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I certainly apologize, I meant that you had received bad advice, I was not blaming you for it. :o Those starved-plate "tube" preamps are a whole different discussion, but the bottom line relative to this thread is that they are not in a situation where high vibration and shock are problems...

Ouch! That is completely bad advice, for a number of reasons. If you want to replace preamps tubes in a combo amp, you DON'T want a typical longplate design, as they will become microphonic - or fail - in short order. The Sovtek 12AX7LPS is a perfect example of this. It is an excellent tube...

Sounds like heaven to me! I'd sell the dang old SR-16/NOT on CraigsList. BUT...that arrangement isn't what it shows in the .PDF of the instruction manual. Looky here. Where did that great MIDI-box go? Is the set changed? Is the illustration erroneous? :confused: Couldn't one simply prise...

Hey, if I don't like 'em, I can easily offload them on the local CraigsList music gear forum. [shrug] ;)

Hey, I'll tell you what: I reordered the iED01 set from Amazon. It's pretty clear on careful re-reading that the UK guy who was beefing in that old Usenet thread about something he got for fifty pounds was referring to an entirely different item. The details & description simply don't fit...

Couple of points: Other than the control box, all these various sets really amount to is a bunch of piezo sensors stuck on the backs of things you hit. Seriously. That's all they are. One feels more like a real drum to someone, or the cymbal pads swing like real cymbals, or not even your...

If these were anywhere locally where I could check them out, I would in a heartbeat, as all I'm really concerned about is the latency issue (which I suspect is BS, as there's no technical necessity for more than about 10ms uncompensated latency). I can get that scienced out in ten seconds with...

That was a relatively content-free thread. You can break it easily. So what? I already know that. I wouldn't be gigging with it. The only criticism that was meaningful for me -- and it's not even clear that it was referring to the same item -- was that there was some sort of latency issue...

I found an SR-16 .PDF manual online and on page 41 there seems to be an answer to my question. It appears that MIDI function includes straight triggering of external devices.

Interestingly, this set is marketed in the UK under the Alesis name. Strange. Yep, it sure looks like the brain is a SR-16. I still don't know for sure if this can be used as a straight MIDI percussion controller, though. I've been told that all such known units can be as that's a very...

I saw the user complaint about multiple triggering of the bass pedal in a customer review that showed up on a number of sites. That's consistent with a broken/shorted piezo and I have seen it discussed before in threads about the defective cymbal pads that Roland had in their early V-drums...

I think the best deal on these at the moment is from Amazon.Com -- $279.99, w/free shipping minus an additional 5%. Here it is...but I have to pay sales tax from Amazon. :mad: I wonder if I can get that price-matched somewhere. Suggestions? MF doesn't carry them. [later:] Whoa. Amazon...

It doesn't actually tell me what I want to know, but there is a MIDI-out, which is at least suggestive that it might work as a straight controller -- which is what I'm after. The strange part of this is that I saw a different .PDF of the instructions last night and it showed a totally...

Yes, it's there -- but it's not accessible to me, though. :(

Has anyone had a go at this set? I've been trying to come up with a small, light set for my home studio to MIDI patch directly into the computer to run Drumkit From Hell or another velocity-layered drum program. The box on any set is irrelevant beyond being able to do that. Will it? Does...

And more accurately, it's spaced for a traditional nickle alloy (nonferrous/nonmagnetic) -wound G. The introduction of stainless and plated-steel windings created all sorts of interesting sonic "artifacts" with pole-compensated vintage Stratocaster pickups, most notoriously "stratitis." ;) The...

The main reason for a wound G is that many guitars (particularly Fenders, in my experience) produce some really terrible overtones and ringing on an unwound G. There was a long, technically inconclusive discussion about this among techs and pros on the FDP a couple of years ago and the bottom...

I have a fairly large accumulation of analog OD & distortion stomps, maybe a dozen or more, but I *never* use them. They're just more trouble than they're worth and OD/distortion stomps sound hideous and cheap to me -- not just mine, but every one I think I've ever heard, at least unless the...

Another vote for the late J-Station. If you use it with the computer J-Edit GUI you can do remarkable things with this small unit. A pro engineer and producer I know in Hollywood first alerted me to this device, which he was using for recording guitar and bass for major studio TV & movie...

According to the Samick page I read a while back, they no longer manufacture guitars in Korea subsequent to some big management shakeup. The company is still Korean, but the guitars are manufactured elsewhere with cheaper labor. Cor-Tek ("Cort") still manufactures contract guitars in Korea...