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#240,765
JIO said:
What a face! :woot:
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LOL!….funny you should say that, we used to call him “Face”…
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Spent 12 hours in the studio Saturday tracking new singles. Absolutely the nicest I've ever been in, owned by a musician you've probably been listening to since the Vietnam War (or, well, slightly before). ;) We were recording straight to a Studer or MCI 2", then dumping tracks to digital. Had the Hiwatt running into the V4 cab for low end with the Lollar neck pickup, and the Bridge pickup running into effects and the 2000S into the Fender 2x15. EV RE20 on both cabs. Also took a direct off the neck pickup into an Acme Motown DI. Very happy with the results before mixing or compression/effects, we're hoping to end up tracking the full album there later in the year!

First time using the Acme Motown, seems like a very nice DI. But can't justify almost $500 for...9 parts? So did some research yesterday, and looks like I can build a dual Wolfbox (the unit the Motown is based on) for about $250. Acme isn't using original Triad transformers anymore, but reproductions, and I found a source for a reasonable price. That way I can capture the DI of both the neck and Bridge pickup, and save oh...$650+ over buying two Motowns. Maybe I can put that money saved towards a Bad Monkey! :rolleyes:
 
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TBird1958 said:
There's a a fair amount of meter gauge in South America a lot of it uses some rather bizarre rebuilt US locomotives ( and some purpose built ones as well. As an aside factoid almost all US and a good deal of Europe's gauge is 4' 8 1/2", the same as a Roman chariot.
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Exactly. A Roman horse's ass is the driving factor for railroad gauge.
 
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D.M.N. said:
That way I can capture the DI of both the neck and Bridge pickup, and save oh...$650+ over buying two Motowns. Maybe I can put that money saved towards a Bad Monkey! :rolleyes:
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I might be persuaded to let go mine for even less than that! Just look at it:
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You know you want it. Everybody wants it it seems.
OK, it's not mint but the missing logo rubber pad and the glue remnants add some street cred.

It actually sounds good but this hype thing going on (for which I'm not blaming JHS, he only showed how people are) might diminish the good points it has: works very well for bass without blending (not perfect, but very well) and could be used as a cab simulator for home recordings and live too (done both). For a 40 buck pedal that is. If I would spend the amount they seem to be going for now to an overdrive it would have:
-a clean blend with a variable low pass filter
-a TS type of a drive side with a variable high pass filter (could be handy with the 12-string bass)
 
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D.M.N. said:
Spent 12 hours in the studio Saturday tracking new singles. Absolutely the nicest I've ever been in, owned by a musician you've probably been listening to since the Vietnam War (or, well, slightly before). ;) We were recording straight to a Studer or MCI 2", then dumping tracks to digital. Had the Hiwatt running into the V4 cab for low end with the Lollar neck pickup, and the Bridge pickup running into effects and the 2000S into the Fender 2x15. EV RE20 on both cabs. Also took a direct off the neck pickup into an Acme Motown DI. Very happy with the results before mixing or compression/effects, we're hoping to end up tracking the full album there later in the year!

First time using the Acme Motown, seems like a very nice DI. But can't justify almost $500 for...9 parts? So did some research yesterday, and looks like I can build a dual Wolfbox (the unit the Motown is based on) for about $250. Acme isn't using original Triad transformers anymore, but reproductions, and I found a source for a reasonable price. That way I can capture the DI of both the neck and Bridge pickup, and save oh...$650+ over buying two Motowns. Maybe I can put that money saved towards a Bad Monkey! :rolleyes:
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I used to love watching engineers do their stuff with analog decks, 2" 16 or 24 track, it's an art.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
seems so limiting as to how big and how much load the engines can pull….it ain’t very wide….
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Typical modern single locomotives are 4400HP pretty common to see 3 units ( 2 up front one pushing and keeping the slack bunched) moving 110 cars of coal of 100 tons each, a lot of mass in motion.
 
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TBird1958 said:
Typical modern single locomotives are 4400HP pretty common to see 3 units ( 2 up front one pushing and keeping the slack bunched) moving 110 cars of coal of 100 tons each, a lot of mass in motion.
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I grew up with trains running about 1/4 of a mile from my house, we used to play around the tracks a lot when we were kids and squash pennies, etc.. A train used to run late at night every night and the whistle used to scare me. One night I was going to quit all my teddy bears which I slept with every night and put them all in the toy box and went to bed. The train woke me up and I went and rescued all my teddy bears because I knew they were afraid. :laugh: A little projection maybe?
 
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