{"id":6248,"date":"2014-08-22T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T18:00:44","slug":"will-you-look-at-this-stupid-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/will-you-look-at-this-stupid-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"will you look at this stupid thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s a pedal that’s an effects switch-in box, but it’s also just an A\/B switch, so you can just switch between two devices. The two top plugs are from my zouk and mandolin, the output is to the recorder, I can pick which I’m recording. We’re doing this so we can record tomorrow’s show (6pm, The Dreaming, 5226 University Way, Seattle) with separate tracks for all instruments.<\/p>\n

Note the extra cable sticking out the right side, which is connected to nothing<\/em>. It’s there because the box won’t work without something being plugged in there. It doesn’t use<\/em> anything that’s plugged in there; it just won’t work unless something<\/em> is.<\/p>\n

So I plugged in a signal-reduction cable. If we’re gonna have basically a noise antenna<\/em> plugged in on stage to make this dumbass pedal work, I’m by gods gonna use a noise reducing<\/em> noise antenna.<\/p>\n

Honestly some days I don’t even know. This isn’t as bad as the USB-cable-to-nowhere I’ve got in the server room to make the KVM switch work, but it’s close. At least that cable plugs into something on both ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a pedal that’s an effects switch-in box, but it’s also just an A\/B switch, so you can just switch between two devices. The two top plugs are from my zouk and mandolin, the output is to the recorder, I can pick which I’m recording. We’re doing this so we can record tomorrow’s show (6pm, [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recording-gear","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}