Shane_B.

So I went to Sam's Club and they have these TV's on sale now. $60 bucks off. I kept wondering why they were on clearance because the sign said "New for 2021". Then it dawned on me, holy shit, it's almost 2022. ? I asked the very nice lady if I could get a price match refund. It had been 30 days and she said they only did that for 14 days. I laid on the ol' Bub charm and had her laughing and she finally said ok. So I got $60 bucks back plus I grabbed another one. They only had 2 left. These are incredible TV's for the price. We are putting the one I'm using now in our bedroom when I'm finished remodeling it and then I'll use the second one for a PC monitor. It's a little sluggish when I use it as a monitor but I can live with it. I know it would be fine if I had an actual video card. Using Studio One is a pleasure on this huge screen at 4K. I was always ticked that I couldn't make the track screen expand enough to make a single track full screen but I discovered if you double click them and pull them up in the Editor, you can then make them full screen. ??

You should have said something, I would have shipped you a pumpkin and you could have made a fresh pie. It was pretty easy actually. Cut the pumpkins in half, bake for an hour and let cool. You need two cups, 2 eggs, some sugar, a few spices, and that's it. I saved the seeds and roasted them. They were really good too. Sam's Club has a great bakery department. I would imagine Costco does too since they are very similar type stores. I have to avoid that entire section of the store when I go to Sam's. Believe it or not Sam's has really good Sushi too.

Great. They double screwed me. ?

Ya know ... I don't know.

They stopped doing that, at least with the defective $2000 dollar guitar they sent me. LOL

Sweetwater was bought out and things seem to be changing already. I just had a really bad experience with them and that's why I'm a bit leery of this. I bought a Fender modeling guitar from the a few months ago. They did go the extra mile for me. They let me return some very expensive software that was over a year old that never worked and I couldn't get any tech support from the seller. But, they never did the "55 Point Inspection" and sent me a broken guitar. I live out in the country and can't sign for packages most of the time. They had very clear instructions to deliver without a signature. They screwed it up twice. So basically a guitar showed up here 3 times. Once broken, and twice the delivery guy turned around and left with it according to my Ring camera because I wasn't here to sign after they reassured me twice I wouldn't have to sign. I had enough and told them to just cancel the order but they did let me keep the refund for the software that never worked. I felt really bad for the sales guy but in the end it was their fault. I'm right handed but play guitar left handed and it's incredibly hard to find good left handed guitars. This one was a special guitar that is really hard to get lefty. I even wrote to Fender bitching that they didn't make a lefty and about a year later they came out with one. I saved for a couple years and sold some stuff to get it and then that happened. I couldn't believe it. So yeah, I've had some bad luck with them.

Melda is selling their vst's through Sweetwater now. I don't know if that's a good or bad sign.

Ya know, I've never been a fan of apple pie. How un-American of me. ? My mom could bake and cook. OMG. Her and my dad managed and owned 2 restaurants from the mid 60's to around 78. But I could never gag down hers or anyone's apple pie. For Christmas my wife makes a great pecan pie. I guess my favorite's are now pumpkin pie made from fresh pumpkin's and my moms shoefly pie (aka molasses pie) and my wife's pecan pie 3rd. I've tried to duplicate my moms shoefly pie's but I can't. She's been gone since 98 so I can't ask for advice. I don't know how she kept the bottom crust flaky, the center chewy, and the top crunchy with the sugary crumble. She made her own crust rather than use frozen ones from the store so I'm guessing that had everything to do with it. Anyway, the pie is gone. It only lasted 2 days. I can feel myself bloating up already. I never eat this kind of stuff anymore except on Thanksgiving and Christmas day. I'm kind of slipping here. It astounds me how I can gain 5lb's in 2 days and it takes 30 days to lose 2lb's. ?

I find the candles give that extra smooth texture.

Oh. Believe me. There was whipped cream involved. I keep a stash in the freezer for such emergencies, I was waiting for it to thaw.

Well gee, when you have a DAW that could power 3 nuclear submarines who needs to freeze anything. ?

You know Kenny's had his finger on the Submit Reply button for like 3 days now. Come on Kenny. Get the hell back here! ?

Well this is truly a thread that could never die.

LOFL

I'd try that and smash out my windshield. Hold my nearbeer ...

Some of the guys here suggested I do that in the other room. It had a longer decay and would probably make a better impulse. The more work I do in this room the more the reverb is declining. It's truly amazing how all this works. I would love to have a dedicated room that sounded like either one.

Reminds me of Ridgetop by Jesse Colin Young. "a yard full of bushes that turn in to pie in July". And the rest of it too ...

Just saw a vid on utoob that said John played one of these or something similar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. It does have a very non-Paul style bass line in it imo.

OMG. Best punkin' pie I ever had. I made it from sweet pumpkins I grew this year. I'll never be able to eat a store bought one again.

That is hilarious!!! LOL I forgot all about the bikes. There's gotta be a side chain joke in there somewhere.

This guy has a lot of great DIY vids but this one shocked me. I was surprised at how inexpensive the parts are and they are used in "high end" mics. It sounds really good to me. He does a comparison at the end. I remember Mcq was building his own mic a few years back. Wonder how that turned out.

See ... now this is the kind of crazy humor I have that always gets me in trouble.

It's a great way to keep in touch with family, but other than that I have no use for it either. My only contacts on it are family members, a few friends from high school, and a lot of businesses I deal with. I only recently got involved with marketplace because a lot of the businesses I deal with here are forced to. It's the sign of the times. None of them, zero, zilch, nodda, use eBay. They all use marketplace and are all members of all the local town groups and farmers markets. There is only one store I sell to that would make it without the internet and even they would have went under during the covid lockdown. The only thing that kept them going were sales through marketplace and curbside or pickup or delivery. But yeah, it can be pretty toxic.

Earlier this year I mentioned that I accidentally created a reverb chamber in one of the rooms of my house. I just did it again. We bought a fixer upper house when we moved to MO about 9 years ago and I'm finishing up the last room now. It's about 15' x 16' with 8' ceilings. I put down a new subfloor that is smooth and we are waiting for carpet to come in a few weeks. Nothing changed in the room. Last week I put up crown moulding and still there was really no change. Then I caulked the top and bottom of the moulding and it instantly made another reverb chamber. I sat in there for hours last night playing my acoustic. It's unreal. It was the caulking I put on the crown where it meets the ceiling and the wall that made the difference. It must block the sound waves from going behind it and getting trapped and forces them to sweep over it and down the walls. I'm actually going to miss this room when it's done. It sounds so good. I don't know how it would be to record in though. I typically like dead and then add my own room sound. I'll post some pics later.