[RWP] My metronome question

[Patrick Perdue]

I want a Chapman Stick, but can't afford one, so I'm interested in what 
you end up doing. Those guys are awesome enough to own stick.com, so 
that in and of itself is just cool.

On 6/24/2013 5:55 PM, Indigo wrote:
> Patrick, after you told us about the piezo speakers in holiday cards,
> I've been saving those, but this time I need about 12 of the same thing,
> to mount a tiny distance below each of 6 strings; probably near the
> bridge and about halfway along the string length.
> I'm going to massacre a Korean V M I electric guitar to make a sort of
> chapman stick thingy, so I can happily drum on its fret board
> I'll probably saw off both sides of the body so it's a real stick guitar.
> I expect the guitarist here are cringing in horror, but believe me this
> one will be  no loss to the guitar world as a conventional guitar, and
> could make a great Chapmanesque stick.
> Either piezo electrics, or I could compare their cost to a single really
> great humbucker pickup.
> Anybody got one of those they'd sell me?
>
> Thanks,
> Indi
> On 6/24/2013 1:24 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>> Radio Shack used to cell piezos in little plastic enclosures meant to be
>> used as small buzzer speakers. Take it out of the plastic and have fun.
>> Maybe they still do.
>> I have some piezos that are just exposed on one side with a plastic
>> backing on the other side, with a thin cable leading to a 1/4th jack.
>> Ultra-generic pick-ups with little clip mounts with screw holes/adhesive
>> backing to attach the jack's housing to instruments.
>>
>> To keep this on topic, you should always play your metronome through a
>> piezo transducer. Yeah. That. Don't use your mailbox as a vocal
>> microphone, as fun as it may seem at the time.
>>
>> On 6/24/2013 1:15 PM, Indigo wrote:
>>> Thanks, Patrick.
>>> I've been mostly experimenting and learning recently, so haven't been
>>> using metronome, but think I will soon.
>>> Did you see my post asking you about piezo transducers to go under
>>> guitar strings?
>>> I don't mean commercial piezo pickups to place inside a guitar tone hole
>>> or under a bridge, hopefully a tiny not costly piezo transducer I can
>>> afford to buy a dozen of, Radio Shack, online, whatever.
>>> I'd like them to pick up the least drumming or touch of each string, but
>>> not pick up room sounds like a microphone.
>>> Got any ideas?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Indi
>>>
>>> On 6/24/2013 12:35 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>>>> If you want the metronome to be turned on by default for a new project
>>>> (metronome settings are saved in projects, not in Reaper's global
>>>> settings,) open a new project, turn the metronome on, then go to file >
>>>> project settings, or press alt+enter to get to the same dialogue. Now,
>>>> press the "save as default project settings..." button. Now, when you
>>>> open a new Reaper project, your metronome will already be active. If
>>>> you
>>>> change the metronome sound or volume, these settings will also be
>>>> saved.
>>>> For example, I changed the stock metronome sounds to those of the two
>>>> square waves from the Casio VL-tone 1's drum section, just to be a bit
>>>> different.
>>>>
>>>> You can, of course, make any other change you want to your new project
>>>> before saving as default project settings. If, for example, you always
>>>> want to start with four audio tracks and four midi tracks routed in
>>>> specific ways, you can set that up first, then save that as your
>>>> default
>>>> loading template. Then those tracks will be there when you open a new
>>>> project.
>>>>
>>>> On 6/24/2013 11:58 AM, Indigo wrote:
>>>>> There is a toggle metronome in the ReaAccess shortcuts,.
>>>>> It's something plus the letter M.
>>>>> Press F12 to turn Learn Mode on and check out the ReaAccess shortcuts.
>>>>> Press F12 again to return to normal mode.
>>>>> I just enable the metronome in options menu, haven't got it to
>>>>> toggle on
>>>>> and off when I want.
>>>>>
>>>>> Indi
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/24/2013 9:15 AM, Stephan Merk wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> my question regarding the metronome was not answered till now, if
>>>>>> I am
>>>>>> right
>>>>>> in this... ;)
>>>>>> I asked if there is a chance to set the metronome on in general so
>>>>>> that I
>>>>>> not ever have to turn it on after I am starting Reaper...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Viele Grüße
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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