Members Mesa/Kramer Posted January 31, 2008 Members Share Posted January 31, 2008 Anyone used to hang and play in the Yahoo User rooms for Guitar? Used to be pretty cool to be able to play live for/with many great players from around the world. Was cool until Yahoo closed off all thier User made rooms 3 or more years ago. Is there anything like this elsewere going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mesa/Kramer Posted January 31, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 31, 2008 No one?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drunkenguitar Posted January 31, 2008 Members Share Posted January 31, 2008 You might want to check out the metal rooms. I haven't gone on yahoo chat in while since discovering this site, but there was always a few interesting guitarists playing every now and then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members silmaneero Posted February 1, 2008 Members Share Posted February 1, 2008 I've never heard of that before. How did the audio work? Could you jam with other people? That would be so cool if it worked, I know network latency is often a dealbreaker with this kind of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drunkenguitar Posted February 1, 2008 Members Share Posted February 1, 2008 I've never heard of that before. How did the audio work? Could you jam with other people? That would be so cool if it worked, I know network latency is often a dealbreaker with this kind of thing. You couldn't really "jam" with other people. You would have to wait till someone got off the voice chat and then play. At least thats what I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members metal_terrorist Posted February 1, 2008 Members Share Posted February 1, 2008 Never heard of it but I'm curious, in heterosexual way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members silmaneero Posted February 1, 2008 Members Share Posted February 1, 2008 You couldn't really "jam" with other people. You would have to wait till someone got off the voice chat and then play. At least thats what I remember. Hmm, sounds fun anyway. Why did 'they' kill it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scolfax Posted February 1, 2008 Members Share Posted February 1, 2008 So is there anywhere online where you can jam live? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cardude6987 Posted February 1, 2008 Members Share Posted February 1, 2008 I think there was i site i was on recently were you could jam. I do not remeber the name but i never could get it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mesa/Kramer Posted February 1, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 1, 2008 I've never heard of that before. How did the audio work? Could you jam with other people? That would be so cool if it worked, I know network latency is often a dealbreaker with this kind of thing. It was like a basic chat room to start, all live posting unlike here. There was audio also, so you would either Mic your amp and run it into your PC or run into a POD like device and run the out into your PC. People would basically take turns going on a shredding. There were some incredible players that hung out and played in there on a regular basis from all over the world. As you were playing and after, people would type in comments live as to how they were liking your playing. You could set up a separate room and jam one on one with another person. Certain good players would gain kind of legendary status, on there. The best player I heard in there was a guy named Danny Danzi. Yahoo used to allow anyone to create thier own User made Chat rooms, like these, I guess they had too many problems with some of the user made room topics/content, since they could not control young kids from going in or something like that, so you can no longer make a "Guitar Room" so to say. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tony2362 Posted December 21, 2015 Members Share Posted December 21, 2015 Sorry to bring up an old post but I remember the yahoo guitar room. I loved going there and I actually learned alot and that chat room led me to buying multiple items like my POD Pro that I have loved for many years. I'm not sure but Danny Danzi seems kinda familair. The only guy I can really remember his name was Vic_Rattlehead not sure about the underscore he used to always play alot of awesome Megadeth songs. But there were so many great players I can't remember. If anyone knows of a similar website or anything to what the guitar room used to be like I would love to give it a try. Or if any of the guitar room regulars are still getting together on some site that would be amazing. So far all I've found is a few random people playing on twitch in the music category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emory Posted December 22, 2015 Members Share Posted December 22, 2015 Seems like rockabilly only thing that would work. To do quick and lazy latency test, using Skype call friend far away. You start counting and then have friend join in. I'd like to do intercontinental jam, but count difference is around 1 1/2.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members exiive Posted May 13, 2016 Members Share Posted May 13, 2016 Man I created an account just to comment on this thread. That guitar chat used to be {censored}ing epic. I'm talking about G*U*I*T*A*R*P*L*A*Y*E*R*S with Mesa and Dean and all the booting and mass ignores and {censored} talking. I will never forget those days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 So is there anywhere online where you can jam live? It's not really live jamming, but you should check this out anyway: http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/forum/Forums_General/youdio-aa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tube_Tonez Posted July 28, 2018 Members Share Posted July 28, 2018 Absolutely, had hours of fun. I remember Danny Danzi too, along with some other talented shredders. I'd play more old school stuff. Quite the warm feeling when girls (hopefully they were girls) would type stuff like "Dallas_Cheerleader>Throws panties at Wildeyed_SouthernBoy" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted August 13, 2018 Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 Harmony Central should have a room to play with others .... it would be ground breaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ronnie_Omelettes Posted April 11, 2020 Members Share Posted April 11, 2020 I used to play guitar in the yahoo chat rooms.. Acoustic pond etc.. A lot of the users went over to a program called Camfrog.. still running now. There is also Paltalk that has rooms with audio but i think Camfrog is better.. Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SteinbergerHack Posted April 11, 2020 Members Share Posted April 11, 2020 It would be pretty cool to have that function here somewhere......Phil? Anton? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 34 minutes ago, SteinbergerHack said: It would be pretty cool to have that function here somewhere......Phil? Anton? The biggest issue IMHO is latency. It's been the major hindrance for real-time music interaction online. The more distant the collaborator, the worse it tends to be. Acceptable latency for video conferencing Target values for acceptable video conference performance are 150 ms latency, 40 ms jitter and 1% or less packet loss. Latency includes a fixed component related to the network transmission path length, so physical distance makes this parameter somewhat difficult to control. https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/tip/Video-conferencing-bandwidth-requirements-for-the-WAN Some people get annoyed when their DAW has ~20 ms or more of latency, and most find 150 ms to be too annoying to deal with. I'd love to have something that would allow two people, or even better, groups of people to interact and jam together in real time, and I'd definitely be an advocate for adding that functionality to HC, but AFAIK, the technology just doesn't exist that allows that in a seamless, non-buggy, latency-free way. Please feel free to correct me if you know of a system that actually does work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SteinbergerHack Posted April 11, 2020 Members Share Posted April 11, 2020 16 minutes ago, Phil O'Keefe said: The biggest issue IMHO is latency. It's been the major hindrance for real-time music interaction online. The more distant the collaborator, the worse it tends to be. Acceptable latency for video conferencing Target values for acceptable video conference performance are 150 ms latency, 40 ms jitter and 1% or less packet loss. Latency includes a fixed component related to the network transmission path length, so physical distance makes this parameter somewhat difficult to control. https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/tip/Video-conferencing-bandwidth-requirements-for-the-WAN Some people get annoyed when their DAW has ~20 ms or more of latency, and most find 150 ms to be too annoying to deal with. I'd love to have something that would allow two people, or even better, groups of people to interact and jam together in real time, and I'd definitely be an advocate for adding that functionality to HC, but AFAIK, the technology just doesn't exist that allows that in a seamless, non-buggy, latency-free way. Please feel free to correct me if you know of a system that actually does work. I'm the last person to ask about this - I'm afraid I'm a bit of a luddite in this area. I've never even recorded over a digital backing track at home. My studio experience has been either working as a player/composer in a full-on pro studio, or recording a few guitar and/or vocal tracks at home with a very simplistic setup, always one-shot, no overdubs, no punch-ins (until last weekend, when I finally overdubbed parts on a couple of songs for hire). Back in the mid-80s I engineered some reasonably good (for the time) demo recordings with the old Fostex Model 80, but those techniques don't translate very well to modern technology. I would seem that the latency would be highly variable due to the way 'net traffic is routed. There are ways within a given subnet to prioritize traffic, but I doubt that the average home subscription service will allow those flags to be passed through so that we can hog the neighbors' bandwidth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 21 minutes ago, SteinbergerHack said: I would seem that the latency would be highly variable due to the way 'net traffic is routed. There are ways within a given subnet to prioritize traffic, but I doubt that the average home subscription service will allow those flags to be passed through so that we can hog the neighbors' bandwidth. True... plus there's also the issue of the speed the individual users have from their ISP. I have a fairly fast pipe (FiOS, with supposedly 100 mbps up / down, although it never quite achieves that speed), but not everyone does, and the weak link is usually their upload speed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Donut-dean Posted May 6, 2021 Members Share Posted May 6, 2021 (edited) On 5/13/2016 at 6:29 PM, exiive said: Man I created an account just to comment on this thread. That guitar chat used to be {censored}ing epic. I'm talking about G*U*I*T*A*R*P*L*A*Y*E*R*S with Mesa and Dean and all the booting and mass ignores and {censored} talking. I will never forget those days. I created an account as well just to come here and say, I was there as well. Good times, never laughed so hard. I'll never forget those days. Edited May 24, 2021 by Donut-dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Donut-dean Posted May 24, 2021 Members Share Posted May 24, 2021 (edited) Any guitar player rooms around in 2021? Edited May 24, 2021 by Donut-dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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