edlib Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 It's cool that you are good at that sort of stuff! I wish I was. On a somewhat similar note: I just spent the last couple of days at work moving all of our P.A. rack gear (processing and power amps) around in our stage racks to make room for the main computer processor "brain" and input/ output modules of our new digital mixer. Once everything was moved and re-wired, we put the new rack gear in. Gettin' psyched about it! It will still be a couple of weeks before we will have the downtime to take our current mixer offline and get the new one up and running. We are still waiting on our new analog splitter snake anyway. We just ordered it, and it will take 5 weeks to build and ship. Also: The s-video cables didn't work. I'm glad now I didn't spend a bundle of money on them though! Here was the plan: to take s-video outs of my various gear and run them through the video ins on my receiver and switch inputs with that remote since my TV only has one aux-in, and I had to manually unplug the cable box video and plug in the DVD video whenever I wanted to watch a DVD. But the s-vid inputs on the receiver only output to the s-vid output, not the composite (RCA) jack, and my TV has no s-vid in. Bummer. Oh well... I took the oppertunity to re-wire the whole rack in a way that makes more sense, and free up a couple of cables in the process, and I used the high-quality vodeo cable I bought a few days ago on the cable output and the image cleared up somewhat. I guess it will have to do until I can afford a better TV with modern inputs... but by them I hope eveything will be hooked up component or DVI anyway, and s-video will be a forgotten standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Well, my tubes finally decided they'd had enough... The amp was popping like a fireworks show all night (mild exaggeration), and I finally gave up when I had to turn the gain up to 8 on my 85 watt amp just to hear myself over the 35 watt bass amp with it's gain at 1... So I ordered a quad of those reproduction 6L6GE tubes Groove Tubes is making on the old General Electric machines... Can't wait to see how they sound compared to the russian re-badged "Groove Tubes" I've got in there now, partly because I wanna see how they sound, and partly because I don't think I can stand another night playing through a bass amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 I've been trying to resist... but I've got the feeling it's getting time for a new guitar. I've been wanting a really good vintage re-issue Strat for a long while now, but I haven't been willing to pay the Custom Shop prices to get one. Now they have come out with the Eric Johnson model Strat, which has been getting rave reviews (basically saying it's like getting a top-o'-the-line Custom Shop vintage reissue for a production-model price.) Damn. Now it sounds like I'm going to have to go and get one. They had to go and do that, didn't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Would you believe I've *never* played a Strat? Not even one of the el-cheapo Mexican Squire ones... How sad is that? I'd kill for one of the Albert Collins Telecasters, though... But at $4000, that's either an "if I ever win the lottery" dream or an "I bought this instead of a car" story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 hi. this place isnt too bad. i need to get a place in 2 weeks cause the people i'm staying with are moving...and the land lady won't allow us to rent from her due to the fact we have 2 cats. *yawn* photo lab isnt too bad, its just the stupid old people and the stupid whiny kids and the stupid angry moms. meh. and the biweekly pay. and 6.90 an hour. im trying to keep a good attitude about it, but the peopel i'm living w/, well at least the lady...she's paranoia to the extreme, she thinks the worst of everything it makes me want to stage a home invasion at 3 am. she's afraid of snakes so my sister's gonna get one at the dollar store and put it under her pillow before we leave for payback for something she did to her a while ago. XD umm...anyways...i'm like right next to new jersey AND new york. honesdale, pa. XD umm......hope and prayers are appreciated as we look for a place. R15 out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Originally posted by Nitro Would you believe I've *never* played a Strat? Not even one of the el-cheapo Mexican Squire ones... How sad is that? I'd kill for one of the Albert Collins Telecasters, though... But at $4000, that's either an "if I ever win the lottery" dream or an "I bought this instead of a car" story. I was a Gibson-only guy for almost 10 years before I broke down and got a used, cheapo, Japanese Strat (I forget how much, but I remember paying more for the nylon gig-bag than the guitar) to take back and forth with me to music school. I figured: If it gets dinged-up, so what? If it gets stolen, so what? If the neck breaks from a fall or it gets caught in the door of the subway, so what? Weird thing is: I now play that guitar more than all my others. Problem is: with all the humbuckers (one regular, 2 stacked) it doesn't sound very "Stratty" Plus the half-assed mid '80s "we don't want to pay Floyd Rose a licencing fee" locking whammy system is an abomination. Still, I like the feel. But I don't really want a modern Strat. To me, Fender perfected the Strat in the 1954 to '57 period, and practically everything else since then has been changes for change sake, not really improvements. But I can't afford a $5-grand-(when-you-can-find-one) '54 or '57 custom shop reissue either, and the production line ones don't really rate. So that's why I started getting excited when I started reading about this model. Now, if I could only find a production line '59 Les Paul Standard that plays and sounds just like the originals for about a grand, life would be sweet. Oh.. and welcome back R-15. The thread has gotten even more sparse without you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 w007! we found a place that accepts cats! the lady said she won't show the house to anyone else when we give her a down payment. we can move in august 1. so i can't wait. getting sick of feeling like i'm stepping on other peoples toes where i live right now. augh. new system of a down cd is pretty cool. XD o and there are bob cats around here!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 I bought a Big Muff and a bass flanger on eBay last week, and they got here today... The bass flanger gives a real interesting sound when you set it up at a mid-speed flange in front of a guitar flange set to a super-slow flange, and holy hell is that Big Muff ever nice. It's only run through my computer since my amp's out of commission 'till the tubes get here, but it still sounds hot... Can't wait to get it into the amp, 'cause as nice as my computer's sound system is, it's just not the same as a good overdriven tube amp. Hey, is it just me, or has this thread sort of decended into some kind of Regis & Kelly-esque alternate-reality "Live! with Nitro & Ed!" musical talk show... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 I don't have a problem with that. Just please tell me I'm not Kelly... I used to have a couple of original, vintage Electro Harmonix Small Stone phase-shifters... they were the bomb! Especially when you ran them together, one into the other, one slow, one fast. Trippy stuff. I sold one to get money for a wah, and let a buddy borrow the other and never got it back... oh well... I still have a bunch of his stuff too, although he always got the better of the deal. Right now I have an original Marshall "Gov'ner" distortion pedal, 2 Tube Screamers, an ancient Boss analog chorus pedal, 2 Cry Baby wahs, 2 volume pedals, a Digitech rackmount 8-second delay, an Ibanez rack 2-second delay, a Lexicon MPX-100 reverb, and a Lexicon Vortex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 No, you're definatly Regis, the loudmouth old fart, and I'm Kelly, the loudmouth young pup. I'd *love* to have one of those vintage Small Stones, but I dropped all my cash into an amp that'd last me a while, so I got most of my effects stuff on the cheap... Mostly used DOD stompboxes. I've got an FX-50B overdrive that I started with, an 80's vintage overdrive preamp/250 that I got 'cause it was a much nicer sound then the FX-50B (the 50B always sounded more like a muddied distortion pedal then a good preamp)... Then there's the distorton that only gets used when I'm having a punk moment, I've got the two flangers, a phaser, and a compressor/sustainer that I only paid $5 for and I'm completely in love with... Does an amazing job of smoothing out that distortion pedal, without killing it off like some of the other compressors I've used. I've also got a Boss CE-5 chorus, a Crybaby that looks like it got dragged through a swamp in 'Nam, but still sounds great, and an Ibanez autowah I've only used once, didn't really like, and should probably sell... If that Rangemaster clone I'm building works well, I might try my hand at a clone of the Tychobrahe Octavia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 Well, I'm still here. Just not much to say at the moment. Um...I was having some trouble hearing, so went to the ear doctor on Wednesday and got all the wax flushed out of my ears. Cleared that all up. ...now you wish I hadn't said anything, don't you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 Keyan gets to be Gelman (the little producer guy), then... Now before you all ask how I know so much about Regis & Kelly, my bus gets me to work about an hour early, and despite having satellite tv running into the building, it's left on a local channel that shows, you guessed it, Regis & Kelly during that hour I have to kill before my shift actually starts. Oh, that earwax thing reminded me of another use for that distortion pedal... It rattles my earwax loose. EDIT (16/07/05): I finished Mostly Harmless today... Not only is it a little depressing, it's even more depressing that there's no more of it to read... Definatly not what I expected, then again, neither was the rest of the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 Yeah, that one kinda bummed me out too. Although there were many laugh-out-loud moments. Be sure to read his Dirk Gently books as well, though... the first ones a bit tough to get through, but the 2nd one ("The Long, Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul") is my favorite thing he ever wrote. The half finished third story that made it into his posthumous collection "The Salmon Of Doubt" promised to be really great too, and I can only imagine what it might have been like had he lived. He also had a non-fiction book called "Last Chance To See" about his going around and looking for species on the brink of extinction that is really well done and also,.. well,.. funny (although you might not think so, it is, at least in parts.) I recommend it as well. Just watched "Kill Bill: Vol 1" Pretty wild. I Tivo'ed it off one of the movie channels I get. Now I have to watch out for Vol. 2. Went shopping today; bought underwear and socks. Exciting stuff At K-Mart of all places ("K-Mart sucks!") At least it wasn't Wal-Mart... Found a CD I have been looking for FOR YEARS!!! Danny Gatton's 'Unfinished Business' I have all of his major label releases, but I've never seen this one ANYWHERE before today. Cool stuff! Damn that guy could play. I saw him 2 (or was it 3) times, and he was totally amazing. You ever listen to him Nitro? If not you should check him out. I know you mentioned getting a Telecaster (an Albert Collins model, was it?); Danny did things with a Tele I never imagined could be done. Came this close to picking up the new Harry Potter book. The only thing that stopped me is that all the other books of the series I have in paperback... I guess I can wait. Either that, or I'd have to replace all the others with hardcover. I can't have a mixed series of books, now can I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 I've been trying to ask a girl out for a week and a half and every time I go to, someone/something interferes and there's no way I'm doing that with an audience. Plus I'm almost certain she's not single anyhow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 Love Danny Gatton... That man knows his way around a Telecaster. Wish I had more of his stuff, though... The only albums I own are Portraits and Unfinished Business. I actually used "Fingers On Fire" as the background music to compilation video of a bunch of friends and I launching ourselves down a hill and off a cliff on innertubes in the middle of last winter... I was originally gonna use the Benny Hill theme, but Gatton rolled around on my playlist just in time. And Nute, you should do what the rest of us do... Blues guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 She's a fabulous girl. And is a crew chief on a KC-135. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildstar Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 I attended a friend's 40th birthday party last night. I saw someone that I hadn't seen since junior high school there. It turns out he became a dentist, so he's doing really well. His office is in a neighboring town, so my first thought was to take my business to him, but the local buses don't really service this town, so I'll have to stick w/ my current dentist, whose office is in the local mall and does have bus service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Originally posted by Nute Gunray She's a fabulous girl. And is a crew chief on a KC-135. I think I just drooled a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Uh oh, Nute - you better make your move fast... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Or start writing the "KC-135 Crew Chief Blues"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Perhaps you could make some clever little double entendre using in-flight refueling terminology, like "Hey, could you show me the correct way to get my probe into your drogue?" or something... That'll win her over for sure! Or she'll kill you. Either way, you won't have to worry about it any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I still think the Apollo astronauts had the best one... Think Kevin Bacon at the start of Apollo 13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Originally posted by Keyan Farlander Uh oh, Nute - you better make your move fast... I've been trying for two weeks almost I'm too big a sissy for this. She's in the middle of an eight year hitch with the USAFR. She wants to become an officer and be a pilot. I guess they changed the vision requirements a little because she wears contacts, but that's not going to rule her out. She took the test once and qualified for "low and slow" which she does not want. You only get two chances to take the test. I figure she'll wind up not being a fighter/attack pilot and get something low and slow. She loves the C-17, but doesn't want to fly one I guess?? Her wing, which actually is a C-130 wing but I guess has some KC-135s, is on the chopping block right now, but it'll probably survive like it does every time they try to close it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 She wants to be a pilot!? *drools a little more while firing up google maps for directions to PA* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Wants to be an Air Force pilot. She's already a pilot in the sense that she has her license. Her job while at school is refueling planes at the local airport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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