Sounds like a righteous cause for a recording sample? Did you have any samples along those lines on your clips page? Thanks!

AWESOME!!!! The Sitar sounds are fantastic! How do you get the sustained lines (organ’ish sounding)? Continuous strumming, through the pedal or what?

I think I’m still learning to love music… or my appreciation (/addiction) keeps growing.

I can’t pinpoint a magic moment, but think I’ve always paid more attention to the music in everything than my peers. It probably started with film scores, theme songs, and all to even childs shows and cartoons. Then video games.

The first time I remember REALLY being captivated by music was when I bought my first cassette. It was the B52’s “Cosmic Thing”. I must have been about 10. Later I found an old toy keyboard at my grandmothers house and started to see how cool to discover chords and melodies was. From there I managed to always have some form of instrument around as an outlet, but as I get older, I realize that my draw to music is more of a creativity outlet…. If I wasn’t playing instruments, I’d undoubtedly be doing something creative. It wasn’t until later on, following a stint of mind altering substances, that I had a whole new appreciation for music…. of all types.

It’s funny that nnekolas mentioned video games. I have some epic memories of vide game music. Some of my favs are the classics like: Castle Vania, Zelda, Contra; Super Mario and all, legendary music. But a few of my all time favorites were:

Rygar – NES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNrzw8wKjkQ

Goonies 2 – NES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIip6uZ28tE (which is just that Cyndy Lauper song from the Goonies movie, but well done)

… but that’s a whole other topic. Game Music converse could go on forever.

Welcome, I can’t say for sure because I haven’t A/B’ed them myself. All assurances of noticeable improvements with the Gold-Pin’s to me have come from dealers, and venders that’s questionable.
My instincts would tell me that if you’ve got a little extra cash, it would be worth it to try gold-pins. I have noticed improved tone in other gold-plated connectors (cables / adapters).

This is only my opinion, but If for nothing else, I’d recommend the gold-pins for their potential to be less subject to oxidation…. obviously a better pay-off over a longer life of the tubes….. if they can resist oxidation more than uncoated.

It’s a skill in itself to work out the start / stop, footswitch or not…..

The solution for this would be to create “Quantized” loops. If you didn’t know, or haven’t tried yet, you would engage the “Quantize” button before starting a Record on a New Loop. This will keep your loops confined to a precise set of the 4/4 click….. oh, yeah, you’ll have to play to the click. So, the click is on a 4/4 measure (1 set = 4 clicks) and when recording it will start right at the beginning of a set and stop at the end of the last 4/4 measure that is playing when you click again to stop.

Another note with that, is that when you start recording a new loop with the “Quantize” active, it doesn’t actually start recording until the second set of measures starts. It’s like a count-off before starting….. so you can be precise with your starting…. NEET’O! That’s that, and that’s if you’re willing to stay on-time and play with a click, and in 4/4, and…….

On the other hand, if you are using footswitch and if you want manual start/stop control, remember that start stop activation isn’t until the actual button clicks all the way down… so there is some lag while depressing the button. so, it’s not when you react, or start pressing the button down, but when it actually clicks. Good luck……

If all else fails and you can’t get it down, you should donate that piece of cr@p pedal to me [grins deviously while rubbing hands together]

Agreed, Murray Street was VERY good too (well, aren’t they all). I guess to me, Eternal has a good, rockin’ vibe throughout the whole album. Almost the most upbeat of all of theirs and dare I say…… a little pop’ish in song structure. Eternal has more harmonies, more vocal dubbing, more ABC, ABC song structure with the emphasis on light-heavy-heavier, light-heavy-heavier…. and overall has a really good upbeat vibe to it. I think this is what’s most appealing about it to me for the time being. I can see the majority of the tracks on Eternal having a good radio presence.

Murray Street is FANTASTIC to me too, but in it’s own way is more dark than the Eternal. I love that side of SY, but was ready for what they did with the Eternal. It’s definitely as “special” as eternal, I guess I might overlook it being such a short album. Probably one of my top 5 SY songs would be Sympathy for the Strawberry, but aside from that, that album lacks, “special” songs to me. I caught them live on that tour though and it was righteous.

I’m probably overhyping the new album, but I’m also elated to be so amused by yet another new SY album. Who’d-a thunk it after doing it for so long?!!?

My Compact Flash memory card that came with the 2880, ya’ know, the unlabeled 1GB card one….. broke within a couple of weeks. I bought some high-speed 2GB cards (TRANSCEND brand) online for cheap and replaced the original one. Haven’t had a problem since.

I can’t say for sure that your problem is limited to the card, but I’m betting that’s all it is, especially if you can still hear your dry signal. Try another compact flash card before anything. I’ve also heard of others cards failing too……

Let us know if you find out this is the problem or otherwise what it is….. Memory cards aside, I’ve got a feeling these boxes are going to hold up for a long time.

NOTE to EHX, might be time to source a different supplier for the next batch of Memory Cards, just sayin’, ….. I’ve been using Transcend memory for years now from both budget memory and their high end for photography, and they’ve been solid memory. They are great value and very dependable. Actually an 8GB compact flash card went through my washing machine last week and came out working like day one. Maybe Transcend offers private label…. or generic.

licking chops…… anxiously waiting for a video demo……