What's your current headache?

^oof. Yup. I think I've only had it...twice? Maybe? Can't seem to remember.

Only a matter of time. It's a motherfucker. Or, its maybe not so bad. Luck of the draw there.
 
Harry Klippton said:
I allegedly have COVID for the first time. So much for the smug moral superiority over the weak and disgusting masses for never having had it
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Sucks. First time I got it (hopefully the last) was 2 years ago, loooong after COVID was in the forefront of everyone's mind. You'll feel like crap for a few days. Enjoy slugging nyquil/dayquil
 
Sorry to hear -Stick.

Mrs G and I wanted and while the trying part was fun, infertility issues we not. Even with a bunch of medical goodness, a couple surgeries, it couldn’t happen. It was her, she felt horrible because she really wanted kids as well as feeling like she let me down.

It’s a lot to go through and I wish you guys the best.
 
Damn, much positive vibes to all of those health woes.

I got the 'rona super late too. Wasn't fun, thankfully nothing scary. You can still be smug, it's 2025. Tons of people are smug about MUCH less.

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Mentaltossflycoon said:
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In Portland, OR in 2009... this WAS hip. I used to work out of a shared woodshop with a bunch of weirdo artists and at one point 4 or 5 of us were driving these. A few still had working ice machines. It could comfortably fit my trio w instruments and was capable of lugging a bunch of sheets of plywood. Super useful for a thousand dollar whip.

"Sometimes the leanest burger in the world
can be the meanest burger in the world
if you cook it that waaaaay."

I moved several pianos in that thing. Spinnets, of course.
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I had an ‘86 cargo van version for like 15+ years and all my windsurfing stuff lived in it for most of each year. Super sketchy in high winds on I-84, but a great power train and it worked well for hauiling band stuff too, for sure.
 
Passinwind said:
I had an ‘86 for like 15+ years and all my windsurfing stuff lived in it for most of each year. Super sketchy in high winds on I-84, but a great power train and it worked well for hauiling band stuff too, for sure.
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Totally, the gorge in winter was kind of terrifying in that thing. I generally left the backseat in my garage and with no weight back there the wind would send me all kinds of squirrely.
 
Silver Blues said:
I am the kind of person that likes to do extensive market research before making any purchase of considerable value, and am needing to make a few such purchases at the moment. It's genuinely depressing how everything on the market (in any field) is either horrifically expensive (or at least out of budget) or absolutely dogshit quality, OR BOTH (!?), or made by a company whose business practices I am not willing to support, etc. All we care about nowadays is cranking out vapid trinkets that are worth less than the materials they're made of just for the sake of a quick buck in the pockets of the 1% and upholding the delusion of infinite corporate growth. Why is it so difficult to find an affordable and decent quality product.
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I do the same. I even research the shit out of cheap stuff I shouldn't. One thing also bugs me is that if you find some junky product, you'll find 20 different "brands" of identical ones with crazy names like MEZI, FOLOPLUS, YINMIT. The vendor websites are just flooded with them making it harder to find the better items.
 
spi said:
I do the same. I even research the shit out of cheap stuff I shouldn't. One thing also bugs me is that if you find some junky product, you'll find 20 different "brands" of identical ones with crazy names like MEZI, FOLOPLUS, YINMIT. The vendor websites are just flooded with them making it harder to find the better items.
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Seriously, I hate this lmao. I expect that from eBay and AliExpress but recently-ish when Amazon started to be inundated with this, I knew we were lost 😅
 
Harry Klippton said:
Google decided my phone battery doesn't need to charge anymore
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After getting a runaround from the "local" (hour away) authorized repair place, I elected the mail in option. Received special packaging on August 1, sent the device on August 8. On August 14, its scheduled delivery date, it stopped getting scanned and hasn't been updated since. UPS is doing "an investigation." 😡
 
Stickman and I had to go thru this when we did the Helix transaction and right about the point where it seemed all hope was lost *poof* it showed up. Hopefully same applies to you.

While on the subject of the Helix...I'm taking another look at using this in a live situation. I refuse to believe that I can't get this to translate to all the cool sounds I get at home.
 
Gordo said:
Stickman and I had to go thru this when we did the Helix transaction and right about the point where it seemed all hope was lost *poof* it showed up. Hopefully same applies to you.

While on the subject of the Helix...I'm taking another look at using this in a live situation. I refuse to believe that I can't get this to translate to all the cool sounds I get at home.
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Its certainly possible. It just depends on how ya use it.

Personally, I'm a fan of using a clean and powerful class D solid state power amp. That way, you leave on the power amp modeling and impulse responses. As long as your setup has a fairly flat response, it's not too difficult to get that to scale to higher volume *very* well.

Running that setup through a more traditional guitar cabinet can help bring it back to a place of familiarity. I run my modeler through a 2x12 that I've had forever that I loaded with two Jensen N12Ds. Great speakers. Neos too...saves my back if I gotta move it.

There are some settings in there that relate to plugging into FOH or amp front end. A global EQ can help dial in to match different PAs too.
 
I think most of it is lack of time to work with the sound system. I've been using an Amped II direct to FOH with great success and when it came time to do a fly date I pulled it off the board, tossed it in my suitcase, and borrowed a speaker cab when I got there. Sounded fantastic. The power amp in the Amped is defeatable.

My repair shop sometimes doubles as a rehearsal space ("WHAT??") and I've heard people use a Helix in front of an amp or in the loop and it sounded very nice both ways.
 
Bought an HDMI thing from Elgato only to find out my VCR/DVD combo's HDMI out is encrunked/HDPC garbage, so now I have to buy a component video upscaler to archive this horde of tapes. The built-in upscaling is actually really good, but they felt the need to encrupt the thang ding.

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This was all insult to injury. My combo deck can dub VHS to DVD, but the first tape I tried both failed to write anything but a 2 hr black screen and snapped the tape off the reel. Not even just RW/FF speed snap, this was just reaching the end of the tape on play snap. So I'm planning for the worst, and assuming each of these tapes are only going to have one play in them.
 
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