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Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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My favorite things at NAMM were a piece of software and a custom guitar based on a 60 year old design?

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not surprising. Performance Guitars has spent the past 30 years perfecting every millimeter of that strat. if it's not just as good or better than your Suhr, i'd be very surprised.

that software will be outdated in two years. but such is life and software.
 
Its the Model T of guitars :embarrassed:

Actually, it really is...one of the first really well thought out designs for something that wasn't 100% new at the time and the manufacturing was conceived as to be as "assembly line" or modular as possible.

Software always has a short shelf life (especially compared to something like a wrench or a hammer...or a strat :embarrassed:) but this is one of those major steps forward in technology. It's on the studios "want" list now....sadly I'll be buying that and probably the next few updates before I buy a Performance Guitar Strat.
 
Mark Wein said:
Its the Model T of guitars :embarrassed:

Actually, it really is...one of the first really well thought out designs for something that wasn't 100% new at the time and the manufacturing was conceived as to be as "assembly line" or modular as possible.
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the Telecaster is the Model T. the Stratocaster is more like the first Lincoln.
 
...I think the strat would be the Escort, all these years and theyve still made them (well, until recently at least)...dependable, regardless of when it was made...
 
Given its modular construction and swappable parts, I think the Telecaster is really the Mr. Potato Head of guitars.
 
The demo @ the Ableton booth had me ready to fork over $500+ for the full suite. Of course the Lite version is overwhelming for me so I told myself that if I actually learn the in/outs of the Lite version I can treat myself to the full suite sometime this or next year.

I actually enjoyed the lower levels with all the small companies over the big boys upstairs. It seems like Ibanez has had the same booth for the last 5 years. But Scheter had some cool Ric inspired basses and guitars that looked intriguing.
 
alexslashaxel88 said:
The demo @ the Ableton booth had me ready to fork over $500+ for the full suite. Of course the Lite version is overwhelming for me so I told myself that if I actually learn the in/outs of the Lite version I can treat myself to the full suite sometime this or next year.

I actually enjoyed the lower levels with all the small companies over the big boys upstairs. It seems like Ibanez has had the same booth for the last 5 years. But Scheter had some cool Ric inspired basses and guitars that looked intriguing.
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I've had Ableton for a couple of years and I've never used it...I think its still installed on my office computer but I don't know what I'd use it for.
 
Mark Wein said:
I've had Ableton for a couple of years and I've never used it...I think its still installed on my office computer but I don't know what I'd use it for.
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The only reason I use it because its the only program I have, came free with some hardware. It's okay from my limited experience with these type of things.
 
Mark Wein said:
I just don't know what I can do with it that I can't do in ProTools...
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The full version is pretty incredible... my industrial bandmate has the Suite which also has some sound design plugs, plus you can set Live up for live use easily and there are a bunch of great tools for all kinds of sound manipulation that conventional music doesn't need... but if you do electronic music that shit is really cool.
 
Kerouac said:
The full version is pretty incredible... my industrial bandmate has the Suite which also has some sound design plugs, plus you can set Live up for live use easily and there are a bunch of great tools for all kinds of sound manipulation that conventional music doesn't need... but if you do electronic music that shit is really cool.
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The doing the demo was a DJ and he was doing some amazing things and making it look so easy.
 
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