Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
no but that's actually gonna happen fairly soon as my wifey builds my website.
I'll be sure to let you know as soon as I have something that I don't hate.
I'll be sure to let you know as soon as I have something that I don't hate.
Chili
Site Moderator
That's cool. I saw one guy who felt compelled to explain to the audience that he was using midi instead of karaoke tracks. He had to justify that his performance was "live" because his tracks were horrible. I guess he was getting heckled.
I think the extra effort to tweak the midi parts would be worthwhile for the listeners. And if the audience is happy, the bar manager is happy, and if the bar manager is happy.....
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
for me the tweaking is more important to keep me happy.
Audiences are pretty easy to please but I'm not gonna do that if I'm bored or hate my seq's.
So I constantly tweak them in many different ways.
And that's another reason to use a keyboard. If you're playing tracks on a laptop or a karaoke player, you have to do an entire re-recording of the track. But I can just take my seq's in the keyboard and make even minor changes and then save it. So I can change a seq at a gig and save that.
BTW ..... just an aside but since my keyboards are 15 years old ..... I use 3 1/2" floppies.
I'm old enough I'll be dying fairly soon so why change formats?
So I have boxes and boxes of floppies. I carry about 16 floppies with around 30 songs on each one to gigs. The keyboard reads sirect from floppy so I don't have to load any files. It was a pretty cool system for its' time.
I have 7 or 8 extra floppy drives for my keyboard since that's what wears out and I'm buying a few extra keyboards off ebay.
Specifically I use XP-60's. Got one you wanna sell?
Chili
Site Moderator
for me the tweaking is more important to keep me happy.
Audiences are pretty easy to please but I'm not gonna do that if I'm bored or hate my seq's.
So I constantly tweak them in many different ways.
And that's another reason to use a keyboard. If you're playing tracks on a laptop or a karaoke player, you have to do an entire re-recording of the track. But I can just take my seq's in the keyboard and make even minor changes and then save it. So I can change a seq at a gig and save that.
BTW ..... just an aside but since my keyboards are 15 years old ..... I use 3 1/2" floppies.
I'm old enough I'll be dying fairly soon so why change formats?
So I have boxes and boxes of floppies. I carry about 16 floppies with around 30 songs on each one to gigs. The keyboard reads sirect from floppy so I don't have to load any files. It was a pretty cool system for its' time.
I have 7 or 8 extra floppy drives for my keyboard since that's what wears out and I'm buying a few extra keyboards off ebay.
Specifically I use XP-60's. Got one you wanna sell?
Sorry, I don't have any Rolands, but my neighbor works for them, I can ask him. I recently sold a Korg i300 on ebay and it went for way more than I ever expected. That one used floppies also, though I never figured out how to use it.
Too lazy.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
DUDE!!!
Tell him you know someone that makes a living with the XP-60 and I'd like to keep them running forever if I can.
I've been wondering if they might have a stack of XP motherboards tossed in a corner aor any stuff like that.
Seriously, I'm sure that stuff's all gone by now but if some was around I wouldn't mind grabbing some.
I'm gonna try to get another 10-15 years out of the things and then I'll probably be senile or dead so that should do it.
Chili
Site Moderator
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leadlungbetty
New member
My facebook helps a lot as the fans I have on it (612) all actually support what I do... well MOST of them.
On my myspace (32,000 fans/friends -never used a boy either! heh!) I really only get about 5%-10% of people responding to stuff I do. And it's not AMAZING support.
On facebook I can say "hey I put a new song on itunes" and I get 50% support within a few days. On myspace, a week I might get 2% and the rest of the 5%-10% dwindle after some work circulates different circles.
Also, people on my facebook page come to my shows more often. Some are the same people from myspace. I think on facebook though, unlike myspace, people aren't NUMB to getting promoted to as much. In fact, they'll usually respond to distasteful advertising. They take it more personally.
It's worth setting up a facebook music page.
First you'd need a facebook PROFILE. So you'd just sign up to facebook with your regular name or song writing alias or something.
Then you'd create a page for your music using another method.
http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=904
and
http://www.webupd8.org/2009/07/how-to-create-facebook-fan-page-for.html
It depends on what you do. If you are a live musician and someone who sells digital downloads or CDs via CDbaby it's a good way to manage fans since they're already on the social network a few times per week.
You can also integrate it with your blog or website with a little learning.
On my myspace (32,000 fans/friends -never used a boy either! heh!) I really only get about 5%-10% of people responding to stuff I do. And it's not AMAZING support.
On facebook I can say "hey I put a new song on itunes" and I get 50% support within a few days. On myspace, a week I might get 2% and the rest of the 5%-10% dwindle after some work circulates different circles.
Also, people on my facebook page come to my shows more often. Some are the same people from myspace. I think on facebook though, unlike myspace, people aren't NUMB to getting promoted to as much. In fact, they'll usually respond to distasteful advertising. They take it more personally.
It's worth setting up a facebook music page.
First you'd need a facebook PROFILE. So you'd just sign up to facebook with your regular name or song writing alias or something.
Then you'd create a page for your music using another method.
http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=904
and
http://www.webupd8.org/2009/07/how-to-create-facebook-fan-page-for.html
It depends on what you do. If you are a live musician and someone who sells digital downloads or CDs via CDbaby it's a good way to manage fans since they're already on the social network a few times per week.
You can also integrate it with your blog or website with a little learning.
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Greg_L
Banned
Lol. Facebook and Myspace are the exact same thing.
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Rusty K
New member
Ok...let me see if I have this straight. I have a personal FB page already where I've posted my bands events and a soundclick link to my own songs. Can I add a page for my band and manage it much the same? I resisted FB for a long time (was already on Myspace) but because of a class reunion I was organizing I signed up for FB thinking I could reconnect with some old friends...boy did I...people I hadn't seen for years and many are interested in my music and would come to see me play, especially Sixth St. venues.
Thanks for the FB help links....
Chili
Site Moderator
You're in Austin?? Cool, I'll have to come see your show.
kcearl
I see deaf people
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Greg_L
Banned
no...i have no fans on myspace, i have three fans on fb
You mom and siblings don't count.
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Rusty K
New member
Cool...Beale St. Tavern 9pm Wed. 25th. Be sure to say hi.
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zero00
New member
I use it... is cool... well if Facebook is for people with no selfestime, then there's too many people with a problem... but we can take that for our advantage and try to get their attention using that platform... anyway what i like about facebook is that you can build a fan base very easily, but you have to know how to use it. With the publicity tools you can reach your specific market... lets say my music goes for people between 20 and 30 years, and like the bands such as Placebo, Bon Jovi and The Killers. Well the system allows you to reach those people without wasting more money getting visits from people who likes Britney Spears, for example. Also there is a filter by country and state and city... so you really reach the people you want, even more, if a person is already a fan, he will not recieve your banner, so he will not make you pay, you can pay for a click or for impressions, i prefer paying by click. That's the greatest thing about facebook, and is very cheap.
And no, i don't work for facebook hahaha.
Cheers.
And no, i don't work for facebook hahaha.
Cheers.
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Greg_L
Banned
I'd sign up for facebook, but I'm not a 13 year old girl.
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