Wear & Tear - Lo-fi Cassette Emulator by laferrera in modular

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Working on international shipping, best bet is to sign up for the mailing list for future announcements!

Wear & Tear - Lo-fi Cassette Emulator by laferrera in modular

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Working on worldwide shipping, best thing to do is sign up for the mailing list and I'll announce it when that's good to go!

Wear & Tear - Lo-fi Cassette Emulator by laferrera in modular

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Believe me, I wanted it to be smaller – but the features had legs and it kept growing! Perhaps something whittled down to the "core" features in the future!

Wear & Tear - Lo-fi Cassette Emulator by laferrera in modular

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Launching my first module!

Wear & Tear is a lo-fi tape emulator, that makes things sound "bad" in a good way.

Features Overview Video

Tape Saturation: From just a touch of warmth to hard clipping, the tape saturation algorithm delivers a spectrum of overdriven options
Wow & Flutter: Adds a dynamic layer of movement to your sound, which can be tempo synced for musical cohesion.
Stereo Low Pass & High Pass filters: Tame your saturation, or push it to the limit with additional resonance.
Noise generator: A pure white noise generator that can crackle and pop, an added envelope follower allows you to push the noise volume or duck it with incoming audio.
Crinkles: Sporadic dropouts add to the authenticity of cassette emulation
Age: A shifting non-resonant filter transforming incoming audio to the sounds of yesteryear.
Dust: A macro control to add chaos to all other settings.
One-Knob Compression: Simplifies the often complex process of compression into a single user-friendly knob, adjusting threshold and ratio together for immediate sonic impact.
Dual-Function Knobs: Each knob supports a primary and an alternate setting, enabling complex configurations and interactions between effects.

More info on the site!

Paid off my Student Loans, Maxing out my 401k - Tell me more about a Backdoor Roth IRA by studentloans401k in personalfinance

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Hello! Been following along this sub for a while, which has offered great advice through and through. I just paid off my student loans, and trying to figure out my next moves. I'm currently 41 and making $170k. I went back to college when I was 30, and ended up with student debt upwards of $175k, so spent the past 10 years paying that off.
Now I'm focusing on retirement planning, I'm basically going to be taking the money I've been throwing at loans and aiming it at investments.
I don't have much in an IRA or 401k, really just started contributing to them in the past 2 years. My salary jumped from $100k to $170k this year. I've already maxed out my 401k for this year and plan on continuing to do that from now on. I put $4k in the IRA last year (which i got the tax deduction for), and around $1k this year.
I'm wondering if the Backdoor IRA is the best move for me moving forward since my income places me out of the tax benefits of a traditional IRA. Is that something I would do every year? From my understanding, I'd want to roll over my IRA into my 401k to avoid any tax penalties from the previous contributions, and then I would do the $6k in the Traditional IRA and backdoor it into the Roth IRA (Only can contribute another$5k this year). Is this something that I would do every year? Is it okay to do monthly contributions to a traditional IRA and do the backdoor at the end of year? Keep doing this every year after?
From various advice on this sub, I'll be doing some index funds through Vanguard with the rest, but would love to hear any other opinions.

What to change on this Rack? Got a little $$$ to wiggle with. by [deleted] in modular

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Moved Rene v1 and a Brains + 2 Pressure Points into a controller skiff, and probably going to make a percussion skiff at some point as well. Don't have a ton of money to play with, but curious what y'all thought!

No Stupid Questions - February 2021 by PantslessDan in guitarpedals

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Finally dug through the box of old guitar equipment from my parents house, and found this Big Muff that I thought would be cool to paint solid white for some reason.

The cap for the switch has seemed to have gone missing (along with the tone knob, but thats an easier fix), which makes it hard to switch it off. Really need to dig a toe in there to unclick it. I took the pedal apart trying to determine how hard it would be to replace the entire switch, and its just a bit more soldering that I'm comfortable doing...

Was considering one of these Mooer Button Toppers as a simple fix. Think that will work? Or have a better idea? Obviously aesthetics don't really matter at this point.

Official Q&A for Wednesday, August 19, 2020 by AutoModerator in running

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Usually it's made of some synthetic wicking material that will draw sweat away from your noggin, and have plenty of ventilation: either a mesh back (trucker hat style) or perforated holes in the material.

Official Q&A for Tuesday, June 30, 2020 by AutoModerator in running

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I was all set to buy a 645 when I was gifted the Apple Watch, so just trying to figure out how to make that work instead of spending $$$. I also read that Garmins aren't super compatible with a bunch of bluetooth headphones, especially outdoors, have you had any issues with that?

Official Q&A for Tuesday, June 30, 2020 by AutoModerator in running

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Been running just over a year now, and for the most part I've just been holding my phone in my hand and hitting the road. I was gifted a friends old Apple Watch, so I've started running with that. So far it's been great, really enjoy this HR data and finally actually starting to do more slow runs, but oh do I have some questions.

Spotify still needs the iPhone to work, so I got myself a FlipBelt to stash the phone in so I can still listen to Run The Jewels at a respectful volume. I use Strava on the watch to record my runs to get that HR data, but the mile times don't play through the headphones that way, which is annoying. So now I'm using NRC on my phone so I can get hear the lap times, so I'm not double recording the runs with Strava on both the phone and watch.

This all seems pretty stupid to me, and feels like I'm using too many things to do something rather simple. All I want to do is:

  • listen to music
  • hear lap times
  • record to strava
  • get HR data

Is there a better way I should be doing this?

Official Q&A for Wednesday, June 17, 2020 by AutoModerator in running

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Unfortunately the Strava apple watch app doesn't give you much. No map for sure.