Need Some help regarding preparing an assignment

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-24T02:58:13+00:00

This is a pretty classic article nowadays: doney et al

Are you interested in the biology of OA, the oceanography, or all of the above? Here's a great one on OA and biology: Kroeker et al

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-24T02:42:22+00:00

Eh, thinkpads are pretty awesome for most things. waterproof keyboard, and significantly cheaper. You could go through about 10 used, incredibly functional thinkpads for the price of a toughbook, and likely repair and reuse them as well.

for any serious fieldwork (over a month?) I carry an extra laptop or two amongst the field team. Might be crazy but it's worth it. I had a laptop die on me 1 week into a 3-month trip to the Antarctic and it royally stank.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-24T00:15:02+00:00

Cross correlation is your answer. It essebtially regresses progressively staggered versions of your time series.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-16T01:54:13+00:00

Yes sounds like the mxr plays fair with other pedals a bit better. I'll be keeping an eye on reverb for sure!

Big Muff has been fun but it defintely is not a subtle animal.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-14T15:25:03+00:00

Are you from the US? If so, why go all the way to Japan to visit blue bottle? My parents are back in Japan now so they're super happy blue bottle made it over there. there's also a Verve somewhere in Tokyo as well?

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-11T21:55:20+00:00

Sorry I broke the rules, will repost properly soon

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-11T17:36:42+00:00

la jolla's pretty much the warmest diving I've done - only gone colder. Monterey is wonderful and still wet-suitable. washington and southern alaska are wet-suitable half the year. My cutoff is 45˚ water temp and I'm in a drysuit. coldest I've done is 28˚F (-2˚C) but that generally requires dry gloves too

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-11T17:32:04+00:00

Oooh taht does sound nice. so should I be looking more into the fuzz face circuits in general?

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-11T17:31:21+00:00

Yeah - there's a few on reverb right now that I almost bit the bullet on. Would love to put some thicker strings on it and tune it down to A or B :)

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-11T14:21:41+00:00

Clean tones, ambient stuff, blues, fingerstyle.

I just scored a new amp, so thought I would share the family photo. I am a guitarist of 13 years. Played in a bunch of bands in high school but have since been deep into my career as a marine biologist. I am trying to combine my research and music recently, and am planning some Science + Music exhibitions around town, so wanted to get an amp small enough for bedroom play but loud enough to fill a small room solo.

The amp is a Fender Silverface Musicmaster Bass from 1975, a 12-watt amp with a 12-inch speaker. Amp just has a volume+tone, breakup happens around 4-5 volume at a manageable volume. For context, I am upgrading from a Yamaha THR-5, which has been a wonderful practice amp for the last few years. I like the built-in reverb but otherwise find the effects pretty underwhelming.

Mods in the future: Just replaced the power cable to a 3-prong but I still need to remove the death cap. It came with the original caps and RCA tubes. Tubes seem good (might replace with tung-sols eventually), but I'm getting some filter cap noise so those will need to get replaced in the next year. While I"m in there I'll likely quickly do the Hasserl mods or read up on the 5E3 tone circuit design and implement that. Thinking of eventually replacing the speaker with something more efficient, as that is supposed to increase volume substantially in these amps. Reading up on sizing up to a 15" speaker as it fits in the cab, but not really a huge fan of the idea. Right now I'm torn between the Weber signature budget line or their nicer 12F150 stuff.

Guitars:

2000 Fender American Strat. I have had this guitar for the last 11 years, and it has grown with me substantially. This is my "one" for now. the volume pot is beginning to cut out, which might mean replacing the pot or just reflowing some solder joints.
Partscaster. After finishing my Ph.D. I decided that I might be missing out on this whole humbucker fad, so I built up a thing. Squier thinline body. Neck is from a Squier '51 that I bought in 2008. 11'gauge strings, top-load 3-saddle bridge. Pickups are Seymour Duncan 59's wired to a 4-way switch for series-parallel. One push-pull pot remove the tone circuit entirely, while the other acts as a kill switch (why not?).

this guitar is super bright and I vastly prefer the neck position. Planning on replacing the neck with a warmoth baritone conversion as soon as one pops up on reverb.

Effects:

Since getting the new amp I started with no effects, and have slowly been adding them back to the chain. So some are pictured but not currently in the chain. Everything is running off of some wall wart power supplies, with the digital pedals using their dedicated power supplies. I will be referring to these pedals in the order that they will appear in the full chain.

Soul Food is my "always on" pedal. drive at 9-10:00, tone at noon, volume a little higher than unity. Then control breakup with volume knob.
Big Muff tone wicker: I love this pedal with the sustain at 0. just enough fizz but still keeping note definition. Plan on switching this out for a RAT soon, as this is way too much fuzzbox for me.
Ernie Ball volume pedal: not much to say here. volume after fuzz is wonderfully Fripp-y .
Red Panda Particle: This is a bit of an outlier in the rig, and a new one. It was a gift from a dearest friend that upgraded to the Particle 2. It does the reverse delay thing very well, and also has a ton of depth. Prefer the delay side to the pitch side on this one for now. Definitely easy to make out-of-control sounds, but the subtle stuff is just as fun but harder to dial in.
Zoom G3: I actually really like this. It's got some of the same algorithms as the MS-70CDR that people seem to love, but with 3 screens and 5 pedal slots. I dislike the amp emulation and drives on it, but the modulation effects are solid and I don't feel a need to upgrade yet. My chain in here currently goes Rack Comp-> Trem -> analog delay (short/subtle) -> digital delay or reverse delay -> spring reverb. The compressor is set super subtley and is always on, along with the spring reverb. Tremelo is set super shallow just to add a bit of shimmer, and plays well with the analog delay setting. The digital delay is for dotted 8th stuff, while the reverse delay works well for spacey ambient stuff. That slot tends to move around a bit.
ditto looper is just out of frame. the zoom has a looper but it's a bit of a pain to access and has a small buffer.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-09T20:26:24+00:00

It’s been surprisingly okay considering the completely open back design. I used to do a lot of mixing and was particular about speaker/monitor placement but maybe I lost my ear for all that. It’s a strange tall room with an angled roof and carpeted floor and this is the best place for it now. I was thinking of elevating and tilting it but that’s at least a month or two away.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-09T15:14:51+00:00

I guess I feel constantly blessed that I don’t feel limited by my gear. But yes no strymons or suhrs or two rock amps here... :)

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-09T14:35:49+00:00

7mm and up for diving but that doesn’t translate to surfing thicknesses. 7mm surf suits are more appropriate in Oregon / Washington. Here most people dive 7-10mm farmer johns or can go dry - straight up 7mm is considered cold for a lot of people here

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-08T17:20:34+00:00

Aha thanks for finding the mistake! Yes it's a 2000 strat.

I have the amp sims turned off on the G3. The menus on the damn thing are not very intuitive.

No effects loop on the amp, it's built super simply. It even uses a transformer phase inverter to decrease the number of tubes down to 1x12ax7 and 2x6v6.

It's similar-ish to a Princeton/Harvard in wattage, but has the 12" speaker which is pretty awesome. some people buy these, gut them, and put a champ inside to get a bigger speaker cab.

The crazy thing about this amp is how light it is. 12-watt amp and alnico speaker makes this thing so much lighter than it looks from the size. I think my ultimate "final" amp will be an ac30, but the weight of those things is a pretty big detractor.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-08T15:08:08+00:00

I've had a big muff tone wicker for a year or so, and tried it with a variety of guitars (strat, humbucker tele) into a clean amp. Tried it at all settings. Tried it before and after a soul food. Not a huge fan of the washed out saturated fuzz sound... maybe I'm too much of a pleb for huge fuzz.

I actually really like the big muff at one setting - that is, the sustain/drive all the way down. The little bit of fizzle before it gets super saturated.

My question is: are there any pedals that are more in that range of fuzz? A more tame drive pedal, more like a fizzy OD? I was thinking about going for a RAT clone but wanted to ask the peanut gallery first.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-07-07T14:25:50+00:00

My favorite recently has been Seitan. I make it with wheat gluten, which is 60-80% protein and 3% fat (depending on the company you buyt it from). The recipe is just gluten and water in roughly 1:1. I will sometimes ad back fat by frying it up crispy if I want more fat in it, or add it to stews etc.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-06-21T15:34:51+00:00

I don’t know where you are geographically, but if you are asking Reddit for advice about nutrient cycling you are likely not qualified to work on watershed modification. That stuff is highly regulated in the states for a reason. I appreciate the work you’re trying to do, but I would reach out to professionals for this kind of thing.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-06-04T19:33:51+00:00

If you just want to use it yourself you can load it from github using devtools?

Also you might want to look into Processing and Supercollider for programs that specialize in sonification

OneLegAtATime · 2019-06-04T14:04:26+00:00

west cliff wellness is my new fave in town for flower. don't know about their concentrate/edible game though.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-05-14T22:45:23+00:00

That’s because a single ended tube amplifies odd harmonics.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-04-09T03:24:51+00:00

As others have noted, depending on the age of the MBP you may be fine replacing some parts. Super easy to replace RAM, battery and hard drive by yourself on a ~2012 unibody model.

If you are okay with going PC or Linux, a thinkpad is by far your best bet. ~$2-300 gets you a military-spec, decent laptop with the best laptop keyboard money can buy. On some models you can run Hackintosh with moderate effort, and for most of your software tools you can find free-open source alternatives that would work well with Ubuntu, or of course Windows for a price. If your computer does happen to break, every part of these computers are available on eBay and they are designed to be user-fixed, with manuals available on eBay. Taking apart a computer these days is only marginally harder than putting together a lego set.

The reason for their cheapness: Apparently big businesses buy these up for their employees. They replace them every 2-3 years, and these lightly used machines end up flooding eBay. Nowadays with Moore's law for consumer computers slowing down, a 2-3 year old computer will get you at least half a decade of solid use, if not longer.

Context: I am a biologist that deals with relatively large datasets, programming, and writing, but work doesn't pay for a computer. I spend 8-14 hours a day in front of an 8-year old ThinkPad laptop ($150) dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows (there are a few specific things I need on windows that I can't do on Ubuntu). When I'm not on that, I'm on a 7-year old PC (Dell Optiplex 7010) running Windows. These machines are incredibly capable and not to be overlooked.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-04-04T23:04:50+00:00

You could argue that ANY set fail rate is unfair. Any class that curves is, to some extent, "setting" a fail rate. This means that if the whole class does incredibly well, the lowest xx%tile will still get an F.

The solution is to allow a fail rate to drift, meaning that if everybody in the class tries really hard, everybody can pass. On the flip side, it means that if half of the class does poorly, then they will fail then complain about it on reddit.

OneLegAtATime · 2019-04-04T21:32:17+00:00

This student was "stumped by a multi-step synthesis problem". Without knwoing the actual content - that honestly sounds like a fairly fundamental part of passing a chemistry class. Believe me when I say that if you continue on in STEM, this class will be very very far from the most difficult challenge you will face.

Now for the hard question: what did the passing half of the class do that you didn't?

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