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Sampling onstage?

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You may need to check that the samples you are using are legal..
If you snag it off a song, or segment as a sample.. you might be violating copyright laws ??
 
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s0c9 said:
You may need to check that the samples you are using are legal..
If you snag it off a song, or segment as a sample.. you might be violating copyright laws ??
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It is up to the venue to pay the proper fees, I wouldn't stress this for a second. Recording them on your album, however, is a very different discussion.

I know it is too late now but I used to run my samples through my BOSS RC-20XL, I sent it right to the P.A.
 
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DiabolusInMusic said:
It is up to the venue to pay the proper fees, I wouldn't stress this for a second
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I'm not sure that's accurate for the US market. If you are a cover band playing at a venue, then yes. .it's up to the venue. When you play "sampled" segments of copyrighted music in public, IIRC, that falls outside the "public performance" license from ASCAP/BMI and into the mechanical license area.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do remember this being an issue when we tried to do this and I researched it.
It's NOT the same as using 3rd party tracks with the band which may contain the identical thing, but not "sampled" from the original.
 
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el murdoque said:
Good choice. I know quite a few musicians that use the JamMan as sampler on stage.
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Thanks, all I have to do now is figure out how to use this thing. I am not an electronics geek and the manual doesn't have pictures. Funny, I can memorize 500 years of Russian Tsar's and the decolonization of Africa, but can't figure out how to use a simple recording device.
 
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el murdoque said:
when I remember right ( I sold my JamMan a couple of yeas ago) you simply have to take the wanted samples
and store them on the flashcard. They have to have the right audio format and the right name for the unit to recognize them.
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Have a snow day today, but so does my boy. He will not give me a minute to work on it today. Will have to wait until he goes to sleep tonight. This is why I get 5 hours of sleep a night.
 
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s0c9 said:
I'm not sure that's accurate for the US market. If you are a cover band playing at a venue, then yes. .it's up to the venue. When you play "sampled" segments of copyrighted music in public, IIRC, that falls outside the "public performance" license from ASCAP/BMI and into the mechanical license area.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do remember this being an issue when we tried to do this and I researched it.
It's NOT the same as using 3rd party tracks with the band which may contain the identical thing, but not "sampled" from the original.
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Venues pay for having music playing in the establishment even if it isn't a band. A shoe store is supposed to pay for playing the radio. I would expect a sample to get covered under the same license but you may be right, I am also not a lawyer.
 
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Ulf_Hansson said:
Are you happy with it? It seems like great bang for the bucks, but when trying it out I couldn't get the sensitivity/dynamics to feel natural. I probably couldn't understand the settings...
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I don't actually operate it, but I created most of the samples we use. The sensitivity is adjustable on each pad, and the drummer spent some time tweaking it. But he's pleased with it from the operational standpoint, and the audio quality is good as well.
 

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