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Location: big island | here's a short version of my new slack key composition, "summer country slackin'" which i am submitting for the OFC member's CD compilation. or is this supposed to be a surprise? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Some, if not most, of ya'll make me think about changing my moniker to 'Slacker'! 
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Great stuff, Randy! And I don't think there's anything wrong with a pre-sale teaser. Nothing like giving everybody a taste of the talent they're going to be hearing. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Randy,
Another great song. I love everything I have heard you play!!! You do inspire me to try and Play better!!
Aloha!!! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Very very nice.
I can almost smell the jungle and salt air. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Slipkid:
I can almost smell the jungle and salt air. i've even got a few summertime "mosquitoes" in the song.
thanks, guys! |
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Location: south east Michigan | buzz buzz buzzzzzz |
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Location: big island | some of the quick hammer-ons remind me of a mosquito buzzin' close to my ears. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Randy,
Your tune brought to mind this one...
One of my favs from Mark Knopfler...
The Long Road
(ignore the video) |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Very nice. Beautiful sound, has a nice feel to it. |
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Location: Tennessee | Very nice. That tune would go great in a Bruce Brown film. I wish I could play like that. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Nice Randy!!!!
Bobbo, you must be a slackin. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Randy - beautiful! It puts my mind in another place... thanks! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Very Nice Randy! Great sound! Nice Tune! |
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Location: big island | that's a great knopfler song, jeff. i've never heard it before.
and thanks to everyone else for the encouragement. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by lanaki:
that's a great knopfler song, jeff. i've never heard it before.
and thanks to everyone else for the encouragement. It's off the album "Cal" which was the theme music for the movie of the same name about a Catholic in Northern Island who falls in love with a Protestant woman at the same time as his mates get him involved in IRA activities. Great music by Knopfler which sets a mood for this movie, similar to the way he did for "Local Hero" which is my all time favourite movie. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Like the other songs you've shared Randy, very nice! Great first single from the OFC CD!
Couple of questions...
Which guitar were you using on that track?
And you may have mentioned this in another thread but, what's your recording setup? |
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Location: NJ | Couldn't open it.
I'll wait for the CD . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Nice! |
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Location: big island | hi steve,
in the window that opens for the sound clip, there is a link, "full song info". if you click on that you will see the info i have included which covers the questions you asked. short story: i am playing the 1978 adamas 1 1687-9 i recently got on eBay. plugged into my zoom a2.1u pedal on bank B / patch 0 / default settings. the audio was captured via usb from the pedal using roxio's easy media creator v.9
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Location: Orlando, FL | Thanks Randy. I just checked out the full song info. Looks like you're doing really well on the charts on Soundclick, #33 out of 103,302 songs listed in acoustic!
Looks like lots of people are digging your tune! Now if each of them buys an OFC CD... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Sounds great. |
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Location: closely held secret | Very nice sound and style, Randy! Where's that CD of tracks we talked about? :D |
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Location: big island | thanks again, everybody. the song is #5 in the acoustic general category on "soundclick" and i've got a copy en route to washington dc.
i've uploaded the full version also.
i've got delusions of grandeur after bobbo's comment about movie soundtracks... |
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Location: North Carolina | It just pisses me off that you play so well, come up with great recordings of great tunes, and are so good looking to boot! Damn you. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Easy there FA - he's got a very pretty wife to boot :) |
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Location: North Carolina | Oh, no! Guy's got it all! Well, I've got my fingers crossed that he can't sing. |
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Location: big island | thanks, i think, FA. and thank you for my back up, mike. and FA, you can uncross one of your fingers. i sing but not so well anymore. used to be i could sing much better than play guitar and in the last few years it is entirely the other way around. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by First Alternate:
It just pisses me off that you play so well, come up with great recordings of great tunes, and are so good looking to boot! Damn you. What he said, except the bit about being good looking, and I'd add a smiley after the "Damn you."
You really do make me think "why do I bother", you're so damn precise and I feel like I've got 1" diameter fingers. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Randy has been doing this for a long time: yes, he's a great player (and does have a nice voice as well): he still makes part of his living as a professional so he's got to have a modicum of talent to be able to do that consistently.
But hey, not everybody that plays piano is a Rachmaninoff....not every guitarist is a pro...the important thing is to have fun and express yourself! |
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by lanaki:
i sing but not so well anymore. I'm thinking you're too young to be having any voice difficulties. If you're not a smoker or have any underlying pathology, stretch the instrument. Sing a lot, anything and everything, and drink lots of water. Get some vocal coaching. It's a shame to lose one of your instruments. |
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Location: closely held secret | Oh, yeah. We forgot to mention he looks young for his age... |
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Location: Utah | Originally posted by lanaki:
(i'm having a few issues with the lexicon omega unit and have not been able to use it yet. i visited their support site and found numerous folks having the same problems. class-action lawsuit may be forthcoming. What's the problem with the Omega? I've been using the Alpha with no problems. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by FlySig:
...What's the problem with the Omega? I've been using the Alpha with no problems. initially, the unit would not respond at all after 20-30 minutes of use. i visited lexicon's forum to find out many users had the same issue. remedy: open the unit and take the slack out of the largest ribbon cable as it makes contact with one of the FETs and will burn/melt at that point. the company has issued no formal statement about this as of yet. opening the unit voids the warranty for the original buyer though. mine had this problem as did most of the units that have "SV" after the model number on the bottom.
another problem and less easy to counter is the hardware not being recognized nor the drivers found although they reside in the software folder. windows xp pro wants to install the "new usb device" every time i connect the unit and then tells me the device cannot be installed as the drivers are not available. directing to the drivers does not help.
i've had to do numerous un and re installs until i found out i can just unplug the AC cord momentarily and then the unit is recognized again after plugging in. this sucks in the middle of recording! this remains an issue for many folks and the company has not addressed it either.
lexicon updated the drivers last october which are downloadable from their site, however, they do not work any better. i was telling musicmike i wish i had done my homework on these units before purchasing it. i'm sure i'll get it all worked out eventually. otherwise, as many have said on the lexicon forum, at least i've got a nice looking, albeit expensive, paperweight. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by First Alternate:
Originally posted by lanaki:
i sing but not so well anymore. I'm thinking you're too young to be having any voice difficulties. If you're not a smoker or have any underlying pathology, stretch the instrument. Sing a lot, anything and everything, and drink lots of water. Get some vocal coaching. It's a shame to lose one of your instruments. |
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Location: Utah | I had the same issue with WinXP not recognizing my alpha until I installed ASIO drivers for it. The factory drivers were something different. ASIO4ALL not only fixed the recognition problem, but the latency is much lower now. The only downside to using ASIO drivers is that the built in sound card for the computer is not ASIO, and my recording software cannot run both simultaneously. Thus I am limited to using headphones when mixing or listening via the recording software. To listen via the computer speakers I have to mix it down to a wav or MP3 and then use another program to listen, like Windows Media Player. A minor inconvenience but worth it to get the faster performance with ASIO drivers. |
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Location: Jet City | First, Randy, excellent as usual.
Second, crap, I just bought one of those units off a guy on craigslist, and with the sv.
I haven't tried it yet. |
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Location: big island | i have ASIO4ALL but did not attempt to use it for this application as others on the lexicon forum said it did not help them with the same issue i have. after the first install, the omega took over as the default player also and my computer speakers would not play so i had to use the headphones to monitor all audio as i do not have dedicated monitor speakers...yet.
that is remedied by changing the default media player in hardware devices. so if and when i record with the omega i then go to devices to set the default and can playback thru the computer's speaker system. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Damon67:
First, Randy, excellent as usual.
Second, crap, I just bought one of those units off a guy on craigslist, and with the sv.
I haven't tried it yet. damon,
first thing to do is open the unit and rubber band the slack in that large ribbon cable. you may already see a small burn mark on the cable where it touches the FET in the middle. there are two screws on the bottom sides of the unit, four on the back and the two silver ones on the bottom of the faceplate that require removal to open it. you do not need to unscrew the four black ones on the bottom surrounding the label. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | i was telling musicmike i wish i had done my homework on these units before purchasing it. i'm sure i'll get it all worked out eventually. otherwise, as many have said on the lexicon forum, at least i've got a nice looking, albeit expensive, paperweight. Well, to say I was surprised about this is an understatement: it could easily have been me. I bought this from from a fellow on ebay who had gotten it as a gift and he did not need it. I got busy with finishing seminary and never used it. Then sold it to Randy with no idea that it wasn't a great unit. The board here had discussed it and it seemed to be a good unit so that's why I bought it. Had I known it never would have left Virginia.
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Location: big island | thanks, mike. i did neglect to mention that you never used it and had no clue that there were any issues with it.
anyway, my song has been bumped up a notch to #4 on soundclick. i'm not exactly sure what that means, but i now have a tune in their top 100 acoustic genre and this one in their top 50 acoustic. seems folks are enjoying the instrumental i did with the the EA-68 viper. i remain broke though. :rolleyes: |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by muzza:
...You really do make me think "why do I bother", you're so damn precise and I feel like I've got 1" diameter fingers. muz, you "bother" because you enjoy playing guitar. it adds an element of joy to your life. play on, brother! |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Very nice sound and style, Randy! Where's that CD of tracks we talked about? :D i ain't got enough tracks yet, john. i'd like to get at least 10 going and have you work some strings and/or bass magic with them. thanks for remembering. give me another year... |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by lanaki:
seems folks are enjoying the instrumental i did with the the EA-68 viper. i remain broke though. :rolleyes: Count me in with those EA-68 folks Randy. Might not make you rich by myself but make a CD of stuff just like that and the Summer Country tune and I'll be standing in the front of the line to buy it. Beautiful music. And you do have a way with a guitar. :cool: Don't make us wait too long!
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by lanaki:
first thing to do is open the unit and rubber band the slack in that large ribbon cable. you may already see a small burn mark on the cable where it touches the FET in the middle. there are two screws on the bottom sides of the unit, four on the back and the two silver ones on the bottom of the faceplate that require removal to open it. you do not need to unscrew the four black ones on the bottom surrounding the label. Thanks, I'll check it out. Hopefully I won't have the other issues as I'll be using it on a Mac. |
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Location: big island | mahalo for your kind words and encouragement, otto. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | FAR OUT!
....You're gonna have to come stateside soon and learn me that slackin' stuff!
Great Sound and Super talent! |
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Location: big island | thanks, mike! you'd get a lesson or two much quicker if you came here though. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I can't swim..... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Maybe if you grab the right tuna... |
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Location: big island | the left tuna works too. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | sumpthin fishy 'bout them replies! :eek: |
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Location: big island | here's a video to go with the song:
summer country slackin\' |
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Location: big island | i think i need to work on the audio track some and re-submit this to youtube. sounds fine before the upload. |
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Location: big island | this is a bit better:
"summer country slackin\'" take 2 |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I thought they were both good. Can't you at least try to make it look harder? That's depressing. |
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Location: big island | there's still something amiss with the audio, especially in the high quality view. the video is clearer in high quality but the audio sounds worse than it already does in the standard view. i can't live with it so i gotta figure out what the problem is. playback sounds great in the native clip. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Randy, you make it look so easy. Keep at it. You do us all very proud! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | This video has been removed by the user.
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | There's YouTube for ya...exactly why I don't post anything to that place. |
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Location: big island | i removed the first two videos as the audio sounded real bad. i have uploaded take three but it still sounds a bit "muddy". the bass notes don't compress too well, for some reason. |
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Location: Utah | Lanaki, my wife walked in while your teaser was playing. She immediately said that the guitar sounded great and asked what kind it is. She was very impressed. Enough so that maybe an Adamas could slip in the door without too much fuss sometime in the future!
I'll owe you a beer or something. |
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Location: big island | hmmmm...perhaps me calling it a "teaser" was appropriate. thanks, flysig and good luck! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | So, Randy, could you play that on an LAV Koa Collector so I can let my wife accidentally listen to it? |
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Location: big island | mark, have al send me one on your squirrel money credit card account. i'll record and upload it for your wife to "accidentally" listen to it. if this ploy works, great. send me the money to ship the guitar to your home. if this ploy is not successful, i'll just keep the guitar. deal? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I wish I had "squirrel money". I spent my $20 per month allowance on raffle tickets at Miles'. Got a bunch of guitar strings now. Think she'll agree if I say I need a new guitar to go with those strings? |
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"summer country slackin'" teaser