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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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Dummy Plug...?!
