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5th November 2006
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| Gear nut Join Date: Dec 2005
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Thread Starter | what kind of engineer would say "cans" instead of "headphones"? what people call a headphone "cans"? do professional engineers call headphones "cans"? |
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5th November 2006
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NC
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| It comes with "experience" and AGE Dude!! It's been a broadcast term for eons. Anyone remember "Clevites?" |
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5th November 2006
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| Gear nut Join Date: Dec 2005
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Thread Starter | Quote:
also, i've heard that only cheap labour would call it cans nowadays... | |
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5th November 2006
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Jan 2006
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| walters? is that you? |
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6th November 2006
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Seriously, you can post a long ass page but you cant type ¨in my opion¨ ?? : )
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6th November 2006
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6th November 2006
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6th November 2006
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6th November 2006
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| Motown legend  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Songwriter Gulch, Nashville TN
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| The term used to be real common in the '50s and '60s. I think it originated in the military. Headphones didn't become common in studios until the mid 1960s.
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6th November 2006
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: ayr, north queensland, australia
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| why would i say "headphones" when i can say "cans"............maybe i am just lazy they are still reffered to as cans in theatre circles and if you are like me and work in theatre as a day job then yes i still call them cans (and probly always will call them cans out of shear laziness).
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6th November 2006
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| remember not to say "cans" too loosely if there are women around. found that one out the hard way one time.  --jon
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6th November 2006
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| Gear interested  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Austin, TX
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famous, not famous high-brow, low-brow. although i can see your point, i dislike it when live house engineers say "wedges" instead of "monitors." "cans" is just universal it seems. | |
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6th November 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Carlsbad Ca.
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 | I regularly say "cans". I'm also fond of: Boobies Titties Funbags Juggs I also have gotten quite a bit of shit for calling a girl a "fox". i'm old. turn my cans up plz. 
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6th November 2006
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| Look at the size of that rack! Wrap my cans around your ears.  'Cans' have been used for ages. It is quicker to say than 'headphones'. Everyone knows what it means. Can I get more IQ in the cans, man?
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6th November 2006
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Miami, FL
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| very off topic down here in Bolivia theres this new trend among the "musician" community to say hi with a kiss (on the cheek) ... seriously, WTF ???????? |
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6th November 2006
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| punch them in the face and call them homo That'll make you a true american lol
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6th November 2006
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Central America (Texas)
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That's how we roll here in the Good Ole U.S. of Opryland. YEEE HAWWW! I wish I could quit you (AND your cans). 
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6th November 2006
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6th November 2006
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Central America (Texas)
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| It's definitely OK to call them cans. This happens in my studio all the time. "OK, NOW... GRAB HER CANS AGAIN... NO, THE OTHER ONES... NO, WAIT... Never mind." |
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6th November 2006
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| Beso de la muerte. |
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6th November 2006
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if they could only play I would even kiss their asses. i´m in my anti musician motif these days, hate them all. assholes. | |
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6th November 2006
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Hi 5, very good! | |
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7th November 2006
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7th November 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: maui, hi. USA
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| I thought this was a stupid ****ing thread, I was wrong. |
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7th November 2006
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7th November 2006
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: sallaD, TX
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| I think I am going to start saying that. |
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