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    Don't worry, Scylla... It wouldn't be a typical mindless prejudice if we didn't automatically make exceptions for the cute ones.
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    Being hated on is what Neko's are for. Furries look down on 'em as wannabes and everybody else reviles 'em as furries. (do I really need the snark or j/k tag?)
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    There's quite a few of us about the place And quite a few more who'd want you to believe they ARE us... Not quite as many as the folks who want you to believe their neon-encrusted club s a typical "Irish pub" though. Check out "Nessies Neuk" or one of the other venues in the same group of sims when there's music on. I'd recommend avoiding Nessie's on Wednesdays around 1pm SLT, because that's when I take over the stream with my caterwauling. Regular ceilidh every week and a decent schedule of DJs - group of sims run by a bunch of scots to celebrate our corner of these islands. After all.. "Wha's liek us?" "Precious few, an they're a' deid!" ETA: The view out of my window here in Edinburgh is a bit less grey but seriously lacking in friendly beasties.
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    well I sure dont given my usual appearance inworld But if such was their decision I would simply have to either suck it up and deal or leave
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    Most folks don't get what "freedom of speech" really means. It means the GOVERNMENT can't put restrictions on what you say in public. They can only stop you talking about stuff entirely if its classified and you had access to it as part of an official role. They can make reasonable restrictions on how you say things in public for public safety ("FIRE!" in a crowded theatre, etc) but they can't stop you saying them. They also can't stop other folks listening to what you say and thinking you're an a-hole. If those other folks go beyond that and decide not to do business with you or anyone who supports you, that's THEIR free speech in play. Those other folks can also decide to invert your snoot, but that's illegal in its own right and nothing to do with restricting or allowing your speech. NONE of which applies on a forum like this one. It is not a public place, it is a members forum run and administered by LL - as such it is "private property" and the owners can make such rules as they see fit on what is said here without "free speech" being infringed. You can say whatever you like, it's just the owners of this place choose not to allow it to be said HERE - which is THEIR right. Amongst all those other freedoms, you have the freedom to take the consequences.
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    You said that already as soon as you mentioned Ireland I'm a scotsman, I know what our celtic cousins across the water are like. Love of horses is bred in your blood and bone.
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    My grandpa had a pair of shires on his farm and wouldn't/couldn't let 'em go, and took in "retirees" from his neighbours too so I grew up around the "heavies". Learned to handle 'em, even learned to drive 'em single or in pairs and laughed with them when they took such a joy in being primped and dressed up for a "show drive" - and bawled like a baby with my grandpa when old age caught up with 'em one by one. Two-ton doofuses with the sweetest hearts on the planet. Biggest regret, amongst all that - not even a peeve because that would kinda diminish it - is that while hanging around with them I never actually learned to ride
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    @Krystina Ferraris, I like the way you think. Simultaneous "Warning, this wasn't cheap" and giving em a laugh to soften the blow before they turned the card over. (horse vet-stuff in particular is NEVER cheap, even if all the vet has to do is check out the dear friend you're fretting over and prescribe something as simple as a diet change....)
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    I think we need to politely ask your next shire or percheron patient to step on you and crush that thought.
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    Try restringing a bandura sometime. Or stop by and watch (from safely behind the pile of sandbags) when my daughter is online searching for reasonably-priced and reasonable-quality replacement string sets for one of her harps (over 600 at a minimum for the big pedal harp and the smaller ones aint much nicer). At least for my guitars - the things I need fresh strings for most often - I can go to stringsDirect... (Martin Silk&Steel for my acoustics, Elixir Nanoweb for my electrics)
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    Lass, way I see it, as a SL performer, talking ABOUT performing and about the stuff we might use to do that, should count as OK. Far as I'm concerned, I'm gonna keep on posting what I post, where I post it (k, I'll stay off the politics and social commentary on the forums, just keep singing about 'em like all folk musicians). If LL decide to slap my wrist for any of it, then I'll make changes. This is, after all, THEIR space and they can choose what's ok here and what's not. For my part there, I reserve the right to form my own opinions of them based on those decisions and lampoon 'em mercilessly in song all over the grid if I happen to disagree
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    lovely idea - I've played, but never owned, a couple of the Ovation double-neck models over the years and a buddy in the USA when I lived over there had an old Washburn acoustic double-neck I'd noodled around on a few times too. Love the idea of the custom inlays, for such an instrument the first priority is obviously to get it built by somebody like that who can get it to play great and sound even better, but if you're doing that why the hell not make it as pretty as it deserves to be? If you're that good, I think the only real challenge you'd face is the differences in sound on a 12-string from an upstroke or downstroke, changing the order in which the fundamental string and its octave are struck and the resulting slight phase difference in their combined sound - it is, after all, one of the reasons the sound of a Rickenbacker is so distinctive because they reverse the order of each course of strings compared to all other 12-strings. (love the sound, dislike the guitars - the neck profile and string spacing is uncomfortable as F for my left hand, it's why it's taken me so long to find and acquire an electric 12 that suits me as well as my Takamine acoustic)
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    If/when you get one, I'd actually be really interested to know if the variax setups have anything that can sound even "acceptably close" to a physical 12-string. I confess in advance that I'm a total 12-string addict and am likely to be hypercritical of any such sound. The times in my life when Ive been only able to afford to keep one guitar it's almost always been a 12-string and - being a complete klutz with a flat pick - 12-string fingerstyle has always been "my thing". The only reason the 12s dont feature as prominently in my streams as they should is that I've been running into "gear limitations" (and, gotta admit, deficiencies in audio engineering chops) getting a GOOD 12-string sound onto the wires. Limitations (and deficiencies) I should soon be able to address. I'm seriously looking fwd to it.
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    I'm not quite that bad, I do use a DAW - reaper - and I'll freely admit that one of the things attracting me to the Qu-16 is that it can be an industry-standard DAW-controller when hooked into the computer as well as providing a true 16-channel fully configurable and repatchable interface. My "holy grail" is simply this - If I'm playing live IRL or streaming I want to be able to send to the stream exactly what I'd send to FOH in the RL venue. If I'm recording I want that live sound recorded too along with a prefade dry channel and the left/right FX returns separately, and I want the sound coming back at me through my monitors to be same in all three situations, so I play the pieces "the same, within reason and artists mood" in all three. I'll take "using a bit more gear than I should need" (given the capabilities of even the most basic DAW) if I can plonk the SAME gear down in ANY of the three scenarios and have it work the same way for me as a performer while being able to stream or record in a way that is completely true to my RL live sound but that doesn't close any doors to me if I do want to do some work on it in post.. If I need to take a laptop running my DAW to a live set I'm doing something wrong. Similarly if I have to mess with anything but the levels in the DAW to record my live sound cleanly in my studio space I'm doing something equally foolish.
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    I'm IN the country of origin - at least, where the company that makes them has its HQ. I know a lot of the manufacturing is overseas, but technically it's the product of a domestic company. They have just had supply bottlenecks, particularly in the digital lines, due to chip shortages etc. Which I understand, but it's still a peeve when it's gnawing on MY ass
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    That falls into the same category as "buying your partner something pretty so they can show off" - perfectly legit.
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    American churches LOVE these things. They have a justified rep for being so simple to use that your average "volunteer from the congregation with a little audio mixing experience" can use 'em well (albeit without using their advanced capabilities to the full). Any that come on the second-hand market over there are just gone long before I get to see the listing. The pickings might be a little richer in Europe (particularly since it's closer to Allen & Heath's base in the UK) but even if they were, the Tories spitting out their pacifier and cutting us off from the rest of the world in a fit of pique means getting one I bought over there into the UK comes with significant hassle and expense. The bottom line, though, is that anyone who has one doesn't want to sell it until it's been worked to death and they are looking to recover any remaining value to help with buying its replacement. The bulk of the second-hand listings I've seen for them have been production companies selling off their old equipment when they buy new gear, not individual musicians. I've nothing against the secondary market for most gear but I will not risk buying used gear from a production company. They wont replace gear until its at death's door and that's NOT the kit I'd want to buy.
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    LOL - no. Some songs just work better with one or another. Heck, there's some that it would almost be sacrilege to play on any but a specific one of the four. So, in my SL sets I have my av switch guitars to match the one I'm actually playing for each track. That's the limit of "off-mic fiddling around" I can legitimately do without destroying the flow of the set. Means that any messing with the mixing desk to achieve that switch on the stream, beyond pressing one button, is contra-indicated. Live IRL I have a little more leeway but us little guys don't have guitar techs, roadies or dedicated sound engineers to hand us our next tracks guitar or handle anything mix-wise. We can't afford 'em if we're going to make any money off the set! So it has to be "grab guitar, call up preset, go." and if calling up the preset can be eliminated from the equation by having each instrument have its own dedicated channels so much the better.
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    I do, but the guys with A&H Qu-series aint selling - or at least, aint selling anywhere within a reasonable shipping or collection radius of me
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    You had it right the first time. I now have more instruments that I might potentially use in sets (and need different EQ for) than I have channels on my analog mixer to handle. This requires me to finally retire my old friend and replace it with a digital where I can EITHER have scenes set up that I can punch when switching instruments or have enough channels (and configurable pathways into their different FX loops and aux outputs that can STILL feed my vocal harmony stompbox) to set 'em all up at once. It's my own fault, I finally made enough money off my music biz that I could complete my "essential quartet" of guitars - acoustic and electric, each of 6 and 12 string. Now I've got to fix the setup so I can use 'em effectively together and not have the brain-ache of repatching and re-levelling everything for every setlist. I spend enough hours rehearsing and soundchecking for my 2 or 3 online sets a week as it is. So I've been scrimping and saving until I could get an Allen&Heath Qu-16. I've had the cash stashed for like 2 months already, finding one actually in stock is proving a little harder than earning and saving the scratch. ETA: Although, on reflection, #4 might possibly have the ability to reduce my frustration with #1.
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    Forgive me, but I can't help hearing that in the same tone as the Hulk's comment after beating up Loki "puny god..."
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    Sounds like a fun project. And by "fun" I DO mean it in the scientific sense of tearing your hair out, hammering your head into brick walls, draining the research grant into microscopic oblivion and generally screaming at the universe... until "the result" (and, more importantly, the resulting paper) that makes it all worthwhile.
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    Yep. know how those tests work, they are a modified "sandwich ELISA" and I've run a bunch of 'em back when I was still a molecular biologist. PCRs too, back when PCR was all shiny-new and you never found it outside research labs - and not so often there because getting the custom primers synthesised was so god-awful expensive that you really had to justify amplifying your target DNA that way to the head of department before he'd sign off on cutting loose that much cash from the research grant.
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    Similar-but-different peeve (my spawnage are all old enough to be buying their own clothes now thank the Goddess) Need to replace my mixer. I know exactly what model I want/need. Everybody has had it at "new stock expected in 5 weeks" for 9 weeks....
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