Sample rate.
That term might not mean anything or be completely foreign to some, but varying sample rates can completely change your listening experience when discovering new music.
The thought of using analog synthesizers with modern clock syncing and looping almost seems like a sin. For live use with church music sets and even regular live sets use it’s starting to become almost necessary.
Lately I have been thinking of better ways to use my commodore 64 live. I’ve come to the realization that I need a way to send midi information to it. Maybe have the commodore play back through Ableton live so it can be controlled with their really simple setup, or even just be able to set it up to a clock to play a simple loop at a desired tempo. I’m not really sure of the first way to go about doing this but I think the best thing is to just start researching random nerd blogs and seeing if anyone has done this before. My end result needs to be something that’s not too difficult to set up that preferably runs through my lappy so I can play a lick on the commodore, set it to quantized the notes to a tempo and then just let it loop while i go back to playing guitar.
Perhaps I’m thinking too hard, it would certainly be a lot easier to que up an ableton live set and just play loops when I want them in the song; but that takes the fun out of playing the part live!
Oh well, this post is more of a rambling than anything…I just want to have some tangible evidence that this thought has in my mind for a while now and I want to get it done right.
I finally figured out how to get this site working on the WordPress editor for my phone! This is basically a test post to see how well it works.
I’ve had a blues Jr for a while now and realized I never have done a comparison of what it sounds like up against a Blues Jr with a stock Eminence speaker. Becoming so accustomed to how a UK made Celestion Vintage 30 sounds in my Jr, I never would have guessed there was this much contrast between the two speakers.
The Eminence speaker may have it’s applications but my reaction to listening to playback of the recording below was absolute shock that there could be so much difference in a set of paper and drivers. While they both push air, they push them in extremely different ways. The Blues Jr is an amp waiting to be released from its stock speaker — just listen to the difference in the video below.
I love my Hagstrom Super Swede. The 60’s profile Gibson neck, the over-wound pickups, the sunburst
finish and the solid Mahogany body all come together to form quite an amazing instrument for such a low cost.
Check it out: