Sorta related-and a gripe: women who wear a T-shirt with some kind of design/message and give me the rot-eye for looking/reading.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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That sort of music served a purpose. Film, TV, and radio were always looking for theme music and effects. Both EMI and the BBC, where Maddalena Fagandini worked both maintained sound libraries. It could turn into a good source of income.
There was a 1969 Star Trek episode, The Way To Eden, where some hippies took over the ship and sang songs. Studio musicians like Louie Shelton were normally paid a flat session rate when making a record for sale. If the recording was used in TV or a commercial, he is paid again every time it airs. In this case they needed something for the show, song was written on the spot and recorded. For the writer and musician, there’s a residual paid every time the show airs. To this day, every year a big cheque arrives, it’s like a pension.
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Loads of residual checks aren't worth cashing. As testament to this, a restaurant named Residuals opened in either Universal City or Studio City in the mid-80s. The "wallpaper" was an assortment of residual checks for sums paid in cents.
Some artists make a fraction of a cent on digital sales and streaming downloads. If you do well on a global scale, they add up.
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Can I order one online?
Holy[stuff]! How many 810 cabs would you need to handle it. You'd also need this to transport the whole rig.
Only 4 of the current production 8x10 or one 32x10
or about 10 of the originals. But you'll be the envy of all the bass players in your neighborhood! The electric company will love you, too.
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The vintage stereo saga continues. Turned it on and kept hearing the power amp tranny bucking and the turntable was barely turning. Moved it to another outlet and things were fine. Okay, bad outlet. Can't remember the last time it was used. Replaced the outlet and the same thing. Put a meter on it - 114v no load, 76v with a load. What the...? Everything else on that breaker is okay. This means a trip into the attic to find where the outlet hooks in. Must be a bad connection somewhere and that HAS to be fixed. This attic is no fun with multiple levels and trying not to put a foot through the ceiling.
On a related note - whoever wired up this place was on drugs. That one outlet in the sun room is on the same breaker as one wall in the living room, the dining room, foyer, front porch light, back porch lights. Half of one room and half of another are together. Geez. There are two switches where I have no idea what they control. The only thing I know is that when I flip them the neighbor comes over and says "Stop it. Every time you do that my kitchen lights go off and on."
Poked around in the attic. On the wall with the bad outlet are also two switches and another outlet on the patio. All of the wires run into the same hole in the wall header. There is something daisy chained to the bad outlet. Might be the feed to one of the switches. The patio outlet is on the GFCI circuit. I'll need to get a circuit tracer or pay an electrician a few hundred bucks.
More poking - the two switches and their outside lights are on that circuit. Turn on a light and the voltage drops.
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Ten SVT’s@300W each equals 3,000W. Or you can just use one big cab like JimmyM got to try.
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I can hear the electrician now...That’s going to be a B-I-G job.
Disconnect those lights, one at a time, and see if the voltage drop still occurs.
How many of those “big rigs” would one need to haul a suitable power station?
LOL. I think you are correct!
I just had an "ah-ha" moment. I was running speaker wires, FM antenna cable, and stuff the other year and remembered a junction box close to where I ran the wires into the wall header. The outlets on that wall are on the same circuit as the bad outlet. The problem might be there. I'll give it a go tomorrow.
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