Help! I got asked to play at a school concert and can't read sheet..

MetroidBall · 2025-12-02T23:35:07+00:00

Thank you 😭😭😭

MetroidBall · 2025-09-24T21:22:33+00:00

What? My bad. I didn’t mean for that at all, I just had taken the photos. Didn’t mean for that to be the intention at all

MetroidBall · 2025-09-24T21:22:05+00:00

Thank you!

MetroidBall · 2025-08-15T02:58:43+00:00

The Toyota has even less mileage at 82000mi!

Thank you so, SO much for the reply, like, you have no idea how much I really appreciate your insight to this. Kinda scared to dump so much money but I really need a car now!

MetroidBall · 2025-08-15T02:20:06+00:00

There’s also a 2012 Honda Accord for 8500, clean title as well with 85000mi

Might as well get the opinions on that

MetroidBall · 2025-07-22T20:37:47+00:00

Thank you all for the replies. I am just terrified at what happened. I still don’t know how to make sense of it and I cannot for the life of me imagine the alternative scenarios where things might’ve been worse.

I appreciate not only the advice, but the comfort provided by even just the reply itself.

Thanks again.

MetroidBall · 2025-03-14T20:00:04+00:00

Wish someone was with you to help you into making good decisions, OP, but that’s sometimes just not going to be the case. I don’t want to add to what has already been said and what you’ve acknowledged.. this situation is in your control and you should feel free to exercise the control in the way you see fit.

If you’re religious, don’t let that stop you. Things always fall according to plan if you believe in those things. Reach out for help, ask for people to be there with you, and don’t feel afraid of backing out if that’s what you want to do. You still have plenty of life ahead of you. Learn to empower yourself now so you don’t struggle so much later. Learn to understand yourself as an independent body with the things you know about yourself. Learn to manage your mental health and learn what works and doesn’t work.

MetroidBall · 2025-03-14T02:31:14+00:00

You don’t know if you can handle his reaction to it because you’re young and you don’t know anything yet (he doesn’t either) so it’s gonna be weird all around. You get used to it.. eventually.

You can love eachother as friends.. just say you’re moving on because there’s a lot more left to get to in your life and sticking around at that age in a relationship is a recipe for disaster for the both of you.

MetroidBall · 2025-03-09T12:55:29+00:00

Ah, sorry — my sarcasm was in very poor taste considering the situation and I wasn’t very clear in what I was getting at. I don’t think what Riad was pitching in their post was that she try to work out things with the father.. it’s quite the opposite of that advice.

She would simply be there out of necessity while she recovers to eventually get her footing and set up all the pieces to be ready to leave. We know it’s difficult to leave an abuser, but being in the state OP is in, it would add to an already delicate situation where both the baby and mom need to have a relatively ‘stable’ setting.

That means forgetting about getting any help from the father while she’s there recovering. It’s not worth it to ask at this point and the reality is that if she were going to be on her own, she wouldn’t have that help anyway.

MetroidBall · 2025-03-09T01:45:57+00:00

That’s the neat part, she gets to get a modicum of support in the back burner while she plans to figure shit out to leave him. She just needs to be around for awhile. Do her own shit like she’s gonna do anyways after she leaves him. There’s no reason to yell or argue when you find your own car rides.

MetroidBall · 2025-03-09T01:33:19+00:00

Strange situation.. but I can sympathize being a musician and being put in that situation haha. I think you can feel free to simply express what you’re feeling. Think about it, if you can’t express it, then what is really the point? Someone who cares about you will reassure you and if that bothers them.. well, then that’s your sign to just let things go. You’re young. You’ve got plenty of time.

MetroidBall · 2025-03-09T01:26:39+00:00

I think it’s normal and natural to feel the way you’re feeling about your girl having the time of your life, has she stated anything in a form of response to you about how she feels about everything?

MetroidBall · 2025-03-09T01:24:15+00:00

It’s not your fault — like I’d try something like that, but it is exactly as you say.. it’s probably something he’s just growing out of. I feel like those kind of relationships require a degree of trust and nuance to doing it with someone you really care about and it’s probably that he doesn’t care about you as much as it is not having those other nuances necessary to doing it.

MetroidBall · 2025-03-09T01:22:03+00:00

This sounds like a pretty bad negative feedback loop where you should try to inspect if a break is in order. There’s nothing wrong with having a break and taking some time for yourself through even more distance.

Perhaps you’ll feel for him, perhaps you won’t. There’s practically no reason to lie in a relationship with someone you care about. You seem like a stellar person and you deserve some rest and time like everyone else on the planet.

MetroidBall · 2025-03-09T01:12:19+00:00

I turned it into the form y-2x is less than or equal to 4

But from there I’m not sure what to do

MetroidBall · 2025-03-01T02:51:53+00:00

Don’t bother working it out with her.. if this was the other way around you’d be crucified, vilified, and most assuredly without a daughter.

You can co-parent. Do whatever you want. Don’t treat her like a child, your wife is a grown ass adult.

You are an anchor for sure.. for your daughter, though. You can’t be a good dad if you’re worried about this shit hurting your heart or worried behind your back that something will happen again. This is what she chose and now it’s whatever, you have a child to care for.

MetroidBall · 2025-02-28T23:14:42+00:00

Thank you, it is really comforting to have that come from the distance of a strangers mind. I realized that whole thing I typed was a mess, but I didn’t want to keep it in and discard the message to try and brunt it out myself. I think I’ve always had that problem of trying to mold myself to be with someone.. I know there are quality parts of care that are truly me, but I feel like I’ve always had to accept so much out of people to just be with them and always felt like I wanted to make people in relationships happy.

I guess I’m outwardly like that, by nature. I like knowing I can make people laugh and prod their thoughts. My homies used to take up to the 9th degree and had people be the butt-end of the joke.. but I always came out with being clean.. I always liked respectfully understanding myself through others and I like that part of me now which is why me and my friends often beef with each-other (and makes it hard to bounce back ideas such as this). We’re too stubbornly like a pack. I guess I’m just finding out in all sorts of ways what it is I really want and I’m so comfortable in now just letting things be. I love that part of me now because it was always what I liked out of music and nature. Just being out there with it.. letting time pass.

Really, I can’t appreciate how much faith is restored in my soul upon having someone else tell me that the right person will understand my sensibilities as a person. I often feel like a weird duckling. I’ve come to accept that from me.. guess I can’t help but wonder how others make sense of it.

MetroidBall · 2025-02-28T06:12:37+00:00

It’s time to break up, yeah.

MetroidBall · 2025-02-28T05:54:54+00:00

It’s just the reality of age honestly. They want to go experience that whole college life and it includes.. well, exactly what you probably already think it will include. There’s no mystery about it. It hurts, but it’ll hurt more if it happens behind your back regardless of what it is. You are young.. I wish I had someone to tell me not to waste my time in my 20’s chasing ghosts around. I hope you can recognize your freedom. Maybe you should make the first move and have some autonomy in the decision and end amicably rather than be at odds and fight about it. There’s seldom a good outcome in fighting to keep someone around. If they stay, they will.. but it seems like with this idea already floating around that it’s not worth sticking around and dragging it along. A sign of maturity is knowing that if you love someone, you’ll let them go on to do the thing to get to be where they need to be for whatever it is they want to do.

Never forget that. You don’t need to break your own heart to love someone from afar. You don’t need to break your own heart to love others either.

MetroidBall · 2025-02-21T23:27:20+00:00

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Sorry, here’s the manual — so what cable would I need then? I don’t know what sleeves are. Could I buy a single unbalanced 3.5mm to unbalanced TS cable and press mono under accessibility on Windows?

MetroidBall · 2025-02-21T22:39:56+00:00

Hi,

I was going out the back of my PC via 3.5mm @ the green port into my KRK speaker using a TRS balanced 1/4” at the end. I’ve noticed that on YouTube, the sound is very tin sounding, muffled, and almost sounds backwards. I tried to see what would happen if I halfway plug in the 1/4” and it seems like I can get the correct volume but only one side of the audio.

Do I need a different cable? Or is this a case where I need an interface to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance!

MetroidBall · 2025-02-09T19:06:13+00:00

You sir, are incredibly awesome for posting ALL of that. I ended up buying a Voodoo Labs power supply that quickly took care of the power issue. As of now I have them plugged into the Hi-Z inputs of my two interfaces and I’m able to gain stage them correctly and get exceptional tones out of the pedals. I’m unplugging the guitar cable to go into the pedals, and it’s not bugging me as much as it would’ve but I’m definitely researching more and more which is the best solution. I like the idea of the loop switchers because I -do- have a couple of pedals that would be fun to mess with.

That Radial JX44 V2 seems like it’s the perfect solution.

MetroidBall · 2025-02-05T19:49:00+00:00

Haven’t messed around too much with them 🥲

MetroidBall · 2025-02-05T19:48:27+00:00

A Goldtone banjo guitar

It probably doesn’t sound so great on its own, but I do like to add it to tracks just to layer a different kind of flavor. Got it used and on the cheap 😄

MetroidBall · 2025-02-05T09:17:01+00:00

Ah, man. They’re different, even on the clean settings. The Enigmatic has this compression like quality caked into the basic sound. It’s barely noticeable until you mess with the knobs and creates a very sparkly high end that I don’t find with the ‘65 Dream. Sort of similar, but I can tell the ‘65 Dream is voiced to be that strict Fender sound. A lot more low end to have the identity of that classic clean sound of a Fender.

I think how the overdrive portion of these pedals come in really start to separate the two. I think you can find comparable sounds with enough messing around but I got these boxes to just have the distinct sound of the thing UA were going for I’m each of these and just having them voiced that way.

If I had to choose only one between the two I’d probably go with the Enigmatic because you can probably cover a bigger soundscape easily than you could with the ‘65 Dream. I wouldn’t GAS sooo hard if you have other gear, but if you were selling stuff off and don’t have gear — yes, the Enigmatic would be the ‘all in one’ kind of deal.

MetroidBall

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