estricklin
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Funny you mention the Mackie, I had been looking at one for our church but ultimately I decided to go with the Yamaha. We also just purchased the bose tower speaker and... Wow. It's just unreal. We got the largest model because we are in a large auditorium but we can't hardly give it any volume or it is too much. I may sometimes get to practice a little early just to crack it a bit before anyone else arrives...
I need to practice more. Aside from playing acoustic each week I hardly pick up the guitar. Looks like I'll have the house to myself here this morning so maybe I'll see how much I can make the P90s howl.
Funny you mention the Yamaha, I was going to get something like a 16 channel Yamaha, I LOVE their mixers, but looking at the smaller mixers I didn't see the same value. I like that they have compressors built into the FX, and let's face it pretty much everything they make is awesome. I did look at the Behrys but I wanted something that was going to last. I'm ok with some of their products but you do get what you pay for. Our church has a Behry and it already has a dead channel, could be from abuse though I dunno. I just needed a smaller mixer anyway.
Sounds like awesome gear gents. Wish I could sing well enough to have my own gig. I play piano estricklin and gig on it to. Glad you are at it. You could find my board for cheap now and i have seen pros use it. Its a yamaha s80 or is it s08. Wish i would have gotten something more fun, but if you want something that sounds and feels very real and is durable for gigs, this is kind of what you have to get. Makes a couple thousand different sounds. It was 1500 or 1600 new and the step up was close to 3k I think, but was similar. You could pick one up for like 400 I think. Note....its big and heavy.
Oh that's cool you play piano, I used to have a Yamaha synth but it was bought in the mid 90s for about $500, and as you can imagine was pretty bad outdated by the time I sold it around 2005. I need something that is going to be pretty portable, and I really don't need a lot of bells and whistles. Singing just takes practice like everything else.
Here is an actual guitar tip that should relate to the thread. I've had a lot of these notebooks over the years, basically I jot down whatever I need to. I always draw a circle of 5ths and some basic chord/key charts to reference whenever I need it. Sometimes I chart out songs, write set lists, lists of songs to learn or practice, scales, chord types, lyrics and literally just anything I need. I carry the notebook I need that day in my guitar case. I don't write everything out so that I can play looking at it really, but glancing at the songs' chord progression or intro can help. I wish I would have started doing this, or doing it better back at the start. I used to write out all the lyrics and chords for every song I wanted to learn but that turned out to be a waste. Oh and always have an ink pen in your guitar case to go with the notebook.