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Got my Shure VP88 from Ebay. $110 after shipping. They had a "Make an offer" option and I offered $100. I low ball ebay all the time and it has worked a few times especially from Ebay Stores. It's a really great mic. Has a Mid/Side matrix built into the body. You can choose 3 widths and the summed sides come out of the stereo adapter cable as a Left/Right stereo image, or... you can put it in MS mode and the Mid comes out of one xlr and he side signal comes out of the other. It has 2 very thin small elements (about half an inch) one is bi directional and the other mid is cardioid. The caps look kinda crappy and I didn't expect it to sound very good but it really sounds great. I'd record vocals with it. It's pretty smooth and not harsh at all. Can't wait to try it as a drum overhead.

That's a crazy good deal

ChudFusk wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 11:04 pm That's a crazy good deal

I was completely shocked that it worked, it was listed as "untested" Its a pretty fun weirdo mic.

Played with the Yamaha Reface CP a bit. Apparently the Sound In My Head is a Wurlitzer, not a Rhodes, but I think they messed up by not having a two band eq like on a real Rhodes. We used to have them in practice rooms at my high school years and years ago and you could get that sound with just that and the trem.

I guess where I was messing with the Moog until it sounded like an electric piano or an organ, I was messing with the fake electric piano until it sounded like a synth.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 12:33 pm Played with the Yamaha Reface CP a bit. Apparently the Sound In My Head is a Wurlitzer, not a Rhodes, but I think they messed up by not having a two band eq like on a real Rhodes. We used to have them in practice rooms at my high school years and years ago and you could get that sound with just that and the trem.

I guess where I was messing with the Moog until it sounded like an electric piano or an organ, I was messing with the fake electric piano until it sounded like a synth.

Wurli models always sound better than a rhodes model. I feel like when they model a rhodes, they really try to do for that 80's smooth R&B/POP rhodes sound (cheezy) and they don't get the breakup right when you hit a key hard. Wurli models really have that bite. With our actual Rhodes, you can get that wurli thing by cutting the low a little, and maybe a tiny bit of Overdrive, I use a Red Llama style OD with our rhodes and it sounds good. I bet a boss style graphic EQ is a good match for that ReFace. Boost that 800, get that snarl. I still haven't found a simulation of a Rhodes that acts like a real rhodes, or at least not like ours.

Good idea, I had it going through a Tronographic Boxidizer, but I think an EQ pedal would find the sweet spot a little better. Plus a vintage style comp to help shave off that 80s style attack. I never made the connection between the Rhodes Mk II and that one goddamn DX7 sound, but I can see its kind of a logical progression now.

I am full on considering selling a ton of shit to get a Rhodes or Wurlitzer though. Whatever’s closest that isn’t completely fucked for around $2k. But then I’ll be shopping around for Prophet 5’s and fancy Melotron modules after that, and its already been a hell of expensive month with a midi controller and stands and stuff. It’s cool to be part of the club but I’m fucking done for a while.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 2:45 pm Good idea, I had it going through a Tronographic Boxidizer, but I think an EQ pedal would find the sweet spot a little better. Plus a vintage style comp to help shave off that 80s style attack. I never made the connection between the Rhodes Mk II and that one goddamn DX7 sound, but I can see its kind of a logical progression now.

I am full on considering selling a ton of shit to get a Rhodes or Wurlitzer though. Whatever’s closest that isn’t completely fucked for around $2k. But then I’ll be shopping around for Prophet 5’s

Getting harder to find Rhodes and Wurlis under 2K. Not that I would suggest a Blehringer anything, but a friend has one of those Pro 800 prophet boxes and it sounds fucking great. It's one of the few things they make that temps me other than that Roland Vocoder they stole.

If you do get a Wuril, I have one that I've put a fair amount of work into over the last decade and might be able to help with any tech questions. Great instruments when they are running well.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 2:45 pm Good idea, I had it going through a Tronographic Boxidizer, but I think an EQ pedal would find the sweet spot a little better. Plus a vintage style comp to help shave off that 80s style attack. I never made the connection between the Rhodes Mk II and that one goddamn DX7 sound, but I can see its kind of a logical progression now.

I am full on considering selling a ton of shit to get a Rhodes or Wurlitzer though. Whatever’s closest that isn’t completely fucked for around $2k. But then I’ll be shopping around for Prophet 5’s and fancy Melotron modules after that, and its already been a hell of expensive month with a midi controller and stands and stuff. It’s cool to be part of the club but I’m fucking done for a while.

losthighway got a Sequential Take5 which may hit the Prophet5 spot for you, and form factor/price are real nice. For my bullshit, 37-44 keys is perfect

Plethora X1 has arrived and I’ve spent the last couple hours fooling around on it.

While I like it so far, there’s certain things about the Toneprint system’s quirks that are, uh, bemusing I guess. Toneprint’s editing abilities are very, very extensive, intimidatingly so. The effects themselves seem to be frozen in amber, insofar as they don’t seem to have anything new past whenever their last update was. Oh cool, the Tap Tremolo has a weird kinda randomizy LFO feature! Oh, that can’t be applied to the Shaker vibrato for some reason. I don’t know if I’m explaining that the way I want to get across. In any case, so far it does what I want and I’ve already made several song-specific patches for it. I’m probably gonna have to put the Multistomp back on the board though, as it’s probably not a good idea to put a pedal that hasn’t been practice-tested on my board in time for my band’s next show, which is… uh… this Friday.

The Infinite Sustainer is really cool. Will need to practice on it though.

Firmware update was a bitch, though what digital product isn’t.

Also, THE TABLE has arrived. I can do this with it!