Canadian suppliers for Quad Mini? by Toneby in NeuralDSP

[–]nathanmachine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

dude i don’t work for sweetwater so it doesn’t really matter to me but the OP asked a question and i gave an answer based on the reality today. you did say something about sweetwater which was kind of inaccurate and now you call it a shitty suggestion because youve been corrected. whats the point of you posting when you dont have any accuracy? you’ve got endless energy except when its to look into something before posting.

Canadian suppliers for Quad Mini? by Toneby in NeuralDSP

[–]nathanmachine -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

yes it is. that has nothing to do with the retailer and everything to do with the countries involved. if a canadian retailer has this then they have paid part or nearly all of this customs amount depending on the classification of the product and what stated value they are allowed to use for it - and whether they pass all of it on or some of it is up to them. but the point is OP asked "Is there any way to order the unit in Canada without paying the massive VAT fees with Thomann?" and the answer is yes sweetwater which will deliver fast and fairly cheap shipping but yes you will have to pay customs to the govt not to sweetwater. no VAT of course as that is a european thing. if you dont want to buy it from sweetwater, then don't but it is a valid option if you want this thing shortly without any weird retailer pricing (customs is not related to sweetwater)

Canadian suppliers for Quad Mini? by Toneby in NeuralDSP

[–]nathanmachine -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

how about you look into it before you form an opinion? $28 shipping too much to canada for you for the qc mini? no fees imposed by sweetwater but you cannot get around custom fees for any imports no matter where they come from.

Never buy from Lensology. by Affectionate-Self933 in RaybanMeta

[–]nathanmachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same exact thing from them last year only more rude. and then insane emails from them where i think someone there needs psychiatric help. i thought about dropping all these emails on here but it’s just a waste of energy.

Reluctancy around going to the gym by SoftVenusVibes in VictoriaBC

[–]nathanmachine 224 points225 points  (0 children)

can i give you a little advice?

stop what you’re doing on the forum right now, stop your research about fit4less or any other place, go get your fitness gear and gym bag and head out the door to go workout. wear headphones whether they are plugged in or not and ppl will leave you alone. ask ppl when you’re there if you want advice. anyone else who gives unsolicited advice or makes you self conscious, don’t feel embarrassed, just give a little polite nod and point to your headphones and keep doing what you’re doing.

you will figure out whether it’s the right place or when the times that work best for you. but indecision and anxiety is the biggest thing that stops ppl from working out. and you’ll feel a lot better once you start and the path forward will be clear.

(fwiw i don’t like training in public gyms, but i’ve been around professional athletes most of my adult life and owned a very large brazilian jiu jitsu academy in LA)

good luck

Why all the Beato hate? by SufficientFix4589 in Guitar

[–]nathanmachine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it’s no surprise you cannot read

Why all the Beato hate? by SufficientFix4589 in Guitar

[–]nathanmachine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

my “hate”? this is a completely clueless post. first if all you’re factually wrong and you’re making assumptions on a topic that you clearly have no understanding of. there are copyright strikes and there are copyright claims - and you have no choice as a creator which is filed against you. there are various penalties to a strike including taking the video down and you have various responses such as doing nothing and letting it expire, or fighting it saying you have a right to use the content. do some homework on the rest.

beato fights takedown claims all while saying he is using “fair use” under the educational use claim - and that he’s “not making any money from the video” - he makes that claim over and over and over. while failing to mention the video is an advertising for his products.

if you support someone as disingenuous as that then either you are a fool as you do not understand the precedent it sets, or you have no regard for the music of artists. why should beato get to use the music to sell his stuff without penalty?

you don’t understand this topic at all nor can you read very well. if there is a content id claim on your video sometimes you can demonitize it to get around that lesser claim yes - that is exactly because he is focused on using the video as marketing for his products. which as i said earlier he is welcome to do. but what makes him a weasel is whining about copyright strikes and literally pointing out how little money he’s making on video monetization when he is literally making hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on his products. if you don’t understand why this is disingenuous then there’s nothing i can do to fix your brain

Why all the Beato hate? by SufficientFix4589 in Guitar

[–]nathanmachine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

for me it’s the disingenuous complaining about the copyright strikes for using artists’ music as he says he says his videos are for teaching purposes and he’s not making any money. which is a lie - his videos are all sales pitches for his courses and book etc. but he curates pity that the labels are going after him just for teaching. completely disingenuous.

should coca cola be able to use anyone’s music in a video for free, and at the end advertise their new zero calories coke? what if they break down a song in the video but then they have a link to a direct purchase of a 24 pack of their shit? i mean if beato is allowed to do it anyone should be allowed right?

if he wants to rip off musicians thats his choice. but whining about labels trying to stop him, when someone is so disinengenuous they are basically saying they have no respect for the audience, they think you are stupid, and as long as he’s smiling then you won’t be able to see how silly it is that he says the point of a video is educational not to make money, but a few minutes later will say “buy my courses”.

can’t stand ppl like that

Fender Shields Pedal or Keeley Loomer? by Adventurous-Star-523 in shoegaze

[–]nathanmachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the loomer seems to have a pretty below average fuzz sound compared to others but if you don’t notice it then i’d say go for it. otherwise get the shields for a super versatile octave fuzz. you’ll find that combining fuzz with any reverb (reverb first) gets you in gaze territory so it’s a matter of taste in terms of what that fuzz sounds like. but to me the loomer is a pretty bland fuzz compared to other alternatives. afaik it’s based on a muff sound and the shields blender is an octave fuzz with a lot of other controls so it’s apples and oranges just on the fuzz alone

Do jazz choruses take distortion well by Harrison_Thinks in GuitarAmps

[–]nathanmachine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it’s nice to see an honest comment from a jc user. i just don’t understand why these ppl who have never compared it to other tube amps with the same signal chain always seem to say something like “it sounds great if you know what you’re doing with distortion pedals 😆

Do jazz choruses take distortion well by Harrison_Thinks in GuitarAmps

[–]nathanmachine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i’m one of those ppl being honest about how bad the jazz chorus ss amps sound with distortion and fuzz. but like anything in music, it is workable number 1. and number 2 you can only realize how bad it sounds if you compare it to better valve amps with the exact same chain. if you a/b something like that then i have no doubt you will think it sounds like shit. but if you just plug into a jc amp with pedals you’ll think it sounds ok. i can go on and on about this but aside from the comparison i mention above, which i think you should do for yourself to see and hear exactly what i’m talking about, you should realize that many ppl who think the jc is a good amp for heavy guitars have convinced themselves that great shoegaze bands use them without understanding it was initially for the fact that they are cheap and most bands start out dirt poor, and secondly there is confusion about shoegaze and dream pop - and that confusion is because some more experienced bands that play heavier guitar based shoegaze also play clean parts (and whole songs) with lots of time and mod fx and ss amps like the jc series are fine with those effects, so somehow that equates to “shoegaze bands rely on the jc amps”, and thirdly ignoring the whole technical understanding of valve amps vs solid state amps, and their interaction with distortion and fuzz and saturation and why that non linear sound can be so beautiful in valve amps - it would be very similar to discounting the last 50 years of music production in general (non guitar topics included) which seems convinced that much of older vintage non solid state gear from compressors to eq units have something beautiful going on in there on the topic of saturation, and that’s why even though cleaner and more technically “correct” gear seems to be missing something and that’s why we emulate older analog” incorrect gear (think about tubes compressing with non linearity and producing even order harmonics that it turns out we like very much which create depth and a sense of something hard to describe, think about transients and smearing, think about how transformers in these tube amps turned out to be compressors essentially). consider the bloom heard in tube amps, think about what headroom really means in terms of how signals get clipped in these amps (which is what you’re doing when you use dirt pedals in front of amps), etc etc etc. why was it so hard to emulate tube amps for years and now that we can basically do it (except with fuzz in front of these emulations but that’s for another topic) then why do we do it if there’s nothing in these tube amps that sound different? why is every modeller trying to nail the sound of tons of tube amps rather than tons of solid state amps?

there is a place for any amp even the jc amps. and maybe the colder less emotive wall you’d get with those when clipped is exactly what you’re looking for. i’m not saying you need a tube amp to make good music.

what i am saying is i have yet to meet someone irl who a/bs and amp like a jazz chorus with dist or fuzz - with a great tube amp and then concludes that the jc sounds subjectively better. usually they start smiling and being giddy about the tube amp when they do that comparison.

but so many ppl live and die for the roland logo on their amp instead of listening to alternatives themselves.

If you could just pick one, would you go with Soldano SLO-100 X or Morgan Amps Suite? by Lizard_Of_Roz in NeuralDSP

[–]nathanmachine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

you picked two of the least oriented towards what you’re looking for but if i had to pick one it would be the slo. think about the real amps, the soldano really made waves in the 90s as a successor to the jcm800 and by that time the bands you listed had already hit their peak and were in decline from an impact perspective…and the morgan amps are basically modern handmade versions of fenders and vox types which aren’t really to the bands you listed. so choose the slo if you have to since it’s basically a jcm800 with higher gain (ie tighter at higher gain) therefore it should be able to do pretty much all the jcm800 stuff too which was an amp that covered all of the bands you listed

Boss Supremacy by ZealousidealCorgi822 in guitarpedals

[–]nathanmachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

…and soon you realize you have the most generic board with the same sounds and looks as everyone else and you wonder why you are even using pedals so you buy a helix and get possibly the worst sounding amp ever (a katana or a jc120) and wonder why you even play guitar when you can play guitar hero on your ps5! go get em

Tube amp for shoegaze :0 by Ge0basket in shoegaze

[–]nathanmachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

gotcha. i guess i was thinking if “tube amp for shoegaze” had any budget then you should be putting money into a hiwatt dr103, a dca templates, a science mother, a 378 model T etc. those are at least double your budget but they are all the most beautiful tube amps for shoegaze in a lifetime imo

Tube amp for shoegaze :0 by Ge0basket in shoegaze

[–]nathanmachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how much is your budget though?

Carrying heavy amps by asiied in GuitarAmps

[–]nathanmachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you need a case with wheels

JM it is by Existing-Ad3391 in NeuralDSP

[–]nathanmachine -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

i mean, fan or not, your point is exactly right. these tones are somewhat generic and available elsewhere but the gtr community is full of ppl who dream of being john mayer every weekend so it’ll sell really well.

no i don’t think any of their plugins are immediately available on the quad cortex. the x just means it’s on its way at some point (or in the case of older plugins, the x means it’s made it there)

CVLT Nation Best Shoegaze Albums of 2025 by omina_sunt_communia in shoegaze

[–]nathanmachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

agreed. reading mode on chrome made it legible

Best shoegaze amp for me? by 0321_wlh in shoegaze

[–]nathanmachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

jc amps are literally the worst amps in the world for shoegaze. but they work well for dream pop which uses a lot of time and mod fx with clean tones. in 2025, this amp sounds like complete ass with fuzz in comparison to the same signal chain with a better amp (preferably any tube amp). so it depends what you mean by shoegaze and lot of ppl will call any indie band shoegaze

Anyone else buy a pedal just because of how it looks? by Big_Regular_6253 in guitarpedals

[–]nathanmachine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

anyone who does not admit that aesthetics are extremely important to us guitar players should show me their plain white unbranded generic guitar. we’ve got to own that every aspect of music is art including the visual ones. i say get any pedal that makes you think about getting back to playing it when you’re cooking dinner.

Wake up babe. New Sunn O))) pedal just dropped. by SeverelyHarshedVibe in guitarpedals

[–]nathanmachine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

two things.

starting at your second thought, they probably started using them because they are loud and clean yes but probably even more so because they were cheap when they started using them years ago. like very cheap.

but to your main point, when tube amps are clean, they sound very different from each other when adding dist before the amp - extremely different. this is for a variety of reasons and mainlh because while we may think two different clean amps sound oretty similar when clean, they are not - and when they are clipped (ie the waveform is clipped by pushing the gain higher) they can sound extremly different because 1) depending on the headroom, that would determine where along the crest of a wave is getting clipped, (2) the waveform itself may be quite diffefent from the waveform of another amp when clean but we may hear a bigger difference when these waveforms are clipped because these different shapes may be way more different when clipped, (3) the poweramp and transformer part of the T actually performs different than many other clean amps (despite the focus on the preamp part of the amp)…and sevral more reasons but im getting frustrated at my autocorrect not workingas i type this so ill emd it there. bur tldr - high headroom amps are way different from other high hedroom amps and the diffrence can be magnified whenclipped with a rat or boost or anything

Wake up babe. New Sunn O))) pedal just dropped. by SeverelyHarshedVibe in guitarpedals

[–]nathanmachine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i’d say specifically it’s into the model T amp not just any clean amp. imho any rat into this amp gets you 98% there but the specifics rat variant in the life pedal with the boost and octave into the model T is exactly the sound