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LoupGarou

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  1. The space will be somewhere in New Mexico convenient to Albuquerque and Santa Fe. The intention is to split the difference distance-wise. There are a couple-three maybe four facilities that could work, but we're not committed to any one of them just yet. I'll post updates as we move forward...
  2. Maybe VR-oriented diversions and amusements are geared toward gamers. Just because a segment of a population embraces a given cultural doodad does not mean the doodad will ever become a cultural "mandate". I'm not a gamer. Video games bore the crap out of me. Maybe it's because I made a living repairing commercial video games for many years. They hold no attraction for me and neither does any VR device I've seen. I have no desire to keep seeking VR that works, either. Accept the truth that stuff you love will never be held in the same light by everyone; and expressing a dichotomy as "either with us or against us" based on an arbitrary age cutoff is simplistic to the point of simplemindedness. Sorry, not sorry.
  3. The natural world is where I recharge as well. I have herons, beaver, and mink along the stream within a 5 minute walk, deer and flocks of turkeys in the woods less than 100 yds away, and a family of coyotes in the brush across the road who howl at emergency vehicles' sirens. The virtual universe can't really compare. I believe their intention is to condition users into accepting a virtual universe as "good enough" and then users will be dependent upon Facebook for their experiences. What better way to establish control?
  4. True, but that's not what Fauxbook wants nor the people it ultimately serves.
  5. I'll try this method. Actually I got a little bit of insight in this direction over the past week or two when I opened some projects I had finished and had a couple of "Wait a minute..." moments, thinking about changing them up as soon as I started listening to them again. Often I get to a stage where I'm so accustomed to hearing what I'm working on that once it's done, I don't go back to it, maybe ever. But after re-hearing what I thought was "finished" and wanting to change what I had done, maybe keeping things fresh would be better. I got the sense that in focusing on each of those projects without anything else to break up the intensity, maybe I was beating them to death.
  6. Very Cool! The drone was what got me as well. The first three albums I bought were The Monkees' second album, Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow" , and Ravi Shankar's "India's Master Musician", all within about 8 months' time. I heard some Indian singers and realized after a while that the melodic aspect of sitar emulates Hindustani vocal expression, putting that concept and that of the drone together made everything click to some extent. Sitar has been a challange as almost no guitar technique translates and I have a learning disability that makes it nearly impossible for me to study with a teacher to any degree. So I continue in a way that makes sense to me and it works, more or less. BTW I have added jeeva, the little pieces of thread under the drone strings, so they ring more like a tanpura. Huge difference in the character of the drone! How long have you played sitar?
  7. I guess that depends on the family LOL. An Indian friend's father always took the opportunity to deliver lectures about how she was wasting her time with her spiritual pursuits like some kind of "carefree hippie girl". Dad was an architect & civil engineer.
  8. Most of what I watch are reruns of old TV series I've seen before but still are good for laughs, or old movies. All the local stations have subchannels that run programming other than their typical network content. There are a couple of dedicated movie stations that are run by Sony so they can show all the movies they own at no cost, just by getting them out of the digital vault, and then they get paid to run commercials on their channel when transmitting content they bought years ago that costs them nothing to show now. I don't watch anything currently running on network TV because I either can't develop any connection with the characters or the stories remind me too much of something I've seen before. In other words, boring LOL. Oh yeah, it is a throwback to the old rabbit ears protocols of repositioning the antenna to get certain stations etc. however digital broadcast has not required someone to "STAND RIGHT THERE!" in the vicinity of the antenna in order to get a good image, at least not yet. But it's free, and free is good.
  9. I agree with what you say about music flourishing as an art from for many people who are making music, but I also see that, as with any human endeavor, some people and institutions have found ways to exploit creators without putting their own hearts and souls into the creative process. These people call the shots in many ways because they demonstrate "success" though in ways that have nothing to do with artisitc expression. Sometimes we see somebody express a refreshing take on what they have devoted themselves to doing, like Jon Baptiste framing his music as a spiritual process. Well, that's what it has always been for me as well, for 54 years and counting. No I'm not in a worship band LOL.
  10. Whatever turns up on over-the-air aka broadcast aka antenna TV, and DVDs. Considering getting a Blu-Ray player as Ive seen some visually spectacular Blu-Rays but I would probably just limit my Blu-Ray collection to movies which are naturals for the format. To my eyes, most CGI movies do not make the cut and DVDs are fine. Restored/enhanced film-sourced images are generally really good though.
  11. I sure hope so. I'm in the late planning stages of establishing a performance space which will be a semi-home for my band's musical efforts as well as a wide variety of other performances. The "lockdowns" provided me with an opportunity to get a lot of the preliminaries done. If I had started working on it before Society allowed itself to be put on hold my project would have failed. It's still an uncertainty, like everything is, I guess, but much more favorable now than if I had tried to get it going last year at this time. People may rediscover how much they've been missing live shows. Just think - there are some people out there who have not yet experienced performers in a live setting who interact with real audiences. Lots of potential becoming clear if we as a people assert our freedoms.
  12. I won't participate in subscription schemes. So far I've been able to find viable alternatives for virtually anything offered as a subscription-only item, whether CAD software, music software/plugins, you name it. I realize sometimes the stuff available by subscription is more capable and easier to use. I'll take the learning curve and workarounds. Hardware rental/lease is not acceptable to me and I avoid it as a matter of principle. I don't count car or home loans in this category. I need transportation and I need a place to live but I don't rent nor lease either one. I will never subscribe in order to use something that is basically "nice to have available". There is a perceptible initiative going on to diminish property rights and one way to do that is through subscription-only schemes.
  13. Hi Myles, Thanks for answers. No, I don't run the amp flat out these days, and rarely have in the past, so I don't think I'm taxing the amp in any way. Could you describe the "crossover - notch" bias setting method? Thanks, Chris
  14. Hello Myles, What an invaluable service this thread is! Thanks in advance. I have a Marshall 4203 Artist with an excessively hot power transformer. The original PT cooked and has been replaced with a Mojotone version of the original Drake. The old PT began to run very hot for a while before it failed. The new PT has run hotter than the old one did before it started getting really hot, so I suspect the old PT did not simply fail - something is maybe drawing more current? The amp has been modded with test points and pots to set bias. I recently retubed with EH EL34s and was unable to open the pots up far enough to get the 43mV which the modder recommended for the GT EL34s that were in the amp when the PT was replaced - I got 32mV. You reference a method of setting bias with a scope and crossover notch method; I've never heard of this method. Is this method described somewhere in this thread? My tech is an EE with multiple scopes sitting around his home studio and he would probably drool at the prospect of finding a new use for his gear. The new PT ran hot with the old GTs installed, and still does with the new EHs. The tubes themselves run reasonably cool, as power tubes go. I'm not extremely knowledgeable about tube amps so I have listened to those who supposedly are, and I have been told: 1. PTs in Marshall 3203/4203 models fail more often than typical in other Marshall models 2. Weak filter cap can cause the PT to run hot. 3. Phase splitter can cause the PT to run hot. (New Mullard 12AX7 on the way) Do those suggestions sound reasonable? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Chris
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