kerble wrote:recommend a Lawnmower. Even the cheapest, crappy electric rotary will perform really quite well so long as you keep the blades sharp. For me that was usually every other mow, whip the blade off, vice, angle grinder and good to go in two minutes. The other part of keeping the blades ...

Ugh and eww. As a student I worked in the kitchen of one of Pizza Express' posher restaurants, listed building, art & jazz e.t.c. The work was pretty easy, mainly just loading the washer but eventually the whole night pivoted around the moment the anchovy bowl would be sent down from the top kitchen ...

Yep, I think you are right, although I rarely seem to use middle as I have an unexplained aversion to anything slightly humbuckerish. Swapped two guitar nuts for Graphtech Tusq nuts, one Takeharu 80s acoustic and one recent Tokai Hummingbird, definitely an improvement if only because the strings ...

After breaking my the 3-way pickup selector on a Danelectro 56 pro, I came to fit a replacement and found that Dano wire these up in a way I may never understand. Some of the factory wirings I tested for continuity and no electrons were flowing in any permutation. Desoldered all the pickup wires and ...

When the plate in a microwave oven starts spinning, how come it seems to randomly alternate the direction ?

I'd second the KRK option, IMO they have the best ratio of cost vs performance, but placement and room properties carry as much weight in this decision. I'd certainly put some budget aside for good stands or isolation, as this can change the sonic properties at least as much as comparing the ...

You might've fared better if you told him you wanted to buy a power transformer. That's all you're looking for, right, a step-down transformer? Out of curiosity, what do you need 9VAC for?

Alesis and Lexicon often need 9vAC, and no, "step-down transformer" almost exclusively means a 240v-110v ...

Not quite GC but Maplin UK, sort of high street Radio Shack, I need a 9v AC supply

A sales guy corners me before I've even started to look

Me "9v AC supply, it must be AC"

him "We have lots of 9v supplies here " (all of them are DC)

me "no it must be AC, see these are all 9v DC"

Sales ...

There's a lot of sample CDs/downlaods that cover all of the major vintage machines and some of the rarer ones. I've played around with quite a few of the original machines and for my money I'd rather have them sampled into an MPC or similar. Unless the original hardware had some totally unique ...

Might be worth checking the RAM demands of your apps first. Most DAWs can cope with 1-2gb on a fast machine, but some plugs will want to use lots of RAM given the chance. I've found that with only moderate RAM specs, the processor and drive speeds begin to be problematic way before any RAM ...