Carr Skylark! DO it!
Bad Gear and Nick Batt, together at last. Love it.
New Ableton Push isā¦ Ableton, in a Push: Push ā a standalone expressive instrument | Ableton | Ableton
Iād expected something a bit like this for a while (things like the Akai Force and Maschine are nice enough but what production nerds really want is Ableton) but Iām a bit surprised theyāve got the route of literally cramming a PC (albeit quite a low-spec one, running Linux) in there, rather than doing a version for a phone/tablet-style CPU, which could have been cheaper and had better battery life - but I guess youād have got a lot less than the full Live experience that this is offering.
Ā£1700 though. Thatās a lot more than an equivalent laptop and a Launchpad Proā¦
TE on design duties?
I donāt think it is thay bad for what it is. Probably more useful than an op-1 at what Ā£400 cheaper and with Iām guessing an ableton license thrown in for your computer. maybe TE are just making things so when something decent but slightly overpriced comes out you end up just going ānot badā
Iām only joking really, itās not horrific but I think itās still a bit overpriced and donāt really see why you would choose this over the laptop + launchpad combo Parm suggests. Maybe Iām missing something. I guess it also covers interface duties if youāre recording stuff.
Looks nice tbf.
License not included, so thatās another Ā£540 for Live Suite if you donāt already have it (probably pointless dropping Ā£1700 on this to run Live Intro on it, especially as you canāt use VST/AU plugins, so are going to reliant on Ableton packs and Max for Live devices).
As a controller by itself the Push is Ā£880, which is still a lot, but MPE controllers are thin on the ground generally, and while I compared it to a Launchpad, it does a bunch more than that - the screen alone which lets you do sample editing is a big deal.
Honestly, itās stupid money but Iām still tempted.
Logic Pro on iPad!
Cool for mixing especially I reckon.
Big fan of the fact that Iāll be able to continue working on stuff on my iPad whilst Iām away with work or noodle around on the sofa.
Pickup help please.
I bought a third hand Tele a few years ago, and the initial owner swapped out the bridge pickup for a Seymour Duncan mini humbucker (I think a mini 59). Iām very happy with the bridge sound/tone/attack, but I donāt think they did anything with the neck pickup (still looks stock, but I havenāt dug behind the pickguard yet).
Really love the guitar but he volume disparity between the two pickups is just too much to be useable really (like pulling the volume pot down over half way). Iād expect a tonal difference between the positions, but they should have broadly the same output right?
I guess a few questions. Does anyone have experience with āhotterā Tele neck pickups without going down a rails route, or any glowing reports of rails neck pickups?
Or is there a way to increase the output of the neck pickup as is (some guitars let you raise or lower pickups but that doesnāt seem possible on a Tele)?
Ideally Iād still like to retain some Tele sound.
They look great, will check some demos later.
Would you swap both out? Think Iām liking the idea of an intended pair, rather than some mismatch.
You can adjust the neck pickup height if you want to, but because itās mounted directly to the body youāll have to take the pickguard off.
Having said that, it does look quite close to the strings already
Yeah I think it is just a vastly different pickup to the bridge. Not sure Iāll even get the two to work together.
Heard some clips of the quarter pound, sounds great. Will likely go down this route and switch out the pair.
Iāve got a Dimarzio Area T in the neck of my tele with a liāl 59 in the bridge. I havenāt played it in a while but from memory, once I set it up nicely they worked quite well together.
Was eyeing up the Eastwood remake of this the other day. It sounded a bit thin though? Maybe Eastwoodās budgeting on build though, unsure.