Comments on: Copyright Is For Losers©™ http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/ Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sir Pent http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/#comment-2570 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:25:28 +0000 http://lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-2570 I’ve tried several times and never found the set I had.

]]> By: Matt http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/#comment-2569 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:02:50 +0000 http://lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-2569 I’m sure you could if you typed it into google.

]]> By: Sir Pent http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/#comment-2568 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:02:57 +0000 http://lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-2568 I wish I could find a pic of that set. It was SO beautiful and sounded SO great.
Oh yeah…top of the line Zildjian cymbals too. (Much better than those pie plates I used to hit back in the original LFA.)

]]> By: Matt http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/#comment-2567 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:57:36 +0000 http://lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-2567 The stupid things we do: getting rid of great instruments and equipment. I never should have sold my Ampeg Gemini VI, and you never should have sold that drum set.

http://theamphunter.com/images/033_gemini_six.jpg
I sold this when I finished high school, back in, what? 1989! Stupid thing to do. I wonder if Gator remembers it? I used to have both this and a little 50 watt solid state amp plugged into my stereo chorus pedal, from there to the delay and overdrive. What a huge sound two amps had!

… preparing to go teach a class… (read, checking the blog and ignoring the preparation)….

]]> By: Sir Pent http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/#comment-2566 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:50:43 +0000 http://lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-2566 The whole thing is worth it just for the new way Yamaha has engineered the hi-hat and cymbals. The action feels more genuine. You’re right about the sounds, too.

I absolutely agree about the better instruments improving play. I never really thought of it until I switched from my original $350 set to the $5000 set I was using with Freep. Wow. What a difference in play and sound.

]]> By: Matt http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/#comment-2565 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:36:37 +0000 http://lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-2565 All those reasons make great sense … except for the playing out live where an e-set would just be so uncool. But, hey, that’s not really an issue, is it?

The uploading of samples is a great feature, although I imagine a good new set like this comes with great sounding samples already installed. Most important has got to be the better action on the pads and cymbals. If there’s one thing I’ve found in playing music it’s that the more expensive instruments do in fact allow one to sound and play better. I have a crappy $150 classical guitar which is damned difficult to play, and a very nice Yamaha classical guitar that sounds beautiful and plays like a dream. It’s amazing the difference. This is one reason I also bought a new Fender standard tele neck for my electric. I know it will play better.

]]> By: Sir Pent http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/#comment-2564 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:09:52 +0000 http://lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-2564 A combo of all of those reasons:
1) I’ve played the new set a few times at the music store and it is light-years ahead of the one I have now in terms of “feel” and “sound”
2) It addresses my two big complaints:
realistic playing hi-hat
pads have more realistic action
3) I can play it without annoying my house or neighbors
4) It’s very easy to record with
5) Instead of just one set…with this you get 50 sets in one (& the ability to create your own…you can upload your own samples into this one)

I guess if I had an unlimited supply of money I would buy a nice acoustic set…but I think if I played out live, it would be with my electric set.

]]> By: Matt http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/#comment-2563 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:04:27 +0000 http://lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-2563 Why are your days of playing a real drum set over? You mean, like, forever? Like, you played an electric set and now you’d never go back to an acoustic because they are the cat’s meow? Or is it that the electric set is easier to record with and you don’t have to make a ton of noise in your house? I mean, I dig recording through my Toneport and all, but when I get the chance I’m buying a nice big tube amplifier so at the very least I can make the walls shake when nobody is home.

Nobody else, I mean.

]]> By: Sir Pent http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/#comment-2562 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:50:58 +0000 http://lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-2562 OK…I just saw the best TV commercial.
It shows a Mom sitting on the edge of a bed is shock as a dad pulls dozens and dozens of blurred out magazines from under the bed. The voiceover comes on and say, “Tell them what you want for Christmas or they’ll go snooping.”

]]> By: Sir Pent http://lizardsfromafar.com/2008/11/19/copyright-is-for-losers%c2%a9%e2%84%a2/#comment-2561 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:46:34 +0000 http://lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-2561 My days of playing a real drum-set are over.
I think you’ll be surprised at how good the new set is going to sound.

…and no baby blue.

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