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I was thinking about this as I was reading the conversation, but kind of in a broader sense. I'm terrified that the intensification of internet monetization is going to eventually completely smother forums (because I'm a librarian and my anxiety of how modern information systems have a tendency...

Has anyone done drum lessons as an adult? I like playing drums but my technique is terrible - all arms, no wrist action. I'm probably going to start my kid in music lessons at some point in the near future. I was thinking of taking some at the same time as they might be beneficial (I've never...

My wife and I were extremely careful through the pandemic (on account of pregnancies). Got it in 2022 for the first time. I was laid out for a week followed by six weeks of brutal coughing fits and a big decrease in lung capacity. Cycling is my other main hobby and I track my efforts in an app...

Punk rock has a problem with naming sub genres. Metal has death-, black-, speed-, thrash-. I don't like speed metal but the genre name makes me want to. Punk has, what? Crust? Oi? Hardcore? None of these are words that encourage listeners. Orgcore is on brand.

I've seen orgcore come up in a few year end lists. My understanding is that it refers to bands that were hyped by punknews.org. I thought that meant =bands that play the fest (if that's still around?) but it might just mean hotwater music and equivalents. It definitely seems tongue-in-cheek...

I built an ss-2, boxed it up in a 1590bb with a Mach 1. Love the Mach 1 but the ss-2 isn't doing anything for me. I was really looking forward to trying a Cornish design but not to the degree that the hype was coloring my anticipation. It's fine. It's on my board (because I won't take the Mach 1...

I had possibly my worst mountain bike crash of my life last June. A rock washed out my front wheel as I was setting up for a jump (so I was going pretty fast). I tried to recover, slammed into a different rock. Front wheel exploded, sounding like a gunshot, I got chucked over the bars into a...

I had the same noise issue when I built mine up. I tried different PT2399's. Nothing. I ended up using a mod that's floating around this board and soldered a green LED to pin 3 and 7 of the PT2399. I can't remember the explanation of why it works (and it seems like results vary) but it solved my...

Guitar (usually a telecaster) - TU2 Board left: infinite - sea machine (sea horse?) - pauper - informant (with a voice mod and a green ringer) - hoof - hm2 - greengage - space spiral - timeline - memory lane - hydra delay (always on) - trem - 2203 (rip my hearing). There's usually a reverb at...

The new tomb mold record is so good! Very prog-y but not obnoxious. I really liked their aperture of body ep and it seemed like a change in sound was on the horizon. Still need to listen to blood incantation but I'm looking forward to it.

I'm a big fan of aluminum necks, although I've only played EGC's (machined from a solid billet). So I have no idea what one of those ultra light alluminati necks would feel like. They have pretty incredible sustain they're really fast to play on. Unsurprisingly very heavy. I find I don't play...

I'm in the "never heard of him" boat but his stuff looks really cool. I've been searching for a reasonably priced set of wide range humbuckers so I'll probably pick up a set of tone rangers at some point (I have to carve a neck first). I tried gold foils for the first time a few weeks ago. I...

Oh yeah you'll for sure shit your pants if you play an open chord. I leave a capo on the first fret at all times to prevent that. You've got 23 frets available still so no big deal. It only seems super low because you're thinking in guitar. I think it's pretty common to tune baritone's to b...

Disappointment: Strymon Brigadier - I don't hate it, I'm just not that into it. I prefer the carbon copy for analog delay sounds. When I got a memory lane jr. that thing covered all my tap-tempo needs and the brigadier never found its way back onto my board. Angry Charlie - I don't know if I...

We're using a very similar setup! My Warmoth baritone jazzmaster is on the wall next to me (roasted maple neck, swamp ash body) although with Wolfetone humbuckers and a strat-style bridge. I was playing around with my bridge recently and ended up with a similarly high action. I play in drop g so...

I should have clued when I built a war scythe immediately after and it didn't need a 5457 for the green ringer part of the circuit. Those transistors were tough to source too (at least they were a year ago when I was still figuring out where to buy components) - I needed them for a mosfeta...

I figured this one out and thought I'd update just in case someone finds this thread in a search. Turns out you need to use the right transistor for a circuit to work. I foolishly stuck a 2n5457 where the 2n5087 should have gone. I didn't have a 2n5087 around and subbed a 2n3906. Now everything...

R4/R20: 4.1v R19/R21: 4.1v IC1.1: 4.1v The voltages don't change as I move the mix pot around its range. I also tried a different B10k pot. When I use my audio probe - with the mix turned completely clockwise I can only hear the wet signal on the left side of R19, nothing on R21. With the mix...

I tried a new pot, no change. Pulled the board out to make sure I wasn't grounding anything off on the case. I'm pretty sure that the issue is somewhere in this section of the schematic: I tried placing a jumper with a 15k resistor on R4 to see if I could bypass the section and get a dry...

I haven't, unfortunately. I have a growing pile of builds that need to debugged but the amount of effort it takes to fix is so much greater than just building something new (I ended up sticking a green ringer in a DRV clone and called it close enough). I was going to start with Chuck's...