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On acoustic I use a pick normally but I also fingerpick some,I'm working on a Travis picking style book at the moment that is fingers and thumb.One nice discovery was playing slide blues without a pick it really changes the tone nice more mellow I use this on both electric and acoustic,I found a useful place to put the glass slide on my strat,I put a small strip of velcro on the slide and on the cutaway it lets me switch very fast.as far as strumming it depends on the tone I want as to where I strum 3.no 4.no

The strike killed the company and the workers jobs if given a choice I would have choosen to keep working and look for something better if only to keep the cash flow comming in,Unions were good in there time but now they are going the way of the dodo and dinosaurs and they will do it to themselves.

Since I retired I too have all the time but the key ingredient is motivation unfortunatly as you age you are less motivated wierd.

Ok so I sent the smaller MS16's back and just ordered the Behringer MS 40 monitors and two metal grills total cost was $125.48 the shipping was free with amazon super saver they should arrive in about a week or so till then I can use my Logitec PC monitors for playback there kinda big so I know they can handle some volume

I am a sci fi fan so I would have to pick the 1st releases of Invasion of the body snatchers,War of the worlds,Logans run,Star Wars,Alien and three of the follow ups but all John Wyane movies,Clint Eastwoods early movies and Russell Crows Master and Commander are in my DVD collection there are many more including Silence of the Lambs

The speakers I really want I will have to wait for at least till next month they  are Behringer "Truth" with a 8" woofer they cost a few hundred dollars I think the MS40 model will be more then adequite and Jerome I purchased the DVD Battleship and loved it very entertaining and a feel good ending,regarding the speakers I think it is really the headphone set I am useing the Sonys i have are over 20 yrs old time to upgrade

Ok my report on the MS16 monitors,first if your looking for monitors that boom these aint it the sub woofers are nice but they dont have the speaker size and power to punch like there bigger brothers they do offer one nice feature I found out by trial and error.I have been doing all my mixes by plugging into my BR-8 earphone input with my Sony headset when I plugged direct into the MS16 headphone input I was surprised and shocked to find the frequency responses were much improved the eq's were sharper and more defined as were the pans this comes as a surprise only because all my previous mixes have been direct to the BR8 it seems if I want the kickbutt sound and punch I will have to upgrade but there is a workaround I have been wanting to upgrade my home entertainment system and it seems I can plug my Redcorder,TV,DVD into one unit so I will make the investment and have the best of both worlds and while im at it get a larger tv (I like to treat myself good) money aint no good in the grave I recorded a few tracks of my new song its still in the early stages of development but I'll stay at it so I think I will do a little shopping online for some more toys Jerome nice video of you in Seattle

These are the powered speakers I purchased all the cables come with it.
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I have researched the web and some folks are adding a sub woofer I seen a nice one at a resale shop for 4 bucks almost bought it,the speakers will arrive this week if they need more bass I can always add the sub woofer for a few buks more keep ya posted

Phill I never chew it unless it was in a brownie

This new drum kit (I dont like calling it a machine) has not only the same features as the SR but the pads are like real drum pads,you have the option of switching to a "hands only" feature that adjusts the volume and sensitivity of each pad there is another cool funtion there are 99 voices for each pad and 50 patterns that you can play live to and if you want to mute the musical accompanment and just hear the pattern thats easy to do,a tempo tap feature lets you set the tempo for any pattern this is a lot of bang for 89 bucks and is in my humble opinion superior to the Alesis sr oh yea it came with a nice headset and power adapter I love it already I cant wait till my studio monitors arrive later this week time to start writting some tunes.