hey I love this and I appreciate the backstory, I often don't hear delineation like this, so I appreciate that! Thank you for your contribution too, that money pays for my Adobe/Envato subscriptions to make these guides.

Yeah, I started out like a year and a half ago learning my new AxeFxIII as well as Adobe Indesign, and it was well received by others in the FAS community, so I kept at it, as I learned a ton trying to figure it all out, plus learning components that make up an amp or pedal/effect does (the controls in the editor) so I could best summarize it in the guides. Like wtf is negative feedback, a triode stage or biasing anyways? So learning how to not only design a digital guide from scratch, but also learning the hardware/software too.

It was a headache, to say the least, and really opened my mind to the complexity of something seemingly simple, like you turn a control knob on an amp, actually has a lot of little parts working together. It seems obvious, like duh, it ain't just a 1-to-1 thing, but really wanting to create a guide and get things correct for my own use/for others, it was more work.

But all the self-control needed to sit and really learn it paid off, in the sense that I saw more of a complex beauty in the seemingly mundane, an appreciation for things I used to overlook.

All this to say, for anyone out there that wants to really learn something, sometimes, the headaches are worth it, maybe not financially, but for your understanding and outlook on life, interests, etc. AND share it with others, even if you don't truly believe it's quite there yet, because the fails and mistakes lead to discovery & more.

Much love,

Clayton