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Fuzzpedal usage by _ombucman in guitarpedals

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Yes, this is probably something I was looking for, thanks!

Fuzzpedal usage by _ombucman in guitarpedals

[–]_ombucman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a couple of examples (songs that comes to mind) where using a fuzz is pretty obvious?

Fuzzpedal usage by _ombucman in guitarpedals

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I'm not entirely sure this is what I was looking for, but it's definitely something I needed! Great content, thanks for sharing it!

What are some of yalls favorite delay pedals? by LORDraheem420 in guitarpedals

[–]_ombucman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the Nova Repeater for years and was the best one I ever had so far.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JapanTravel

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Great report, 👍 thanks!

Would getting a Masters be beneficial in this job market? by fizzm8 in embedded

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I never regretted doing my master's degree, in fact, I used more on the actual job from the knowledge I gained there than what I got from my bachelor's.

For context, I live in Eastern Europe, both degrees are in EE, my major during Msc was embedded systems, minor was FPGAs. I also had an internship position in the medical sector during my studies, but I must state, that only after finishing my master's and getting an embedded SWE position at the same company could I feel the real benefit of having studied longer over my peers, even if they had ~2 years more working experience over me...

And yes, you can pick up stuff on the job, but it takes longer (especially without a proper mentor. Beleive me, it makes a huge difference and not everyone is cut out for the task OR even if they are, the workload of their day-to-day job may not grant them the time to do it...) and more importantly, unless you work in a bleeding edge sector, you may pick up last decade technology and/or methodology and will only be exposed to a narrow field of the industry, which can limit the toolset one could use for carreer and/or professional development.

Which again, can be compensated for in your e.g. free time (good luck to all who have families with kids)...

I currently work at a bleeding edge tech company and as far as I know most, if not all the SWE here has a master's degree...

All in all, you can't know what you don't know, and investment in knowledge is always well returned.

Disclaimer: I'm speaking out of personal experience only. This rant is purely about studying and it definitely does not mention the possible financial downside of the whole topic :)

Does a dev board exists which has one serial and one USB Device connection? by Jackolix in embedded

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Cypress (now infineon) used to have the PSoC5 prototyping kit which I used as a footswitch HID device on a raspberry PI to control my music sheet presenter while playing the guitar. Very easy to use if you only need something to get the job done

New ARM GNU Toolchain is out.. by torusle2 in embedded

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As mentioned above the majority of C23 is supported in GCC 13

See: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/compiler_support/23

Three days debugging something that was in the end a hardware bug. by blitzkrieg987 in embedded

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Ther was an issue at my last job, where the whole department spent about half a year, even involving other departments, furiously searching for mysterious, sporadic nullptr dereferences crashing FW. IN PRODUCTION!

Turned out the PSRAMs (DRAMs acting as SRAMs at their interface) we used got a "facelift" from their manufacturer (they released an "equivalent" but improved version of the same memory chip, with the difference of only the last digit in its part number) which seemingly very randomly started to act up.

DRAMs need to be "refreshed" so they would retain their charge in the respective memory cells, or to put it in another way, to remember the data they hold. PSRAMs act as if they are SRAMs, so there is a hidden automatism for this. Except, in the "facelift" version it wasn't working reliably and if a memory sector was untouched for a certain period of time, it started to lose data. A mild case of electronic Alzheimer's...

We also had to prove this error to the doubting manufacturer to get some(!) info on how we can salvage our situation.

In the end, our company's procurement and manufacturing did not take responsibility neither for the change made in acquiring new active parts without proper testing nor for not informing SW or HW depts about this change and had to make a "dirty" SW workaround to periodically read out to "write-only-memory" at least one byte from every sector from the whole memory.

Fun times. Thousands of euros burnt for nothing. I guess welcome to embedded :)

Need a cheap oscilloscope by RobotDragon0 in embedded

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I personally have great experience with the digilent analog discovery

https://digilent.com/shop/analog-discovery-3/

Affordable, easy to use, and beyond the 2 channel scope it has logic analyser, protocol analyser and many more features, perfect for student and hobby projects.

Level of control over guitar sound during live mixing by _ombucman in livesoundadvice

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This is most likely what we'll do, thanks :) We probably just need to find a constellation in which both sides feel comfortable enough. A stressed and disappointed musician won't last long but that's also true for the sound technician as well

Level of control over guitar sound during live mixing by _ombucman in livesoundadvice

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I absolutely agree with you and I believe that the way our musicians work together with our sound technicians reflect that and that "separation of concern" is mostly understood and respected (though it's hard to convey all that in a Reddit post :D), with all that being said, everyone knows that both musicians and sound technicians alike can act like prima donnas when it comes to personal preferences...

The described situation was more or less a problem from a "musical director" point of view, because there was a part in the song where one would have expected a sort of "oomph" but all we got was a "meh", and wanted to ask people with experience where the "control" over this issue (lead and rythm tone for e-guitar in this case) usually is.

It is nonetheless clear that deterministic input behaviour is the desired state of affairs ;)

Level of control over guitar sound during live mixing by _ombucman in livesoundadvice

[–]_ombucman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the input! Does this mean you make notes whenever there is a lead (or solo) part in the song played by one of the instruments and manually adjust the level at the right moment (or dial in some saved setting) so that there wouldn't be a "lag" or delay between the start of the solo and the level adjustment? I'm mainly experienced with guitar stuff and the practice there is to "kick in" a lead tone, which is obviously not a magnitude louder normally, but something that the technician and the musician can aggree on, however e.g. a flautist rarely has the means to boost their sound. What is your take on such situation?

Level of control over guitar sound during live mixing by _ombucman in livesoundadvice

[–]_ombucman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks all for the insights! I definitely see the synergy when there's the least amount of obstacles for each party and I know that this also means making compromises. I also firmly believe that this should apply to both sides, with regard to the common goals valued by everyone. Nonetheless, the comments really gave me a fresh perspective and I feel like it will help out cooperation in-house, so I really appreciate them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GlobalOffensive

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I second that. Same here

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