New Guitar (was: silentium!)

[Gert van Santen]

Hi All, Komatos

Op 24-8-2012 18:01, Komatos schreef:
> On Aug 24, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at upcmail.nl> wrote:

> Wow that's a nice guitar. I love guitar based music, so please post any future tracks made once you get it and start playing.

I am definitely planning to :-)

Regarding your second post/update: I'd take the sunburst version 
of the real model you wanted originally rather than settle for a 
different model in a color you like. You can always stain it 
later. Like an automobile you want that isn't available in your 
preferred color, the model/type of car is more important.

Well, I decided to take the most sensible step and go for the 
guitar in Vintage Burst, as you suggested. It looks like this 
(including the case):

http://www.ibanezrules.com/euro/images/as103vb/IMG_4897.JPG

Actually, I did try to get another colour, and the shop-owner has 
tried, together with the importer, to see if they could get me 
any other colour. In the end there "might have been" an option 
for a white one, but it had to come from Germany first - if they 
would have one at all, so I thought, I'm sort of used already to 
the idea of a VB, so there you go.

Now it's going to take until Saturday, or next Tuesday. Oh, well. 
Perhaps it will arrive together with my MiniBRUTE, next week, 
when I will have my first real day off in months :-)

There will be lots of Belgian beer, too. Haven't been drinking 
much these last months either.... Yeehaa...

> On a similar note to Gert, I've been real busy at work & with life lately. I'm 9 days into a much needed 20 day staycation. Trying to get projects done around the house, but mostly chilling so far. I haven't had any gear since late 2007 due to having to sell it all to catch up on bills & stay in the house (which I really almost lost this last winter/early spring trying to get the mortgage company to get me a restructure/deferral).
>
> Anyways, after all that stress (financial, work & life related), and feeling a musical itch that needed to be scratched, I decided to treat myself to a new piece of gear with my longevity (annual bonus) and some Best Buy credit. I know most of you will probably laugh at me, but I ended up getting a Beat Thang hardware unit. With a 10% off coupon that came with the Best Buy card I got it for $899.99 + tax instead of $999.99 + tax. $100 off a limited edition item that I paid 60% for with cash and the rest with credit was a steal. I used the $100 I saved to get a couple of 32GB SD cards for it and still have some cash left. I'd been following it since it was announced in 2008 and actually released last summer at an initial price of $1500.
>
> I bought it because I'm a hardware musician at heart and the Beat Thang to me is the spiritual successor to the Yamaha RS7000, which I consider to be the most powerful hardware sequencer ever made. The workflow is similar (unlike the confusing workflow of the Akai MPC line [I had a used MPC1000 for a few months last summer with JJOS & it just didn't jive with me]). The only thing different is you load up & work with one pattern at a time instead of multiple patterns/styles of the RS7k. This is due to having to load the kit(s) for the current pattern into RAM, which usually only takes 1-3 seconds.
>
> While the initial marketing & product name seemed to gear it towards inner city youth & hip hop musicians, it actually is a great all round sequencer & sampler that can be used for live performance. The manual is slim at 20 pages but there is a wealth of video tutorials done by the Beat Kangz on their learnbeatthang.com website that are very professionally done & easy to follow. The video tutorials are what finally sold me on the Beat Thang a couple of weeks before I bought it.
>
> Sorry for the novelette. I'm excited to be back in the game again. :-)

That's cool, man. This is a  very unique machine, and not many 
people own one, certainly not on the bar. I'm curious about your 
results. How about a demo :-)

Anyway, good to see you're back in business!

Cheers,

-- 
Gert
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gert van santen
www.gertvansanten.nl