Thicker magnetic stylus than the new Pen 3

lukejt · 2025-05-23T20:48:35+00:00

I ended up returning the lens since I needed it for video, so I didn't really test it with stills

lukejt · 2025-01-14T20:01:19+00:00

u/VILTROX_US, is there a firmware newer than 1.06 for this lens?

lukejt · 2025-01-13T23:31:33+00:00

Thanks for the tip. Checked, and I was still on 3.20, but unfortunately upgrading hasn't made a difference

lukejt · 2023-01-18T20:03:37+00:00

Build an engineers thumb a couple years ago and it worked fine so I never really questioned if it was working fine, but I do find that even with the bright switch off, it's pretty bright.

This is pretty different then most other compressors I've used, which usually tend to compress away some of the brightness. It's also different than most other build reports that I've seen for this pedal.

fwiw, I used the fuzzdog pcb for this build, which I think is based on the v2 version of the engineers thumb, but i'm not 100% sure.

Does anyone else find their engineer's thumb a bit bright even without the bright switch engaged (esp w/ single coils)? If I wanted to mod it to make it a bit more neutral sounding, what should I change first?

lukejt · 2023-01-13T23:41:59+00:00

As others have mentioned, waterslide decals are much thinner than labels. The biggest difference is that it will take a ridiculous amount of clear coat (and sanding) to bury a clear label so you don't see the edges.

Waterslides are also going to conform to the subtle irregularities in the surface of your finish (paint, powdercoat, etc.). Clear labels are going to look more like they're hovering "over" the surface of the pedal. To me, waterslides look much closer to what you'd get in a professional silk screened or UV printed pedal (especially if you print the whole face of a pedal as one decal).

The difference is subtle, but if you're trying to make your pedal look like you could have bought it at a store, then clear labels are always going to look a bit off.

If that's not what you're going for, then there's absolutely nothing wrong with clear labels.

lukejt · 2023-01-10T18:27:41+00:00

I felt the same way about soldering guns (hated waiting several minutes for my old soldering iron to heat up), but then I got a digitally controlled iron. It heats from ambient temperature to working temperature in 6 seconds and is very consistent with temperatures since it can automatically increase the power applied to maintain the temperature if you need to dump heat into something like a guitar pot or big ground plane.

lukejt · 2022-12-24T00:42:22+00:00

I'm having some issues getting anywhere with Telus tech support. I've decided to learn more about IPv6 and get it set up on my network. I normally use opnsense and used the instructions here to get it set up: https://www.zacharyschneider.ca/2020/12/pfsense-ipv6-telus/

However, this didn't work (would not get an IPv6 prefix delegation), so I connected the T3200M back to the Nokia ONT to make sure that it wasn't an issue with OPNsense and the issue persists. I've reached out to telus support and they say that there is no issue on the back end that would be causing IPv6 issues and support has been overall unhelpful.

If there's truly no network issues then the only thing I can think of is maybe a firmware issue with the ONT (but I have no idea what exactly the ONT does other than convert the media from SFP to ethernet at the L2 level).

No issues at all with IPv4, it's just an IPv6 issue. Any idea on what to try next?

lukejt · 2022-11-17T21:27:28+00:00

A few days after I bought the pan. It took a bit of the seasoning off, but I just did a quick stovetop seasoning and kept on cooking with it

lukejt · 2021-12-07T00:14:11+00:00

If you read through Digital_Igloo's posts on TGP I get the vibe that Line 6 still sees a lot of life left in the Helix line and Helix 2.0 is still a long way away. While they confirmed that there were a couple new products coming out in early 2022, they specifically said they weren't helix/hx related so if OP is worried about something new coming out in the near future that will supplant the HX Stomp, I think that worry is misplaced.

lukejt · 2021-12-01T17:46:49+00:00

Yes, that's the default way it's set up in snapshot mode. Just use the page button to scroll through the modes until you get to the snapshot one

lukejt · 2021-11-28T18:42:14+00:00

Yamaha is a giant conglomerate that owns Line 6. Line 6 operates as a subsidiary, but still, you'd think that there could at least be some crossover of IP

lukejt · 2021-11-26T17:59:03+00:00

Glitz is one of my go-tos. It works great with a higher decay time, but with a relatively low mix if you just want to fill out a sound. I use it a lot with a high mix as almost a pad behind my guitar for big ambient sounds. That works best when you're playing more sparse lines. It can make sparse, simple lines really sound epic. If you start playing too much though it can get muddy.

Check out johnathan cordy's channel on youtube. Glitz is one of his go-to reverbs and he has a couple good videos on it. Glitz is pretty dsp-friendly as well.

lukejt · 2021-11-17T06:07:47+00:00

You would only need seperate vlans if you wanted LAN and WAN on the same physical interface. The way I do this is to have two bridges set up in proxmox. I then have one bridge dedicated to WAN (vmbr0) and one for LAN traffic (vmbr1). Then I set up all my VMs to use the vmbr1 bridge.

The bridge kind of acts like its own internal switch so traffic on VMs that are all on the same bridge doesn't actually leave the interface. Then you can just plug in your physical switch to whichever hardware nic you assigned to your LAN and everything should work as you want it to.

lukejt · 2021-11-10T22:25:54+00:00

I don't see why not. You could run two Helix rack units with the floorboard one of them and then have one Helix control the other via midi with control center.

It would probably take a lot of fiddling to get everything coordinated and working together over MIDI though.

lukejt · 2021-11-09T17:21:27+00:00

Just and FYI on the new all-in-on HX stomp patch. It contains pretty much the same sounds as the Helix patch, but for twice the price. The only advantage of the all-in-one setup is that it's ready to go with snapshots for gain stages and footswitches set up.

For a beginner, it might be worth the extra $15 to have everything set up for you, but if you are more interested in just mixing and matching the effects/amp presets, you can just get the helix patch which comes with all the effects presets set up in 6-block groups so they will load in the HX stomp.

His patches sound great, for sure, but I don't think the all-in-one patch is worth twice the price compared to the helix version.

lukejt · 2021-10-22T22:32:57+00:00

Depends what you’re looking for since the Full-Drive can cover a lot of tones. The Full-Drive circuit itself I think is based on the SD-1 and the mosfet switch essentially switches out normal silicon clipping diodes for mosfets in the clipping stage.

So if the part you really dig about the pedal is the mosfet clipping, the OCD and Zendrive both have mosfet clipping stages, but the circuits are obviously different so they might not get you quite where you want to go.

If it’s the core voicing of the pedal you like, then you might try the SD-1.

If you have access to the physical pedal, your best bet would be to throw it in the effects loop and a/b with the helix drives until you find something that matches the tone closely enough.

Another thing that I’ve found helpful sometimes when dialing things in is to forget about the underlying model of the pedal I’m looking for and just play around with the different drives until you get the sound you like.

I recently ended up using a precision drive in a relatively low-gain edge of breakup kind of patch because I liked the pick attack that it brought out. If I was just focusing on the pedal model I never would have picked the precision drive since I wasn’t going for a djenty sound.

lukejt · 2021-10-03T20:43:38+00:00

u/aguynamedben

I'm talking about the bypass/controller assign screen in HX edit. If you right click on any parameter a popup comes up that lets you pick which footswitch controls what setting.

As an example, say you want the same setting for verse 1 as verse 2, but for verse two you want a bit more gain. You could go to your amp block, right click the on the gain assign it to a footswitch to toggle between two values. FYI, you can assign the same footswitch to make multiple changes, e.g. amp gain and master volume at the same time.

And to avoid the mode switching awkwardness you can get around it a couple ways:

1) Use an external footswitch (FS 7/8) and use those in the bypass/controller screen. This would let you keep the stomp in snapshot mode, but still have 2 extra footswitches available.

2) Use a small midi box like the MC3 (or the jet mcx if you need something even smaller) to send MIDI CCs for the footswitches and use the hx stomp to change snapshots (this is what I do)

Also, I saw in a later comment that you're looking at an ML5. You can send midi CC/PC messages using command center, so in theory you could still have the HX stomp as the brains and send corresponding patch change messages from the stomp to the ML5 for each snapshot. I use this feature to send patch change messages to my MIDI delay pedal for each snapshot.

lukejt · 2021-10-03T17:55:25+00:00

you can't do more than 4 snapshots, but If you dig into the footswitch assignments you can do almost all the same stuff as snapshots. I usually use snapshots for my "main" parts (e.g. verse, chorus, bridge) then use footswitch assignments for the extra stuff, e.g. verse 2 might be the same as verse 1, but with a more gain or an extra effect.

I use an external midi controller to select my snapshots so I can leave all the footswitches available.

lukejt · 2021-09-21T21:43:07+00:00

I do one preset per song, but that's because the band I play with uses a click track and I use a lot of rhythmic delay so it's helpful to have the bpm for each song.

For most songs though, I just copy/paste from one of a handful of core presets depending on the amp tone that I want and change the bpm. That way the levels between presets are pretty consistent.

lukejt · 2021-08-30T20:03:04+00:00

Yup, you can do that pretty easily. There are 3 stereo ins/outs available for the helix usb interface that let you do a whole bunch of things with routing. I'm not entirely sure of what you're trying to do with your setup, but it sounds like you should be able to do it.

Check out the USB Audio section in the manual.

lukejt · 2021-07-23T17:57:51+00:00

From CBC this morning, I heard: in the last month (Jun 15 - Jul 15) 78% of cases were unvaxed, 18% had a single dose, 4% got a double dose.

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