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Duuuude! I went back to American Music to look at bass guitars for fun, and the guy who usually helps me was like "we got a pedal in that works with the amp you bought last time, it's behind the counter with your name on it. Free."
It turns out to be a $200 FBV MKII 🙀
Fuck yeah 🤘
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Duuuude! I went back to American Music to look at bass guitars for fun, and the guy who usually helps me was like "we got a pedal in that works with the amp you bought last time, it's behind the counter with your name on it. Free."
It turns out to be a $200 FBV MKII 🙀
Fuck yeah 🤘
@alice What does it do and, more importantly, does my wife, who plays electric violin, need it?
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@alice What does it do and, more importantly, does my wife, who plays electric violin, need it?
@kevingamin @alice it's a controller for the onboard effects in some Line6 amps. So, it doesn't do anything on its own, but with an amp to match, it can do everything*.
*-By some definition of "everything", but it does a lot. They cram a ton of effects and models into their amps.
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@kevingamin @alice it's a controller for the onboard effects in some Line6 amps. So, it doesn't do anything on its own, but with an amp to match, it can do everything*.
*-By some definition of "everything", but it does a lot. They cram a ton of effects and models into their amps.
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@kevingamin @alice Line6 is lowkey goated when having too many sounds in a tiny affordable package is the vibe.
I've got one of their amps in the living room for noodling (the real tube amps are in a room devoted to guitars) and I can't say a bad word about it. I also have a POD Go for the pedal board when I want some sound I don't have a specific pedal for, as it can also do everything*.
They also make cheap and cheerful stuff like this (again, does everything*): https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PODExpGuitar--line-6-pod-express-guitar
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@kevingamin @alice Line6 is lowkey goated when having too many sounds in a tiny affordable package is the vibe.
I've got one of their amps in the living room for noodling (the real tube amps are in a room devoted to guitars) and I can't say a bad word about it. I also have a POD Go for the pedal board when I want some sound I don't have a specific pedal for, as it can also do everything*.
They also make cheap and cheerful stuff like this (again, does everything*): https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PODExpGuitar--line-6-pod-express-guitar
@kevingamin @alice and, because Line6 gets no respect in the used market, you can pick up older models for dirt cheap, and they've been quite good for at least a few generations and ~10 years or more. They were very early to the modeling and multi-effects thing, so they've had plenty of practice.
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@kevingamin @alice and, because Line6 gets no respect in the used market, you can pick up older models for dirt cheap, and they've been quite good for at least a few generations and ~10 years or more. They were very early to the modeling and multi-effects thing, so they've had plenty of practice.
@swelljoe @kevingamin @alice why no respect? I mean, i understand that guitar heads have Opinions (tm)
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@swelljoe @kevingamin @alice why no respect? I mean, i understand that guitar heads have Opinions (tm)
@aizuchi @kevingamin @alice a bunch of reasons. It's always been a value brand rather than a boutique brand...there was a time when "low cost" and "quality" didn't really fit together in a digital multi-effect unit. The early POD and Spider models sounded pretty cheesy. But, compute keeps getting cheaper, so they can cram really powerful DSP into cheap devices now, and they've gotten better at the software and modeling side in the 30 years they've been doing it (again, they were very early).
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@aizuchi @kevingamin @alice a bunch of reasons. It's always been a value brand rather than a boutique brand...there was a time when "low cost" and "quality" didn't really fit together in a digital multi-effect unit. The early POD and Spider models sounded pretty cheesy. But, compute keeps getting cheaper, so they can cram really powerful DSP into cheap devices now, and they've gotten better at the software and modeling side in the 30 years they've been doing it (again, they were very early).
@aizuchi @kevingamin @alice I mean, the amps are still a little limited by their budget. It costs money to make high quality physical stuff, like a speaker. But, even that's gotten better over the years, and their current and previous generations sound quite good.
Another element is a whole generation of players started on a Line 6 back when they weren't so great, so they feel like they have to "graduate" to more expensive stuff. But, it wouldn't pain me to gig a Line 6 Spider or a Catalyst.
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@aizuchi @kevingamin @alice I mean, the amps are still a little limited by their budget. It costs money to make high quality physical stuff, like a speaker. But, even that's gotten better over the years, and their current and previous generations sound quite good.
Another element is a whole generation of players started on a Line 6 back when they weren't so great, so they feel like they have to "graduate" to more expensive stuff. But, it wouldn't pain me to gig a Line 6 Spider or a Catalyst.
@aizuchi @kevingamin @alice oh, but, also guitarists, like synth players, like physical knobs for everything. One pedal per function fits in a guitar players brain better than buttons and inscrutable little LCD screens with pages of options and a computer or phone app.
I mostly use regular single function pedals and tube amps, even though I know I could get less noise and more effects from a multi-effects unit or amp for a lot less money.
Monkey brain likes what it likes.
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@jason welp, that's the wildest thing I've ever heard, but ok
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@gubi
Ma quale opinione?
CHI CAZZO È ENTRATO IN UCRAINA CON L'ESERCITO?
Perché se sei pacifista una invasione non la giustifichi MAI.
È la Russia che ha smesso la diplomazia e invaso.
È un fatto.
E non è la prima volta nella storia.
Da Praga ai tempi di usrr a cecenia georgia etc più recenti.
Ha politica di invasione imperialista.
È un fatto.
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@GeoffWozniak @jbaggs @molly0xfff absolutely!!!
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@jbaggs @molly0xfff One theme I see over and over again in tech is not just a complete lack of historical context, but the belief that techbros understand the fundamental underpinnings of the universe and thus, can derive all actions from their knowledge (and control it). It's the "theory of everything" disease from physics but now in computers.
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@molly0xfff Reinventing the wheel while saying it's different and revolutionary because: "modern technology" is such a drug.
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@Gina She would agree, that is, with disdain of stating the obvious 😉
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All Projections Suck, So Play Risk on a Globe Instead
The worst thing about the getting people together is when everyone starts fighting over their favourite map projection– maybe you like the Watterman Butterfly, but your cousin really digs Gall-Peters, and that one Uncle who insists on defending Mercator after a couple of beers. Over on Instructables [madkins9] has an answer to that problem that will still let you play a rousing game of Risk– which will surely not drag on into the night and cause further drama– skip the projection, and put the game on a globe.
The pieces are from a 1960s version. The abstract tokens have a certain charm the modern ones lack.
Most globes, being cardboard, aren’t amenable to having game pieces cling to them. [madkins9] thus fabricates a steel globe from a pair of pre-purchased hemispheres. Magnets firmly affixed to the bases of all game pieces allow them to stick firmly to the spherical play surface. In a “learn from my mistakes” moment, [madkins] suggests that if you use two pre-made hemispheres, as he did, you make sure they balance before welding and painting them.While those of us with less artistic flair might be tempted to try something like a giant eggbot, [madkins] was able to transfer the Risk world map onto his globe by hand. Many coats of urethane mean it should be well protected from the clicking or sliding magnet pieces, no matter how long the game lasts. In another teachable moment, he suggests not using that sealer over sharpie. Good to know.
Once gameplay is finished, the wooden globe stand doubles as a handsome base to hold all the cards and pieces until the next time you want to end friendships over imaginary world domination. Perhaps try a friendly game of Settlers of Catan instead.
