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I don't think it's an age thing. I've just never been into 70s/80s rock. I've heard Van Halen but I can't name any of his (their?) songs.

This is Moro. One of his ears flops over permanently.

I think my road bike has 11-32 and maybe a 40t (44t?) chainring up front. It's unusable where I'm living right now (there's like 750m of elevation between my house and our downtown). I can't put myself in the mental frame of mind where an 11-25 isn't that bad. My main bike has a glorious 10-51...

I keep spotting people on ebikes with their seatposts completely slammed. Even with the pedal assist I can't imagine their knees are escaping unscathed. I've got to bleed the brakes on my bike. I completely lost pressure the other day right as I was going way too fast into a corner. Just...

Oh no! I had been hoping their 18w TMB kit was going to get stocked again. They seemed to have one of the best ratios of price to component selection (for everything, not just amps). It's startling how massive of a hole a company like BYOC (or Small Bear) shutting down can create in a relatively...

That looks like an absurdly small cassette on the back.

I wasn't sure if I should put this post here or in the "what's your current headache thread." I've had this guitar for maybe 15 years. Never really liked it. The neck was a weird shape and the poly finish felt bad. But it came on a few tours with me so I have a stupid sentimental attachment. I...

I've been listening to this album on repeat for the past couple years. Great if you like technical black metal. Probably unlistenable if you don't.

I had to look up who Randy Rhoads was during the dist+ thing the other day. Then I had to look up quiet riot. Is he well known for anything other than that, playing crazy train, and dying violently in a plane crash? I don't really get it. I know yngwie from the puffy shirt.

My two favorite combos for playing into my jcm 800 are a Lightspeed into a zendrive or a rangemaster into a cattledriver (buffalo fx td-x). The Lightspeed/zendrive has a great mid-gain sound when stacked. I think you could easily do hardcore punk with it but maybe not more modern, bro-y, chuggy...

Thanks! I spent most of my 20s trying my absolute hardest to play my guitar as if I were in portraits of past. I mostly listen to metal now but the years of 90s emo left an impression on my playing - slow build into something fast. Incapable of writing a song under 5 minutes long. I was going...

I've been working on a solo project for about a year now. I recorded five songs in the spring of 2023 that I've been sitting on because I wasn't happy with my drumming. I was having trouble sustaining the tempo. So I wrote a few more songs that were about 20bpm slower. This is where the...

This band always makes me feel like I'm disassociating. Great cover too. Current listen:

The easiest program I've come across for 3D design is probably Tinkercad. It's browser-based and free. It's what I teach to absolute beginners (including children) who have never done any 3D design or 3D printing. It's great for making simple things. The interface is extremely stripped down and...

That's more or less what I was thinking. Even tracking though, if I'm in the middle of a good take I'm not keen on stopping playing to turn off an effect. But I definitely don't want something like a phaser on for an entire song (at least with what I'm playing).

Do you guys leave effects on for the duration of whatever you're playing? I've got a handful of effects on my desk - preamp, speaker sim, hx stomp (with amp sims, noise gate, reverb or anything else that doesn't need to be turned on and off) - but all my other effects had to go on a floor board...

I've got an unusual number of drive pedals on my board as I try to sort out exactly what I like but I'm paralyzed by choice. Tuner - antithesis fuzz (love this thing) - rangemaster - Julia - tso - pipe stretcher/Timmy - opa101 (?) - expandora (w/ chuck bones' voice mod thing + led/si clipping)...

Congrats on 1000 days of sobriety! That's huge! I spent about a decade working as a public librarian. You end up spending a ton of time helping people struggling with addiction to find treatment, housing, work. It's tough to explain how necessary it is to see people recover and thrive to make...

The bass is working. I think something was grounding off under the control plate. I took it apart, tested, got normal output, carefully reassembled. Everything is apparently fine now. I need to take the pickups out and fiddle with the foam underneath to get the height I want though. *Rant edit...

Thanks guys. I'll poke around a bit, reflow the solder joints (the work looks pretty clean). I was thinking, worst case scenario, I could desolder the pickup leads and wire them straight into the input to make sure the issue isn't with the pickups. Hopefully they're wrecked. Then I won't have to...