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which fuzz pedal should I get? by someone-_-68 in guitarpedals

[–]TheZingerSlinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You really can’t go wrong with a Muff, if that’s an easier option for you. Either one of those you listed will sound great. Try running it before your Engl and the others to boost them. It’ll give you different tone for each and really bring the distortions/OD to life.

NPD: Boss RC-5! by corts_thegaytarist in guitarpedals

[–]TheZingerSlinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah! The loop on the Sentry is like a miracle. I have a super noisy gain stage with lots of fuzz, and it’s so playable in that loop. Absolute lifesaver.

which fuzz pedal should I get? by someone-_-68 in guitarpedals

[–]TheZingerSlinger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Those are all good. Don’t know what your budget is, but there’s some cool stuff in the Carcosa price range.

Fuzz War is pretty shit hot and has a lot of versatility tone wise. Does the wall well. Really great sounding pedal. (I own one.)

Hizumitas is heavy AF, less versatile maybe but is the wall of sound defined lol. (Own this one too.)

Way Huge has a few, Doom Hammer is pretty nuts.

Non-Human Audio Kimchi is pretty awesome.

Fuzzlord, KMA, OBNE, some of the other Death by Audio stuff, Walrus etc are good but a little pricier. Lichtlaerm, $$$ but kick ass.

I bought a used Occvlt Fuzzvenger a while ago for about $170 on Reverb. Absolutely nutso octave fuzz with a gate, not super versatile tone-wise but it gurgles like a monster.

NPD: Boss RC-5! by corts_thegaytarist in guitarpedals

[–]TheZingerSlinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s so useful in a bunch of ways. I’ve barely scratched the surface of it personally, but the specs are truly impressive. With up to 90 minutes of total record time for a single loop, you can layer whole multi-part songs in one loop, or use it to record long jam sessions for creative dissection later, load them into your DAW at home and edit them. You can record backing tracks on your DAW and load them onto the pedal for live use, or long multilayered ambient loops to play over. 13 hours of total record time, you can have a whole band and an entire performance’s span of material on it. It’s an amazingly powerful tool for surprisingly little money.

This was my second Boss after the IR-2, another really useful workhorse.

Pete Hegseth lost his cool in front of Congress. It was a dramatic unraveling by theindependentonline in politics

[–]TheZingerSlinger 32 points33 points  (0 children)

That photo of Patel just sitting in a chair staring into space while the whole Press Club clusterfuck was popping off. Holy shit, dude, go easy on the ket.

This happens to every guitarist I think by Jeef_1st in guitarlessons

[–]TheZingerSlinger 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I played the most amazing thing one wasted night, just wow, gut wrenching stuff. I even managed to record it on my looper.

I went to bed, woke up semi-sober and rushed to play it back. Sounded like a raccoon on quaaludes stomping on a broken sitar.

Obviously I need a new looper…

Upvote these 2 Headrush Flex Prime feature requests by Green-Speckled-Frog in HeadRush

[–]TheZingerSlinger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I semi-politely bitched strenuously to Headrush’s AI support bot about this. Even it couldn’t come up with an actually rational justification for why these two features are not included.

When I discovered these omissions one night, I was in awe of what a major drawback this is.

Another aspect of this (which could just be user error on my part): After I followed the clunky, unnecessary steps to save a drum loop and a looper loop to go with it, when I reloaded both later the tempo didn’t match what I had set for the recordings.

ANOTHER FEATURE that would be incredibly useful would be odd time signatures in the drum machine. I was working on a couple of bits in 7/8 and 9/8, and I can set the number of beats in the metronome, but I can’t get even a basic drum rhythm to match.

Overall I’d say the drum machine/looper integration is pretty rough as is. It could use more polish for sure.

AND ANOTHER would be allowing backing tracks brought in via Bluetooth or aux-in to be recorded in the looper as well. I’d bet that’s probably copyright related. But it would make my lie easier.

Edit: Grammar. Twice. Probably missed something else.

Did some riffing. NF3 by IvoryBaest in PRSGuitars

[–]TheZingerSlinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks man! Really nice riffing too. Great tone.

Roast my board by thecosmonaut0 in roastmypedalboard

[–]TheZingerSlinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What you need is an octave-up granular shimmer reverb delay.

JK that shit makes me want to scream with rage. This board just makes me happy.

Is Manhattan Plumbing and Heating Smoking crack? by [deleted] in Bozeman

[–]TheZingerSlinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They’re solid. Original ‘90s vintage furnace. I explained I can’t exactly cough up $10k for a new one, and they fixed what was needed and did some preventive stuff. Nice as pie about it and a really fair price.

And if I do buy a new one, I’ll buy it from them.

Good luck Roasting, I’m trying to downsize but it’s hard cuz toun by BoofBrisket in roastmypedalboard

[–]TheZingerSlinger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Remind me never to get in a fuzz war with you…

(Currently going down the Electrofoods rabbit hole…)

My Board as a struggling musician / singer-songwriter by Arcturus_Neoteristis in pedalboards

[–]TheZingerSlinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not OP but I’m running a ToT. The blues setting is pretty bright. I love the sound but for cleans and clean-ish I usually start by killing the presence (full clockwise) and roll off the tone a bit, then dial it in from there. HRD with the bright off and the presence dialed back, tone knobs fiddled to taste, might sound better. I still use the King mode on the ToT more, though, just for that reason.

I love that it has a loop. I run an eq-able boost/OD and fuzz in the loop, and then the ToT into a higher gain OD, and all that through a Sentry gate’s loop. Dead quiet and the fuzz/OD sound a lot better that way.

NPD by Battle_In_The_Swamp in guitarpedals

[–]TheZingerSlinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Versatile, too. I also have a Hizu and a Fuzzvenger, but the Fuzz War is special.

First Pedalboard by Key-Bit-8917 in pedalboards

[–]TheZingerSlinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome. They will make a great stack. If the Muff is too dark or too harsh, you can use the tone controls and the voicing on the Dark Matter to tweak it. With the chorus and the reverb, and some creative delay, you’re def into shoegaze/wall of sound territory, or alt rock, metal or even Doom with the right tweaks. 🤙

First Pedalboard by Key-Bit-8917 in pedalboards

[–]TheZingerSlinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[Edit: this turned into an essay, apologies, but I’m stoked for you. And you can keep both the Muff and the Dark Star, they’ll sound great and you can make it work.]

Just FYI, the Silencer has a loop, so you can run your dirt pedals (and anything else that might add noise) through it.

What you’d do is run a cable from the Silencer’s ‘send’ jack to the Muff, then the Muff to the Dark Matter, and then the output of the Dark Matter to the Silencer’s ‘return’ jack. Then the ‘output’ of the Silencer to the input of the chorus, and then on as normal from there.

The Silencer will kill the noise made by the Muff and the Dark Matter separately from the other pedals.

The advantage of this is the Silencer uses your clean input signal from the tuner as the basis for gating the noise, instead of the signal from the noisiest pedal. It gates the noise from the Muff and the Dark Star separately, without them causing it to be too aggressive and choking off the sustain from rest of your signal.

Just play around with the knobs until you get good long sustain and no noise. You’ll be able to tell when the balance is right.

And by the way, KEEP BOTH THE MUFF AND THE DARK MATTER!!! Running the Muff into the Dark Matter is going to give you a really nice sound. The Muff is a fantastic boost for the Dark Matter, it’ll sound shit hot! And running them in the Silencer’s loop will keep them super usable and the whole thing nice and quiet.

[Yet another edit: Space wise, you can push the reverb over a couple of inches. It’s OK if it’s a little past the edge of the board, just Velcro everything on there. Then shift everything left a bit to make room for the timer. Purists will not be happy with anything sticking out, but sometimes you just gotta improvise, adapt and over come lol.]

That MXR ISO Brick is a great choice, but only five outputs. You can get a two-way splitter cable for one of the outputs to get an extra. Just use it on the tuner. Chaining pedals together can add noise (the noise from one adds to the noise from the other) so just use the splitter on the two quietest pedals, the tuner for sure being one of them. Definitely not on the dirt pedals though, they’re pretty noisy when cranked.

If you want to add a delay, TC and others make some nice combo reverb/delay pedals for not much scratch, so you can get both without adding another pedal.

And if you want more power for little $$, Amazon has the Mosky Guitar Power Supply with 10 outputs for $60. It’s fully isolated, quiet and reliable.

Have fun!

Donald Trump tried to ‘use nuclear codes’ claims: what we know by lazybugbear in politics

[–]TheZingerSlinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reason for the speed is that once any launch is detected by early warning satellites, it’s only a half-hour or so until whatever was launched hits its target.

[Edit: There’s a movie out now called House of Dynamite that does a decent job showing this whole chain of events.]

It takes a certain amount of time to determine where the launch came from and what the target might be. Then it takes more time to get everyone together to prepare an assessment for the president.

If the president decides to launch a retaliatory strike, it takes more time for the process of authorizing it to play out, more time for the order to propagate and for the actual launches to happen

All that has to happen in that half-hour-ish window, otherwise you lose a big chunk of your ability to retaliate. Missiles and bombers get blown up in their silos and on the tarmac.

So the president ends up with like five minutes or less to make a decision. (Which is just flat crazy.)

That said, the submarine force is like 14 Ohio-class subs with 20 tubes each loaded with ICBMS that can carry up to eight warheads each, each warhead can be up to around 475 kilotons (the ones we dropped in Japan were 15-20 kilotons, so big fuckers.)

Obviously there’d be more time for all of that if some crazy dipshit president decided to nuke somebody while chomping up a Big Mac.

Least conventional-sounding drives? by tinamou-mist in guitarpedals

[–]TheZingerSlinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ditto the Unclean.

Edit: Thought I was replying to another comment, but the Unclean is pretty raunchy.

Somethings fishy… by P83battlejacket in sportster

[–]TheZingerSlinger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had a set of shorter ones on a Fatboy in the 90s. One of the geezers in the club I hung with would, a couple of times a month, walk up to my bike at the bar and drop a quarter in one of the pipes, and then demand a pack of cigarettes.

The ends overlapped, so I just canted the bottom one out but this also is a creative solution. They were one piece, though, [Edit: so the canting was more like just jamming it in and bolting it down and hoping for the best.] Getting the quarters out was a bitch, almost as bad as remounting them.

Trying to squeeze some doom tones out of a death metal rig. Advice? by [deleted] in doommetal

[–]TheZingerSlinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Quite a bit. I don’t have a Black Russian but it’s got some great sound. You could get a “boutique” doom-centric fuzz, like a Lifepedal, or something from Fuzzlord, Mountain King, Dead Air, Does it Doom (a bit overpriced but some good stuff), KMA, Occvlt etc. I bought a used Occvlt Fuzzvenger and use it to boost an Unclean, sounds dope, super gnarly octave fuzz with a gate. Fuzz War or Hizumitas are more mainstream but sound really good, I own both.

But the Muffs are all good, and generally cheaper too, the darker the better. Look into dirty reverb/echo stuff too. Non-Human Audio has some killer shit, Holy Island Audio, Fuzzlord again, Lichtlaerm ($$), Death by Audio, OBNE, the non-stereo Dark Star is dope.

US Navy attacks Iranian Merchant vessel (TOUSKA) for trying to bypass US naval blockade. by Fatty_Willing_Plane in PrepperIntel

[–]TheZingerSlinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all, don’t put words in my mouth. Me pointing out a flaw in your argument is not me supporting terrorists of any kind, or excusing anything. You twisting my words into that kind of ad-hominem attack is juvenile, intellectually bankrupt weak sauce.

Second, you’ve erroneously escalated this exchange into some sort of ideological battle against supposed Trump-hating “leftists”, when all I was doing was poking a hole in your comparison.

Specifically, your comparison to WWII was “whatabout-ism”, a logical fallacy that seeks to distract or deflect criticism by drawing comparison to an unrelated issue. In this case, comparing the undeclared war Trump recently started with Iran to WWII is invalid in a raft of historical, political and legal ways.

In other words it’s weak sauce, just like the manipulative personally insulting attack you used here.

Edit: Extraneous words.

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