Rogue15 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 I joined the dark side... wrote a statement about the person we caught stealing. just explained that i thought the person was very suspicious when i got back from my lunch, and i saw her holding something like she was hiding it, and i talked to another coworker who witnessed her stealing. it's kinda strange doing that, I did something similar before, it wasn't a written statement, it was verbal (at the jay group when someone stole a box of listerine product from the warehouse on the last day of working there) statement and that i didn't really know the guy too well. This time it's different because they actually weren't going to do anything until my department manager went to the store manager and threatened to quit if nothing was going to be done about it. i just hate feeling like a rat. =\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 thats not being a rat dude. stelaing is NOT OK, letting people get away with that raises prices for those that actually pay for stuff lmao @ ed, that pic is SO TRUE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Thought you'd like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 i'm approved for overtime, so im thrilled about that, more money to spend on car/truck. i saw a ford ranger for $1200 the sign said it runs well, i want it...it's a nice construction-worker yellow and has a cool light on the top. i'm going turkey hunting tomorrow morning. somehow i managed to get a shotgun. yeeeeeeeeee-haaaaaawwww. if i don't get a bird, i'll take a few pictures anyways. got all my laundry gathered gonna get that done as well. then i'll bring the truck home. going bowling on friday night. that gonna be fun. going w/the same people as before too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Show was pretty easy. Low pressure. Low maintenance. Low volume. Just what I needed. Going home. The was a Sox home game tonight... so commute is gonna suck hard. Working the show tomorrow night too. Hope that's an easy one as well. It really seems like it should be, anyways... Supposed to be at a morning meeting tomorrow. Heh. Yeah... that ain't gonna happen. R.T.: I'm a highway star! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 went out in woods at around 5am, it was raining...thought it would warm up after 7, it did not, i saw a few deer but that was about it. temperature kept dropping and the wind picked up so i came back in the house to do my laundry. (posting from parents' house) think i'll work on the fridge and cupboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 nice! weather is beautiful here now. but I'm too worn out today to ride my bike. tonight, I finish modding my Nerf CS-6 Longshot I removed the air restrictor lasxt night and hope to get some new springs today. should be able to leave welts soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 a combat ready nerf gun? gotta see this on youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I'm sure there are vids already, I have been reading nerfhq.com this past week for info. accuracy is a problem still I hear, it needs a barrel swap so you can get different darts, an endeavor I will try only if this round of upgrades is sucessful but ill see what I can do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 edlib - regarding live sound, how is it that each band member can get his own mix through his monitors? Are those big main boards controlling all of those mixes, or do these require other equipment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Most nights I mix monitors from front-of-house. I have 48 aux outputs on my board, so it's no big deal. The first 12 are set up for reverb and effects sends. The next are set up for 12 separate monitor mixes. This is usually 10 wedge mixes, and a pair of stereo sidefills. Each aux mix is attached to an amplifier that can drive 2 of our un-powered monitor speakers. On some of the bigger, more high profile concerts, and for most of the outside rentals, we drag out a separate monitor console, and split each mic signal to go to each board separately. The monitor board we have at the moment is only 40 input channels and 12 outputs anyway, so it's actually a bit of a step down to do it this way,.. but it does give slightly more control for onstage. And a lot less that I have to think about out front, so I can concentrate all my energy on what the audience is hearing. We do want to upgrade the monitor console ASAP to match the big-ass digital board we have out front. To give us more inputs and outputs. Ditch some of the racks out outboard gear we need. But budgets are still a problem. Maybe next year... One of the new trends is giving each band member a little personal mixer and just sending them a bunch of sub-mixes of the important signals and letting them mix themselves. This works better with in-ear monitor systems... but I have seen it with stage wedges too. This is even more involved, and requires even more technology and gear on stage... but can be an important psychological tool for getting the musicians comfortable on stage and feeling like they are in control. Does that answer what you were asking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 well my dad said he stopped at the parking lot to look at that one truck i'm interested and said the guy that's selling it was there, said he test drove it and it runs alright, it's a automatic transmission, so that's a plus. The guy said he'd hold it for me for $100, but i don't have his # (left it in my sister's car....) when i go to get my check tomorrow morning im gonna see if the truck is still there and if it is, gonna get the # and call the guy and ask him if he'll take payments (the truck is $1200) and lower the price to $1000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 A super powered nerf gun.... dude, how do you do it? Because i want one. Work the past few days was ok, still banging my head against my store manager because he's very restrictive on the stuff i can and cannot know how to do. Like Month End inventory and p/l calculation stuff. Highly annoying. but i digress. More random folks are trying to add me to the myspace. It's wierd. Random Thought: Cheese doodles. who the heck thought up such a brilliant and tastey snack?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 not going so well, it jams ALOT. and its not firing that hard. maybe its ruined, maybe not....I have final to do I'll mess with it more later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 well i called the guy about the yellow truck and he said to give him a call tomorrow morning and he'll go out and start it up and go from there. hopefully he's cool i like just called him, hope i didnt wake him up or nothing, my parents wouldnt get off my back about calling him if i didn't call him....o well! Tomorrow is also payday! hopefully i'll get a good paycheck!!! Hopefully a truck will do better for me than a car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Classical orchestra concert. Easy. Almost no mics (just the announcers and the hanging mics getting fed to tape.) There was supposed to be a video roll,.. but that got nixed due to copyright law stuff. Oh well... made my night easier. I felt bad for the girl composer, however: The music didn't make much sense without seeing the video. We got some new, fancy DI boxes today. Was disappointed there wasn't anything for me to use them on tonight. Random Thought: HEY!!! Cracken is stealing my bit! Though he does have a point about the cheese doodles bein' awfully tasty. Gotta give him that... Oh, and I get 5 to 10 random people adds a day now. I ignore all the super-hot girls who want me to click to see their "sexy" pix... or all the guys wanting to help me "dream" again. If it looks like a legitimate, established band, I usually accept it though. Or if someone actually messages me as to who they are and why they want me to add them. Otherwise: DENY! Feels good sometimes... I must admit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Does that answer what you were asking? Sort of. I don't really see how you can get different mixes on different outputs if you only have one fader per channel/input/thingy. How does it physically work? Does it store the other values in a computer memory or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Well, the digital board does, yeah. But on an analog board you just usually just have the one big fader that feeds the stereo (house) mix... and then a whole buncha little knobs above it. So on mix 1, which is let's say the drum monitor mix, if he needs bass, you go over to the the bass channel, go up to the aux 1 knob, and turn the knob until he says "OK". On the digital board I can build each mix seperately using faders (you hit a button, and the faders jump from being what feeds the house mix, to what feeds aux 1) although I usually don't. I still send monitor aux sends using the knob controllers most of the time, since that is what I'm most used to. Big ass analog board with a ****load of aux send knobs. The model board I work on everyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Ah, I see now, thanks. Cool-looking stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 I'm so used to the digital way of thinking now (after 3 years of spending all day every day on ours...) that seeing all the knobs lined up like that on the analog desks make me a bit dizzy... Which if funny, since it's the exact opposite of the reaction most live sound guys have when faced with digital. But the interface is so much cleaner. They got rid of the dozens of redundant knobs. I couldn't find any good pics of our current monitor desk (it's long out of production...) but here's our plan for eventual replacement: And,.. just for good measure: Midas' very scary entry into the world of digital live mixers: Of course... we could easily buy 3 complete systems of our model board (no slouch in the budget department, itself...) for the cost of that one... but... oof! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 reduce size of pics! just kidding. I am getting that 1994 Ford Ranger. I just put $150 down on it, and gonna gather $1000+ (the plus for the title transfer) he's also got a few other trucks up for sale...very nice guy. and im so happy that i'll be getting a truck! yay! I'll have to go take some pictures of it. now i just gotta get a thing put together for my plymouth acclaim and sell that for $100-$200! so far so good a day. now i just gotta get a hold of my parents so they know what's up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 hope the truck works out for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 I dreamt about getting a Ford truck last night. A Ranger, too, I think... Strange... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 You've got a lot of Yamaha logos in your pictures. Is that a Yamaha Motif synthesizer in the picture with the Asian guy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Probably. I just pulled these off the net. Google image search to the rescue. I don't know what the sites these were taken from were about. Most of them were in some language I can't read. Might be a Yamaha promo site. I'll bring a camera in some day and capture a couple of images our rig for you. Maybe this weekend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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