What does everyone listen to in the shop?

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Depends on my mood and concentration level. Sometimes Audiio books (usually mysteries or thrillers, sometimes Pandora with either classic rock or acoustic seeds. Sometimes I will throw a DVD I have seen into the laptop and let it play. I sneak peeks as the CA dries. Sometimes just quiet.
 
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The sound of sawdust gently coating every surface in my shop ... and then my wife saying "you're going to clean that up, right?"
 
Marnat3 said:
I , personally don't like background noise, but, I seem to be a minority on this.
So I started wondering...

What does everyone listen to in the shop?
Talk radio?
Top 10?
Voices in your head? (that would be me).
Something else?
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Ear plugs in and the sound of my machines, oh and the new ringing in my left ear that started last April.
Lin
 
walshjp17 said:
The sound of sawdust gently coating every surface in my shop ... and then my wife saying "you're going to clean that up, right?"
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I know this one OH TO WELL... My wife chewed my butt because I left a stack of shavings when I left for this deployment.

"what was you thinking leaving it like that?" It will probably look just like it did when I left, when I get home.:smile:
 
I find the music too distracting, and after almost chopping my fingers off in January I was reminded of how important it is to keep my head on what I am doing.
 
Mike Powell said:
walshjp17 said:
The sound of sawdust gently coating every surface in my shop ... and then my wife saying "you're going to clean that up, right?"
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I know this one OH TO WELL... My wife chewed my butt because I left a stack of shavings when I left for this deployment.

"what was you thinking leaving it like that?" It will probably look just like it did when I left, when I get home.:smile:
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This is why my wood shop is a mile away from my wife.
 
Seer said:
ACDC to Flogging Molly anything loud to annoy my neighbor
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I also like to annoy my neighbors... generally blast anything from the Wagner to Slayer, and most everything in between. The only things I dislike are HipHop, teenie type stuff, rap, and girly music.
Joe
 
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In addition to all things mentioned in my first post. I do dearly love Classical music. Will not listen to the local NPR station! Unable to deal with the slant!

How do you keep something that plays CD's clean in a woodshop? Put it in a vacuum chamber? That'd get to be a real pain when changing discs.

Perhaps the cure is one of the newer type toys I'm not familiar with.

Charlie
 
Marnat3 said:
I , personally don't like background noise, but, I seem to be a minority on this.
So I started wondering...

What does everyone listen to in the shop?
Talk radio?
Top 10?
Voices in your head? (that would be me).
Something else?
Click to expand...

I guess we are a minority of two... I don't like radios, music or stereos in my work place... I listen to my machines mostly, and on occasion voices in my head or myself telling me what a doofus I am for doing something the wrong way...
 
Usually nothing, when I do listen to radio it's Talk Radio. More often but still not very often, I will put a cd on and listen to Classic Country (George Jones, Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell, Lefty Frizzel etc. classic) or Gospel.
 
I listen to World Cafe a program that plays different artists than you hear on regular radio. It is broadcasted locally on WNIJ, Dekalb IL. On weekend nights the same station plays Blues.
 
Classic piano jazz from the 20's, 30's, 40's. Ragtime, boogie woogie, harlam stride. Folks like Fats Waller, James P Johnson, Willie "the Lion" Smith, Albert Ammons played by current young piano artists!
 
No radio at the shop-ette,but I love hearing all the birds singing.There's a lot of them over at my storage unit.

Most of the time,I have my earmuffs on,since the dust collector noise sets off my Tinnitis.

This is a fun thread to follow,to see everyone's favorite type of music.

In my truck,I like smooth jazz,or classic rock,or contemporary christian music.

I enjoy listening to reruns of Click & Clack (Car talk} on NPR on Saturday mornings.


Steve
 
I bought some $30.00 speakers and mounted them above my lathe. I create my own music channels on pandora.com, which can range from classic rock, instrumental, 80'-90's metal. I hook my tablet up to the speakers and just let it stream, works great. Only shop rule I have for visitors is no country, no rap, and no political talk radio.. Especially Limbaugh ;) Tablet is nice to bring photos or plans out of different projects as well. I recently received one for the holidays, I really thought I would never use it but It's quickly become something I bring into the shop all the time.
 
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Either the TV or my 80 gig Ipod which has over 6000 songs (still have 25 gigs of free space). About the only genres I don't listen to is hip hop/rap; thrash/death/heavy metal (with classic Black Sabbeth, and AC/DC the execptions); opera; today's "cookie cutter" country, and disco/techno dance. Mostly Grateful Dead as one could surmise by my user name. I just hit shuffle and it plays everything in no particluar order.
 
Classic rock now, I used to listen to the voices in my head, but they got to arguing and wouldn't shut up. Besides they have a history of getting me in trouble and then setting back and just laughing. I hate those guys, but they are fun.
 
I don't want to sound like the carbide whisperer, but I listen to the cutter (and the dust collector). Sometimes I wear earplugs, but I am listening for any change in sound that indicates something new is about to happen to me if I don't stop and check out the problem. I too want to hear where the parts went.:eek: I love most of the choices mentioned above for driving, but I try to be totally focused when I have my fingers doing hazardous duty. I love turning pens. If I am doing something I don't want to do -- please bring the music!

Harry
 
CHARLES STOPCZYNSKI said:
In addition to all things mentioned in my first post. I do dearly love Classical music. Will not listen to the local NPR station! Unable to deal with the slant!

How do you keep something that plays CD's clean in a woodshop? Put it in a vacuum chamber? That'd get to be a real pain when changing discs.

Perhaps the cure is one of the newer type toys I'm not familiar with.

Charlie
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Maybe get an iPod? I seldom use a CD player any longer after getting an iPod years ago. But I'm a traditionalist, and still buy CDs rather than downloading music. And I swear by iTunes to manage the music on my PC -- WAY easier to use than Windows Media Player. I have a couple of old stereo receivers and one outdated surround sound receiver that make excellent iPod music players. Plus the iPod can be carried with you, and used in the car as well.
 
I listen normally to lum and Abner, Lone Ranger, Great Gildersleeve, and other OTR shows. I have almost all the Lum and Abner, and Gildersleeve shows ever aired so I have a lot of media to choose from.

Levi Woodard
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