Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[beans-on-toast]

Saturday Reprise.

A couple of weeks ago I highlighted some songs recorded in a recreated 50's style studio, Sugar Ray's Vintage Recording Studio (Sugar Ray's Vintage Recording Studio). This is how songs were recorded in mono at SUN Studios.

You know how recordings go, this is how they come. In this video, they talk about the studio gear and the recording process starting with a single mic and then moving to multiple mics and how it changed things. Drummers and upright bass players had to play differently than they do today.

A very instructive video.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Strling by Music Man is nothing like a Made in SLO Music Man. Return the former and get the latter.

I remember playing a MIA MM at the now defunct downtown Guitar Center in red sunburst. The tone was so full, growly, and most of all easily controlled and modified with the three tone controls and coil splitter. This made in Asia Sterling has only two tone controls and no coil splitter. The build quality is excellent for the cost ($329) and another Sterling owner put a different V/B/M/T pre in their bass and claims it now sounds excellent, but I don't see the point of jerking the price up to nearly $600 with a new pre. It kind of defeats the definition of an 'economy bass.'

 

[GwenOnBass]

and in Saturday summary

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[beans-on-toast]

For those that live in cold areas, don’t slip on the ice when springing ahead.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I hate daylight savings time.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I hate daylight savings time.

I wish that they would leave it all year. The concept has run it’s course. I hate the change.

 

[rushfanforlife]

I hate daylight savings time.

I've never met, nor heard from anyone who likes it. I suspect some all powerful bureaucrat in an office in Washington has decided it must be done.

 

[Bobhmcs]

I've never met, nor heard from anyone who likes it. I suspect some all powerful bureaucrat in an office in Washington has decided it must be done.

I believe that Lyndon Johnson instituted daylight savings time. So I believe you are correct sir.
;[)
Bob

 

[GwenOnBass]

Fair wager there's daylight savings time because someone's making money on it.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Fair wager there's daylight savings time because someone's making money on it.

It is well established that if it is light out, people will shop. Over a hundred years ago regional chambers of commerce pushed to have it so that it stays lighter later. Blame big business.

LBJ signed the Uniform Time Act in 1966. It established some regulations and fixed when the clocks should change. States can opt out of the time change if they pass a law.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I remember playing a MIA MM at the now defunct downtown Guitar Center in red sunburst. The tone was so full, growly, and most of all easily controlled and modified with the three tone controls and coil splitter. This made in Asia Sterling has only two tone controls and no coil splitter. The build quality is excellent for the cost ($329) and another Sterling owner put a different V/B/M/T pre in their bass and claims it now sounds excellent, but I don't see the point of jerking the price up to nearly $600 with a new pre. It kind of defeats the definition of an 'economy bass.'

You must have played a Music Man Sterling (as opposed to a Sterling by Musicman - confusing?) with that switch. A 3-band Stingray does not have the coil splitting selector swith.

I hate daylight savings time.

I wish that they would leave it all year. The concept has run it’s course. I hate the change.

I've never met, nor heard from anyone who likes it. I suspect some all powerful bureaucrat in an office in Washington has decided it must be done.

Ohio bill aims to make Daylight Saving time permanent

 

[ahc]

Set the time 1/2 hour in between and leave it there!!!

 

[beans-on-toast]

Set the time 1/2 hour in between and leave it there!!!

I know someone who is always late. They set their clocks 15 minutes ahead in a attempt to break even. They know that their clocks are set ahead so they remain, always late.

 

[the harp unstrung]

 

[GwenOnBass]

The unfortunate skill I'm cursed with is waking up minutes before my alarm.

The very alarm clock I called mine was a "digital" abomination with a cassette player and radio. It was a "gift" (I suppose). Very seldom ever late for work. Very often early to work and late to home

Now in the very curious turn of events of the last two days, setting up my desktop computer for the very first time in a couple years. Setting, as in not set up, because my monitor is an overseas shipment and likely three weeks from arrival. And is a very nice computer that I spec'd and built myself with a SSD boot drive and 6T of storage.

In the course of the change "discovered" two items I'd forgotten about. One is an instrument cable with a USB plug on one end. Might be able to use to record? Have video, have mike. Actually seems a great deal simpler to point the camera and let the mike pick up [whatever], just recording for my own ends.

The other interesting ITAM in the stash (wait, there's more) is an instrument cable that has got to be pushing 40. It appears to be a no-name I bought in Hollywood. Feels to me not so very supple any more. Feels to me probably best not used, but you know, it could be and it would probably be all right. But I've got two plain Jane Fender (brand) 10 foot straight cables, they work fine.

Another goodie from the stash is a coaster that was made to appear a 3.5 inch floppy disc with my former employer's logo. And the very telephone number I used to dial from the field.

Companies once put their people "in the field". Then we became "resources" on a spreadsheet in accounting.

 

[spiritbass]

I know someone who is always late. They set their clocks 15 minutes ahead in a attempt to break even. They know that their clocks are set ahead so they remain, always late.

I grew up with an older sister and three younger brothers and we had a reputation for showing up late, so when we were invited to an event, our parents were told that it was beginning an hour before the actual time.

 

[GwenOnBass]

AFIK everyone I know agrees it's déclassé to show up on time for social events. There is a narrow window of "on time" before "annoyingly late again".

 

[alaskaleftybass]

AFIK everyone I know agrees it's déclassé to show up on time for social events. There is a narrow window of "on time" before "annoyingly late again".

As you all know, I'm Alaska Native. We have what we call "Indian Time." It ranges from 15-30 minutes late depending on the importance of event. If it's a non Native event, we try to be on time. Unusual for me is that I leave no later than 7:35am every morning and end up being at work around 7:50 after a McD's stop for a sangwich. I used to be late all the time when I was young but the Army broke me of that. Now that I'm older I'm involved with Native events and I can relax back into "Indian Time." But I feel uncomfortable doing it.

 

[the harp unstrung]

I spent 18 years on the air...responsible for every second of every hour. I’m very good at reading a clock.

I’m on time.
...not Lombardi time...not late.

It’s a Thing with me.

 

[GwenOnBass]

My taste buds are 30 years old.
My GI is 64 years old.

Meeting of minds

1o: Yuk.
20: I made seconds.
30: "This is the best meal I ever cooked!"
40: pour a disgestif
64: Let's see how that works out in the morning.


tonight's entree: shrimp and grits.
Let's see how that works out in the morning.