Guitar player for 20+ years. Love every music, but play mostly metal.
I've been in bands my whole life and am working on a new band now.
As soon as we record I can post the website.

Mesa Boogie Dual Rec...of course!
Marshall JSM DSL 100, for backup...
2 1960 A + B cabs.
All Boss pedals on a board the size of Texas.
Also, a 1981 Digitech Whammy that I absolutely drool on.

ESP MH-1000 FR
Schecter Hellraiser
Schecter Tempest Blackjack Custom
Schecter Tempest Custom
Like 11 other guitars in pieces!

Love music and great thread idea. Wanna know more? Ask!

If anybody wants to u2u me with some dnb tips or dubstep tips then i'd be very happy to learn.

When i say tips: I mean bar structures, composition and how to create deadly 'wub wub'bass sounds...

About the digital and midi instruments, I would like to say that if you're buying the right synths, you actually ARE getting the REAL instrument.

For example, if you buy Ivory Bosendorfer 290, you are actually playing high quality recorded key strikes from the Bosendorfer 290. These triggers are recorded at a much higher fidelity than most people can afford to do. They also record light taps, arpeggios, etc. so you have everything at your fingertips with even a crappy little midi board.

All of my synths are high quality REAL instruments. I actually record my own as well and when triggered with midi it sounds just like playing the Steinway Concert piano. After all, in an indirect sense, I am playing it.

Where the real discrepancy lies is in the user. Learning to mix correctly and the mastery of HPF's and LPF's is absolutely important to the composition. You're not going to capture the tone of a MiniMoog even if you own one without proper mixing techniques.

The importance is in the end product. If you don't know how to record those beautiful tones, you might as well forget about establishing high-end instruments in the first place.

Not to toot my own horn, as I am not a very good musician, but I can make a crappy washburn axe sound better than most people can make their Les Paul customs sound.

Originally posted by SantaClaus
I actually record my own as well and when triggered with midi it sounds just like playing the Steinway Concert piano. After all, in an indirect sense, I am playing it.

I have to disagree. You might be able to get "close enough", but there's no way it will sound "just like" a Steinway. There are way to many variables in the acoustics of a grand piano. How you play it, where you play it, variations in wood from one piano to the next, temperature, humidity, all these have an impact on how the piano sounds. Different combinations of notes, at different volumes, have an impact on how the wood resonates. A digital recreation doesn't account for all these variables (yet). Not to mention the fact that with digital recording/sampling you don't get the entire waveform (thus the "sawtooth" wave when displayed on a scope, as opposed to the smooth analog wave of the real deal). I admit, they're getting closer, and eventually will most likely get there, but currently, no.

In most cases these days, though, the sampled version is definitely close enough, especially considering how most stuff is smash mastered to make it louder than the last song you heard on iTunes, so it kinda sounds like poop anyway. Combine this with the fact that 99% of the listeners are listening on crappy ear buds, computer speakers, or car stereos with the EQ jacked all wrong and yes, it's probably close enough.

Some things there is just no substitute for. Tube amps and grand pianos are definitely on the list, along with pretty much any wind instrument. I don't care how well it's sampled, there is nothing that sounds "just like" a Steinway live in a good room.

I'm sure many people will disagree with me, but from what I've seen, with current digital technology instruments are just not reproduced 100%.

This is, of course, just my opinion. Music and sound are such subjective things, there are no absolutes.

Originally posted by SantaClaus
I take it you haven't played any of the concert pianos on Ivory?

You take it correctly, I haven't. Of course, I'm not a piano player.

I mean, the entire pack takes each piano, records them with I believe 5 different key strikes (to ensure you'll be able to use your fingers to make the strike a bit more beefy or light depending on your preference), and does so in a pristine recording environment that would rival any other in the world. They have taken into consideration almost every player's style, and if your personal keyboard is set up to receive such information, you can play it at just your style.

Five strokes aren't very many, when you consider how many intervals there are between softest and hardest. It's impossible to take into account "almost every player's style". There's just to many of them.

These are not at all "digital recreations," they are 100% authentic digital recordings.

Did you really just say that? If a recording is not a re-creation, what is it? Recording on any media is not a 100% reproduction of the original. It will always color the sound to a certain extent. When you play a sampled instrument, it is, indeed, a digital re-creation of the sampled instrument, and at this point digital technology doesn't reproduce the entire waveform, so there's no way it can be a 100% re-creation of the original.

I will say that a digital version is easier to work with, as it will be inherently more consistant/controllable then the original. It will be easier to record, edit, and "transmit" from media to media. But the fact that this is true just confirms that it is not 100% the same as the actual instrument.

Not to say that the sampled version isn't good enough to use, but to say it's 100% is a stretch. I'd say that with today's capabilities you could probably get a 99% true representation, which is more than enough to sound good on a recording.

Obviously, we could go back and forth on this forever. There's really no point in it though, as I doubt I'll be able to convince you, and I know you'll never be able to convince me. Recording-wise, both paths get you to the same place, so in the end it's really a moot point.

hey crow here

I write songs for people however i dont know how to make beats or music to go along with them, could any one reccomend a way to go about it.

I would like to know what stuff i would need e.g programmes ect.

Sorry this is a noobish question buti want to progress abit than just writing for other peoples music

My Vox wah and my Boss Delay pedal run through my Line 6 Spider 3.

I like using the Cool Edit Pro. I've been lucky to record in a pro studio and I have to say that I prefer the home studio. It affords you the luxury of taking your time to do things right and you can do whatever you want in the mix.

My style of composition varies. If I'm writing a pop song, then it tends to stick to traditional format. Otherwise, specially when writing within the metal realm, it has no format.

I like my Ibanez 320 RG. also my Epiphone SG Special. both have great action and have a great sound.