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I took the attached from a manual for an audio mixer I have (out of production). It shows a ton of different connector wiring schemes, and I thought it might prove a handy resource. I was thinking about this after Richard had wired his balanced to unbalanced cables incorrectly. Bruce Connector_Pinouts_sm.pdf

Gil, I hope you don't think I am in disagreement with you and wanting to argue. I am not. Thanks for pointing out the difference between the boiled and raw linseed oil. I had totally missed that, and the difference is important.

Happy Birthday, Michael! Enjoy it, soak up all the good vibes and keep on truckin'...

There are a lot of folks on this forum who have been an inspiration to me. Losing your wife/best friend to cancer when they should have a lot of years left... you just do what you have to do. Barbara and I received incredible support from members on this forum. She was incredibly blessed by it. This place is a family that many may never have, and it really is an honor and pleasure to know so many of you and call you friends. The Klipsch speakers aren't bad either... []

That can work, Michael. Let's see, on here since August of 2001... lost a wife in 2005... lots of support from you guys... have a great girlfriend halfway around the world... yeah, it can work. []

Great tips, Mike! My best tip is this: When the iron rolls off the table... don't try to grab it...

Oh Yea Right Coytee......you said your wife would have a fit over people sleeping on the floor....and you think she can handle naked women sliding down the embankments!!! OKAY.....keep dreaming. Richard... are you hitting middle age or something?

Kewl! Thanks Terry. Would love to have a two way system... especially with the Moondogs.

Soooo..... at the levels I listen to music, I could keep these crossed at 400 and not have to worry too much? Nahhhh! I can't afford them at all.

Domenico, BEC doesn't have a website yet. He is BEC on this forum, Bob Crites. He has good prices and is great to work with. He does do PayPal. Bruce

I have a Leica projector, for 2 1/4" transparencies. It uses the straight magazine as well, but only made out of a heavy plastic. Bruce

I'm pretty much with Michael on these... DIG IT! Wouldn't fit my decor, but I still like it.

This chart MAy help... or just confuse a bit more. I think for the stock design, the section on the far right is appropriate. Dee is correct, too.

Yeah, that WAS what I meant. Hay... That really did make me laugh out loud. Too funny.

The best way to go. Good music is good music. Alison Krauss is a singer you either love or hate I think. Her pitch is spot on. Her timing is excellent. For some it means her performance has no feeling, but hearing these songs with Plant, they obviously were right together.

Back in the day... late 60s, I went to a small weekend bash out in the woods somewhere up in Wisconsin. A few bands were playing. They had a couple of generators stuck off in the woods. With the music playing, you couldn't hear them at all. I don't remember hearing them anyway... but it was a pretty trippy weekend. A few bales would certainly work to block the noise.

A lot of times, slides stay in incredibly good shape. They get veiwed once or twice and then stored away somewhere. All I can say it, you can stay busy for a looooong time scanning and archiving them.

I'm not going to get into an argument over differerent formats. Richard - I think the NEF output type of the Nikon is their version of RAW. That format has all the data from the CCD imaging device and other scanner data (if it was a camera, it would have the focal length of the lens, f-stop, shutter speed, iso value, etc.) If you have the space, overkill isn't a bad thing. At any point in time, you want to have the highest quality tht you can afford/handle. In two years that may be a higher resolution, but that is then and not now. Just like everything else, it is about tradeoffs. TIFFs will be the easiest to get/edit and store for excellent quality and the JPGs fine for the final file. Like I said, mom will be happy just to see them again. Bruce

Do you think it's a 2-track? Why? It has those 2-3 and 1-4 designations to the right of that circular knob, whatever it is. A quarter track stereo. Only two channel playback or record. Without seeing the manual, I bet you use it with the Sound on Sound feature. Probably record the first two tracks on 1-3 as normal. Rewind the tape and switch to the 2-4. You mix the 1-3 pair onto 2-4 wile adding new material. Just a guess. Bruce

I know you really know this, but the red button is the record button. Using it and moving the control to play will erase the tape... or put on whatever you feed into it.

Very nice! Some models had built in speakers (stereo playback), so they included 6BQ5 SE amps. Gil is right about Sgt. Peppers. They used two four-track machines. Record four tracks, and mix them over to two on the second deck. They may have even added a couple of other instruments during the mix. Add a couple more tracks and mix those back to the first deck. I did the same one time, and got up to about fourteen tracks. Ahem, the Beatles I am not, but it worked incredibly well. Bruce

I can see it now. Twenty cars all lined up with dead batteries as we overtax the current output....

I guess you would have to read the manual.hehehe I know photogs that are easily working with files in the 100 megabyte range. You probably don't want to do that. Bruce

PNG isn't meant as an archival format. THe best format would be a DNG, digital negative, but not a lot of people support it yet. This is a bigger can of worms than speaker wires, capacitors, tubes....[:|] The best part is that parents are just happy to see those pics again. You can make a slide show to play back on the tv, too.

Another thing you can do... if you have a pic you really want to work on a lot.. is to resample at double the size (means the file size will actually be 4 times larger). Once you are done editing, you resample back to the original size. It can help hide errors in your editing. The hard thing will be the color balance from the old film. Newer film can look pretty good under different types of light (tungsten, daylight, flourescent, incandescent), but the older films could look pretty strange. Plus you have colors that shift over time as slides or film ages. As in most things, you will have to make compromises. What you DON'T want to do is make it obvious that you did something to the shot. Here's the unicyle pic after about a minute of work. Your changes could be totally differerent than what I would do. Cheers! Bruce