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  1. HerrSquid

    THD 2x12 cab SIC

    Yep, was talking with Andy Marshall (THD head honcho) ages ago and he commented that he was going for the sound of the old Oxfords with those speakers.
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    CONFESSION: I put same pickups in most guitars....

    Well it sure makes things simple as you're changing up guitars and don't have to dick with Axe settings because of output/gain differences. I'm an unapologetic PRS fiend and went through a spasm of retrofitting my older ones with 57/08, 59/09, and/or 53/10 pickups. So the majority of them are...
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    “Biscuits and sausage gravy” or “shit on a shingle”?

    Didn't they resurface and have some noteworthy social media moments a year or three ago? I freely admit I could be hallucinating, I don't indulge in either of them.
  4. HerrSquid

    “Biscuits and sausage gravy” or “shit on a shingle”?

    Best biscuits 'n' gravy I've had was at a long-closed biker bar my band was playing in about 1994 or so. They were served after closing time out of a slow cooker that was somewhere In The Back. Nothing better after 4 sets of rawk and a few beers!
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    PRS finish clouding question

    There have been issues from time to time with some PRS finishes clouding and/or spalling. I remember the 2012-2013-ish "V12" finish process being particularly problematic. I've bought about one PRS per year since 2001, and I have just one (a 2012 Studio) that shows finish problems along the...
  6. HerrSquid

    James Priest - Electric Sex Machine

    McClintock's mashups are pretty consistently brilliant!
  7. HerrSquid

    H.E.R. Guitar at Halftime

    I didn't see the performance, but yeah, that's gorgeous!
  8. HerrSquid

    Alex Lifeson on the hardest Rush song

    That answer surprised me! I wonder if he's been playing it wrong? :tonguewink: I know it got much less difficult when I realized I was playing it wrong and fixed it.
  9. HerrSquid

    PRS Advice

    To be fair to PRS and their blue dye, I have 5 that are mainly blue, and that's not counting the green and purple ones. One of the five (a 2012) has faded, and of course I'm not happy about that. The other four (one going back to 2004) are fine, and I've treated them all about the same. Based...
  10. HerrSquid

    PRS Advice

    I like 'em a lot. Got the first one relatively cheap and had to have more. I also have an S2 594 Thinline (great guitar) not pictured here. Not a great photo, but it gets the point across:
  11. HerrSquid

    PRS Advice

    PRS pickups were not great until the 57/08s and other "number" pickups came out starting in 2008. The 57/08s and the 58/15 variants have been really well received, the 59/09s less so (though I liked 'em). The 85/15s don't seem to get as much love as the others. For the OP, I'd have to say...
  12. HerrSquid

    New ESP LTD GL Desert Eagle - Thoughts?

    I really like it. I've been eyeballing HS guitars for some months now 'cause the simplicity appeals to me. I did look at the prior Lynch with the Kamikaze graphics and had been thinking "that was OK for the 80s, but now? Not so much." This is a nice refresh to the dated graphics, and the ESP...
  13. HerrSquid

    The Van Halen Master thread collection!

    I'm gonna quibble with the conclusion, or at least hold myself up as some freakazoid exception to the conclusion of the research... For the record, I was 13 years old in 1980 and the first albums that that made me prick my ears up and ask "what the everloving fuck is that!?" were 2112 and the...
  14. HerrSquid

    Using too much finger muscle....

    Reminds me that a while back Paul Gilbert was grouching about all the proggy shred players getting too "dainty" with their technique. For whatever reason I found that hilarious.
  15. HerrSquid

    Lets see those PRS's

    "PRSi." :cool:
  16. HerrSquid

    Lets see those PRS's

    Also:
  17. HerrSquid

    Lets see those PRS's

    Here's one I like kind of a lot:
  18. HerrSquid

    Andre Flood on why some people think PRS guitars have no mojo

    I have some older SE's, (early aughts if memory serves) and one of them I really like, and two are okay but could really use some attention to their nut slots. That aside, there's nothing wrong with them. Right in between the SEs and Cores is the S2 line, built in the Maryland factory using...
  19. HerrSquid

    Dad Jokes

    Just so you know, chickenpox takes about 40 years and extreme fatigue to blossom into shingles. And the people who have cultivated it will not be eager to do... well much of anything for you, especially if you want that, er, product from them. They sure's hell don't want it. Best you can...
  20. HerrSquid

    NGD - Epi Explorer

    Nice! If that's the reissue that was written up in one of the guitar rags recently, it was quite a surprise to realize how much I was tempted.
  21. HerrSquid

    Finally got my guitars re-stringed

    I live in Washington. It is hilarious (and not at all kind) to watch an Oregonian pull up to a gas pump here and wait, give up, get out of the car, and start wandering around in abject bafflement. To be fair, it's been a while since I've seen that.
  22. HerrSquid

    Top bands that you never hated, but never delved into????

    Yep, Beatles for me too. Always at least liked their stuff, and appreciated the creative genius and outright weirdness of some of it. And I've kept from delving into their stuff so it stays magic to me when I do hear it. I didn't do that with Led Zeppelin, and familiarity with their material...
  23. HerrSquid

    Traveling through Airport Security with the Axe FX III

    I have a very strong feeling I should remember the name of that product (it was advertised pretty heavily in the trade rags IIRC). But man that was a long time ago!
  24. HerrSquid

    Show your Schecter guitar!

    Totally out of character for me but I've got this one:
  25. HerrSquid

    I need to vent into the void

    Ooh. Yeah, frustrating when the thing that usually gives you relief isn't cooperating!
  26. HerrSquid

    The Wordle thread........(spoiler)

    My wife pulled "alert" -> "surly" this morning. We were both pretty entertained!
  27. HerrSquid

    Anticipatory NGD Thread: PRS P22

    That's what I do with my SCHB piezo. I have separate signal chains for magnetic and piezo, then merge them at Out 1.
  28. HerrSquid

    Xitone Build Time

    I'll echo Zed here. My wife is an avid knitter and also follows that community. There's a cottage industry of tiny businesses that buy yarn from the mills, dye it in interesting ways, then sell it. They run on a shoestring and It happens all the time that these little bitty businesses get...
  29. HerrSquid

    F-16 fighter jet trainer called the VISTA X-62A became the first tactical aircraft to be controlled by AI.

    With the guys I work with? The stock answer to "what could possibly go wrong" is "imagine everything on fire." Two days ago I was in the office of the guy I hired who became my manager who's now not any more (note: he's good people. I hired him after all). He was showing me the Bing AI...
  30. HerrSquid

    #1 main guitar IMAGES and name, if you name it, please

    Good call, thank you!! I'll check on that next time I'm in that room.
  31. HerrSquid

    #1 main guitar IMAGES and name, if you name it, please

    This may or may not be my best guitar, but it's the very last one I'll ever let go. It doesn't have a name, it's a PRS Modern Eagle (the original series) with Brazilian rosewood neck and fretboard, pickups upgraded to 59/09s, and fancy new(er) lampshade knobs. This thing rings like a bell...
  32. HerrSquid

    NGD. PRS 594

    Oooh that's nice! The 594s are seriously wonderful guitars.
  33. HerrSquid

    What Prompted You To Buy A Fractal?

    Aaaages ago (early 90's IIRC), I hooked up on an email distribution list that was created by and for Mesa/Boogie enthusiasts. I participated in that for years, and every so often we'd have a Pacific Northwest gathering where we'd get together in a big space where we could blast our assorted...
  34. HerrSquid

    Let's see your ride.....

    Detroit STEEEL!!! And I think that's a 2006-ish Highlander hybrid in the background there? Nice juxtaposition! :D
  35. HerrSquid

    Rush Pinball... Sell out or very cool?

    I watched that video, and it looks like they nailed the song selection. That tells me the people working on it knew and cared what they were doing.
  36. HerrSquid

    Gallagher Dies (Comedian)

    Ah, I remember his Showtime heyday from my mid-teens! I thought he was hilarious at the time. I don't think any other American has made me laugh as hard.
  37. HerrSquid

    Poznań to self destruct

    Paraphrased Metallica lyric.
  38. HerrSquid

    What's the point of a 4x12 in 2022? - Genuine question

    Simple: You use them because you can!
  39. HerrSquid

    First Photo from James Webb Space Telescope

    But those few collisions must be absolutely spectacular!
  40. HerrSquid

    POLL: Formal Guitar Training or Self Taught?

    I'm a mutt with an experience similar to the OP. I took piano lessons and played in concert and jazz bands up through high school. Started guitar on my own late in high school, and was determined to play it by ear and not have sheet music in front of me in order to play. So I've been...
  41. HerrSquid

    SoundMan POV

    :cool: No. At best I'd be able to take that seat in a decent tribute band. I think plenty of people heard him though!
  42. HerrSquid

    SoundMan POV

    I think that was the worst of my sins in those days. I played a Mark III and knocked all the mids out with the "classic" V graphic EQ settings, and pulled every boost and shift knob out. I wonder if anyone actually ever heard me.
  43. HerrSquid

    Just watched Scorpions “World Wide Live” for first time in 20 years…

    I had a bit of an epiphany when I too went back and listened to a bunch of Scorpions for the first time in about 20 years. Specifically I realized that the idea I had in my head about what I wanted my leads to sound like -- it was all Matthias.
  44. HerrSquid

    Alex Lifeson of Rush with his FM9

    True. I'd love it even more if he wasn't obviously plugged into an amp too.
  45. HerrSquid

    Voxengo plugin developer says he’s proven that the Universe has a creator

    Maybe not the point of your post, but it's really nice to see that such old comedy really is funny!
  46. HerrSquid

    Why Have Otherwise Globally Significant Cultures Failed To Produce Iconic Music Acts?

    I think you're looking at this backwards, and from an Anglo-centric point of view. My take: the "pop" (rock) music industry was pioneered by the British and Americans largely due to accidents of history. The technology to make and sell recorded music came up in the first half of the 20th...
  47. HerrSquid

    Neil Gaiman's Sandman

    I've read none of Sandman, and so far it's a really good show. I'm not sure I'm enjoying it exactly...
  48. HerrSquid

    Wish Synth block improvements

    Having gotten hooked on analog synthesis in high school in the early 80s (fueled by Rush, Styx, Queen, and the first few minutes of Van Halen's 1984 album), I can't not think that the Axe has the bones and guts to fantabulosusly model synthesizers. All that I see lacking in the synth block is...
  49. HerrSquid

    Lari

    Awwww, yeah!!! These days I feel like I get my face rubbed in the stupid shit people do day after day after day... And then people do something as beautiful as this and I remember that yeah, it's worth paying attention to what people do.
  50. HerrSquid

    McCarty with P90s anyone?

    Have to agree, the PRS 594 soapbars were phenomenal! They have a perfect control layout and a nice fat sound that's brighter than yer usual humbucker yet fatter than a Fender sound. I'll let go of mine when I'm in the grave.
  51. HerrSquid

    Whats the deal with James Tyler guitars?

    I have some friends who think they're a cut above many nice guitars that they've owned, and they're comparing them mainly against the mass-market brands, PRS, the occasional Knaggs, and Thorn. I love the colors, don't like the headstock, and don't like the price personally.
  52. HerrSquid

    What's Your Favorite Songs From The 60's?

    My father, as a young adult in the early 60's was as square as square can get. I've believed for all my life that my parents were always 10 years older than their actual chronological age. I shake my head at most of his musical tastes. However... When I was growing up he had this one 3" BASF...
  53. HerrSquid

    Who Is On Your Mt. Rushmore Of Guitar Players?

    Four is hard... EVH Gilmour Lifeson Hetfield
  54. HerrSquid

    Social media

    A good forum (i.e. one like this) is a wonderful place for enthusiasts to exchange knowledge. A bad forum is a dumpster fire, Twitter is yer one-stop shop for every simian poo-fight on the planet, and as for Zuckerberg's thing? I have some British friends who call it "Faecesbook," and they are...
  55. HerrSquid

    Social media

    You are not wrong!
  56. HerrSquid

    First Photo from James Webb Space Telescope

    "Top government guys?" Who would those be? This kind of science is usually funded by government grants to researchers, who then do their science and publish papers to document what they've done and build their reputations. So unless the research is secret (in which case nobody should have...
  57. HerrSquid

    First Photo from James Webb Space Telescope

    In the "life reflects art" category, there are no small number of scientists who were inspired to go into their field by Star Trek and other science fiction. Many of them are driven to try to create the things that were inspired by the show. So if a human does in fact invent warp drive, it may...
  58. HerrSquid

    First Photo from James Webb Space Telescope

    Uhh... that author suffers from feeble imagination and ambition. Or maybe he's written it that way for the clicks. No. No, he's cowering before nature's majesty and can't cope with it. Sad.
  59. HerrSquid

    How to get these tones?

    Late to this thread I guess, but one trick I use with my PRS guitars is to back off the volume knob to 8 or so for rhythm playing, then bump it up to 10 for leads. Backing the volume down a little really does take some edge off without killing all the oomph. Adding a touch of gain at the amp...
  60. HerrSquid

    Why don't they just make some amps?

    I think Fractal is being smart by sticking to their main thing, specifically the astonshing quality of their models and effects. Other companies do power amplification and cabinetry quite well, so why try to compete in those areas? That said, I really like the look of what's in the OP...
  61. HerrSquid

    Does anyone actually like the pickup selector on the upper side?

    Correct, sir!
  62. HerrSquid

    Under Daw\Desk Chair mat? Glass? Plastic? Plexiglass?

    I'll agree with Fotukito, my heavy ass kills a plastic mat within a few years, and the divots are really bad from about the first month of use. I tried (once) a mat that was roll of bamboo slats that laid out flat and flush on the floor. That died faster than the plastic mats. I broke down...
  63. HerrSquid

    Does anyone actually like the pickup selector on the upper side?

    The good news is that those rotary switches are gone from the current models. I reckon they finally came up with a lever switch that could give them the right combination of settings. The position is still, uh, not great if you have a trem. BTW you shoulda seen Paul Smith playing with those...
  64. HerrSquid

    Does anyone actually like the pickup selector on the upper side?

    I like it there, it's out of the way yet eminently reachable, so I can just slap at it and get what I want. FWIW I never use the middle position on a 3-way toggle. Just don't enjoy that sound. When I did a Tele-like guitar, guess what I did for the switch?
  65. HerrSquid

    Gibson wins lawsuit against Dean over Explorer body shape

    The Silver Sky isn't in any trademark danger. The body can be copied with impunity because so many companies did it for so long and Fender didn't sue them into oblivion. The Strat headstock is the trademarked part, and I don't think anyone would say the SS headstock looks like the Strat...
  66. HerrSquid

    Gibson wins lawsuit against Dean over Explorer body shape

    You can trademark a shape, but you have to file the paperwork. Once that trademark is granted, you have to consistently keep others from using that shape, mainly by taking people to court if they use your shape. That's what it takes to make a trademark on a shape stick legally in the US. I...
  67. HerrSquid

    Tacoma Guitar Festival

    And that was saying something, because when Zappa would have been there, Tacoma smelled baaaad! Haven't made my mind up whether to trek across the mountains to the festival.
  68. HerrSquid

    Fair Warning.....

    I guess I'll stick up a hand and be a little bit the contrarian. For sure some of my favorite VH material ever is on Fair Warning! That's the one with Mean Streets! Dirty Movies! Sinner's Swing! Unchained! Uh, and some other other songs that I just don't get nearly as excited about. For...
  69. HerrSquid

    Recommend an HSS strat

    I'll second Greg Ferguson's recommendation of the PRS studio. All the things he said are on the nose. I say the things below based on my 2012 Studio, and I don't think the current US-made Core Studios are different in any significant way: The Narrowfield pickups are hotter and bolder than...
  70. HerrSquid

    Aligning Cab Curves

    IIRC this tweaks the distance between the modeled microphone and speaker. The only rule here is "do what sounds good to you."
  71. HerrSquid

    Are You Freaking Kidding???

    I mean it's kinda cool that they dug out some history and gave Ted a little bit of a tribute. But looks SO much like a crappy-ass Teisco ET-200!
  72. HerrSquid

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time

    I learned Fortran in 1988 when as a fresh graduate my new boss dropped about 3 inches of fanfold paper on my desk. He says "we need some changes to this code. And by the way it's in Fortran." Decades later, Fortran is still the high performance math language. There's so much of it in...
  73. HerrSquid

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time

    Yeah, it's there, but just because you can doesn't mean you should! I mean it won't kill ya. Leastwise it won't kill ya fast. But it might take some time off your life because it leads to "WTF is it doing that!?!?!"
  74. HerrSquid

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time

    I have come to see "more than one way to do it" as... not a virtue. And I agree with the prior post that when looking at perl from yesterday, it can be difficult to figure out what the author intended (including the times that said author was me). Last year I ran across a scrap of...
  75. HerrSquid

    Are You Freaking Kidding???

    You are correct, sir! I have no interest in that guitar whatsoever.
  76. HerrSquid

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time

    Yep, I think we self-select!
  77. HerrSquid

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time

    Yep, that's what it's for, and that's how we're using it. I'm in charge of operations of an HPC site for a research lab, and we're migrating a few hundred support machines from Chef to Ansible. There's a fair amount of work there...
  78. HerrSquid

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time

    I was a Perl advocate for a long time, but after getting Python under my belt, I had to go back to some perl and it was... unenjoyable. I had to get my head back into thinking about context and variable typing and putting the right symbols in front of variable names when I wanted to use them...
  79. HerrSquid

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time

    These days I'm not doing enough Ansible, er, that is to say I'm not getting enough done as I flail away at Ansible! Nothing I've ever worked with before has me doing so much grepping through source code trees...
  80. HerrSquid

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time

    Man. Surprised to see a popular(-ish) web site to to that level of detail. IIRC, I learned assembly (Macro-24 I think) on some variety of PDP-11, then went to something way more primitive to do my Operating Systems coursework on an LSI 11/02. That machine was probably the first minicomputer I...
  81. HerrSquid

    Alex Lifeson having a clear out

    Oooof!! I think those guitars are gonna go for a lot more than that. What guitar-playing Rush nut wouldn't want Whitey or the Xanadu double-neck? I wonder if I could score on the Howard Roberts...? That one probably has an outsized influence on me because I think it was all over the Exit...
  82. HerrSquid

    Are you using the “amp” you thought you would…ex: I started using the 5153

    OK, now I'm curious. What bugs you about 'em?
  83. HerrSquid

    NGD PRS McCarty 594 w pics

    I felt the same way, particularly about how weird the toggle switch looked up there on a double cut guitar. I also didn't like the look of the squared-off tail piece and certainly didn't care for the PRS headstock when I first saw it. Guess I've gotten over all those things, I have a few...
  84. HerrSquid

    Are you using the “amp” you thought you would…ex: I started using the 5153

    I love bathing in the trem on that one, though I gotta be in the mood for clean to moderate breakup for that. As far as I know, that one doesn't get dirty enough for me to be a daily driver. Did I mention I run the Supertweed through 4x12 IRs? That's the sweet spot for me. Vulgar, I know!
  85. HerrSquid

    Are you using the “amp” you thought you would…ex: I started using the 5153

    I gravitate a lot towards the various Carol Anns, also the Supertweed and the Archon. Not what I woulda thought, or what seems to be most popular around here (big surprise -- I always seem to zig when a crowd zags). Also I remember a Komet model I was playing a lot with an OH 4x12 P12N IR...
  86. HerrSquid

    What was your first Digital Modeler?

    I had one of the original Line6 kidney bean pods too. I thought it was remarkably not-bad for the day and enjoyed its flexibility. I'd usually run it into the effects return of a Peavey combo amp, though it was for practice and causal noodling at home. I can't remember whether I ever plugged...
  87. HerrSquid

    WOW! Is it just me or have prices sky rocketed on gear?

    Nut jobs can always ask for ridiculous prices on what they're selling. Doesn't mean it's really worth that. (But then there may be another nut job out there with too much money who will actually pay it. Doesn't mean it's really worth that)
  88. HerrSquid

    Kirk Hammett gets it!

    What's up with those big ugly square boxes behind him?
  89. HerrSquid

    Mini review from former endorser...

    Hi JAZ, nice review, haven't seen you around much since the old Boogie-Talk email list days! :sunglasses: I agree, the great thing about Fractal is that you get ideal amp sound by being able to dial the models into the sweet spot at any volume. And you don't have to deal with the vagaries of...
  90. HerrSquid

    Axe FX II Newbie in 2022 - Please Share Your Top Tips! :)

    I'd say give the stock IR's a thorough going-over to see what you like best. You could do something totally crazy like throw dice to pick a random IR for your preset and see if unconventional combinations float your boat. I've done that. It's fun! Then if you find a variety of speaker/cab...
  91. HerrSquid

    The LB-2 in all it's glory!

    The box works by turning the energy that would drive the speakers into heat, so yeah, it's going to warm up. It's a lot like an incandescent light bulb that way, if you're pumping 60 or 100 watts into it, it gets hot. The LB-2 is basically a passive device. That fan is going to spin fastest...
  92. HerrSquid

    How can I plug my tube amps into Axe to hear using headphones?

    If you add stereo effects, yes. You'll get left and right outputs for nothing, so just add in whatever you want to make it more binaurally interesting.
  93. HerrSquid

    How long have you been playing guitar (or bass, or whatever).

    I started trying to play guitar when Back in Black came out. It seemed a lot more accessible than trying to play stuff off of 2112 or Van Halen, so a good place to start, yeah? So that's been what... 20-odd years?
  94. HerrSquid

    Rush Documentary on Netflix

    Truth be told, I did know about his horology gig. Looks like he's updated his website since last I looked at it. :cool:
  95. HerrSquid

    Voivod fans: New album Synchro Anarchy has landed!

    I've been bathing myself in the digital download version of this album today (the CD is in the mail). It. Is. Glorious! It's still all too new for me to know the various tracks from each other, but as far as I can tell, they are ALL good! Amazing that this band was on the verge of perishing...
  96. HerrSquid

    Rush Documentary on Netflix

    Boy, but there are so many ways the talented young Alexander Zivojinovic could have not become the Alex Lifeson we know today. What if his junior high Jewish friend hadn't been so freakishly talented? What if they'd never hooked up with Neil? What if 2112 had flopped? What if a tour bus...
  97. HerrSquid

    Rush Documentary on Netflix

    If that's "Beyond the Lighted Stage," I highly recommend it!
  98. HerrSquid

    Checking mailbox - What's that?

    Is that just one of the ways to do IPC on that platform? "Mail" implies a high-latency "I'll get around to it when I do" communication model, but maybe that's just in my head.
  99. HerrSquid

    8.9 MB ...

    I just missed out on cassette tapes on personal computers, I got my feet wet with 5" floppies. That said, early in my career I installed and upgraded a lot of operating systems (VMS and various pre-Linux commercial Unixes) from tape. That'd often take half a day (or half a night depending on...
  100. HerrSquid

    I'm a bedroom player with the following goals, what gear would you recommend?

    IMHO, you're overthinking it. You've got the FM3. If you can keep it, keep it. Think of it as "potential" rather than "overkill."
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