Well we're overdue for a thinning of the herd, aren't we? Besides, once the pandemic is over, we won't have to worry about global warming any longer, since that is reely caused by too many damn peeple on teh planet!
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Germ theory denialism is a thing. Yeah, I know. Fortunately, there is a cure to the exasperation this may make you feel : you can become a germ theory denialism denialist. I recommend it.
Germ theory denialism is a thing. Yeah, I know. Fortunately, there is a cure to the exasperation this may make you feel : you can become a germ theory denialism denialist. I recommend it.
Funny thing is that:
* People who believe the lies of mainstream media call those who don't "conspiracy theorists"
* People who don't believe the lies of the media call those who believe "sheeple"
* Now we have denialism denialist - the mainstream people who deny those who deny mainstream
* And also have Conspiracy Denialism, a category where there is a real conspiracy that people deny.
There is also Trump's "Fake News". A bias political category of so-call reality...
It is a great time to be alive! Smack in the middle of a consciousness battle between reality and illusion. Are they different? How can you tell - is it a question of mass consensus, but what about Plato's cave - where the consensus is illusion?
Haaa. I love it! It sure beats living locked into a consciousness straight jacket. Well, some are still there and enjoy the space.
Asymptomatic but infectious for 7, possibly 14 days.
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Just blew up in washington tonight and took 24 police and firefighters out of the game....Given that there are more hawaiians in the NW than hawaii, its certainly here as well. But we already knew that when that japanese couple got it before leaving waikiki two weeks ago.
Well we're overdue for a thinning of the herd, aren't we? Besides, once the pandemic is over, we won't have to worry about global warming any longer, since that is reely caused by too many damn peeple on teh planet!
Did you see these pics? Maybe some animals wont go extinct for a few days and the lungs of the world can take a breath
* People who believe the lies of mainstream media call those who don't "conspiracy theorists"
* People who don't believe the lies of the media call those who believe "sheeple"
* Now we have denialism denialist - the mainstream people who deny those who deny mainstream
* And also have Conspiracy Denialism, a category where there is a real conspiracy that people deny.
There is also Trump's "Fake News". A bias political category of so-call reality...
It is a great time to be alive! Smack in the middle of a consciousness battle between reality and illusion. Are they different? How can you tell - is it a question of mass consensus, but what about Plato's cave - where the consensus is illusion?
Haaa. I love it! It sure beats living locked into a consciousness straight jacket. Well, some are still there and enjoy the space.
Mumbo jumbo.
You'd be a lot more specific and concise if you actually understood any of the things you claim of have knowledge of.
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but it would take too much time
Rubbish. As simple bullet point version with testable predictions is almost always possible for someone who actually has a real understanding of a topic. I've never met anyone who really understood a subject who couldn't do that.
Just blew up in washington tonight and took 24 police and firefighters out of the game....
Yeah, it's here in the States.
I would think it will progress as it has in South Korea, perhaps worse since not only are people here not accustomed to wearing masks to prevent the spread of sickness, our bozo Surgeon General is telling people not to buy masks at all.
I think in the end it will be determined that it lives longer than expected on surfaces.
The CDC/DHS is doing NOTHING to educate people on it, nothing to encourage safe practices. Combined with Orange Clown dictating the Special Stock Market Health Triumvirate the question is how much worse?
CDC page is useless, says there are only 22 cases in the States when it's at least 71. With an R0 of close to 3, and a response barely less inept than Iran, we could be at 1,000 in 10 days. Hopefully not.
But it's insane living in Idiocracy means the CDC is ran by a religious "AIDs is God's revenge" bozo and it hasn't been updated, doesn't provide any explicit direction, and is doing nothing to help us.
...but hey, gotta protect that stock market and the oligarchs.
The only honest poly in congress, and probably not for much longer since she's solely running for Pres in 2020.
Erdogan has made many statements that Aleppo belongs to Turkey, the Sultan is freaking out over his jihadi proxies getting evicted from Idlib, and his own troops getting smashed in Syria AND Libya now. His new caliphate is crumbling but he's attempting to get another NATO R2P intervention happening. Can't see it this time...
May I suggest that the thread "Writing lyrics" from the lounge could be moved to the music colab section? A lot of collective effort went into that one. Can't think of a better place for it. Or any place at all.
so not even a polite official word or explanation? how nice!
or is this like China where they take away your mother for 'treatment' never to be seen again, not a word, just silent purging and a 'dunno-mate' shrug..
pretty busy brushing up on my music videoin' skills anyhow, video is so slow compared to whipping up a tune!
btw i stumbled on JF's twitter last week.
in unrelated news i have increased confidence my TDS theory is a potential factor in the great lounge purge.
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anyway super thursday....
when Brennan backs Biden the night before you knows whats up.
May I suggest that the thread "Writing lyrics" from the lounge could be moved to the music colab section? A lot of collective effort went into that one. Can't think of a better place for it. Or any place at all.
I'm still here bro, I thought YOU had bailed...good to see you back.
So it appears the Lounge has shrunk to the size of this thread?
I just binge-watched 'The Boys' on Prime, which I highly recommend if you like your super-heroes corruptable...strange title for an awesome show, def one of my favourites. https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0K...m_c_8pZiqd_2_2
I was about to buy this excellent Powershell Core book on Kindle and then found out Packt lets you read that one for free, along with some others...saved myself $40: https://www.packtpub.com/free-ebooks...rshell-core-60
Nothing too divisive...
Does a Kemper count as an Amp sim?
A little late to replying. Not coming around here much these days. Good to see you still around.
I think I have probably bailed on just about everything these days, except guitar playing. <Enjoying my amps a' plenty Jerome; haven't touched a sim or any plugin in many months; the whole neighborhood knows it's true>. I tried to get into pedals, but the things just ended up piling up on a shelf after mucking up the sound from my amps. Got a package sitting here from Japan that I haven't opened yet. I think it will probably end up on the shelf too, and I think it will be the final nail in the coffin of my interest in the things. A treble boost and clean boost is probably all any self-respecting guitar player ever really needs. Amps rule, sims drool.
I never could get into Powershell. I tried. I still use cmd for windows for running a few utilities, but I have lost interest in most things to do with computers these days, other than sometimes surfing the commerce-net. When I use my daw anymore, it is only for running Reaper for learning music. What a waste. And that doesn't require windows these days. Playing with people is more fun. People rule, computers drool.
Seems like it has been forever since I saw a good movie. Is anyone still making those things anymore? I'll go back every few months and watch something I have already seen, maybe just to remind myself that the things actually existed. Movies rule, series drool.
Maybe the DNC will let o' Bernie through this time, maybe not. I won't send a cent to the Democratic Party, so I'll be holding back any possible donations until after that shit show smears out. Seems like the Puckered Orange has given us about the same sort of display of power as the others before him. Socialists rule, capitalists drool.
Hope all the ex-loungers are doing well and finding your time away from the lounge to be enjoyable and productive at something. Reality rules, virtual drools.
Don't ask why I'm referencing Billy Madison. It was a terrible movie.
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Great Peter, but where is your laptop with Reaper?
Ha ha, right here of course. More seriously, the Surface Pro isn't ideal for music production, the built in sound card is a bit iffy (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't).
I tried to get into pedals, but the things just ended up piling up on a shelf after mucking up the sound from my amps. Got a package sitting here from Japan that I haven't opened yet. I think it will probably end up on the shelf too, and I think it will be the final nail in the coffin of my interest in the things. A treble boost and clean boost is probably all any self-respecting guitar player ever really needs. Amps rule, sims drool.
Normally I would agree with you brainwreck, I've been getting my dry main tones from amp heads only for years now.
Some pedal manufacturers have lifted their game lately, I actually have found some gainy pedals from Strymon and Wampler that I want:
This isn't a pedal exactly, a direct recording device that actually exceeds expectations...if you love legit Fender/Vox/Marshall tones this is sex in a pedal, without messing around with IRs in the box (although both the amps and cabs are bypassable):
This isn't a pedal exactly, a direct recording device that actually exceeds expectations...if you love legit Fender/Vox/Marshall tones this is sex in a pedal, without messing around with IRs in the box (although both the amps and cabs are bypassable):
Both the Iridium and Reactive Load IR let you add your own IRs to the device, their on-board selections are pretty stellar though.
And now I've got G.A.S. again...
Anybody else found some awesome new pedals?
That thing sounds alien to what I know from amps, like a synthesized version of an amp. At the moment I have a blackface, silverface, marshall, and 212, 412, and 410 cabs and miscellaneous speakers (celestion, jensen, cts, utah, weber). It doesn't remind me of the character of any of them. This is what an amp sounds like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI07hMh7XkU I have the 1965 version of that amp with cts speakers. I ain't having no synthesized amp.
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I just wish there was less noise and "i didn't read the manual" stuff here in general and now all that noise from the lounge will find it's way to general and it's going to be even worse... dang it! I'll be reading forums less and less.
Normally I would agree with you brainwreck, I've been getting my dry main tones from amp heads only for years now.
Some pedal manufacturers have lifted their game lately, I actually have found some gainy pedals from Strymon and Wampler that I want:
I have the Strymon Sunset, so far it has lasted on my live gigging pedalboard for a year now, longer than any other pedal I've owned. Thing is, TONs of classic albums were recorded with pedals, tons of them.
There is a trick with almost all od/dist pedals, and that's a combo of the pedal breaking up some and it's output being strong enough to break the amp up a tad as well. That's the main reason I use a deluxe reverb because 22 watts is the sweetspot for doing that live in today's world.
A slightly different example, tube screamer circuit always has some clean going through the signal, always, even with it's gain at 100%. It's that way because it isn't to sound like tubes, it's to make tube amps scream so you set it so that clean component is breaking up the amp, which is combined with the OD component in the signal - if someone doesn't know that, or they use it with the wrong amp, they'll hate the pedal for the wrong reasons.
Similar with Fuzz circuits, they only work well in some types of amps, others they just don't, but pedals, amps, guitars have always been about the combo - just buying some pedal and expecting it to be what you want, is only 1/3 of the equation, it takes all three (guitar, amp, pedal) to come up with something good - there is no such thing as an OD or distortion that "just works" regardless of what it is in the chain with.
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I have the Strymon Sunset, so far it has lasted on my live gigging pedalboard for a year now, longer than any other pedal I've owned. Thing is, TONs of classic albums were recorded with pedals, tons of them.
There is a trick with almost all od/dist pedals, and that's a combo of the pedal breaking up some and it's output being strong enough to break the amp up a tad as well. That's the main reason I use a deluxe reverb because 22 watts is the sweetspot for doing that live in today's world.
A slightly different example, tube screamer circuit always has some clean going through the signal, always, even with it's gain at 100%. It's that way because it isn't to sound like tubes, it's to make tube amps scream so you set it so that clean component is breaking up the amp, which is combined with the OD component in the signal - if someone doesn't know that, or they use it with the wrong amp, they'll hate the pedal for the wrong reasons.
Similar with Fuzz circuits, they only work well in some types of amps, others they just don't, but pedals, amps, guitars have always been about the combo - just buying some pedal and expecting it to be what you want, is only 1/3 of the equation, it takes all three (guitar, amp, pedal) to come up with something good - there is no such thing as an OD or distortion that "just works" regardless of what it is in the chain with.
What I have found with tube screamers is that once the amp is breaking up (amp dependent of course, AND using the guitar volume control), whether you use whatever flavor of tube screamer or clean boost or overdrive as a mostly clean boost doesn't make much difference, i.e, that character of a tube screamer is mostly out the window. What it does do though (if you aren't trying to use it as a gainy overdrive/distortion pedal...yack!) is provide a little more gain, a little volume boost, thickness in the mids with rolled off lows (that mid bump), for some soloing situations. In other words, it takes a general foundation tone up just a bit to cut through. A famous player of tubescreamers, SRV, said that he used them only because he hadn't found anything better at that point. He didn't ascribe any magic to the things. And he didn't leave the thing on. It was used in some soloing situations, not for achieving a foundation tone. For myself, a decent modern overdrive (OCD, etc.) used as mostly a clean boost can do essentially the same sort of thing, but without rolling off the lows, and it is alot more versatile than a tube screamer. Whatever floats your boat. Two slightly different flavors of the same sort of thing (when the amp is already breaking up a bit or more). And if you really like your foundation tone and don't want it reshaped and mucked up by a pedal but just want a little more push (gain and volume), a clean boost can be all that is needed. And more classic tones probably used a treble booster than any other sort of boost/dirt pedal, which is about as simple as a pedal gets.
Fuzzes are touchy beasts. There is the impedance issue and the different schools of fuzzes. And different fuzzes work better and worse with different amps. And some people are never going to like fuzzes, no matter what type or in combination with any amp. I wouldn't try to treat a fuzz as a distortion pedal though, trying to use it with a completely clean amp.
Any way, what I'm finding with pedals is that the more of them I have, the less music I make, spending too much time mucking with pedals. And that foundation tone that I love gets more and more mucked up with the addition of each pedal. But I do like what some people do with strings of pedals, as exceptions.
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just buying some pedal and expecting it to be what you want, is only 1/3 of the equation, it takes all three (guitar, amp, pedal) to come up with something good - there is no such thing as an OD or distortion that "just works" regardless of what it is in the chain with.
Ran into that with a Boss DS-1 distortion pedal I bought a year or so ago. I liked what I heard on some of the You Tube demos, but have never really been happy with it in my setup.
On the other hand, that Tone Press pedal you suggested is on pretty much all the time. That and my TS-9 are pretty much my go to pedals anymore.