As a game, it wasn’t the best.

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**** me it’s boring, isnt’t it?

and all that padding? would be interesting to see how these guys fare at Aussie Rules or a game of rugby.

shite shite shite.

A little bit of history: Football has a history of player deaths: Between 1900 and 1905 alone, 45 players died. Hence, the padding.

With regard to the stop-start factor: I agree with sockpuppet’s succinct summary: Saying football is too stop-start is a bit like saying “chess is a little too tactical”, or “water is a bit wet, isn’t it?” or “soccer involves too much kicking for my taste”.

I mean, crop circles, for example. No way any of those could be made by a group of folks after a good night in the pub, is there? Nope. Absolutely not. Not at all.

Of course, crop circles have been proved to be a hoax: However, how do you explain these are done, with no footprints in the snow?

If you’re only having a few cups a week it’ll have gone stale before you finish it.

Yep, thats why I was looking at the pod route.

Excuse my ignorance but do those Nespresso machine make a full mug of coffee or do they just do espresso-size shots?

@ cinnamon girl

No. That album was released before I was born and I’m not interested in seeing the various “… and friends” incarnations that have existed since Duane’s passing.

Have you?

The Allman Brothers: I can’t listen to their studio stuff after hearing the Fillmore East Concerts.

Absolutely this. I’ve had quite a few encounters with working class brexiters and have been told in no uncertain terms that they’re sick of being lectured by middle class w*nkers who are more worried about their house prices than the employment prospects of the working class. Do we really think they’re bothered that our pampered kids won’t be able to do seasonaire jobs in French ski resorts? Or that it’s going to be more difficult for some of us to retire to a spanish beach? Of course they don’t. And they couldn’t care less about import tariffs, the loss of passporting rights to the city of London, the border with Ireland or any of the other distant and irrelevant things that have very little impact on them. I have no idea how this is all going to pan out, and whether it will be as bad as every assumes it will be, but I’m pretty sure that if we carry on patronising and ignoring the people who voted for brexit, there’ll much worse things down the line.

None of it will be solved by leaving the EU.

I love the 50s/60s scifi, such as The Day the earth Caught Fire and War of the Worlds, but I’d probably have to hand it to the 70s, although every decade has had great films. Including the one we are nearly at the end of.

Hopefully this farce will soon be made into a Monty Python film (Life of Brexit?) with John Cleese playing the Theresa May role.

Vancouver mist by Mike Kennedy[/url], on Flickr

We’ve had some crazy sea mist in Vancouver today. This was taken through the glass of my office building, with my phone camera. The lighting is nice, though.

Be honest – who knew NASA stood for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?

Pretty much everyone. Its catchier than the name of the organisation it evolved from, NACA – National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

I saw that. It’s awesome :-D

If you buy an Orange then it’s for the Orange sound right? That thickly grained overdrive sound a bit short on treble. Their transistor amps just model that sound and means you can have it while there are other people in the same house. What transistor amps don’t do is naturally compress like valves pushed hard, so if you’re playing things which alternate single note picking with strums a compressor gives the single notes more volume and sustain. So I use the compressor quite a lot with my modelling amps but never with valves because the Marshall in particular compresses nicely and the sustain on the lead channel lasts forever.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up. You’re right: You buy Orange amps for the Orange sound, and I love that sound, but sometimes it’s good to have something a bit different, for different styles.

Chasing tone when playing at home pointless??!?

Speak for yourself man, I’ll have you know I play the O2 every night in front of thousands 😀

Edit HNAD Mikey. I’d get an OD upfront to tighten it up for the D and drop C mastodon stuff.

Haha! Helloooooo London \m/ \m/

Why do some guitarists get so wound up by this? There is nothing wrong with finding what gear works for you, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of actually playing. We can’t all have hot tube amps with 4×12 speaker cabs (my apartment neighbours would get their pitchforks and flaming torches out). Even then, it would take time and effort to find out what works. Ironically, it tends to be the guitarists who have all the gear who get most wound up on this subject. Gear is so good now, you can get close to a good tone at low volumes.

An OD pedal is a good call: Something like the OCD, TS9 or Blues Driver, or even the Friedman BE OD. On the dirty channel, it would only need to be a level boost: The amp has so much gain it doesn’t need a pedal to add more, unless I roll it back and want to add a different type of gain.

best compression is cranking the shit out of a 4*12, making the speaker cones cry and packing down the frequencies of your ears response.

That isn’t an option for all of us, unfortunately.

Surely part of the fun about electric guitars is finding your sound. Yes, practice, musicianship, playing in a band, song writing are ultimately what it’s all about, but finding sounds you like can be inspirational. Also, I would disagree that tone doesn’t matter when song writing: Yes, it’s not as important, but a particular tone can be a writing tool in itself (e.g. the way compression is used to create the funk sound). Plus, who doesn’t like guitar pedals? :-D

The benefit of compressors is not mythical: They are well documented and used by many guitarists around the world. My old practice amp had a compression effect built into it that you could adjust the level of, so I’m used to working with a compression effect (albeit a basic, digital one), even for high gain.

I am just getting back into guitar playing so really finding my feet again. Maybe I gave the wrong impression: I am not intent on getting fixated with gear, I just want to find what works for me. In fact, I bought a digital interface last week (with the aim of creating my own backing tracks to play along to) and ended up taking it back because I found I was spending far too much time on the computer and not enough time playing. I’ll probably get a looper pedal so I can do something similar. One of the things I like about the Orange is it has a transparent effects loop so I can run a looper pedal without it being affected by the pre-amp stage.

Ultimately, I’m a simple pedals and amp kinda guy.

Comp pedals aren’t the best way to tighten up for metal.

Are you using humbuckers? Are they passive or active?
That makes the biggest difference. Comp pedals are more for clean stuff.

I like to use a boost pedal with output high and gain low into an amp set for a medium distortion to get a good metal sound.

Playing with the EQ is easy and free. Raise the highs and lows and reduce the mids a little to get a more metal sound

Compressor pedals are very useful for both dirty and clean sounds, providing better sustain and tightening up the frequencies. Of course, the eq settings help but a compression pedal does something a bit different by evening out the sound

I have a Squire Strat with hot rails and a PRS with Seymour Duncan humbuckers. Both passive (I dont like active pups).

A boost pedal is certainly another option: I might try something like the Friedman BE OD or the TS9. The thing is the amp has plenty of distortion so it doesn’t need any more, unless I want to get a different sound. An overdrive would need to be more of a boost, with the gain turned way down.

The Orange sound is naturally a little more fuzzy than other makes, and sounds awesome, but it doesn’t always lend itself to tight, Nevermore-style riffing; hence why I may also get something like the Revv G3, to provide a different type of distortion when needed.

Mostly metal, but I love doom and stoner rock. I also love The Allman Brothers, Drive by Truckers and Neil Young, so a variety. This amp pretty much does all of that.

I might get a compressor pedal to tighten up the sound for more metal stuff.

35w, dirty and clean channels, 10 inch speaker, effects loop, aux in, 4×12 cab emulated headphone/line out, digital reverb, sounds filthy.

Yarp. That’s what the “t” stands for.

The Passage by Justin Cronin. Vampires it seems. Waiting to see if it’s good.

It is, or at least I think so. They certainly ain’t no Twilight vamps, that’s for sure.

But how did it turn into a comedy? (and a very funny one too)
I really cant remember the original being the slightest bit comical!!

The original definitely had touches of humour throughout. Also see Drag me to Hell for an example of how Raimi uses humour in his horror films.

They definitely took it to excess in the later ED films, though.

Rush are the same age as me. I won tickets to their 30th anniversary tour on the Total Rock radio station. They were awesome. End story.

Actually, my brother is the big Rush fan in our family but I like them too. I managed to see them twice, and they were great both times. The second time we were about 10 rows from the front.

Try Dark Matter by Blake Crouch: I haven’t finished a book that fast in years.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/star-wars-episode-ix-everything-need-know/

@markwsf

I have the same problem. As far as I am aware there isn’t a way to do it, other than the options you mention. The only real way to do it is to buy separate pedals (or a multifx pedal) and put the looper in the chain between last pedal and amp.

Ot maybe just how crap the headphone out sounds, how good the amp simulation is etc,.

That’s pretty much what I meant, seeming as the amp only does amp sim, with a headphone out socket “bolted on”. It’s also unlikely the headphone socket has a cab sim built in.

As the others above have suggested, I may get a multifx unit that has a headphone socket and use that instead of an amp. Something like the Zoom G3n (at the budget end) or the Amplifire 6 (at the more expensive end).

I was jus pissing by ze window…

A word of warning about headphones, if anyone here needs them to remain married or housed: I bought my first set of proper pro audio ones today and they’ve just made me realise how crap my guitar amp sounds 😂

Gotta be Dr Teeth. I always thought Tap were good in the film but they were very tedious when they tried to take it out of the film and be a real [joke] band.

Good suggestions there cpt slowly, and thank you; however, the first one is $800 here, and the second is $1400: I’ve worked out I can get a reverb pedal, a looper and a Friedman BE OD pedal for around $500. The latter will do everything from Hendrix to Mastodon.

I can also pick up a Zoom G3n floor unit for £200 that has a built in looper, as well as all the effects I could want. With the Friedman, that would come in <$500.

I’m sure the Helix stuff is good (hasn’t Bill Kelliher just switched from Fractal to L6 Helix?), but it is pricey. They don’t seem to lose much value on the SH market here, either.

Hmmm! On second thought, I’d probably need more furniture if I’m going to do the computer-based thing (I don’t even have a coffee table or desk). I may be better off buying a looper and some effects pedals so I don’t rely on my amp’s onboard effects.

I’d go with a looper as that is a useful practice tool. You don’t need anything flash – just a tc ditto or boss rc1 will do.
If you go down the interface route a focusrite scarlett 2i2 is plenty but would recommend you get some nearfield monitors too (in which case you can also start looking at VSTs and wotnot too). Again, if you go down the interface route, what DAW would you use?

The problem I’ve just realised is my tiny amp doesn’t have an effects loop, and all the effects, including modelling, are all in the amp, so a looper would be limited to clean stuff, which is not ideal.

The Focusrite Solo MKII, which is what I’m looking at, comes with a version of Protools and I was thinking of getting either the Fortin or Howard Benson STL plugin suite.

Alternatively, I could just use the money on a new amp with an effects loop and get a looper then.

Not seen it on UK netflix?

It’s on Canadian Netflix.

Glad you’re keeping it in drop c – always fancied one. Do you play any periphery stuff? I can play jetpacks and have marigold on the go as a long term prospect. Sat here now taking a break from learning letter experiment on my RGD 🙂

Not yet: I’ve mainly been learning some Mastodon stuff. TBH I didn’t buy the guitar because it was associated with Periphery; in fact, I had to google who Marc Holcomb was after I tried it out in the shop, and I’ve never really listened to their music. I bought it because it met all my needs. Of course, I’m going to check out some Periphery and Marc seems to be a top guy and has some interesting lessons on YT.

We’re still talking > $1K for the Fractal/Kemper/Helix stuff here and I really don’t see the point at the moment, especially to play it through a 5w practice amp. However, I am a bit of a gear nerd so I do see the appeal.

Thinking about it what I’d like is something that will be a useful practice tool, so either a looper pedal or a digital interface so I can record my playing and listen to how bad I am.

A fuzz pedal isn’t a dirt pedal. Very different sound. And one your amp won’t be able to do.
Have a look at the ZVEX Fuzz Factory. So many different sounds are possible.

I’d argue a fuzz pedal is still a dirt pedal, albeit a different sounding one. You’re right, though: My amp can’t do fuzz tones, but then again I’m not really into fuzz tones. Sure, I listen to stoner rock, but when it comes to my own playing, I prefer a tighter form of distortion.

@ captainslow

I generally leave it in drop C. I have a Squire Strat I use for standard tunings.

A kemper or AxeFX would be nice but that means mega-bucks

@ yourguitarhero

If I was going to buy a new dirt pedal it would be either a Revv G3/4 or one of the Friedman pedals.

The days of proper bands where they write and perform their own music are gone in most cases, the artists are just employees of a commercial venture, and salaries are much lower as a result and their capacity to have longevity in their careers and earn good money are virtually non existent.

Wow! You couldn’t be more wrong.

ps OP. save up another 200 quid and buy yourself a nice acoustic.

I already have one of those.

Don’t buy electronics and gear, it won’t make you any better, spend time playing with others. Maybe spend the money hiring somewhere to play with them.

I don’t know, the ability to record myself playing would be a great way to get better, I’d have thought. I could hear where I’m going wrong, especially playing over a track I could also record.

Good cordless/bluetooth headphones.

Got those.

Have a look on Andertons YouTube channel for pedal reviews or the Pedal Shop on there..

Yeah, I’m a regular viewer of Andertons tv. It was the guys on The Pedal Show that recommended the iReal Pro app.

Buy my Boss Katana 2 for £180 if you like 😜

I tried the mini in the shop and the Vox I bought sounded significantly better. I’m sure the larger ones are better but I don’t need a more powerful amp at this stage (my apartment neighbours will crack out their pitchforks and flaming torches)

If you want to try valves you can get 15-20 amps from Fender, Vox and marshall from about £250 second hand or double that new.

I live in an apartment so there’s not much point getting a more powerful amp. I also have a case for each of my guitars.

If you’re playing metal maybe rehearsal studio time + amp hire to get used to playing at high volume. Decent earplugs. Decent case.

Vancouver library does free rehearsal rooms you can book so that covers that idea.

I was thinking about some kind of midi interface to connect to my Macbook.

Re: Holcomb: Yep. sorry for the typo. I blame it on the hangover.

I’ve just been bought a looper pedal as a Xmas present (a rather nice Boss RC-3) and would highly reccomend one.

I thought about that but I’ve just bought an app that allows me to create my own backing tracks (ireal pro) so that pretty fills that gap of a looper pedal in terms of a practice tool.

Just watched (again) Avengers

Bring me Thanos!

I’ve just noticed Infinity War is on Netflix.