Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Be there
Speaker 1: and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.
Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer with iHeart Podcasts and How the
Speaker 1: Tech are You? So I'm working on an episode about
Speaker 1: stage lighting systems, specifically systems designed to move lights around
Speaker 1: in specific ways, because I went to a rock and
Speaker 1: or Roll show last night and was thinking about that
Speaker 1: as I was watching the show. However, this is a
Speaker 1: topic that is fairly complicated and complex. It's got a
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts, as it turns out. So I
Speaker 1: am still working on that, and I hope to bring
Speaker 1: you that show on Wednesday, but I still owe you
Speaker 1: a show today, and I've been spending all my time
Speaker 1: working on this other show that's not ready. So instead
Speaker 1: we're gonna listen to a very much classic episode of
Speaker 1: tech Stuff. This episode originally came out September twenty first,
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. It also relates to rock and
Speaker 1: or Roll because the title of the show is tech
Speaker 1: Stuff Shreds on the Electric Guitar. So you're gonna hear
Speaker 1: me and my co host at the time and my
Speaker 1: editor at the time over at house. Stuff works because
Speaker 1: that's back in the house. Stuff works days, Chris Pollette.
Speaker 1: So Chris Pollette and I sat down to talk about
Speaker 1: the history and the operation of electric guitars. I listened
Speaker 1: back to this episode and it was so nice to
Speaker 1: go down memory lane and to listen to the chemistry
Speaker 1: between me and Chris. I loved him as a co
Speaker 1: host and editor. As a person, I also loved him.
Speaker 1: He's a great guy. Like I wish I could really
Speaker 1: talk smack about Chris, but I can't because he's super cool.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I thought it'd be nice to bring back
Speaker 1: this blast from the past while we are waiting for
Speaker 1: my episode about stage lighting, which I know doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like it's super interesting, But if you go to one
Speaker 1: of these shows and you see like all these lights
Speaker 1: that end up really elevating the experience, you know it's
Speaker 1: more than just highlighting the performers themselves. Literally, it's all
Speaker 1: about evoking a mood. Right Like at a particular part
Speaker 1: of a song, there might suddenly be an incredible moment
Speaker 1: where all the lights sweep out over the audience just
Speaker 1: as the music is crescendoing. So how does that work?
Speaker 1: That's what I'm working on now and what I will
Speaker 1: bring to you on Wednesday, But for the moment, let's
Speaker 1: go back and listen to this very much classic episode
Speaker 1: of tech Stuff from two thousand and nine, and I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy. The world lost a great inventor, Les Paul,
Speaker 1: who was one of the people instrumental to use a
Speaker 1: pun in creating the electric guitar. He was not the
Speaker 1: first person to combine electricity with guitars, but we'll get
Speaker 1: to his contribution shortly. So why would you want to
Speaker 1: create an electric guitar in the first place.
Speaker 2: There are a couple of reasons, the most I would say,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, obvious of which is that if you
Speaker 2: want your guitar to be heard by people more than
Speaker 2: a few feet away, you're going to need to find
Speaker 2: some way to amplify it. That's a good point, and
Speaker 2: so you would want to be able to plug it
Speaker 2: into an amplifier so that the amplifier would project the
Speaker 2: sound farther. That's a good point too, which is you
Speaker 2: know why you have those giant speaker cabinets on the
Speaker 2: side of rock stages.
Speaker 1: Right, because the only real alternative, if we're talking about
Speaker 1: the earlier stages, is to put a microphone directly in
Speaker 1: front of the guitar and hopefully pick up the sound
Speaker 1: and transmit it that way, which is not the best
Speaker 1: way to get a clean sound out of your guitar.
Speaker 2: It's inefficient, right to be honest, because the the sound
Speaker 2: is not the sound waves are traveling from the guitar
Speaker 2: to the microphone. And of course, anytime sound travels through
Speaker 2: the air, there is the possibility that will become distorted.
Speaker 1: Yes, which sometimes is something you want, but you want
Speaker 1: to be able to control it. You don't want uncontrolled distortion.
Speaker 1: Although uncontrolled distortion a would be an awesome name for
Speaker 1: a rock band, it probably is one already could be
Speaker 1: if not patent pending.
Speaker 2: Okay, so uh, let's file for these patents. Yeah, I guess,
Speaker 2: I guess we do.
Speaker 1: We have a whole bunch of them pending, now, don't
Speaker 1: we at least three? So the way sound works, you've
Speaker 1: got something vibrating, right, and then that causes other molecules
Speaker 1: to vibrate. Eventually, these vibrating molecules hit our ears, causing
Speaker 1: little hairs to vibrate, sends little vibrations down to our
Speaker 1: ear drums, and that's what we interpret as sound.
Speaker 2: Excellent. You've got to have.
Speaker 1: Some sort of molecules in the in the environment in
Speaker 1: order to be able to hear, which is why if
Speaker 1: you're in outer space, you're not likely to hear anything
Speaker 1: because the molecules are spread out so far apart that
Speaker 1: there's not much chance of one bumping into another.
Speaker 2: That would be the whole vacuum thing.
Speaker 1: That would be, yes, the vacuum thing. Yeah, yes, it's
Speaker 1: the hoover element of the equation. As I like to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to leave the science stuff to other folks.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I of course wrote an article about
Speaker 1: can humans here in space? Spoiler alert they can't. So
Speaker 1: the idea behind a regular guitar, I mean, the reason
Speaker 1: why guitars have a hollow body, why many stringed instruments
Speaker 1: have a hollowed body, is so that creates a natural
Speaker 1: amplification chamber. Yeah, without it, you wouldn't hear very much.
Speaker 2: And the size and shape of that chamber, you know,
Speaker 2: has a lot of effect on the way a guitar sounds. Right,
Speaker 2: That's why some electric guitars maintain the hollow body while
Speaker 2: others go for a solid body. Right, So you know,
Speaker 2: they both have their own merits and yeah.
Speaker 1: And early on in the experiments in electrifying guitars, many
Speaker 1: of the innovators tried to alter existing guitars, like hollow
Speaker 1: body guitars, but there was a problem with that in
Speaker 1: that you would often get distortion based upon the natural
Speaker 1: amplification from the hollow body and the electrical implication you're
Speaker 1: getting from the electric guitar.
Speaker 2: What also depends on how you are trying to electrify
Speaker 2: your guitar too, because.
Speaker 1: If you're just hugging up a couple of jumper cables
Speaker 1: to your guitar, that's probably not the best way.
Speaker 2: Not quite what I meant. Oh, okay, because I know
Speaker 2: that in early, early electric guitars, they didn't always plug
Speaker 2: in in the same place, and they didn't always try
Speaker 2: to pick up the sound from the same place.
Speaker 1: Wait, you used a word there, pick up. Oh.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's not just a truck.
Speaker 1: No, it's not. It's an important part of the electric guitar.
Speaker 2: Yes, because in early guitars they tried to pick up
Speaker 2: the vibrations, the the sound vibrations up of you know, upwards,
Speaker 2: away from the guitar body and toward the neck right
Speaker 2: and even at the end of the guitar.
Speaker 1: Yes, and now it's at the other end, the bass
Speaker 1: of the guitar. That's where you're gonna find the pickups.
Speaker 1: Now a pickup here, we've better explain, I guess the
Speaker 1: basis of an electric guitar, Like, what makes the electric
Speaker 1: guitar work?
Speaker 2: I'd like to point out that electric guitars aren't, well,
Speaker 2: at least not in most cases themselves electric.
Speaker 1: They're passive exactly. We're getting back to our old friend,
Speaker 1: the electro magnet here.
Speaker 2: Yes, I remember our old friend, the electromagnet Yese it
Speaker 2: got up and left the other day? Does I had
Speaker 2: to pay for lunch? Never rights, I know what a jerk.
Speaker 1: But electromagnets. You may recall from our previous episodes that
Speaker 1: if you have a if you run an electric current
Speaker 1: through a coiled copper wire usually coiled around an iron core.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily, but it can be, that can create a
Speaker 1: magnetic field. So electricity congenerate a magnetic field, and if
Speaker 1: you alter a magnetic field, you can induce electricity. Chris
Speaker 1: and I will be back to talk more about electric
Speaker 1: guitars after this quick break. So, with an electric guitar,
Speaker 1: you have a pickup at the base usually of the guitar,
Speaker 1: that is a magnet that has a coil around the magnet,
Speaker 1: and that means there's a magnetic field magnet. That's what
Speaker 1: magnets produce, right, So when you strum a string, the
Speaker 1: frequency the vibration of that that string create distorts the
Speaker 1: magnetic field by destroying the magnetic field, oscillating it. Essentially,
Speaker 1: you create an electric current. The electric current runs through
Speaker 1: the little coil that's around the magnet. And then if
Speaker 1: you don't have your guitar plugged into anything, it doesn't
Speaker 1: go anywhere, right, and you won't really hear anything if
Speaker 1: it's a solid body electric guitar anyway, but.
Speaker 2: You will, but you'd have to be very very close
Speaker 2: to it. You won't hear much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll sound pretty weak, and because there's nothing to
Speaker 1: really amplify the sound. Now, if you have it plugged
Speaker 1: into an amp, that little electric signal will go to
Speaker 1: the amp which has a couple of different elements to
Speaker 1: it that can boost the signal and then convert it
Speaker 1: back into sound. And that's the sound you hear when
Speaker 1: you strum the strings on electric guitar.
Speaker 2: Now, for an electric guitar too, I mean assuming that
Speaker 2: we're not talking about an acoustic electric guitar in which
Speaker 2: you're basically attempting to amplify the sound from the electric guitar.
Speaker 2: If you're talking about an electric guitar like, for example,
Speaker 2: a Lass Paul, then the pick are directly underneath the
Speaker 2: strings where you actually play, where you actually strum or
Speaker 2: pick the strings, and that enables them to be very
Speaker 2: close to the original vibration. And in some cases the
Speaker 2: pickups are designed to move closer to or farther away
Speaker 2: from the string as you need to adjust them so
Speaker 2: that you can, pardon the pun for once fine tune
Speaker 2: your sound, you can sort of modify things to as
Speaker 2: you need to to get the sound you're trying to
Speaker 2: get right. No, that's not always the case. I mean,
Speaker 2: some of them are very very simple, where there is
Speaker 2: a single bar magnet that is used as a pickup.
Speaker 2: But you'll notice too that some guitars use one set
Speaker 2: of pickups while other guitars use several different sets of pickups.
Speaker 2: And you can actually you'll see switches on the guitar
Speaker 2: body that you know enables you to turn one set
Speaker 2: on or one set off, or modify the sound to
Speaker 2: to you know, make changes to your sound without having
Speaker 2: to sit there and you know, rewire the whole darn thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Essentially, you have controls that allow you to filter
Speaker 1: out certain frequencies, and so by choosing which frequencies you
Speaker 1: want and which ones you don't want, you can have
Speaker 1: your guitar sound in you know, many different ways. You
Speaker 1: can have that really you know, kind of crunchy rock
Speaker 1: sound that you hear from alternative rock bands, or you
Speaker 1: can have that more sort of twangy sound from you know,
Speaker 1: a country western or even like the sort of the
Speaker 1: surf rock sound of a guitar. A lot of that
Speaker 1: is just through filtering out which frequencies you want to
Speaker 1: go to the app and which ones you don't. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool that with one instrument you can
Speaker 1: get so many different sounds out of, you know, just
Speaker 1: by tweaking a knob or two.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And one of the really cool things about an
Speaker 2: electric guitar, as far as I mean just from a
Speaker 2: scientific standpoint, although apparently I'm not leaving the science to
Speaker 2: other people, is that you can make so many modifications.
Speaker 2: I mean, the having it wired like that gives you
Speaker 2: a lot of control over the sound, and it actually
Speaker 2: enables you to share the sound and control of your
Speaker 2: sound with another piece of your instrument puzzle, which is
Speaker 2: the amplifier, because once you plug it in, the amplifier
Speaker 2: becomes part of the electric guitar as the entire instrument.
Speaker 2: In some cases, you're it's just simply going to amplify,
Speaker 2: But in a lot of cases, especially for rock musicians,
Speaker 2: there are amplifiers you can buy that have a lot
Speaker 2: of the equipment built in that allows you to modify
Speaker 2: the sound. You can add reverberation, for example, or distortion,
Speaker 2: which is very very popular depending on the kind of
Speaker 2: music you're playing. And then of course there are effects pedals,
Speaker 2: some of which actually I know some people who have
Speaker 2: quite a few effects pedals, and basically what these are
Speaker 2: doing enables they enable you to make slight changes to
Speaker 2: the way those vibrations are are distributed across the electrical
Speaker 2: current from between the guitar and the amplifier, and then
Speaker 2: you know, from there to whatever else I guess technically
Speaker 2: the speaker, but if you are in some cases playing
Speaker 2: say an arena show, you might have a microphone stuck
Speaker 2: up next to your actual guitar amp and then from
Speaker 2: there it just going through the PA system out to
Speaker 2: the crowd. So there's a lot of wiring and.
Speaker 1: You rockstars live lives I can only dream of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had to haul around a lot of that
Speaker 2: gear so thankfully not usually the PA, but.
Speaker 1: I've just looked at that gear. Yeah, it's heavy, a
Speaker 1: lot of it. What I think is cool about electric
Speaker 1: guitars is it does allow you to do things like
Speaker 1: have a guitar that has a solid body. I mean again,
Speaker 1: if it weren't for the electrical amplification, then a solid
Speaker 1: body guitar would be pretty much useless because you would
Speaker 1: have to be sitting just a couple inches away to
Speaker 1: be able to hear anything that was coming out of
Speaker 1: it in the first place. And Les Paul's is widely
Speaker 1: credited with creating the first real solid body electric guitar,
Speaker 1: which he called the log It was It is it is.
Speaker 1: It was made by made out of a slab of wood,
Speaker 1: a solid block, and it actually could come apart in pieces.
Speaker 1: I've seen pictures of it. It was pretty impressive. And
Speaker 1: granted he refined that design slightly, that was not the
Speaker 1: design that Gibson picked up when they started to market
Speaker 1: the guitars. Later on. Yeah, and the electric guitar has
Speaker 1: really revolutionized music. I mean that's not an exaggeration by
Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination. By pairing an electric guitar
Speaker 1: with an amp and playing a note, it's possible for
Speaker 1: you to get a vibration off the speaker that continues
Speaker 1: to vibrate the string, and you get a perpetual note,
Speaker 1: a note that will last forever, or until the power
Speaker 1: runs out, or until the power runs out, until your
Speaker 1: audience decides they've had enough of this and they're gonna
Speaker 1: go home.
Speaker 2: He just gonna play that one note right time.
Speaker 1: This is like the most boring, grateful dead concert ever.
Speaker 1: He's jamming on one note and that's it.
Speaker 2: Well, you know whatever, float trippoot. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 2: could have managed that. I bet there's a one.
Speaker 1: Performance artist out there somewhere who's done this, and oh
Speaker 1: sure that. I'm sure there's more than one.
Speaker 2: But yes, yes, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: You know. More power to you if that brings the
Speaker 1: grant money in good luck.
Speaker 2: But if you've wondered, if you've watched a rock band
Speaker 2: play and then watched another rock band right after them,
Speaker 2: you go, why, you know, why does it matter? What?
Speaker 2: Guitars they're using, you know, other than maybe a six
Speaker 2: swing string versus a twelve string, or you know, a
Speaker 2: regular guitar versus saan alto or a bass guitar I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: tenor versus a bass guitar. You might go, okay, well,
Speaker 2: I get it. One's a little bigger than the other.
Speaker 2: One has a couple more strings, So you know, why
Speaker 2: are there you know, what's the difference in a stratocaster
Speaker 2: versus a last Paul? Well, it all, it sort of
Speaker 2: all comes down to the things we were talking about before,
Speaker 2: the number of pickups, what kinds of pickups there are
Speaker 2: on it, whether or not it's a hollow or solid body,
Speaker 2: the kind of wood it's made out of, or other
Speaker 2: material that it may be made out of. And you know,
Speaker 2: even Gibson changed things a couple of years ago when
Speaker 2: it offered an Ethernet guitar because suddenly the connection is
Speaker 2: no longer analog, which is basically it's a you know,
Speaker 2: one quarter inch phono plug on either end. You plug
Speaker 2: one side in your guitar, one side in your end. Well,
Speaker 2: Gibson changed that by incorporating an Ethernet connection. Well, that
Speaker 2: changes the sound even more, it gives you an opportunity
Speaker 2: to play a really clean digital signal, which a lot
Speaker 2: of purists really don't like the idea of, you know,
Speaker 2: everything adds a little bit of change to it. So
Speaker 2: and that's why some people prefer vintage guitars over brand
Speaker 2: new guitars. They say, well, you know, that was made
Speaker 2: out of this kind of wood back in sixty five.
Speaker 2: It's made out this kind of would. Now it's just
Speaker 2: not the same. And they may look the same to
Speaker 2: you or me, but that's not the same.
Speaker 1: And you saw one of those digital guitars over at
Speaker 1: CES one year, didn't you.
Speaker 2: Yes, I did. I thought it was a little weird,
Speaker 2: not because there's anything necessarily wrong with it, but I thought, well,
Speaker 2: you know, I wonder if this is the kind of
Speaker 2: thing that's going to change the way people play guitar.
Speaker 2: And I don't know that it has significantly. I haven't
Speaker 2: seen a lot of people with them. As a matter
Speaker 2: of fact, I've seen nobody in person with them. But
Speaker 2: it was sort of the same kind of thing that
Speaker 2: you saw in the nineteen eighties with electronic drums. They
Speaker 2: were all the rage back in the day because you
Speaker 2: could play all kinds of sounds on them. And now
Speaker 2: the purists I think have sort of maybe not one
Speaker 2: out because they still make electronic drums, but they have
Speaker 2: certainly taken the electronic drum market back. And I think
Speaker 2: that acoustic are not acoustic, but analog guitars. Electric guitars
Speaker 2: are still predominantly the most popular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just waiting for the key tar to really
Speaker 1: really make an impact, right, Chris Pollett and I have
Speaker 1: a little bit more to say about electric guitars, but
Speaker 1: before we can continue shredding, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: to thank our sponsors.
Speaker 2: There was a guitar website called guitar geek dot com
Speaker 2: and basically it hasn't been updated in a while, but
Speaker 2: it allows you to look at the rigs that everybody
Speaker 2: has set ups. You can see what kind of guitar
Speaker 2: that famous artist plays, along with the effects pedals they
Speaker 2: might use and what kind of amplifier they might use.
Speaker 2: And it's really kind of cool because you learn things
Speaker 2: about certain guitar players like Dave Davies of The Kinks,
Speaker 2: who liked to slit his speaker in his amplifier cabinet
Speaker 2: so that it provide just the right distortion sound and
Speaker 2: suddenly it's no longer about the guitar or the effects pedals,
Speaker 2: but whether or not the speaker as a hole in it.
Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, I'd like to see how how Queen got
Speaker 1: that amazing sound at the end with the guitar solo
Speaker 1: of We Will Rock You, because that's still, to this
Speaker 1: day my favorite guitar solo ever. Oh really, yeah, no serious,
Speaker 1: it really is. So here's a little trivia for you guys.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the oscillations of the string causing
Speaker 1: a change in the magnetic field, and that is what
Speaker 1: creates the electrical current that is based off of Faraday's law. Oh,
Speaker 1: so there you go. If you ever are watching a
Speaker 1: musician rock out on stage, you can turn to the
Speaker 1: person next to you and say, this is an excellent
Speaker 1: demonstration of Faraday's law, which is guaranteed to get you
Speaker 1: the ladies.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, not actually guaranteed. Your may some restrictions apply.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it worked on my wife, but she's taken so.
Speaker 2: Okay, then, well are you are you all rocked out? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I'm kind of rocked out for the moment.
Speaker 1: Well, then I guess that takes us straight to a
Speaker 1: listener mail. Oh yeah, rock on this listener. Mail comes
Speaker 1: from Louis and or Lewis. Louis or Lewis, I don't
Speaker 1: know an email. You can write me and let me know.
Speaker 1: Tell hey me again? So you think I know how
Speaker 1: to pronounce his name by now finally got my modem
Speaker 1: working again, so time to email you. In the video
Speaker 1: game podcast The New One, you said that the PS
Speaker 1: three had a cell based processor. What does this mean?
Speaker 1: Also from what you were saying, it seemed that in
Speaker 1: the US Xbox three sixties are more expensive than the Wii.
Speaker 1: Is this true?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: In New Zealand, a twenty gigabyte Xbox three sixties three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, whereas a Wii costs almost four hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: And I'm a bit confused. Well, Louis, let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about the cell based processor. It's a specific
Speaker 1: kind of microprocessor architecture, right, It's based off of the
Speaker 1: cell broadband engine architecture. It's just SELL for short. And
Speaker 1: the idea here is that each cell can handle a
Speaker 1: certain amount of calculations per second, and the PS three
Speaker 1: has I believe seven of these cells, so each cell
Speaker 1: is capable of handling a massive amount of information. The
Speaker 1: problem is you have to be able to design games
Speaker 1: that take advantage of this. They're very good at handling
Speaker 1: parallel problems. So in other words, you've got a you know,
Speaker 1: one of them's handling graphics, another might be handling physics engine,
Speaker 1: another might be handling sound something like that, as opposed
Speaker 1: to all of them working together on one big problem.
Speaker 1: So if you can divide it up, if you can
Speaker 1: divide up duties for each cell, it really takes advantage
Speaker 1: of the hardware. Otherwise you've just got a massively powerful
Speaker 1: machine that you can't really take advantage of. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you designed the game the right way, that makes
Speaker 1: that system one the most powerful system on the market
Speaker 1: right now, bar none, PS three would be the most powerful.
Speaker 1: But again you have to design the software to match
Speaker 1: the hardware's capabilities. Now, as for the pricing, well back
Speaker 1: when the game consoles first came out and they didn't
Speaker 1: all come out at the same time, we should we
Speaker 1: should make that point. But the core system, the Xbox
Speaker 1: three sixty core system was two hundred ninety nine dollars
Speaker 1: and the Xbox three sixty the main system. Because the
Speaker 1: core system was the no frills version the main system
Speaker 1: was three ninety nine. PS three came out with two
Speaker 1: different models as well. At that time, there was a
Speaker 1: twenty gigabyte version and that was four hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars, but then there was the sixty gigabyte version
Speaker 1: that was five hundred and ninety nine dollars ouch pretty
Speaker 1: expensive Nial states right in the US, and the Wii
Speaker 1: when it came out two hundred and forty nine dollars,
Speaker 1: so it was cheaper by fifty bucks than the next
Speaker 1: least expensive console. I should also add many people have
Speaker 1: written in to point this out, and I think we
Speaker 1: mentioned it in an earlier podcast as well, but those
Speaker 1: first PS three models were backwards compatible. You could play
Speaker 1: PS two games on them. It was only after they
Speaker 1: moved to the PS three eighty gigabyte version, and even
Speaker 1: some of the early ones of those were backwards compatible,
Speaker 1: but eventually they took that compatibility out of the PS
Speaker 1: three and since then it has not been there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and some of those older models are are much
Speaker 2: more prized by PS three fans than the newer models,
Speaker 2: right because of that backwards compatibility.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it means one less machine that you have
Speaker 1: to have hooked up to your system if you want
Speaker 1: to play all your games. And when we were recording
Speaker 1: that podcast, we were really concentrating on the systems that
Speaker 1: were available on the market as of the recording of
Speaker 1: that podcast, right. And while you can find the sixty
Speaker 1: gigabyte PS three's and you know, things like Craigslist or
Speaker 1: eBay or whatever, in general, your local game store, unless
Speaker 1: they're selling used consoles, they're not going to have one
Speaker 1: of those in stock because they've been out for a while.
Speaker 1: So that's really why we weren't talking about those and
Speaker 1: why we said that the PS three was not backwards compatible.
Speaker 1: It wasn't because we didn't know about these earlier models.
Speaker 1: It's because you can't really get those in your average store.
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed that classic episode of Tech Stuff
Speaker 1: Tech Stuff Shreds on the Electric Guitar Man. It sure
Speaker 1: was nice hearing Chris Bollhead's voice again. I really enjoyed
Speaker 1: having someone to chat with because we would do our
Speaker 1: research independently. I don't know how many people know this,
Speaker 1: but Chris and I would go off on our a
Speaker 1: own little way and research a topic and have a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about. We wouldn't even necessarily have a
Speaker 1: real outline. We might have a personal outline for ourselves,
Speaker 1: but it would just be a conversation and we would
Speaker 1: have our talk about the topic kind of unfold. That
Speaker 1: way probably wasn't the most efficient way. It certainly didn't
Speaker 1: stop us from going off on tangents, but it was
Speaker 1: a great approach to having a natural conversation about a topic.
Speaker 1: And it sure is a very different thing than for
Speaker 1: me to prepare an episode to present to y'all on
Speaker 1: my own, because it's just me right there makes no
Speaker 1: sense for me to be super extemporaneous. If I were,
Speaker 1: episodes would never end kind of like this one. This
Speaker 1: is going on a lot longer than it needs to,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna wrap this up. Like I said, later
Speaker 1: this week, we'll have an episode about stage lighting that
Speaker 1: I'm still working on now. I'm looking forward to getting
Speaker 1: that to you on Wednesday. I hope you are all well,
Speaker 1: and I will talk to you again really soon. Tech
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