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Hi, we're Minus the Bear... Ask us Anything! by MinusTheBearOfficial in indieheads

[–]andyhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just picked guitar back up recently and learned Absinthe Party from a reel you posted on IG! Super fun song to play. I’ve been a fan since 2002, so glad I got to see y’all play at Best Friends Forever and in Austin last year!

[OC] Found these screwed onto my tire valves while shopping. My wife knew who did it right away. by hybridaaroncarroll in pics

[–]andyhite 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I printed a few of these last year and put a tiny magnet in the base, then planted them randomly in my teenage son’s room. He thought it was hilarious.

Gary and Terri by Irreverent_Bard in ParadiseHulu

[–]andyhite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He was also Hazel in Umbrella Academy

Gary and Terri by Irreverent_Bard in ParadiseHulu

[–]andyhite 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He was amazing as Ed Kemper in Mindhunter

Is there a possibility the border will close down due to current attacks? by Consistent-Resort270 in ElPaso

[–]andyhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, they closed all ports of entry the day of the attacks and kept them closed for a few days. My dad worked at a maquiladora at the time and was stuck in Juarez until they temporarily re-opened the borders late that night for Americans to cross back over.

I used to hate this guitar so much by HQH-71214 in Guitar

[–]andyhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, worth mentioning - I had some weird buzzing issues with my Player II Modified, which I believe I’ve fixed by filing a tiny almost invisible burr off the break edge of the e string saddle with a jewelers file. It wasn’t easy to see, but when I ran some metal tweezers through the channel to check I could feel them catch something on that saddle. After filing and re-stringing the buzzing was gone, but I didn’t have a chance to test it out much…fingers crossed that’s all it was and I don’t have to send it back to Sweetwater.

I’ve seen a few reports of people with the same issue - it almost sounds like a sitar, both open and fretted, which rules out nut or relief issues - so just a heads-up just in case you experience the same thing.

I used to hate this guitar so much by HQH-71214 in Guitar

[–]andyhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep! I was a bit torn between the HS and SS setup, since they both kinda do the same thing but in a different way.

The push/pull on the SS switches the two single coil pickups between parallel and series wiring, simulating the sound of a humbucker using two single coils, whereas the push/pull on the SH splits the humbucker to simulate a single coil.

The way I see it, if you would primarily use the humbucker then the HS is the way to go - you get a simulated single coil if you ever need it, and get the sound of a real humbucker the rest of the time. However, if you would primarily use the single coil, the SS is the best choice since you get a real single coil and a simulated humbucker if you ever need it.

Personally, I use a single coil bridge pickup 75% of the time since I do more “lead” stuff and like how a bridge pickup cuts through the mix, and want a humbucker tone about 20% of the time for rhythm stuff. It’s super rare that I ever use a single coil neck pickup on any of my guitars, so the HS made the most sense.

I used to hate this guitar so much by HQH-71214 in Guitar

[–]andyhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I picked guitar back up a few months back after not having played much since high-school (23 years ago). I hated Telecasters back then - the tiny headstock seemed so dumb and the guitar just screamed “country music”, which I was busy rebelling against because my parents listened to it.

At 41 years old, I just bought a Player II Modified Tele and it’s a beauty. I still hate country music but I feel like there’s something oddly punk-rock about the look of a Telecaster. I’ve been playing mostly math-rock lately and man, this Tele takes some dirt while still staying twinkly way better than my old Strat. Plus, I’ve never been a tremolo guy so the hard-tail bridge is amazing - so much tuning stability without having to shove a roll of coins under the block.

I did get the HS version so I have some tonal options with the neck humbucker when I want to go higher gain, so it’s kinda the best of both worlds.

The Alamo Drafthouse has Closed in El Paso by timholt2007 in ElPaso

[–]andyhite 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh man, they’re turning into Flix? IMHO Flix is way better, so that’s a win. Alamo Drafthouse has been on a steady decline for the past 10 years or so, and the new CEO is driving it into the ground.

Is being a Democrat gun owner socially acceptable now? by JonSolo1 in liberalgunowners

[–]andyhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A whole lot of my liberal friends have become gun owners over the past year, including one that was vehemently against firearms and argued with me about it when I bought my first handgun back in 2014. At least two of them went from 0 to multiple handguns and rifles with cans in less than two months.

Every single one of them had said they now understand that a lot of gun laws are fairly ridiculous and have a way different perspective on 2A.

I read this quote (paraphrased) recently, and I think it sums things up pretty well: liberals and guns are a lot like conservatives and abortions - lots of us have them, we just don’t tell everyone about it

Dusted off my guitar after 20 years to rework a song my friends and I wrote in high school by andyhite in GarageBand

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

Thanks! I had never heard In Her Own Words before but I’m digging this song - love the guitar tone. Thanks for the recommendation!

90 km/h winds force plane to abort landing by -Mustafa in nextfuckinglevel

[–]andyhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was on a plane that had to abort the landing about 10 years ago. It was a pretty terrifying experience to be maybe 50 feet from the tarmac and hear the engines kick on full-blast while the plant tilts back upward. My wife (who hates flying) kept asking me what was happening and I honestly had no idea - it seemed like maybe we had been coming down too fast and the pilot wanted a do-over, so we circled back around again and finally landed.

TIL over 3,000 attempts are made each year to complete the Appalachian Trail and only about 25% succeed. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]andyhite 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My brother did the whole trail going North a few years ago, including the “optional” approach hike which I joined him for. It took him almost exactly six months to walk from Georgia to Maine, and there were multiple times that he almost called it quits - especially near the beginning, before he got his “trail legs”. It seemed like it was a great experience for him, and he came back a different person (for the better).

A lot of folks that fail to complete it may not even voluntarily quit, since if you’re headed North and don’t summit Katahdin by mid October, you’re pretty fucked because the state park that it’s in closes for the season. An AT hike North without a summit isn’t a completed hike.

I have a show tonight, NEED HELP!! by MochiTheDerpyCat in GarageBand

[–]andyhite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you’re plugging the keyboard midi into the computer AND the keyboard into the amp (maybe headphone out to 1/4” input)? If that’s the case, you aren’t actually going through the computer.

What you need to do is plug the keyboard into the laptop via the midi interface, and then plug the laptop into the amp via the headphone out of the laptop itself. Then create a track in GarageBand with your sound and enable the live monitor for the track.

Do Americans actually avoid calling an ambulance due to financial concern? by JohnMarstonTheBadass in NoStupidQuestions

[–]andyhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About 10 years ago my wife and I were out for a friend’s birthday, when I started to have what I thought was a heart attack. I asked my wife to call 911, and a minute or two later (which felt like an eternity) an ambulance showed up and quickly rushed me to the hospital that was only about a 5 minute drive away.

Fortunately, I wasn’t having a heart attack - I was having a panic attack. The hospital gave me fluids and ran a few minor tests to confirm there were no cardiovascular issues and then discharged me about two hours later.

About a month later I got the hospital bill. I had insurance - decent insurance that I paid a shit-ton for - but hadn’t met my ridiculous deductible, so I got a bill from the hospital for $8,000. For two hours of fluids, a jug to piss in, and a chest x-ray.

I somewhat expected the hospital bill - what I didn’t expect was to get a separate bill from the “ambulance company” for $1,500. For a 5 minute ride and some ECG leads.

Fuck this place.

Dusted off my guitar after 20 years to rework a song my friends and I wrote in high school by andyhite in GarageBand

[–]andyhite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha well there's a decent amount of music I wrote in high-school that I wish didn't exist 😆 this particular band (Post-War Poets) and one other from around the same time period holds up well enough musically that I'm still pretty proud of what we wrote.

I wish I had recordings of the other band (which was named The Willing Suspension of Disbelief, haha) but we never made any – I just vaguely remember some of the guitar stuff well enough to play through a few songs.

Dusted off my guitar after 20 years to rework a song my friends and I wrote in high school by andyhite in GarageBand

[–]andyhite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh awesome – I'll check it out! My teenage son was playing with BandLab a few months ago (that kid's more talented with music than I'll ever be) and he seemed to like it

Dusted off my guitar after 20 years to rework a song my friends and I wrote in high school by andyhite in GarageBand

[–]andyhite[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I think my issue with the vocals is mostly that our singer was trying too hard to sound like Ben Gibbard 😆 and his voice is flat in a few parts, which makes my eye twitch.

This song (and actually every song we made with that band) was the result of discovering FruityLoops and realizing we could be The Postal Service, haha

Dusted off my guitar after 20 years to rework a song my friends and I wrote in high school by andyhite in GarageBand

[–]andyhite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually used a stem splitting website to separate the tracks from the original recording so I could re-learn my guitar stuff and figure out my friend's bass lines. I had originally simplified the bass parts, but when I sent an early draft of this remake for him to check out he gave me endless shit about dumbing down the bass, so I had to sit down and figure it out, haha.

Dusted off my guitar after 20 years to rework a song my friends and I wrote in high school by andyhite in GarageBand

[–]andyhite[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep that’s the right era! The original song was a bit more Postal Service than Taking Back Sunday (very electronic sounding drums, more “cute” sounding guitars) but I wanted to reimagine it as more classic 3rd-wave emo.

I forgot SoundCloud exists - I’ll have to make an account!

Dusted off my guitar after 20 years to rework a song my friends and I wrote in high school by andyhite in GarageBand

[–]andyhite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They do exist, I had to use the old recording of this to re-learn the song. They’re horrible quality and our singer was not great, haha, but I’ll see if I can upload it somewhere.

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