Scott | January 30, 2012
It’s 2012 and many things are happening with the BoogieBeau. My Roland Juno Stage and case has been sold along with it’s SRX card. I have several other items I want to auction on EBAY. I’ll surely miss the Juno Stage but I love even more the piano tones that come out of the Roland FP-7F! There is definitely better key bed velocity pickup on [...]
Scott | November 18, 2011
After two years plus playing almost solely on the Roland Juno Stage I decided to try something else .. something hopefully better. Not that I don’t like the Stage, it’s more that I just wanted to expand my horizons and try a weighted realistic keybed again. I did have an older RD700 which I thought was pretty [...]
Scott | September 7, 2011
My prized Roland RD-700 and case has been sold. :-( Though I loved the sounds on the RD-700 my finger joints never liked those fully weighted keys. The lightly-weighted rounded edged keys on the Juno Stage are just so much more pleasant to practice on. With the RD-700 gone there was open keyboard stand just begging to be used [...]
Scott | July 13, 2011
The floor area around my keyboard rig has been an embarrassing scene. Four power strips, several AC/DC adapters, cables everywhere. The area hasn’t seen a good cleaning for a few years as the wife isn’t allowed to run the power sweeper next to all those cables. After a bit of brain work I came up with [...]
Scott | April 15, 2011
Over the winter I picked up two used drum machines on EBAY. They are very different little beasts. The first one is a Yamaha RY-9 called the Big Jam. The main reason I got this was because of it’s small size and it can run using battery power though it did come with an AC adapter. I figure it will give me [...]
