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When I was a kid we used to put a drop oil on the back tires of our slot cars and hold them in place at full throttle till they started to smoke. It made the rubber really sticky even after it cooled and you could take corners really fast without whipping your car off the track.
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It's ok to get lubricated once in a while. Just don't overdo it. ?
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On a serious note (G#) what you are experiencing is usually caused by a chemical reaction. For example certain teflon based lubricants like Tri-Flow will do this to some types of rubber. We used to use it on the scanner rails on copiers until we realized that the teflon separates from the fluid carrier and becomes sticky over time. I mention this because our local guitar store used to sell it and labelled it 'all natural banana lube' for lubing the bridge and nut. Tri-Flow smells like that. They just re-bottled and relabelled it. So certain guitar lubes can cause that reaction. If you are changing strings and lubing and using your tuner to set up your guitar and get some on it it will get sticky iver time. My tuner is about 8 years old and still like new but I don't use any lubes on my guitars. S1 has a stock tuner vst ... ?
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If you live in California then yes. It has cancer causing materials in it. Apparently everything causes cancer in California. So I've read. On the back of every item I've ever owned.
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There's been mix changes several times over the years. One example is I had 2 different versions of Rubber Soul. On one version I'm Looking Through You had a false start amd on the other version they edited it out. The mix changes I heard weren't in every song and were few and far between. But the few I heard coupled with the extreme remaster kinda caught me off guard. It could also be that I'm totally wrong and I was just hearing things that were always there that I never noticed that the remastering brought out.
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I don't mind the changes to the mixes but how he changed them sonically was overdone for me. I really did think Come Together blew my sub cone. The entire house shook. I have it calibrated for music and listen with it all the time and that's never happened. I guess what I was expecting was an equal to or better than Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs type release coming from Abbey Road Studios and Giles Martin. A pristine re-release of the originals. I'm still glad I got them though. The Vinyl Rewind youtube guy said he preferred the vinyl releases of these cds. I may pick them up some day.
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I played the whole album All Things Must Pass on YouTube recently. I had forgotten how good it was. I didn't appreciate it as much when I was a kid but it's completely different to me now. I noticed some changes on it too. I can't wait for the new Let It Be movie to come out this summer I think. I hope they do a box set set with the movie and album and some other goodies.
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I took a trip up to Iowa today to visit my in-laws and grabbed a few cds to listen to. I got the remixed/remastered anniversary editions of Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, and Abbey Road for Christmas and this was my first chance to listen to them. It's a 3 hour drive up there. They were good and I liked the included demo discs but some of the tracks were changed. I know every breath, every ad lib, every tiny little thing forward and backward on these albums and they definitely changed some things. Are they better than the original cd releases ... I have to say no. I have all of the original cd releases and I have a cd set made from the metal masters. It sounds to me that Giles went way overboard with the notching out of instruments and compression. The originals have a more even frequency spread but these you can hear each and every instrument and vocal individually almost too much imo. I did listen to a little of Abbey Road on my home stereo and the bass was overwhelming. Way over the top. I thought Come Together was going to blow my sub the bass was so loud. It's perfect on the original release though. Anyone else have the latest versions? What do you think?
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? One of the greats.
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Ew. Gross. ??
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Happy birthday young man.
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Shane_B. replied to Clovis Ramsay's topic in The Coffee House
Please ... any IT person correct me on this if I am wrong ... I watched a router security video recently on youtube about Ubiquity getting hacked. If I understood correctly the gist of it was you should always set up your Ring and Alexa and any other wifi controlled devices like light switch and outlet devices on the "Guest" portion of your router and use the main router login for your personal info like bank account numbers and sites you buy things from with a credit card. It does something along the lines of masking your mac and IP address so they can't trace your main login and monitor you. They also said some routers actually have multiple NICs those are the safest. I also read that VPNs are no good if you've used your internet before setting up the VPN. Once your IP and mac have been out there it can be traced VPN or not. You have to replace your nic, get a static IP from your isp, then set up a vpn before surfing the net for a VPN to truly work. I'll try to find the vid I saw and update with a link. -
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Shane_B. replied to Clovis Ramsay's topic in The Coffee House
OMG! Did you see the stuff below the listing under the frequently bought together list. It's hilarious. ? -
Amazon brand guitar strings? Whats next, AMZ DAW?
Shane_B. replied to Clovis Ramsay's topic in The Coffee House
My mind works musically. What you said reminded me of Aqualung. ?? -
Amazon brand guitar strings? Whats next, AMZ DAW?
Shane_B. replied to Clovis Ramsay's topic in The Coffee House
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Amazon brand guitar strings? Whats next, AMZ DAW?
Shane_B. replied to Clovis Ramsay's topic in The Coffee House
It can definitely be a rough job. I have friends and relatives who are in the field and have heard some stories. That said this was 100% on them and there was no need for the vulgarity. I simply asked what med he changed me to because I forgot. I didn't ask her to send in the wrong script to the wrong place. Sheesh. Hmm ... I wonder if I can get my meds on Amazon? All this could have been avoided. ? -
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Shane_B. replied to Clovis Ramsay's topic in The Coffee House
You should have just heard the conversation I heard from my urologists nurse. She thought she had me on hold but accidentally put me on speaker. Apparently, and I quote, "**cking annoyed" her because I called to refill a prescription that they changed and never updated with their pharmacy. But I'm the blanking annoyance. I've been caulking crown moulding all day. I think I swallowed too much caulking while wetting my finger to smooth it out. Belly hurts. Been farting too. -
Man. You lefty fretters sure have a lot of options. Love the mij strat. I played an epi lp one time. Best feeling guitar I ever played.
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Shane_B. replied to Clovis Ramsay's topic in The Coffee House
Let me guess ... he was sitting there eyeing little girls with bad intent? Kinda feeling like a dead duck? His greasy fingers were smearing his shabby clothes? ? -
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Shane_B. replied to Clovis Ramsay's topic in The Coffee House
Yepper. You can get a lot of weird stuff from walmart. I was searching for vacuum tubes one time and walmart came up in my search engine. I got a green colored LP reissue of Nat King Coles Christmas Album at Target last year. ? -
This used to be a major issue for me when I had a terrible 3Mb/1.5Mb connection for years. I finally had enough and called to cancel because I got tired of paying $100 a month for crap just because I lived out in the country and had no other option. So much for mom and pop places. ? My 4G cell service worked better. Magically they said oh we can upgrade your connection to 30Mb/20Mb at no extra cost. Now updates are no biggie. I can stream in 8K. Game online lag free. Well if I could ever get my hands on a gaming PC ... ... ... ?.
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Shane_B. replied to Clovis Ramsay's topic in The Coffee House
That will never happen. You don't need to sell on Amazon and the smart mom and pop owners know that. The successful ones here all sell online and most do better online because how people shop has changed. IOW you don't need to sell on Amazon. Their niche is they offer more options for things you can't get locally. As for their internal practices all I can say is they treat their customers well most of the time. Far better than any mom and pop I've ever had to deal with. -
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Shane_B. replied to Clovis Ramsay's topic in The Coffee House
Yep. Everyone thinks that's a 'smile' pointing from A to Z in their logo but it's actually a ...