Lee B

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Can never go wrong with a 58 for vocals or a 57 for miking instruments. Value priced, readily available, virtually indestructible.

If you can only afford one mic for both purposes (home recording), get the 57.

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Someone who worked for Shure made a post somewhere settling an ongoing argiument: that yes, the SM57 and SM58 are indeed the same capsule with different windscreen designs, which make a slight difference in the pickup pattern (unidirectional for the 57, omni for the 58). That makes the 57 a bit handier for recording (an old trick for tracking vocals is to throw one of the near field monitors out of phase and that lets you record vocals without headphones with the playboack through the monitors, canceled out by the phasing when they pass the front of the 57 if you're facing them... to this day Bono records most of his vocals this way because he feels less inhibited)... but, I hate singing into 57s live because I don't like chipping my teeth.

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I think you can point to things like QOL, the existence of we will just say "questionable" organizations within Ukraine (though they have gotten better under their more authoritarian wartime government), and corruption as evidence of that.

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THe QOL and corruption in Ukraine is a residue of the Soviet Union/Russian influence/occupations... and this war is actually about Putin trying to make sure they don't improve any of that too much and show Russians that the Western way is better.

I wonder if Witkoff or Kushner got bored and absentmindedly got on their phones on the guest wi fi (again...)?

Just cut out the city-provided security for LSU games and keep the Mardi Gras parades, St. Patrick's Day Parade, Live After Five, Blues Fest, etc.

I succumbed to a Sherwood Green/mint pickguard Squier Jazzmaster XII on sale for $299.

It actually plays and sounds great! Onstage, I usually play a Charvel Surfmaster 12 from the late 90s but this one might get some time... if the big gumby headstock isn't too much of a pain to deal with (I probably have to put it in a bass case).

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It’s not big business and hasn’t been for years now. Casinos are struggling across the country.

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There's definitely a slump going on because of the economic slump.

But the "destination (resort)" Casinos do okay... the one in New Orleans on the edge of the French Quarter does okay.

A lot of them that aren't heavy hitters with all sorts of stuff to get people from elsewhere to come stay there for a few days tend to just suck money out of the local poor population.

Ivanka is the only non-full idiot Trump kid... except possibly Tiffany and Baron, which time will tell...

But this "testimony" is so "I saw someone buying lobster and filet mignon with food stamps" that I can't believe it wasn't posted as a joke. :rotflmao:

I feel like this board would've called this guy an unreasonable lunatic...

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"The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal," the U.S. official told CBS News. "There are some minor details to be sorted out but they have agreed to A peace deal."

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Good move... notice, they agreed to A peace deal, not the one offered by the US... so now Russia gets to be unreasonable and unwilling to seriously negotiate.

Rinse, Repeat

What China is doing to Russia at this moment is what they would love to do to the rest of the world. That's their tactic... conquest through dependency.

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Everyone knows Trump has backed Putin in this thing, and while I can see a rationale for doing this (outside of wanting to take over the damned world together) it was a fundamentally stupid thing to do, even without ending the war.

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Trump's "America First" viewpoint is a resuscitation of Linderg's America First ... The US controls this hemisphere (The Americas) and whoever else can seize Europe, Africa and Asia and do whatever they want with it... focus military power internally to control the population. This site is full of people wishing for this to work out.