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   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017112913031378165-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Sorry back, I thought I emailed you a link to the obit. Maybe not. Things   
   > are a bit scattered now.   
      
   I don't remember any such message, because if I did, I'd also remember being   
   depressed.   
      
   > Bass. In a jazz horn band, and sometimes a jazz trio ( piano, bass,   
   > drums ).   
      
   My idea of jazz is Steely Dan and such, because I like rock and roll in   
   everything ;)   
      
   > It better be. I bought one this morning.  And an Android pad to control it   
   > with.  No time this week to explore it.  I have 30 days to return it, no   
   > questions ask.   
      
   You actually got a dedicated tablet to control it? Cool.   
   I'm sure you'll Love it, at least according to what I saw in the video.   
      
   > The reason we bought this was the 6 aux busses.  Actually it has 10 outs,   
   > but one stereo pair is the mains and another is normally assigned to a   
   > headphone out.   
      
   That's right, it does stereo too...how cool is that!   
      
   > using the 6 normal aux outs ( busses ), we'll use two for the backing   
   > tracks ( stereo ), one for my mic, one for girls, and two for my keyboards   
   > ( stereo ).   
      
   Stereo keyboards? My Casio CDP-130 has stereo, but only for realism insomuch   
   as the left speaker gets more amplitude for the low keys and the right   
   speaker gets more for the high keys, like a real acoustic grand piano,   
   particularly one with the cover fully open or removed...but on a stage, it   
   would be very unrealistic, which means that to make any instrument stereo   
   would have to mean that a stereo delay would  be used to simulate the   
   bouncing of the sound off the walls, in addition to the real life   
   reflections ;)   
      
   > From those busses, each of us can make our own in ear, or floor wedge mic.   
   > For example, singer girl can blend in as much tracks, my guitar, and her   
   > and my mic as she choses into her monitor.  I can create my own mix for my   
   > monitor from those same signals, but my levels of each are independent of   
   > her mix. Same for the drummer. (S)he sees the same sources and can make   
   > his or her own headphone mis.   
      
   That's Awesome!   
      
   > This seems the only way to suit everyone.   
      
   Definitely.   
      
   > Moving to a digital pa for my purposes, is to have way more features in a   
   > tiny package. Heck, just a 6 buss monitor system on an 18 channel analog   
   > mixer would take 6 X 18 knobs on the board.  That's 108 little knobs just   
   > for aux sends. Add in tone controls and some gain sliders and how big   
   > would the thing have to be for all the controls to fit  ????   
      
   > And that's leaving out all the cool effects and compressors and reverbs   
   > that are built into this thing.   
      
   > Yes, it takes a dedicated pad or computer to control it. Oh well, got that   
   > too.   
      
   Yes it *sounds* like a good idea but in Practice, how ergonomic, shall we   
   say, will it be to be able to access all those functions when needed,   
   particularly in real time?   
      
   The cool thing about real three dimensional mechanical controls is that   
   they're always there, instantly ready to be adjusted without having to 'call   
   them up' first. The  uncool thing is that they take more space and weigh   
   more.   
      
   > I'm getting a lot of calls from old band buds.  And he had many ex wives.   
   > Calling hours ought to be interesting. Cheese and wine afterwards for me.   
      
   Jim   
      
   Strange way of looking at it.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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