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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Very different ears. I suppose that they don’t want them sticking up in the marsh.
I used to have a pet rabbit. He was a lot like a cat. The grocery store used to give me vegtables that they would have otherwise thrown out.
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Nice. My wife recently bought a squirrel proof feeder and the squirrels capitulated surprisingly quickly. They seem perfectly content to hoover crumbs from underneath, joining the quail in the Red-tailed Hawks Need To Eat Too lottery.
The only feeders I've found to be really squirrel-proof are made by Brome, called Squirrel Buster. They're stupid expensive, but in seven years those rodents* haven't been able to get into them. I've got parallel grooves in the top shield where they've tried to bite into it, they did bite off the threads (nylon) at the very bottom, but the only way they ever got seed was to climb the tree and launch themselves at it to kick it and make a little bit spill out. They finally gave up and satisfied themselves with the leavings on the ground underneath. Those feeders are warranted for life, and I've had a couple of squirrel- and deer-damaged pieces replaced at the local bird food store, all for free.
* Squirrels = fluffy-tailed rats with good PR
Chipmunks = striped rats with good PR
Deer = hooved rats with good PR
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My all time favorite chipmunk encounter: stop off at very popular viewpoint park in Bend OR up on a little lava dome. RV pulls up next to us, side door opens, occupants start a not quite al fresco munch down. The wife steps down and as her foot hits the ground a Townsend's Chipmunk times his charge perfectly, right up her leg, onto the table in the RV, and straight into the bag of Cheetos. Fearless, flawless execution, a 10 for artistic expression from even the Russian judge. The crowd goes wild, finis.
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So when someone says an 855 cubic inch powerplant in those days my assumption is Cummins and I'm going to guess Big Cam. Since it was a Freightliner I'm going to assume 13 speed, but the 9 and 10 were avaiable IIRC.
I had a Honda 100 moped in High School. In Wrangell I couldn't speed past 45 on it. I think it had one or two spark plugs...
As I said in the 60's bassist post, we take a moment of silence to honor our brothers and sisters in arms that made the Ultimate Sacrifice to defend our freedoms as Americans.
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Remember and honor.
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Remember and honor.
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Big Cam 290, later tuned up to ~325. Started life as a 10 speed, later switched to a 13. A guy I knew was retiring and parting out his truck. The shift was all on the knob-lo range, direct, o/d. Kinda cool.
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For those inclined to enter, they are giving away a Radial HDI.
- Oct 22, 2015
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Funny you should mention it as I'm presently nursing the hurt of a ProSonus Audiobox USB 96 that I'd no wish to either own or buy. Or use.
My primary recording requirement (I volunteered) is a biweekly cellphone video of my class commitments (Ari Cap, Music Theory for the Bass Player, now on unit 10 of 20 and if I had any they'd be busted). I stick an earbud with my tempo in my left ear for my click track, push the button an pray I play it clean in one take (I haven't yet).
What I believe I need to do (and don't really want to) is record something worthwhile to link on my Website. Studio Four came with the ProSonus (a program I've no real wish to learn). I've got amps with Line Out, a legal copy of iRealPro, a computer, a cellphone, cables .... apart from picking a head, well. What I'm sort of thinking is I can run any MP3 / backing track / whatever through my practice amp into headphones and run a line out from another amp or my DI to the recording stuff? That way I get the bass line only on record ... Do I want that?
Ideas?
My primary recording requirement (I volunteered) is a biweekly cellphone video of my class commitments (Ari Cap, Music Theory for the Bass Player, now on unit 10 of 20 and if I had any they'd be busted). I stick an earbud with my tempo in my left ear for my click track, push the button an pray I play it clean in one take (I haven't yet).
What I believe I need to do (and don't really want to) is record something worthwhile to link on my Website. Studio Four came with the ProSonus (a program I've no real wish to learn). I've got amps with Line Out, a legal copy of iRealPro, a computer, a cellphone, cables .... apart from picking a head, well. What I'm sort of thinking is I can run any MP3 / backing track / whatever through my practice amp into headphones and run a line out from another amp or my DI to the recording stuff? That way I get the bass line only on record ... Do I want that?
Ideas?
They have these isolation videos posted where members of a band are playing a song together, each in a different window. It looks good but the truth is it isn’t taking place in real time. Each person is sent a reference track, they record a video playing their part along with it, then email it back to someone who pieces it all together. They can’t all play from remote locations in real time is because of latency, a time delay. Maybe with super fast computers, the ultimate optical internet speed end-to-end, and lossless data compression, but that isn’t the real world.
Yes, you can plug into your amp, feed in an mp3, monitor with headphones, feed that into an interface box, into the computer and record.
I would load the MP3 into a track on the DAW, plug the bass and headphones into the interface, and record a new track. This allows you to apply any plugins such as a limiter or EQ either while recording or post recording. You want a limiter to avoid any horrid distortion. No amp needed, it could be a source of hum and hiss type noise. Saving a copy to link to on a web page is doable. Just like we do on talkbass in posts.
If you are feeding live out to a phone in real time, there will be a latency. If anyone at the other end says anything there will be more of a delay in getting back to you. Syncing could be a problem if the latency delays are too long.
They all say, “High-Definition Recording Made Easy” on the box. No easy about it! All this stuff comes with steep learning curve before you even play a note.
Yes, you can plug into your amp, feed in an mp3, monitor with headphones, feed that into an interface box, into the computer and record.
I would load the MP3 into a track on the DAW, plug the bass and headphones into the interface, and record a new track. This allows you to apply any plugins such as a limiter or EQ either while recording or post recording. You want a limiter to avoid any horrid distortion. No amp needed, it could be a source of hum and hiss type noise. Saving a copy to link to on a web page is doable. Just like we do on talkbass in posts.
If you are feeding live out to a phone in real time, there will be a latency. If anyone at the other end says anything there will be more of a delay in getting back to you. Syncing could be a problem if the latency delays are too long.
They all say, “High-Definition Recording Made Easy” on the box. No easy about it! All this stuff comes with steep learning curve before you even play a note.
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So self evident, how could I have not seen this earlier
1) Assemble Bass (A) with DAW (B) and insert backing tracks (C) with Sonic Screwdriver (not included)
2) ???
3) Profit!
1) Assemble Bass (A) with DAW (B) and insert backing tracks (C) with Sonic Screwdriver (not included)
2) ???
3) Profit!
Those with the means will hire a consultant to spend a couple of hours sorting it out. Much like a music teacher does for instruction, now you need a hardware/software geek as well. At least to get you going.
As most of you know, my #1 Bass is a THUNDERBIRD, which are known to be only useful for hard rock and metal. These 2 videos will prove that that's correct. Yeah, that's me on the left. South Florida Fair, 2008.
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How come the horn guys' sheet music is so low they have to bend over to read it? Or missing bifocals?
IDK. I just stand in the back and read offa my Manhasset.How come the horn guys' sheet music is so low they have to bend over to read it? Or missing bifocals?
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