OB Dave

This will be my 9th or 10th year at NOLA JF. The festival proper runs two consecutive weekends at the race track. This year it runs Thurs-Sun both weekends until around 7pm. But during the two week stretch all the music venues in town have shows that run all night and into the morning. Midweek when the track is closed there are free daytime in-store concerts at the Louisiana Music Factory, which is just an amazing record store on Frenchmen at Decatur. You can plan your late nights using the Jazzfest Grids. There are music venues scattered all around the city, with several in the French Quarter, but the highest concentration by far is in the Marigny along Frenchmen St. I like to stay within a stone's throw of about Frenchmen x Chartres, as that puts you within stumbling distance of about 8 or 10 solid music venues. The Blue Nile is my favorite, with shows upstairs and downstairs nightly. So you can just stay out as late as you can handle it and have a short walk back home when you just caint do it any longer. I forget which venue holds it, but there's usually a show called 'the Booker Thing' which is a tribute to James Booker with a rotating cast of keyboard players. Marco Benevento, Ivan Neville, Jon Cleary, etc. You should also check out a show at the Maple Leaf Bar at some point. It'll be a cab ride uptown to get there, but it's one of those only-in-New-Orleans things that you have to check out. It's basically a house that was gutted and turned into a bar, with the one remaining load bearing wall separating the bar from the stage area. It is hot, and crowded, and a lot of fun. I always catch Bonerama at the Rock n Bowl, which is also a really fun venue. Maybe we need to do a KC Jazzfest hang!

Sorry for the facebook link, but this just crossed my feed. Bunch of church pews, Hammond C3, and a tone cabinet needs gone asap. Organ has halfmoon switches and comes with pedals. I can't, but somebody needs to go check this out.

No kidding. That's gonna make for a pretty bizarre prospectus. ("Buy our stock, just know that we don't care how it performs.")

Just want to confirm: meet at Buca at 7:30?

That's been my problem with everything starting with Ep. 1. I just couldn't connect with any of these characters, and they've never really given me a reason why I should. And when I saw the trailers for this most recent one, it just looks like yet another unwatchable orgy of CGI bullshit. I should care. The first one came out when when I was 12. I am the demographic. I should care, but I don't. I didn't leave Star Wars, Star Wars left me. yeah yeah, get off my lawn, etc.

Dave's not here, man.

It's in the fourth post, not the top post. I missed it too!

Thursday's probably the best day for me too. If we just want to do a beer and hang thing, I'm waitlisted for a Lanai room at the Hilton. I'll be happy to host if that comes through.

Pretty funny if you're a deadhead. "Definitely Phil" LOL. BTW, the cussing wasn't dubbed, this was a pay-per-view broadcast. There's another scene were either Al Frankin or Tom Davis "accidentally" knocks over "Jerry's guitar."

I agree. She is a fine actress. [video:youtube]

And the end result sounds absolutely glorious.

Going to a smaller connector would be ok, but why for the love of all that is holy would they go with a 1/8' TRS jack? You would be hard-pressed to find a less robust interconnect device.

BookerLab is also developing a pedal, and in addition to footswitches can also be controlled via MIDI. I should have a prototype on my bench soon. Disclosure - I also consult for BookerLab on these products.

I used to have one too. It was a lot of fun to play. Heavy as hell but as timwat notes, easier to move than a CP-70s. Super easy to set up too - the keyboard folds down into a cavity near the harp and when folded pretty much looks like a flight case for a large mixing console, with a sustain pedal sticking out. In order to accommodate the keyboard folding down, the keys used a funky cable linkage which added a bit of imprecision to the action. Had something like 64 keys. Like the CP-70 I believe the bass notes were single strung and the upper notes double strung. The bass notes were less harmonically weird than the Yamaha, but overall tone was much more colored owing to the pickup design. I gigged with it a handful of times but loved having it in my apartment. My apartment. Mine was stolen out of my apartment and never recovered. I used the insurance money to buy a CP-70, which I had for many many years before selling it.

...and a decent acoustic piano. My current setup is a Mojo 61 and a Nord Stage 2, which I mostly need for the acoustic pianos. The Nord has a ton of other fun sounds to be sure. I'd love to get by with a single board but the Mojo's AP is a non-starter for me. But its Hammond tone is the best there is.

Echoing what Docbop said, the RPi requires a pretty lightweight OS. By far the most popular is Raspbian which is a Debian-based Linux distro. In addition to HDMI interface, there are a few low cost touch screen display options available such as this one. . I've built a few escape room props using this screen and it's pretty robust. Does not do multi-touch. I am aware of the Pianoteq port for the Pi but have not played with it myself.

Considering the Vent has a metal enclosure, I suspect conducted as well. Copper foil worked wonders on my Rhodes. That's the only time I've ever needed to use it.

My recollection is that the Receptor 2 was unable address more than 4GB of RAM.

As described in the linked write-up, the FC-7 uses a 50k linear pot, with a custom actuation range. So about half the range of the pot had no change in resistance, and the remaining range is linear, and linear range corresponds exactly to its motion created by the throw of the pedal. So you could say it's linear with a long flat portion. Definitely not logarithmic.

Another vote for the FC-7. They're cheap enough that I keep a spare.

Works the same way in California. When I was manufacturing things, I would not need to pay tax on raw materials, so my resale ID was on file with Digikey, Mouser etc. Or if I did pay tax on raw materials, I would get a credit for it when I filed my sales tax return. Then at the time of sale, the final assembly was subject to sales tax, if the buyer was also in California. I'm not manufacturing anymore, but still buying raw materials for engineering prototypes, and those purchases are subject to use tax if sales tax was not charged to me. It took me quite a while to get this all set up in Quickbooks, because Quickbooks wasn't designed to track transactions that never occurred. For example, I was using Fulfillment by Amazon for awhile and they never charged sales tax in California, and I ended up having to eat that. In Quickbooks I would show the tax as being charged for California (because I needed that number for the state return), and then I had a discount account called "sales tax that Amazon failed to charge" that backed the amount back out so that sales amount was correct. That was the only way I could get the books to balance. Fortunately I only need to file annually, and it takes a little work between quickbooks and a magic Excel sheet to get the accounting done correctly.

Which is why it's called a use tax.

Since we're spreading the Sweetwater love, I figured I'd chime in as I have an additional perspective to add. As many of you have experienced, Sweetwater's customer service is phenomenal. They're just wonderful people to deal with and they really do go out of their way to do the right thing, When I was manufacturing drawbar controllers, Sweetwater was my largest US retailer, so I also had a vendor relationship with them, and that was equally awesome, They were just a fantastic dealer to work with. Did not matter that I was a small little nobody manufacturer, they treated me as if I was a Yamaha or a Roland. I wish everybody did business the way Sweetwater does.

I'm an eBay seller and I've seen no changes on my end. If they're collecting sales tax, I'm not seeing it, and that's probably a good thing. They must be filing the returns with the various state agencies. Wouldn't be worth it for me to start filing with the BoE of every state I ship to - I'd probably just shut down the store. Keeping track of California is work enough as it is.

Sorry for the Facebook link, but here's his second line at Kermit's.