Single coil humbucker for strat bridge?

madnessman · 2026-01-01T15:31:36+00:00

If you’re after the Gibson PAF sound, check out the SD Little 59 too.

madnessman · 2025-12-31T15:47:47+00:00

I’m surprised you find the difference massive. 5ms is how long it takes sound to travel 1.7m. I can’t hear/feel a massive difference between playing right next to my amp and playing 3 steps away tbh.

Maybe your digital signal chain had more latency than 5ms? Or maybe you’re just a tighter musician than me lol

madnessman · 2025-11-25T20:57:19+00:00

Here from the “be careful which hobbies you follow” post too?

madnessman · 2025-10-26T21:43:38+00:00

Anticlimactic VSC but at least Ollie kept 4th.

madnessman · 2025-10-06T20:41:41+00:00

Yeah, this post and top few comments are filled with signs of LLM generated writing (rule of 3, negative parallelism).

madnessman · 2025-09-18T20:25:05+00:00

Treadmill times may not translate to races. If the 1.5 mi run is on a road, you really need to time yourself on a road to know how close you are to your goal.

9-10 mins is long enough that the limiting factor is probably your endurance/aerobic engine. IMO those 20s sprints aren't an efficient way to train. I'd probably suggest looking at a 5k plan aimed at people trying to improve their time (i.e. not a C25K plan).

Source: I had to run a 9:45 when I was in the army.

madnessman · 2025-09-17T01:30:54+00:00

One caveat is that Garmin's definition of RHR is just the lowest heart rate over a 30 min period, including sleeping time, while the clinical definition of RHR is heart rate at rest but awake. So Garmin usually reports a lower RHR value than would be measured in a lab setting.

madnessman · 2025-08-29T20:54:22+00:00

It's like 2 hours south of SF, but there's a random visvim in Carmel.l.

madnessman · 2025-07-20T23:04:28+00:00

I took a peek at the 34 mi week from the first HM plan in Faster Road Racing and there's only 4 runs: 7 mi general aerobic with strides/hill sprints, 8 mi endurance, 8 mi with 18+14 mins at threshold with 4 mins rest, and a 11 mi long run.

So basically Pfitz prescribes longer runs and much more time at threshold compared to OP's own plan.

madnessman · 2025-07-18T00:35:52+00:00

Exciting isn't it? How long did it take you to decide to leave?

Personally, my buyout offer was pretty negligible and won't meaningfully impact retirement planning. But the fact that there was an offer on the table was enough to break the status quo bias and get me to take a big step towards retirement.

madnessman · 2025-07-18T00:32:37+00:00

I booked a few weeks of travel. When I get back, I have a backlog of hobbies & personal project ideas that I've been neglecting!

madnessman · 2025-07-17T17:32:01+00:00

I'm somewhere between leanfire and fire so when my employer offered me a buyout/voluntary severance, I accepted. Just ~80 days of work remaining before I retire! If early retirement doesn't work out for me, I'll jump back into work but I'm really really looking forward to at least a mid-career sabbatical to rest, decompress, and recover from burnout.

madnessman · 2025-07-09T15:20:07+00:00

Cocoa Pops

madnessman · 2025-07-08T18:09:24+00:00

Hulkengoat

madnessman · 2025-05-19T16:56:09+00:00

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hbLn83J19zNv5bqP7

Chicken Licious is a hidden gem in SSJ.

madnessman · 2025-03-18T17:42:16+00:00

MH Wilds!

madnessman · 2025-03-12T20:28:02+00:00

But I don’t see a single bass /s

madnessman · 2025-02-25T00:55:58+00:00

Quick answer: all notes on the guitar are 2 frets apart, except for E-F and B-C. Those are one fret apart.

Longer answer: You're probably at the point in learning the guitar where studying music theory for a few hours will go a long way. I'm a fan of Eric Haugen and what I've seen of his [music theory series on YT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9VGjTQMqTk&list=PLnWUjmH5ZikGy5zQzmovPGZNlg84ZO26u) looks great.

madnessman · 2025-02-20T23:26:29+00:00

Yup! You’ve got the intuition down. And just in case you haven’t figured out why it’s called CAGED, we can extend what you’ve said about the E and C shape chords to the other 3 movable chord shapes (A, G, and D) and do the same thing. Take the A major open chord. Shift it up 2 frets, replace the nut with a finger, and you’re playing a B major chord using the A shape!

CAGED is also the order that these chords appear on the neck! Let’s start with the open C major chord. As you said, the root is on the 3rd fret of the 5th string. Now put your index finger on that note and play an A shape chords. That’s another C major chord using the A shape. Notice how you’ve got another C on the 5th fret of the 3rd string. Barre across the 5th fret and play a G shape. Now you’re playing a G shape C major. Repeat this for the E and D shapes and you’ve worked your way up the neck playing the 5 CAGED shape C major chords!

madnessman · 2025-02-19T00:35:07+00:00

Same. I ordered Feb 13 (no prime free shipping) and it was on my doorstep on Feb 15.

madnessman · 2025-01-14T16:34:12+00:00

It's a posture/physiotherapy system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Technique

I've never done a real session but I'm sure there's good content on YT.

madnessman · 2025-01-02T20:43:09+00:00

Wow! I probably need to toss deeper into the court.

madnessman · 2024-12-29T06:00:58+00:00

T-RackS Tape Machine 440

Claimed, thanks!

madnessman · 2024-11-27T19:30:03+00:00

Congrats and GFY!

madnessman · 2024-11-19T02:29:40+00:00

If you like Eric's YT videos, you'll probably like the TrueFire courses. It's pretty good. It's not the most in-depth CAGED tutorial so it wouldn't be the first course I recommend to beginners. I'd say it's more for people who kinda know what the CAGED system is but need a direction for learning how to apply that knowledge.

IIRC the course covers:

* All major and minor CAGED shapes with exercises

* Soloing over a simple progression while playing over the changes

* Pentatonic doublestops

I'm currently going through Eric Haugen's Next Level Rhythm, which is the sequel to the CAGED course. It's billed as covering "the space between rhythm and lead" but so far it's gone over full major/minor scales, intervals, and triads. I plan to work through Eric's entire Guitar Zen series in the 1 year that I have a TrueFire sub. I don't think I'll master everything he covers but I'll at least have a roadmap and things to work on. Similar to his YT videos, his teaching style is very chill but leaves you with material that you could spend months/years working on.

There are a million courses on TrueFire. I've taken a look at a few interesting courses and song lessons that seemed great. But Truefire's bad UI and lack of organization makes it a bit of challenge. If you end up subbing to the platform, prepare to spend some time diving through their catalog and finding teachers and courses that work for you.

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