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| Re: I'm getting ready to shitcan BFD [message #96848 is a reply to message #96847] |
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| Re: I'm getting ready to shitcan BFD [message #96947 is a reply to message #96924] |
Sun, 16 March 2008 22:18 |
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Deej [5]
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t;>> DC
>>>
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>Absolutely right on that, Sarah and Don. I have a classical guitar that
I picked out of a shipment of more than a dozen. The difference between
the best and worst was night and day, and these were all the same model.
Cheers,
-Jamie
www.JamieKrutz.com
Sarah wrote:
> I, too, have a 400 series Taylor, a 414K I bought in 1999 because it sounded
> so good. I've had nothing but compliments on the sound of this, both live
> and recorded. I was originally thinking about the fancier, spendier 714,
> but this one sounded better to me. Don is right, and I use the same phrase
> in advising people on guitar purchases . . . find one that speaks to you.
> Do it blindfolded or something, so you have only your ears and fingers to
> judge. Maybe you'll wind up with a $300 Takamine. :)
>
> S
>
>
> "DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote in message news:483345bc$1@linux...
>> I don't know why no one seems to buy the lower-priced
>> Taylors. I have a 410 I paid 850 for about 10 years ago
>> and it is wonderful.
>>
>> anyway, good luck with your search.
>>
&g
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| Re: I'm getting ready to shitcan BFD [message #96968 is a reply to message #96947] |
Mon, 17 March 2008 02:32 |
rick
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iked the sound of the Taylor 400 series, I think because I
> generally
> like acoustic geetars with mahogany back/sides instead of rosewood.
>
> I agree that with acoustics in particular you just have to play a ton of
> them to find the right one, but in my experience the really expensive ones
> _do_ sound better. I've played a bunch of really crap sounding cheap
> acoustics
> while I've never heard a bad Collings or Breedlove. Doesn't mean the great
> sounding $300 Takmine isn't out there, but I think the boutique guys are
> just a lot more selective about the wood they use.
>
> TCB
>
> "Sarah" <sarahjane@sarahtonin.com> wrote:
>>I, too, have a 400 series Taylor, a 414K I bought in 1999 because it
>>sounded
>
>>so good. I've had nothing but compliments on the sound of this, both live
>
>>and recorded. I was originally thinking about the fancier, spendier 714,
>
>>but this one sounded better to me. Don is right, and I use the same
>>phrase
>
>>in advising people on guitar purchases . . . find one that speaks to you.
>
>>Do it blindfolded or something, so you have only your ears and fingers to
>
>>judge. Maybe you'll wind up with a $300 Takamine. :)
>>
>>S
>>
>>
>>"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote in message news:483345bc$1@linux...
>>>
>>> I don't know why no one seems to buy the lower-priced
>>> Taylors. I have
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| Re: I'm getting ready to shitcan BFD..Get Addictive [message #96988 is a reply to message #96947] |
Mon, 17 March 2008 10:36 |
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hours
>a week on a drilling program that I had committed to, so when I got well
>enough to work, the shit had hit the fan, I was behind the 8 ball and so
>I spent the next 60 days trying to stay ahead of 5 drilling rigs that had
>moved into this area (because I told them I could do what needed to get done
>to keep them busy)and unless I pulled a rabbit out of my hat, they were going
>to sit idle to the tune of $17,000.00 per day....and that was just for one
>client. another one had me doing some other stuff that was even more stressful
>so anyway, I know I've been abraisive and cranky oand a little whacked out
>so thanks for not kicking me out of the group..........and during this time,
>I've had Chris Ludwig build me a new DAW.
>
>It's an Intel Quad Core machine and is capable of playing back 40 tracks
>at 1.5ms latency while recording 8 more with a 70% DSP load of UAD-1 plugins.
>In Parisspeak, that's roughly a 3 MEC system running lots of UAD-1 plugins
>at zero audible latency with a wonderful cue system, VSTi's, and every bell
>and whistle you can imagine, without using ASIO direct monitoring.
>ADK did a great job on this box and it wasn't real expensive. the cores are
>running at 3.2GHz per, it's got 4G of RAM and 4 x 500G 7200 RPM SATAII HD's
>configured into a RAID 10 Array. I'm also running a pair of 750G SATAII drives
>for audio samples and backup, respectively.
>
>Does it sound like Paris? Nope, but it sounds very good. It's possible to
>mix in Native and get "BIG". It's just a different prescription. The Neve
>5042 tape emulator doesn't hurt either.
>
>I ordered it with two system drives, one running Win XP Pro and the other
>running Win XP x64 Pro. The first drive I tested was with Win XP64. The good
>news was that this DAW is quite a bit more powerful than my dualcore Opteron
>185 so I was able to achieve the 1.5 ms latency target that I was hoping
>for. My VSTis'
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