One of the best in terms of polished technical skills, but a lot of other drummers sound more 'musical' to my ears. I think Jojo is more musical and entertaining; but it's 'apples and oranges' to compare: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJWZkIGIYtONqa8

Yep, got your message. I guess try email again when you're back in the US?... Have a good vacation!

Yeah; fun times!

Yeah; don't know what his guitar is. Glad you like the sound; thanks! I use a pair of Canon HF-M500 cameras, with a Canon DM-100 stereo mic on each one, and I use the sound track from whichever one sounds best. I export the sound track to a WAV file, and run it through my mastering software (Wavelab Elements 8). In Wavelab, I use EQ (just a few dB of both low-end shelf boost and high-end shelf boost), and just a slight touch of each; multiband compression, stereo enhancement, and reverb; just enough of each to be audible, and peak limiting for the 'top' 3 or 4 dB worth of peaks, and that's it. Each effect is minimal, but combined together, the result sounds substantially better than the raw audio from the camera. I take the resulting track from Wavelab, put it into VideoPad Video Editor, along with the video from both cameras, and sync everything together (by 'lining up' the sound tracks from both cameras with the mastered track from Wavelab). I render the final video with sound tracks from both cameras muted, so only the mastered audio from Wavelab is heard.

HiFiTubeGuy I notice something on Dirk's guitar, not sure what the device is because he's obviously got it plugged into an amp. I can see the cable. It looks like it might be some kind of midi pickup, like the GK-3 pickup on my Roland Guitar Synth. Yeah, I know you don't like the synth stuff so much, LoL. But it can be useful in some circumstances.

It's a combination of a narrow-band IF filter (to reduce interference from signals on adjacent frequencies), and an automatic gain control (AGC) with adjustable attack and decay (to reduce gain on strong signals, and keep them at approximately the same volume as the weaker signals).

@@HiFiTubeGuy I would like to copy that circuit (at least the AGC part). Would you be willing to share this circuit? Thank you.

Thanks much! Yeah, Iowa, USA... I see you're in B.C.; about 1500 miles away; kinda far for us to get together and jam :)

I just posted what little info I still have about it on my Google+ page. I built it about 15 years ago, and sold it a couple years ago, so that's about all the info I can give you; most anything else I knew about it is long forgotten by now... Btw; I've never been a ham operator; I just used to be an SWL, but not for many years now... Hope that helps :)

Thank you, much appreciated!

+SonicBodhi1 Thanks Rob! Yeah, everyone really rocked out good on this one!

+SonicBodhi1 Thanks Rob! This is one of my favorites, and I'm pretty sure this was the first time I've ever heard it and played it... Maybe the first time any of us has played it?

+SonicBodhi1 Thanks, it was fun! Haven't listened to Brand X for years, but yeah; some of this does kinda sound like something they might do, now that you mention it :)

SonicBodhi1 Thanks Bob!

Thanks much!