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Location: the Netherlands | On the new Ovation website I read this:
A "dummy plug" (Ovation P/N 9659-0) inserted into the 1/4" jack can be used instead, if the proper XLR cable is not available.
...I'd never heard of it! Does anyone of you have any experience with this plug? |
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Location: NJ | You can use just any 1/4" guitar plug without a cable connected to it . . . just make sure that the contacts are securely isolated from each other . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | I'm impressed at your restraint, Cliff. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | sheesh, he's loosing his touch...
I thought for sure I'd be reading about a "pitch from dubbya" |
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Location: NJ | s'Been Done.
Do a Search of:
"Cliff/Idiot/Crawford, TX"
I'm sure you'll find something . . . . |
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Location: NJ | Dummy Plug:
". . . What they use to light the WhiteHouse Christmas tree . . ."
Feel better now??
(I know I Do . . .) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I use one that converts a 1/4 jack to an RCA type connector that I had laying around. I guess I don't have the proper kind of XLR cable. I didn't know there was a proper kind. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | count the pins... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | "count the pins..." OK. 3 pins on the guitar and 3 holes in the cable. It still doesn't turn on the preamp. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Mark,
on older O's you may need a "ground to shell" xlr cable. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'll just keep using the "dummy plug." |
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Location: closely held secret | Mark, if you use the right XLR cable and have phantom power, you don't use the battery except for tuning. If you use the dummy plug you use the battery.
But you probably knew that. |
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Location: NJ | I LUV my FET-3 . . . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I love my FET-3 too, Cliff. The XLR has so much more volume and less noise, though. I'm not too worried about the battery, Waskel. I don't have phantom power on my amp and I don't play enough to use up a battery. Don't tell my wife, but she's right about 6 guitars are too many. I don't have the time to play all of them and I am my only audience, so I don't need to plug in much. |
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Location: NJ | ". . I love my FET-3 too, Cliff. The XLR has so much more volume and less noise, though . . ."
My tuner, parametric e.q., additional preamp, effects, and XLR-out (for two guitars) are all on one pedal . . .
easy-peasy . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Now if Cliff could just figured out how to make his foot go up and down, he might be able to operate it! :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | As long as I'm not chewing gum, I'm pretty safe . . . |
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Location: Tampa, FL | I thought the foot up and down thing was for the castrato filter? Maybe I'm confused...so many threads, so little brain |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | when he needs to employ both...he uses his feet for the pedals and his ex for the filter... |
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Location: NJ | . . . make that my ex's sockcutter of an attorney, thank you . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If I ever get any extra vacation time, I want to arrange to visit all you gearheads' music rooms. Not for me, but so my wife can see what real fanatics have. |
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Location: Toronto | Mark - beautiful idea. She doesn't understand why I need more than one guitar, after all - I don't make a living as a musician. It doesn't help that my bro-in-law does make a lliving as a musician and only has one guitar... No help at all..
BUT, if she saw how bad my gas could really get, maybe...just maybe?!?! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | What would be even better is if someone with a nice collection would play and sing something awful, so she could say, "You sound better than him." OK, I went over the top again. Put that one with the dream about finding a 55 Speedster in an old barn. |
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Location: NJ | aw, shit! . . . why didn't you TELL me??
My aunt HAD one in her barn from when she was a girl. . .
. . . just sold it . . . yesterday . . .
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Location: Boise, Idaho | On ebay, I bet...for $500. I thought you were going to volunteer to be the awful sounding guitar player. Then my wife would say, "See, even a bunch of guitars and fancy equipment won't help." |
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Location: NJ | $450.
My 'quipmint ain't "fancy" at all . . . pretty basic actually . . . and (truth be told) I AM a pretty shitty guitar player . . . bring her to a gig sometime . . . .
Just lemme know ahead of time and I'll bring the "Suck" stompbox . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm not sure I could get her to cross the street to see a guitar player, much less go to New Jersey. Actually, we used to do that sort of stuff till we had kids. Now that we're empty nesters, we'll have to start going out to the clubs again, such as they are in Boise. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | wach out for the drive-bys |
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Location: NJ | When they do drive-by shootings in Idaho . . .
. . . do they use potato guns?? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Crips an' the Spuds |
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Location: Moscow | Hi guys!
Sorry about stupid question (I'm newbie here...) I've got Custom Balladeer 1755 with FET-3 preamp. My friend has got Legend 1756 with OP-24 that looks like the same thing. What's the difference between FET-3, FET-24, OP-24?
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You suppose I'm on this site too much when I remember the answers to those questions? At least you know how to do a link. Visit more often. Are you Moscow Russia or Moscow Idaho? Or is there some other Moscow? |
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Location: Colorado | Not to take the octane out of your GAS, but I've had the same guitar since 1985, and made my living with it...ok I've got acouple others too..every now and then the music directors want a different wound than electro-acoustic...and I've gotten around in a rag-top Karmann Ghia to boot...which really drives my wife nuts. Hey the Axes fit behind the seats. Cliff...I still owe you a pic of the ghia
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Location: Moscow | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
You suppose I'm on this site too much when I remember the answers to those questions? At least you know how to do a link. Visit more often. Are you Moscow Russia or Moscow Idaho? Or is there some other Moscow? Moscow Russia, Mark :) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Welcme. We have a member from Moscow, Idaho. That's where my daughter lives. I'm sure the only similarity is the name, and we pronounce it "Mosscoe" here, just so people don't confuse it with the real Moscow. |
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| Ahhh how many continents is this now? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Moscow, Russia is still in Europe. Until further notice.
Americans, nice folks, but not famous for their geographic skills....... ;)
"I don't even know what street Canada is on!"
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Location: SoCal | Hey Mark, I wanna see a pic of the Ghia too! We had a 1964 coupe in the family until about 1980. Great car. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | A New Yorker once asked me which direction Idaho was. We were in Seattle and I said, "Well, it can't be West." He said, "Why not?" He then asked if there were any states between Seattle and New York besides Idaho and Detroit. (His plane had stopped in Detroit on the way to Seattle, so he assumed it was in between.)
Yes, he was a lawyer and apparently smart enough to pass the New York bar exam. |
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Location: NJ | I can't count how many times I've been in New York . . and I have YET to pass the bar . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | How appropriate that the title of this thread is "dummy plug". |
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Location: closely held secret | Thanks, Mark. You kept me from saying that. :D |
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Dummy Plug...?!