PJSprog
Hack Musician / Golfer
Man, I miss NAMM. Always a great time.
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Well, I think I'm recovered from NAMM...I didn't get sick which is amazing consider the ever present NAMM-thrax that is always there with all the hand shaking and fist bumping...
Pretty great show this year. I played some amazing amps and a few guitars that may get me in trouble. Spent some time with some artists I haven't seen in person since last year and got to catch up a bit. I normally do 3 days of the show, but decided to hit Crystal Cove and Newport Beach for a few days instead. Introduced a friend to Din Tai Fung and he may have broken something internally with all the soup dumplings he ate. Oh yeah, after years of trading DM's about gear, comic books, etc on Twitter, I finally met Vernon Reid (Living Colour) in person.
Kemper? Yeah, talk about pricey ...Let us know how it works. I've thought about it but that's a little pricey to dip my toes in that pool. They look great pieces of equipment. What no Kemper?
Vintage 30s are my favorite in a sealed cabinet. Amazing you can get a new cab with V30s at that price.
I don't know that there really is a break-in period for them. I put some in a Crate compact 412 cab back in the '90s, and they sounded fantastic.
I see they also have a 112 at an incredible price, actually lower than the cost of the speaker itself. Shipping is a little steep, but still a great deal. That might end up being my studio cab.
I played trumpet, cornet, and flugelhorn in r&b bands around Boston, but that was many years ago. My chops are long gone and hard to find, I'm afraid.
I'm guessing that half of us will need to google "cornet!"
I started my musical journey in 1975 playing cornet in grade school band. Played it through junior high, quit in high school, then played trumpet in university band.
I've always wanted a flugelhorn.
The one I like to use to get (non-brass player) people scurrying for Google is "emboucher."
Good to read that you're happy with it. I may end up just getting the 2x12. What I really want to do is build a powered cab to use as a monitor for my Helix. 15 watts would be perfect, but no one makes a 15w plate amplifier, so I'll probably just use a 60w I found from Seismic Audio and just turn it down. The HB 1x12 is an open back, and I'd really prefer a sealed cabinet, so the 2x12 might be the better option. I admit that I was a bit shocked at the cost of shipping to the US. So it goes with bulky stuff I guess.The 2x12" finally came in and it sounds amazing. Warm with bite. Exactly what I was looking for. The gain on my PRS head never sounded so good. I need to dial in the tone just a little but it's pretty damn close right out of the box. If you're looking at the 1x12" I'd buy it. I also believe it's a flat rate shipping charge (up to a certain weight) so if you add a few other things it makes the shipping more palatable. Great excuse to buy a couple things you probably don't need but always wanted.
I go years in-between playing any brass instruments these days, and I'm always disappointed when I do. No lip at all, much less anything resembling decent tone. It's definitely a use-it-or-lose-it thing. And yeah, the loss is almost immediate.Professional trumpeter here.
Went to school for music - majored in jazz studies.
Spent 14 years in NYC playing jazz music and got funneled into doing some touring with soul bands with horn sections.
Been doing that since 2010.
I currently tour with a singer named JJ Grey and hope we'll be back on the road this winter.
On the embouchure topic:
Keeping my embouchure intact and thriving means not going more than 2 days away from the horn unless I'm prepared to spend 3 days rebuilding my chops and endurance. Crazy how fast those muscles in your face lose what you've built up over a much longer span of time.
Sax player here...Soprano through Baritone. Until Covid hit, I played in 3 bands; two big bands and a Sax quartet. My musical "claim to fame" is that in 2003 our rock band from work won Fortune Magazine's "Battle of the Corporate Bands" at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
I've had the privilege of meeting Phil. When I worked for St. Louis Music, we had him play one year at our annual sales meeting / Xmas party. He was a Crate endorser back then. In addition to just being a great guy, he's a phenomenal guitar player. One of the coolest things he did was told us story about how much he loved the Beatles growing up, and what an influence they were on him. While he was telling us the story, he was playing several weird melody lines into a multi-sampler foot pedal, as well as some muted string noises and pick clicks. When he finished and played it back, it sounded oddly familiar. Then, he reversed the playback ... and it was an entire Beatles song. He'd played the whole thing part by part backwards, even the drum parts, while he was talking to us. We had a lot of really cool artists play for us over the years, but Phil Keaggy stands out the most to me.Not a musician myself but when I was a young man I had a friend that started a rock band in Youngstown Ohio called the Glass Harp. Phil Keaggy was the lead guitar player and would have become a rock legend had it not been for his mother passing away suddenly. Phil dropped out of rock but couldn't give up the guitar and as a result of personal tragedy and support he got from Christian friends he got deeply into Christian music and was inducted into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2007
I'm including a link for you guitar players and other appreciators of talent. I feel privileged to have know and gone to school with these guys in the 60's.