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Topic: Devices for slowing down solos |
Steven Welborn
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Ojai,CA USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2003 5:58 pm |
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| I've been tryin to decipher some of these breakneck bluegrass solos for six string. Can anybody recommend a good 50% speed reducing unit under $200. One that I can record from cassettes into the unit via RCA jacks would be preferable. Thanks |
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Larry Petree
From:
Bakersfield. Ca. USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2003 6:16 pm
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| Steve, email me when possible. My email to you keeps coming back. Larry |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 31 Oct 2003 6:51 pm
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I've been using the tascam CD-GT1 and it works great. Musicians friend has them on special for under $150.
BTW: You don't need a special power supply. Any regular old 9volt wall wort will do.
Bob |
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 31 Oct 2003 7:13 pm
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| Like Bob says, Tascam CD-GT-1. Fabulous unit. You can even change keys on a song without changing speeds, or slow the song down in key to 30%. |
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Steven Welborn
From:
Ojai,CA USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2003 8:03 pm
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I believe the CD-GT1 is a cd player only. Not a recorder w/inputs. Still, that might be the one to go with and I'll try to get set up to burn CD's. The Boss units that record w/RCA jacks are more than twice the bux.
Larry, email commin at ya.[This message was edited by Steven Welborn on 01 November 2003 at 07:34 AM.] |
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gary darr
From:
Somewhere out in Texas
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Posted 31 Oct 2003 8:08 pm
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A good slug of Jim Beam allways did the trick for slowing my solo's down......oh...am I in the right topic? uhh Never touch the stuff anymore. Sorry could'nt resist, just my demented mind at play. Good luck......carry on
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Sho-Bud proII custom,Session 500,American standard Strat,Shecter tele,Peavy Classic 50
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Don Benoit
From:
Okanagan Falls, BC
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Posted 31 Oct 2003 8:52 pm
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If you have a computer, download and install WINAMP V2.81, LOOPMASTER and PACEMAKER for free.. You can then take any music file stored on the hard drive, slow it down as much as you like without changing the pitch and loop any section of the song. Once you are familiar with that portion of the lick, you can move ahead to the next section with one click of the mouse.
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http://www.steelguitar.ca
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Gary Lee Gimble
From:
Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 1 Nov 2003 10:19 am
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Reed Kotler makes a digital "music study recorder." User friendly too and is available at http://janetdavismusic.com/digitalrec.html
The TR1000 is probably an upgrade from the TR-400. If you can find a TR-400 you can save about $80.00. |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Nov 2003 12:20 pm
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Winamp 2.xx FOR SURE. Free as the air.
Unless things have changed do NOT go for the 3.xx version as I wasn't able to find a plug in for it, and had a hell of a time making stuff play through v2 with 3.xx installed..
They bring it down to darn near absolute zero.
No need to spend a dime..
EJL
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David Deratany
From:
Cape Cod Massachusetts
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Posted 1 Nov 2003 6:22 pm
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You don't need hardware. I've got this program that lets you split things into pieces parts of any length and slow them down up to 75% without changing the pitch, and play the loops over and over and over and over even until you are brain dead, if you want, and string the pieces together, too, and do it some more. Its called CD Looper. I've had it for several years, cost something like $49. They have some other nice stuff for musicians, too. Maybe you can find it with a Google search.
I tried it only once or twice. It worked great, but I was never one to learn things by slowing them down. Your results may vary. |
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Rich Weiss
From:
Woodland Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2003 7:43 pm
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| I've got an Akai Riff-O-Matic. It's pretty cool. Does just what you're looking for. |
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John Floyd
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R.I.P.
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Larry R
From:
Navasota, Tx.
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Posted 3 Nov 2003 8:17 am
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Transkriber 2.0x by Reed Kotler is a great software program that I use. You can record an entire song (according to the amount of space on your Hardrive). Has loop capability. It will slowdown the music in more denominations than I can post here. You can also change keys with it change pitch up or down or double time a song in varying increments. You can isolate the left and right channels with it and has a vocal eliminator so that just the lead instrument(s) can be heard. Many other functions too numerous to mention here and is very user friendly. The CD with shipping included is about $55. Check Reed Kotler's web. http://www.reedkotler.com
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Michael Haselman
From:
St. Paul
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Posted 3 Nov 2003 8:43 am
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I got a program called Slowblast with my BIAB. Works great, but you need a computer.
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Leon Grizzard
From:
Austin, Texas, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2003 8:52 am
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| Slowblast also comes as a premium program called Slowgold, for about $100, which will also change the pitch, with or without changing speed. |
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Gary Walker
From:
Morro Bay, CA
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Posted 3 Nov 2003 10:40 am
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| Slim Ritchey came up with the Slo-Mo back in the mid nineties that I have had for years. It has different speeds but the quality degrades somewhat with the slowest speeds. |
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Larry Bell
From:
Englewood, Florida
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Posted 3 Nov 2003 11:41 am
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PACEMAKER is WAAAAAAY COOOOOOL!
You just use it as a plug-in for WinAmp (both the WinAmp player and Pacemaker are free) and can interactively slow down, speed up, and change pitch while the file is playing. Use it for CD's, mp3's, wav files, whatever. This is a GREAT solution, in my book. Sounds like LoopMaster is the same way -- I haven't tried it yet (but will soon). With those two free plug-ins you can have all the functionality of those standalone units without buying anything. Pretty good deal.
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Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
2003 Fessenden S/D-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro, Standel and Peavey Amps
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Gino Iorfida
From:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2003 1:37 pm
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| Those with Windows Media Player 9 or higher installed on their pc can find it works to slow down MP3's etc as well. However, the advanced looping tecniques and the ability to slow it down to less than half speed has me using "The Amazing Slow Downer" instead. Wasn't TOO expensive.. the free demo does work, but can only do the frist 2 songs on a cd or the first 40% of an MP3.. |
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Travis Bernhardt
From:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 3 Nov 2003 5:10 pm
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I've checked out "The Amazing Slow Downer" and it is, indeed, pretty amazing. You can slow stuff WAAAY down. I don't know if it was just cause it was the demo, but it also tended to crash pretty easily--you could work around that though, it only seemed to crash after a few minutes of running a loop at like 300% slower.
-Travis |
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Gino Iorfida
From:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 4 Nov 2003 6:35 am
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The older version did crash a lot for me (last year sometime)... I did retry it not too long ago, and it works great (not sure on the version numbers here... just timeframe  . Cool program though... |
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Steve Matlock
From:
Bentonville, AR USA
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Posted 4 Nov 2003 7:32 am
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I use a program called Transcribe! that works great. It has many features custom taylored for picking apart a song. It has lots of speed and pitch changing features, but also will give you a spectrum analysis of any part of the song superimposed over a keyboard for reference. (keyboard will play reference tones) You can tune the song to correct pitch with your instrument, place reference markers in the waveform, looping, tempo calculating, etc, etc, etc. Best of all you can download it from;
"www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/"
and try it for a while for free. If you like it just pay the $40 fee. It's well worth the cost.
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seldomfed
From:
Colorado
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Posted 4 Nov 2003 12:18 pm
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Korg Pandora.
Great if you don't want to be stuck next to your computer all the time. Pricy - but does so much.
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Chris Kennison
Ft. Collins, Colorado
"There is no spoon"
www.book-em-danno.com
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Steve Stallings
From:
Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 5 Nov 2003 1:04 pm
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| I've got both the Reed Kottler 1000 and the Akai riff-o-matic. The Reed Kottler is my favorite after getting used to it. |
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Larry R
From:
Navasota, Tx.
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Posted 6 Nov 2003 7:25 am
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Gary, the Slo-Mo has been discontinued according to Slim. He may have some used ones but they are still pricey.
Larry |
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