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    Dad Jokes

    @bleujazz3, that's beautiful. And I can entirely relate to that. I'm getting tired, and it's been a tough month. But some shuteye will likely "unknit the furrowed brow." So, I think that, yes, it's time for bed. A good and peaceful night to you, sir. :)
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    Dad Jokes

    Hmm. Yes, I have; but, I was under the impression...hang on...let me look up the definition: Okay, that's what I thought a "shaggy-dog story" was. The humor of the shaggy-dog story comes from it having a punchline, but the punchline isn't worth the time-and-effort of everything that comes...
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    Dad Jokes

    Okay. (Sigh.) I'll bite... @bleujazz3, you've been a gentleman when we've interacted previously, and @fcs101, I've always had the same impression 'bout you. So, I'm going to ask you guys to please explain the post from @bleujazz3 at 12:34am today (just above this post of mine). To clarify...
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    Wish Bass stuff wish list

    ...oh, and I'm gonna need that guy's artificial arm....
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    Bamboo Shirt

    You...set Michael's hair on fire?
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    What are you watching right now?

    Oh. Whew. For a moment there, I thought this was about to become a "What are you wearing?" thread.
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    What would you do?

    Hey, @unix-guy, Your concern is: "I think where I'm mentally stuck is that these are songs we wrote as a band. It's about honoring the integrity of what was written and recorded, and the effort put into it by the band members." What you're appealing to is something like the esprit de corps of...
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    Wish AXE FX III Core - 1U Rack Version

    I'd buy it, and work it into one of the FX loops of the Axe FX III. It'd help simplify the challenges of creating morphing scenes between 4 separate amps. I like my channel-changes to take 500ms to 1000ms, to create a more-musical transition. Triggering a crossfading transition is quite easy to...
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    Dad Jokes

    Gotcha, makes sense. (And, I relate to what you say about wanting to talk with one's Dad at the dinner table, and being unable.) In the area of serious response -- and not at all meant in a cantankerous way, but more like a, "careful, there's a pothole in the road there, you might wish to step...
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    Godin Alex Lifeson Sig

    It's a pretty typical looking S-style guitar, with an ebony fretboard, your choice of a Floyd or a Vega Trem, some Mojotone pickups, a nicely sculpted neck-heel, and an unusual switch position. Call me crazy, but it seems to me that, for the same money or less, I could get exactly the same...
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    Dad Jokes

    There's an issue with the phrase "only a theory," here... BUT, this is the Dad Jokes thread, and to comment on that "issue" would require me to take this as a serious, or at least semi-serious, post. But is it? Past experience with reading your posts, @bleujazz3, has led me to think that my...
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    Wish Sample Block

    "The product?" So, that'd be the Axe III. But does the Axe IV lack sufficient non-volatile memory? Inquiring minds want to know... (I kid, I kid. Mostly.)
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    Wish Sample Block

    If you add, "Samples of a Japanese vocalist singing syllables in persona as a cartoon character," and allow samples to be triggered by pitch tracking or dynamics, you basically created a Miku pedal.
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    It's time

    Again pretending the request is a serious one, both the Miku and the Fart pedal trigger short samples with varying sensitivity to pitch tracking and/or dynamics. Put out an effect block which does that, but with user-editable samples, and you can have a block which... (a.) some users will load...
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    It's time

    The Definitive Review:
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    Whose tone do you want?

    Oh, what about Mark Knopfler? "Brothers In Arms" still moves me to this day. And did anyone mention Gilmour yet?
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    Whose tone do you want?

    I've always thought that Trevor Rabin's tones, especially his lead tones on Can't Look Away, were well worth pursuing. (I mean, yeah, the album cover could've been better if it didn't have him sitting there brooding like a cheesy soap-opera star. But the guitar tones are on-point.)
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    Wish Harmonic generator with level controls for each harmonic

    Sounds cool. +1
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    When's the last time you broke a string during a gig?

    1991, I think. After that unsettling experience, I adopted a steady practice of replacing my strings regularly. It was never a problem again.
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    Anyone have an Eart guitar?

    @Andy Eagle, That's a very helpful and informative reply, and includes some detail I hadn't been aware of. Thank you! (And, I quite like Charvel. They're not really into the headless form-factor unfortunately. That'd be a bit off-brand for them, I guess.)
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    Anyone have an Eart guitar?

    Okay, that's a reasonable reply. But given what you've just said ("...it wouldn't be Eart"), I suppose you can guess what my follow-up question is! :) What would it be?
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    Anyone have an Eart guitar?

    That may be the case, certainly; or, it might not. (How could I know?) That said, the gist of what Headless said makes sense to me: The lowest-level Eart headless is the GW1, and I have it. It has stainless frets, and the out-of-the-box fretwork was not perfect, but was certainly better than...
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    How long does a guitar that stays in tune actually stay in tune?

    Yes! Totally agree about this ^^^ comment. Even on non-locking tuners, you don't want 15 winds of string around the peg. That's just 15 layers of friction points. Y'gotta have a nice clean 3 turns with a good kink (in the wire! ...sheesh, you people) to lock the string in place. That's it...
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    How long does a guitar that stays in tune actually stay in tune?

    I stay within a pretty narrow range of humidities and temperatures for the most part, but I do occasionally travel to beach gigs. And sometimes I have church gigs that're outdoors. Anyhow, I follow certain rules/processes: All my guitars have tended to use double-locking systems or high-grade...
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    What are you current and favourite guitar string manufacturers?

    D'Addario NYXL; previously GHS Boomers.
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    New Geddy Lee music?

    Just listened to "Gone" ...and I love it.
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    Concerns about advances in AI

    Gotcha. In that case I agree that "agents" (so understood) running wild can deliver potential catastrophes. Whether the goals are pseudorandomly set, or injudiciously set by an unimaginative human, the wrong goal coupled to automated "influence operations" has probably already produced serious...
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    Concerns about advances in AI

    Hmm. Thanks for the kind reply. In using the term "persons" I was writing for a general audience because, hey, this is neither an AI forum, nor a philosophy-of-mind forum. But the risk in doing that is: Someone can call you on imprecision-of-language by pushing for more precision! ...as you...
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    Concerns about advances in AI

    I have some background in departments that work adjacent to experiments in applied AI. Here is the thing to understand: 1. Nobody is making machines that "wake up" and are persons. 2. Nobody's trying to. 3. Nobody even has the first clue how they would go about trying. ...BUT, 4. Lots of...
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    Anyone else think this is really ugly?

    I'm with the original poster. I'm not saying I wouldn't accept it for free or at a very low cost. I would; because I could then resell it for a profit. But I wouldn't keep it. Yes, the underlying maple is beautiful; but the finish hurts my eyes. Just a matter of tastes.
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    VH Best of Both Worlds Summer 24 Tour

    I've noticed that. He sounds respectable -- great for an older guy -- on most notes. But he has to choose substitute notes (down a 3rd, a 5th, or even a 6th) for some of the high stuff. And I'll guarantee he isn't even trying that last screech of 5150, anymore. It happens to us all. Sammy was...
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    Movie Review: Blue Beetle

    Never heard of it. Glad to hear I'm not missing anything. (My kids are older. And we don't do current television in our household at all; just DVDs and BlueRays. If we want to find out about something we watch one of the YouTube reaction-while-watching videos and use that decide if it's worth...
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    Wish 23.02 and still no ....

    Similarly missing-in-action: Ah, well, it takes time, on occasion, to acknowledge neglected greatness. * cough *
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    How many of you are volume pot riders?

    Guitar volume? Never touch the stuff.
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    Article: What is the future of the DAW?

    Opinion: We have reached the point, with DAWs, that Microsoft Word had reached, with word-processing software, around 2005; or, Microsoft Excel, for spreadsheet software, around the same time. Fundamentally, the User Interface has already been perfected, for software of that type, and no...
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    Wish Pickup modeling

    Hmm, @Greg Ferguson, You say, Is there any reason in principle that a pickup modeler can't "cover those things?" It seems to me that we've been gradually approaching that capability for a decade, and the Roland VG-8 had an early version of it. As I mentioned above, I've long thought that the...
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    Wish Pickup modeling

    The folks at Virtual Jeff should do this, and pair it with the electronics for their Virtual Jeff whammy, and just do it all in the guitar. I'm pretty sure virtual whammy and pickups are technically possible now, and I've wished for them for years. The lack of economies-of-scale is the big problem.
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    What doesn't the Axe Fx do effect wise

    I was going to buy the Handwired, WazaCraft version with the special goop, but then I found out a Bad Monkey could make the same sound, so I dropped $500 on one of those, instead. :cool: 👍 NAILED IT 👍
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    Post Your Axe-Fx III Rigs Here!

    @Axelman8: Wait, is that St. Michael the Archangel opening up a can o' whoop-a** on the devil, right next to a Buddha, just above a Shahāda pendant, and, I guess, a Pyramid Power Paperweight? Dude, talk about covering all your bases! :D
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    Guitar shop pricing gone mad!

    I fear that prices coming down substantially probably is a dream, at this point, for the same reasons I mentioned in that earlier post. Sure, there are some $4,000 or $6,000 guitars that nobody wants badly enough to pay that kind of cash. That's just manufacturers pricing themselves out of the...
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    Another Gapless Switching Thread... Solved! (Post #136)

    Well, but consider that the one option includes the other option implicitly, as a subset. What I mean is: If your modeling platform contains within itself, as an intrinsic and default feature, the power to crossfade from one channel to another over a time-interval of your choosing (maybe...
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    Guitar shop pricing gone mad!

    Honestly, have you checked what your dollar (or more likely your hundred dollars), can (or more likely, can't) buy at the grocery store these days, compared to 5 years ago? My wife complains about "shrink-flation," where the box on the shelf is the same size as it was, but all of a sudden the...
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    Another Gapless Switching Thread... Solved! (Post #136)

    Yep, and I should have acknowledged you in what I said, 'cause you jumped precisely to the right approach, on the very first page. But, much like the original poster, I've been a bit obsessive about the ability to crossfade (for lack of a true morph, which as you say is different) for years. I...
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    Another Gapless Switching Thread... Solved! (Post #136)

    (gritting teeth) I won't say it all again...I won't...I won't.... (sotto voce) Psst. The only real "gapless" switching is switching that morphs or crossfades from one sound to another over some discernible period of time, however short. Otherwise, any note sustained across a channel-change...
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    New song from Trevor Rabin

    Now THAT is what I was hoping for. My earlier post expressed some moderate reservations about the tune "Big Mistakes." But THIS tune ("Push") has none of the same issues. It answers and overcomes everything I'd quibbled about in the previous one. Way to go, Trevor!
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    New song from Trevor Rabin

    I agree about the sound being Trevor Horn-y... ...uh, let me rephrase that: I agree about the sound being Trevor Horn-esque. ** cough ** But that doesn't necessarily mean Horn was directly involved. I think Trevor Rabin learned a lot from working with Trevor Horn (not to mention the other...
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    New song from Trevor Rabin

    I'm happy he's writing (non-orchestrally/cinematically) again. And his voice sounds amazing, at his age. Since 1983, Rabin has been one of my all-time favorite artists. Now, this particular song is not, I think, quite top-form for him. It's catchy, sure; but it's a mite repetitive. That's...
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    A.I. James Hetfield Singing Under the Bridge

    That's all very well, but for a real challenge, let's see if AI can take Hetfield outside the realm of headbanging rock, altogether. I don't want to hear him doing "Pull Me Under." I want to hear him cover "Sweet Caroline" or "Close to You." Or "Orinoco Flow." C'mon, AI, show us what yer made...
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    Need help with a 90's cover band name???

    If it's 90's, it needs to have that random quality, where you figure there's a backstory to the name, but the story isn't remotely meaningful or significant. You could call it something like, "The Meat Muffin Mixup" ...although, on reflection, that name might suggest more contemporary headlines.
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    Help Needed - Bass Tone is impossible to get

    Yeah, there's definitely an octave thing going on in that track, at that section. It even pairs up with an octave and another intelligent harmony in the second part. You won't be close without that. It's hard to hear, without stems, what that higher part is. @jimfist suggests an octaver or...
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    What do you think of a wedding band with no drummer and backing tracks?

    I think that those booking the band for the wedding will expect a "tracks-band" to cost proportionately less, no matter what the resulting sound quality might be. This is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it stinks, as a performing artist, to negotiate with those who expect to get quality...
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    Oops... It slipped... (NGD coming soon)

    I'll leave that design for others to enjoy; it's definitely not my cup o' tea. In fact, looking at it, I realized what that aesthetic reminds me of: It does, for the Fender Telecaster, exactly what the early 80's Peavey T-60 did, for the Fender Stratocaster. (Now, I wish the best to those...
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    Get rid of switching Audio GAPs p1/6 - Technical measurements and info

    I used to beat a dead horse, all the time, on the topic of gapless switching by means of crossfading. I don't propose to come in and give the horse's corpse a fresh and exhaustive thrashing! ...but, just as a reminder: In the studio, where audio engineers have the option of making transitions...
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    More new from Nuno

    You're quite right, that's a huge improvement in harmony and arrangement, compared to the other two tunes. Now, let's hear them do a song which has their hard-rock sound AND well-arranged and interesting chord changes. Nothing wrong with acoustic guitars, of course; but Van Halen managed to...
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    Wish Channel Groups and Bypass Groups

    +1
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    Wish SEND Mixer (one source, more destinations) || OR allow much more Volume blocks instead of only 4

    Hmm. Would it be possible, without volume blocks, if your intention was to send multiple parallel signals into amp blocks or drive blocks, and the effect you wished to achieve involved increasing the grit/drive/distortion heard from the amp or drive, making it get "growlier" by increasing the...
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    Dad Jokes

    I told this one to my wife. She grinned a little but said, "I thought it was because you might just kill a man and make your mom cry."
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    Wish ADA MP-1

    Clearly. We're especially lacking in people affirming the WISH with comments like "+1" and "Please!"
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    Guitar Stands

    I keep thinking I'll go to all-headless guitars, and then I ask myself, "Self, how's it hanging?" ...and all the answers strike me as sub-optimal. (But, seriously: The inability to use traditional guitar-hanging solutions is legitimately one of the things that makes me hold back from going to...
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    More new from Nuno

    The big thing that's missing in these songs is any interesting harmonic development as time passes. It isn't fair to call something with so many notes a "one chord song"; but if you treat those notes as largely outlining chords (the way a figured bass does in the left hand for piano-playing)...
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    Wish Digitech 2101 Auto Volume Swells with reverb and delay wash

    Pretty sure he doesn't mean tremolo, but I'm not sure what he does mean. @johnnyspys, can you clarify why you mentioned "tempo?" I owned the 2101 and one of the reasons I moved to the 2120, and later to the Fractal, was because the 2101 didn't support any kind of Tap Tempo. So I'm not sure how...
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    Mind blowing stuff from OpenAI

    I think you're correct in a sense, and in fact I've commented to that effect somewhere earlier in the thread. (I have a bit of an "in" on some of this information inasmuch as my "day job" involves me in related technologies.) It is being oversold, and in precisely this way: Not one firm in the...
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    Mind blowing stuff from OpenAI

    I wonder what would happen if, instead of attempting a ban, we made the developers of AIs personally criminally and civilly liable for the behaviors and damages of any AI to which they contributed? That's just an early first draft of an idea. It's the "bad, silly version" of it: A straw-man...
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    AI is just stupid coffee-machine

    ChatGPT is designed to do far-more-complex things than anyone's coffee machine! (But the people working on it can't function without the coffee.) Everybody just remember, though: It wasn't designed to be a person. None of the steps of its development involved adding or enhancing features in...
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    AFIII Brazillian Inspired

    Totally different context for the word "Brazillian," but...I keep hoping someone will do an updated cover/version of the instrumental "The Brazillian" from Genesis' "Invisible Touch" album. I've always thought it sounded very cool, and wished that the piece was longer and had more "thematic...
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    Wish ADA MP-1

    I wouldn't be surprised if Fractal came out with two or more different new "amp names" on the same release, modeling this preamp married to different power sections. It's one way within the current ecosystem to deal with the problem of which power amp to use. You could have various "new amps"...
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    Wish Watch in FC12 display

    Watch? Like, on a wristband? Do you mean a clock?
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    Strange kind of women

    True, it is; ...at least, for typical kind of men. ;)
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    Wish ADA MP-1

    How many different stereo power amps were popularly used with the ADA MP-1, I wonder? I mean, we have a lot of options just listed here in this thread.... We have: a stereo pair of 50W JCM 800s (aka "Brit 800 power section"; I saw that in an earlier post) Marshall 9200 the ADA stereo power...
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    Why Are Doctors So Stolid?

    I'm not finding any of these jokes funny. Hey, waitaminute....
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    Ozzy cancels all tour forever

    I just shed the "No More Tours" tear....
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    john petrucci

    For a long while there, I looked kinda like him, in the first picture. And then I got the look he had, in the third picture. And then the second. And then I got old, and got reading glasses and salt-and-pepper hair, and hopped off the Petrucci Look Train, because my biceps and my beard don't do...
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    There's a '57 Les Paul near me for $190,000

    How much does avocado toast go for? I'm wondering how long someone with a daily avocado toast habit would have to go without to afford an overpriced axe....
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    Are new amps really needed?

    Hi there, @northern_fox, Maybe I can give some insight, in reply to your last post? Hmm. Maybe there are some who resist new amps outright. But I'm not in that category. I suspect most of us who think Cliff can afford to deprioritize adding new amps aren't saying, "No, none, no more, never!"...
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    Ibanez Axe Design Lab

    That's what it looks like to me, as well. Lil' bit disappointing.
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    Dad Jokes

    The real question is: Was she really obsessed with her x? Or was she just reminiscing about her last f(x) ...?
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    Another Gapless Switching Thread... Solved! (Post #136)

    True, no doubt. That said, the guy playing the solo knows if it sounds wrong, or if he botches a note. And there may be a few others. Let's stipulate that some of the nuances we obsess over as musicians are overlooked and unfelt by 90% of the audience. Let's further stipulate that of the...
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    Wish Three amp blocks

    I wish there was an Axe III "sidecar" unit, maybe only 1 or 2 rack spaces, which could be joined to one's Axe III via a ribbon cable (or however), and which gave you the ability to have a few more rows and columns on the grid, and which gave you enough processing power to have an extra 2 amps...
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    AXE-FX IV - WISH List

    I've already stated my wish: Crossfading channel changes in blocks, plus crossfading wet/dry signal paths when blocks are toggled on/off. Use a crossfade time set by the user (optionally synced to tempo) and every live tone-change can sound like a nice, musical transition instead of an abrupt...
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    About the Plate Suppressor Diodes Parameter

    I haven't looked... Does that parameter support a modifier? What are you thinking he should use? Pitch tracking? I've actually had the same problem. When I play on the low strings, I find myself wishing I could blend in a little more high-end fizz. But if I do that, I find I am unable to get...
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    Wish Send MIDI Clock

    +1 Yeah, again, seems like an odd oversight, after all this time. I expect that the problem is that the effort to implement it is disproportionate to the size of the group of users who'd benefit from it. This seems especially likely given that the crowd that wants to use MIDI Clock at all is...
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    Anyone have an Eart guitar?

    I want to second what Andy Eagle said, here... ....except that whereas he may have intended his closing question entirely rhetorically (with an implied answer of "no"), I think it should be answered "depends on the person/situation." For the sake of argument, let's presume you get one of the...
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    Anyone have an Eart guitar?

    This ^^^. You don't need anything special. As long as you have a reasonably accurate bathroom scale, you just stand on it with guitar-in-hand, and then stand on it without the guitar, and subtract the second number from the first. Now, I have reason to believe my own bathroom scale is not...
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    The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power

    Yep. I guess it's just barely possible that they're trying for a character-arc where Galadriel starts off as a very bad person, and eventually obtains redemption sufficient to explain her good character by the time of Lord of the Rings. (Sort of like Eustace Clarence Scrubb in Lewis' "Narnia"...
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    The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power

    Comedienne? You mean that YouTuber? I never thought she was trying to be that. I assumed her role was supposed to be that of someone making a reaction video. It isn't that she's funny; it's that she's "An Average Joe" (uh, make that "An Average Joan") ...watching an unintentionally-funny...
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    The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power

    Apparently I'm not the only one seeing the amoral worldview of the writers shining through the writing in Rings of Power: Meanwhile, there is another possible take, offered by this person (about whom I know nothing else), who has learned how to enjoy Rings of Power by treating it as a...
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    The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power

    I've looked at screen shots and summaries, and that's more than enough to see it clearly. As a swords-and-sorcery basher, as a prequel to Willow, it's probably okay. As a representation of Tolkien, the thing is vomit, and dogs will return to it. But, this is what we should expect, given the...
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    I’d like to kill every tree in North America.

    As much as possible, I avoid... buying a house where the power lines aren't buried buying a house that isn't surrounded by trees living in places where the buildings aren't surrounded by trees living in places where my sightlines to the horizon aren't mostly blocked by green living things I...
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    In defense of the hardware UI

    I rarely use the software; I mostly program from the hardware UI. Looking back, I can add that I also worked that way with the Axe FX II, the SoundSculpture Switchblade, the Digitech GSP-1101, the TC G-Force, the various PODs and POD-XTs, the Digitech VGS-2120, the Digitech GSP-2101, and the...
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    Developer Needed: Web Service/Back End Application

    Yeah, yeah. Real men code dynamically-linked executables using EDLIN on MS-DOS 6.22. :tonguewink:
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    The 300th amp model?!

    The B.C. Rich Devastator 50 Watts of Simulated-Tube Power that roughly emulates the sound of 15 Watts of EMF Static vaguely tuned to the pitches of the notes you're fretting Accept No Substitutes.
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    Is it possible to refret just ONE fret?

    I have a guitar that was damaged by a crappy luthier, in the following way: He was supposed to give it a good fret-dress, and it came back to me with all the frets seeming reasonably leveled and polished (though not the best I've ever had, by a long shot), but one fret having some kind of...
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    Developer Needed: Web Service/Back End Application

    Nano. I am not proud.
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    My good friend says I should play more like this

    Hearing that, for sure. A fair bit of Steve Vai in this particular performance/tune, also. I'm thinking early stuff: P&W and Flex-able.
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    Anyone have an Eart guitar?

    Sorry, but the truth is this is my first telecaster style guitar. For so many years I associated telecasters with country music, which I never happened to play. As a consequence, I never felt it was a good use of money to get one. Now that I have one, I find it is different from my other...
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    Anyone have an Eart guitar?

    I now have 2 Earts, a headless and a Tele clone. Both have really nice fretwork. The hardware is cheap, the electronics are meh. But the necks are good, and the frets are just great. I can't find anything about them to complain about.
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    Anyone have an Eart guitar?

    I have an Eart guitar almost identical to the one you linked; EXCEPT that the one you linked has a better bridge. And that's good, because my Eart headless has one of those cheapo Chinese bridges for headless guitars that you can get off Alibaba. I don't recommend those at all. As for all the...
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    The Pets Thread

    I guess the guy named "Rex" oughta know...! ;) / But, is his nose cold? // And, is he also well-informed about dinosaurs? 🤔
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    I wonder if we will be able to "see" the entire electromagnetic spectrum after we die?

    Actually, if that's the route we're going, I would expect an endless view of thirty-foot-high letters of fire saying, "We apologize for the inconvenience."
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    I wonder if we will be able to "see" the entire electromagnetic spectrum after we die?

    I think this question is really interesting, but (I speculate that) we have to distinguish between normal and extraordinary sources of experience. Without a body, one's intellect has no sensory organs, or neurons, and thus no normal means to obtain streams of experience from any material...
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