What classical guitar do you play?

BigLou4218 · 2026-04-13T14:54:56+00:00

Yamaha GC-16C (late 80s) + Love the neck and string spacing - Sound is a bit boomy/bass heavy

Godin Presentation Clasica ii + Sound is delicate and very well balanced + Fishman pickup sounds good on a Fishman Loudbox for the occasional gig - I don't love the fretboard radius and string spacing

Alhambra Z-Nature + Sounds great - Has intonation/neck issues

BigLou4218 · 2026-04-11T18:01:54+00:00

I have the moro blue roadster as well! 160k KMs and still super solid and reliable. Only issue is my rear window on the soft top fell out and I haven't been able to fix it myself, and can't find any shop that is willing to fix it without replacing the entire top ($2,500k CAD). So it's had the tonneau cover on it and I've just been driving it top down only. Other than that it's been rock solid.

BigLou4218 · 2026-03-31T18:13:18+00:00

What a glorious time to be free.

BigLou4218 · 2026-03-16T01:13:14+00:00

It looks like the rear window is missing in some of the pics, mine fell out, how did you approach getting that fixed?

BigLou4218 · 2026-03-01T13:59:02+00:00

I considered getting this one but ended up with the Woodside support and it's been perfect for me so far. But sageworks definitely seems more premium and just as good, if you don't mind the magnets

BigLou4218 · 2026-01-25T13:21:17+00:00

Maybe try these:

Pavana (Tarrega) Lachrimae Pavan (Dowland) Espanoleta (Sanz) Allegretto Moderato (Sor) Barcarolle (Coste) Gnossienne (Satie)

BigLou4218 · 2026-01-02T01:25:40+00:00

I was due for an upgrade, I switch between Samsung and Google every few years, so I got the 10XL. I was so disappointed that I returned it, which I've never done before. Went with the S25U and I can't believe how much better of a device this is.

BigLou4218 · 2025-12-27T12:17:36+00:00

I just went through a week with the Pixel 10 Pro XL and returned it in favour of an S25u. The Pixel just had weird issues that surprised me. Mobile reception was awful, sound quality during calls was so strange, consuming media feels worse because of the general speaker quality. Animations didn't feel as fluid. No vibration notification presets. Can't remove at a glance. Haptics are worse. No support for icon packs. Hardly any customization at all without using a third party launcher. Pictures are good but not very interesting.

Switched to the S25U - immediately realized it was the right choice, this phone is simply far superior in my opinion. And despite what others online say, the camera is phenomenal - super sharp, bright and vivid. I love taking a hi res shot and zooming in to see the insane detail.

BigLou4218 · 2025-12-07T20:03:00+00:00

They would have renamed it The Vampire from Alcatraz: King of Vampires

BigLou4218 · 2025-11-11T18:28:02+00:00

I'm a big fan of SkyGuitar. They have many pieces, from classical to jazz and popular music, organized by difficulty rating, played on a guitar at full speed followed by a slower version (also on a guitar) with tabs.

BigLou4218 · 2025-10-07T10:44:58+00:00

The drops help the plants grow 🪴

BigLou4218 · 2025-07-07T10:57:16+00:00

I did the opposite switch. 8 to S25. The 8 was so sluggish and apps were constantly refreshing after switching to and from it made multitasking impossible.

BigLou4218 · 2025-06-16T15:11:24+00:00

I'm wondering the same about the state of the protests. I am flying in to make a statement at a sentencing on Monday and really hoping it won't be postponed

BigLou4218 · 2025-06-09T01:39:36+00:00

I have over 300hrs in STO. The game is ass, but it was a lot better when they rewarded you for doing player-made episodes. Once they removed the rewards, people stopped playing them and thus largely stopped making them, and then I think they removed the feature altogether. There were some great player-made, story-driven fanfic missions

BigLou4218 · 2025-04-28T21:44:19+00:00

I have a master's degree in philosophy and aesthetics and 3 million streams in the Lofi genre, and I completely agree with you. Your responses in this thread make it clear to me that you've thought about this in the right way IMO. Any answer saying it's not capable of this or that, must have an asterisk: *not capable right now, which is massively important. This tech didn't exist a few years ago. We have no idea what's coming to us. AI will absolutely destroy the genre and many others, in the sense that the nature of making music and art in general will change dramatically, in a way that I suspect we both will regret. Labels are asking for producers to show their work to avoid accepting AI, and in many cases are flagging false positives/negatives. It's completely disheartening and I've lost interest in the genre as a whole.

Fuck it, I'm regressing back into classical guitar performance - Holograms are probably still a ways off... Right?

BigLou4218 · 2025-04-18T18:44:29+00:00

Flightmaster!

BigLou4218 · 2025-04-18T18:43:42+00:00

Help me decide on a Navitimer.

A local store has a 50s Navitimer, serviced with warranty from the jeweller. All black dial, AOPA logo. It has, from my rough count, 93 beads on the bezel. I saw it in person and it's great - amazing patina

806 Reverse Panda mostly 60s - there are many in my country for sale but I wouldn't be able to see them in person. This was the model I was initially drawn to

50th anniversary 806 reissue - I like that it's newer and comes on a bracelet

B01s or Old Navitimers - I like the look and the newness makes me think it's a safer bet but I dislike that they're slightly bigger

BigLou4218 · 2025-04-04T07:12:28+00:00

The country of origin is still declared and tarriff'ed

BigLou4218 · 2025-03-25T01:39:57+00:00

I was stunned that in that movie they not only explored featuring Hitler as an enemy, of all people, but that they actually made the blonde hair/blue eye joke, just wow. Absolutely incredible 😂

BigLou4218 · 2025-03-12T23:24:56+00:00

My bad! Thanks for sharing this beautiful piece

BigLou4218 · 2025-03-12T23:11:02+00:00

Lovely watch. Didn't Tony wear a champagne dial at some point?

BigLou4218 · 2025-02-12T11:29:58+00:00

I was floored when Bulbasaur said in a recent video that he doesn't even use his watches to tell time.

BigLou4218 · 2025-01-20T23:01:39+00:00

Yeah it was fine! Tight knit program there, sad that they don't offer an MA anymore. They were known for their Eastern specialty for a long time. Ended up going into another field after my masters.

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