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ALL Gibsons are over priced! Why should the Robot be any different?

Yeah, boulder, I wish you could contribute more, too. :D

No doubt that is true, Rim, but the point of this is to get "what we got" as good as possible, and still be cost-effective- and actually, "buying a used kit of good manufacturing quality that needs TLC and spending your time and money fixing it up" is the same sort of thing. Stensil-brand kits...

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+1 on Bob. Really, when it comes to cabs, there are only three factors that affect tone: 1) speakers used, 2) interior dim's, and 3) (to a lesser extent,) build material. No reason why a peavey 412 cab couldn't sound like an Orange, or a Marshall, etc. Methinks some people get mezmorized by...

Pun intended?

I've said it before... you guys are hilarious. Gibson's Robot guitar gets roundly trashed here, but we all go ga-ga from this one from Peavey. :laughings: But really, that thing looks cool. Now if only Peavey was still making stuff in Mississippi, not China...:cursing:

How's that work if you don't have any daughters, just sons? Substitute "daughter in law" for daughter? Sure hope not; my son married a woman older than him, that would seriously limit my choices...

Not opposing you, Bob... the Alesis HD24 is the only one of the three 24-track/HD drive units still in production. Both the Fostex and Mackie units had some very cool features the Alesis lacked, but it's generally thought that the Alesis survived when the others did not because of reliability...

Thanks for the good start, some good suggestions, so far. I once was given a kit that has FOUR tensioners per head! I think it was even 4 (maybe 5) on the 16" floor tom (I think maybe six on the 22" kick drum.) They were used, but intact. As we tried to tune them, the pot-metal tensioner...

I have experimented with "picks" made of materials other than hard, plastic we usually associate with picks. Examples include: Autoharp picks, made with a felt-like covering. Pencil erasers. I am not kidding- I once got a handful of pick-shaped "alien head" erasers- and I thought, "guitar...

May I make a short argument for a system that is neither a standalone/1 box, or computer based? Decades ago, when I bought my first hi-fi, I went with "components." One of the arguments was if one piece needs to be replaced (do to failure,repair needed, upgrade, etc.) it would be less...

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Good LORD! For that kind of money, you should get a vest and two pair of pants, too! :D Seriously, there is the matter of selling old tech for high prices. Seems anything that has somehow gained some "vintage cache'" will sell for prices way out of proportion to the R&D costs, which were paid...

Snatchman has more personal experience with the HD24 than I, it appears, so I will defer to him. By "we," I mean my son and I, my son being the actual professional recording engineer among us two. He and I have worked together on a number of projects, but he has always been the one doing the...

^ Tape speed is controlled by the capstan and roller- the take-up reel has to "wait" on the speed the capstan/roller is turning. I'd do a test- record the same 29-min. program (long, so as to miminize the effect of human error) on each type of tape and check the program duration on each.

China-made "stencil brand" drum kits are common as nails, cheap as dirt, and usually sound about as good as either- but they are not going away, no matter how much we rail against their poor quality, horrible sound, or repercussions (pun intended) of buying cheap, low-quality "goods" from China...

We've used an Alesis HD24 extensively. Pretty solid, trouble-free units. They are still available new, which I think makes them the last non-obsoleted 24-track HD recorder. You can record to ALL 24 tracks, and link two together to record up to 48 tracks, three for 72, etc to about 128 tracks...

Okay, this is getting wierd, again. My post just showed up on "New posts," as my last post being ONLY FIVE HOURS OLD, instead of the actual 7 MONTHS. WTF is going on??

A basic, 4-input, 100-watt PA with 10's and horns is only about $350- as low as about $150 used- that would meet your rehesarsal PA needs. BUT, a better set up would probably be a mixer with direct outs (maybe 8 directs outs, like a Mackie 1604VLZ-PRO,) and a separate 100-watt power amp. Add...