Technically speaking, pickups are a type of transducer, a generic word for any device that converts one type of energy to another. Electric guitar and bass pickups translate a stringâs vibration (what you play) into an electrical signal that you can pump through an amp or mixer.
The nickname Rip City is usually used in the context of the city's National Basketball Association (NBA) team, the Portland Trail Blazers.The term was coined by the team's play-by-play announcer Bill Schonely during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers on February 18, 1971, the Blazers' first season.he first Portland Rose Festival was held in 1907, and remains the city's major annual festival more than a century later. In 1917, the International Rose Test Garden was established, and it now features more than 7,000 rose plants of 550 varieties.
The largest event of its kind in London is a celebration of nerd culture like no other: The Forest City Comicon is a London, Ontario based comic con that is set to return for its second season in 2015 in partnership with Project Play featuring costumes, vendors, panels, board games, video game tournaments and more.ast chance to enter to win tickets to Forest City Comicon on October 18, 2015 at London Convention Centre (Ontario, Canada). Enter here: http://bit.ly/1OJfseW.