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#307,702
JIO said:
Has anyone here had a dream where your T-bird is involved? I had one last night. I was moving or exiting a space and I couldn't find the gig-bag for it (my '64 II) so I had it slung across my shoulder/back like a soldier carrying a rifle. ??? It's interesting that out of all the many basses I own - my T-bird was the bass involved. It reminded me of nightmares I regularly had when I first owned my '63 II, later stollen. I would see it submerged in a frozen stream. Very surreal - I would feel distressed as I could clearly see it but couldn't get at it... and then I'd wake up and feel relieved.

Maybe my nightmare was triggered by this surreal image from the great 1955 film Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum. If you've never seen it I highly recommend it. Robert Mitchum, who was also in the super-suspenseful film Cape Fear, is every bit as 'fearful' a character in NotH.

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What did you have for dinner? I'll make sure to not have it.
 
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#307,706
BklynKen said:
What do you think would be a good replacement? Can USB-C work with an analog pedal?
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I want a straight analog path. Save digital for control and switching!
And you don't want to use the same plug for analog, digital, and power. At least, I don't. Too much chance of a screwup.
 
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#307,709
Chucky Stiletti said:
nah, too complicated you would probably need to digitize.....just a less obtrusive galvanic interconnect method for starters..
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The problem, of course, is standards. You'd have to sell old->new adapters until the new standard reached critical mass, then sell new->old adapters. You'd really sell both all along, but the new->old would have very low sales at first (early adopters, newbies, etc.)
The RCA phono plug would take less space and provide better connections. The 1/8" / 3.5mm plugs like some headphones use are just smaller versions of the 1/4" phone jacks.

For those who don't know, they're called phone plugs / jacks because that's what the early switchboard operators used when plugging in to connect one line/extension to another. The first patents around these were filed in the early-mid 1890s. So it is, indeed, ancient tech back when the phone switch was an operator.
 
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Stealth57 said:
What did you have for dinner? I'll make sure to not have it.
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I have the same (sort of) dream every night. I can never re-described it to myself upon awakening but I'm left with a sense of the general atmosphere of it. All very real feeling during the dream, but occasionally when a dream becomes stressful I can wake myself up knowing I could do that.
 
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONNIE!!!
My dad tells me you're a COOL Dude!

Many, many more Bud.

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Miles_ONeal said:
The problem, of course, is standards. You'd have to sell old->new adapters until the new standard reached critical mass, then sell new->old adapters. You'd really sell both all along, but the new->old would have very low sales at first (early adopters, newbies, etc.)
The RCA phono plug would take less space and provide better connections. The 1/8" / 3.5mm plugs like some headphones use are just smaller versions of the 1/4" phone jacks.

For those who don't know, they're called phone plugs / jacks because that's what the early switchboard operators used when plugging in to connect one line/extension to another. The first patents around these were filed in the early-mid 1890s. So it is, indeed, ancient tech back when the phone switch was an operator.
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And meant for incessant cycling which isn't the case in musical instrument applications.....this very fact ensured interconnect reliability over the years but may be obsolete......
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
The problem, of course, is standards. You'd have to sell old->new adapters until the new standard reached critical mass, then sell new->old adapters. You'd really sell both all along, but the new->old would have very low sales at first (early adopters, newbies, etc.)
The RCA phono plug would take less space and provide better connections. The 1/8" / 3.5mm plugs like some headphones use are just smaller versions of the 1/4" phone jacks.

For those who don't know, they're called phone plugs / jacks because that's what the early switchboard operators used when plugging in to connect one line/extension to another. The first patents around these were filed in the early-mid 1890s. So it is, indeed, ancient tech back when the phone switch was an operator.
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