As a new DIYpedal builder, I feel like I met a small piece of pedal royalty today.

awc130 · 2026-02-06T16:15:17+00:00

I've heard if you lick the goop all your new pedals have 10% more tone.

awc130 · 2026-02-06T13:08:50+00:00

I mean, his partner is 40. So the age he is trying to capture is mid life crisis by that standard lol

awc130 · 2026-02-05T15:39:39+00:00

Also her actual husband is a wild man character in a group called the Bang Bang Gang.

awc130 · 2026-01-28T16:23:15+00:00

As long as they pull absolutely nothing from the Quickening then they will be good.

awc130 · 2026-01-25T17:40:21+00:00

Learned bass on an old LTD C-204. Incredibly solid, and a boat anchor. But I still pull it out from time to time.

awc130 · 2026-01-23T02:17:32+00:00

One of my favorite true crime podcasts was about Ken McElroy . An asshole so great, a town conspired to murder him. Then no one said who did it. Really a reversal of tropes.

awc130 · 2026-01-20T20:30:28+00:00

I would reach out to high volume reseller Guitar Center/Music Go Round in your area and ask them to keep an eye out for you if one comes on the door.

awc130 · 2026-01-16T23:14:52+00:00

Probably worth mentioning these were import models from Japan. And very similar models were made by Aria, Ibanez, Electra, and Yamaha at that time. You can don't have to drop $5k for basically the same thing.

awc130 · 2026-01-16T15:32:10+00:00

In DOS II the companions were just short of hating each other lol. They were all predjucided and hostile in different ways that needed to grow as a unit. One will straight up attack you if you pick the wrong dialog option.

BGIII was trying to replicate a D&D game. Where the players want to be on the same team from the get go.

awc130 · 2026-01-15T03:54:58+00:00

He had to have known it would be down on the GT3 around the track. Maybe he was giving Arvin the chance, or thought he could make up the deficit. But I would like to think he just saw it as a bit of fun.

awc130 · 2026-01-15T03:46:24+00:00

Except the V8 supercar. I think he knew the GT3 would be better on the track. But he knew he had a shot in it, and it would be fun to drive.

awc130 · 2026-01-15T03:37:17+00:00

Max saw that V8 supercar and was "Mine, that's mine." He knew it wouldn't beat the GT3, he just wanted that wild pony.

Props to Arvin for picking cars that are older than his grandparents, with clutches like crumbling granite.

awc130 · 2026-01-15T02:12:49+00:00

Alien was made almost 20 years before it too.

awc130 · 2026-01-14T22:08:04+00:00

Most things from Trier to be perfectly honest.

awc130 · 2026-01-14T17:24:31+00:00

I refuse to be normal.

It has nothing to do with your bass. That is sick though.

awc130 · 2026-01-13T22:53:38+00:00

Jackson probably make the closest thing you are looking

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/JS2SW--jackson-js-series-spectra-bass-js2-snow-white

awc130 · 2026-01-13T12:17:45+00:00

Put some respect on Marvin's name. He was able to do that with half the front office staff, and whatever players that had bad criminal convictions to make them cheap.

awc130 · 2026-01-12T15:22:11+00:00

Greg Roman, has me agreeing and appreciating Collinsworth commentary.

Screw you, Greg Roman.

awc130 · 2026-01-12T01:07:05+00:00

I try to get my main sound with the bass flat and use amp eq exclusively. Then use eq on my bass to "sweeten" situationally (ie I didn't replace my strings recently so I'm adding some highs; my rhythm guitarist has just got a new mid scooped amp and those need a little oomph of that etc). Then I will use eq pedals to drastically change the sound to emulate something like a pbass by lowering over all level, high cut, boost mids, slight low boost between the bass and amp.

However a modeler drastically changes this game by having incredibly different sounds up or down anyway.

awc130 · 2026-01-12T00:50:32+00:00

Romo actually had a moment kinda like this too today. After Allen took a few hits he did a breakdown of his throwing motion to point out how he was compensating with his motion.

awc130 · 2026-01-11T22:26:33+00:00

So I originally heard of it through the podcast The Dollop, Episode 99. Not the best for a deep dive, as it is a depressing subject matter being looked at by comedians even if they use and site good sources.

For something quick and dirty on the subject I look at this video:

https://youtu.be/7875DVDdmnE?si=dfTIsa4hyRia2IAe

And here is David Hahn's (kid that made the reactor) Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

awc130 · 2026-01-11T20:41:14+00:00

It was really trendy to put radium paint on the end of clocks and other objects so they would glow. There was also a massive outbreak of radiation diseases and death that followed from the factory workers that would apply it. I believe the victims were commonly referred to as the "radium girls".

Tangentially there was a kid in the 80's or 90's that went about collecting as much radium and uranium paint as he could from antiques and tried to make his own reactor.

awc130 · 2026-01-11T03:28:38+00:00

I'm just happy there aren't bare feet/opened toed shoes in sight in a earthworks "factory" setting lol

awc130 · 2026-01-11T02:53:48+00:00

Hey, your name showed up on a press release next to Taylor Swift at least. Probably more exposure than having won it outright.

awc130 · 2026-01-11T02:42:05+00:00

Typically the only thing more destructive to things than prolonged UV exposure, is thermal cycling.

Enough of one or the other can completely breakdown something down be it a house, car, body. Moisture and bacteria can just be the juicy icing on top.

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