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  1. YetAnotherOne

    FS Free to Good Home (US only): 1) Korg SPC cards; 2) Contents of my parts drawer

    Also free to bad homes. Pick one & PM me a CONUS mailing address: 1. Korg Studio, Guitar II, Keyboard, & NYC Guitar cards for the A2/A3 series; cards #02 & #04-06. Probably work, no idea. Korg is long gone & buddy I gave it to is being a flake so .... The lovely gifts behind door #2 have...
  2. YetAnotherOne

    Is This a Real Estate and Investment Ripoff???

    https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/investor-information/investor-education/recognizing-investment-fraud
  3. YetAnotherOne

    5150 Presence Knob

    Because no one in the entire history of the universe has ever played a Marshall with the presence set to any value other than 10?
  4. YetAnotherOne

    VH Best of Both Worlds Summer 24 Tour

    And a stellar model of the stealth appears in the AFX3 almost immediately. I do love a good conspiracy theory ....
  5. YetAnotherOne

    Collecting old rack gear...What to get?

    I've said on more than one occasion that anyone complaining about Fractal's UI should be sentenced to a lengthy stint of algorithm development on a 2101. I'm sure it wasn't the worst but ... woof.
  6. YetAnotherOne

    Collecting old rack gear...What to get?

    +1 preferably an Artist edition w/the PPC-210 expansion card so you can have ... gapless preset switching! IIRC this was probably the only consumer-grade product that featured truly flexible routing prior to Fractal. Neat piece of gear for its day.
  7. YetAnotherOne

    Collecting old rack gear...What to get?

    I dunno ... those things are pretty much instant 80s Poison. Whether 80s Poison is a good thing or a bad thing on the other hand .....
  8. YetAnotherOne

    What are you listening to right now?

    A Velano with an onboard theramin? Seriously?!? I want one!
  9. YetAnotherOne

    If Liberace played guitar...

    Sooooo ... I actually owned one of those crystal-topped guitars. Gotta admit, it was really cool. $37,174.72 worth of cool like the one the OP linked? Umm , no But like $1500 worth of cool? All day.
  10. YetAnotherOne

    What are you listening to right now?

    I like the song but love the singer. No idea why but there it is.
  11. YetAnotherOne

    Guitar shop pricing gone mad!

    You are correct sir, pro rather than custom. It's been a minute. That one was RR 1441. I bought a student a few years later, IIRC it was RR 0944. No tragic ex-wife stories here but UPS paid a claim for a very minor crack on 0944 and took it away to sell. EDIT: Here's 1441 circa late 80s...
  12. YetAnotherOne

    Show us the Quilts!

    Awesome! Love this one! Why do I suddenly have the urge to go shopping for a Peavey Vandenberg?
  13. YetAnotherOne

    Show us the Quilts!

    @honeypat - No prints. That is all inlay.
  14. YetAnotherOne

    Guitar shop pricing gone mad!

    Some pricing is pretty crazy but it's mostly not completely out of hand. In 1983 I purchased my first guitar, a truly awful Peavey, for $389 (IIRC) which is about $1200 in today's dollars. For $1200 today you can get a very nice instrument that stays in tune, has decent pickups, decent...
  15. YetAnotherOne

    Show us the Quilts!

    Top one is a Thorn Artisan Master. Bottom is by Kenneth Lawrence Instruments. Ken's singlecut model is the Arcata but this one predates that model name emerging.
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    Show us the Quilts!

    It's a great concept, extraordinarly well-executed on a fantastic instrument. I literally can't say enough good things about Ken's work. Super nice guy to boot. I'd wanted one of his Explorers for years but never ran across the right one. This isn't too bad a consolation prize. ;)
  17. YetAnotherOne

    Show us the Quilts!

    Don't know if that second one counts. There's some quilt there but .... EDIT: My photography, err, "skills" are (obviously) pretty bad. My composition on that second pic did it no favors. Here's a better shot by a much better photographer in which you can actually see what's going on with...
  18. YetAnotherOne

    Wish ADA MP-1

    This one obviously .....
  19. YetAnotherOne

    Starting point for Iommi’s tone on Paranoid album (Laney)

    I bookmarked this years ago. In Fractal-world a Treble Boost into a Plexi. There are some Fane-loaded cab IRs in there too if you feel the need.
  20. YetAnotherOne

    What are you listening to right now?

    The classics! (I'll show myself out ....)
  21. YetAnotherOne

    Fun News Item Of the Day

    I'll just leave this right here.
  22. YetAnotherOne

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

    Had this one a few years now and still enjoy it as much as I did the first day. It's a Thorn Artisan Master that Ron named "Nirvana". It just feels right every time I pick it up. Ron's pics and description are here.
  23. YetAnotherOne

    What are you listening to right now?

    Hate to admit it but I didn't appreciate Johnny Cash for a very long time. Dad loved old school country and I was a child of the 80s and couldn't stand listening to dad's music. LOL But yeah, Cash's performance is one of the great evocative emotional performances of all time (with a great...
  24. YetAnotherOne

    One expensive guitar or several inexpensive ones?

    Given the stated choice I'd opt for one really great guitar (expensive or not). After way too many years with the instrument I just prefer something that feels great / dynamic as there are tons of great tones in Fractal's products already. That said the more expensive guitars I own tend to be...
  25. YetAnotherOne

    What are you listening to right now?

    Got this one stuck in my head at the moment. Clearly Johnny Cash owns it by a mile but it's a coin flip between NiN and Sad Kermit for runner-up. Upon further review: Sad Kermit > NiN.
  26. YetAnotherOne

    What are you listening to right now?

    For some reason I find 7 Horse just ridiculously catchy.
  27. YetAnotherOne

    What are you listening to right now?

    Hookers & Blow. Clearly the best band name ever but anyone covering Zep, Elton John & The Beastie Boys on the same album is OK in my book no matter what they call themselves.
  28. YetAnotherOne

    What are you listening to right now?

    Man, how did I miss this channel until now? Lots of great music here but a couple of my favorites so far: Sure they're covers but they're really great covers and lots of fun.
  29. YetAnotherOne

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

    Home buyers are yet another set of victims of the Fed's excess liquidity. Institutional ownership of detached single family homes was rare 20 years ago; today Blackrock is the largest buyer of such properties in the US and there are many, many others at all scales. Too much money chasing...
  30. YetAnotherOne

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

    Started in '82 so this fall I'll close out my 40th year. I love and enjoy the instrument as much today as I did the day I picked up my first guitar. Still a hack but still having a lot of fun.
  31. YetAnotherOne

    They All Sound the Same, It's About Workflow

    Because you're effing awesome, that's why!
  32. YetAnotherOne

    AFIII Black Sabbath Neon Knights Solo Cover

    Fantastic as always Mark, you always make it look so effortless. Wonderful performance of the solo from of my favorite songs on one of my favorite albums. Great to see you post a fresh video; as others have said: you're always an inspiration.
  33. YetAnotherOne

    Famous Musicians You’ve Met?

    Judging by that link I posted he's pretty clearly a famous singer.
  34. YetAnotherOne

    Adobe Sucks

    Enron called. They want your money back.
  35. YetAnotherOne

    Famous Musicians You’ve Met?

    By far the best brush with fame story in the family belonged to my mom. About 20 years ago I received a call from mom just after she'd flown home from NYC. She described being seated next to a gentleman whom she was certain must be famous but who she could not identify at all. Throughout...
  36. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    Sword! Judging by the fact that they never really made it it would seem no one thinks they're as epic as I do.
  37. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    I'm not sure why I always associate Weird Al with the 80s when he's more of a timeless classic. Like Chopin. Or The Bee Gees.
  38. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    Almost time for some 80s Christmas tunes:
  39. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    80s Kiss was pretty epic but then I've always been a fan.
  40. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    Helix demonstrating that not only were the 80s awesome but that they also vastly improved on the 60s. Had to be a bit careful to be sure I posed the appropriate versions of these as Canadians were a bit more laissez-faire about clothing in music videos back then.
  41. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    Did anyone get to Britny Fox yet? Pretty epic 80s music right here. Though I think I actually liked them better covering 70s bands. Anyone doing Slade & Nazarath is OK in my book.
  42. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    Smashed Gladys! If ever a song was truly deserving of a music video it's this one. Sadly I don't believe one exists.
  43. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction: Saw these guys open for GnR on the AFD tour in the late 80s. Small town in IL, maybe 5k seats, police in riot gear with shields ringing the stage. Was a complete zoo.
  44. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    Sly Fox's "Let's Go All the Way" was pretty epic: Not as epic as Hollywood Scream's recent video for the song, but pretty darn epic.
  45. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    This one was 80s, right?
  46. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    '90 but that's close enough right? (Love these guys.) This has to be like the epitome of 80s hair band music:
  47. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    I find that video very ... disturbing. LOL
  48. YetAnotherOne

    Epic 80's Song that needs recognition

    The 80s were just waaaaaay more fun than anything that came after (and probably before).
  49. YetAnotherOne

    New Iron Maiden: The Writing on the Wall

    I kept expecting the Loc Nar to put in an appearance in that video.
  50. YetAnotherOne

    New Wave of Classic Rock.

    Saw the Rival Sons live a couple of times the past few years. Excellent shows, just manic. I like most of their music but love Do Your Worst, All Over the Road & particularly Electric Man. That last one ... just wow. More like that please.
  51. YetAnotherOne

    Knaggs?

    I picked up a Sheyenne a few years ago and it's a terrific guitar. As good as anything I've ever owned. Love the SSCs but unfortunately I've not played one.
  52. YetAnotherOne

    What's the weirdest guitar you own?

    Not even mildly unusual by the standards set in this thread already but the most unusual configuration on any of mine is probably this old Washburn EC-36:
  53. YetAnotherOne

    The conspiracy paranoids have won again

    From the CDC a month ago: Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures. Perhaps the transmissibility of COVID & influenza are sufficiently different to render all of that moot. Perhaps not.
  54. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    The options aren't mutually exclusive Tim.
  55. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    @GlennO - Here's your model of competence re: travels bans to combat disease during the last administration. DAMN good thing that guy is no longer there or things here would be vastly worse than they are today! A sampling:
  56. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    It possessed the appearance of competence because it never dealt with anything like this. Think the bureaucrats occupying the seats there are new? Nope ....
  57. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    FIFY
  58. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    Thanks for posting that!
  59. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    This one I don't buy. They're spreading number of deaths across total population which might be valid in hindsight but only if the total number of deaths attributable to the virus were accurate across different nations. In real time they're comparing countries with higher rates of testing and...
  60. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    Perhaps some small reasons for optimism: https://www.dailywire.com/news/oxford-epidemiologist-heres-why-that-doomsday-model-is-likely-way-off https://www.dailywire.com/news/epidemiologist-behind-highly-cited-coronavirus-model-admits-he-was-wrong-drastically-revises-model Punch line: it's...
  61. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    Right, that rocket scientist and his wife drank fish tank cleaner because the ingredient name looked similar.
  62. YetAnotherOne

    Retirement balance with the current market?

    The damage to the real economy is certainly baked in. Global depression as well but the question remains, "For how long?" I'm actually a bit surprised that the unemployment numbers weren't worse. E.g., there are just north of 15M employees in the restaurant industry alone and though they...
  63. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    Clipped this out of a longer document I received the other day (the rest has nothing to do with COVID-19). Thought you guys might be interested.
  64. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    That's really odd as this morning I received a call from a friend who retired after a 30 year career as a military officer to a full time position with the National Guard. She's a very serious person, not remotely of the tinfoil hat variety. She said to expect a mandatory federal shutdown of...
  65. YetAnotherOne

    New Axe-Fx III vs used Axe-Fx II?

    Nothing obsolete about the II, mine still sounds great! But there have been so many improvements to the III since its introduction that I'd definitely pay the difference for a III. Heck, I'd pay the difference for the 12.0 update to the III all by itself.
  66. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    One practical consideration is that if you're paying a mortgage it is or very soon may be an excellent time to refinance at a low rate.
  67. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    You might start with these: NY Times The Week The NY Post Reason Seems less "a regulation" than bureaucrats in bureaucracies doing what bureaucrats in bureaucracies do.
  68. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    Won't happen. No one in Congress is interested & even at least one oil industry group has expressed opposition. But remember: there are orders of magnitude more mom & pop oil and gas producers in the US than there are large companies. Same thing will happen bailout or no, lots of little guys...
  69. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    It's not political, it's just the nature of a large bureaucracy possessed of many and varied laws, rules & regulations. The larger the government, the less competent it is. The more voluminous the laws, rules & regulations the tougher it is to get anything done and the rather vastly more...
  70. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    Italy released some statistics on who's dying:
  71. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    Even those of us who didn't see the CDC's press conference should be worried about our government's response. We're weeks behind the rest of the world in testing because the FDA subjected, as they do, the new diagnostics to a standard regulatory process. That left the CDC, not subject to FDA...
  72. YetAnotherOne

    Kashmir - Martin Miller & Mark Lettieri

    Very awesome cover! Thanks for posting it as it led to probably the only cover of No Quarter I've ever actually liked:
  73. YetAnotherOne

    Help the Fight Against COVID-19

    Apologies if someone has already chipped this idea in but there's a temporal component to both deaths & recoveries that's both unknown and unknowable but which will have a pretty dramatic effect on the statistical analysis. E.g., suppose A finds neighbor B dead and calls the authorities. B's...
  74. YetAnotherOne

    Inspired by the FM3 temp home thread

    That Perfect Strangers patch is awesome Tim! Blue Collar Man too but I'm more excited about Deep Purple than Styx ... think of it as one of those chocolate fudge Pop Tarts things.
  75. YetAnotherOne

    Inspired by the FM3 temp home thread

    Wrong about Pop Tarts, wrong about bass boat flake bengal tiger striped Flying Vs but at least I have the impeccable musical tastes of an old guy so there's that. ;)
  76. YetAnotherOne

    Inspired by the FM3 temp home thread

    Great patch Tim, many thanks for sharing! I was just thinking about doing one for the organ parts in Perfect Strangers and it won't take long to go from here to there. But everyone knows that chocolate fudge is the only way to go with Pop Tarts.
  77. YetAnotherOne

    Axe-Fx III power conditioner or voltage regulator?

    Yep. I use a few APC AV 1.5kVA H Type units at home (specs just a bit lower than your TrippLite). A couple of years ago I lost the office PC's hard drive, a new printer, one subwoofer amp & a couple of digital clocks all plugged directly into wall sockets when lightning hit a utility pole...
  78. YetAnotherOne

    Reverb between pre and power like in a fender

    Couldn't it be done using two amp blocks? That presupposes that this is still true and that turning supply sag to zero still effectively bypasses the power amp sim. If both are still true wouldn't it be possible to set up one amp block as the preamp only followed by whatever one wishes in...
  79. YetAnotherOne

    What's your experience with impossible-to-find gear?

    The best story is a metal flake tiger stripe flying V built by GMP that I saw in someone's NAMM show pics some years ago. So far as I know there's only one and it was love at first sight. I didn't really bother to look for it as the odds of me stumbling across it would have pretty much been...
  80. YetAnotherOne

    No axe edit for Mac?

    You're going to need a larger development team ....
  81. YetAnotherOne

    Some fun with Hendrix!

    Soooo ... will the Axe FX III be able to control the speed of our power drills? Pretty sure Kemper & Line 6 are already implementing this. Totally necessary as seen below:
  82. YetAnotherOne

    Ooooh... Charts and Graphs

    Heh yeah ... and you can get even better performance by just getting rid of the input signal all together. No signal, no aliasing. It's like magic!
  83. YetAnotherOne

    The Long wait.....

    and soon
  84. YetAnotherOne

    Ooooh... Charts and Graphs

    Only if you marry rather extraordinarily well.
  85. YetAnotherOne

    Wish: Green screen mode

    Green screen? Pfft. This is what I want on there: Axe FX III - Now with real tubes! :D
  86. YetAnotherOne

    III Avatar competition ?

    <<<======
  87. YetAnotherOne

    Presenting... The Axe-Fx III

    Soooo ... basically you're Will Ferrell in <i>The Other Guys</i>. :D
  88. YetAnotherOne

    Wish: Alexa control

    I think it's brilliant that they've not only stripped the last shred of privacy away from their users but have induced them to pay for the privilege. :eek:
  89. YetAnotherOne

    5 MINUTES TO LIFTOFF.....SUCCESS!!!!!!!!

    My boss was an orbital mechanics guy who'd spent his entire career on same dating back to the Apollo Program. We did a little of everything: orbital models, traffic models, revenue models, stress models, failure analysis, etc. It was great fun because the subject matter was cool, we never had...
  90. YetAnotherOne

    5 MINUTES TO LIFTOFF.....SUCCESS!!!!!!!!

    Yesterday was the first time in years I missed my old job working in commercial space programs.
  91. YetAnotherOne

    Who's Planning To "Eventually" Move Up To The III?

    I'm in. I'm still absolutely thrilled with my II and don't feel any need to upgrade but I really really want to because ... HOLY CRAP HAVE YOU SEEN THIS THING?! Well that and because I want to continue to support one of the most dedicated vendors and best customer service organizations I've...
  92. YetAnotherOne

    Presenting... The Axe-Fx III

    Will the various level displays / RTA output be visible in Axe Edit or only via the front panel display? Thinking of things like:
  93. YetAnotherOne

    Cmon people, where the waitlist order thread lol

    *sigh* Sent my request around 7:30 AM CST received confirmation 2:34 PM CST. I'll probably be waiting a year. LOL
  94. YetAnotherOne

    A fun exercise in nostalgia

    Heh. My high school days were spent saving up for a Roland GP-8 & Marshall JCM 800, both the latest & greatest at the time. I still vividly recall some other kids who played trying that rig when I finally got it and saying things like, "It's not fair. It makes everybody sound good." I also...
  95. YetAnotherOne

    Custom Faceplates

    And the 2101 LEs were just the cat's ass back in the day: C'mon Cliff ... you know you want to!
  96. YetAnotherOne

    Saw Kansas last night

    Cool! We have tickets to see them in October ... in Kansas. LOL Shouldn't have any trouble spotting those Fractal units from the front row. :)
  97. YetAnotherOne

    Axe-Fx II "Quantum" Rev 8.02 Firmware Release

    Oh 42 IS the answer. But it's possible that you might have to commission a custom planet and wait ten million years or so for it to produce the next firmware (just pray that it isn't destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass a few minutes before it completes the task).
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