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    What EQ curve do you flatten studio monitors to?

    But if your system is rolled off in the highs and sounds pleasant, you might raise the treble a bit more, thinking it’s “just right” and then when another person plays your mix on a flatter system they hear ice picks in their ears Monitors aren’t supposed to sound good, they are supposed to...
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    VP4 vs FM3

    I figure I could get like $800 for selling my fm3, so wouldnt really save too much with the vp4 in terms of costs, then also not having access to the excellent amp sims, in the event I want them at times, seems like maybe giving up more selling a fm3 than I’d gain with the vp4 ? If it was like...
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    Billy Gibbons style Tone?

    Just get a Chupacabra or Way Huge Red Llama (which is what Mythos basically copied) or really anything based on the hex inverter/CMOS style drive pedal They all work great to get that kind of fuzzy gritty edge which maybe was a Fender Brownface or Marshall et al., but long story short, they do...
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    Well here comes Hurricane Helene to Bradenton FL........play Scorpions for me!

    We are gusting around 60-70mph here in Parrish, I feel for those people straight in the path with it clocking 130mph and climbing…..
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    Struggling to Hear Tube Differences in Axe-FX III: What Should I Listen For

    Don’t feel bad, I can’t tell the difference between good wine and cheap wine, cheap scotch and expensive scotch. Also can’t tell the difference between a $30 Chinese 12ax7 made last week and one made on the 3rd Wednesday of 1955 in the USA worth $300 or more
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    Blues Saraceno

    I remember reading interviews with him on guitar mags back in high school, seemed such a cool player to me, and it was sure a different world of fame back then….. Actually waiting for a monthly magazine to read about a favorite artist instead of all the 24/7 “content” we have today
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    Wish A secure "TOUR MODE": Password protection with attempt delay and owner info.

    Hopefully you don’t forget your password before a gig and have to cancel the show lol
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    Am I allowed to not like John Frusciante?

    Seems a nice guy and big gear head though, probably would be fun to jam with him and he’s got a huge collection of toys
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    Are all hearing aid providers flakey pirates?

    Older ENT’s are also often the worst because many of them think it’s still 20 years ago when they were the only game in town and could ask $8000 for hearing aids as where else could you go and FDA regulated things and “required” physicians clearance. Now with the internet, club stores, et...
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    Are all hearing aid providers flakey pirates?

    Many ENT’s are honestly worse. They set up a little side LLC venture to sell heading aids after hearing about what a gold mine it is, and then “suggest” most all the patients need a hearing aid which they happen to sell there in the office. Then it’s the usual business of how much they made...
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    Are all hearing aid providers flakey pirates?

    Commission is a horrible thing in what is supposed to be health care. My first job out of grad school was HearUSA….. daily sales goals, “closure rate”, weekly comparisons to other locations on avg selling price with the bottom few getting demoted to “sales training”. It was about nothing...
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    Are all hearing aid providers flakey pirates?

    Remember if any of you are Veterans you can get top of the line hearing aids through the VA at no cost to you. I’ve had a lot of patients tell me how they paid for set after set in the private sector because they didn’t know the VA had a benefit. Of course the hearing aid dealers aren’t...
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    Wish Some more Big Muffs - Green Russian

    Turn up the low mids so it’s not so scooped and lower the gain a bit, you’ve got a Green Russian
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    Anyone know that Jeff Daniels can play guitar…

    Didn’t know til I saw the Newsroom series, then learned he’s an excellent player/singer who could have probably made a living at it if not for the acting thing…. Also a pretty darn good photographer I think I read too
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    Are all hearing aid providers flakey pirates?

    Best to go to Costco, non commission audiologist, better prices than than hearing aid dealers “after” insurance prices in most cases, no sales pressure
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    FM9 + ToneX

    Amps that aren’t in the FM9 for one, different capture technology than FAS modeling tech, huge catalog of custom made profiles, ability to capture the entire chain including drives, cab et al in one shot, amps that respond differently to physical drive and boost pedals, added redundant backup…...
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    FM9 Into a Modded Blues Jr

    I don’t USA a BJ but a ToneKing and it’s my favorite way to monitor any modeler. Logic says you want something neutral but a great amp modeler through a great amp equals like 110% awesome tone
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    AFIII The Doors - Light My Fire

    Man, you just kill it every time, every style, the tones, the playing, it’s always spot on
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    WISH: A documentary about Fractal Audio Systems

    If I had that type of collection I don’t think I’d want to be showing it off for the whole internet, better to keep its location and everything else kind of on the down low….
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    Can We Stop Calling It A Home Studio?

    I think acoustic treatment isn’t a must have if your work primarily with synths or other “in the box” instruments such as doing scoring using big sample libraries etc. If you have a decent set of headphones and know how it transfers to other systems you don’t even “need” so called “studio...
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    How do large scale concerts deal with latency?

    I’d imagine they just adapt as they are professional touring musicians. I mean back in the day before IEMs and stuff artist still played huge stages and they didn’t have wedges everywhere so they could walk out to the wings, into the crowd and still play a spot on solo even if they are hearing...
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    Use existing Wah as Expression Pedal?

    I think most stuff will work, I think I used 100k, thing you want though is a linear taper, not audio taper. Then yes, just unscrew the TS output jack and replace it with a TRS jack, so then you can plug a TRS cable between the pedal and the Fractal unit… Could also just cut the end off a TRS...
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    Use existing Wah as Expression Pedal?

    Those cheap ones are plastic and have a totally different feel under foot, way too long of throw to do whacka whacka wah pedal stuff They aren’t bad for adjusting delay time, effects mix etc, but far cry from a crybaby lol
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    Use existing Wah as Expression Pedal?

    You can’t, but it’s pretty easy to swap out the pot for a linear pot and wire up a TRS jack and then you’ve got a proper expression pedal in a Crybaby housing, maybe $10 in parts…. Mission makes some that are pretty nice if you don’t want to DIY
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    Cygnus X-3 For FM3?

    I don’t “need” either as the FM3 is already way more powerful than it was when I first bought it…. Therefore, speaking for everyone else, the dev’s can just knock off early
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    I don’t use cabs at all. Sounds great!

    I’m super weird, I like the sound of an Ir played through a greenback loaded 2x12 oversized cab. Supposed to be worse way to go, but I feel like it’s the best of both worlds
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    What does PRS’s $499 guitar mean?

    Flat screen tvs, as an example, have gotten bigger, better and much cheaper than a decade or two ago. This is true of lots of products. Perhaps guitars shouldn’t be any different…: If I can drive over to Walmart, get a 75” 4K tv for $599, and it’s actually a great tv, then maybe I should...
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    Wish Third Man Records Plasma Coil fuzz pedal

    If anything, I like the plasma drive version better, it’s purple instead of yellow lol, but it also has a blend knob instead of the octave settings. Being able to dial in some clean with the fuzz/distortion effect makes it a lot more usable. Usually can find them a fair bit cheaper too I do...
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    Wish Third Man Records Plasma Coil fuzz pedal

    I have one, it’s a cool pedal based upon the concept and the visual, but there isn’t anything really unique about the tone, just a kind of broken sounding heavily gated fuzz. If it was just in a solid plain box, I don’t think anyone would play one. Only thing that makes it cool is watching...
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    Fender FR-12 preamp mod : The Hissterectomy

    Thinking about buying one of these and redoing it in tweed with brown/oxblood grill cloth… Any reason why that wouldn’t be doable ?
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    Congrats Intuitive Machines! Nova-C landed on the moon!

    I can hardly back into a parking spot so pretty cool to land something successfully on the moon, even in 2024
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    Fm3 with two notes cab m

    Plug cab m into the output, set cab m to line level, bypass cab block on fm3 Or you can run one out to the cab m, one to the panned cab block, or cab block to outputs 2 etc Lots of ways to do it
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    Are you using Axe-Fx/FM9/FM3 with a tube amp?

    I run my fm3 right into a 5 watt tone king gremlin, set clean. For cleaner patches I usually bypass the IR block, as the open back cabinet and 12” Alnico cream sounds so good and room filling For higher gain stuff, I often leave the cab block on, as I find you can really dial in a lot of...
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    Roland sound cloud/VST's (synths)

    Jd08 is just using zencore like the mc101 etc, not the actual sample data from the old JDs. Can’t load JD patches etc. not a bad synth, but the form factor isn’t great as they have so much in such a little size. Main issue is the 4 digit LCD just doesn’t give any any idea what your working...
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    Roland sound cloud/VST's (synths)

    If you can find a D05 boutique you can directly transfer and save all the d50 cloud stuff right into it. I used the cloud vst as a sort of editor and librarian for a bunch of patches (tons on the net too free) and then once I had my d05 loaded up, canceled and just stick with the hardware
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    F*** me, another guitar amp plugin... this time from Two Notes... GENOME!

    I have a two notes cab M and got an email that said I get a free license, so pretty nice of the company
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    Roland sound cloud/VST's (synths)

    The cloud synths sound great but are very CPU heavy I found a cheap little mc101 gives me basically all the same zencore engine stuff well enough to where I don’t need the unlimited subscription and a dozen synths all just to get a Roland style pad sound
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    What non tube amp do you still love, own or lust over?

    Still got an Orange CR120 as well… Sounds great, looks awesome sitting on the self lol, and it’s pretty cheap, plus if I ever want to really crank through a real cabinet, it’s got a ton of power. Total classic
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    Wish Sample Block

    I think even if you wiped out a bunch of IR’s you’d still only have a very short sample time, and then people would complain about why you only get 5 seconds when other products have 30 minutes etc etc, not to mention how little use it would provide
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    Wish Sample Block

    The units do not have any memory allocated for storing audio so don’t think it can be done short of new hardware
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    FM3 or Axe FXiii for Pink Floyd duel amp setup

    I’d say like 98% of hardware gilmour rigs I see, even from some of the best guys like Kit Rae, Bjorn etc who simply nail the tones, are not using dual amps. Any clean high headroom amp will really work, twin, Hiwatt etc. The Gilmourish guy nails it even using a little Laney Cub lol
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    Does anyone still use hardware reverbs? How do you save and recall their settings?

    My midiverb 2 is preset only so makes that easy
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    Fender FR-12 vs FR-10

    10” speakers do fine with guitar frequency range and if your playing more at home volumes might sound better at lower volume than a 12” Cranked up loud on stage, get the 12”
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    Crybaby converted to Expression pedal issue

    I’ve found most any linear taper pots work, 10k, 100k etc, all calibrated fine, main thing is you don’t want audio taper. You’ll want to use a TRS cable as well, can’t remember the wiring off hand, but I think it’s the standard expression pedal method, nothing weird or unique to make it work
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    8 gauge strings on a les paul, anyone ever tried it?

    Billy Gibbons uses 7’s I believe…..
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    Best program on TV for Christmas Eve....

    National lampoons Christmas vacation
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    Falling behind

    the FM9 isn’t as good as it was last month now ?
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    Kemper Player is out, so pretty much all the competition now has a mini 3 button product… still no Fractal FM3 Lite???

    I’d miss a display of some sort on it
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    AXE III - Added tone options vs. FM3

    FM3 is he’s to beat for bang for the buck, has like 95% of the tones and features (for most people) and you can get it for like what, $800 these days ? Plus you’ve got foot switches built right in while you need a fc6 or 12 with the III The III has more inputs, more instances of blocks, tone...
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    Fm3 beta firmware

    But then it wouldn’t seem like an update since even the “old” stuff will already be new to you……
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    DynaCab Package workflow/ How to install to FM9?

    Part of the reason I’ve still got my Two Notes Cab M……
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    James May Engineering

    Same guy from Top Gear ?
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    Hearing loss from antibiotic or sickness?

    Sounds like a good plan, but make sure to rule out any conductive pathology before going through the trans-tympanic route. Keep in mind too that usually the time frame for those is ASAP, so if it’s been a month that window might have closed. Still can do it, but it’s a lot to go through with...
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    Hearing loss from antibiotic or sickness?

    There are some strong antibiotics, chemo drugs etc that can be ototoxic, meaning they can damage hearing, but something like just a Zpack wouldn’t, we’re are talking like strongest hospital administered IV stuff…. More than likely fluid or negative pressure in the middle ear. When the...
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    Boss IR-2 - Fractal Killer?

    I don’t see this as all that novel since we’ve already had lots of amp/cab in box stuff for some time, the Strymon one, UA makes a few, Two Notes, etc All model amp and have cab sim/IR so basically same thing, around same price, similar size etc
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    Wish Remove the loud clap when turning on/off

    Is that a newer thing on them ? My III I could boot right into powered up monitors and not a sound, my FM3 pops every time…. Maybe it makes less loud of pop than some other gear I guess ?
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    Wish Remove the loud clap when turning on/off

    The Axe3 has the soft power up feature. I don’t know if it’s hardware or software Most audio devices like synths, effects units etc pop when powered on though, it’s why you turn your monitors on last, power off first, or have the channel muted when plugged into a PA
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    Axe-Fx3 resale value in 10 years

    In ten years a gallon of milk will probably cost $50 and an Axe 3 will fetch a few hundred dollars
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    Knob Values - Real World Counterparts

    If you can’t tell if there is a difference is any potential difference significant to worry about ?
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    This is insane. If he just had had an Axe-FX....

    Can argue with the tones though That live album has the best version of Gilmour tones ever sorrow, comfortable numb etc never sounded more powerful
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    Slash going to use Magnatone instead of Marshall for Conspiritors Tour next year?

    They are sweet amps I would love one of those stereo vibrato ones they make
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    The Edge/U2 and UAFX pedals

    They are really good sounding pedals at what they do.
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    Would you ever take Depp as a great muscian? Or forever, a one time A list Hollywood Actor?

    It’s weird how I am a nobody can have lots of hobbies like photography, guitar, wood working et al and no one cares If an otherwise famous person wants to take pictures, paint, play golf, play guitar etc, they are judged by it to a different degree…
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    Wish More and Improved Fuzz Pedals

    Are they really great, or are they simply thought of as being useful due to placement options in the signal chain ? Take the Skreddy Lunar Module, it’s a good sounding pedal, and it’s flexible where it does in the chain, but does it actually sound better than a bc109c Sunface with a Colorsound...
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    Wish More and Improved Fuzz Pedals

    I could see having the ability to select or model different transistors for q1, q2 etc, ability to set bias, set HFE and leakage etc, and that all would be cool, basically like what you do building the pedal, testing tranny values and such, BUT given it’s always going to be behind a buffered...
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    How long does a guitar that stays in tune actually stay in tune?

    Guitar is never in tune, it’s always a dynamic thing, fret a chord, one string goes flat etc, tune that string, another string goes sharp, do a bend, one string is flat Basically its just a question of how out of tune it is at a given time.
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    Steve Vai and the FM3

    Fm3 is worth like $750 used…. I’d wager there are some vintage delays selling for well more on reverb. A 1977 MXR digital rack delay is listed for $2149…. I know some of the newer and rather mainstream Boss, Suhr etc are up to like $599
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    Legacy Gilmore Style Blues

    Thought that might be it, but then from the video clip etc all having the same spelling, and images of the older man, I thought perhaps it’s another guitar player who really is named Gilmore who I wasn’t familiar with
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    Legacy Gilmore Style Blues

    I’m familiar with Gilmour of course, but who is the Gilmore of reference ?
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    3rd party Dyna-Cab packs = Axe IV is coming?

    I was a pro photographer for about a decade and my daily used gear was so out of date compared to the well to do hobbyist, but I had to make ends meet to keep a roof over my head etc, and money wasn’t coming from anywhere else so couldn’t update the gear much…. Contrast that to some well to do...
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    3rd party Dyna-Cab packs = Axe IV is coming?

    Hobbyist with good paying day jobs have better gear than like 98% of professional musicians, because 98% of professional musicians can barely make ends meet these days, much less rock high end processors. The other minority of well to do arena acts still have that luxury but even for them things...
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    List of things to check on a new guitar to make sure it's not a dud or needs repair?

    Just play it, if it sounds good, and feels good, then it is good I’ve had lots of “perfect” guitars I didn’t bond with, and some downright beaters with a host of things “wrong” like neck pocket, fret edged etc that just sounded and played great It’s like a dog, a pound mutt can be a wonderful...
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    Andy Summers sounds

    I think you can patch audio over usb into the FM3, or at least you can on the III Just plug in a clip of Andy playing and keep your volume knob all the way…: You’ll sound just like him
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    Does Fractal Have TOO MANY Options?

    That is part of the fun though lol Knowing a new pedal with some unobtainable transistor in will be in your mailbox tomorrow and you can come home and check it out just has a bit more excitement than knowing I can come home tomorrow, power up the Axe3 and spin a knob to a new transistor or...
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    Does Fractal Have TOO MANY Options?

    I get where people are coming from, but it’s not like people don’t have drawers full of pedals, swap speakers and tubes, use a bunch of different mics etc in hardware land The OCD tinkering with tone still happens no matter a modeler or not, it’s about the user mindset, not the specific gear...
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    Octave Fuzz a la Hendrix via Tim Pierce

    I’ve got the old big box version, had a Chicago Iron reissue which sounded identical minis the fuzz only switch Both of them are a great tone, and good fuzz, but you can’t really get the clean octave as well as the Mayer Octavia, which can give you a pretty clean and pure octave sound...
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    Octave Fuzz a la Hendrix via Tim Pierce

    The Dunlop octavio, and Billy gibbons siente santos which best I can tell is the same thing with added eq, are a pretty good octave up, but they put a really crappy fuzz there so you really do need to use them with fuzz dialed down, and just volume up for the octave sound, which is pretty good, IMO
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    Octave Fuzz a la Hendrix via Tim Pierce

    Cool video, Just went through a bunch of octave fuzzes myself, the Dunlop reissue, Octapussy, octafuzz, octaland, and roger Mayer Octavia The Fulltone octafuzz is really good, copy of tycobrae, but it’s a little dirty The “best” IMO is the Roger Mayer, no transformer, cleaner, can run fuzz...
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    Do you think tube amps have a real future?

    Still a great market for classic cars even though they are a pain to maintain, expensive, impractical etc. Plenty of people still enjoy film cameras even though the corner drugstore doesn’t develop or sell film Tube amps are going to be around for a long time. Heck, might see an uptick in...
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    [not possible] Okay, I'll say it... a second Amp block!

    I think even if it was possible, when a business has another product tier which provides those specific requests, it doesn’t make much sense to do it in the lower tier product. If ran a drink business and has a small, medium and large, would I offer people the option to get a small and then for...
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    I am looking for a good electric piano for home use

    I really like my Korg SV1, it’s a bit dated but still sounds good, has a nice keybed and just looks cool.
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    When did UPS get so bloody expen$ive?

    I’m pretty sure just as a private person. It’s way cheaper than the reverb “discounted” rates by like half
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    When did UPS get so bloody expen$ive?

    Those drivers need air conditioned trucks and $170k a year (with benefits)….. guess who pays for that ? Can only imagine new car pricing if UAW gets their 46% raise Shipping Station via PayPal is a great savings though, usually like 50% ups retail prices and you don’t need to sell through...
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    Wish Improved rotary block

    Get yourself a Centerpoint Space Station and you can have an awesome pseudo stereo via mid-side processing from a single little powered monitor. Totally fills the room and you swear there were moving horns, drums etc inside that little thing when you give it a stereo rotary block signal
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    [not possible] Load backing tracks into FM3

    A lot of little looper pedals have the ability to load some loops into them, might work better than a phone or laptop, plus likely works better as a looper than the built in one
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    does FC6 add exp pedals?

    Correct Would be cool if they made a box that added exp jacks even if you don’t need more switches and display That said, fc6 with fm3 in the omg9 mode is pretty nice, and yes, way more exp pedals
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    Playing Guitar after STT Wrist Fusion ??

    I’ve had various wrist pain, broken fingers etc over the years and it can be scary/discouraging as a guitar player But then I look to Mr Tony Iommi, who was just getting started and lost the tips of two fingers, figured his career was over, but worked around it, and became a legend. Maybe in...
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    Dyna Cabs...why don't I get it?

    IR’s should sound good, especially if it’s a paid offering. The person who made it should take a nice cab, record it properly using some choice mics and then blend those mics for a great sounding IR, basically doing the engineering work for you. Dynacab isn’t going to sound better or be...
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    Case, stand or hang?

    Bought a few nice floor racks but wife thought it looked too much like a recording studio or side stage so got the okay to hang a bunch on the walls, which originally she was against lol Few in cases, few leaning in a corner, but I guess majority will be on the wall. Being Florida, we don’t...
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    Dimebag Fans

    For me the old solid state RG’s were more of the iconic Dime/Pantera amp. The warhead, the kranks etc all weren’t bad amps, but it was that solid state distortion no one else was used that cut like a razor and made everyone say “what the hell is this” when CFH dropped
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    Fm3 SD powerstage or FRFR

    I 100% enjoy using real cabs with a power amp over FRFR and have since sold my CLR and headrush. Going against the grain of conventional wisdom even further, I do NOT disable cab simulation. Running an IR into a 2x12 GB loaded cab, using a clean power amp shouldn’t sound good, but to me it’s...
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    Starting point for Iommi’s tone on Paranoid album (Laney)

    This just popped up on my stream so a bit more timely info about the Laney Supergroup and voicing of those amps to help dialing in the tone Really needs the treble booster though as that is a key ingredient IMO
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    Starting point for Iommi’s tone on Paranoid album (Laney)

    I was afraid they would sound too similar, I already have a SV20 and thought another 4 hole NVM British style amp was going to be really redundant, but they don’t sound the same to my ears, the Sv20 sounds like a Marshall both clean and dirty, the Supergroup has a different clean and doesn’t get...
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    Starting point for Iommi’s tone on Paranoid album (Laney)

    $ 3 watts or .1 watt lol. It’s actually loud as hell for just 3 watts though… Part of what you paying for is also it has a built in reactive load box and the two notes IR loader, so you can crank it and have a line out into an interface or FOH without needing a cab or reactive load box etc...
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    Starting point for Iommi’s tone on Paranoid album (Laney)

    I wouldn’t use a plexi to get the Laney Supergroup sound, they are pretty different in the low end. I have the Laney LA Studio Supergroup, the 3 watt head with built in two notes cab IR. Pair it with the Black Country Iommi boost pedal and it’s 99.9% spot on early Sabbath tone. Awesome...
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    What speaker is a "Celestion"?

    It could probably be said that if the countless hours of reading the web, watching YouTube etc just to learn the difference between 55 and 75hz greenbacks, UK vs Chinese greenbacks, pre-rola, pulsic cones etc were put to writing/playing/recording one might have something more to show for their...
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    Looking for speaker/monitor stands for a standing desk

    I use the 45” Ultimate Support MS45 stands and they are a decent height for sitting or standing Thought about putting something in the desk itself but that would get pretty heavy with the wooden desktop, monitors etc
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    Help with using HM2 Pedal with AFX III

    I’d adjust the output level down as to not clip and keep the EQ and gain all at 10. I usually run mine, MIT HM2 into a slightly cleaner amp like a JCM800 2203 style. The chainsaw tone is kind of in the EQ peaks and overlap more than the gain alone, and if your running a high gain amp already...
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    Do you think the Legacy Cabs will become obsolete now that we have the Dyna Cabs?

    I think a lot of users just want to pick a great sounding IR from a custom mix instead of sit down and move the virtual mics around until they come across their ideal tone… I see so many people who want turn key presets, or that don’t want any advanced parameters. Dynacabs are basically like...
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    TS-10 Pedal for Axe 3

    If Mayer and SRV didn’t have one no one would want one…..
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