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Sound like you got some new things in store russell,be glad too see them theslide blues sounds exciting.

I just got an email the Yamaha drum kit is ready to pickup at Walmart my studio monitors will be here next week or earlier and I have been moving my recording gear around to make room so I can get into it I hope tomorrow will go as well

This new drum kit (I dont like calling it a machine) has not only the same features as the SR but the pads are like real drum pads,you have the option of switching to a "hands only" feature that adjusts the volume and sensitivity of each pad there is another cool funtion there are 99 voices for each pad and 50 patterns that you can play live to and if you want to mute the musical accompanment and just hear the pattern thats easy to do,a tempo tap feature lets you set the tempo for any pattern this is a lot of bang for 89 bucks and is in my humble opinion superior to the Alesis sr oh yea it came with a nice headset and power adapter I love it already I cant wait till my studio monitors arrive later this week time to start writting some tunes.

Russel- got those new Behringer MS16 powered studio monitors.  Anxious to know how they sound!

I have researched the web and some folks are adding a sub woofer I seen a nice one at a resale shop for 4 bucks almost bought it,the speakers will arrive this week if they need more bass I can always add the sub woofer for a few buks more keep ya posted

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found this one for you guys

Ok my report on the MS16 monitors,first if your looking for monitors that boom these aint it the sub woofers are nice but they dont have the speaker size and power to punch like there bigger brothers they do offer one nice feature I found out by trial and error.I have been doing all my mixes by plugging into my BR-8 earphone input with my Sony headset when I plugged direct into the MS16 headphone input I was surprised and shocked to find the frequency responses were much improved the eq's were sharper and more defined as were the pans this comes as a surprise only because all my previous mixes have been direct to the BR8 it seems if I want the kickbutt sound and punch I will have to upgrade but there is a workaround I have been wanting to upgrade my home entertainment system and it seems I can plug my Redcorder,TV,DVD into one unit so I will make the investment and have the best of both worlds and while im at it get a larger tv (I like to treat myself good) money aint no good in the grave I recorded a few tracks of my new song its still in the early stages of development but I'll stay at it so I think I will do a little shopping online for some more toys Jerome nice video of you in Seattle

Ha!  My whole family was giving me crap about that.  I spoke to the reporter for about a minute going on about government intrusion into persons homes, etc...  and they broke it down to "(so) if I want to sit in my house and smoke pot all day I should be able to do that."

Just a word on monitors.   If you are using them for mixing, rather than casual listening, I wouldn't get anything that required a subwoofer, or did any other tone shaping at all.   When you're mixing, you want to hear what was recorded with as much fidelity as possible.   If your monitors are acting like commercial speakers and pumping up the bass, your final mix is going to be colored by those speakers.

What makes good mixing monitors is a neutral response curve.   That way if the bass is thin, you'll know it, rather than having that hidden by them.

I agree with you 100%

hi russ,

i blew a stage speaker recently and was one click away from buying a pair of Beringers with 12 inch drivers, but i was told by my agent that they were rather toppy! so i bought a pair of lany's instead...wish i'd gone with the beringers now as the lanys dont seem to have any top at all!

i notice you can buy musical gear from walmart, who bought out our asda chain, i have yet to see any musical gear there, they do some audio, tv and Pc stuff, maybe musical is next?

good luck with your new kit

phill

Ok so I sent the smaller MS16's back and just ordered the Behringer MS 40 monitors and two metal grills total cost was $125.48 the shipping was free with amazon super saver they should arrive in about a week or so till then I can use my Logitec PC monitors for playback there kinda big so I know they can handle some volume