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#279,582
dagrev said:
Just a thought.
Gibson Thunderbird II (Previously Owned by Johnny Winter) Sunburst 1965 | Reverb
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Which your post rekindles the narrative on what put me on the long winding road that brought me to owning a Thunderbird-

It was first sparked by ownership of a Bicentennial Firebird inspired by my great appreciation for two Firebird artists of the 70’s-

Fellow Texan Johnny Winter-

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And Dave Mason’s fiery playing on “Certified Live”-
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JIO said:
People underestimate the nut material as a tone influencer - bone, tusq, ebony, brass, rockwood... anything but plastic.

Then there is composite; ebony/brass, rockwood/brass... "works too also" as Mike might say... ;)

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Only thing I’ve heard against brass is that (for me counterintuitively), according to Hipshot, it’s too grabby as a nut material to work well with their XTenders- graphite or similar being the material of their preference-
 
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#279,585
dagrev said:
Happy BD and congrats.

Yeah well, pretty much everything could go wrong. But let's not go there.

If I'm ever down that way one evening I'll have to see you you have a gig. We visit at times but haven't spent the night since pre-covid.
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Find a weekend when you can catch Haji *and* Mark gigging.
 
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#279,589
saltymonkey said:
I was wondering that too. Thought it was maybe my computer but I restarted it, signed out of and back into the LBO and it's still not working.
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Once again I’m flummoxed with an abbreviation-

LBO- Locked Bass Obstructionist?
Low Born Opthamologist?
Lenin-esque Bronsteinian Obfuscator?

Surely I gest, but I’ll give you a true and recent example of how abbreviation inept I truly am.

This past Sunday evening I was at a friend and musical corrobator’s studio doing sound checks for a recording in his absentia when I noted a major latency in the Bluetooth connection between my Mac and his soundboard-

His response in a text message-

“
You can try the XLR BT gadget & put it on any patch-bay channel that you want. Or you can plug that XLR BT gadget directly into one of the local mixer channels, where the XLR snakes attach. And there's also the L20 mixer on the left or even the output monitor controller to the left of that.

At least then you'd be on a different BT input. But yes, hardwire is obviously zero latency.

You could also try an XLR transmitter/receiver set to go on their RF frequency instead of the BT frequency.”

My response?

“What’s a BT?”

So there you have it-
 
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#279,590
This is OT.

Some of you :) (99%?) are from the US. One thing that has confused / amazed me over the many years are the house numbers we see on TV shows and movies. How long are your streets?!?!

Here, in Sydney anyway, every individual street is numbered. Odd numbers on one side starting from 1, even numbers on the other starting from 2. Sometimes, the numbers will restart if the road goes into the next suburb. So it is rare for numbers to be in the thousands (it can happen on Highways).

It seems that on TV every characters house number is 4 digits long. In a movie last night a shop address was 10 thousand and something!

Our format is house/lot number with the street name and type; then suburb state and post code. eg
25 George Street
Ashbury NSW 2193. (Postcodes start with a number that indicates the State. 2=NSW, 3=Vic etc; except for some special ones).

So I expect you use a different numbering scheme???
 
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ectoflanger said:
Once again I’m flummoxed with an abbreviation-

LBO- Locked Bass Obstructionist?
Low Born Opthamologist?
Lenin-esque Bronsteinian Obfuscator?

Surely I gest, but I’ll give you a true and recent example of how abbreviation inept I truly am.

This past Sunday evening I was at a friend and musical corrobator’s studio doing sound checks for a recording in his absentia when noted a major latency in the Bluetooth connection between my Mac and his soundboard-

His response in a text message-

“
You can try the XLR BT gadget & put it on any patch-bay channel that you want. Or you can plug that XLR BT gadget directly into one of the local mixer channels, where the XLR snakes attach. And there's also the L20 mixer on the left or even the output monitor controller to the left of that.

At least then you'd be on a different BT input. But yes, hardwire is obviously zero latency.

You could also try an XLR transmitter/receiver set to go on their RF frequency instead of the BT frequency.”

My response? “What’s a BT?”

So there you have it-
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LBO = Last Bass Outpost or something like that. It is a forum from early days.
 
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RedVee said:
This is OT.

Some of you :) (99%?) are from the US. One thing that has confused / amazed me over the many years are the house numbers we see on TV shows and movies. How long are your streets?!?!

Here, in Sydney anyway, every individual street is numbered. Odd numbers on one side starting from 1, even numbers on the other starting from 2. Sometimes, the numbers will restart if the road goes into the next suburb. So it is rare for numbers to be in the thousands (it can happen on Highways).

It seems that on TV every characters house number is 4 digits long. In a movie last night a shop address was 10 thousand and something!

Our format is house/lot number with the street name and type; then suburb state and post code. eg
25 George Street
Ashbury NSW 2193. (Postcodes start with a number that indicates the State. 2=NSW, 3=Vic etc; except for some special ones).

So I expect you use a different numbering scheme???
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Seems like Canadian addresses are similar

we have a 4 digit address at the moment
Had a 5

interestingly there’s an odd acronym I learned during law enforcement training

NoWoEeSe

North side - odd
West side - odd
East side -even
South - even

for most places (in this state) that’s how all of the addresses are numbered
 
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RedVee said:
This is OT.

Some of you :) (99%?) are from the US. One thing that has confused / amazed me over the many years are the house numbers we see on TV shows and movies. How long are your streets?!?!

Here, in Sydney anyway, every individual street is numbered. Odd numbers on one side starting from 1, even numbers on the other starting from 2. Sometimes, the numbers will restart if the road goes into the next suburb. So it is rare for numbers to be in the thousands (it can happen on Highways).

It seems that on TV every characters house number is 4 digits long. In a movie last night a shop address was 10 thousand and something!

Our format is house/lot number with the street name and type; then suburb state and post code. eg
25 George Street
Ashbury NSW 2193. (Postcodes start with a number that indicates the State. 2=NSW, 3=Vic etc; except for some special ones).

So I expect you use a different numbering scheme???
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I might have thought there would’ve been some house names as well- which reminds me of, not only the name of a house I lived in on the Isle of St. George Bermuda- ‘Keela Wee’ but of of its rather foreboding address - 13 Pain Lane East.

Goodness me, how I wish I had saved my driving license of that era for posterity!
 
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ectoflanger said:
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I might have thought there would’ve been some house names as well- which reminds me of, not only the name of a house I lived in on the Isle of St. George Bermuda- ‘Keela Wee’ but of of its rather foreboding address - 13 Pain Lane East.

Goodness me, how I wish I had saved my driving license of that era for posterity!
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We have (some) house names but they aren’t used for addressing - more for ego / history.

Pain as in Pain au Chocolat?
 
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RedVee said:
We have (some) house names but they aren’t used for addressing - more for ego / history.

Pain as in Pain au Chocolat?
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I’m thinking ‘pain’ and not chocolate in that case-

Which recalls one of my favorite Bond films- Golden Eye (Famke Janssen knocked me out!)- based on the Ian Fleming novel of the same name. He once resided in a Bahamian seaside cottage called ‘Golden Eye’-

For my own part, I lived in one other home in Bermuda at #6 Middle Road, Bermuda dubbed ‘Luvic House’.
 
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Bent77 said:
Seems like Canadian addresses are similar

we have a 4 digit address at the moment
Had a 5

interestingly there’s an odd acronym I learned during law enforcement training

NoWoEeSe

North side - odd
West side - odd
East side -even
South - even

for most places (in this state) that’s how all of the addresses are numbered
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My house number is 4 digits and we follow the same odd/even convention.
 
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