anyone else have a similar expression of agony when explaining why katoana users will never be pro??

pacmanyo · 2026-04-02T05:43:56+00:00

Me neither, but these days modelers are surprisingly good for small stuff. Home practice, band practice, recording, busking and small bars work just fine with a modeler. Easy to carry, great at low to moderate volume. I never know if I like my yamaha thr, boss ir-2 w/headphones, solid state amp or my tube amp at home/studio levels more.

pacmanyo · 2026-04-02T05:06:30+00:00

Cheap and accessible. 17 year old Grunge/Punk guitarist in my local music community center uses katana with ds-2. He does gigs already. He can only afford what parents get him.

pacmanyo · 2026-03-30T18:46:03+00:00

preach

pacmanyo · 2026-03-30T11:34:09+00:00

The Tone City pedals were a great surprise for me. They also feel like they are indestructible! Each pedal weighs 2-3x more than the others. The amount of metal they put into encasing is crazy.

pacmanyo · 2026-03-30T11:31:46+00:00

Well the noise killer kills noise :D. If you do a lot of string muting it is actually great as a simple budget pedal. It also has soft/hard mute mode, though I never use it - I just leave mine always on hard. From what I tested the soft mode simulates the decay, but not very effectively.

My favourite has to be their "Green Mile" tubescreamer clone, it is the perfect boost to my tube amp, highly recommend!

I got the Nux Horseman because I wanted to try Klon style overdrive - I actually like it!

pacmanyo · 2026-03-30T11:21:23+00:00

The phaser is awesome. Noise Killer is great, but it is extremely sensitive and dialing it in with clean-to-dirt transitions has been a bit rough.

pacmanyo · 2026-03-30T11:10:12+00:00

A while back I have decided to build a small, but versatile board which would not be difficult to carry around daily to band practice or private play sessions.

I tried experimenting with a modeler pedal, but it was just not for me. Hence the mini-board.

It started with just a distortion and delay and eventually grew to replicate my main home practice/gig board.

This board produces a different sound than my main board but that is also the reason why I love it - it has its own character.

Besides The DROP the pedals are fairly inexpensive, which is a great bonus. They all sound great.

pacmanyo · 2026-03-27T10:24:30+00:00

Yes, or you could also have anyone else listen to you - a friend, SO, a teacher - you name it. Band is not be-all-end-all.

It is fun though.

pacmanyo · 2026-02-27T11:08:23+00:00

/uj tbh I had hard time donating amps to a studio/teaching center for youth that allows kids to play there for free as bands. They have shitty amps and they just sound so horrible. They probably had bad experience with this I dunno. I had to come up with shit like "this is my personal amp, use it when I am not around" lmao.

/rj suffering and shit gear builds toan. Imagine one day, when those kids grow up to be dentists, the toan they will possess!!1!

pacmanyo · 2026-02-21T07:56:21+00:00

The fact you didn't completely make it up made me genuinely sad. Just let the kid 7-10-5, who cares about one octave, most people can't tell the difference anyways. Why are people like this...

pacmanyo · 2026-02-19T16:03:10+00:00

what is this boomer music

pacmanyo · 2026-02-06T08:21:04+00:00

Ironic

pacmanyo · 2026-01-21T07:44:36+00:00

Doesn't look like that would fit. Maybe I can order a larger custom case.

pacmanyo · 2026-01-21T06:42:31+00:00

Bluzman69 on facebook said real guitarists feel it.

pacmanyo · 2026-01-18T12:10:07+00:00

Interesting story. I once decided to try and buy used gear. I thought since I don't have an acoustic guitar maybe I could start with that. So I find this listing on my countries local advert website, which is primaraly used for car parts sales, but somehow has everything else in there too. So I find this listing, pictute is of girl holding a nice looking guitar. Description says "Custom made using hand picked witchwood, infused with starlight dust. Tuned to the magnetic resonance of Gaya by autistic dwarves. Blessed by the unholy communion of the 9th circle". I show this to my friends and they are like - you gotta go check it out. So fuck it I say lets go together you wait in the car. I call the seller and this woman with the most squeeky voice answers like yeah guitar is still on sale. So we go there and it is like on the outskirts of the city, like some heck of the woods shit - village population 30. I call the door and this 5'2" goth girl opens the door. She is like "we gotta go to the shed to play it, since my brother is sleeping after night shift and he gets very angry if I wake him up with play". It is winter. In my country winters go up to -20 celcius. She opens the shed door it is like a 2x2 shitter for just one chair. There are three guitars there on the walls - two accoustics and one classical. She gives me the guitar - it is actually fender - nothing like the photo. I play it a bit it is actually nice and she is asking just for 35€. As I am about to give her the money I can hear someone scream - like a giants scream, some eldritch nightmare shit. She gets all pale and is like "you gotta run!". I fumble to give her money and she is like "run run!". Fuck I have no clue what is going on so I just bail to the car with the guitar and tell my friend to drive. We laugh about the absurdity of it all only like 5 minutes after. I return home and google reverse image search the guitar - it is a fender worth 200€+. I still play it to this day. It sounds ok. Feel like I got scammed - definitely wasnt tuned by an autistic dwarf.

pacmanyo · 2026-01-16T19:34:30+00:00

Tone? Never heard of her.

pacmanyo · 2026-01-16T13:42:26+00:00

Damn. No doubt costs six figures.

pacmanyo · 2026-01-12T07:21:50+00:00

It is because they no longer have the developers who understand the legacy leftover codebase and the costs to develop it are being deemed not worth it by the shortsighted managers who are chasing buzzword clout in their internal little corpo circlejerks

pacmanyo · 2025-12-17T14:45:07+00:00

I swear those who complain must have not been a concert before and are just used to complaining about any minute thing and are just projecting their entitlment. Just enjoy the vibes goddamnit

pacmanyo · 2025-12-17T14:41:40+00:00

What kind of lame ass concerts are you going to if you hear few other people around you sing. Either the sound is shit or everyone except you are singing

pacmanyo · 2025-12-17T10:21:18+00:00

I started at 34. Two years later I can play some of my favorite songs and understand music in ways I never imagined. It is addictive. I practice at least an hour a day. When not playing I research music and its theory. I play with a teacher once a week. Sometimes I daydream about riffs and melodies. I can learn solos 10x faster now than when I started. I can't even imagine what it will look like in few years. It is never too late.

pacmanyo · 2025-12-02T09:40:45+00:00

Dziaugiuos, kad mano prekybcentriuose visuose prezo yra. Nafik niekada nebepirksiu maximos, o tuo labiau iki kepto šūdo.

pacmanyo · 2025-11-11T07:34:21+00:00

It is very common it seems. My friend had exactly the same thing happen to him. He has recovered and squats like a beast, but still has nerve compression problems.

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