A1MixMan
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I Got A Rhodes!
I just got a Fender Rhodes Mark I Stage Piano Eighty Eight!
So me and my guitar playing friend have been slowly putting together my bedroom studio, complete with Sonar 8.5.2 and various other pieces of musical equipment. Got everything working great, the new computer, Sonar, figuring out how to use it all and stuff. So we start talking about my Yamaha keyboard, and he casually mentions "I got a Fender Rhodes in my storage unit."
I said "Whaaaat???"
"Yeah, I got it from this girl for $200 bucks." he says without blinking an eye.
"Holy Cr&p!!! Let's go get it NOW!" I exclaim.
And so here it is. What a cool instrument! Sounds great running through my Universal Audio 710 Twin Finity pre amp going into Sonar. I love it!
I am stoked!
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 27, 10 4:48 PM
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Don't let Space Cowboy know about it. He will be so jealous but then so am I. Well done man!.
Now no one can tell you "hey man thats no Roodes sound you have there". LOL
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 27, 10 4:53 PM
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I sold mine years ago  Just couldn't lug it around to jobs anymore. I wish I had it now to use with Sonar.
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 27, 10 5:23 PM
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I sort of traded, half-gave my 80's era MKII to my engineer. He so wanted it for his project studio and it was just gathering dust here. I did make him promise to give me first right of refusal if he ever sells it. I had it during my Nashburg years and many famous and infamous fellers have played on it...as well as my ownself;-)
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 27, 10 5:33 PM
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Yeah ... I played live on my Rhodes for over 10 years, a Mark II. It now just sits in my studio and like yorolpal it's gathering dust. Well, I play it sometimes just for the heck of it. Still great ! Would I sell it ? No way ... it'd break up the Hammond A100, PPG Wave 2.2 and Hohner Clavinet D6 "quartett"  Glad you like it so much A1MixMan !
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 27, 10 5:37 PM
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One man's garbage is another man's treasure. My avatar is a very old picture of me playing some oldies - a Wurlitzer electric piano (which I hated) and a Hammond M-2 organ (which was a bear to lug around), an Elka String Ensemble (which never stayed in tune) and a Micromoog. All have been sold. The only one I wish I still had was the Micromoog, but then again I have a Minimoog plug-in that sounds better, but I can't twist the knobs on it. I used to borrow a friend's Rhodes which I liked although it too was a bear to lug. Weekend warriors don't have roadies. I used to plug it into a Crybaby wah-wah for that early Joe Zawinul / Weather Report sound. Just waxing nostalgic... Enjoy!
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 27, 10 6:19 PM
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I've got a Mark I stage 73. Love it! Don't take it to gigs though my back couldn't handle it 
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 27, 10 6:45 PM
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I did a project for a friend recently with a 73. Fabulous jazz keyboard player. I'd like to post some of it, but they were standard covers and I'm not sure if my SoundClick account permits cover songs?? (Anyone know?) The Roland Dimension D chorus plug from UAD sounds amazing on a Rhodes for a ballad (check out the UAD website for a demo).
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 27, 10 9:30 PM
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I got one too! It's right here...lemme see...bank A, patch B-12, yep, there it is.
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 27, 10 10:41 PM
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But has it had over a six pack of beer spilled into it by a Tennessee frat boy standing on it singing "Shout" while I, in similar inebriated condition, comped in a manical frenzy in the basement of the Deke house after whuppin Alabama's ass for the SEC Championship while about three or four hundred like minded young dimbulbs sang along??? I think not, sir.
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 27, 10 10:43 PM
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bitflipper
I got one too! It's right here...lemme see...bank A, patch B-12, yep, there it is.
LMAO ;)
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A1MixMan
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 4:25 AM
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yorolpal
But has it had over a six pack of beer spilled into it by a Tennessee frat boy standing on it singing "Shout" while I, in similar inebriated condition, comped in a manical frenzy in the basement of the Deke house after whuppin Alabama's ass for the SEC Championship while about three or four hundred like minded young dimbulbs sang along??? I think not, sir.
Ain't that the truth! Mine looks like that, but it's still cool as hell. I have it in the living room and run a 50 XLR to the preamp in the studio. It's nice to have another intrument in the studio to play with. By the way yorolpal, just got done listening to your songs and we think they sound great. Loading them in the ipods now!
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 8:36 AM
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A1MixMan
I just got a Fender Rhodes Mark I Stage Piano Eighty Eight!
So me and my guitar playing friend have been slowly putting together my bedroom studio, complete with Sonar 8.5.2 and various other pieces of musical equipment. Got everything working great, the new computer, Sonar, figuring out how to use it all and stuff. So we start talking about my Yamaha keyboard, and he casually mentions "I got a Fender Rhodes in my storage unit."
I said "Whaaaat???"
"Yeah, I got it from this girl for $200 bucks." he says without blinking an eye.
"Holy Cr&p!!! Let's go get it NOW!" I exclaim.
And so here it is. What a cool instrument! Sounds great running through my Universal Audio 710 Twin Finity pre amp going into Sonar. I love it!
I am stoked!
Very Cool-I played in a trio for years with 2, yes 2 Fender Rhodes on the stage and me in the middle with my guitars. We used a drum machine at the time. One of the Rhodes guys played bass on his synth. Looked cool and worked very well. They both had small synths on top. Those were the days-great music-Great look! Great Find there!~
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 9:05 AM
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I had a Rhodes ....in 1977 I pulled it out of my trunk on a Below 0 (F) degree, windy, Chicago night and inched my way up my parents snowy/icey drive-way while bear hugging it and lifting with my foot, (It was as heavy as I was and that was the only way I could navigate it while in it's case). When I finally got to the top I slipped, fell on top of the Rhodes and slid all the way down to the end of the drive-way. I picked it up, put it back in the trunk and later went out bought a wurly. And started practicing the trumpet!!!
Neither keyboard was ever in tune with all keys working for any considerable length of time.
God bless anyone who wants one of those things.....
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 10:31 AM
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A1MixMan
yorolpal
But has it had over a six pack of beer spilled into it by a Tennessee frat boy standing on it singing "Shout" while I, in similar inebriated condition, comped in a manical frenzy in the basement of the Deke house after whuppin Alabama's ass for the SEC Championship while about three or four hundred like minded young dimbulbs sang along??? I think not, sir.
Ain't that the truth! Mine looks like that, but it's still cool as hell. I have it in the living room and run a 50 XLR to the preamp in the studio. It's nice to have another intrument in the studio to play with.
By the way yorolpal, just got done listening to your songs and we think they sound great. Loading them in the ipods now!
That's very kind of Ya A1, ol pal. Most all of those are either remixes (remangles is more like it) or tracks I've created for other folks. I'm currently working a new original project and hope to start previewing tunes soon...check back ever now and again.
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 2:21 PM
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ya... i remember that feeling of envy. wile the other guys took about five minutes to set up and then sat there drinking their beer wile i was still hard at work. i couldn't wait to get a single board that would do every thing. wish i had it all back now though.
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 4:39 PM
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Back in the mid to late 70's most pro band keyboard players used to hogarth more of the stage than drummers ! With 6 (yes six !) different keyboards in three stacks of two in a "U" shape + Leslies was like ... err, a standard. In the early days when we had no roadie it was a real bind to lug all that heavy equipment around, but we were so starving for gigs, we didn't mind. And boy, were we THIN ... not like the fatsos now  Later, I knew I should have taken up harmonica ... even with a flight case it weighs only a pound or so !
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 5:13 PM
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Regards, Papa CLICK HERE for a link to support for SONAR 8.5 CLICK HERE to view a list of video tutorials... CLICK HERE for a link to Getting Started with Session Drummer 3...
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A1MixMan
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 5:17 PM
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papa2005
THIS JUST IN FROM KEYBOARD MAGAZINE!
NEW RHODES RELEASES!
Yep, I just got that issue in the mail. Very cool indeed!
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 7:17 PM
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I've recorded a Rhodes a few times. Did one a few weeks ago that didn't have the speaker cabinet, just line out. It sounded great dry, but we ended up running it through a Sherman Filterbank for most of the takes-- that was really fun. Very cool gear combo for Muse/Radiohead-style FX. I was bummed because the song with the most trippy rhodes FX ended up getting cut from the album and never got mixed.
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A1MixMan
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 8:36 PM
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Why does mine say "input" below the 1/4" jack hole? Shouldn't this say "output"?
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 28, 10 10:23 PM
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 29, 10 4:27 AM
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Well, it plays fine coming out into an amp or direct into my preamp and into Sonar, I never thought to input something into it, even though it says input, I just thought it was wrong.
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A1MixMan
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 30, 10 4:56 AM
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Why would I want to input something into my Rhodes?
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 30, 10 7:49 PM
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Input is actually output (only !). Funny, I'd forgotten about this, but remember now that it initially confused me also back in the 70's. Here Plug Your Input ... somehow backwards is "Put In Your Plug Here"
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
January 30, 10 8:47 PM
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Nice score...what else does he have packed away in that storage unit!
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Re:I Got A Rhodes!
February 02, 10 12:13 AM
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I played one of those new Rhodes -- in a bright fire engine red.
What a waste of money that thing is. It sounds pretty good but felt terrible -- like it could just spontaneously catch fire for no reason. The whole thing just smacks of shiney and cheap.
That actually would't bug me so much if it wasn't $5000 freaking dollars. Its not worth half that.
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