|
|
|
|
|
|
#378584 - 12/18/13 09:28 AM
Re: My name is Don and I'm a knob-twister
[Re: DonM]
|
Senior Member
Registered: 02/04/01
Posts: 2071
Loc: Fruita, Colorado, USA
|
I'm more of a "I wonder how 'I've Got You Under My Skin' will sound as a bossa nova musician," then a tinker of knobs. Maybe if I made the hundreds of dollars that DonM and Gary makes gigging, I'd tinker with the keyboard etc. But then how would I find time to play with, and walk little Gemma my puppy. What about time to watch Gunsmoke and Virginian on YouTube? There's only so many hours in a day.
Don, when do you golf and fish and watch Randolph Scott, Gunsmoke, Dallas, The Saints so on and so forth? Do you guys sleep with the keyboards too? Oops, sorry, the devil made me ask that.
Edited by brickboo (12/18/13 09:29 AM)
_________________________
I'm not prejudiced, I hate everybody!! Ha ha! My Sister-In-Law had this tee shirt. She was a riot!!!
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#378586 - 12/18/13 09:48 AM
Re: My name is Don and I'm a knob-twister
[Re: DonM]
|
Senior Member
Registered: 06/25/99
Posts: 16735
Loc: Benton, LA, USA
|
Got the mic yesterday Paul. It's a great mic, but it is too hot to work on my keyboard. I can't turn the input down low enough to keep it from overdriving. I can run it through a channel on the mixer and then to the keyboard. That way it's still really hot but usable. That's just one of the great mics for which I don't have a use. It's an Astatic CTM-77 hand-held condenser mic if anyone is interested. I fiddled with it for an hour again yesterday! I keep going back to my favorite: Sennheiser 855. I have two of those. I also have Shure SM58, EV PL 84 (2), Behringers (3), some old EVs, Sampson Q7, AKG D5, Heihl hand-held condenser, CAD 189, and half a dozen Sampson R11s still new in the box and a couple more in my bag (I use these for guest mics. They are good mics and if someone bangs it up or even steals it I don't care.) I also have a couple of EV 767s that I can't find right now. But they are here somewhere! I know I'm forgetting some too. The two on the way are one of Gary's headsets and a Samson Q8 I bought off Ebay for $28.! Supposedly it's an open-box special from a dealer. Best price I've seen elsewhere is around $100. It will probably be for sale again soon.
_________________________
DonM
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#378593 - 12/18/13 10:28 AM
Re: My name is Don and I'm a knob-twister
[Re: DonM]
|
Senior Member
Registered: 07/27/05
Posts: 10606
Loc: Cape Breton Island, Canada
|
I had my Electro-Voice RE-15 for the longest time tucked away in storage at my uncle's house, while I was living in Newfoundland. I couldn't even remember what I had paid for it, but I remember buying it in Halifax, along with my second Leslie 147RV purchase (two Leslies are wicked!). I do remember the salesman telling me it was a very good microphone. This was probably the late 60's.
A few years ago, I get to talking with some guy in my buddy's recording studio about vintage microphones, and I tell him about my RE-15. He immediately wanted to buy it at a pretty decent offer, but I held on to it as I didn't need the money at the time.
I did a bit of research, and I find out that it is an extremely good microphone, both in it's day, and still very much today. I've seen them going for around $600-$800 on E-Bay. I also learned that it was a microphone used by Elvis for quite a few of his shows and some live recordings, and it's a fairly sought after mic.
Back when I bought it, I tended to buy the highest quality gear I could manage..my Yamaha MS-60S were quite expensive nearly 30 years ago at around $800 each, but it paid off as the microphone is still functioning (and looking) perfect, and so are my MS-60S.
Sometimes you really do get what you pay for.
Another mic I just sold a few years ago, a Shure SM58 was also a lovely performing mic that was every bit as rugged and reliable as the RE-15. I used it mostly when singing backup in a few of the bands I played in.
I'm sure there are better performing newly developed mics out there, and they probably cost less, but I don't know if they would hold their value as well as the SM58 and RE-15.
Ian
_________________________
Yamaha Tyros4, Yamaha MS-60S Powered Monitors(2), Yamaha CS-01, Yamaha TQ-5, Yamaha PSR-S775.
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#378597 - 12/18/13 11:46 AM
Re: My name is Don and I'm a knob-twister
[Re: DonM]
|
Senior Member
Registered: 10/08/00
Posts: 4715
Loc: West Virginia
|
Hiiiii Don. Don't feel bad. I've been a member of TA (Tweakers Anonymous) for many years.., and am constantly relapsing.
_________________________
GEAR: Yamaha MOXF-6, Casio MZX-500, Roland Juno-Di, M-Audio Venom, Roland RS-70, Yamaha PSR S700, M-Audio Axiom Pro-61 (Midi Controller). SOFTWARE: Mixcraft-7, PowerTracks Pro Audio 2013, Beat Thang Virtual, Dimension Le.
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|