paul_5

I use the East West Symphonic stuff, and that's a legacy product too now. To get around it incompatibility with PT I'm running the free version of Kontakt (I think it's Kompact - see what they did there?)Player to load up the libraries. Couldn't say how it compares to the Miroslav libraries though.

DHA all the way!

I ordered mine late on Wednesday night and it arrived today. Unfortunately Mrs_5 is a bit poorly, so I've not had time to give it a thorough 'going over' until I finish work tonight. It LOOKS good though...

I also found that when it was holding a note the SYB-5 had the filter sweep on the synth note whereas the BSY600 didn't, and would just make the bass noise it was supposed to. Don't know if that's a deal breaker.

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1416782757' post='2613614'] Does the Behringer do the sustain pedal thing? [/quote] Yup.

I loved the BSY600 and much preferred it to the SYB5. Tons cheaper too.

Return booking in Darwen, Lancashire last night with 'Slander' (NWOBHM). Probably our tightest performance, but we were all a bit lacking in energy due to bugs/sleep deprivation etc… LOTS of positive comments after the show. Loud though (as always!).

Tori Amos is neither of those things.

Lemmy. That bass tone will floor [i]anything[/i]; People, houses, rhinos, the list is endless.

All the members of Green Day are colour blind, except for Mike Dirnt, who has synaesthesia.

Just sprung for one of these. Looks like a no-brainer at that price.

synthchat? Can't they just use this one with their left hand?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1416331747' post='2609137'] Notes are notes but you can't kid a groove. [/quote] True dat.

Pubs pay so little because they can get away with it. Unfortunately supply outstrips demand with regards to 'live' acts. Landlords aren't interested in whether you're a singer with backing tracks, or an 8 piece disco band with a brass section, they want to maximise their profit margins. Why should they ante up and pay a professional band at several hundred notes when they can get one of the regulars to strap up with a MiniDisc player and a mic? For the most part these are not live venues, simply pubs who have decided that it's a nice little earner.

My local pays £150 per act. Be that a single singer/songwriter or a 6 piece band. I spokes to the landlord about the possibility of my band playing and he said "I've always paid £150 to bands, and I always will. It's not negotiable". So I left it. My bandmates are spread around a 250 mile radius - that wouldn't even cover their fuel these days.

I tried a fedora once, that's probably as close as I'll ever get

Teen Town.

Nice!

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1416050460' post='2606394'] If it's no longer good enough for Bob, then it's not good enough for me. [/quote] Nice!

There's no denying that these are beautiful instruments hand made by craftsmen of the very highest calibre, but I can't ever recall hearing one and thinking " I must have that sound", maybe they are capable of a broader pallette of tones, but they always seem to sound a bit 'anaemic' to my ears. Maybe that's just me.

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