OK some general hearing facts, I think we've been over this.

I cannot hear squat over 20kHz no matter how loud it gets. About the top 13 keys on an 88.

But I can tell you this. Compression makes TV incomprehensible to me. No consonants at all.

I need the closed captioning. Some of that is quite odd too. All wrong guesses. I think the sports is the best, they have to program in certain names, cause we have southern born announcers like Buck Martinez for the Jays and he can say Adeiny Hechavarria, and it comes out right, and there is no way the computer does that without some programming. But other shows have really crazy stuff.

ANYways, I don't understand the radio. I can't get what squeaky women say. I mean catch, who understands them anyway. (Now I'm Dangerfield!)

So explain that in a mic? Does it crack out the sibilance so you guys get it? Does the other mic loose the th or f's and c's. Heck a woman might say the magic words like containing _u__ o__ which I hear as u o and it was the travel and fornication bit.

So then the mic is good, the what about the pre-amp? Then the amp? Then the speakers? Then the environmental noises. And of course the crunch of the gravel as the tractors head back to the house after a day out in the field, right past the bar.

But all you spring type poo-lays, (french for barnyard fowl), have fantastical hearing.

Well, son, I say well son, speak up! Ya'll can really hear that stuff? I'm thinking of sticking with Jim Reeves and Geo Beverley Sahy something.

Have at 'er. The shootout of gear for old guys playing a bar. If the mic does your vocal range, are you playin' that bass past the bottom fret agin? Are you fiddling with the little string whilst scrapin? Furry is scratchin' his leg and playing that note at the bottom? Oh, alrighty then.

So, take one or two old rockers, the output of Band in a Box, a mic, and what freq range matters. Add in the other gear and convince me.

As for me, I'm still looking for the dang beer I opened 3 hours ago. I hope it warmed up. It's freaking cold here again, the furnace is going full blast and I'm wishing I had some coal. It did used to make a mess out of the house though, according to Mom, the day after it went down the chute into the basement. They got the truck stuck in the yard in the rain once, and the next day brought a horse to pull it out.

BTW, notice there is no seniors discount for Brand in a balk?

I lost my wallet today, and found my long lost car keys in the car. Why they were there only he knows.

John Conley
Musica est vita