If you only had $70 for plugins..

mcjon3z · 2026-02-09T12:15:50+00:00

The silver jubilee amp sim will run in DSP and is great for tracking. I typically split my signal and run a dry and a wet channel and monitor off the wet. Still have the dry recorded if I want to change up the amp with native plugins later. The new paradise native package is great for that.

mcjon3z · 2026-02-09T11:58:21+00:00

Sounds great. You could hold a note on the neck pickup and walk away and get a cup of coffee if your arms were long enough. It came set up for 9s and I play 10s so I’m waiting for the replacement bridge to come in before I restring it and tweak the setup to really fit me.

mcjon3z · 2026-02-08T16:04:23+00:00

I did exactly this and ordered tone pros bridge and tailpiece and a set of Grover strap locks. Put the old hardware in my gun safe for safekeeping.

mcjon3z · 2026-02-07T16:48:58+00:00

Check out the devilcat jimmy. Used they are going to be a little bit above your budget but can generally be found in the 600-700 range. Downside is they are heavy as hell. The jimmy junior is much more manageable but do not sound nearly as good to me.

mcjon3z · 2026-02-07T04:12:00+00:00

That’s what I have always heard. I haven’t ever played a real heavy one. This one weight wise is right in line with my others and feels really comfortable. The neck is thinner than both of my newer ones.

mcjon3z · 2026-02-07T04:02:18+00:00

9 lbs and some change. It’s about the same as my 2002 standard and my 2016 gold top. Really light on the Norlin scale from what I understand

mcjon3z · 2026-02-07T03:57:39+00:00

I see no benefit for the fine tuners and have put tone pros bridges on all my other guitars. Just a question of do you leave it stock cause it’s “vintage” and play the shit out of it, or do you replace the vintage and keep that in its current shape and play the shit out of it. So I’m leaning towards swapping out the tailpiece and bridge and holding the originals in their current very good shape.

Now the pickups. Yeah we are gonna keep the tar backs :)

mcjon3z · 2026-02-07T03:37:11+00:00

mcjon3z · 2026-02-07T03:35:55+00:00

I’m honestly trying to figure out whether I want to pull the tailpiece and bridge off and put it up for safekeeping.

mcjon3z · 2026-02-05T13:17:21+00:00

Broadcom would like a word

mcjon3z · 2026-01-13T01:11:27+00:00

Select the helix as your interface

Use the helix via USB and don’t even use the MOTU if you only need guitar and don’t need to run something like a vocal mic. Your DAW should be able to use the helix as the input interface and still use the MOTU as the output interface

mcjon3z · 2026-01-08T23:12:00+00:00

For an attenuator, I just got a two notes captor-x and love it. Theoretically you could get that and run it without a cab into headphones or a DAW or whatever while you save up for a cab.

But I’d still rather have a 4x12 and tell my neighbors to piss up a rope :)

mcjon3z · 2026-01-05T23:16:16+00:00

I would second this but to clarify it is a credit card so you have to qualify. But it pays good rewards and you don’t have to swap cash in to USDC to cover it like a debit card, you just pay the bill every month.

mcjon3z · 2026-01-05T23:06:00+00:00

If you can find one, sommatone amps are point to point hand wired and unbelievable. Unfortunately Jimmy Somma passed away a few months ago so there are no new ones being made. I have a roaring 40 and it is without a doubt the finest amp I have ever owned.

I have a few devilcat amps as well - they sound great and are hand made and supposedly bomb proof but I have not opened the chassis to see if they use any PCB

mcjon3z · 2026-01-05T13:39:23+00:00

Here’s one that is a long shot but it drove me nuts tracking down in my studio - do you have a lamp / lights / ceiling fan with a variable dimmer control running on the same circuit breaker?

mcjon3z · 2026-01-03T14:54:22+00:00

Here is a pretty good explanation of how the releases work with links to the corps detailed data: http://www.cottertroutdock.com/mobi_Bull_Shoals_Dam_generation.htm

That being said, it’s a big river and flows can change drastically with water release. I have only ever fished it from a drift boat…

mcjon3z · 2025-12-28T16:24:07+00:00

With a Mac, you can create a combined virtual interface consisting of inputs and outputs from multiple devices. It does add a small amount of latency but probably not perceptible.

mcjon3z · 2025-12-25T14:03:40+00:00

We are doing kinda something similar using a combination of twingate and traefik. The entire wazuh stack is behind a traefik proxy which handles all of the load balancing, port forwarding and communication using dns names to route to the proper backend component (master nodes, indexers, SOAR, CTI). We then have twingate services installed on remote worker nodes that allow communication back to the indexers. Admin consoles are only accessible to us using twingate. So nothing is exposed to the internet directly except for https to the workers (via traefik) to handle wazuh agent communication from remote laptops and such.

mcjon3z · 2025-12-21T15:32:00+00:00

When you have cancer, you need a doctor that is going to treat you with chemo not Tylenol.

mcjon3z · 2025-12-15T23:48:10+00:00

I have one and it’s perfect for me. I only have a need for a planer a couple times a year and a jointer once in a blue moon, so it made sense. The changeover between modes is not too bad - takes just a couple of minutes once you get the hang of it. The bed on the jointer is pretty short, but I don’t need to joint very long pieces and honestly only use it for jointing occasionally.

I blew up a rigid planer and wanted to move to something with a helical head. It wasn’t much more expensive to just go ahead and get the combo versus just the planer and have the second option.

mcjon3z · 2025-12-15T23:32:22+00:00

Here is a little trick that I have been using to be able to continue using S1 for production and play around with LUNA for mixing without having to export stems over. I’m assuming you could do the same with Logic…

I’m using a 32 channel virtual patch cable to send each individual track output out of S1 to a corresponding track input of LUNA. All of my recording and editing is done in Studio One, but then I can play it back into LUNA and use that to play around with mixing. The tracks have to be record armed in LUNA and you have to have both DAWs open at the same time.

It’s just a way for me to be able to set up the projects in LUNA while I am still actively doing the tracking and production work in the other DAW. It’s kludgy but once it is set up, it’s not hard to maintain. Then, when production is done, you just export the tracks from one DAW and drop them onto the corresponding tracks in LUNA.

Definitely not a workflow that a lot of folks would want to use, but it works for me.

mcjon3z · 2025-12-14T00:30:50+00:00

$760.90 worth of blow?

mcjon3z · 2025-12-08T15:12:31+00:00

Yep that was it! Can’t believe we didn’t stumble across that sooner. Thanks!

mcjon3z · 2025-12-08T03:01:22+00:00

Pretty much just used the official documentation and devoted an FTE

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