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[kiwiboy_nz_99]

This was one of those little out of the blue experiences that you remember. Hardly momentous, but certainly memorable. So there I was in Jongno Sam Ga meeting my Korean mate, picking up a 160Ghz hard drive chock full of the best music production software and highest quality samples money can buy, and for me, this package, worth over ten thousand bucks in real life, came at the glorious price tag of 200 000won, but I digress ( yes, I'm insanely excited about it ) ... so, after doing me such a favour I of course had to take him out for dinner, and my gf was in tow so there were three of us. The galbi place went to was owned by this groovy old guy who was into guitar ( my friend is a guitar player and teacher ). So after dinner, the owner asked us if we'd like to see his "studio", and of course we would. I don't know what this guy did before owning a restaraunt but he must have been loaded. Downstairs, we entered a largish room that resembled the kind of classic 60's "bachelor pads" you see on lounge music albumn covers. Around the walls was seating covered in beautiful red leather, a couple of round glass tables, and some stand alone bucket seat in bright red that were classically 60's high kitch. He then turns on some Jeff Beck and it's pristine sound quality made me look around the room, and damn the speakers were huge. Then he wants to show us his "guitar", and I'm like, whatever, seen a few guitars in my time, but sweet as, no problem. Then out comes this 1959 Gibson Special Edition, I looked it all over and it was no fake, totally legit, the guitar of guitars! "Do you want to play it?" Damn straight I did! And low and behold, the amp I plugged into was a Mesa Boogie valve amp, and guitar heads amoung you know that this is also one of the classic and most sort after guitar amps ever, lord god this guy was a collector! So, I jam away with Jeff Beck, amazed of course by the deep warm tone I'm getting off this set up. Then my mate gets a turn, and he can really play, pure singing guitar tone. But it doesn't stop there, "Do you want to play bass?" Damn straight I did! So, what kind of bass do you think he brought out? A 1965 Fender Precision! Without a shadow of a doubt the bass of basses, and plugged me in to Massive Peavey valve bass amp. So we turn Jeff off, and there I was, dusting off my rusty old blues basslines, while my friend ripped hot jazzy blues licks of this totally primo guitar, in this crazy 60's lounge pad, while the old guy beats out some funky chords on his Kurtweil Electric Piano, and I'm thinking to myself, yeah, not bad, not bad at all ...

[Daechidong Waygookin]

Sounds alright I guess. Is that all you did that day?

[eamo]

ooh! Nice!...ooops...sorry... I've just come.....

A '59 Les Paul!!??? through a Mesa Boogie!!! Maybe one of the best guitar sounds possible.

I'm jealous to the core KB. Can I tag along next time?

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

[Swiss James]

sounds wicked, I've never played a Les Paul. *hint* Did he have loads of recording gear too then? Any other instruments?

Last night I tried out Ableton Live, 'the sequencer you can play like an instrument' ...and you really can play it like an instrument, it flipping rocks!

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

Well Swiss, I'll actually have to meet you first, and then I'm sure we can um, cheak out some vintage gear ... And no he didn't have wicked recording gear, just the guitars amps and the Kurtzweil.

I've heard about Ableton and it sounds monsterous. Sometimes it all gets a bit much though eh, all the frigging applications and file formats and how they work together. Did you get Live from the net? I'd like to check it out ...

[Swiss James]

I got Live from the ableton site, they have a download version with everything enabled...except the save button. There's a demo bundled with it that walks you through what to do, pretty much like when you play the first level of a PS2 game and you learn the controls whilst playing.

The thing with it is that whenever you change anything it does it in a musical way, so if you drop in a new sample it'll beatmatch it automatically, (any manual fine tuning that needs to be done is easily done in a visual way). If you change from one beat to another, it'll wait until the end of the bar before it switches over- you can change the pitch of .wav files- drag and drop FX patches etc.

After about 20 minutes of fooling around with the demo song I started changing the demo samples for stuff of my own, and within another 10 minutes I was basically remixing my own stuff on the fly.

Now I just need to find some kind of *discounted* version of the full package

[Yangkho]

Did this really happen in Korea? I wonder if the guy used to be in one of those group sounds back in the 60's.

You're one lucky guy.

[itaewonguy]

wwwiickkkkkkkkkkkkkeddddddddd.....

so does he speak English?

you never know what lies around the corner..