Recent content by Eric Lester

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    IYKYK

    You got my attention because I used to live near those two rivers. Beyond that, well ...
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    Whoo whoo whoo... Got to choose... Between basses.

    This makes me feel better about my Harley Benton.
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    Reasons for cancelling Band Practice.

    Back when I was a supervisor (shudder) I used this technique on an employee who called in and said that he couldn't come to work because of car troube. "I'll be there in 20 minutes." Ha.
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    How do YOU use YT on a phone?

    My band mates are constantly sharing YT videos of things they want to comment on, or play, or just show off, and most often this is done via text message. So, if I don't want to watch the video on my phone, which I don't, I have to copy the URL and email it to myself so I can watch it on a...
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    Questions about long lasting strings

    So, uh, you guys change your strings?
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    I’m 70 years old. Is it time to let contentment take the place of ambition?

    FWIW: I am 70 and have been playing for 6 years this month. Everybody I play with is better than me.
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    Help.... Newbie wanting to learn BG

    I don't think that this site has been mentioned here, sorry if I missed it: studybass.com. I like the presentation, and it's loaded with resources, and I've never paid for anything there. What I did, which might go under the heading of "what not to do," but I'm happy: 8 years ago I went to a...
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    UMC22 levels seem low

    I'm seeing between -36 and -30
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    UMC22 levels seem low

    I have a Behringer UMC22 interface running into an HP Desktop with Mint Linux 20.?, using either Audacity or Ardour DAW. I have tried a dynamic mic into the mic input, two electric guitars and a bass into the instrument input. In every instance, the input levels are extremely low. The "sig"...
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    Done With Cheap Pedal Board Power Supply's!

    [...For me, I ultimately settled on the MXR ISO-brick. Its wall wart is flimsy, but you can replace that, and AFAIU apart from that this unit checks all of the boxes, with a really neat compact design I know that your post is about 2-1/2 years old, but perhaps you might tell me with what wall...
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    Why do people call it a "DI" if it's an output?

    Thank you I have worried for decades that I was the only person who knew this, hence a certain feeling that perhaps this is an alternate universe and something happened.
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    Why do people call it a "DI" if it's an output?

    Thank you, I was just going to bring that up...
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    Why do people call it a "DI" if it's an output?

    I have a USB interface with a "direct monitor" button and I can never remember which way is which--further compounded by the fact that it's a push-button, small and black, and hard to see whether it's "in" or "out." The madness of output-input will never die. Nor input-output. In computers it's...