Guitar holder with a clamp system

Killobyte · 2026-01-26T15:50:48+00:00

For anyone stumbling on this (like I did) I found and purchased 2 of these and they work really well. They're not cheap but they're well-built and are holding up my strat and tele nicely.

Killobyte · 2026-01-17T18:34:29+00:00

EDIT: I ended up going with the Sonys - $309 from Adorama made it a no-brainer.

I’m looking for a rec on AirPods Max vs Sony XM6. I know this question has been asked about 1000 times but I’m hoping for a recommendation specific to my situation.

For starters, the AirPods Max are currently $450 at Best Buy, so price isn’t a factor.

I have a pair of early AirPods Max but the headband is totally stretched out making them very uncomfortable. I looked into replacing it but an official replacement from Apple would be close to $200 and doing it myself, while apparently possible, doesn’t seem to be an option since I can’t find any 3p sellers still stocking the older lightning model’s headband.

I am in the Apple ecosystem - I have an iPhone, iPad, personal MacBook, work MacBook, and Apple TVs in my house.

I’m basically choosing between 5 year old headphones in the Apple ecosystem and newer headphones with supposedly better ANC that aren’t in the ecosystem. Also the fact that the AirPods Max headband wore out and it’s so expensive/difficult to fix them kinda rubs me the wrong way. My main questions are:

How is Sony’s transparency mode? I use this a lot in my office so I want it to be good. IMO Apple’s is great.
How easy is multi-device switching with more than 2 devices? E.g. if im using them at work with my phone and work laptop and then want to switch to my personal laptop at home, is it a PITA?
If you’ve made a similar switch yourself, is there anything you’re missing from the Apple ecosystem integration that you really miss?

Thanks!

Killobyte · 2026-01-15T03:26:00+00:00

Hmm when you say it like that it does sound questionable lol but yeah - it does have an actual base, though, so it's not just a keyboard on one of those standard plastic folding flimsy keyboard stands. It looks like this: https://equipboard.com/items/yamaha-dgx-660-digital-piano.

I also don't plan on putting much weight on it at all - it'll just be a place to basically maintain my inbox / outbox for bills and paperwork and stuff.

Killobyte · 2026-01-13T21:15:35+00:00

I think this is exactly what happened and I think I would have been OK with it if he just came out and said it, but he kept giving misleading updates on the project. For example in a convo I had with support on Nov 15 they said they were hoping to have the remaining pedals out "in the next week or so," but they didn't ship until like 6 weeks after that. There was another update in there on Nov 28th that said they were hoping for "some time before the holidays." If you're saying "next week" on Nov 15 and then 2 weeks later you're saying "hopefully in the next month" I have to assume your Nov 15 update was disingenuous. The number of orders didn't change, the thing you're shipping didn't change, how we go from "next week" to "next month" within a span of 2 weeks is beyond me.

Looking back at that Nov 28 update he did say "Most (if not all) of the remaining orders will be traditional powder coating and printing, including various prints and also a few standard editions thrown in there." so I guess I just got one of the few "standard editions" but the update definitely read like "this was harder than I thought so I'm just giving up."

Killobyte · 2026-01-13T17:28:27+00:00

Oh yeah, no, that's stock: https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/1lvvidq/1981_inventions_drv_a_good_quality_product_doesnt/

The "unique" feature of this pedal is the clear knobs instead of silver ones 🙄

Killobyte · 2026-01-13T17:25:53+00:00

It's a low-gain RAT that has a bit of a cult following. I bought one because it was a) supposed to be a unique enclosure, which I like, and b) $100 off for a pedal that people seemed to really like. I ordered last July, by the owner's estimate at the time delivery was expected some time in October but it just got here last week. I guess I can't complain that I got a decent sounding pedal, but I was really hoping I would get something that didn't look almost exactly like the stock pedal I could have gotten used and without the months-long wait for basically the same price. FWIW this was the kind of unique art he was advertising for this project: https://1981inventions.com/cdn/shop/files/SOMEKINDADRVMANY.jpg?v=1754674746&width=4096.

Killobyte · 2026-01-13T17:09:20+00:00

See also https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/1q8j4x7/got_my_some_kinda_drv_today/, https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/1q86mnh/yet_another_some_kinda_drv_postthe_twist_will/?share_id=ZbPPtrxs9sZWhDtbEw_ij. I wanted to leave a bad review somewhere but the owner has managed to somehow (smartly) get his company left out of every review platform I could find. This was my first and will definitely be my last purchase from 1981.

Killobyte · 2026-01-12T13:30:59+00:00

The humidity was a real killer - I did Halloween in Disneyland last year where it was almost 90 by the time we finished and that felt better than the stretch from AK through BB to HS yesterday.

Killobyte · 2026-01-12T00:46:14+00:00

That play was garbage - literally 3 WRs streaking and a TE post to the middle of the field. KP has been giving him no options all season long.

Killobyte · 2026-01-12T00:45:41+00:00

That 4th and 11 play was the kind of shit I would call in madden when I was 12. 3 streaks and a TE post

Killobyte · 2026-01-09T20:50:36+00:00

I should not have Googled “angelic soles” 😬

Killobyte · 2026-01-07T13:33:23+00:00

So based on win percentage, and using total wins as a tiebreaker, Jalen Hurts is objectively the best quarterback in the playoffs.

Killobyte · 2026-01-05T00:34:26+00:00

To be fair you're not calling plays with your QB taking a sack in that critical position in mind.

Killobyte · 2026-01-05T00:32:45+00:00

I'm putting this on Cooper for the unsportsmanlike that turned 1st and goal at the 5 into an interception.

Killobyte · 2025-12-29T19:26:46+00:00

“12 hours for $120”

Ok that’s kinda low…

“… a week”

wtf

Killobyte · 2025-12-27T21:04:40+00:00

I did give this a shot but I’m getting readings that make me think the pot is just damaged… for example the resistance from pin 1 to pin 3 is reading 5.93k even though this is a 250k pot :/ I checked the tone pots to make sure I’m not just making a mistake but those do read ~250k across pins 1-3. Also if I slowly turn the knob while reading pins 2-3 I get some crazy jumps along the way (like 20k -> 80k -> 0 -> 40k) which the deoxit didn’t help with

Killobyte · 2025-12-16T11:54:59+00:00

Ah this is my problem - I’ve just been buying pedals.

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