I started playing about with a steel a few years back. Couldn't get on with thumb and fingerpicks, eventualy settled on hydrid picking. It's not "authentic" but it works for me. I have classical guitar nails though, so there is still a bit of natural pick for the fingers.

RichardT wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 1:04 pm Steinberg Cubase support is awful - on the other hand, Steinberg Dorico support is really good.

Swap out Dorico for Wavelab and you have my experience exactly.

ajay_m wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 11:25 am Incidentally one comment in the review was the lack of documentation - one of the users has created an incredibly detailed manual for the product here.

https://manual.synthv.info/

Thanks. I've just spent half an hour tinkering with the demo and this manual is now proving very helpful.

Re the extension cables, Thomann do a cheapish one in their Ssnake line. 5m, locking connector, decent robust quality and fully maintainable (not that I've ever had to). I've had half a dozen of these in service as headphone extensions for nearly 10 years and they are still going fine. They replaced...

For balance, I have always been a huge Yes fan and remember being blown away by 6 Wives when it came out - it really seemed pretty ground breaking at the time. Not really a fan of Wakeman nowadays though and haven't followed his path other than noticing his occasional comings and goings with the Yes...

Spectralayers can do this I believe, although as a long-time RX user who is just starting to get to grips with Spectralayers I haven't tried it myself yet.

I use Session Recall. Very handy for all sorts of outboard including the Bus+ https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/session-recall Thanks, I'll check this out. I've been using it for about a year now and very happy. The chap is super responsive to suggestions or queries and also very quick to put ou...

About the SSL Bus+ - This thing sounds amazing. I got to watch it in action again this past weekend. BUT, the menu options! How do you even begin to document recall? It's like counting cards at a Vegas blackjack table. Does anyone own one of these? I'm curious what sort of black magic you use to re...

Thanks for the heads up, I had being keeping half an eye out for these to come on a special offer.

........... As for hybrid style, check out Steve Howe’s close-up videos of him playing ‘The Clap’. Like you say, there's no right answer, you just have to work out what works for you. But of course that may change over time... Coming from starting with classical playing, I always struggled with a p...

Chowny's have increased in price because production has been moved from the far east to the UK. Although with the way everything is going up, all the move has done is brought on the increase earlier. At least now sourcing them is easier. I wondered if a change of production venue might have been re...

Mrs Fishnish now plays short scales after a car accident resulting in long term shoulder problems. She has a Chowny SWB 1 Fretless which she likes a lot, its well built and solid with a nice slim neck and fingerboard. Not what one could call a 'lightweight' short scale though! She's had it a few yea...

I make a fair bit of use of the Cubase Notepad features which are available individually on tracks in the Project Window and channels in the Mix Console, as well as a project global Notepad. If it were needed outside of the project all the Notepad data can be exported as a text file and could be use...

Cardboard box? You should be so lucky...

Our studio used to be in a paper bag in t'septic tank...

I have a WA273-EQ which is set up in a similar fashion to the way you describe and it all works fine. Mics (or instruments) get plugged directly in the front and the WA 273's rear line inputs are fed via a patch bay from a pair of outputs on my interface. I only take one pair of outputs from the WA ...

Another one for VNC as the remote control service and I use the "RealVNC" clients on mobile to control systems elsewhere. See also Teamviewer as another similar option with free tier which can be slightly easier to setup, although has a more weighty app. Thanks, yes been looking at both V...

Thanks, will check VNC out too.

BTW the Steinberg Cubase iC Pro app discussed above is no longer available for Android. Steinberg apparently dropped it some time ago as they weren't happy with it, so that is now off my list.

What DAW do you use? Some have remote apps that allow basic transport control etc. Cubase. Steinberg does have an app called IC Pro which would appear to give a decent basic set of controls including transport, key commands, cue mixes etc. The Sound on Sound overview was pretty informative, thank y...

Cool! Please let us know the results :) I shall certainly report back as to how I get on. If it works this will be a good step 1. I'm gonna keep investigating remote desktop things too as that should give me access to transport functions and cue mixes etc. I checked and sadly my current OS on the m...

I'd just make sure that the two monitors fed from the splitter are the same native resolution, otherwise things might get a bit 'confused'. Thanks, yes I recently upgraded my main pair to frameless ones so have a pair currently lying fallow. They're basically the same monitors with the same resolut...

Splendid. I like not expensive, and will start by seeing how we get on with an HDMI splitter.

At the moment it works very smoothly and I'm cautious about offending it! say no more! :D Although you've got me thinking - for the most straighforward setup, all I'd really need to do is duplicate one of the existing displays, that would be enough to follow a part from the "booth" - mayb...

Take a look at Remote Desktop - it is built into Windows (though you need the Pro version on your Cubase PC to act as a server) and also in earlier versions but will also work on other platforms like Linux and Android (and probably IOS and Mac as well although I've not used it on them). Thanks, I t...

Windows will happily handle at least three displays without any problem, have you got a spare socket on your graphics card? A second-hand monitor and long HDMI lead might be all you need. It uses the onboard graphics, just the 2 sockets that run the 2 current monitors. We do have a few monitors lyi...

resistorman wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 1:15 pm I've used Duet and it should be fine for this purpose. Sadly, the wireless version is subscription based.

Cheers for that. I shall investigate Duet further. For our setup either a wireless or a wired network would be fine.

Hi all, I'd appreciate any info or advice you can offer.... We have a reasonable sized 6m x3.5m high ceilinged space for our home studio, a single space for both recording and control. The computer is a Win 10 PC currently running Cubase 11.5 with a dual screen setup at the mix position running off ...

I spent an afternoon trying a couple of the reissues a while back, mainly out of curiosity because I happened to be in a shop full of them, in Inverness of all places, with time to kill. I remember it because the salesperson was asking a few customers to try them so as to know what people thought of...

In the classical guitar world (in which I am now largely a bystander) there are some players who go the acryllic nails route. Almost all of the players I've come across who do this do their own and spend a huge amount of time on it. They mostly say the skills of a cosmetic nail technician are somewh...

You could do it all in FL I guess, or you could use a basic "mastering" type software such Steinberg's Wavelab Elements which has good tools not only for correcting any level or EQ imbalances between tracks but also for compiling an error free CD with track titles, defined start gaps, spac...

You need to open Command Centre in HX Edit, select the expression pedal and set command to MIDI CC in the pull down menue. The pedal should still work as a volume pedal in Helix and transmit MIDI. I've just set up a patch this way using the built in expression on a Helix Floor. Thanks for the reply...