Kathys new Ride

Fishman Solo Amp & Sennhiser MKE 40 Mic

I have to say that I like this better than the Bose L1 that I had for awhile. While I was out in CA Jason McGuire let me hear his set up and spoke very higly of the Fishman Solo Amp. After listing to the amp I was sold no feedback, very good prjection, the amp weighs only 25 lbs the case that comes with the amp has wheels and a case for the stand, easy set up and built in reverb, eq, two mic pre’s, notch fliter for feedback, mp3 jack and can be liked with another Solo amp so two can be on stage. There are six speakers and one small tweeter for the speakers and a 200 watt power amp. I picked on up yesterday at Gutair Center in Oxford Vally PA and they will get me a new on in the box in a week or two and we will switch out the amps. So far so good. I am now using a SENNHEISER MKE 40 mic and a P48 Adapter and pluging it into the Fishman Solo sounds much better to me than the Bose L1. I am no longer using the DPA 4099 mic. This mic I mount inside the gutiar with the mic top facing the sound whole and attached to the gutiar with velcro. All of this was infromation that Jason McGuire shared with me. So thats the new live setup as of right now for me.

Sonomas Puppy Cut

Sonoma went to the doggie spa this weekend for her summer cut and spa treatment.

Fishman Solo Amp

When I was visting with Jason McGuire and working on writing a song. He was showing me how he composes, at the end of our time he showed me his Fishman Solo Amp, he showed it to me with his set up as well as just my Shure KSM 141 mic and gutiar and it sounded great. I think it was much better than the Bose L1. Hope to get one of these in the near future.
Portable and Powerful
Designed for the singer/songwriter, SoloAmp provides exceptional sound quality and coverage in a wide variety of venues. 220Watts of clean, lightweight power drives a line array of six custom high-excursion speakers and a soft dome tweeter. This unique combination delivers incredibly full sound, ultra-wide dispersion, and deeper sonic penetration than the common speaker cabinet. Better yet, the enhanced bass response of the custom-designed speakers means there’s no need for a subwoofer!

It’s a P.A., and an Amp.
With SoloAmp, the performer and audience hear exactly the same sound, meaning there’s no need for separate wedge monitors or a combo amp backline. And because SoloAmp is voiced for the singer/songwriter, acoustic instruments and vocals are projected with superb depth and clarity.

The Ultimate in Portability
SoloAmp weighs only 25lbs*, ships complete with a padded bag equipped with wheels, and includes a rugged speaker stand. Set up takes less than a minute, with only one trip to the car! And full-digital universal power means SoloAmp is ready to travel anywhere in the world.

Features Performing Musicians Demand
Fishman didn’t make SoloAmp this portable by scaling back on features or tone. In fact, they’ve included all of the award-winning elements of the Loudbox family, and added a unique Monitor feature designed to revolutionize an acoustic duo’s ability to hear each other on stage. SoloAmp is also equipped with two mic/instrument channels featuring high-quality preamps, each with 3-band EQ, phantom power, built-in reverb, effects loop, and feedback-fighting notch filter and phase controls.

Specs
Compact Line Array = Ultra wide horizontal dispersion & deeper sound penetration
Two Mic/Instrument Channels
– High-quality preamps
– 3-band EQ
– Phantom Power
– Independent Reverb level
– Effect Loop
– Feedback-fighting Phase and Notch filters
Drivers
– Six 4′ mid-woofers, patented dual gap, high excursion design, neodymium magnets (200W)
– One 1′ neodymium soft dome tweeter with level control (20W)
Auxiliary Stereo Input with Level control
Four Digital Reverb effects with master level
Balanced XLR D.I. outputs for both channels and main mix
Unique Monitor I/O for improved on-stage ensemble monitoring
Mute with remote footswitch input
Tuner Output
Ships with Stand and padded Carry Bag (w/ wheels)
Dimensions: 41.5′ H x 5.6′ W x 6.6′ D
*Weight: 25 lbs without Stand, 35lbs with Bag and Stand

Picked up a Jensen JiMS-125 Docking Digital Music System for iPod

We went to our local Acme and they are closeing in two weeks I saw this little iPod charge and we picked it up for 23.00. Should be great as a clock for me next to my bed. Has a great display and the remote works well tool

Back in Philly

Back in Philly made it home got pretty squished on the way back. O well Shapo

On my way back to NJ

Was a very quick check in and security check. Pics below are between Santa Cruz and Monterey from 10,000 ft.

Life at the Ritz

Hard Day in Half Moon Bay

Spent the afternoon in Half Moon Bay

Rancho San Antonio my favorite place to hike in the Bay Area

When I lived in Mountain View I used to go hiking hear all the time. It was great to go hike hear today hope to do it again tomarow am. Im miss CA. Dont want to really go home on Friday.

Dinner Tonight

Sun Set in Monterey

Big Sur

Carmel

Last Night and Today

Sun Set

Monterey CA Today

Kremona Bulgaria Ltd. Professional Piezo Pick-Up for Classical Guitar

I was in Palo Alto and visited the Gryphon String Instruments http://www.gryphon.us 650-493-2131 and picked up a Kremona Professional Piezo Pick Up for Classical Guitar. I played it through my Native Instruments on my Mac and ran it into Logic Pro 8 and it sounded pretty good. Will test it with some amps this week. I may have found a live solution. The guys at Gryphon said this is something new and not really on the market yet. What is great is that it installs in minutes no cutting on the guitar and is in no way permeant. Great for all of us who do not want to drill or cut our guitars.

Update 4.4.11 I have had some issues with the pick up input jack and the overall tone has diminished. I am no longer using this pickup due to unreliability. I have talked with a few others that have found the same thing to happen over a relatively short time. For me personally I have decided that I will have two ways of thinking when playing out live. One will be my real good guitars the DeVoe’s with a mic like the DPA 4099 G or Shure KSM 141, and then for small outdoor events, bars, cafes places with kids I will use a Cordoba F7 with the DTar pickup and mic. For small events I will run things into the Roland BA 330 and for large events up to 1500 people I will use the Carvin Sound System.

Professional Piezo Pick-up for Classical Guitar!!! This is the best way to play and enjoy your Classical or Flamenco guitar throughout amplifier. You don’t have to make any wholes or anything to you guitar. 1. Just loosen the strings and slide the pick-up through the strings loops on the tight bar. 2. Tighten strings and retune. 3. Plug in to amplifier’s high impendence input. 4. Enjoy! check them out at

Guitar Rig 2 Native Instruments

Picked this up from Gleb Music in Redwood City CA

Rodney Strong and Vinyards

victor vists St. Francis

Golden Gate Bridge Back Ground is Bay Bridge

Yesterday on our way to Sonoma we stopped at the Golden Gate Bridge park and Charlene took this photo.  It was a great clear day will post more photos up later.  We had a great tasting at St. Francis and Rodney Strong up in Healsburg.  Today were going to look at some guitars and amps.  Then off to Monterey tomorrow

Wine at Ruth Chris Steak House

We tried out some new wines

Love the weather out hear in San Fran today

Im loving the weather out hear this week its 70’s today and tomarow it is suposed to be 87 as we hit the coast line.

30,000 Ft on my way to CA

30,000 ft up in the air sunny and no rain up hear. We were packed like sardiens on this Southwest flight.

Great Steak Dinner at Ruth Chris Steak House

We had great wine some Cakebread 2007 Chard, Simi Cab, we both had Filet Migan, Asparagus, cheesecake, creame bruele ,yum was the best meal Kat and I have ever had for desert wine we had a ice wine awsome

Waves GTR 3.5. v6 Picked this up for the Charvel

I love it my new gutair rig is my Apple Mac Book Pro 17in,  Apogee Duet, Waves GTR 3.5, and Native Instuments Gutiar Rig 2 &3

14 Hands 2006 Rivals Artmus

From Washington State 98 14hands.com

Vic’s New Charvel San Demis Slime Green Style 1 2H Rev 2

My Dream Guitar  Picked it up from Sam Ash in King of Prusia and Alison sold me the gutiar what a great gal.  I have really like the service that I have been getting from Sam Ash Im not going to the other chains that much.

Neck-thru or Bolt-on Bolt-on Description San Dimas® Style 1

Body Wood Alder (no veneer) Body Binding No

Scallop Heel No Scallop Horn No

BODY

Other

Neck Description

Charvel USA San

Dimas® Reg./Reverse Headstock Regular

Neck/Centerblock Wood

1 pc Maple –

Quartersawn Fingerboard Wood n/a

Inlay Dots

Nut Width

42.86 mm [1 11/16

inch] Butt Width 57.15 mm [2 ¼ inch]

©2008 JCMI, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications subject to change without notice.

The unique Stratocaster® headstock and body designs are trademarks of FMIC under license to JCMI, Inc.

iPod shuffle

Ordered a new iPod shuffle for my CA trip it’s so small the lengnth if a wooden match it’s smaller than one of my fingers oh well that may not be saying much. I had my name and “Just Play” engraved on it

I love it it works great

It works very well took a bit to get used to the cliks on the ear buds but now I can move around well. I think the key is to have good play lists set up for this iPod. Will work on my play lists a bit more refined this weekend.