Geoffrey Taucer

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Rogue-STR1-Pro-Electric-Sitar-Guitar?sku=519273 Anybody tried this before? I'm thinking about getting one, and I'm wondering whether I should get this or save my money and get the Jerry Jones version.

lol, I'd forgotten about that one. Though going back and listening, it's a pretty conservative arrangement, and we'll have to expand it quite a bit. To be honest, I have a couple other ideas which I would prefer to work on when you have the time to start another collab. ... Well it looked like a cool idea to start with. Even moreso if you could bring your friend pixietricks to do some vocals. That being said, I'm often too ambitious with my projects so shoot any ideas you have as soon as the Tales project is released. You got it. How's that comming, anyway?

lol, I'd forgotten about that one. Though going back and listening, it's a pretty conservative arrangement, and we'll have to expand it quite a bit. To be honest, I have a couple other ideas which I would prefer to work on when you have the time to start another collab.

Add one to my to-do list: The Civilization 4 menu theme (I'm thinking a sort-of-celtic style, but not as heavily celtic as Victory Festival)

Holy. Fucking. Shit. ... That is all.

Lol, man, sorry I'm taking so damn long. I'm way backlogged on recordings. You'll probably be able to get it done quicker if you find another guitarrist. If you really want me to do this, then nag me about it every day until I get it done.

And any helpful tips you can provide on how I might go about learning to use it to its full potential would be nice -- Cubase looks a hell of a lot more complex than anything I've worked with thus far. Same goes for FL and Sonar.

IN PROGRESS: Final Fantasy 7: (confidential) Chrono Series: Radical Dreamers, Robo's Theme, Schala's Theme, Another World (With Sixto and ktriton. Yes, that's all one mix) Chrono Trigger: Millenial Faire (with Zircon) Chrono Trigger: Schala's Theme (with ambient. May also incorporate a few other tunes) (hopefully) SOON TO COME: Sonic 3: Lava Reef (with the Prophet of Mephisto) Xenogears: The Jewel Which Cannot Be Stolen Yoshi's Island: Boss 1 Theme (with the Prophet of Mephisto) Xenogears: Gathering Stars in the Night Sky (Possible ressurrection of "A Star Freezes Over") (a series of Squaresoft tunes with Darangen, LuizA, Level 99, and Pixietricks) TUNES I HAVE AN IDEA FOR BUT HAVEN'T MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ON DKC2: Mine Theme DKC: Gangplank Galleon (OLmix) Castlevania: Bloody Tears (celtic mix) Mario RPG: Smithy's Factory/Battle Theme (celtic/ballad mix) Xenogears: Stars of Tears TUNES I'D LIKE TO MIX BUT HAVE NOT A CLUE WHAT I'LL DO WITH: Chrono Cross: Gouldove Tsugunai: Morning Fog in the Village Chrono Trigger: To Faraway Times Tetris Attack: (pretty much the whole soundtrack) Xenogears: (see Tetris Attack) Chrono Cross: (see Xenogears) (there might be a few I'm forgetting)

Hell, I'm happy with anything as long as it's easy and it works.

They should add Marina from Mischief Makers

I feel like I gotta leave another review every time I listen to this. This just might be my favorite song on this site right now.

Hells yeah!

haHA! Roe! You finally made it! I knew it was only a matter of time. This is quite awesome. Synth guitars work far better than they have any right to, nice synths, overall badass sound. The bass is especially cool. My only complaint is that all the sounds seem to have sort of the same edge, roughness, whatever you want to call it; it would've been nice to have a couple of smoother sounds somewhere in the middle to give my ears a break.

Ya rly.

Wow. This mix is awesome.

I would very much like to see something like this, as I have also been trying to upgrade from NWC to something more powerful, and am having the same issues that DZ is.

Holy shit, I'd completely forgotten! um... I could be awhile. I'm already waaaaaaaaaaay backlogged for recordings.

This is absolutely one of my favorite mixes on this site. It's very beautiful, and so soothing. You cannot possibly listen to this and not be happy afterward.

$150 is enough for an SM57 and a cheap behringer mixer, which is what I use for recording. However, without a decent soundcard, quality won't be that great. Quite honestly, I'd reccomend saving up a bit more. The cheapest way I would reccomend to get a quality recording is E-mu 404 soundcard ($100) + UB502 mixer ($50) + SM57 mic ($90). Of course, if you already have a decent soundcard, all you need is the SM57 and the UB502.

The strings leave much to be desired, but the rest is dead sexy.

Hells yeah! This is quite sexy. Levels could have been evenned out a bit more, but damn this is one sexy arrangement.

MOD EDIT: pixietricks was trying to respond to this post but (using zircon's mod powers) accidentally edited it and we couldn't get your post back. But we did read it, and appreciated it, so oops :> ROFL! MOD EDIT 2: ROFL @ what, pray tell? TAUCER EDIT: ROFL @ U!

I should mention that what I said about recording guitars earlier was strictly referring to straight up electric guitars. With an acoustic-electric, you can generally just plug it straight in (though again, you may need a preamp or mixer to get it to the right volume)

For a keyboard, you're right; you can just plug it straight into your computer. As for an electric guitar, the answer is a bit more complicated. To get the absolute most authentic sound, you need to hook it up to an amp and use a mic to record the amp. However, there are many other ways to do it which will get tones that are almost as good, and are a lot cheaper. You can plug your guitar directly into your soundcard, but it probably won't be at the correct volume; you may need a mixer or preamp to boost the signal to a usable level. This will also give you pretty crappy tone. The way to remedy that is with amp modelers. You can use an external modeler, such as a POD (and depending on your budget, there are cheaper and more expensive versions). You can also use plugins such as Guitar Suite. Guitar suite is free, and it's what I use. I highly reccomend it. Amp modelers will never be able to get you quite the same sweet tone that you can get from miking a genuine tube amp, but some can come close enough that most people won't be able to tell the difference.

Also: if nobody gives you an immediate response when you come in, don't worry, just be patient. Post a link and leave the IRC window open.