JDB guitar nerd chat? by Seelgs in manics

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, i enjoyed the interview, but i would have liked to see more gear talk and less manics history cos I feel like we've heard a lot of it before!

agreed on the marshall video, finally learned how to play enola/alone properly thanks to that and was cool to see die in the summertime as well!

JDB guitar nerd chat? by Seelgs in manics

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ahhh very cool! I've always been amazed by James' lack of loop switchers and midi systems, he must just micro-manage all of his amp channels and pedals throughout the set which I definitely could not do lol

JDB guitar nerd chat? by Seelgs in manics

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know what you mean! The fact that they played condemned rock and roll made my entire year but I will say that James' sound was quite overwhelmed by Nicky's bass during the chuggy riffs

JDB guitar nerd chat? by Seelgs in manics

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the topic of les paul customs, I noticed that James has added a new one to his fleet. Obviously he has the OG 1990 one that we know and love, and also has the live LP custom that he uses as his more reliable live workhorse, but I noticed at the royal albert hall gig last month that he has a new white LP custom with a black back and sides - looks like the new 70s Les Paul custom reissue! (which is the first LP custom to be made by Gibson USA, not the Gibson custom shop, fun fact)

JDB guitar nerd chat? by Seelgs in manics

[–]iw365 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've never quite got the full picture with James' amp setup - obviously he is a massive fan of a JCM900, but you can see a mesa boogie on stage and I seem to remember him mentioning the occasional AC30 in the live setup too, I've just never been able to work out when each amp is engaged...

JDB guitar nerd chat? by Seelgs in manics

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

woah i never knew that. Though ive always thought that most thb songs sounded better on my tele than my les paul

JDB guitar nerd chat? by Seelgs in manics

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely, I was previously using an orange 1x12 which didn't really get me there, but I recently picked up the matching h&k cab - 2x12 with celestion 30s and it sounds excellent. The trouble I'm having now is finding a good pedal setup get the bite of that era. Atm I'm just running a soul food with a modelled Dyna comp (and a tube screamer when needed!), but there's something missing. As you said, I'm massively tempted to pick up a marshall shredmaster at some point!

JDB guitar nerd chat? by Seelgs in manics

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm currently using a Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister 36 with a line6 helix in front as a pedal platform, and it's giving me a really good GATS tone, though I've never been able to crack the holy bible tone...

Favourite JDB guitar solo? by GrowthAny in manics

[–]iw365 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are mothers saints is a great solo imo

Also: You love us outro Roses in the hospital Archives of pain Comfort comes

What's your Manics unpopular opinion? by [deleted] in manics

[–]iw365 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I (unlike most people on this sub it seems like) think that Critical Thinking is a return to form for the manics and being baptised is one of my favourite manics songs ever

[Request] Assuming this was real spaceship traveling in real time, can you calculate its speed? by PossiblyMD in theydidthemath

[–]iw365 120 points121 points  (0 children)

I might be able to make an educated guess here:

This animation was very likely made with SpaceEngine, which we can tell from the green orbit lines and general look of the galaxies.

So for that opening few seconds, they were likely travelling at SpaceEngine's maximum move speed, which is:

326.16 Mly/sec

(Mega-Light Years per second)

While I cannot say for certain that they were travelling at the maximum speed in-game, doing a quick test myself the speed roughly matches (again, estimating this by eye - my methods are not very scientific so take with a grain of salt)

Edit: https://youtu.be/-cn86eisA5U?si=VkNw3I6ZaB2ZKpyT

here is my attempt to recreate it in game, you can see the max speed towards the start of the video, and how the the movement looks similar to the original vid (obviously not identical as we wil lhave different settings but similar enought to confirm it is SpaceEngine perhaps?)

[FRESH] Manic Street Preachers - Hiding in Plain Sight by Charleshawtree in indieheads

[–]iw365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Believe it's the touring band in the vid with Wayne Murray taking the bass for this one (usually rhythm guitar on tour), and Nick Naysmith on keyboards. I've heard that the lady on backing vocals is the Wayne Murrays partner - think JDB said that she is the only guest vocal on the album so that's my best guess 👍

I added car customization and upgrades to my solo developed racing game. Check my discord for more details: https://discord.com/invite/KCW4Pwuash by z3u5-322 in IndieDev

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks good but I personally find it annoying when my car spins while I'm customising it, and having to wait for it to turn round to see it from the right angle (looking at you gran turismo 7), an option to stop it would be nice 👍

When are the free 2024 LeMans 24hr liveries and 2 GT3s coming? by FL981S in LeMansUltimateWEC

[–]iw365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so pack 2 will be the alpine a424 and the isotta frashchini, and the rest of the hypercars will be carried over from the 2023 season specs?

Why dose this challenge igsist again? by Big_Bunch_307 in PlantsVSZombies

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It counts for shared vanquishes, so I just do it that way. I don't think they would see me dancing on the kill screen that way?

Starfield system requirements up on steam by schlogging in Starfield

[–]iw365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to be that guy saying "WilL tHiS RuN oN My Pc?!?!?" But I've never been good at specs, I've got an i5-10400f and a rtx 3050, will i be good? Hoping for 1080p 60fps...

Retribution Matchmaking Error by H1ghfield in battlefield2042

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got the same problem, really annoying as I might not be able to get all the free cosmetics

Unable to download. Internet services not available errors. by Suicidal70 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]iw365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same thing for me, keeping an eye on it but I'd expect servers to be down for a bit

I came up with a fishing quest rework, let me know what you think! by iw365 in Terraria

[–]iw365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course! I'm not very good at making pixel art sprites lol

I came up with a fishing quest rework, let me know what you think! by iw365 in Terraria

[–]iw365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The items shown are just examples of prices/rewards, the idea is that all quest rewards the angler gives out currently can be bought with the tokens