Timmah!

Shit, I don't know enough about them; iirc, it's a mix.

@MikeB Hey thanks. Gonna get that Big Knob; might as well spend a few extra $ & get a good baseline unit rather than the minimum, only to spend more later. Pretty cool that POTUS's use the 57; the Shure tech guy recommended the 58 over the 57, interestingly. I also like that they didn't ask how the mic broke, being my dumbassery & unscrewing it to have a look around. I got Golden Earring's Radar Love on reel-to-reel along with a box full of other various tapes a friend's dad gave me 30 years ago. Tech guy said he didn't think I'd need a Cloud Lifter for the vocal setup. He was a real nice guy; chatted with him for a good 20 min. Oh yeah, he also recommended the Shure MVI for a different price point.

Ok, gettin the Mackie.... & the mic was an authentic Shure; which is surprising for the price. Shure is just gonna replace it rather than repair it, & it's shipping out this afternoon. Had I known it was genuine for $68 shipped, I woulda bought a couple more of them. Also found out that it doesn't have to be an 'authorized seller' from whom the mic was bought; the only requirement is that it's an authentic Shure, & they'll fix or replace it.

prolly went back to Sesame St. for the week.

Can't believe you forgot contrails!

You know that doesn't sound quite right?

My mom, being German, would always prepare sauerkraut with sausages & fried potatoes. Was tasty & filling. Had to have caraway seed in the kraut or it didn't taste the same for me.

Dude was barricading himself in a house with mattresses blocking each window not too long ago. Dug through the mud & found his cable tv service wires & thought he found proof of CIA spying or something. At one time snorted so much MDA that he went & hid behind some trash cans. Tripped so hard that years later stated he though he might be on one giant hallucinatory trip & that he might wake up to find it all a figment of his imagination. Was working for one firm in the past & had a regular habit of snorting coke & guzzling hard liquor while at work. Related stories of showing up to work on the regular trippin' balls on several hits of LSD. And this was all before he even founded his company. He continued this behavior all the way into his last days; writing about how he hung out in slums watching people come and go from bars where he sat in a dark corner getting drunk & high. Then wandering outside to piss in the street in broad daylight. His only real enemy was himself. Surprised he didn't die of liver failure or an od long before he offed himself. I can't imagine he had many years left in him, or that his health was so great. Dude burnt himself over half a century; made Keith Richards look like a lightweight. Even convinced his nephew & a friend to fly around in canyons with some prototype of his making, whereupon they crashed & died. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

We need a Pres. we can affectionately refer to as: Timb0.

Welp, watched some videos showing how to discern a real Shure from a fake & decided to unscrew what turned out to be the wrong part of the mic to do an internal check, & severed a little red wire; so I called Shure repairs & they said they will fix it for free if it's real. So I shipped it for $8 & they will pay return shipping after fixing it...if it's a genuine Shure. Derp. All the external signs & the heft...& the internal signs indicate it is a real one. Will find out in time.

Yes, because if he had this incriminating evidence, he would have it stored in only one place & tell the people that allegedly want to kill him where it is so they can get their hands on it. He wouldn't make several digital copies & have it e-mailed to hundreds or even thousands, or even tens-of-thousands of newsrooms, random individuals, websites, etc. upon his death. Too easy to schedule something to be disseminated from several places, to several places, unless a simple password is periodically entered. If there were any damning information he wanted distributed, it would have already happened. Even I could make that happen. Yet he's an internet security expert & couldn't do that, right? Simple answer is: he was 75 & looking at time in prison & didn't want to face the last years of his life behind bars. But to hear you guys tell it, internet security expert had damning evidence, but couldn't manage to have it revealed upon his death.

Heynow!

That dude was koo-koo for cocoa puffs. Had some kind of psychological delusions of persecution; no doubt exacerbated by all that blow & whatever else. Docking @ ports where it's illegal with high-powered rifles, fuckin' around with SEC & srcrewing-over clientele; he was the instrument of his own destruction. Was like watching a train wreck in slow-motion.

Not cheap, but time for a trip. Used to say the same thing in my 20's when I was headin' to the titty bar!

Heyyy... so what you think is a good preamp. Just for vocals, no instruments. Was leaning towards this: https://www.amazon.com/Focusrite-Scarlett-Audio-Interface-Tools/dp/B07QR6Z1JB/ref=pd_ybh_a_11?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=908HTG6QKFCYSJP6M82Q

NO worries; will just check & return if it's not legit.

Is that a common thing, fake mics? Anyway, I was shopping on amazon & the Capital One app sent me to that seller. Dunno how well they vet their choices. They do have virtual card numbers that can only be used for that particular point of sale/vendor; so if they have that, maybe they do their due-diligence. Hey, presidents use that 57 model, I think. Aren't the two basically identical as far as internal components go? Pop filter & all that. I'm looking at getting this: https://www.amazon.com/Focusrite-Scarlett-Audio-Interface-Tools/dp/B07QR6Z1JB/ref=pd_ybh_a_4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ZAB3XHVYX4RVBCAGQFQP But I wonder if I then also need a CloudLifter , too. So I'm still looking over the preamp thing. Glad I did a little research & settled on XLR, & not just the whole blueyeti usb hype.

What are y'all getting? Post it here, let's see it. I'm gonna build a simple sound recording system. My first purchase, interestingly, was found to be cheaper by Capital One Shopping on Ebay:

Timmah!!'s prediction!!!: https://youtu.be/LNNPNweSbp8?t=155

Strained the Quadratus Lumborum & Psoas on my left side with a hard misstep 3 days ago; tight & causing me to walk around bent over until I lie down & stretch it. Shit happens. And that lasagna is good, good, good. $25 to make = ~$2.00/1lb. square. Great price & flavor value. Oh yeah; 2 lbs. of beef, 2 lbs. of Hot breakfast sausage. So ~5 ounces of meat per chunk. Having cooked the noodles only 1/2 way before assembling, they really absorbed a surprising amount of the tasty juices from the sauce & meat during cooking; so I'ma add another 20 ounces of sauce or so next time, putting it over a gallon of sauce! =D

It's a beautiful country, but I ain't eatin' no fukking Haggis. You can have my share, @Icequeen

Whichever one makes the campers cry the most. Hey, there's a new poll.