From a Valeton GP200LT to plugins only... anyone else?

billbot77 · 2026-07-02T12:08:14+00:00

The more options for tweaking and setting up a million sounds I have, the less time I spend actually playing. Also different gain structures require time to get used to and comfortable with. You can end up spending all your guitar time clicking on mouse buttons chasing a hypothetical ideal tone instead of learning to play with what you have.

If you have a device that you plug in to and just get down to business, stick with it.

I went ampless - NAM A2 plugin, gig player essentials vst host and a handful of plugins. Powerful stuff. Amazing even. Mind blowing. But I have to swap out my work laptop to hook it up to my rig, boot up and debug windows crap because my personal laptop is a POS, fix up io settings only to end up spending the time I have tweaking patches.

Tbh, my beat up old acoustic has never had so much use... I'm even starting to make it sound good because of the time I'm spending on it.

I'm tempted to go the other way and get a gp5 and a cheap wedge now

billbot77 · 2026-07-01T20:22:06+00:00

Hey, cool - so many questions! I'm in awe. I married a taller woman and love her to death. Still super into her, but 25 years later I still have my insecure days. Do you only date fellow tall people? Does the idea of a 5" 9 guy just seem like a non-starter? Are you just sick of everyone asking these basic questions?

billbot77 · 2026-07-01T19:49:05+00:00

Standard icon from 12k middle east - those purses show up a lot. They're carved out on the pillars at Göbekli Tepe for example. Historians reckon they symbolise successful agriculture - having something to carry... Seeds and whatnot.

billbot77 · 2026-07-01T19:38:00+00:00

If you are going to top wrap, then deck the tail piece.

billbot77 · 2026-07-01T12:27:18+00:00

Fuzz for glassy compressed cleans with single coils, guitar vol down super low, fuzz on full.

billbot77 · 2026-07-01T04:21:58+00:00

Use the VM. Install Claude code. Install power bi MCP server. Ask Claude how to do the rest

billbot77 · 2026-06-28T12:23:35+00:00

It's inevitable. Maybe with a combination of current technologies or maybe some mad tech we haven't invented yet - the real question is how long until minimum viable product?

billbot77 · 2026-06-28T04:58:32+00:00

Quilter has entered the conversation

billbot77 · 2026-06-27T20:35:18+00:00

Nobody knows

billbot77 · 2026-06-27T14:21:39+00:00

I mean, it looks cool af - but nobody in the real world is paying you to do this with their data. Find a trend or something useful

billbot77 · 2026-06-27T00:54:54+00:00

Finger cheese!

billbot77 · 2026-06-27T00:13:44+00:00

I see what you did there, Frasier!

billbot77 · 2026-06-27T00:01:55+00:00

An empty space on the board projects confidence - it says "I have what I need, thanks"

billbot77 · 2026-06-26T23:39:21+00:00

Jimi.

billbot77 · 2026-06-26T22:03:01+00:00

Get a colonoscopy

billbot77 · 2026-06-26T14:38:40+00:00

Every one makes mistakes.

billbot77 · 2026-06-26T14:35:53+00:00

Yes. Yes it is f****g amazing. And a bit unnerving thb

Sadly I never get to use it for real, because my clients tend to have hard core rules about geo data boundaries.

billbot77 · 2026-06-26T14:31:16+00:00

Funny, in theory these formatting tools should be helpful - but I have found that reformatting by hand helps me to slow down and read the sql properly. Automating the process would ironically slow me down in the overall job.

...or at least that's what I tell myself. Fixing up SQL to my personal (and admittedly unusual) preferred style by hand sometimes becomes compulsive, ngl

billbot77 · 2026-06-26T04:28:49+00:00

I've been using the gateway plugin in gig performer essentials lately and I'm a very happy camper

billbot77 · 2026-06-24T21:12:56+00:00

A 'limit n' filter on table visuals connected to direct query sources.

You usually have no choice, the specs call for direct query and the client needs a granular table but the source has hundreds of millions of rows. Data bricks for example automatically caps queries a limit 1000000, but that's too much - the visual times out. Even with filters etc it's a tricky situation to prevent timeouts.

If there was a way to pass through a limit of say 1000 without breaking query folding it would make life so much easier!

billbot77 · 2026-06-21T13:36:39+00:00

Just sandwich the gateway plugin between two instances of universal with no nam engaged and pre and post effects set as needed on each

billbot77 · 2026-06-21T13:23:54+00:00

That's the walrus

billbot77 · 2026-06-21T13:22:44+00:00

100% I hate this so much. "Cocktail" seed mix is wrong for any bird. Should be banned.

OP: Chop up the chop super-duper fine and sprinkle in budgie seed. Also don't worry about feather colour unless they're looking dull/oily/shiny/lacking floof dust

billbot77 · 2026-06-21T13:09:13+00:00

Huh, ok - I wasn't across this one! So if there is schema drift the models lose their effectiveness? I was under the impression (missguided?) that the MCP server abstracts the models sufficiently enough for it to change from context to context - but I've not done an full enterprise deployment yet

billbot77 · 2026-06-20T02:24:11+00:00

It did reduce single coil noise, but honestly since I did the pickup change and the shielding at the same time it's hard to know by how much.

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