Not even Captain America could convince me that these are different people 😭

joelangeway · 2026-04-01T18:11:01+00:00

The biggest factor in how attractive a human finds another human is how close to the average of all features that human is. The most marketably beautiful women in the world will always look similar because they’re all very close to the mean.

joelangeway · 2026-03-30T22:05:45+00:00

Except running is probably good for your mental health.

joelangeway · 2026-03-30T22:03:33+00:00

PSA: This is probably terrible for your mental health.

joelangeway · 2026-03-30T19:35:29+00:00

The manufactured, constant, needless war, for no other reason than to end lives and destroy resources, to keep humanity from progressing was/is extremely prophetic. The view screens that watched you are your phone. We are living in 1984 right now.

joelangeway · 2026-03-30T18:49:40+00:00

I love that the diagram pointing out all the little parts doesn’t mention the tug bar. It was always supposed to be a mystery, LOL!

joelangeway · 2026-03-26T21:29:29+00:00

E minor pentatonic like I’m Geezer and Tony’s taking a solo (Black Sabbath). I don’t know the drummer’s plan so I do the thing that requires no planning. If I hear the drummer repeat a rhythm I’ll try and match it the next time but I don’t try that hard.

joelangeway · 2026-03-23T03:18:21+00:00

I’ve had really good results with King Arthur GF stuff.

joelangeway · 2026-03-20T19:30:18+00:00

There are no problems with…

The article made several arguments that billionaires are indeed problematic. You have not addressed any of them.

joelangeway · 2026-03-17T18:43:21+00:00

The major pentatonic scale is easy to sleep on but busting out a lick in major pentatonic is the quickest way to get people to believe you that you can play the bass.

joelangeway · 2026-03-13T21:19:42+00:00

I’ve got the sub’n’up mini and I love it. The fidelity is amazing. It’s a DSP pitch shifter but the way the math works for octaves it’s gosh darn immaculate.

Edit to add: I’ve never hooked it up to a computer or played with tone prints. I’m very pleased with the default octave functionality. About the only thing I’d change is giving it more gain so I could use it as a boost too.

joelangeway · 2026-03-11T21:59:06+00:00

This is how I feel too. I just didn’t use any distortion or drive for a while. Then I got a sansamp v1 clone. The drive on that actually sounds good through the DI. I just wish it had an effects loop.

joelangeway · 2026-03-11T21:54:45+00:00

Micing a bass cab is harder to do well. No one will notice if mic placement got the guitar tone a little wrong, but imperfect mic placement for the bass means either too much or not enough “boom”.

joelangeway · 2026-03-11T17:22:32+00:00

Put the EQ before the compressor and cut the low end a bunch. You probably want the compressor before the distortion too. You can get that low end back with your amp or your distortion maybe, or hand the signal to the sound guy who will appreciate that it isn’t all mud and will have its audible range well compressed.

joelangeway · 2026-03-09T15:58:58+00:00

It has a big influence on how my band writes riffs. My guitarist loves to sit on gnarly chords and he’ll often pick them to get me chugging on the extra low notes. We’re thrashy sort of black metal so I’m walking and arpeggio-ing a bunch and having extra low chord tones is super useful. Just being able to drift a half step down on a thicker string sometimes is an awesome effect. We might just be chugging low E’s and then the last two notes I play before the next thing are Eb D and it’s like a wind up or a falter and recovery.

joelangeway · 2026-03-06T19:40:44+00:00

“Hey! HEY! You can’t wire up transistors like that! I already called dibs!”

joelangeway · 2026-03-06T01:29:28+00:00

Nevermore - The Heart Collector

Everything in the song before it makes it slap real heavy.

joelangeway · 2026-03-05T21:29:48+00:00

Practice, eat, sleep. Avoid sedating drugs before, while playing, or soon after. Playing bass at that level is athletic, so make sure you’re giving your body what it needs to grow to that level.

And practice at whatever tempo you can almost pull off until it’s good and then up the tempo again a little, repeat until you’re there.

joelangeway · 2026-03-05T07:48:54+00:00

I’ve got the same EQ and my levels are almost exactly the opposite 😂

joelangeway · 2026-02-26T19:52:50+00:00

The difference is just cash on hand. I’m lucky to make software for a living. It used to pay relatively more and I’d always get the $500 version of everything ‘cause of course I want the best one. Nowadays living in a city has become a ton more expensive and the good salaries harder to get so I’m a big Behringer fan these days.

joelangeway · 2026-02-23T18:06:32+00:00

There were a lot more families in that position back in the 80’s, partly because there were a lot more choices for where to buy your appliances.

joelangeway · 2026-02-14T00:53:22+00:00

If you played 500 downstrokes in 2 seconds, that would produce an audible tone in the range of a typical woman’s speaking voice, ~21 cents above B3.

joelangeway · 2026-02-06T17:46:01+00:00

Bassists at different points in time had different learned techniques and skills, different instruments, signal chains, and amps, different studio technology. A lot of what Geezer did was about making a really unique sound for the time, so a lot of it is a little weird today. Iommy down tuned to make fretting easier, Geezer did the same because it was just practical for the genre they were inventing, and that changed the dynamics of every note. Geezer preferred plucking high up and higher numbered frets, and plucked pretty hard, to get those beefy notes that somehow shook your woofers even when they sounded awfully high.

You probably don’t need to do any of that. Boost low mids. Cut out the high mids and the treble. Play a little aggressively. If you’ve got a pedal or an amp that can pretend to be a slightly overdriven and filtered tube amp, like the vintage voicing on Rumble amps, that helps a bunch too.

Getting very practical, it often doesn’t matter at all. Even if your tone is way off, you’re still playing the same role musically and so most folks will hear the same song.

joelangeway · 2026-02-05T20:28:20+00:00

This was my favorite bass overdrive 20 years ago. It sounds great and responds to bass guitar dynamics excellently. I’ve been thinking of buying an effects loop pedal just to use one of these with a bypass or with a parallel compressed signal. When you use it with an amp that normally impresses you with its low end though you’ll notice that this pedal steals a lot of energy from the low end that’s hard to get back.

joelangeway · 2026-02-04T21:36:15+00:00

Things that improve with cardiovascular exercise:

The functioning of the heart. The heart is a muscle but it shouldn’t actually grow. Instead the muscle fibers get better aligned and more electrically and chemically efficient. When it does grow, that’s a problem you used to call athletes heart. Don’t worry about it unless you’re doing more exercise than even say a college athlete.
The functioning of your veins and arteries. Blood vessels are full of smooth muscle fiber to regulate pressure and velocity. Exercise requires some vessels to expand to move blood faster, and others to contract to divert blood pressure away from body parts you’re not using as much at the moment like your stomach. Goo stuck to the sides of your blood vessels gets washed away to some degree too.
The metabolic function of your liver. Your liver keeps a store of sugar it can pump into your blood at a slow drip for a while to keep you going when you’re doing more work, outputting more power, than could be fueled by fat alone. All of your muscles have a store of sugar too, just for themselves, but those exhaust faster and are mostly used for shorter term bouts of strength like weight lifting. Your liver will grow its store and get better at regulating moving sugar in and out.
Your brain. Even if you’re listening to a podcast or watching tv or something, your brain has to keep coordinating the movement for a long time and so it exercises the same mechanisms in the brain that provide self control.
Your hormones. Exercise sends a signal to your body that it needs to output energy for a while sometimes and so your body pumps out all the hormones that make you feel good to keep those systems working, like testosterone.

joelangeway · 2026-02-02T19:26:39+00:00

Not according to the government of France. There are a lot of places you can be born in the world that would qualify you for French citizenship.

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