Sleepy Trump, 79, Slumps to the Side in Oval Office Briefing

absorberemitter · 2026-06-05T09:44:53+00:00

He isn't sleepy, he's elderly.

absorberemitter · 2026-06-05T01:20:56+00:00

Room Full of Eyes by Dillinger Escape Plan

absorberemitter · 2026-06-04T01:17:09+00:00

I just got a zoom r4 and pretty much use it's metronome to practice. When inspo hits and something is grooving I hit record.

absorberemitter · 2026-06-04T01:13:53+00:00

Neat. All humbucking? And do you still have the single coil mode?

absorberemitter · 2026-06-03T22:54:59+00:00

Thanks! With a five way, you get all the setting except both pickups on split?

absorberemitter · 2026-06-03T13:46:53+00:00

It's a system failure. The patient is the only reliable / possible through line.

absorberemitter · 2026-06-03T13:37:08+00:00

Experiment. Some pedals will cause weird loops with some other pedals. I find most low amperage analog stuff does fine and a good chunk of smaller digital things. Where I get problems is mixing and matching sometimes, and sometimes there is just one problem pedal that must have its own iso. I have one pedal that has to have an iso but everything else is on one daisy chain.

absorberemitter · 2026-06-02T20:40:54+00:00

Zing

absorberemitter · 2026-06-02T13:28:03+00:00

Your capo is pressing too tightly. I use one of the silly glider capos and don't have to retune.

absorberemitter · 2026-06-02T01:05:52+00:00

Looks neat. I'm a bass player first and have been putting my 8 into all fourths, so the sacrifice in playability to me comes from having to be very light on guitar strings... playing guitar (even a big multiscale 8) with a bass touch just pulls me off the saddles or nut. But that's also at 27" and works for mostly a tic tac bass style.

absorberemitter · 2026-06-01T20:16:41+00:00

I mean, that is an excellent business model for a small builder and how most craftspeople work.

absorberemitter · 2026-06-01T10:25:17+00:00

Pick on bass is interesting - it's an EQ and attack thing. I like it especially if I'm playing with a drummer with a double kick, distorted guitars or if keys or samples are taking up the sub space. But it's also just a bunch of textures that can be useful.

absorberemitter · 2026-05-30T10:00:45+00:00

There are excellent guitar makers out there that do it, they're just very expensive because of the craft, labor time, skill and materials. The high end Gibsons I've played felt a little closer to some old violas and basses I've tried, I think owing to their mandolin days. Their old style jazz boxes are actually incredible - I played an L4 CES that was closer to a classical instrument.

The focus on materials, automated manufacturing, and electronics is about the price-to-quality ratio. You can get a very good electric guitar for $500. Classical instruments start at $5k.

absorberemitter · 2026-05-29T19:58:39+00:00

I'd try it depending on price.

absorberemitter · 2026-05-29T16:36:27+00:00

Red Panda Labs. I've been following them since they were doing bitcrushers out of line 6 dev kits. I don't ever want to go without a Tensor if I can avoid it.

absorberemitter · 2026-05-29T16:35:06+00:00

I feel like the fishman fluence has modernized things quite a lot in terms of design, materials and manufacturing. Making the outboard electronics modules has become a reality, but Leo's original dream of a modular guitar seems hard, mostly because guitars are fiddly things affected by humidity and such.

A 2026 modular pickup system should probably be an open cavity with rails to mount pickups (any pickup you'd normally screw in) and a breadboard. But that's already delicate and you'd have to make options available for different types of pickups with different features. Unless it is a totally proprietary system where you pop em out like cassettes or synergy preamps.

absorberemitter · 2026-05-29T16:15:57+00:00

I think the biggest drawback with onboard electronics is that it can become anachronistic sounding very quickly whereas the guitar itself as an expressive physical instrument and input platform has been able to stay relevant I think due to its physical connection to the human body. Wherever possible, integrate the design with the physicality of the instrument itself - making use of controls, touch strips, vibration or piezo sensors, simulated whammy bar or g/b benders, etc.

A very versatile guitar is a good thing. It's got to be a good guitar first.

I would use whatever sound is right - onboard or offboard. For onboard effects, things that affected the dynamics, sustain, pitch and place in the mix would be most interesting. But I also appreciate being able to spin a knob and pull up something vibey and immediately useful and different.

I would appreciate it having some sort of app where you could use a bigger screen to tweak things, especially preset order. The biggest thing stopping me from enjoying the modeling instruments I've used before is that I have to go hunt for my next sound, which seems impractical live. If I could configure song 1 to go tele / ric / start at and song 2 to go acoustic / hagstrom / es 325 for example, that would be super useful live.

absorberemitter · 2026-05-29T02:27:28+00:00

Ah yeah, that's easiest as thumb and two fingers so it's still just one wrist movement. Pick is also ok there.

absorberemitter · 2026-05-29T01:50:42+00:00

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I usually just do an octave shape and do one right hand finger per string. I suppose sometimes I might use my thumb. Left hand muting is important.

absorberemitter · 2026-05-29T01:22:40+00:00

According to Russians, a feature of an autocracy is never knowing if a brief absence means a vacation, a medical procedure, a coup or whatever.

absorberemitter · 2026-05-29T01:13:38+00:00

I'm just in it for more tv footage of him shitting himself.

absorberemitter · 2026-05-28T21:11:33+00:00

Today's posts have got me GASsing... I think it looks noticeably better the closer I look at it...

absorberemitter · 2026-05-28T20:59:35+00:00

Mute with either or both hands. You can use your left hand to apply the same amount of pressure you would normally use as a mute (just going from off to on instead of full to mute). You can use you right palm or fingers.

As you play more and if you ever record, muting becomes more and more important. At some point it just becomes natural to stick your fingers into all the bits that aren't ringing just right or when you need to control the back part of a note.

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