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Topic: Boss JS-5 Jamstation
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Harold Parris
Member From: Piedmont, Alabama USA
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posted 28 November 2000 03:04 PM
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I bought a Boss JS-5 last Saturday. They are fairly expensive little critters but I feel certain the JS-5 is the way to go. You can program your own backup tracks with the style you want. You can use the type of drums and bass you like. You can add instruments in the backup track, and you can record vocal or your instrument along with the backup track for (1) hour. The one hour recording requires an optional smartmedia card to expand the memory of the jamstation. The machine comes with a manual that tells you how to accomplish all the available feats, but it is not the most user friendly manual I've laid eyes on. There are so many things you can do with the jamstation is the reason the manual seems so complicated. If any of you have intrest in a jamstation, I will try to answer any question you have. I would have given my eye tooth to ask questions about the machine, from a fellow steel player who had one. I plan to post a link to a track using the Boss Jamstation and my playing steel with it, in the near future. Feel free to email me with any questions you have. I am not selling them I just want to help out if you are interested.------------------
Sierra Session and MSA Classic Guitars, Nashville 400, Session 400, and Evans FET 500 Amps.
Harold Parris email hparrisal@aol.com |
Kenneth Kotsay
Member From: Davie, Florida
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posted 28 November 2000 06:38 PM
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DITTO - Purchased the JS-5 Jam Station on Saturday also and thus far I been at it for the last three days, having tons of fun discovering various ways to change the STYLES and SONG formats that this machine has to offer. Kinda neat when you take a swing jazz song and copy it onto a Blue Grass Style etc. Then there's the instrument changing and you can even change the tuning from 440 hz to 439, 438, 441, 442 etc . This JS-5 reminds me of BIAB, which to me is a great software program for a computer, BUT one thing you cannot do with BIAB that you can do with the JS-5 is TAKE it with you onto a bandstand. This sucker is small (the size of a cigar box) just plug it into a sound system or home stereo system and bingo you have your own backup band. The best thing so far that I like the best is creating my own chord progressions and slowing the tempo down and changing keys. Another feature is watching the actual chord show up on the display screen. Don't like the chord type, well presto change it. Want to play a G7th or Em7b5 for 30 minutes, just loop it. The Latin stuff is wild, can even jam with that Bossa Nova song, "Girl From In Between Me." So guys dig into the wallet, it's CHRISTMAS time and G.BUSH Sr.& JR. are in. (Like I've said, I voted for two Bushs down here in Broward County, Florida, hey they counted my card with two holes for prezes, Sr & Jr.) One more thing about the JS-5, I'm free from all those out of pitch cassette tapes, yo!!! what an idea I just discovered, I now can make my own cassette tracks of songs, cha-cha.................. KEN "THE STEELING POLICEMAN" |
Al Marcus
Member From: Cedar Springs,MI USA
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posted 29 November 2000 07:06 PM
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Sounds very interesting......al |
Gene Jones
Member From: Oklahoma City, OK USA
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posted 01 December 2000 04:55 AM
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Encouraging info on the Jam-Station....I have looked but been afraid to buy after my experience with the Boss DR-5 being too complicated for this ole country boy to use. I may just start "hinting" for Santa to bring one!(By the way my unused DR-5 is still in the box for anyone who thinks they can figure out how to use it.) | |
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