It’s not brilliant, but I’ve used it a couple of times. I’ve come to the conclusion that people who address others as ‘boss’ aren’t particularly bright. A spell at boot camp might be the answer….

So for the casual Bay Area resident who’s interested in trying out climbing for the first time my recommendation is still to visit one of the Planet Granite gyms. But if you already have a love for the sport, know how to climb safely and want to get serious about training, perhaps Twisters is worth looking into.

Cheers and wish you a strong recovery.

I hope all is better or at least getting there.

(Yeah, I took the easy one, and yeah it wasn’t that great. Oh well :-))

The microtrack’s a quirky little thing. Like, if you have the hold switch active the battery drains, but it won’t otherwise. I find it weird that there is so little information on the Microtrack in a consolidated place. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion about the akg C1000S, although at $200 it’s a little pricey for me right now.

Thanks again!

When I was little I thought Lease was a spoiled little girl. I got this impression when the toy store a block down displayed in its window what I thought was a giant gift tag proclaiming, “For Lease”. I couldn’t believe someone bought an entire toy store for their kid! Then I saw the tags pop up in other places, too. And, although it was strange that Lease had a propensity for chain restaurants, it took me way too long to figure out that Lease was not just a very lucky little girl. And while I was incredibly jealous the entire time I thought she was getting all the toy stores and fast food joints her little heart desired, I was a little sad when I learned the truth. That I would never be as lucky as little Lease because she didn’t exist. Nobody buys their children entire toy stores and definitely wouldn’t feel the need to set them up with a run down Pizza Hut. When I figured this out I felt kind of like a set of underlined dashes.

Thanks for making me laugh!!!

I am your “Vindicated Vinyl” searcher. I can never remember the site address, but know there has only been one person to come up with such a clever blog topic.

I am glad the constipation is over :)

Thanks for this, I’m currently looking into a ride from Cupertino > Pismo Beach, and this would be part of my first leg (seems reasonable to make it to Monterey by Day 1). I’ve never ridden Hwy 9 before so it’s great to hear some perspective on it.

Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad you enjoyed the post.

Because the SM57 is a dynamic microphone it doesn’t require any power to operate so you should probably leave the phantom power off. Typically the phantom power is needed when using condenser mics. The wikipedia article on microphones has a good explanation of how various types differ and what their strong points are.

The video that’s in this post actually uses the audio that I recorded so that should give you a good idea of the results that I had with the SM57. However, the reason that it turned out at all is because I was quite close to a very loud source. For recording unplugged acoustic sets you’ll get much better results with a condenser mic. Maybe take a look at the AKG C1000S, you can get them used for around $100 and they operate on phantom power between 9 and 52 volts.

Best of luck and I hope that helps.

I’m in a similar position to you, having recently bought an SM57 to use in conjunction with the Microtrack. However, I’ve got the earlier version of this, where phantom power is only up to 30v, and some problems are associated with it.

Was wondering if you had to use phantom power to work the SM57 in your recordings or not? What did they sound like without phantom power? I’m mainly going to be recording unplugged, acoustic musicians, and for ease and flexibility I’d like to do this with the Microtrack.

Any tips, tricks, wisdom you’d like to share much appreciated.

Thanks

Meyrick

Wow, they’ve never even asked me if I’d like them to use scissors or clippers, they just dive in. Maybe I’m on the “give this person a bad haircut” list and I doubt this post will get me off of it :).

I also use the Great Clips for my hair. They seem to cope well with numbers (.5in increments). For example, I’ve recently switched my order to “1 on the sides, tight near the top, 4 in back, 5 in front”. They tend to proceed with meaningless questions like “clippers or scissor cut”, but they usually do a pretty good job even near closing time.

Thanks for the post. Last weekend my friend and I went along the same route. It was a very nice route and we enjoyed it except for the climbing :-). Doing it in 5 and 1/2 hours is really good. We took close to 7 hours without taking the Big Basin route back.

Why are the Die Hard movies better than the Lethal Weapon movies?

What type of mental deficiency do you have if you don’t love the Die Hard movies?

What Die Hard character will you name your first born son after?

If I give you a 5 gallon water jug and a 3 gallon jug, why is Die Hard 3 the greatest movie ever made?

However delusional both of you are in regards to the third movie in that series (which was on TNT tonight actually), you’ve managed to redeem yourself with some fantastic questions. I may start stealing them.

Here’s some questions along those lines that I like:

What’s you’re favorite pizza?

If you were “god”, where/how would you hide the secrets to life?

What was the last thing that made you cry? In public?

Why do the Die Hard movies suck/rock? [Sorry, couldn't resist.]

If you could only pass on one bit of wisdom to the future, what would it be?

Rock on,
John

I’m *so* glad that I bailed out of that ride. :-)

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