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Topic: Buddy Emmons Home Recording Gear? |
Dennis Detweiler
From:
Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 2 Oct 2003 3:21 pm |
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Buddy, what equipment do you have for recording in your home studio?
Thanks
Dennis |
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Buddy Emmons
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Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Oct 2003 5:18 pm
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Hi Big D,
I have the bare essentials for 8 track recording, but 4 tracks are usually all I use, which is two for steel and two for BIAB tracks. The console is a Tascam 16 track, the tape recorder, 8 track Adat, and a rack of old effects I’ve used over the years. It includes a couple Lexicon effects units, so I have the reverbs and delays covered. I also have a Tascam Dat recorder and a Nakamichi cassette deck from the good old days.
I bought a computer for the BIAB tracks and I output it to the Tascam board with Altec Lansing monitors. I have a couple of high quality Peavey monitors but humidity along with a heap of bass response eventually did them in so I’m hoping to repair them soon. There are two tracks reserved for my FM jazz station so I can turn it on and play along. It’s not a serious recording setup by any means but it has enough going for it to call it a great little work station.
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 6:50 am
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Hi Big E
do you still use the MPX1 ?
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Buddy Emmons
From:
Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 6:54 am
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Yeah it's in there somewhere. Now if I could just get some work.  |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 8:13 am
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| Buddy, thank you for being candid! Now I can come out of the closet and no longer have to hang my head and avert my eyes when I admit that I only have a Tascam 414 MkII. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 9:02 am
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Buddy, may be you could find a young singer and develope a act your way, with some reference to current market tastes.
A producers % ain't a bad retirement account.
Plus you would get full control, and the doors are likely still open at the lables for you.
Just a thought. |
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David Cobb
From:
Chanute, Kansas, USA
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 9:44 am
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Geeps, if the Big E's looking for work, how does that bode for the rest of us?  |
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Dennis Detweiler
From:
Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 10:50 am
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Buddy, thanks for divulging your home recording equipment. There's alot of home workshop recording gear to pick from. And alot of the good older pieces are still available. The warmth of the older gear still seems to be in demand.
Dennis |
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Buddy Emmons
From:
Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 10:53 am
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| The best way for me to get work in Nashville would be to take the block off my phone number at the musicians union. It scares me to think about it. |
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Mike Sweeney
From:
Nashville,TN,USA
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 12:14 pm
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Buddy,
Excuse my ignorance, but I've heard of the BIAB but have never messed with it. Are these tracks already done or can you arrange the changes and time signatures etc.. on these things to make whatever song you want?
Mike |
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Gary Lee Gimble
From:
Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 1:26 pm
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| Mike, if Buddy doesn't mind me offering some input, I'll sorta answer your question. The basic rhythm tracks consist of drums, bass (acoustic) and piano. You can arrange your own in any key signature and meter. 4/4, 2/4 and a whole bunch of others. Or you can be lazy and download tracks that other folks have written. I have a little over 6000 tunes that will keep me busy for the rest of my life. They include all styles from all walks of life too! There are other software programs out there that can do the same if not better, I've just chipped the iceberg ever so slightly on this program. Another words, I know beyond a reasonable doubt where the play and stop icon is located and the location of Too Marvelous for Words! |
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Buddy Emmons
From:
Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 1:30 pm
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Mike,
I was writing as Gary added his post but here's what I came up with:
The basic program has hundreds of songs with chord changes you can punch up and play along with, but several thousand songs and styles are available depending on how much you want to pay for the different packages they offer.
The basic package has 24 built in styles to choose from. There are others in the files if these don’t suit you. Once you select a style, (jazz, rock, country, bossa nova), you can type the chords you wish to use in a song, say for example, something you wrote, on a blank page with numbers that represent bars in the song.
It’s capable of split bars or bars with a chord for each beat. When you’ve type the changes in and completed the song, push the play button and the instruments that have been sampled for that particular style take over and play your song as if they wrote it, or to put it a better way, just like you wrote it.
If you find you don’t like a certain change, you can type over it and click on that particular spot to hear the new chord. And yes, time signatures can be changed in the middle of a song if necessary. It also allows you to change the tempo or transpose a song you wrote in the key of C, to the key of E or any other key that suits your voice or instrument.
It’s a brilliant program with features that would take an hour or more to cover. I hope I’ve included enough to answer you question.
[This message was edited by Buddy Emmons on 04 October 2003 at 07:16 AM.] |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 1:32 pm
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Mike:
No intent to short-circuit your question or any answer Buddy might post, but if you want a little review of BIAB I will bring my laptop to the Bristol show and give you a little demo. |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 1:33 pm
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| Wow! Those quys are quick. They both answered while I was typing. |
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Mike Sweeney
From:
Nashville,TN,USA
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 1:38 pm
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Thanks guys. I'm sorry for my stupidity on this subject. I just play steel but was thinking about something like that for here at the house.
Buddy, I might have some more questions at the super jam.
Roy, Yeah, I'd like to see it.
Mike |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 1:46 pm
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| OK mike. See you Saturday 10/11/03. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 3:25 pm
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I have done 2 jazz albums with BiaB as the main 1st arranging tool, outputing the sequence as midi and finishing it in Digital Performer adding real players.
We even prepared a session in France and Boston for a month using it with E-mail and AOL Instant Messanger for audio mp3's.
And when my friend got over here, we knocked out 150% more than he ever expected.
He sent me a file the day he left, and I wrote the head and had an arrangment done while he was on the plane, and we did that too.
It also gives a quick chord chart.
I have even kept a track or two in a production, because they had a decent feel still with all the real players. [This message was edited by David L. Donald on 03 October 2003 at 04:29 PM.] |
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Buddy Emmons
From:
Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 4:36 pm
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| One of the things I like most about it other than the band doesn’t rush or drag is that there are no personnel problems. |
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Mike Sweeney
From:
Nashville,TN,USA
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 5:27 pm
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| I guess you don't have to pay or feed them. |
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Wayne Morgan
From:
Rutledge, TN, USA
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 8:08 pm
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BIAB is also a great tool for a beginner like myself,,
I use Sonar pc program, to record, with BIAB, and steel, that puts an ole hillbilly in Hog Heaven.
Life without steel, would be life without thrill.
Wayne |
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Jerry Roller
From:
Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 3 Oct 2003 9:25 pm
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| BIAB is a great tool for making charts. When you have the song arranged on the computer you can print it and it makes a very neat chord chart. I have chart books for the steel shows with the charts done on BIAB. |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Oct 2003 5:18 am
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| . . . . . . . and you never have to tell the drummer to lighten up. |
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Gary Lee Gimble
From:
Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 4 Oct 2003 5:25 am
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| BIAB is also a useful tool for the functioning illiterate like myself. I've been unable to build chords from the theory aspect so I just type in that fat chord, click on the play icon and let my ear do the math. |
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Ernie Renn
From:
Brainerd, Minnesota USA
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Posted 4 Oct 2003 5:35 am
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Does it come with the band-guy girlfriends, too? Or is that an add-on?
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My best,
Ernie
www.buddyemmons.com
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 4 Oct 2003 5:36 am
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Mike,
You can try BIAB free for a few weeks by downloading the Eval Version from http://www.pgmusic.com/
There's also a downloadable Demo "Video" on that page that takes you thru the basic steps to create a song.[This message was edited by Joey Ace on 04 October 2003 at 06:43 AM.] |
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