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  1. Da5id Weatherwax
    You shame me, my leonine friend.. The only delivery I'm waiting on at the moment is a flight case, and still riding the high from getting my paws on the mixer to fit IN that flight case so it hardly counts..
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    You speak merely of human greed (and the attraction to the bright and shiny) These pale into insignificance besides the addiction that is "Gear Acquisition Syndrome" for a musician. Indeed, the hold that G.A.S. has on a musician would make a strung-out crackhead look like a methodist.
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    You know as well as I do that the correct number of guitars to have is one more than you've got so why not both and just pick the best one for the track you're playing
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    4 components: 1 - getting the audio into your computer. How you do this will depend on what audio sources you want to stream. Guitar and vocals, a straight 2-channel interface will do as Maryanne pictured above. If you're using backing tracks that are stored on your computer then you can probably mix them with your live sound using software on your PC. If they are from any other source, you'll need more than a 2-channel interface to do vox/guitar/backing. If you already possess an external mixer, many modern ones have at least a stereo USB interface built in and you can do your mixing there, and just send a single main mix source to your PC that way 2 - monitoring. You need to be able to monitor exactly what you are sending to the stream. You cant monitor by listening to the stream itself because there will be about a 20sec delay on it coming back to you (buffered on the server) so you have to be monitoring locally to hear what your;e sending to your audience. Too many ways to list all the options to do this here but you should be able to find one that works with no latency. 3 - getting the audio from your PC to the stream server. DJ software can do this but has a lot more bells and whistles (and things to break) than most live performers need. just getting a main mix stereo channel to a streaming server needs no more than BUTT - It's free. If you're doing any mixing in software on your PC you may find that the software you use for that can send to a stream server too. 4: a stream server. you can rent one for cheap. There's places on the marketplace will let you do that for lindens.
  5. Da5id Weatherwax
    Stick a mic in front of my gob or a guitar, bodhran or low whistle in my paws and I'll go for it. The hammered dulcimer, the mandolin and the bandura, not so much. Best place to play bodhran is in a jam circle in the corner of a crowded Irish pub.There will likely be at least two other bodhran players there. The other musicians will be friendly and help you get better, should you need it, while the other listeners in the pub won't know which of the the three of you made the mistakes
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    The radio theater company I was a member of would recreate the classics. We'd do Fibber McGee, we'd do Dick Tracy, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow.. We'd do Christmas Carol every year. Did a pretty good recreation of "War of the Worlds" on its anniversary too
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    That's no magic wardrobe she sold you. It's Fibber McGee's closet!
  8. Da5id Weatherwax
    "...and we close our 'local news' section with this. Marcia...." "Thanks, Tom. In the early hours of this afternoon a lion was rushed to the local hospital after suffering injuries in a freak avalanche of musical instruments...."
  9. Da5id Weatherwax
    Fu..... I wish I was half as good as that on Hammered Dulcimer. Heck, I'd settle for just being able to mic it up "just right" and sufficiently confident to play it on a performance stream...
  10. Da5id Weatherwax
    Glad somebody's having a good time Well Met, fellow traveller Hope I get to perform for you sometime
  11. Da5id Weatherwax
    When I lived in the USA I had maples on my land. Depending on how good the previous summer had been, each spring it was 60-80 gallons of sap to boil down for each gallon of maple syrup. Maples are also kind enough to drop plenty of hot-and-clean burning firewood each year too so they took care of cooking it down as well
  12. Da5id Weatherwax
    That's "just the job, man..." A surgeon cuts ANYTHING out from somewhere (or takes a sample wondering IF they should cut it out) it goes to histo/cyto so somebody can tell the surgeon if they were right to remove it (or either "nah, it's benign" or "Oh SH...get that sucker out of your patient's body NOW") And some of those "anythings" aint pretty, smell pretty bad or would otherwise gag a maggot. ETA: it is universally accepted in path labs that even though it's not really healthy the fact that formaldehyde vapour inhibits your sense of smell is a good thing.
  13. Da5id Weatherwax
    s/vodka/whisky/ and you could almost be a Scotsman One must preserve the purity of one's "heritage spirits" against all comers! You can tell an interloper in whisky territory by the fact that they put an "e" in it. (without the "e" it's one of those region origin things) Tells you it is nether from Scotland nor made according to the proper recipe and methods. (our celtic cousins in Ireland get a free pass on this one, they make quite respectable distillates) now, I've nothing against a good bourbon or rye but "whisky" they aint
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    the "yuck" only usually happens with the "practicals" like tapping the new and arrogant young pathologist to be the one doing the macro dissection on the monstrous cyst that is so massive, taut and throbbing that it came in from the OR in a 5-gallon bucket of formalin... (and that, of course is merely the vastly more experienced lab staff handing out a richly-deserved comeuppance for treating them like crap because they weren't "doctors")
  15. Da5id Weatherwax
    best place to hear really biting dark humour - a histopath/cytopath lab. If you want it filthy as well then dare to brave the room occupied by the bench full of cackling witches who spend their entire working day staring down microscopes at pap smears.
  16. Da5id Weatherwax
    There's lots of songs that I'd like to be my avatars theme song, but if I'm being brutally honest, it's probably Fred Wedlock's parody of "The Boxer"....
  17. Da5id Weatherwax
    There, that was a satisfactory proactive derail of my own thread before its inevitable descent into lolcats, now, wasn't it?
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    And NOW... you must bring me a shrubbery!
  20. Da5id Weatherwax
    You KNOW I've got to give it at least a few hours for Seicher to respond with (one of) the right line(s)
  21. Da5id Weatherwax
    Ah! Now we see the violencefun inherent in the system!
  22. Da5id Weatherwax
    Yep. Once a script has non-experience perms on you it KEEPS those perms until either it's reset or it requests (and receives) perms from another user. ETA: They sure know who I am. They got my RL name, my RL address, my CC number, the whole nine yards. I dont hide who I am IRL from people inworld anyway. More than half of my SL "friends" have my RL phone number, for example. Most know my RL name and which city i live in making it a trivial task to find me on the electoral rolls and find out where I live. I find that NOT trying to hide any of "who I really am" goes a long way to calming any anxiety and encouraging trust, which , for my part, I shall always do my best to be worthy of. Maintaining the access to my land experience has been about 30% of the reason I have always kept premium membership. The other 70% has been wanting to live on MY land, which means mainland and therefore premium.
  23. Da5id Weatherwax
    I'm an "older SLer" in both rezdate and laps around the local RL stellar mass and perhaps you're right, perhaps it is in my contemporaries that I see the reticence. I've tried to work on a build in a sandbox while huddling under my umbrella to avoid the self-replicating bouncing screamers and the downpour of improbably-shaped flying genitalia. Heck, I've almost got myself banned from a Trek RP group for creating a "griefing tool" when a fellow group member encountered me testing a tribble I was creating for RP... I had to demonstrate to the group owners that they contained a killswitch to instantly erase every tribble in a region. (they were physical though, so if one had rolled over a boundary.. oops).
  24. Da5id Weatherwax
    If you can find the right [REDACTED] to expose the [REDACTED] and trace the right [REDACTED] for that door on it, the door will open and most traps will be off (apart from the ones that are there for fun, at least) - Cam-TP and that's cheating
  25. Da5id Weatherwax
    twas a thing. Exile to the cornfield was kinda "No, you're not banhammered but you came THIS close..."
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