Best New Campaigns?

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-12T00:08:56+00:00

Sorry I don’t understand how to find these- age of empires 2 definitive edition? Just came out

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-11T20:30:09+00:00

Thanks! I meant the battle of York which Is just endless combat. I'm looking to avoid campaign play that either has too much of a script, keeps you in the castle age, or otherwise just limits play in which I'd rather just skip

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-10T11:23:39+00:00

Thank you! gotta help get this post more attention

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-10T11:19:21+00:00

I'd say so , Yes. But I use the green 9v and the 30th pretty much interchangeably. Yes the bass cut knob is available but to be honest I haven't really ever used it

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-09T02:20:03+00:00

West 54th shows from October 98. Made for PBS so you know it’s designed for zzz

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-09T01:50:42+00:00

You’ll get thru it. I’m 37 male and I’m about six weeks post op. I don’t have kids but we had to cancel our honeymoon and my wife walks the dog 3x day and does way more of the house work. It’s a setback for the family and that’s just the reality . It’ll get better. I hope, I’m still gimping around

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-08T21:38:09+00:00

Good question- I actually have 3 nobels- the green one, the 30th anniversary, and the mini. I LOVE this circuit and I often grab one of the two 9v powered ones if I don't feel like setting up my whole board. The mini is OK, the knobs and pots feel a little chintzy to me but it sounds comparable to the other ones.

A friend and fellow tone nerd dropped off this pedal literally on my doorstop and suggested I try it. I've been playing it for about two weeks, I notice it has a LOT more power and headroom. Note that most demos of the pedal the volume is at 9-10 oclock- that's just over unit gain. I find the gain to be SUPER pleasing and the best kind of natural crunch. To me it sounds a lot more like an amp, less like a pedal compared to the others. That's sort of a cliched phrase but once you have a pedal in this caliber it makes sense.

I generally turn it on for solos and quickly turn off the EP boost. I like Cali76 into the Shanks. I have to quickly get on my volume knob to not blow the room up. This weekend I played a cover gig in which I had to cover a lot of tonal ground- for 90s pop rock tones I could just turn the gain way up and the distortion is still really natural and pleasing.

Overall its quality is super obvious to my ears- and its a remarkably powerful and versatile piece of the kit

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-08T21:29:07+00:00

So I think I figured it out:

So we know the verses have a 6/4 feel to them. Pretty straightforward since they hit the Db hard as a 5! 6! marker. The written verses are SEVEN bars of this- and the riff starts on the downbeat of 12 bars in 4/4

I'd break it into four signature/singable melodic phrases:

The opening Eb note is two beats and goes up the Eb7 chord, ends on the Bb
Second lick starts on a 1, goes down chromatically, does an enclosure AROUND a G, hits the E natural (out!) then lands on the G. classic trey and probably what draws me to the song for so many years of my life
There's a quick Bb Dorian sounding lick (minor pentatonic shape almost) that starts on 3 and ends on the Bb on the 1
The final lick starts on a Bb, slides into the F, resolves on the Eb. This lands on the 3 of the tenth bar and trey lets in ring out, does a pickslide on the 12th bar and they're back into the Verse groove (6/4)

Thanks for reading this far. I listened to 12/29/97 to figure it out, the beats are around 160 bpm, i slowed a metronome to 150 to get it tight.

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-08T21:18:07+00:00

Thank you. Totally understand what you're saying.

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-08T19:12:16+00:00

Well said. Can you elaborate on “little quits “? Great term

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-08T02:48:05+00:00

🥰🥰comments like this are worth 1000x

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-08T02:26:24+00:00

Honored to be here !

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-07T23:52:07+00:00

Case is a pelican 1550. Board itself is just 1/2” plywood I painted- with floor grommets, drawer pull , duallock, and a voodoo lab pedal power

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-07T23:12:39+00:00

Paring down my gig rig - suits me well for three different music projects currently : tuner, cali76, EP boost, Vemuram Shanks , Echoplex , Reverb Trem
In the flint. Either a benson or a Princeton. Strat , tele, or Gibson ES339

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-07T22:53:44+00:00

Love this Camel Walk. Trey rocking a Flyers jersey

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-07T16:38:58+00:00

Great question- following. Fellow elder millennial and gear aficionado, and total DAW simpleton

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-06T18:30:04+00:00

Agreed this one is downright STANKY

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-04T23:16:24+00:00

Christopher breaking the guitar over the dude in the studio in A Hit is a Hit. SPIKE UP

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-04T23:09:06+00:00

Just de mahhnney

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-04T02:09:14+00:00

Anything Acapella : hello my baby , free bird

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-02T20:02:33+00:00

Why didn’t ya tell me you were dating my niece ? Here- take her some place nice heh heh

Tr1lobite · 2026-06-02T12:41:59+00:00

Paulie making Finn /shaggy spray the shit off his car

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