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  1. I've heard of a 410, a 410A and a 410E, not an A/E.

    The straight 410 was probably about $175.00, the A about $275.00 and the E about $300.00 street prices back then.

    Stick the serial number here and let us know what it says.

    The serial number should be on a cross brace, just under the soundboard and toward the neck when you look into the sound hole.

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    after having played (and buying) a larivee J-09, i relized the depth of my mistake. granted i paid a bit more for the larivee, it was very well worth the extra cash.


    i also have a 1970 yamaha fg-180 (an absolute BEAST of a guitar) and recently i got an fg 345ll (1973 model). of my guitars, the zager is the one i like and play the least.

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    Welcome.

     

    I also have a pair of Yamahas, a FG150 and a FG411S. Love them both though the FG150 is due for a neck reset. Love 'em.

    Yammies get a lot of love around here, as do Laris.

  3. I'm not sure about the sound box size making a difference or not and I don't know how close in size they actually are, they certainly look to be about the same volume. There may be some tonal changes in the design but I think the main difference is in the holes. When I step up in quality I'll be looking for an A body with f holes.

  4. Originally posted by brzilian

    Why are you all even discussing this anymore?
    :rolleyes:

    This is a non issue now that Intel Macs can run XP (and Vista) by using the Boot Camp boot manager. Its a freely downloadable Beta currently and will be a part of the next OS X release.


    Buy a Intel Mac and be done with it. It can run everything now.



    Uhm, Vista ain't yet available and the release date has been set back until who knows. It is also purported to be a manditory update/lease program. Just what every computer user needs.

    Best solution if a person already has a viable PC is to load up 98, Win2K or XP as minimally as possible and use that OS to run the recording programs while running Linux, in a dual boot, as the "other use" computer.

  5. Originally posted by Diesel7988

    I kinda wanna go with the PC. I've gotten over the different setups, but it's the price. I'm about to spend around 1300 on an iMac G5, and then I'll have to get the soundcard and whatever program I decide to use. I only have 1400 right now. And then it seems like I shouldn't even connect it to the internet after that. I cannot keep using this piece of {censored} for the internet. Every Windows I've had has had problems. I mean, maybe it's the Kazaa I used to run, but it was Kazaa lite on the HP downstairs. But even that thing, only a few years old, 512MB of ram, constant defrags, won't let you open up more than 3 internet windows and is constantly doing WEIRD things. This Compaq from 99 or 2000 is worthless. It freezes every hour, rarely lets me watch videos, I'm lucky IE has been running long enough for me to type this.


    Can I really trust the windows nowadays? Cause that's the same question my parents and I asked before we bought this piece of {censored} and the pieceof{censored}tobe HP. I would love to get two PCs, one for internet, one for music, but even that I'm not sure if I could trust. What's the best choice? 'Cause I'm just afraid I'm going to get suckered into buying a PC I'm gonna be kicking before New Years



    Here's what you do. Backup all your important files on to as many CDs or DVDs as it takes. Reformat the drive and partition it, if you only have one, into, preferably, four partitions. You will use one for the Windows OS, running a bare as you can get it installed. Use another partition for your music related programs and another for the data, make it FAT32, the OS and Windows program partitions can be NTFS. Then use the fourth partition to run a Linux distribution on. You can easily set up the computer for dual bood to go to XP for your music recording and boot to the Linux OS for your internet needs. That's the best way to keep your Windows system free from the {censored} that you will accrue from any and all internet excursions.
    Use Firefox, Mozilla, Konqueror or Opera for your browsing , Thunderbird for your email and Evolution if you need a Groupware suite. You'll be able to {censored}can Microsoft Word, Excel and their other progrmas and run Open Office, Abiword or another word processor. There are other spreadsheets too so you aren't locked into Open Office. I just happen to like it and it will work with Word and Excel files and save them as such. Those programs will be included in the Linux distro, or normally are, and easily obtainable if not.
    I personally use and recommend Mepis. You can choose your Download Mirror Here. .
    The support forum is great. I would go with the latest final release, 3.4-3. It will burn to an iso image as a live cd so you can give it a whirl before installing it.
    Try it, You'll like it.

    One thing to understand about the HP and Compaq PCs. They are loaded with proprietary crap on top of the Windows hold your hand cycle. I mean who in the hell needs to be notified that there are unused icons on the desktop????
    When you re-install the Windows OS don't let it defalut. Opt to choose what you want and then only allow it to install what you need and want. Once the OS is installed you can either set up your program and data partitions or, even better, run the Linux distro and install it to which ever partition you want. You might just use either the second or the last partition. You will need to format that as a Linux partition and it's not a bad idea to use all but about 512Mb space for the Lunux partition and let the partition tool set the last 512 as a swap partition. It's not really manditory but helps speed some processes up. Keep track of where you want to put each part of the system. The hard drives, through Linux will be hda1, 2, 3 4 & so on instead of c, d, e, the floppy, fd0, the CD's hdd0, 1 and so on.

    Shout out if you need some more info or help. PM me and I'll do my best.

  6. 1&2 ,

    Originally posted by kubyaj16

    I would say that 3-5 years ago, Mac would be the way to go since PC were really unstable back then. I had to custom build 4 different highend PCs with various audio interfaces and still have issues with poping and clicking in my audio. Went to Mac G4 and I started creating music right away with very little issues.




    I don't know, I've really never had a Windows system that I would consider unstable, and that's from running DOS, to Windows 3.0 to 95 to 98 1&2 to ME, Win2K and XP.
    It all depends on the setup and what you have running in the background. If the program installs were done correctly, with virus protection turned off and all other programs closed as requested, there were generally no problems. Then, consistent maintenance, defrags & so on, would allow the machines to run just fine. You would have to power down regularly too. Really, the only real problem I had was a failure to shut down problem with Windows 98 and that was eliminated by installing a fix.

    One thing that lots of people fail to take into consideration is the fact that most, not all but most, of the macs that were used for music were dedicated to that process while the Windows systems were used for everything including surfing the net. All the other stuff running on the computer and in the background were what the problems were, not the OS.
    Take the Windows machine, strip all the crap off and tweak for music production and it will be stable.

  7. If your computer is going to be strictly music and music related, with no internet access, IMHO, you'll do just fine with a PC and WinXP, either home or pro. You can kick out IE, Outlook Express and other non-essential crap and tweak the OS for music. Once that's all done you'll be quite stable and, as mentioned above, there are lots more options available for recording in the Windows environment than a MAC.

    It really boils down to personal preference. I run a recording box with Win2K that has been rock solid until It started to fail to boot. That may well be a video card or something of that nature. I'm on hiatus anyway. I have Linux on this box and I'm working around with recording programs on it. So far somewhat limited but there are some things available so, that's another option.

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