Maybe you have seen Sheldon hovering over a computer as he watches the bidding on something on eBay. All of the Big Bangers are clustered around him and Sheldon has the highest bid so it looks really good ... until ...
Drat
Jumped at the closing second and Sheldon was defeated.
A wail of disbelief rose from the Big Bangers at something which was clearly a dreadful personal assault and an insult to Sheldon's manhood. It was most amusing to watch ... but ...
yah, that was me tonight (laughing).
My bid was $210 with a max of $220 but a higher max bid of $222.50 took it too close to the finish to answer. (I got my giant stipend from Social Security today so recklessness is about. It wasn't due until tomorrow so the deities are toying with me just now. Dat's ok, dat's ok.)
Being outbid is ok as I held my line and there's no way whomever bought it plans to resell it so the winner has to be a musician. Hat tip, Maestro Musico, you got the second-best looper available (RC-300 is the best).
Here's a link to an extensive review of the Boss RC-50, previously the best anywhere. Here's another extensive review of the Boss RC-300, the current champion looper. If I had the money, the RC-300 would be outstanding kit and I would not have hesitated when that kind of kit was affordable to me but it retails for $579 and that's impossible. No doubt in my mind it is worth the money, however.
I'm aware of the Electro-Harmonix 22500 (review at the same site as the two above) which lists new for $278 but it just doesn't have the capability of the RC-50, not even close. It's an excellent unit but not useful for my purposes.
There ain't ganja when it's gone. Ain't no smokin' if I can't play. There ain't no ganja when it's gone. 'Cos I fuckin' hate it when I can't play.
Everything goes overboard when my kit is busted so Mister Ganja Man will just have to wait as nothing happens until this problem is fixed.
Getting cheap Mexican ganja is no solution as that stuff is only lung pain and nothing more than a high-school buzz. You can smoke it all night and still not get higher than the buzz from a couple of hits from quality ganja ... which I don't have but ... it don't mean a thing if I can't have my swing ... do wop do wop do wop do wop.
Wot, food? You're joking, right?? (laughing some more)
I went over to visit my friend, Ophir, and this was at the start of the time playing with The Freezebirds. He was starving with nothing at all available to eat ... but he had a Prophet V synth, arguably the best available at the time. I took him up to McDonald's and got a sack of those basic cheeseburgers which we took back to the Klemmer Mansion (not exactly) and had a cheeseburger feast the likes of which I have not seen since. I miss you, bro, and I wish so much there could have been something I could have done.
For a while there was some resentment of how could you do this and I didn't really want to play with a band again after that but really what happened is it set me into a path of electronica which forced me to learn more instruments, techniques, and equipment than I may have ever done otherwise. I miss him still and it's been thirty years. He was my brother who wasn't my brother, crazy as a loon, and we had such a splendid time jamming together. He was the first one who ever took me seriously and we had a whale of a time in those jams. There are several of the songs I made with him which I still sometimes play to this day.
There's always a balance ... but it's not much of a good balance. The wounded and near-death RC-50 was shut down the moment the data capture was completed so it won't go to Valhalla while it waits for me to use it.
The unit took about fifteen minutes to start this morning and I was watching the process to see if anything could be gleaned. From that it was clear the LED is not the problem and it has to be in the logic circuitry. The start-up was all over the place as I could see it briefly despite the flickering. When it did finally start all the way up, the LED was bright and clear without any flickering. However, in my judgment, this thing is some number of minutes from death and that doesn't lead to music ... it doesn't lead to anything.
Given the flickering will start again after it has been under power for a while and some indeterminate period is required before I can start it again, the unit is effectively already deceased.
This isn't whining but analysis. There are two options as there are two others with opening bids of about $200. There is also another with a right-now purchase price of $330. All sellers check out and all are in the U.S. While $220 is grossly irresponsible, $330 is too much reckless ... so we think.
Hmmm ...
we shall see ... in the morning.
Likely the voice of reason has already set in or I would have already done it. That's ok, tho, as capturing the data from the dying RC-50 gives me the freedom to take my time. Unknown if my corpus will cooperate but starving really sucks (larfs).
Drat
Jumped at the closing second and Sheldon was defeated.
A wail of disbelief rose from the Big Bangers at something which was clearly a dreadful personal assault and an insult to Sheldon's manhood. It was most amusing to watch ... but ...
yah, that was me tonight (laughing).
My bid was $210 with a max of $220 but a higher max bid of $222.50 took it too close to the finish to answer. (I got my giant stipend from Social Security today so recklessness is about. It wasn't due until tomorrow so the deities are toying with me just now. Dat's ok, dat's ok.)
Being outbid is ok as I held my line and there's no way whomever bought it plans to resell it so the winner has to be a musician. Hat tip, Maestro Musico, you got the second-best looper available (RC-300 is the best).
Here's a link to an extensive review of the Boss RC-50, previously the best anywhere. Here's another extensive review of the Boss RC-300, the current champion looper. If I had the money, the RC-300 would be outstanding kit and I would not have hesitated when that kind of kit was affordable to me but it retails for $579 and that's impossible. No doubt in my mind it is worth the money, however.
I'm aware of the Electro-Harmonix 22500 (review at the same site as the two above) which lists new for $278 but it just doesn't have the capability of the RC-50, not even close. It's an excellent unit but not useful for my purposes.
There ain't ganja when it's gone. Ain't no smokin' if I can't play. There ain't no ganja when it's gone. 'Cos I fuckin' hate it when I can't play.
Everything goes overboard when my kit is busted so Mister Ganja Man will just have to wait as nothing happens until this problem is fixed.
Getting cheap Mexican ganja is no solution as that stuff is only lung pain and nothing more than a high-school buzz. You can smoke it all night and still not get higher than the buzz from a couple of hits from quality ganja ... which I don't have but ... it don't mean a thing if I can't have my swing ... do wop do wop do wop do wop.
Wot, food? You're joking, right?? (laughing some more)
I went over to visit my friend, Ophir, and this was at the start of the time playing with The Freezebirds. He was starving with nothing at all available to eat ... but he had a Prophet V synth, arguably the best available at the time. I took him up to McDonald's and got a sack of those basic cheeseburgers which we took back to the Klemmer Mansion (not exactly) and had a cheeseburger feast the likes of which I have not seen since. I miss you, bro, and I wish so much there could have been something I could have done.
For a while there was some resentment of how could you do this and I didn't really want to play with a band again after that but really what happened is it set me into a path of electronica which forced me to learn more instruments, techniques, and equipment than I may have ever done otherwise. I miss him still and it's been thirty years. He was my brother who wasn't my brother, crazy as a loon, and we had such a splendid time jamming together. He was the first one who ever took me seriously and we had a whale of a time in those jams. There are several of the songs I made with him which I still sometimes play to this day.
There's always a balance ... but it's not much of a good balance. The wounded and near-death RC-50 was shut down the moment the data capture was completed so it won't go to Valhalla while it waits for me to use it.
The unit took about fifteen minutes to start this morning and I was watching the process to see if anything could be gleaned. From that it was clear the LED is not the problem and it has to be in the logic circuitry. The start-up was all over the place as I could see it briefly despite the flickering. When it did finally start all the way up, the LED was bright and clear without any flickering. However, in my judgment, this thing is some number of minutes from death and that doesn't lead to music ... it doesn't lead to anything.
Given the flickering will start again after it has been under power for a while and some indeterminate period is required before I can start it again, the unit is effectively already deceased.
This isn't whining but analysis. There are two options as there are two others with opening bids of about $200. There is also another with a right-now purchase price of $330. All sellers check out and all are in the U.S. While $220 is grossly irresponsible, $330 is too much reckless ... so we think.
Hmmm ...
we shall see ... in the morning.
Likely the voice of reason has already set in or I would have already done it. That's ok, tho, as capturing the data from the dying RC-50 gives me the freedom to take my time. Unknown if my corpus will cooperate but starving really sucks (larfs).
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