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Comment on Guestbook by Paul Arntson

Paul Arntson — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:03:29 +0000

Just a quick note to say how wonderful the Shaka Bradda circuit sounds. I put the diode/FET stacks in a small Kustom practice amp along with kicking the gain down and mixing the clean and drive channel.
Here is what prompted me to write:
Some friends and I did a live AB side by side test with some small boutique tube amps and we were all shocked. This circuit dead on nails the tube distortion character. The trick is to creep up on the distortion from zero. Apparently even with lowered gain, the circuit had more gain than the tube circuits. (Duh..)

Anyway, thought I’d share the fun we had and this little tidbit.

Comment on Eminence Speakers… very good by Sam

Sam — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:43:13 +0000

I too love my Eminence Legend 12 inch guitar Speaker. A major online retailer had a new unknown brand speaker cab, a 1×12 (closed cab), on clearance for 49.00! The cab arrived made of 3/4 inch birch and had a 12 inch Eminence Legend 120 watt spkr/8 ohms, not bad! Heavy and Solid the cab sounded crushingly great with my Uberschall head. Quickly, I went to buy another size and was too late, they sold out of all of them. I tried every store online and found that manuf is no longer making these cabs. You can get a Legend spk in other brands of cabs but the are a little more than what I had paid! Out of 25yrs using Celestions 25watt/75watt and Mesa black shadow 75 watt speakers, the Legend 120watt is my fav. It has held up very well the 3 yrs I have had it. It broke in so nice I only wish I had a few more in a 4×12 or a second 1×12 but this one for 49bucks will suffice.

Comment on unrealBook for iPad (Sheet Music Reader) by Satchmoeddie

Satchmoeddie — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:38:11 +0000

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Where were you 35 years ago man? LOL This beats a brief case, binders, and cloth’s pins all to heck. I use std notation over TAB for guitar even now, as many times I find the Tab is kinda wrong, but both are a plus, I suppose. This is just a killer app! KUDOS for this one!

Comment on unrealBook for iPad (Sheet Music Reader) by Satchmoeddie

Satchmoeddie — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:33:45 +0000

Oh yeah Stage band was a Jazz ensemble comprised of the best of the best from every school in our district. Playing woodwinds can get you into even more trouble as most players I know/knew played 2 or more kinds of sax, clarinet, etc. The I Pad, and anything else that has a back lit screen is welcome to my aging eyes. I do not play trumpet as much anymore, but I keep my Schilke handy just in case. Unfortunately band was cut from my old school, and every couple months my surplus haunt gets more school instruments from schools canceling band and orchestra. Such is life~! Our school won 1st place several years running. I am really glad I did this stuff, as playing other instruments makes us better all around musicians.

Comment on unrealBook for iPad (Sheet Music Reader) by Satchmoeddie

Satchmoeddie — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:24:47 +0000

I saw a sheet music display that held 10000s of pages for $999 at an online store. Yeah its kinda pricey, and I am going to assume that these people criticizing this and the investment probably don’t sight read std notation, and I know they have never played a concert when the wind was blowing and sheet music was fluttering all over the place from every member of the ensemble. I would assume they have never chased down a part for trumpet and picked it up only to see what you grabbed was in alto clef, and some poor schmuck has your part. With our stage band arrangements loaded with 1/16th notes, and 1/32nd notes a song starts to use lots of paper when written in 4to8 parts for just one instrument. This is the Satchmo part of me talking here, but guitar Eddie could usually care less about sheet music,LOL, JK but I never took part in winning a trophy against 50 other stage bands playing 6 string either.

Comment on Guestbook by Rob

Rob — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:04:23 +0000

This is a great site! Thanks Aron!

Comment on unrealBook for iPad (Sheet Music Reader) by Seth

Seth — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:41:39 +0000

I bought an iPad exclusively for this app. I’m a jazz musician that plays both alto and tenor saxes on my gigs, that has meant hauling at least 6 real books plus group specific binders to every gig. Until now. Obviously designed by a gigging musician, to be used by gigging musicians. Perfection.

Comment on unrealBook for iPad (Sheet Music Reader) by aron

aron — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:33:43 +0000

I just submitted version 1.2.5 with even more features. I have been using unrealBook for all of my gigs now. All of my sheet music is on there and no more binders.

Comment on unrealBook for iPad (Sheet Music Reader) by Michael Gregory

Michael Gregory — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:02:22 +0000

AWESOME! I just got hip to iPods about a week before they announced the iPad; this was the first utility I thought of when I heard of the iPad. I use a notebook computer for Sibelius-generated PDFs, but I have dropped it off my music stand a couple times. As a consequence, the USB ports are mangled and the case is cracked all over the place. This looks like the tool I have wanted for eons. Good job!

Comment on unrealBook for iPad (Sheet Music Reader) by aron

aron — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:49:41 +0000

unrealBook 1.2 has been released. Tons of new features.