Recent content by hbarcat

For bass, I rarely use a mic (DI only), but on the occasions when I do add in a mic I almost always reach for my AKG D-112. The reason is simple. It's the mic I had when I first learned to record in the early 90s and I've been using it ever since. Now that I have so much experience with it...

Back in the mid 90s, I worked at a restaurant/pub and the owner asked me to take his Suburban to pick up a large order of alcohol from one of his suppliers 400 miles away. He agreed to compensate me well to make the two day round trip and let me take my wife with me. I picked up the 64 cases...

CHEVY SUBURBAN 7th Generation (1973 - 1991) The Chevrolet Suburban was introduced in 1934 and has been in continuous production to the present day, after 11 distinct model generations. It's the longest-produced automobile nameplate in the world. It began as one of the first metal-bodied...

I just retired a few months ago at age 58 due to chronic health issues. I toughed it out as long as I could, but I was constantly calling in sick days, and my productivity on the days I was there was falling off. My company tried very hard to accomodate me, but it just wasn't working out...

I really like this list. :bassist:

This is a thread I started a couple of years ago when my elderly parents moved and my dad had to get rid of his 8,000 volume SF library. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/finding-a-new-home-for-huge-sf-book-collection.1580346/

Well, I changed my mind and took the test. For the past two years, my daughter and her mom have been constantly pestering me to take the Ancestry.com test, which mom had already paid for and gave to me. I finally gave in just to shut them up (yes, I know that's a dangerous precedent to set)...

Boo!

My granddaughter on a rainy afternoon:

When I was a naive 21 year old, I worked as a sales clerk in a camera store, and my supervisor was a middle aged man who addressed me with various informal monikers, like "dude" or "cowboy" or "slick" or "stud", which I thought was kind of strange. One day, he offered to treat me to lunch...

Just don't call me "bro". I'm not your chill homie that you get stoned with. On the rare ocassion when some young kid (it's always someone under age 25) addresses me that way, I say to them, "I'm not your bro. Don't call me that".

I first noticed this around 2010 or so from clerks in convenience stores and liquor stores run by Indian families. In the years since, it seems to have spread to other types of businesses. I always take it as an informal or friendly, yet respectful, greeting and take no offense, although if...

I admit to being that person who always wants to keep things that are potentially useful, even if I'm no longer using them. In the past several years, I've forced myself to get rid of an enormous amount of clutter, selling what can be sold, and throwing away that which really has no value...

How do cars even work? What does an engine do? How does all that affect my drive to work? I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but your questions are incredibly complicated. Knowing the answers requires a significant investment in time and effort, which cannot possibly be achieved by reading a...

Ford has entered the arena, offering a bare bones, compact EV pickup truck for under $30k, called the Fathom. https://www.caranddriver.com/ford/fathom It will have significantly more standard features than the Slate, such as a sound and navigation system, power windows, and paint.