Humor impared ignore please...
Speaking of Humor , Lets be careful out there .....🙂 you wish..
Frankie Boyle at his best
Frankie Boyle - Benjamin Button - YouTube
Speaking of Humor , Lets be careful out there .....🙂 you wish..
Frankie Boyle at his best
Frankie Boyle - Benjamin Button - YouTube
Gotta keep up wayney boy, I'm movin' on again ... it's the Yamaha keyboard now - looking at the specs, it's quite amusing: 2 x 10W amps, 6 1/2" speakers each side, plus proper tweeters - but you wouldn't think so, when nicely warmed up, at full volume. This shows what can be done when an audio package is fully engineered in a single box, working exactly as intended - full, rich, big sound, tons of subjective grunt; nothing is bigger or more fancy than it needs to be be, it just works ...
Far more oomph than the PC setup, but so it should - but, like everything I've come across the electronic keyboard desperately needs conditioning from a cold startup - it sounds pretty nondescript, mousy, tacky when switched on; unfortunately this literally needs days of continuous running to get into its stride ...
Edit: for those people who love "weighty" stuff, the Yamaha will please: 24Kg - none of yer cheap plastic rubbish here, 😀. And, really way back yonder I was the roadie for a Yamaha CP30 - that was a monster, a Hummer of an instrument if ever there was one ..
Far more oomph than the PC setup, but so it should - but, like everything I've come across the electronic keyboard desperately needs conditioning from a cold startup - it sounds pretty nondescript, mousy, tacky when switched on; unfortunately this literally needs days of continuous running to get into its stride ...
Edit: for those people who love "weighty" stuff, the Yamaha will please: 24Kg - none of yer cheap plastic rubbish here, 😀. And, really way back yonder I was the roadie for a Yamaha CP30 - that was a monster, a Hummer of an instrument if ever there was one ..
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Fantastic, George, thanks for those - I never got under the hood; it was brand new, used for serious gigging - and whenever it turned out to be a decent walk from car to venue it was a right pain to move ... !!
16 notes polyphony (FM tech), two independent -not split keyboard- channels.
And it was only 54kg 😀
George
And it was only 54kg 😀
George
As an aside, if you want to be "amused", repulsed, intrigued or plain downright gobsmacked by what the people do for attention getting, try this: 50 of the worst, most outrageous, or just stupid band names...
That's what retirement is all about.
I've been working since 1962 -- but haven't had a W2 in over 20 years -- I am the Social Security/Medicare system nightmare as the payback period on my SS contributions is under 2 years.
Pretty much gave up beer when I stopped getting W2's. I now prefer Hawaiian Fruit Punch with lunch.
On the other hand, your tax deductions can be way higher by full retirement time If you return to alcohol.
You rang, milord ?
(make a lovely entrée, wrapped in a filo pastry envelope, or lunch)
In the Caribbean, sea snail sandwiches are served once a week on a wednesday.
These are tiny snails, which are picked from rocks in shallow water.
(the added mayo may not be cholesterol-proof. But in France, it's not the road snails that kill you, but the ample butter they slide on)
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Had a quite tasty snail stir fry in China but then saw that the workers in the rice paddies are squatting all day anyway.
After my last real electronic job (2001), I decided to go back to college and get a degree as a paralegal, only to decide that I hate the legal field, so I sold my house and took some time off to do audio projects and call myself semi-retired for a while. Half a dozen years later I'm still trying to figure out where I would want to try and get back in the work force. So many of the audio related tech jobs have gone off shore, and now so much of the technology is digital... all about software and computers. I'm good at analog audio electronic engineering and speaker design, but no software engineering abilities. Without a EE degree I don't know where I'd fit in. But I'm 59 yrs old and gettin low on money, so I've got to do something. If I didn't hate big cities, I'd probably find some kind of work in Los Angeles, but the traffic and crime in places like that is insane. Any thoughts or ideas are welcome.
61 years in Dade and Broward county was enough. I have never lived any further north than Pompano Beach.....so it's time for a change, OK, a big change.
That name sounded familiar so I checked the jug I bought at Rural King. That's what it is. It has 41% Gly and is about 20 times the concentration found in Roundup and similar products found in a Walmart or Home Depot. My experiments were all diluted to somewhere between 2 and 10% strength. So far there has been no regrowth where I directly blasted the root balls at 5% or higher (8:1 water/Imitator).
So far it's all been related to things encountered by retired or semi retired people. Some good, some not so good.
Back in middle school (about 1965) I played guitar in a surf music band. We had one gig. We played in an outdoor concert along with a few other bands that were made up of people from local public schools. We had no band name at the time we signed up and had to make one up on the spot. I don't remember who made up the name, but it wasn't one of us......"Semihole and the half assed Indians". I am surprised that it was allowed in a public school in the 60's. (Note the Seminole tribe now owns the ENTIRE Hard Rock empire).
Back in 1970 I went to an ELP concert. That prompted me to decide to design and build my own modular synthesizer. I had just graduated high school and made $1.05 per hour, so it was designed with components scored from the dumpster behind the Coulter Diagnostics (blood counters) factory. My digital design ran on RTL logic (60's tech) and had over 500 IC chips. By 1972 it was beginning to make music, but I got a real job at the Motorola plant making $3.57 per hour with 60 hour work weeks. I didn't have time to finish the big modular, but I had money so I just bought an ARP Odyssey. I now wish I had kept it.
My 41 year career at Motorola has ended, and this IS a DIY forum, so it's time to finish the modular. Yes, I still have the hand wired perf boards I made in 1971 with 500 chips, but no, I am not going to rebuild that design. It was huge, built in and on top of an old transistor organ, and contained a 3.6 volt 30 amp power supply just to feed the RTL logic chips.
I started the new design before the move. It's all boxed up now, but I will work on some of the components as soon as I have a place to set up a workbench. It will have built in speakers and amp, be "portable" and capable of battery operation. There will be a Core I5 PC at the middle of it all, capable of running software synthesizers as well as a DAW. Modular ANALOG hardware synthesis is included. So are guitar, microphone and AUX inputs so they can be processed through the PC and the analog chain. I want a "one box" music studio, not just a simple synth.
I saw that coming and fortunately Motorola paid for me to get 2 degrees. I have a BS in computer engineering, and a MS in electrical engineering.
Unfortunately the reality is that age discrimination is alive and well. I have put in a dozen or so applications and the only reply I got was to interview for work as a maintenance man in a prison for $12 per hour. There are guys there that would gladly kill me for my key ring....no thanks.