Synth Glitch Creates On-Stage Disaster for Van Halen

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adventurepants_
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Post by adventurepants_ » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:27 am

Tone Deft wrote:farking eediots!!

does anyone here play keys well enough to play along with that synth lead line and see if it's even in pitch but +/- a half step? I'm at work.

the whole guitar ideas are rubbish, those guys should be ashamed. the one thing guitar has over every other instrument is the EASE of transposing keys, it's dead simple on a guitar. Ed tries to transpose around but can't find a match. his pitch is good enough to hear his own guitar out of tune and fix it on the spot, fuck, Eddie can probably tune a guitar faster than I can put one out of tune.

some dimwit on there said "even the drums are tuned to the synth." uhhhh drums aren't tuned to a pitch, that's retarded.

I don't have perfect pitch, nowhere near it but I'm amazed nobody's figured this one out, or maybe it's just the idiots with opinions drowning out the few that can tell.

i cant tell if youre being serious or not! not to take away from the general douchbaggery of the subject of the thread,but isnt it common practice for rock bands to tune the kit to the fundamental when recording?

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Post by Tone Deft » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:53 am

adventurepants_ wrote:i cant tell if youre being serious or not! not to take away from the general douchbaggery of the subject of the thread,but isnt it common practice for rock bands to tune the kit to the fundamental when recording?
:D little of both, mostly amped on coffee this afternoon and ranting.

AFAIK drums are tuned to themselves, to have a nice pop, not too snappy, not too floppy but consistent across the head. for example
http://www.pearldrum.com/education/howto/how0110.html

keys from song to song will change all night as the band plays, I've never seen a drum set changed out from tune to tune.

there's been page after page of interviews with techs and people who should know better but they're writing the dumbest bullshit.
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At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?
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