKED! All ages too. I think with some bands they can become tired but not the case here. With the Rolling Stones it is just an amazing treat to be able to see it. Same thing with seeing McCartney. You never know if the last tour may be the last time you can ever see it again!
We did meet David Gilmore and the other players with Joss after they played. The keyboard player loves our stuff. I was with several other CEOs of companies in the MI industry back there so the guitar player was talking to all of them. I didn't get the chance to ask him what he uses. He was playing a funky Floyd Rose guitar. I thought I had heard he was using GR but was looking forward to AT2. I can find out. Also, there was a lot of talk about the Ampeg plug-in as you would imagine (there were tons of hardware Ampegs all over the place and also one of the head people at Ampeg was also backstage). It was ironically a good day for business as much as it was fun to be roaming around the venue (which allowed us to see them play from really great spots even though we only had passes and not seats). It is a good job you know! Btw, (opportune moment to mention this) both Sonic Reality and IK are looking to hire more people right now. SR is looking for some sound designers and IK is looking for various product specialists that play keys and guitar (and can talk knowledgeably about products) for different places around the world (particularly US but not only). Also, sales reps and marketing positions. It is a lot of fun but also a lot of work. You make amazing connections in the industry though... but I digress.
Anyway, AmpliTube has a lot of really cool evolutionary things coming. Besides AmpliTube 2 and Ampeg SVX there is also the Stomp I/O and more coming. By the way, I noticed a bump in sales on esoundz for AmpliTube 1. I don't know if it was because I posted about the little trick there on how you can get AT2 for really cheap AND have AT1 (and that it is different sounding and also the last time you can get it) but... if so, then thanks! We appreciate the support on www.esoundz.com
As for how they were being in their 60's... all I can say is that they rocked. They are incredible for still touring like that and they really put their all into the show. Mick is running around like he's 20. Plus all of them still playing together after all of these years is so great to see. It's a real rock band! One that is durable and has lasted such a long time at a high level. The place was PACKED! All ages too. I think with some bands they can become tired but not the case here. With the Rolling Stones it is just an amazing treat to be able to see it. Same thing with seeing McCartney. You never know if the last tour may be the last time you can ever see it again!
We did meet David Gilmore and the other players with Joss after they played. The keyboard player loves our stuff. I was with several other CEOs of companies in the MI industry back there so the guitar player was talking to all of them. I didn't get the chance to ask him what he uses. He was playing a funky Floyd Rose guitar. I thought I had heard he was using GR but was looking forward to AT2. I can find out. Also, there was a lot of talk about the Ampeg plug-in as you would imagine (there were tons of hardware Ampegs all over the place and also one of the head people at Ampeg was also backstage). It was ironically a good day for business as much as it was fun to be roaming around the venue (which allowed us to see them play from really great spots even though we only had passes and not seats). It is a good job you know!
Btw, (opportune moment to mention this) both Sonic Reality and IK are looking to hire more people right now. SR is looking for some sound designers and IK is looking for various product specialists that play keys and guitar (and can talk knowledgeably about products) for different places around the world (particularly US but not only). Also, sales reps and marketing positions. It is a lot of fun but also a lot of work. You make amazing connections in the industry though... but I digress.Anyway, AmpliTube has a lot of really cool evolutionary things coming. Besides AmpliTube 2 and Ampeg SVX there is also the Stomp I/O and more coming. By the way, I noticed a bump in sales on esoundz for AmpliTube 1. I don't know if it was because I posted about the little trick there on how you can get AT2 for really cheap AND have AT1 (and that it is different sounding and also the last time you can get it) but... if so, then thanks! We appreciate the support on www.esoundz.com