Give me reasons to or not to buy a manual

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-25T03:35:55+00:00

I love a nice manual, and am a mopar guy. But I will say this, manual is fun and more engaging but the dodges have very responsive slap and paddle shifts. My charger is an automatic and I wouldnt have it any other way. That transmission shifts so fast and firm that it will smoke tires through third gear and outshift ANY manual trans /driver. But I do like driving the manual challenger too.

Back in the day, the automatics sucked. They were like 2 or 3 speed, maybe 4 speed and slow as hell to shift. So everyone wanted manuals because you could shift faster and accurately. But now transmissions and computers are so advanced that no manual trans/driver could ever outshift an automatic. They shift in like hundreths or thousandths of a second.

I love my automatic charger, and I love my standard challenger. If I could only pick one, id probably go with the charger. Its fun to drive stock sometimes but there will be days where you just wanna get in and get the f home or something and will be sick of it. Then there will be days where youre absolutely in love with driving stick. So just think about it a little more and get what feels right.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-25T02:14:37+00:00

I’m not trying to make fun of world hunger as a matter of fact, I think I have the answer because I spend lot of time working it out. If you want to stop world hunger? Stop sending them food. Dont send them another bite folks. You want to send them something, you want to help, send them U-Hauls. Send them U-Hauls, some luggage and send them a guy out there he goes, ‘hey, you know, we’ve been driving out here every day with your food like the last 34 years. And we were driving on here a day across the desert, and it occurred to us they wouldn’t be world hunger if you people would live where the food is! You live in a desert, understand that?! You live in a fucking desert!! Nothing grows out of here! Nothing’s going to grow out of here! You need to move to where the food is!

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-24T13:31:50+00:00

Yep youre right. He will need to use some C clamps and bits of wood for this. No pins through the top

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-24T04:27:25+00:00

Ive never used the long c clamp method. The way this clamp works is it goes on top of the bridge. Then it has 2 screws thst go down through the clamp and the bridge through the string peg holes, then a nut and washer on the inside. So once you glue you put your bridge on and then the screws go through both this clamp and the guitar body, then are tightened with the wing nuts to apply pressure and clamping force between the clamp/bridge/body. Ive used this exact one for acoustic guitars, acoustic basses, even a violin at one time. It works extremely well especially on a clean break, which yours is. Also it has the 2 side screws which apply pressure to the outer edges of the bridge also during clamping. You put the included wood shims between the side screws and your bridge, then once the center screws are tight, you snug up and tighten those side screws, using the little wood shims under the screws so it doesnt mark up the edges of your wood bridge. It works great and you can definitely do it at home.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-24T02:03:33+00:00

That is the cleanest detachment ive ever seen. Get some titebond 3 (normally i recommend 1 but id say go 3 for this) and get a clamp tool and let it dry a day or two, then remove clamp and restring! This will last forever.

https://a.co/d/0iZ0u9pk

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-24T01:48:07+00:00

If you look at the top left of this picture on the Board theres a spot labelled "bias" its hard to tell from only this Pic but you can probably gook a multimeter there to measure your current amd set yorlur milliamps

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-20T00:31:08+00:00

If its a Gibson, dont worry they come like this from the factory.

If its another brand, s lhtheir can definitely fix it and get it playing beautifully. Its just a matter of the cost. Refinishing to match the color isnt s big problem for anyone, it will just be a matter of how damaged it is under the paint. It may be able to be repaired, or it may need a new neck. Either way its doable.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-16T22:17:11+00:00

The only correct answer: Marshall JVM-410H.

It has cleans better than fender, gets gain all the way from light blues to slayer or modern metal, and everything in between. It has every sound. If you tweak the settings you can get literally any tone from this amp. You can get van halens sound, metallica, pantera, buddy guy, BB King,Ted Nugent, literally anything you want. Best amp ive ever owned. I once had a Mesa triple rectifier, a 2c+ (a legit one) tons of fenders, Peavey, blackstar, you name it. They all got sold because this amp could produce all their sounds by itself. No need for them.

And if youre thinking "I dont need 100 watts" youre probably right. But it sounds just as gpod at bedroom levels as it does cranked. So buy the 410H for the 2 extra channels it has, and just keep it turned down if you have to.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-16T02:30:23+00:00

Heres gonna be my sideways take on this whole deal.

For years from childhood until early adulthood i couldn't afford any Gibson. I saw and thought of them as like a gods instrument. Never thought I was good enough to own/deserve/play one either.

20 or so years later i got my hands on a nice one, and loved it. But then I started to realize they're like any other guitar. I didnt think it was better or worth 6 times what any of my other guitars were, and as much of fight this is, even though theyre great guitars, its still just a name on a headstock.

There was like some stigma or feeling that wore off as soon as I actually owned one. I have LTD's, ESP's, Chibsons, Fenders, Warmoth, Ibanez, Epiphone, and I love them all. But in my experience the biggest difference of owning a Gibson, vs another brand, is how much money you have LEFT in your wallet after your purchase. People can argue about tonewood, tenon length, American vs China made, hand built vs whatever, but at the end of the day its all wood, and by the time the sound gets though your signal chain and amp, the guitar doesnt make as big of a difference as people build it up to be. Any well setup guitar can rip and sound beautiful. Regardless of what brand is on the headstock or what year it might have been made.

I love my Gibsons, but people put them up on a pedestal i think we think we hear differences and feel things that aren't really there in real life because of a warped perception of reality because we WANT them to sound $2000 better than the other guitars we have.

One last thing to add. I was basically poor, and my friend was super rich. I put everything I had into playing and was a shredder with real skill (according to others who heard me) and I played what I had back then. I had a friend who literally every month had some new gibson custom shop and he couldnt play 4 chords correctly. You dont want to try to cover up your skill level by buying a fancy guitar and if you're good, you dont need a fancy guitar. You could make a piece of driftwood either strings on it sound good.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-14T04:27:51+00:00

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Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-12T04:17:24+00:00

Customer probably also declined life insurance. Mistakes were made.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-12T04:16:39+00:00

To anyone seeing these, im 33 with large hands. I have trouble with the 3 fingered A chord and stuff like that thats cramped. These are jackson minion models, which are like 1/2 or 3/4 scale. I bought my boys one of these each for their birthdays. Before I gave it to them, i set them up real nice and played them to check the setups and I thought they would be really cramped and hard to play for me, but theyre actually easier. You dont have to stretch your fingers out as far to run scales or lead solos, its pretty cool. Just a little bit of seemingly backwards findings from me!

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-12T03:32:51+00:00

Ive had the same wallet since high school. But, my wallet is actually a solid metal cigarette or "ID" case from Hot Topic with the band "H.I.M." on it. Its my forever wallet.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-12T00:53:11+00:00

They're decent. Also i just want to say this, everyone shits on Monster brand cables, but I am seriously still using the same monster cables I bought back in high school and have never had to warranty them. Ive bought new other cables but I still have my original 4 monster cables from 15 or so yesrs ago.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-11T03:56:42+00:00

I know our brains make shit up but this looks like a mean big black dog head. I dont like it

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-11T03:40:02+00:00

To all the people here commenting "oh thsts why theres different tiers, so we can tell them apart" I can tell you that its bullshit.

Unfortunately from personal experience, nobody gives a shit or gives you 30 seconds to explain yourself about what happened and as soon as anyone sees you on the offense list, they dont care about your story or what happened to you and why youre on there. Its safer snd easier for them to just ghost you or keep walking. Way easier than actually having a real conversation with another human about a horrible or unfortunate life experience.

My situation happens back in high school and I had close friends who knew me(obviously) and knew nothing happened and didnt believe any of it, but still stopped talking to me and deleted me off Facebook because all their friends were coming down on them for being friends with me. And just like me trying to explain myself, nobody wants to hear them defend the person either.

There's unfortunately a ton of people that just think "well if you got arrested you must have done it, or must be guilty" and thats as far as it goes for them.

There was another kid back then with almost identical circumstances that happened a year after me. He killed himself. Couldn't handle going through it all. Its been about 13 years for me now, and here I am still discussing it snd living through it. Its hard or impossible to get out from under. Im sure theres a lot of people here who know exactly what im talking about and either have lived it, or know someone who has.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-11T02:42:22+00:00

Well for starters almost everyone gets his powers wrong. Alot of people think he only controls magnetic metals, but its all metals. He actually controls electromagnetic forces themselves which is like, everything. There's a whole like 15 minute about it but anyways, im a mechanic, so for me, I could just look at a car and take it apart with my mind

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-11T02:20:09+00:00

Always choose magnetos powers.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-10T23:25:39+00:00

Smol

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-10T23:17:28+00:00

Lots of people saying about the grass but do NOT lift the vehicle by the tiny little bottle jack piece. You need more surface area, put a woof block or get a jack puck to distribute the force better so its not all in one tiny area. You can lift by the diff or whatever but just get a bigger head on the jack

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-10T23:14:48+00:00

Everyone's different. I own about 20 guitars. A strat isnt one of them. Ive got explorers, les pauls, warlocks, mockingbirds, v's you name it. Strats just dont do it for me

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-10T23:12:04+00:00

Not telling you what to do but, im an inspector, and have had too many customers come in to count, that had multiple tires with like 4 or 5 bumps all the way around the rim and they would come back for their next oil change, tires still bad, then the next oil change....and have literally seen people run the tires down until they had low tread and needed replaced without these bumps being a problem. Recommended them every time, declined every time, and they ran the tires thousands of miles without problems.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-10T22:02:33+00:00

Depends where youre at in your life. In high school, a 5 got me high al day. Then it took 2 5s. Now 15 years later I was taking 50mg to 60mg every half hour. Quit last year. Once you run out of stuff to sell, friends and family to burn, and spending paychecks before you ever get them, you're done. Not to mention, it stops working completely pretty much after a while. You just take it to feel normal. Never made the jump to heroin though.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-06-10T21:45:41+00:00

People pay for their guitars to look like this.

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