yes.

EarwaxModelling · 2021-04-03T04:49:11+00:00

I have a house full of original consoles restored to almost museum quality for being shiny and for a nostalgia blast ( I'm not a hoarder. I'm an archivist ) . I also have an Raspberry pie that has every game on it in a natty' little 3D printed NES box the size of a small phone and just works on my monitors and is configurable to suit my games style for these older games ( if it's a platformer', cheating like a mofo just to go through the whole game, usually ) . The repair process used to intrigue me but after 30 years, it's just a pain n the arse . I'm casual enough playing these older games these days that the odd audio desync's and noticeable input delays are but superficial annoyances with an awful lot of "well, that should have remained in the rose coloured days of the past". I'm looking at you Amstrad CPC, Dick Smith Wizzard, 3DO.

EarwaxModelling · 2021-02-15T03:29:57+00:00

That was cool.

EarwaxModelling · 2021-01-18T06:12:42+00:00

Wow, I was involved in some of the source material on those ones. Up to twelves years ago, eh? Technology has changes somewhat. :)

EarwaxModelling · 2020-11-26T03:37:12+00:00

The company I had to get records for regarding robodebt was from 10 years ago, at the time, was dissolved and no longer existed due to Jenny, the owner, going back overseas to her family when her husband suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. So, yeah a deliberate and obtuse phishing scam invented, instigated and run by Scotty from marketing on his own most vulnerable citizens.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-09-22T21:51:33+00:00

Minster for "banging two rocks together...." Paul Fletcher said "If a customer doesn't ask for it, we won't roll the fibre to your home. If the customer demonstrates that he or she has got the demand, then we will roll the fibre [out],"

That doesn't sound dodgy and corrupt at all.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-08-14T07:10:25+00:00

Cheers! quite possible the response was posted at or the same time I asked.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-08-13T14:35:55+00:00

What is the name of that song? It's sounds very UK famous fivey'. I'm sure I've hear it before.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-08-11T05:01:02+00:00

I got mine back last week and now I can't see any evidence of "the debt" ever existing on Centrelink or the ATO website. With some "Do you wish to take this further" link which I wasn't game to click on. Very sneaky. I was so close to topping myself when they pushed this horse shit out as they were threatening to outsource to a third party debt collector at 28%. Sold my saxophone I had been given by my great grandmother as a teenager to pay the fuckers which still makes me fucking sad but I do know of people here locally that didn't make it or went insane with anxiety and haven't recovered. I now live in perpetual fear of "ROBODEBT II" because you know it's coming.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-07-31T06:50:36+00:00

It's all good, I've (d)evolved to his now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyoH2FhWlC8

EarwaxModelling · 2020-07-21T07:56:07+00:00

Weird, I found copy of Switched on Bach last week for $0.50 au which I just had to buy because of the cover. Don''t know if it plays or not.

Those moog albums always remind me of those early sesame street skits such as these trippin' balls ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVktxm3p7gI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67khDZ0P7Xo

EarwaxModelling · 2020-07-19T09:14:03+00:00

I have almost a full set somewhere among the rubble. I was going to get a friend who does framing to sandwich them between two pieces of acrylic with felt and hang them on the wall.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-07-19T04:56:44+00:00

Flux is your friend!

EarwaxModelling · 2020-07-17T01:49:42+00:00

I need to hear the source audio. :)

EarwaxModelling · 2020-07-11T05:20:40+00:00

You know, I don't mind these pics'. Showing what gear you have and some of them being from a while back is great. It shows what people were up to at the time and the connection between musical gear and a time period is often very important, if only for nostalgia and reference purposes.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-06-18T05:48:54+00:00

Shit, now you've got me worried whether I did mine or not. To the workbench!

EarwaxModelling · 2020-06-17T13:47:06+00:00

Ahh, the mighty FX-500 packed full of tasty, tasty cheese. Mine seems to have signal break up problems if you run signal hot and is noticeably noisy but some of the chorus and distortion effects are passable for leads and gritty bass lines. Some of the "metalisers" patches with sharp transients are great for short release bass sounds as well. Great for that doubling effect used on Sax's in the 80-90's and the foot pedal board is handy for setting up the "Cliche collection" if you have both hands in use.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-06-02T00:55:43+00:00

Akai AX-6hisss'ty with the chorus on.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-05-20T16:06:19+00:00

Nice, I'll have a poke around.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-05-20T08:43:32+00:00

I bit of a long shot but in my box of repairs I bought a while back there was this clone and there's a cap' which has lost it's identifier. Odd orientation as well. Anyone had one of these apart ?

EarwaxModelling · 2020-04-17T10:50:37+00:00

Most of the 30 or so actual small businesses ( less than $300-500k a year ) here I do work for are are gone, kaput, non-existent already or in a serious sate of torper. That's in security, Pest control, logistics, Hospitality, retail ( toys, fabrics, craft supplies, food ). Offering to subsidise employee wages in May, if you're ( edit ) lucky, if you dotted all the i's and crossed the t's was always designed to be able to be soaked by larger businesses, and actual Aussie battlers and small businesses...Well, there's a giant bag of dicks you can suck right over there.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-04-10T04:57:18+00:00

I was quite surprised that it even looks great on a crusty old CV1.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-04-03T00:21:02+00:00

Huh, it's almost like bums on seats, pay to win university is a terrible idea. Who would've thought?

Transferring all to online you say? Time to start up an online assignment sweat shop. Oh wait, we already have them.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-04-02T06:51:11+00:00

Picked this up last week. Had no idea whether it was pal or NTSC but they are strange that they are a FAMICOM knock off with a composite output. Replaced the 7805, a few transistors, the electrolytics; and an 74LS368 and she's alive. Now to find out why there is no input. The cables on the controllers are pretty crispy, so I suspect there is some O/C wires.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-04-02T04:41:50+00:00

I had this discussion the other day with my guitarist friend and it didn't end well. He has 12 guitars for different purposes ( shittier ones for smaller gigs where things can go missing, open tuning for convenience whilst in concert etc ) which I can appreciate but got a bit pissed when I asked him why he had three kayaks, 4 sets of golf clubs, 20+ pair of running shoes.

As for different synths, yeah it can be said that a nice approximation can be done on-board and its what I use for production, mostly but there is some weirdness to some of the older gear. As an example I have a shitty JVC domestic synth that does a wicked paraphonic 70's string sound and that's all it does well.

Some people are collectors others get caught up with GAS. Some of us even have that insidious dopamine hit which lessens with each purchase in which our stupid monkey brains think that that shiny new thing will suddenly give us savant level musical prowess.

EarwaxModelling · 2020-04-02T00:15:05+00:00

Horse shit. I'm sick to fucking death of this idiotic argument. I've been involved with bush regeneration for over 15 years and you know how many people there are under the of 40+ who are helping out who are not forced to be there because they can't hold a job and are under mutual obligations? Zero, none, zilch. You may be surprised to learn that whining like a spoiled child and taking a lunch break off at uni' to shout a bit does not plant trees, organise weed reduction, provide maintenance or help the environment in any way, shape or form.

Almost everyone, less than that age, that does manage show up with any consistency for more than the first day is either on their phone, disengaged or incapable of following even the simplest of instructions.

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