1,401 Reply by neophytte

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Doug_Smith wrote:
neophytte wrote:

Try the PunBB anti-spam extension listed here:

http://punbb.informer.com/extensions/#1.3

Cheers

Richard

Thanks for the link Richard,  I'm not sure if we have tried this earlier, or if it was a problem performing properly with our kind of "customized" Chordie Version.  Will check it out though.
Doug

Probably depends on the version your running ... one trick I used in the past was to have a hidden field on the page, named something like "description", robots will automatically fill in a form with "known" details - so if this field has a value, it's a robot, as people viewing the page can't see it ...

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1,402 Reply by neophytte

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If you're going to file it, be sure to get one of these (or make something equivilent:

http://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/To … uards.html

I've filed a few fret without this, but if you nick the wood, it's not a nice outcome ... a couple of slivers of aluminum or thin steel will also do the trick, with a thick lacky band to hold it in place (because I can't afford StewMac prices!!) ...

Cheers

Richard

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1,403 Reply by neophytte

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Whilst we have casually drifted into capo territory ... what are peoples thoughts on the Thalia capo:

https://www.thaliacapos.com/collections/all

Are they as good as they look ... ??

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1,404 Reply by neophytte

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Try the PunBB anti-spam extension listed here:

http://punbb.informer.com/extensions/#1.3

Cheers

Richard

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1,405 Reply by neophytte

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Peatle Jville wrote:

Thank you Jandle 
Neophytte here is one of your music composition's put to a video, Let me know if you don't like it and I will take it down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOPrNZqHEl4

I give it the thumbs up!! smile

Funny thing about that song is that we used it on one of our 'home videos' I make for the kids, specifically this one was traveling down south, where I'd sped up the video, so I always associate the visual imagery of going past cars with that tune now - hahaha smile

BTW: what video editing program are you using? I use iMovie on the Mac, and it's quite good, but I'm finding none of the special effects like you've applied ...

Cheers

Richard

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1,406 Reply by neophytte

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easybeat wrote:

https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/hey-merry-christmas
Just banged this out,as a few days to go & i`m getting in the xmas mood.

Sounds pretty good for "just mucking about" ... smile

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1,407 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:

neophytte, nice spot to sing such a great song in the park smile  Well done. 

I would love to have heard more with your wife playing along side and singing with you .... hopefully you will get a chance to do it again with her smile

Thanks smile

As you can see from the video, we rarely get the time together to sing, and it's a bit hard to find songs to do together as she likes Jazz and I like rock, but sometimes we find a happy medium ... smile

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1,408 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:

Here is my last song for this month of Christmas songs .... it was a challenge and i found it hard to find chords that suited my vocals as it is quite low in places and high in other places.  Anyway, here is my attempt at it.

https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/mary-did-you-know

That was great - I wouldn't have thought you had struggled with this - it sounds really good ... the low opening vocal notes reminded me of some (famous?) singer, but I can't put my finger on who it was ...

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1,409 Reply by neophytte

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Peatle Jville wrote:

Neo Kings park nice setting. Looks like a plesant area to work close to and you  did Hallelujah real  good . Nice to catch you and wife and kid on video your a good family man.

Thanks smile

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1,410 Reply by neophytte

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Peatle Jville wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzpVE5ixAG8&t=63s

Good video ... LOL smile

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1,411 Reply by neophytte

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Peatle Jville wrote:

You guys did well in that environment

Thanks!!

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1,412 Reply by neophytte

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My time is running out, Mother-in-law arrives tonight, so went before work to Kings Park (which is about 200 metres from work) and recorded "Hallelujah":

https://youtu.be/W-1UOlYk_OM

Enjoy!

Richard

P.S. Also tried to do one with the wife the day before, but interrupted by kids: https://youtu.be/geiYRtSa5Qg

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1,413 Topic by neophytte

(2 replies, posted in My local band and me)

This is my band playing live on the local Fremantle radio station - it was an interesting experience, normally when you jam you all face each other and have a mic each to do backup vocals, etc, or on a stage situation you'll be facing the crowd with that band interaction, however we were a bit out of practice, and tried to set up in an office at the back of the radio station to get a rehearsal in, but that went pear-shaped when they could hear us in the studio and asked us to stop.

When we got into the studio, which was pretty small, our drummer was sat in the hall with his back to us, there was one microphone to pick us all up, and we had to keep changing positions to have the main vocalist in the right spot (three of us sung in the band), and the only set of headphones so we could hear where we were in the song. I managed to stuff up the intro to the first song, but after that we kept fairly on track.

Here it is, warts and all, I think this was in 1995 or 1996:

http://neophytte.mine.nu/audio/mp3/Neon … t100FM.mp3

Cheers

Richard

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1,414 Reply by neophytte

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easybeat wrote:

maybe your own music used as backing would be good too.

Or I'm happy for you to use any of my music ... http://neophytte.mine.nu/audio/

Cheers

Richard

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1,415 Reply by neophytte

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I'm guessing it was George ...

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1,416 Reply by neophytte

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beamer wrote:
neophytte wrote:

Sounds pretty good!! What sort of set up are you using ... I'm trying to get mine as simple as possible ... smile

But I'm missing being able to add FX to guitar and vocals ....

Hey Neo, thanks for the support!

As far as my set up its pretty much as simple as it gets.  There were some rough spots to figure out. so here it is.

[snipped to avoid long post]

Beamer

Cheers for that - at the moment I'm just using a Rode microphone into my iPhone: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ … c_for.html - the iPhone sits on a tripod and I have my iPad on a stand in front of me ... but I'm thinking of making use of the audio interface I have and plugging that into my Mac via Logic, then doing video via the iPhone and putting it altogether in iMovie ... I'd get (arguably) better sound quality, be able to mix it properly, but going froma setup that takes 10 minutes and is *so* portable, to something that would require mic placement, power, etc - I'm not so keen these days to over complicate things ...

But thanks for your set up info - it sounds similar to what I'm contemplating ...

Cheers

Richard

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1,417 Reply by neophytte

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Peatle Jville wrote:

Neo you got a natural way of tackling any song it is nice to listen to.

Thanks for the compliment smile

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1,418 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:

neophytte..... haha yep couldnt resist the jingle bells mate one!  smile

Yep smile I've been trying to get the kids to do the actions* to the "Aussie Jingle bells" (which is pretty similar to the one you did!!), but time has been running away from us - seems every weekend is full and this week my Mother-in-law arrives from overseas so probably won't get to it sad

Cheers

Richard

*My eldest did this as his "end of year" show in kindergarten with the rest of the class ..

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1,419 Reply by neophytte

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Sounds pretty good!! What sort of set up are you using ... I'm trying to get mine as simple as possible ... smile

But I'm missing being able to add FX to guitar and vocals ....

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1,420 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:

I want a 6 string electric ukulele LEFT Handed .................bah tried everywhere, can`t get one!  So  finally decided to go with a 8 string non electric ukulele which i will use with the 8 strings for a while .................. but may take 2 strings off to get the 6 string effect which is much nicer.

Couldn't you reverse string something like this:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71PesH83xhL._SL1500_.jpg

https://www.amazon.com/Yamaha-GL1-Guita … 2SSP2QPYWZ

Cheers

Richard

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1,421 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:

Ok, here is my very quick attempt at covering Christmas on the beach.

https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/christmas-onthe-beach

That was great!!

Jandle wrote:

Ok managed to get another quick one in tonight, Jingle Bells - Mate!

https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/jingle-bells-mate

Hahaha smile Aussie Jingle bells with a NZ twist; I like it!!!

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1,422 Reply by neophytte

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Whilst this post has been resurrected, Tracktion T6 was released for free:

https://www.tracktion.com/products/t6-daw

Cheers

Richard

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1,423 Reply by neophytte

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Tenement Funster wrote:

I've personally found that Epiphone's are exceptional quality for the money.

Yep, I'd second that ...

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1,424 Reply by neophytte

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TIGLJK wrote:

This may a dumb question then ----
why would any one pay $2500 for a Gibson Les Paul  Goldtop  when the could buy a much less expensive guitar and just buy a couple of P90's, new strings,  and switch them out for the cheap ones ?

There is a difference between a cheaper guitar and a more expensive one, but I'm assuming that the price point the OP is looking at it's not going to make a big deal ...

The build quality is usually better on higher end guitars, including small things that make it a nicer to play ... I own some expensive ones, and some cheaper ones, generally you go through a few cheaper ones to get a good feeling one, and if you buy four at $300 each, you may as well have bought one $1000 guitar ... if it's affordable to you, and it's worth that much to you ... but sometimes people start out cheaper to get a feel for it, and trade upwards when they feel ready ...

There's also a bit of ego attached to what's on the headstock, which is why the Chinese copy guitars sell ...

Cheers

Richard

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1,425 Reply by neophytte

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Can't help with experience, but they have a wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagima

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