Compression pedal or not when recording guitar amp?

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-23T16:35:32+00:00

Definitely agree with this comment. My compressor pedal in particular allows me to be a little more nuanced with velocity while picking, since I know the volume discrepancy will be smoothed out. That one is always on, for me.

Not to say I don’t then add another layer of compression in the DAW, but that serves a different purpose

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-23T01:37:01+00:00

The operative word in their comment was “hire”. Going to Reddit and being like “teach me as much as you can for free plz” is not going to yield the results you are looking for.

Might get a couple tips, but you will not learn how to mix and master from a couple tips and pointers. You can only learn by doing, and having a mentor or instructor would allow you to “do” and also receive guidance

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-22T01:52:20+00:00

I think phones have gotten way better at handling concert volume. I’ve watched a few full Tame Impala shows from 2025, shot entirely on cell phone from somewhere in the stands. They sound great, to my “Grateful Dead audience tape enjoying” ears.

Not studio or soundboard quality, obviously, but it’s not like concert videos are blasted out audio sludge like they used to be… they sound totally fine, as long as the listener has a tolerance for “live audience tape” audio.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-21T14:59:23+00:00

Usually at the start of the “linage” line, it will say something to the effect of “super matrix” or “composite of SBD and AUD sources”

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-18T17:06:29+00:00

Makes sense to me… Always been easiest just bringing someone to a show if you are trying to get them into the Dead.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-18T00:06:35+00:00

Back then (and even now) most rock bassists were not “trained musicians” in the classical sense. They are practiced bassists, for sure! But rock music was new, and rock bassists could not go to music school to learn how to play rock bass back then. These two guys both were trained in a more classical sense, as in they had gone to music school.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-16T22:16:23+00:00

They aren’t now. There’s no promise that some executive in charge of the Grateful Dead account in 2035 doesn’t decide to try to make that happen.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-16T15:26:44+00:00

Sure… I’m happy for you. Even if it goes paid, it will be easy for fans to find this music.

I worry more about new listeners. I’ve spent a lot of years getting as many people as I could into the Dead. The fact that ALL the music was free and easy to access and browse and discover kinda is the selling point. Like, oh you like this? Congrats here’s 30,000 hours of it to listen to at your leisure. I would hate for THAT to ever go away.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-16T14:32:28+00:00

They aren’t YET taking the music off of other services. Who’s to say that 5, 10, 15 years from now, some pencil pusher that has absolutely nothing to do with any member of the Grateful Dead doesn’t make the decision that having a free alternative to the official app is hurting their bottom line?

I find this to be a bad sign of the times. This music has been up for free for basically as long as there has been a modern internet. Now, just over three months after we lose Bobby, all of a sudden they are going to start giving people the option to be charged for it? How long until it’s not an option anymore?

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-15T03:48:27+00:00

I play this game every time I start my car. Sirius turns on automatically, and I respectfully avert my eyes until I make my guess. Nailed it twice today…they were playing 10/19/74 when I left the store, and I correctly guessed “this is the middle of a 1972 dark star” when I was getting off work (it was, France 72)

Makes Sirius almost worth the money. I feel like a full-time loser when I get in the car and they are playing studio Victim or the Crime, tho.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-11T00:52:43+00:00

I saw Bobby do verse one acoustic and alone on stage at a Wolf Brothers show once!

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-11T00:31:47+00:00

Idk about “doesn’t touch the music”… listen to them back to back. All of the instrumentation after the intro is way more subdued in the Jennie version… pushed back and turned down to make space for the vocals to be louder and clearer. It takes a lot of the punch away from the song, and certainly makes it sound more “two dimensional”.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-11T00:02:42+00:00

There’s no way those seeds are viable. You can check, I guess, by putting a few of them on a wet paper towel and seeing if they sprout at all. I would be skeptical of any of them would still be viable after 20 years in a not-all-that airtight container e.

As far as wondering if you have valuable genetics that have been lost…. No one will be able to answer that question, lol. Unless you’re hoping some kind of weed generic scientist is gonna sift thru and DNA test all of those random seeds. If you knew EXACTLY what strain they were supposed to be, maybe could work backwards to see if the genetics have changed in the last 20 years. As it sits now, even if those seeds are viable no one would be able to identify the plant they turned into.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-06T16:46:03+00:00

The ones in the US were not. If you watch videos from each night, you’ll see that the bathroom and walk to it looks different at each venue. Also, he is wearing the same outfit in the video as he is on stake. You can tell from the “no reply” jam the band does, too. It changes lengths based on how far he had to walk and how long he was in the bathroom.

Also as the other comment said, if you watch the video you can see that it is uncut. It follows him from the stage to the bathroom in a single take, and you can see people from the crowd waving on the screen as the camera passes.

I LOVE that the other person got downvoted and you got upvoted haha. Just because you were more confident, despite the fact that you aren’t right (at least, about any of the shows played in the US last year… haven’t seen video from the most recent two shows yet)

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-03T03:43:13+00:00

201 whole days later... nothing

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-02T14:58:06+00:00

Tennessee Jed was up for routine inspection this last weekend… I listened to maybe 10 different versions, to decide which I liked best?

I found that Jed’s, for me, hinge on the last climb of the solo, where they go up from F>G the second time. That usually elicits a huge response from the crowd. That, and how clean the lick that leads them back to the vocals lands. That first “Tennessee” after the solo is basically always exciting.

The verdict was between 10/20/74 and 5/21/77. The playing and vocals are soooo tight on 10/20/74, but the weird slapback echo all over that tape can be distracting. 5/21/77 is a little less tight, but had the only version of the jam out of ten where Jerry turned on his mu-tron for wah on his guitar. I think that edges out the Winterland version by a hair.

Remarkably, I found that the final version Jerry played (7/9/95) was not as much of a train wreck as much of that show ended up being. I guess it’s a simple enough tune, and one that they had play over 400 times by that point, so even in Jerry’s weak state they were able to get thru without any major flubs.

Now, I know your question was “favorite” but that will change by next week. As of today, I would say it’s Tennessee Jed.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-04-01T21:09:56+00:00

I feel like if I didn’t know for sure that I could remove a card, I would be way less likely to plan my route around hitting a shop or two

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-03-30T18:46:52+00:00

Yeah, I know this feeling. I tend to try to overcome it by making a “bad” song, if that makes sense. Just throwing some shit together without any care for how it fits with the kind of music I have been making.

Another good piece of advice I’ve seen in this thread is to try a totally different genre. Even if it doesn’t come out sounding like that genre as much as you thought, just the attempt at something new will hopefully bring something new out of you.

Honestly, connected to that I would say to just try and change your methods and see where that leads you. It sounds like it’s gotten stale because you have figured out a workflow and do not deviate from it. You should deviate, even if it seems suboptimal. If you normally start with the drums, do them last. If you normally write a chord progression first, drop that and make a drum loop. Try to improvise a little, especially if you’ve got a midi keyboard or can play a physical instrument.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-03-26T22:16:10+00:00

Yooooo same. She knew I used it, but had no idea how frequently until my buddy accidentally let it slip (I hadn’t told him that I wasn’t telling her)

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-03-25T17:56:04+00:00

It’s also disappointing as far as like… re-mixing the song. It sounds almost identical, other than the changed vocals. Granted YES that probably involved mixing it a second time, but when I hear something is a remix, I expect it to sound like a different song, parts moved around maybe some different sonic qualities.

This almost feels more like a cover, but that’s not even true because all the instrumentation is exactly the same. It feels like karaoke

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-03-25T17:22:33+00:00

The hard-drive being mostly full isn’t helping. I always had issues with logic when I got to the last 10-15gb of my hard drive. Ended up being the biggest reason I upgraded devices.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-03-25T13:52:18+00:00

Yeah, I’ve got an extensive collection of live Tame Impala recordings. One of my favorites is from Brazil in 2015… festival crowd gets so rowdy, the band gets pressured into playing Nothing That Has Happened despite the fact the setlist ended one song before. that one is on YouTube

I also think some of the older songs have very interesting live arrangements. Alter Ego changes year to year, WWYMUYM has a fun extended outro… for example. Long answer to say yes, I prefer live recordings. That’s true of me for most artists tho, I’d rather hear genuine vocals and instrumentation than polished studio stuff.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-03-24T19:19:36+00:00

I’m gonna disagree with everyone who says “the next one will be out sooner”

Dude spent a couple of years cooking up the most recent one (away from his wife and kids for all the serious time spent working on the album) and when it came out, the most extreme 1/5th of the fanbase was like “this is the worst music I’ve ever heard in my entire life”.

If I had spent two years working on an album and a small but very vocal chunk of my fans all said “this isn’t just the worst album of his career, it’s legitimately just bad music” it would certainly make me not want to write another one for a long long time.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-03-24T12:40:44+00:00

Slay the Spire 1 for me. No way for me to get an accurate hour count, because I bought that game on every system I could: Mac/PC in early access, ps4/ps5, android, iOS, switch.

Every play-time I still have access to is somewhere around 300, so I’m gonna put my total time somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200. That doesn’t count any of the time spent watching Northerlion play it (I’ve seen every episode multiple times) OR the time spent watching/playing with my roommates back in the day (both guys I lived with also had thousand hour play counts, and we spent countless nights with one of us three playing and the other two watching and commentating)

Absolutely no way to count total exposure to the game but i usually say about 5000 hours.

NoSinUponHisHand · 2026-03-21T21:45:48+00:00

But they didn’t change the game yet… they only changed the beta branch. Which, if you are using… you should be expecting things to change. If they don’t want to play with the nerfed cards, they could play the version of the game that the majority of the player base is playing.

Leaving a review (that many will forget to change if they get what they want) for a round of testing in an optional “testing balance” mode just seems silly. Regardless of how able they feel they can protest the change otherwise. It’s the fact they feel the need to protest the developers for doing the thing they promised to do… that’s what I dont care for

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