What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block?
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h3dg3h0g
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 What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block? There's a little transparent plastic bead on the front of my Railboard R-Block near the cable input. It looks like maybe it's a little power-on indicator or something. It doesn't seem to do anything at all. What IS it?  Thanks!
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Marty6126
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Re: What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block? Indicates phantom power.
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dbrosky
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Re: What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block? It's doing the backstroke!..... whoops wrong joke ( Waiter, ....what's this fly doing in my soup?)
hedge, listen to Marty!
take care, & trying to lighten the mid week,
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earthgene
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Re: What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block? There is a good write up of it here. The R-block is very versatile in that it is both an active and a passive pickup, depending on the availability of phantom power. Dave, let's you and me cross the street and get our soup some place else! 
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Luc
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Re: What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block? Jonathan, one of these days, get a small mixer with phantom power, and run your Railboard through it. You will mess your pants with joy, I promise you.
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h3dg3h0g
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Re: What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block? Oooo! Cool!
Luc, I will get a little mixer AND new undies in anticipation of your promised joy!
Thanks!
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BSharp
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Re: What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block? While we're exploring this messy subject, what's worse than finding a fly in your soup?
Finding a half a fly. (Told to me as a kid by my Mom, who was raised in sophisticated Chicago during the '20s.)
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Robstafarian
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Re: What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block? Greg Howard demonstrated this in his video about the R-Block:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS4y9QzOE0&index=9&list=PL96A9DA6B696E926E[/youtube]
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Alain
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Re: What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block? BSharp wrote: While we're exploring this messy subject, what's worse than finding a fly in your soup?
Finding a half a fly. (Told to me as a kid by my Mom, who was raised in sophisticated Chicago during the '20s.) Here, in the province of Québec, we have a lot of apple trees and the joke was...what is worst than finding a worm in a apple? ...finding half of it... 
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Luc
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Re: What's That Transparent Plastic Bead On My R-Block? blackbee, I was saying that because the sound of the R-Block pickup when run through a phantom power source is just so damned good.
Edit: I was responding to a post which no longer seems to be there...
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