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Re: Merry Christmas - New Guy Intro
By: AJ Date: December 26, 2017, 7:49 pm
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Probably ought to mention that the guitar's are in front of
Jeff's pond....Which I suspect is covered in snow right now,
given the weather reports from his neck of the woods.
Is the "Urge" bass...Is that a Stuart Hamm Sig model? Man that
guy is murder!!
Do you like the ToneZone pickups? I just had a TZ Mini-hummer
put in my '81 Strat and it's taking some getting used to. Even
in single coil mode it's pretty hot.
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Re: Merry Christmas - New Guy Intro
By: belleswell Date: December 26, 2017, 11:08 pm
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[quote author=AJ link=topic=173.msg1801#msg1801 date=1514339372]
Probably ought to mention that the guitar's are in front of
Jeff's pond....Which I suspect is covered in snow right now,
given the weather reports from his neck of the woods.
Is the "Urge" bass...Is that a Stuart Hamm Sig model? Man that
guy is murder!!
Do you like the ToneZone pickups? I just had a TZ Mini-hummer
put in my '81 Strat and it's taking some getting used to. Even
in single coil mode it's pretty hot.
[/quote]
I love the Tone Zone, but it's coupled with the tri-sound
switches that are also found on some other high end Ibanez
Artist models.
Tri-Sound Switching
HTML https://i.imgur.com/oMKnRpsh.jpg
The Urge is Stu Hamm's signiture bass that Fender sponsered.
The one I have was made in
'93. That was the last year they were made in the USA. They
moved production to Mexico after
that. This bass has the pups from both of Fender's flagship
basses and that is the pups for
a Fender Precision and a Fender Jazz. This has that and an
active eq that needs a 9v battery
in a compartment in the back of the instrument. At the time I
bought this for a project I
was doing in '02, I also bought a Fender Precision 50th
anniversary. I bought both the Urge
and the Precision at the same time. My thoughts were that I
would sell the one I liked the least.
(I still have both. lol). The Precision has 20 frets over 35
inches. The Urge has 24 frets over
32 inches. This made the Urge the clear winner. It also has so
many more tonal options with the pups
and active eq.
My other bass. A Fender Precision 50th anniversary butterscotch
blonde
HTML https://i.imgur.com/4Y6uUK5h.jpg
Winters icy grip is slowly building ice around the bubbler in
the middle of the pond. The aerator pump
sits on the dock and the bubbler is in the middle. It runs year
round to keep the pond open and the fish
healthy. Right now with temps around 0 degrees, it has about a
10' circle that is still open due to the
aerator. Even the edges do not get ice safe for walking on
because of the aerator, even though local lakes
can get up to 24" of ice. Not so with our pond. The pond is also
used for geo-thermal heating and cooling
of our home.
HTML https://i.imgur.com/cmhq9qqh.jpg
J
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Re: Merry Christmas - New Guy Intro
By: dinkleburg Date: December 27, 2017, 5:45 pm
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Hi, Jeff! :)
I'm a bit of a newbie here myself, but I thought I'd at least
say "Hi."
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Re: Merry Christmas - New Guy Intro
By: The Dudley Lama Date: December 27, 2017, 7:18 pm
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;D noobs ;D
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Re: Merry Christmas - New Guy Intro
By: AJ Date: December 27, 2017, 9:33 pm
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Dinkleberg is also a resident of the The Frigid White North, and
no stranger to scenes like that.
it's cool that you use the pond as part of your energy scheme.
I'm actually quite interested in how you utilize Geo-Thermal at
your house. Being as commercial Refrigeration is my Gig.
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Re: Merry Christmas - New Guy Intro
By: belleswell Date: December 30, 2017, 12:28 am
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[quote author=AJ link=topic=173.msg1810#msg1810 date=1514432019]
Dinkleberg is also a resident of the The Frigid White North, and
no stranger to scenes like that.
it's cool that you use the pond as part of your energy scheme.
I'm actually quite interested in how you utilize Geo-Thermal at
your house. Being as commercial Refrigeration is my Gig.
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Our well was drilled 182' feet deep and the water is so tasty
that no filtration or salt was needed. The original owner that
built
this home in '98 had the well drilled that deep for the water
quality. This water is pumped into water heater tank/s and
heated and then
pumped though the furnace for the times when heat is needed.
This water is then discharged after being used in the furnace,
into pond which has a
small creek that runs out of it though our woods. Most of the
pond was dug to a depth of 14 feet. There are two tanks. One
that is used for heating
water and another that is used in the summer as a storage for
the cold ground water.
In the summer, the cool ground water helps offset the normal
condenser/coil operation that resides in the furnace and helps
with the cooling.
Because this "geo-thermal" heating and cooling of the home is
considered a form of "green" energy, we get a little bit of a
break from the utility company on
our electric bill. The pump and furnace are monitored with a
separate meter and we get a reduced rate on the electricity used
for this system. The furnace that
does all of this is a "Water Furnace" brand name.
Back at our old home we moved from last Jan, I had installed
central air with a 1 1/2 ton unit back in the early 90's. I had
to have the furnace flue bent up with a new one that flanged
open about an inch an a half to accommodate the condenser. Best
$600 I ever spent on that home. As a retired IBEW electrician,
I've hooked up 100's of ac units from large industrial (GM) to
commercial box stores with roof top units to smaller residential
,and all operate in a similar fashion, with the exception of the
programming that goes into some of the large units for "smart
control". We let the Siemens guy take care of that.
Do I miss working at least 40 hours, and sometimes much more
than that, as an electrician each week? Do I miss being on call
when I use to drive a service van and have to
get up at 2 am for a service call? Do I miss some of the crawl
spaces I had to get into to do my job? Do I miss driving a
service van or residential work? Do I miss getting work as an
outside contractor at MSU for work that none of their inside
guys wanted to do because of the difficulty? After a year and a
half retired I can definitely say no I do not.
What I do miss is the juicy pay checks, especially when I had
some ot which I never turned down. I still keep my ticket as a
journeyman going by spending the renewal fee and the code update
classes we have. You never know. They recently changed the
bylaws for us at the international level to allow us retirees to
keep all of our pensions we are receiving and go back to work
full time with no penalties. This is because of a shortage of us
nationwide. Until just recently, we could only work 39 and 1/2
hours per month and still draw our full pensions, for those of
us that still wanted to work a little. Now because of the
change at the national level, I could go back to work and still
collect all of my pensions, and also get full time pay for
working. I doubt I'll do it, but you never know, which is why I
keep my journeymans card current.
J
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Re: Merry Christmas - New Guy Intro
By: AJ Date: December 30, 2017, 1:09 am
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Awright Jeff...I gotta a lotta questions...Particularly about
your Geo_Thermal sit. How does the cool ground water offset
offset your condenser operation? Do you have a water
jacket/condenser that your A/C discharges through before it goes
to the air cooled section of your condenser? Or do you have a
separate water cooled evaporator that precedes the refrigerant
evaporator? I realize it doesn't get as warm up there as it does
here in Texas, but Michigan being basically surrounded by water,
I'd think humidity might still be an issue, therefore making
mechanical removal of same a must at times.
Insofar as heating, how does the groundwater/pond play a
part? What is your primary heat source in winter? An
oil/coal/gas/corn pellets based heating system? Baseboards?
Floor?
Sorry...This stuff interests me..
Also....................How the Hell do you GET YOUR SOUND??????
I want signal chains Brother! Amps/ Simulators?
Too many questions for one thread? Complain to the Admin...Oh
yeah...That's me.....LOL!!! ;D
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Re: Merry Christmas - New Guy Intro
By: belleswell Date: December 30, 2017, 12:57 pm
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[quote author=AJ link=topic=173.msg1821#msg1821 date=1514617785]
Awright Jeff...I gotta a lotta questions...Particularly about
your Geo_Thermal sit. How does the cool ground water offset
offset your condenser operation? Do you have a water
jacket/condenser that your A/C discharges through before it goes
to the air cooled section of your condenser? Or do you have a
separate water cooled evaporator that precedes the refrigerant
evaporator? I realize it doesn't get as warm up there as it does
here in Texas, but Michigan being basically surrounded by water,
I'd think humidity might still be an issue, therefore making
mechanical removal of same a must at times.
Insofar as heating, how does the groundwater/pond play a
part? What is your primary heat source in winter? An
oil/coal/gas/corn pellets based heating system? Baseboards?
Floor?
Sorry...This stuff interests me..
Also....................How the Hell do you GET YOUR SOUND??????
I want signal chains Brother! Amps/ Simulators?
Too many questions for one thread? Complain to the Admin...Oh
yeah...That's me.....LOL!!! ;D
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It's just like any other forced air furnace. A blower blows
heated or cooled air
through duct work to vents in the home. It runs on electricity.
The 240v electrical
heater in the tank for heated water also is monitored through a
seperate meter for
the reduced electrical rate to run it. As far as the "Premier
Water Furnace" I did a quick
google search for a tech manual to help you understand its
operation.
HTML https://www.waterfurnace.com/literature/premier/im1555.pdf
The pond is just a catch all for the run off of this system.
The pond itself gets a regular influx of slightly warm water, or
cool water depending on
the time of year, dumped in from some underground plumbing that
goes from the furnace
through pvc to a distance of 10 or 12 feet from shore. The water
there is three or
four feet deep and this insures it would not freeze.
This extra influx of water has to go somewhere, so it flows out
of the pond via a small man made
ditch to join with another small trickle of a natural creek
about 10 yards away from the pond on the
side where the woods are.
I mentioned not buying any gear in over 2 years. The main
reason is the
Axe-Fx. It has so many different amp types/cab types and fx that
it has
made much of what is on my pedalboard un-needed. I still run
through the
pedal board into the Axe-Fx into Reaper on my PC. The fx I use
on the pedal
board would include the RMC Wizard Wah, the Digitech Whammy DT
(I use this
pedal a lot for drop or raised tunings), the Vox Ice Nine od
sometimes gets
kicked on for a little more ummph to whatever pre-set I may be
using on the Axe-Fx.
The Strymon pedals are great and I still love adding some of
these as well.
PB into pc/Reaper for recording: Vol pedal> Wah> Whammy DT>
POG> Wampler Pinnicle>
Analogman KOT> Soul Food> Ice Nine> Time machine> Timeline>
Mobius> Bigsky> Digitech
Jamman.
Playing through amp: Everthing is the same except the Time
Machine, Timeline, Mobius,
Bigsky go into the fx loop of the amp.
When playing through amps,(Marshall 6100 LE), I use the fx loop
in the amp for
all modulation fx. (delay,chorus, flange,reverb,etc.) But,when
recording and going direct
into my pc with the Reaper program, I'm typically playing at
lower volumn then I would be
playing through my amp, and at lower volumn the modulation fx
still sound great. These can
sound a bit muddied when going into the front end of an amp(gain
stage) which is why I put
them through the fx loop in the amp.
When playing through my Fender Twin Reverb, I still use many of
the dirt pedals on my board as
the amp has a great clean tone, but not as nice for od or dist,
which is why much of whats on the pb
stays. Depends on what amp I'm using. The Axe Fx always stays
home so I've not yet incorporated it
into a setup with the amps.
I've found one of the most important and often overlooked
items that is so important to
good tone is vibrato technique. Great vibrato technique with a
mediocre player can often
make them sound great, whereas a brilliant tactician with lousy
vibrato technique gets lost
in the crowd very quickly.
J
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Re: Merry Christmas - New Guy Intro
By: AJ Date: December 30, 2017, 6:20 pm
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That Axe-Fx looks sweet. I checked it out after reading your
post...A bit pricey for me however. I'm sure it's worth every
cent, given the quality of your tracks. You really have a sweet
collection of gear to run all those great guitars through.
Do you still gig? You really can't go wrong with a Fender Twin
Reverb...Rock n Roll mainstay.
Very interesting and green climate control setup you have. I'm
sure it helps keep your pond healthy as well. Bet it's getting a
workout right now, given temps I see up there in Michigan...
Stay warm brother!
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