Christian Jones

I play a Warmoth baritone strat almost exclusively. Sometimes play a heavily modded American Deluxe w/ the standard 25.5 scale. The baritone is a 28 5/8" scale w/ a Wilkinson trem and I string it w/ light baritone strings so it feels closer to a standard 25.5 scale strat, and I tune to Bb (technically A#) just like my 5 string bass, which is also a long scale @ 35". (I also tune my standard 25.5 scale strat to Eb, so it's "in tune" w/ my baritone and 5-string bass). I've always liked tuning low as I grew up listening to Alice in Chains and Dream Theater. Jerry Cantrell just used really heavy gauge strings on a regular scale guitar to tune down to C, but John Petrucci later played a seven string Ibanez w/ that low B. I don't really like seven string guitars; I like the feel of the six string and the extra snap and twang I get from the longer scale. I get a kick out of people who look at my baritone strat, which at first glance looks just like a regular strat, except there's something about it they can't quite put their finger on.. lol it's that the neck is extra long. Robert Smith (Cure) plays a Bass 6, which is that fender Jazzmaster thingy with something like a 30" scale neck iirc, and like the Dan Electro baritones they have pretty thick baritone strings, so he kind of does a tic-tac bass thing with it, and of course some country and cowboy western players like the baritone for that deep twang. But I treat and play my baritone as if it were a regular strat that just happens to be tuned down to B flat, and because I use light baritone strings it plays more like a standard scale strat too, so I'm able to bend and do all that. Still there is a bit more tension there even w/ the light baritone strings and your fingers get strong playing like that. You have to remember Stevie Ray Vaughan played a regular scale strat with 12's and I heard sometimes 13's. I tried 12s on my regular strat and it was much stiffer than the light baritone strings on my baritone. 

There goes a picture of the first (white) Warmoth baritone I built close to 20 years ago. And a picture of a new baritone I'm   currently building. The seafoam green body is from Warmoth and the baritone tele neck is from Musiccraft.

3 hours ago, JoeGBradford said:

Chillblast who are building my new PC (and built my current one over 10 years ago) have charged me around £300 for one of these as a data drive

That ain't cool. I guess that's the cost of having someone build for you. Not eveyone has time or desire to build their own  but I wouldn't be able to get my mind around such an upcharge

11 minutes ago, Patrick Derbidge said:

And the sale is back on! Just got an email from them. Must have been a glitch.

Lol probably cuz I emailed them earlier, though someone else may have emailed them too. I actually watched the sale turn off in realtime at approx 4:34pm PT as I was looking at my cart for TVBO and WG2 MkII and about to buy but then the prices went up. I couldn't have that so I emailed bro lol

33 minutes ago, abacab said:

Not too bad!!! I put a 500GB 970 EVO Plus M.2 in my system as the boot drive, fast as hell!

I didn't need 2 TB for that use, but this one would make an excellent sample content drive!

What do you think of having a 4tb ssd just for the OS, a 2nd 4tb ssd for audio files, a 3rd 4tb ssd for libraries and a 4th 4tb for more sample libraries? That's what a guy in a beard and glasses said to get on YouTube

23 minutes ago, Fleer said:

And don’t skip the original Rain Piano. That’s the Tom Waits one

You mean the non-mkii one is the Tom Waits one? If so, what's the mkii version then? I thought it was mk1 w/ just some updates

Yeah I was and may still gonna buy the Samsung 4tb ssd from Amazon for $299. they say it's a sale price, but I've read that ssd prices could drop possibly by half by mid 2023.

1 hour ago, Craig Fowler said:

I'd definitely pick up WGII (I think that's the most recent combo of White Grand/Sister) and Rain Piano.

So it's a warm sounding piano, WGII. I was watching this on it

The sale ends today. Is WGII worth two sandwiches from Subway? I'm not sure if I'm gonna skip TVBO or not. I did pick up Rain Piano and INIL

10 hours ago, Fleer said:

INIL and TVBO

Would you buy tvbo at full price or even half price? I mean $24 isn't a ton of money but just how worth having is that piano for 15gb?

57 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

Many of their libraries are pretty old, going back 15 years or more. But they  remain good quality piano libraries; they just dont have a bunch of patches, controls or flashy GUIs. I like the ones that TVBO that Fleer mentioned,  the White Grand Craig recommended and think the Black Grand and Rain Piano,  a character upright piano, are also nice. They have a baby grand library I really like,  but I've found one note has an issue. I think it's called Blue Piano?  The current sale prices allow you to pick up really nice, high quality libraries for less than $10 USD ,  I really don't think you can go wrong. They're a very good developer and Per is great to deal with. I would guess that I've been a customer for 20 years and have always found him to be nothing but friendly and good natured. I'd recommend you start by checking the demos for all those libraries and buy what appeals to you, knowing this is a quality dev. 

Speaking of uprights, I think Fluffy Audio has an upright you might be interested in.

😜 Too soon?

How bout that.. I've been waiting on a sale price for that Tom Waits Rain Piano that character upright and now it's under $8 for mkii.  No brain for me anyway

I'm waiting for the John Petrucci one to hit 60% off, as I hear that one's even better than Nolly. That's all subjective but I'd go for the Petrucci, plus it has a transpose feature which could be cool. Unfortunately I can't demo any of these at the moment. I know I bought Gojira just for the whammy feature alone

I'm gonna grab this deal as I've found that while I like accordions it's really the harmonium sound I'm after. Unless you know of a better deal than https://www.xperimentaproject.com/book-1-indian-organs/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_source=XPERIMENTA+Project&utm_campaign=09d49b4f7a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_09_14_06_07_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_262889762e-09d49b4f7a-448394252&mc_cid=09d49b4f7a&mc_eid=2a63a8c69e

Hmmmm 🤔

3 hours ago, abacab said:

Take a look at this course. Looks like a fast track for us, *cough* more mature citizens, that don't have unlimited years to learn something new.

Gotta pay your dues abacab. That includes getting slapped on the wrist each time you mess up, no matter how old you are.

Btw, can anyone tell me what kind of electric piano the Scarbee EP-88s is? I can't seem find what category it falls into. Like is it a Rhoads or? I don't think it's a wurli

What's the deal with someone claiming to be related to Mr. Wurlitzer? What's the scam there and what does he have to gain from it?

If a few more dollars can be coughed up Soniccouture's Broken Wurli can be had for $42 https://www.thomannmusic.com/soniccouture_broken_wurli.htm

On 11/18/2022 at 3:53 AM, Technostica said:

There have been some good used deals recently, probably people selling duplicate libraries after the big bundle deals earlier this year.

You seeing those on kvr or somewhere else?

Heh, last game I played was Resident Evil 4 on a GameCube that I was handed down as a secret Santa gift at the office. That reminds me, I gotta rescue that girl back again.. they got her from me the last time I played

@abacab  or anyone else, does this Samsung or Crucial 4tb drives ever get lower than $300? Sometimes I see them for a tiny bit cheaper than $400 but not $300 that I've seen. I need four of these 4tb drives for my new overbuild that I'm collecting parts for to be built maybe in 6 months. I'm wondering if I should get two of these now. I suppose though that if these 4tb drives ever did get cheaper than $300 it wouldn't be by much.

30 minutes ago, abacab said:

And $299 from Amazon, with delivery next week: https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Inch-Internal-MZ-77E1T0B-AM/dp/B08QBL36GF?th=1

I don't know if everyone has this option, but I can get it from Amazon for $60/mo over 5mo on their no interest/no approval payment plan. I've bought a few things from Amazon that way even when I could have paid for them outright, because it builds a form of "credit" for you with Amazon where they will offer you more of those payment plans for higher dollar stuff. So after successfully completing the payment plans on a couple smaller priced items they offered me five no interest monthly installments for a Canon eos m6 mark ii I wanted, which was around $1000, and I paid it off in 5 monthly installments. See if you have the same option to do that with this hard drive. I should do it because I need 4 of these and their usually $400, or $379 - $350 on sale. 

That sucks @Fleer. What the heck was I even spending my money on at that time? I've got no excuse to have missed that deal. I feel like I let the team down

@Fleer what was that deal you got from these guys recently where you said it was a rare deal? Something like 6 for $250? That's what I'd be interested in, whatever it was. Really I just need the broken wurli, but.

Curiou, is it still impossible to place an order with these guys on your phone? They had some library I was sort of interested in recently on sale and I was gonna buy it but I wasn't able to use any of my Android browsers to buy it.. their site just oddly gave me no option to make a purchase. I posted that and someone here here said that you indeed have to use a desktop browser to purchase from their site. Like, yeah whatever I don't remember the last time I surfed the web on my PC. Then I got real p!$$ed and ended up missing the sale and it was more frustration than it worth and I got nothing out of it. I mean their loss.. I was about to purchase something I didn't even 100% want lol

No, I only own the spaghetti western library and I think an upright piano from them.

12 hours ago, abacab said:

Not a Kontakt instrument, but if I mentioned a B-3 it would have been the IK Multimedia B-3X. It's probably all you need, and is officially endorsed by Hammond, includes the Leslie cabinet section and much more. All the settings, controls and circuits were modeled to IK’s exacting standards and every detail checked and re-checked with the team at the Hammond Organ Company. $129 at IK. https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/hammondb3x/

It is both a standalone or plugin instrument, not part of SampleTank.

For serious organists you can use separate controllers via 3 MIDI channels to control upper & lower, and bass pedals.

I could have sworn that IK organ was around $300. Is it on sale now or something? Wasn't it like $299?