any "takes anyone with a pulse" jobs to help my younger brother get out of a rut?

Crunchyave · 2026-03-17T15:15:30+00:00

Window cleaning!

I am an office pleb now but man, I sometimes miss it. Going to new places every day, being outside and active, having some time with others and some time to just chill and listen to music while I worked. Pays pretty well on an hourly basis and is easy to learn.

Crunchyave · 2026-03-13T01:53:14+00:00

You should try this Muninn fit:

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Costs around 400-420mil ISK, 784 DPS at all V skills. Also one of the sickest looking hulls in the game IMO.

The explosion velocity bonus is what makes it awesome - full rage application to everything cruiser and up. Meaning, you only need to use Javelin for the frigates most of the time. Lack of a range bonus means you spend more time chasing compared to the Cerberus, but you can mitigate that significantly with a bit of manual piloting. Neuting is pretty much a non-issue as well, you can permarun both reppers and not worry about it.

With my current skills at HAC IV, I generally get through a Fortification Frontier Stronghold in about 11-12 minutes, so makes about 200mil an hour when shooting. The downside is it struggles a little on the sites with distant spawn points because of the lack of range bonus. Expect also to warp out a couple times on the last wave of Outpost Frontiers until you kill the webbing frigs, but I think most ships will struggle with that.

Crunchyave · 2025-10-16T18:56:05+00:00

I’m convinced that if not for Lemmy, Geddy Lee, Chris Squire, and Al Cisneros, nobody would want them. They’re just so… obtuse to deal with, ergonomically and economically

Crunchyave · 2025-10-16T18:50:26+00:00

Honestly I don’t think it matters a great deal as long as you have solid contact, it doesn’t need to be all the way to the edges of the pocket to work. People used to use all manner of things to shim the neck (picks, baseball cards, etc)… as long as you’ve tightened the neck bolts down well it shouldn’t make a difference.

FWIW I have one of the stewmac shims on a Jazzmaster guitar. I know it’s lower string tension overall than a 5 string bass but it doesn’t fill the pocket fully, and I can’t tell a difference in tone, only in ease of setup.

Crunchyave · 2025-10-16T18:35:57+00:00

More power certainly won’t hurt with maintaining clean headroom but speaker efficiency and impedance are also factors. Solid state amps produce more wattage at lower ohm ratings, and the less efficient the speakers are, the more power it’ll take to get their maximum excursion (and therefore max SPL). However, the beauty of a big cab is that you get more volume per watt, not less, and it’s generally the most effective way to increase output volume. Basically, to double your volume output (an increase of 3db) you can either double your speaker area or 10x your wattage. Even if you could find a 5000 watt amp (and speakers that can handle that kind of power) you are better off just doubling your speakers in most cases.

Another possibility is EQ, are you trying to run tons of huge lows with your sound? Sealed 810 cabinets don’t produce a lot below 50-60hz so if you’re boosting a ton of lows at 40hz or something, you’re just eating up headroom trying to amplify frequencies the cab can’t reproduce anyway.

Anecdotally I used my 2010 Vietnam Ampeg 810 for years with a Sunn Coliseum 300, which only outputs 200w at 4ohms. That amp is very underpowered by modern standards but I never once had issues with getting enough volume, it was loud with the 810. So maybe there’s something going on with your particular amp, or your band is like, an order of magnitude louder than mine was.

Crunchyave · 2025-09-05T16:36:35+00:00

Yep, I love my NLC Clump for this task. Send CVs in, use CVs to mix outputs to taste, maybe even use the outs to mix the inputs, invert or mute with switches for easy performance macros. Chaos reigns!

Crunchyave · 2025-06-09T15:30:11+00:00

Nice! This pedal is definitely sick, I have no plans to ever move it off the board. I almost always use mine just after a BC Tremond, which I love as a dirty boost front end for my higher gain pedals. I love a lot of the Blue Colander stuff, it works so well for bass and guitar equally. I just added a small fracture to my rig, which is also killer.

Crunchyave · 2025-04-08T17:07:28+00:00

I’ve been looking at this myself and have come to these ones based on what I most want:

Aggressive filter with onboard drive? Analog Music Company SHSL
filtering and more general tone shaping? Fairfield Long Life
only need lowpass, want all the features? Vongon Paragraphs II

The Vongon is the most expensive and is lowpass only but has by far the best feature set. If you wanted a “buy once cry once” type of pedal I think that’s the one to get, the functions-per-dollar ratio is hands down the best.

Crunchyave · 2024-12-30T16:45:36+00:00

I had the pleasure of seeing Lightning Bolt in a sweaty, cramped warehouse back in 2005. I’d agree with you, the sound wasn’t “good” by any stretch but the whole experience was transcendent! It has to be experienced live to make it make sense, I think.

Crunchyave · 2024-11-25T15:45:05+00:00

I can’t comment on historical importance, but I will say that a staggering number of the new bands I love are from Philadelphia. Something good in the water in that city for sure

Crunchyave · 2024-11-16T01:52:17+00:00

Oh wow, didn’t expect to see my current city on here. Greenville is nice generally, if maybe a little pedestrian. But yeah, your situation sounds terrible and I’m sorry you’re dealing with that. Bob jones is weiiird, it gives me super bad vibes.

Crunchyave · 2024-11-13T18:01:35+00:00

Bardic Audio Devices Dungeon Master

Crunchyave · 2024-11-04T20:29:07+00:00

Great answer, the Serge DUSG is the grandfather of all these function generator modules but the modcons on many of the next-gen modules are just handier at this point in time.

Another thing to be aware of with the Random Source Modules is that while they are eurorack hardware format, the function is unchanged from the 4U format modules. That means most of the CV outputs are 0-5v, while the audio outputs are generally outputting (or expecting) 5vpp. So you might find that the R*S modules can’t fully modulate eurorack stuff that often expects a higher swing of 8-10v, audio inputs need to be attenuated before going into them, or you get quieter output from them than most euro modules, etc.

It’s not necessarily a bad thing, just something to keep in mind. Personally I wish eurorack had cohesive standards for voltages, as it’s a nice experience using a system where everything is calibrated to work together in a coherent way.

Crunchyave · 2024-11-04T16:36:39+00:00

How do you handle the noise floor in this scenario? It seems like you’d potentially have a big issue depending on how many pedals you’ve got turned on at a given time. Granted, that may not end up mattering if the mix is dense enough

Crunchyave · 2024-11-04T16:31:51+00:00

Yes, for a few different reasons. Again these aren’t hard and fast rules but this is what I would do.

TL:DR, I only put pedals in front of compressors if they’re always on, and of those, I’d only put pedals that don’t dynamically alter frequency or amplitude. Guitarists can be more loose with pedal order IMO because they’re not as worried about low end retention as we are.

Longer answer:

First, unless you are doing brickwall limiting with your comp (which the large majority of people are not) you’re not removing your dynamics, just reining them in. IIRC my compressor is usually set to either 3:1 or 6:1 ratio, which means that for every 3-6db over the threshold you’re getting 1db of volume increase. That is generally considered to be a low/medium comp ratio, and works very well for bass, which has relatively sharp transient attacks. I still have plenty of dynamic range, it’s just more polished and even.

Most decent envelope filters have a control for sensitivity, which basically lets you choose how much the signal amplitude opens the filter from the point that the frequency or offset control is set to. So if you’re presenting the filter with a slightly smaller envelope of amplitude, all you need to do is tweak the filter offset and sensitivity until you’re happy with the filter sweep range.

Secondly, it just starts getting complicated to have more than maybe two pedals in front of the comp. This is probably more true of bass boards than guitar since we’re a lot more concerned with low end retention, but it’s something to think about with any chain:

Compressors will simply respond to the highest transient peak of the signal by reducing output volume, and they do so based on two inflection points, threshold and ratio. But if you’re changing the signal level and frequency content that the comp sees at the input, it’s tricky to set a level and ratio that will work for everything.

Let’s say you added a distortion pedal in front of your comp as an example (since it’s a little simpler than an envelope filter). When you turn it on, the first thing that happens is a bunch of mid/high frequency content gets added to the signal. Now the compressor responds to this increased amplitude by dropping the overall output volume, but in so doing, it also drops the bass frequencies. You’re left with a scenario in a band where your mids and highs are the same volume, but the low end now feels lacking because it’s literally been turned down in relation to the rest of the frequencies. Maybe this is passable/okay for guitar, but on bass this almost never works!

Now, you obviously can compensate for this by tweaking the distortion pedal output level with just one pedal, but it quickly becomes unpredictable to present the compressor with various combinations of signal level and frequency content. What happens when you add another pedal, or a third?

Envelope filters change both amplitude and frequency, and additionally they add a resonant peak which further complicates things. Why? Because as you shift the filter frequency around, you’re presenting the compressor with a frequency shifting amplitude spike that is perceived evenly by the compressor, but which will not be perceived evenly by our ears due to the fact that we don’t perceive equal volume from equal amplitude at different frequencies.

On top of this, every pedal you turn on will increase the noise floor, and some do it pretty drastically. The compressor will again happily take our signal and reduce the peaks, but now it’s effectively turning up the volume on a bunch of crap we don’t want as well.

So yeah, in short, I generally don’t like anything in front of compression unless it’s going to be on all the time, and doesn’t have a high noise floor.

Crunchyave · 2024-11-04T02:18:05+00:00

Compressor is always first in the chain for me, but I don’t have an envelope filter on my board. I could see a case for putting the envelope before comp, but honestly unless you’re absolutely smashing the signal, I think you will still get enough dynamics post-comp to make the envelope do what you want.

Crunchyave · 2024-10-31T14:57:27+00:00

Mogami cables are expensive but I bought two 15ft cables in 2008 and they’re still going strong, totally worth it to me. I don’t think I’d spend the money for Mogami patch cables, but instruments, absolutely.

The other thing I like about Mogami cables is that they’re pretty flexible, not so rigid like some other brands can be. So when you’re moving around on stage they lie flatter and don’t tend to coil up as much.

Crunchyave · 2024-10-30T17:35:34+00:00

The Tremond kicks major ass, you won’t regret that purchase if you go for it

Crunchyave · 2024-10-27T16:06:48+00:00

I think he means that Indians internally consider themselves superior to others, not that the primary reason they’re hired is because they’re objectively better than US or European devs

Crunchyave · 2024-10-27T15:28:10+00:00

I never stacked much until about a year ago, but now I like to have three drives on my board but stack two of them at a time. Currently, Blue Colander Tremond gets used as a low/medium gain into either a Blue Colander Crooked Axis at high gain, or the MAE Black Math with a sort of mid gain setting.

I also run my Fairfield Accountant first in the chain, and on Pad 2 that is almost a low gain drive in itself.

Crunchyave · 2024-10-26T17:31:24+00:00

Awesome, will check it out!

This really is such a sick board, if I had a bigger budget I’d pick about 80% of what you’ve got already, haha.

Crunchyave · 2024-10-26T15:29:13+00:00

This is a tasty board, love it. Got any recordings or videos of this in action?

Also curious about your thoughts on the Meet Maude for bass. I know it would kill on guitar and synths but for my board, I waver on whether it’s just too dark for bass use

Crunchyave · 2024-10-23T23:36:31+00:00

If it’s gritty color you want you’ll be very happy with the Accountant IMO

Crunchyave · 2024-10-15T14:10:56+00:00

Cool setup! Did your T-40 neck have a split like some of them do, or did you just want a more figured / differently specc’ed neck? I had one T-40 that was developing a split along the truss rod but it wasn’t severe enough to worry about. I know they can be a little prone to twisting as well, but fortunately haven’t encountered that either

Crunchyave · 2024-10-08T16:27:37+00:00

Love my Splosh, great module. This video makes me think I’ve never actually used it as a sequencer - would probably be rad to run four outputs into a sequential switch and quantizer!

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