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Kid_vicious
Advanced Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 674
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 12:38 am: | 
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we already have an area for pictures of your radios and such; so im not looking for a detailed description of what equipment you have sitting next to you.
rather, i am looking for what your immediate surroundings are while you type and read posts on this forum.
i imagine most of you are sitting in front of your radios, but some of us are not. i think this could be interesting!
i'll start.
i am at work right now, inside the mamma mia theater inside the Mandalay Bay hotel casino.
i am in my "office", the prop room where we keep all the spare props and tools. the coffee pot is also in here (standard stage thing) so i get quite a few visitors throughout the night.
i am sitting in a nice office chair and my computer is set up on a banquet table.
i am in the back of the room and i think most of the cast members think im actually working on something.
the walls in here are blue, we have a couch, a sink, and a big bulletin board packed with old stuff and pictures.
well, shows over just now so i gotta go home and talk on the radio.
questions?
comments?
your computer?
feel free!
matt |
Sinker
Member
Username: Sinker
Post Number: 90
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 9:53 am: |
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Usually when posting (not always but usually) I am in my office. I work out of my home as I have a son who needs special attention and, well we will just leave it at that. So I sit at my computer typing with the TV in to my left in the corner of the office with the Stereo/DVD/Video recorder stuff, the radios equipment will be right to my left with in hands reach, then my notebook computer, then my desk top, to the right of that is another notebook computer, then the home surveillance system and intercom, then the main portion of my desk with two book cases behind it and then two file cabinets. Of course there are other miscellaneous items as well. |
Road_warrior
Advanced Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 865
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 10:37 am: |
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When posting or reading forum posts i am
always at home as i am disabled.
My cb radios, mics, ect. sit 7ft from my
computer desk here in the downstairs living
room. My computer desk contains a computer,
Hp psc 1210 printer, scanner, copier. There
is stationary and envelopes on a shelf to my left. Top shelf contains a mini Hi Fi stereo system. To the left of me is a window with
3 plants on a stand sitting in front of it.
To the left of the plant stand is a large
desk that contains my CB equipment. RCI 2995dx
base, 696f base, Skywalker Amp and a DM-452
echo mic, Silver Salute desk mic, MFJ Tuner,
SWR, watt meter all in one unit.
Directly behind me is a lazy boy reclining
chair. Used for sitting when rag-chewing or
shooting Dx on my radios. Beside recliner is
a CD rack. To the right of me is another
living room which contains a couch, love seat,
TV, 2 birds above on TV stand. Glass dolphin
coffee table and one of those fake trees standing
in the corner. |
Hotwire
Advanced Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 571
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 11:11 am: |
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I usually enjoy the Copper Forum in the morning with my cup of joe enjoying the peace and quiet with everyone still in bed or off to school. Computer is in the "computer room" just off the kitchen and the garage converted into living qaurters / radio shack. Kitchen lookks like....well just a kitchen and the garage looks like your local radio shop with all types of radio things, antennas, coax, homemade antenna esperiments, parts, etc etc. hanging up on peg boards and pics of playmates and Al Pacino with large machine gun. Also my collection of books is growing. Sometimes the smell of bacon and sausage frying is the only thing that gets me away from the Copper Forum Besides my girl sending me an email from work, which is usaully a silly joke about how women are so much smarter than men! Take all that and scatter printer paper all over the desk along with DVDs and cds with my feet sticking out from under the desk and you get the picture. |
Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 209
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 4:18 pm: |
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In the "office" coffee cup on one side, breakfast on the other. To my left is my TS-520, HTX-10 and a Yaesu FT-227. Under the desk is the PC-122. |
Yankee
Advanced Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 925
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 5:47 pm: |
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OK,picture a 12 by 12 foot master bedroom in an older mobile home, that I own. I only pay rent on the land it sits on in a quiet mobile home park.
For the most, I all but live alone. I have a grandson soon to be 18 and away at Job Corp, learning a trade. Who has been living here now since June of last year.
Now along the north wall of my bedroom is a small telephone/night stand with a drawer, queen size bed.
Around to the east wall to the side of my bed is a 20 inch flat screen stereo TV, DVD player, stereo VCR, and DirecTV receiver. Next is a 5 teer book case 3 foot 10 inches high, 18 inches wide and 12 inches deep that houses most of my CB and amateur radio gear. On top left to right is a pair of what was small 11 inch high JBL Pro computer speakers. Each have two speakers in them, that plug into two of my radios and have great sound, behind the speakers are 3 of my many microphones, next my Paradynamics PDC-700 power/SWR/modulation meter, next my 35 amp. power supply.
Mounted under the top shelf is my Uniden Grant XL, Galaxy FC-347 frequency counter.
Second shelf ICOM IC-735 HF amateur transceiver, two more smaller speakers. mounted under the second shelf is my pristine Cobra 138 XLR and Redco Digi-scan.
Third shelf, the rotor control for my PDL-ll Beam. On the front edge of this shelf if you can picture this are mounted 3 coax switches, First a 4 position with coax lines to three of the radios and the 4 th coax line goes to a 2 position coax switch to bring two more radios two the antenna systems. Between those two switches is a 3 position coax switch for the coax coming from the IMAX-2000 and the vertical and horizontal coax coming from the PDL-ll beam. 4th and 5th shelves are just odds and ends.
Coming around to the south wall is first a built in desk with one long drawer and 4 smaller drawers. on the left side of the desk is 3 of those stackable office in and out letter holders, on top is a small shelf with my President first model Washington on top is my Cherokee CBS-1000. All five radios are on line through the coax switches, so I don't have to hook and unhook to change radios.
All the power outlets to my CB an amateur stations are surge protected and I also have a telephone quick disconnect in the kitchen where my phone service enters the home as well as the telephone company having lightning protection on the incoming phone lines. Can't ever have too much surge protection.
Next on the desk is my keyboard,mouse and lots of odds and ends that one would need around a computer desk, on the wall behind the desk are 4 of the rail type wall shelves.
Next to the desk is a small storeage chest kinda thing with a long drawer and a door on the bottom, on top of that, my Newpoint Switcher 2000 Plus surge protection controller, sitting on that is my 13 inch monitor, and on the left of the chest my PC tower. my computer is well protected through two more surge protectors before going my safety outlet for my computer only. During a thunder and lightning storm, I only have to unplug one telephone line and one electric line to unhook the computer for safety.
Next is what was a large walk in closet the now has 2 filing cabinets. on top is what was once the top board from an entertainment center that just fits the length of the closet space, to the left is a printer, copier, scanner trio. Then another smaller printer, and a small 6 drawer storeage unit that I got when Ace Hardware changed their screw, bolt and nut displays, I keep all my odd radio parts, odds and ends,hook up wires,screws,nuts and bolts in there.
Coming around to the west wall is a 5 teer VHS and DVD library. And last a 5 drawer chest of drawers.
Where I sit in an office secretary chair W/arm rests, I'm in a U shaped configuration, so all I have to do is turn to my left for my CB and Amateur stations, and straight ahead for my keyboard and mouse, turning my chair a little to the right to see the monitor.
My fellow Copper Forum Members, I still have something like 4 or 5 more amateur and CB sideband radios, an antenna tuner and other related items packed away in another room as well as spare computers and monitors.
Hope you guys get the picture of what you can do with a 12 by 12 room and not have it so you can't walk around in it.
Yes, the room is full. But neat and orderly.
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Starface
Intermediate Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 202
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 6:23 pm: |
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Well the saying goes a picture tells a 1000 words so here is a few 1000 words of the radio and the surroundings.
This was a garage that was turned into an appt before we moved here and I turned it into my radio/game room.
Till next time
Starface CEF#476
Dixie CEF#611
Southeast Net Control
Auburndale,FL |
Kid_vicious
Advanced Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 675
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 9:26 pm: |
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wow! i didnt think we'd get pics!
more pics are hereby encouraged. not just radios though, how about that darn pet that's always barking/squaking when you're keying the mic.
(any pics of kids on the radio are highly encouraged) go dare devil dave!!!
yankee wins the award for detail. woah! that's a lot of stuff!
you guys with "computer" rooms make me jealous.
i need to add on to the house!
keep it comin'
matt |
Coyote
Intermediate Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 448
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 10:57 pm: |
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Well, I'm not going to go in to as much detail as Yankee  . My computer desk sits in front of one of the picture windows of the house. If I peer over the monitor I can see the rolling hills of TN and about 10 miles out is Short Mountain, the highest point in TN west of the Smoky Mountains. (would love to have a place up there, talk about "getting out"). To my right is my rolling radio cabinet that during the NET I can move around so the microphone is more accessable. There is usually at least one of the 5 guitars on a stand on my left that I run through the computer using a "virtual amp" called "GuitarFX 3". To the left is usually someone else's computer that I'm either working on or building. My wifes computer is just a little bit further to the left and the TV is next to her computer desk. The wood burning stove is just a little bit further past the TV. The walls are made of rock which gives it that real rustic (cave) feeling. The house itself is mostly under ground on the first floor with the second floor at ground level.
Thats Short Mountain in the distance.
Anyway, thats about it.
CEF443 |
Starface
Intermediate Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 204
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 12:27 am: |
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Coyote WOW!!! nice looking home and a nice view of So. MT ...Reminds me of KY where I was born..and a place I'll return to some day
Till next time
Starface CEF#476
Dixie CEF#611
Southeast Net Control
Auburndale,FL |
Coyote
Intermediate Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 452
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 8:39 am: |
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Thanks Starface, my wife found this place on the internet and fell in love with it before we even went and looked at it, we enjoy it and the 3 acres surounding it. It's backed up into the hill behind it which is nothing but woods for a couple miles. Only got a couple neighbors and no one bothers us. On any given day, morning and evening, we can sit out on the front porch and watch several of the many deer that like to come in the yard to eat the fruit thats fell from the apple, pear and plum trees. This year we have a set of twins that frequents the orchard, they still have their spots. And no, I don't hunt, and I'd probably shoot anyone I caught any where near us trying to. I believe the deer should be left alone, I enjoy watching them to much to ever think about harming them in any way. If there's no fruit thats fallen off the trees, I'll go out and knock some down for them to eat. Anyway... 73 from our little neck of the woods.
CEF443
Middle TN Coyote |
Wally38
Junior Member
Username: Wally38
Post Number: 28
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 10:56 am: |
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Very nice Coyote. Looks like a very cozy place to sip hot chocolate in the winter. Would love to see pictures of the inside.
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Yankee
Advanced Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 927
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 2:00 pm: |
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I went into that much detail so you fellow forum members would understand that due to the fact that I'm totally disabled and don't get around very good anymore.
So most of my hours are spent here in my bed/playroom. Either on my bed or in my chair.
It's not easy getting old and at 67 years young, I'm going to enjoy all I can for the rest of my years.
Yes, I still drive but not as often as I would like. Years past I traveled a lot and have lived in four states. But still call upstate New York home. Eventhough I moved from there in early 1994. |
Brewdirect
Intermediate Member
Username: Brewdirect
Post Number: 171
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 4:04 pm: |
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Maui....lota of ocean...palm trees..huge giant volcano (10000ft)...
Talk on the radio when I'm not surfing..(so don't talk too much anymore  |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 7356
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 6:42 pm: |
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ATTENTION!
IF YOU WISH TO POST PICTURES OF YOURSELF OR OF YOUR EQUIPMENT PLEASE ONLY POST THEM IN THE Members Pictures AREA OF THE COPPER FORUM THAT THE COPPER FORUMMASTER CREATED JUST FOR MEMBER's PICTURES.
THE TOPIC IS TITLED:
Members Pictures
Here is a Area for you to post Pictures ONLY.
Thank You,
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9OSN |
Kid_vicious
Advanced Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 679
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 7:02 pm: |
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yankee, i have to admit i'm a bit envious of your being able to spend most of your day in the radio room, but im sure there's downs along with the ups.
brewdirect, i think we're all a bit envious of your location.
coyote, i didnt know you were a guitar player.
see what we learn from these weird threads!?
we need to get all the musicians together to play at the next CEF event! oh man! what am i saying!
radio operators AND musicians in the same park?
that's a sure recipe for calamity!
great posts so far guys!
thanks for all the responses.
matt
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Coyote
Intermediate Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 454
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 9:48 pm: |
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KV, yeah, I've been play'n since I was 8. You'd think that after that many years, I'd have done something with it. But I just play for fun and my own amusement. Never played in a band or nothing. Arthritis kinda hinders play'n now a days.
That would be kinda cool to get all the CEF members that play together for a little jam session.
CEF443 |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 1533
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 7:05 pm: |
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hey, brewdirect...go play...on some other forum . just kidding! honeymooned @ kaanapali in '90, drove up haleakala to watch the mist, clouds & COLD. spent 2 weeks people watching in lahaina & kaanapali, & another week people watching in honolulu & waikiki. figure someday we'll remortgage the house & spend 4 nites in maui again.
my computer overlooks a wall. a tv is diagonally beside me so i'm constantly distracted. & if the tv doesn't do it, the kids fight incessantly. or the (currently only) 1 (remaining) cockatiel screetches for MORE attention. or the wife screams for this that or another thing that exceeds my income by another 150%. hey, the regular monthly bills exceed income by 125% already. i'd tell her to get another job, but she already has 2. fortunately my BASE station is in my BASEment, away from the wife & kids, & away from the computer, or i'd never get anything done. remodeling/construction goes on all around me, since sometimes radio equipt is more important then lumber & building permits.
my house is too small, the mortgage is too much, my boat needs a motor, my blazer needs balljoints, my bills are too high, & my head hurts, but if it wasn't for my radios & computer, i'd have to deal with my wife & kids the remaining hour or 2 available each day
mind you, i am NOT complaining. occasional venting helps... |
Kid_vicious
Advanced Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 687
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 7:55 pm: |
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thats OK! vent away!
there seems to be a theme here with CB'ers having birds, namely cockatiels.
i know about four people here in vegas that have birds in their shack, and now i know this is not a local phenomenon.
did everyone get more than they bargained for when they ordered a tweetybird from a foreign vendor?
lets get to the bottom of this!
pat, i hear you on the balljoints. i need to go buy a bigger hammer!
but you have a boat and i dont so im not gonna feel sorry for you, so there! LOL
coyote, always remember; if you bender fender, you might just stratocaster!
later,
matt |
Tech291
Moderator
Username: Tech291
Post Number: 239
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 9:29 pm: |
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Surroundings,hmmmm......
as I look around I can best describe it in one word
MESS
tech291
cef#291
kc8zpj
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Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 2220
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 6:54 am: |
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In my living room with with 3 cats,2 males one just peed on the seat cushion so I have a towel on it,as soon as I find out which one hes going out with the other 16 outside,I'm in the residential area of a lazy little town that's 25% native american,50% jewish and 25% crazy mixed up of which I'm a part,there's no crime,but taxes on .18 acre lot is 1000$ a year and lake frontage goes for 1700$ a foot,I'm sitting here having my first chew of the morning of grizzly wintergreen,had my breakfast of coffee vicoden and celebrex,lol,the dog is in my easychair(a yard sale purchase)biting fleas the shitsu is on the floor bathing and the noise of the fan and airconditioner and aquarium is all I hear wife is still sleeping as she has been playing with her freinds on a virtual reality game called there.Bigbob
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Tech833
Member
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 85
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 11:25 am: |
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If a picture is worth a thousand words...
http://www.copperelectronics.com/cgi-bin/discus4/board-auth.cgi?file=/77380/83658.jpg&type=image/jpeg
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Hotwire
Advanced Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 586
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 12:51 pm: |
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Musicians and radio operators must have some kind of link or something. I'm a bass guitar player myself. Started learning 16 years ago and still learning. I can read sheet music and play jazz (my favorite) rock, blues and metal. Favorite bass is a Peavy Precision and Fender Jazz. Used to own TKO 80 with Black Widow but now just have nice little portable. Something else that sits along my surroundings. |
Allagator
Advanced Member
Username: Allagator
Post Number: 692
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 5:20 pm: |
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yea you can always hook the ext jack to the amps and bugg your neibors ! LOL
man i miss the old days when i had the bigger amps ! LOL |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 1545
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 9:15 pm: |
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obviously, 833 NEVER uses THAT radio or computer...probably got the pic out of good housekeeping.
come on, bigbob, pro-rate that $1000 on .18 acre to my .25 acre-HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!. i'd have MUCHO DINERO left over for radio toys, to fix my blazer, fix my boat, etc!!! less then 2 miles from me, SAME school district mind you, there are houses that pay MORE then that PER MONTH!!!! in addition to the mortgage! yup, i'd be living in a refrigerator box or 2.
i know a few people around here with cockatiels in their background as well, KV. like i said, only 1 now, has been as many as 10 or 11. IF we ever get the addition added to the shack(i ain't kiddin' when i say shack) the wife will surely add more birds...i've got the BIG hammer, just trying to decide on another radio or the balljoints, need a tire & rim too, as a result of the balljoint damage(ever see a blazer fly !). as for the boat, i sold the 16' donzi classic after i blew up the 502ci, well that & the deck was separating from the hull-something about exceeding the 235 HP rating, kept the small family boat & promptly blew up the 150HP 4-banger in it. 8 or 9 grand should get me up & runnin' again, but the wife really likes living here as we have for 19+ years, so the $$ is better spent on the mortgage & taxes i previously complained about.
NO, NO, NO-that wasn't COMPLAINING, just VENTING or maybe RANTING-it's all the same! |
Kid_vicious
Advanced Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 694
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 9:59 pm: |
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if we didnt enjoy venting a bit we would have all gotten into collecting stamps or coins or fingernail clippings (gross, what's he talking about!?) or whatever.
coyote, allagator, and hotwire, i got into radio first, and when i found out that guitar players used tube amps, i was sold.
i played bass in the last band i was in, and really liked it. i used a fender jazz bass. (my favorite)
if you guys want to check out the old band, there are some mp3's and pics on this site.
www.punchthedriver.com
im the one with the long hair. (no making fun of my pics!!!)J/K you wont be able to help it.
have a good night all,
matt |
Al_lafon
Member
Username: Al_lafon
Post Number: 93
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 11:43 pm: |
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Well you asked for it right now i am in front of my computer writting this with the old fly swater
next to me just waiting for him to land on this screen ! |
Coyote
Intermediate Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 460
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 26, 2005 - 3:46 pm: |
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Hey KV, radios came just a hair later than guitars. I started out playing bass and still do, but when your all alone the bass just dont get it, thats why I play guitar as well. Hope to make contact with you now that the West Coast DX is starting to come in here. Already have one contact with a station from L.V., can't remember the call sign off hand, but listen for me, 443 on 27.385 when the DX is going.
Yup, tube amps Hotwire, thats what its all about, wouldn't trade my 66 Fender Twin for nothing. Tube EQ's are pretty cool too. I run a Blonder/Tongue (sp) tube EQ through the Twin for that ultimate tube sound.
Keep on Rocking!
CEF443
Middle TN Coyote
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Chad
Intermediate Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 466
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 26, 2005 - 9:16 pm: |
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Nice Tube EQ! I wish I could keep tube gear in my racks but it takes a beating and weighs too much to be hauling around... The fire-bottles stay at home in the studio/office I do carry some Orban parametric EQ's and Invonics Comp/Limiters for my money channels though!
Chad |
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