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Frankly, I think it takes a great deal of intelligence to play (or compose) with passion - the head and the heart are not really totally separable things in great art - one of the few things enlightenment philosophers screwed up was in making us think they are. Good musicians are rarely stupid peopl...

What's wrong with being smart?

inverseroom wrote:Go get a classroom, you two!

This board and some others of a similar nature are my classrooms.

I will return to lurk mode, however.

I suspect we are evolved to see lots of shades, but not to hear lots of fine distinctions in pitch - at least not most of us - although certainly training and listening can overcome at least some of that (e.g., I experience 12 tone music quite differently now than I did 20 years ago). I've been thi...

Actually, that's the best answer to that question I've ever heard. I've asked it of my serious composer friends, wondering what the phenomenology of microtonal tunings is like. So, thanks very much for that answer. :) One way in which the color analogy breaks down, perhaps, is this - I suspect we ar...

ubertar wrote:

TomS wrote:Do you hear the melody "sing" the way most folks hear something that is in a more familiar tuning sing?

Yes. I don't think I'd be able to come up with it otherwise.

Has it always been that way for you?

S'funny - gotta comment on this - I never quite know what to think of microtonal stuff - including gamelan inspired stuff, like yours, or this guy's: http://www.patrickgrant.net/ Do you hear the melody "sing" the way most folks hear something that is in a more familiar tuning sing? I really am askin...

Another good used and NOS tube source, run by very nice people:

http://www.tubesandmore.com/

Well, fellows, I am sorry to say that the se30 was in the garbage for a reason - the compressor part of it distorts like mad. Wonder how hard it would be to fix? Other than the distortion, which kicks in when the compression kicks in, it works fine, albeit it is not the quietest thing ever created. ...

Basically, no mods at all. Use it just like a R2R for slapback. Hmm...I wonder...there are a lot of these things floating around out there...perhaps there is a market for really crappy limited function tape delay? Ah, well, probably not... Hey, Jetboat, have you ever tried two of the shures linked? ...

Thanks guys! I found, in the same trove, a couple of old cart machines - one suspects someone was in radio at one time. Anyway, one of my radio-wise friends says he used to use a cart machine as a god-awful tape delay, when he got his first job in the hinterlands of AM radio. I think that might comp...

Hey djimbe! I dunno, I certainly have found some cool things in the last few years, and I think the explanation is that this area once was very well-to-do, but isn't anymore, and the population is aging, so things are coming out of basements and such as folks move on. I guess I should thank Roger Sm...

I did a forum search and came up with nothing on this item, other than a tape op review from issue 13 (1999) - and I confess I was not a subscriber back then. Does anyone have that issue, and if so, could that person give me the highlights? I actually found one of these in the garbage.

TIA!

Did that help, Mark?

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