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The Talkbass eJamming Club

#24
I'd like to encourage everyone to share any interesting eJamming stories if you have any. Interesting people you've met on eJamming, exceptionally great jams, strange jams whatever. :)

I had an amazing night last night. I went on right after I put my son to bed and immediately had a couple people join my open session. It turns out that my soundcard was not set up right even though it sounded fine to me. Somehow I had a negative feedback loop that was only evident to folks trying to jam with me. Well before I even knew what was happening, I had a couple of more experienced players along with the owner of the company all working to figure out what the problem was. Talk about service! The owner then had one of the support guys contact me to work the problem. Long story short, I ended up jamming and chatting with one of the players - robdelphia7 - great guy and we hit it off really great, playing and jamming for a couple hours. After that the support guy got back on and asked me how it was going and then long story short - he and I jammed for about an hour - just an incredible experience! He was awesome - very fluid and proficient guitarist - a la Satriani. All in all an awesome night of jamming. My hands are still sore, but it was completely worth it!

:bassist:


obg
 
#28
My user name is the same as my Talkbass user name:

Otter

This rocks! I live in a very rural area and was despairing over not being able to jam with other musicians. I live on three acres, the nearest neighbor is hundreds of feet or more away, and I have 30 by 30 empty heated workshop to practice in! Just nobody to play with, D'oh!

If it was more urban, I would have access to a music scene, but nowhere to play.

LOL
 
#30
Otter said:
My user name is the same as my Talkbass user name:

Otter

This rocks! I live in a very rural area and was despairing over not being able to jam with other musicians. I live on three acres, the nearest neighbor is hundreds of feet or more away, and I have 30 by 30 empty heated workshop to practice in! Just nobody to play with, D'oh!

If it was more urban, I would have access to a music scene, but nowhere to play.

LOL
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I'm not rural, but I don't have anyone around to jam with so I completely understand your frustration.

Welcome to the club! You're number 9. I look forward to jamming with you.

:)

obg
 
#31
It's crack......crack I tell you!!!
I spent all of my Saturday online jamming with keyboardists from Italy, drummers from England, guitarists from the Phillipines, and even a guitarist from the US.
Wow!! There are so many different styles of music.
What a great way to become affluent in all of these different styles.
 
#32
ElephantTalk said:
It's crack......crack I tell you!!!
I spent all of my Saturday online jamming with keyboardists from Italy, drummers from England, guitarists from the Phillipines, and even a guitarist from the US.
Wow!! There are so many different styles of music.
What a great way to become affluent in all of these different styles.
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Wow! You really had quite the weekend. I had a blast Saturday and Sunday and never made it outside the country. How was the latency/drop-out with the folks from way far away? What kinds of music did you encounter? Did you encounter any language barriers? What a fascinating experience you must have had! Congrats!

:hyper:

:bassist:


obg
 
#33
Generally, I'm getting ok results. I get some dropouts but overall, the latency is small/manageable.

One think I find is that I'm getting too self-conscious. I find myself NOT joining jams because frankly, I can't improvise my way out of a wet tissue bag.

OldBluesGuy said:
Wow! You really had quite the weekend. I had a blast Saturday and Sunday and never made it outside the country. How was the latency/drop-out with the folks from way far away? What kinds of music did you encounter? Did you encounter any language barriers? What a fascinating experience you must have had! Congrats!

:hyper:

:bassist:


obg
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#34
Generally, everyone's been pretty open to style changes. I was fortunate enough to land in mostly rock sessions. But there were a few different songs here and there.
Language wasn't too big of a deal.

There were a couple of drop outs, but starting a new session was easy enough. Just leave a seat open for folks to come back in.
 
#35
JPrinos said:
Generally, I'm getting ok results. I get some dropouts but overall, the latency is small/manageable.

One think I find is that I'm getting too self-conscious. I find myself NOT joining jams because frankly, I can't improvise my way out of a wet tissue bag.
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What's your ASIO buffer size? If you can support a sample rate of 128 you should see an improvement in performance overall. There may be some dropout if your playing partners are a great distance away I've heard. I've jammed with people on the west coast and I'm on the east and that went pretty well.

As far as being self-conscious, I'm with you there. So far everyone I've jammed with has been very supportive in every way and that's helped me tremendously. Judging by the posted profiles of most of the people I've encountered so far, most are beginners to intermediate in skill level so I think we're all in the same boat. Feel free to call on me whenever you see me on. I'll jam with you anytime!. :bassist:


:)

obg
 
#36
Last night I hopped onto eJamming after about a weeks absence.
I was Jamming with someone in the N.E. US with constant cut outs. It was very distracting. I tried to manually adjust my synch time which worked for small periods of time.

What have others been experiencing?
 
#38
JPrinos said:
Last night I hopped onto eJamming after about a weeks absence.
I was Jamming with someone in the N.E. US with constant cut outs. It was very distracting. I tried to manually adjust my synch time which worked for small periods of time.

What have others been experiencing?
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I'm in Connecticut and I've been jamming regularly with a guitar player in AZ and a drummer in CA and we've not had a dropout yet. Try working with EJASUPPORT02 - he's the guitar player in AZ and he's great at helping getting folks connected correctly.

A couple of things to try:

1. If you're on a wireless connection, switch to hard wired
2. If you have a wireless router switch off the wireless radio
3. If you have other people in the house connected to the internet at the same time you'll see some degradation as EJamming is bandwidth intensive - trying jamming when there's no other local internet traffic
4. Try connecting straight to your modem bypassing your router


obg
 
#39
WashburnBasser said:
I just tried it, and had all sorts of problems getting my port forwarded....
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I need to know more about how your router is set up. You need to have port forwarding set up with the Start port set to 26900 and the End port also set to 26900 with the Service Type set to TCP/UDP, and the port should be forwarded to the LAN IP for your workstation. Hope this helps. The next time you're on look for me and if I'm not on talk to one of the support folks or Thunderpup44 - he's the owner of the company. They're only to happy to help you get everything working right. :)

obg
 

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