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"hk" wrote in message
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I have about 15 whole operas, some operettas, plus collections of
symphonies, plus chamber music, plus rock, folk, jazz...and I've set up
playlists to meet different moods and tastes. I think my ipod is about
half full. My wife's ipod is about the same, but with her music on it.
Plus I have our server set up with all the music, accessible throughout
the house and from a distance. When we travel, I upload some movies to our
ipods so we can watch them on the plane.


The guy that bought our old farmhouse sets up "home" entertainment systems,
primarily (believe it or not) on large yachts.

He showed me his personal system that he set up in the farmhouse. It blew
me away. He rips movies from DVDs (not exactly legal) and stores them on
two, 1 terabyte drives. All the equipment, computers, speakers, etc. are
hidden. The only thing you see in his living room is a large, LCD HD
display and a remote control. When they want to watch a movie, he calls
them up using the remote. The box covers are displayed and you scroll
through them or search for a particular name, click on it, and it plays in
superb surround sound. I think he told me he has over 200 movies stored on
it so far and it's not close to being full.

Eisboch

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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"hk" wrote in message
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I have about 15 whole operas, some operettas, plus collections of
symphonies, plus chamber music, plus rock, folk, jazz...and I've set up
playlists to meet different moods and tastes. I think my ipod is about
half full. My wife's ipod is about the same, but with her music on it.
Plus I have our server set up with all the music, accessible throughout
the house and from a distance. When we travel, I upload some movies to
our ipods so we can watch them on the plane.


The guy that bought our old farmhouse sets up "home" entertainment
systems, primarily (believe it or not) on large yachts.

He showed me his personal system that he set up in the farmhouse. It blew
me away. He rips movies from DVDs (not exactly legal) and stores them on
two, 1 terabyte drives. All the equipment, computers, speakers, etc. are
hidden. The only thing you see in his living room is a large, LCD HD
display and a remote control. When they want to watch a movie, he calls
them up using the remote. The box covers are displayed and you scroll
through them or search for a particular name, click on it, and it plays in
superb surround sound. I think he told me he has over 200 movies stored
on it so far and it's not close to being full.

Eisboch

Forgot to mention. A key component of the system he put together is a
Playstation 2 or 3 or whatever they are called. He explained that the
source code for them are easy to hack into and modify for the purposes he
used it.

I don't pretend to understand a tenth of what he was talking about. All I
know is that it is impressive.

Eisboch

Eisboch

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On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:42:08 -0500, "Eisboch"
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The change over really re-invigorated my interest in composing,
playing and recording music, which had atrophied the past few years.
Buying new stuff is always fun, too. I'm currently looking for a drop
dead deal on this:

http://www.roland.com/products/en/TD-9KX/index.html

check out the demo video!


Unreal. The stuff they do now with DSP is simply amazing. My dad, who
passed away about 8 years ago was an accomplished musician and playing in
several bands. He would be blown away with the melding of digital
electronics and signal processing with traditional instruments.

Blows me away.

Eisboch

Well, I went to Guitar Center to check the set out. It was just what
it seemed like from my research. The mesh heads feel great. I told the
very nice young fella that I liked the set but it was just too much
money. He suggested a lower model they had there with non-mesh pads. I
told him that I wan't going to buy something that wasn't really what I
wanted. I was either going to get the set I wanted or none. I really
don't NEED a drumset. I was more than willing to go home without it.
My mental battle plan was that unless they would give me 20% off, I
wouldn't buy. I figured it was a pretty safe bet that they wouldn't do
that, so I was in little danger of buying the set.

Unfortunately, they were in the mood to move some merchandise and
raise some cash today. Found a nice bass pedal and hydraulic throne to
complete the set and they actually agreed on 20% off. I was cornered!
So now I have a rockin' set of Roland V-Drums in my home studio.

A little background: I started taking guitar lessons in 1957. I have
an older brother who was also taking guitar. Being older and having a
head start of a few years, he was always going to be ahead of me.
Rather than live in his shadow, I started drum lessons in addition to
guitar in 1960 to set me apart from him. Many people had no idea that
I even played guitar. I mostly kept it to myself, although I was still
taking lessons ansd playing alot. I often played drums in bands with
my brother on guitar.

I played both instruments for a living in the late 60's and early
70's. When I couldn't find work as a guitarist, I worked as a drummer
or bassist. I worked a lot as a result. I quit playing drums in 1975,
and thereafter just played guitar, which was my first love. Since
then, I've maybe played drums for a total of a few hours. I had
absolutely no interest in it, and no longer considered myself a
drummer. Didn't really miss it at all.

.... Until recently when I started setting up this new digital
recording studio.

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Well, I went to Guitar Center to check the set out. It was just what
it seemed like from my research. The mesh heads feel great. I told the
very nice young fella that I liked the set but it was just too much
money. He suggested a lower model they had there with non-mesh pads. I
told him that I wan't going to buy something that wasn't really what I
wanted. I was either going to get the set I wanted or none. I really
don't NEED a drumset. I was more than willing to go home without it.
My mental battle plan was that unless they would give me 20% off, I
wouldn't buy. I figured it was a pretty safe bet that they wouldn't do
that, so I was in little danger of buying the set.

Unfortunately, they were in the mood to move some merchandise and
raise some cash today. Found a nice bass pedal and hydraulic throne to
complete the set and they actually agreed on 20% off. I was cornered!
So now I have a rockin' set of Roland V-Drums in my home studio.

A little background: I started taking guitar lessons in 1957. I have
an older brother who was also taking guitar. Being older and having a
head start of a few years, he was always going to be ahead of me.
Rather than live in his shadow, I started drum lessons in addition to
guitar in 1960 to set me apart from him. Many people had no idea that
I even played guitar. I mostly kept it to myself, although I was still
taking lessons ansd playing alot. I often played drums in bands with
my brother on guitar.

I played both instruments for a living in the late 60's and early
70's. When I couldn't find work as a guitarist, I worked as a drummer
or bassist. I worked a lot as a result. I quit playing drums in 1975,
and thereafter just played guitar, which was my first love. Since
then, I've maybe played drums for a total of a few hours. I had
absolutely no interest in it, and no longer considered myself a
drummer. Didn't really miss it at all.

... Until recently when I started setting up this new digital
recording studio.



I could smell the ending in your first paragraph.

Congratulations!

If you are like me, the set may sit unused for periods of time but when the
mood strikes, the rewards are immeasurable.

Cool ****.

Eisboch

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On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:10:26 -0500, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"BAR" wrote in message
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John H wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:40:10 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
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I wish someone could explain the satisfaction Harry finds in the fact
that
companies are going out of business.

Is this good for liberals somehow? Circuit City had employees who had
jobs,
even if those folks did nothing. Is it in the best interest of liberals
that the unemployed numbers grow larger?

I'm missing something somewhere.

Some companies deserve to go out of business due to the lack of quality
of their service, products or internal culture.

In the case of Circuit City, it was on the edge anyway. The economic
crisis and retail downturn was simply the straw that broke the camel's
back.

Eisboch

Agreed. Circuit City just happened to be the company 'du jour'. Harry, or
other liberals, continuously post articles of companies losing money or
going out of business. And then make gleeful 'I told you so' comments.
That's what I can't understand. What is there about companies going out
of business that brings joy to the
heart of a liberal?

Is it just simply 'anti-corporation'?

It really baffles me why you would cheer a corporation going bankrupt and
putting 30,000 people on the unemployment line. The people who suffer the
most are the 30,000 people on the unemployment line not the executives of
the company.


The vast majority of CC's employees got paid for not doing what the public
expected in that capacity, best described as consultation-based sales. Do
you think people who don't do their job should get paid for it?


You missed the part where the brilliant management of Circuit City
laid off all the older experienced staff a couple years ago and hired
kids to "replace" them. I'm not kidding. That's exactly what they did.
They thought they would improve the bottom line by saving what they
were paying those competent, experienced salespeople, and hiring entry
level youngsters with zero experience.

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You missed the part where the brilliant management of Circuit City
laid off all the older experienced staff a couple years ago and hired
kids to "replace" them. I'm not kidding. That's exactly what they did.
They thought they would improve the bottom line by saving what they
were paying those competent, experienced salespeople, and hiring entry
level youngsters with zero experience.



They were doing that a lot longer than a couple of years ago.

Eisboch

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On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:58:33 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:18:43 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"hk" wrote in message
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When the heads on my 8 track Tascam wore out, I saw the handwriting on
the wal. Replacing the heads was going to be VERY expensive, and the
last few years have seen 1/2 inch tape go in and out of production. l
took the plunge and went 100% digital. It's a whole new world, and
I'm loving it. I'm even enjoying re-learning recording, which has some
differences from tape. First rule: Saturation BAD with digital
recording. With tape, it could be used to advantage. No more. Minus
12db is your friend!

BTW - there's a guy making really good U-47 microphone replicas for
about 2k. I mean REALLY good. Once you get seriously into recording,
microphone collecting becomes a companion addiction...


I'd love to get my hands on an old, working reel to reel tape deck with
sound on sound and sound with sound.

Pawn shops.


You know what? I don't know of a Pawn shop within a 30 mile radius of
here. I am sure they exist, but I sure don't know of any.

I've had good luck posting a "Wanted" listing in Craigslist. It's how I
got one of the Hammond B3s and Leslie, and at a good price. As salty
pointed out though, good quality tape is getting hard to find as well
although I am sure it exists.

Eisboch

I have a 720 Roberts you can have for the shipping but it might not be
good enough for what you want.

I had one of those! Had little metal flaps over the built in 3 inch
speakers on the sides. It also had the X-Field head setup designed and
produced by AKAI. A pretty good portable machine. Only two tracks and
1/4 inch tape, but you could ping-pong more tracks as long as you
didn't mind the resulting loss of sound quality. Worked okay for
composing and making very rough demos.

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On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:41:09 -0500, "Eisboch"
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You missed the part where the brilliant management of Circuit City
laid off all the older experienced staff a couple years ago and hired
kids to "replace" them. I'm not kidding. That's exactly what they did.
They thought they would improve the bottom line by saving what they
were paying those competent, experienced salespeople, and hiring entry
level youngsters with zero experience.



They were doing that a lot longer than a couple of years ago.

Eisboch

I just remember reading about it when they did a mass layoff and
brought in cheaper replacemens. It got a lot of notice when it
happened, although I don't remember exactly when it was. It was a
boneheaded move, and now they are paying heavily for it.

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Yeah, but Donnie can take it, not like others in his gang who when
challenged just go plain mental;)
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Don White wrote:
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Yeah, but Donnie can take it, not like others in his gang who when
challenged just go plain mental;)
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You'd think by now I'd be smart enough not to offer any personal
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The best thing to do with litter baskets like Just Hate is to just
ignore them entirely or dump cat crap on them. There's nothing about the
little schitt that needs to be taken seriously: he's just a sick loser.
Hell, look who his buddies are he Herring, Loogie, et al.