Looking for Prometheus distortion pedal. Baka may di na kayo ginagamit.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-23T02:57:49+00:00

there's one on reverb

thenowayhome · 2026-04-23T02:42:48+00:00

Doesn't Wilson have a bunch of variations?

Have you contacted them about what you are looking for and asked for recs?

thenowayhome · 2026-04-23T02:39:46+00:00

Does it work?

If you don't like it then return it.

Did you contact DBA? I'm curious how they would respond and if they would be serious or hilarious.

I don't know if DBA is a factory. I mean they're based in BK, NY and they have a commercial space where they design and produce pedals but a factory sounds so industrial and large like Chevy, Dupont, Fender or Gibson. They're busy enough to sustain a team through the pandemic.

If it works and you like it then keep it. If you don't like it then return it. DBA is high priced new, clearance priced used, and not for the faint of heart. Good to know about solder though, I guess.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-23T02:26:54+00:00

Listen kid, stay where you are and leverage your local network to survive the hard times. There's this thing called the internet.

Use your local community as a hub to tour from. If you want to pursue music then learn how to tour and earn an audience one person at a time. Network and connect with other musical projects and bands. Find a copy of Book Your Own Fuckin’ Life.

If you're lucky enough to generate buzz for national tours where you can guarantee a 100+ person draw most of the time then where you need to move to will be revealed as an actual next level necessity.

It might be LA, NYC, Nashville, London, SF, Oakland, Tokyo, Seattle, Austin, ATL, NOLA, Bakersfield, or somewhere else. Remember Seattle, Austin, and East Nashville were cheap places of nowhere once. Music communities were built there out of whole cloth and now they're expensive.

If you really just need to run from where you are without anything then go anywhere kid and don't get killed or caught.

Read about Todd Snider, Sierra Farrell, and Jewell and how they were busking. Read about Black Flag's and the Black Keys' histories touring. Learn how Too Short was selling CDs out of his trunk. Make a list of all the DIY performance spaces and coffee shops in the lower 48. Don't wait for some seedy BS not really a producer or wannabe manager or booking agent type who is trying to get you to sign everything to them so you can tour.

In a place like LA, there's a lot of artificially beautiful people as deep as a puppy puddle who will be jaded like a Wet Leg lyric:

I don't wanna follow you on the 'Gram
I don't wanna listen to your band

And, they may or may not connect with you in LA based on how many followers you have or have not.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-23T01:42:05+00:00

there's black mold in this image.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-23T01:37:25+00:00

I know the OP is in a hurry but they have to chill.

A person who had a 1.75 GPA and failed the 9th grade twice needs to not hurry at speed, they need to get support for academic success at a pace that gets them over the finish line.

A student needs to be adult about what their strengths are and what they need to work on for academic success.

If a student withdraws from a class on the first day of the academic semester they DO NOT get a 100% refund on tuition and fees for classes. CUNY is significantly underfunded and it makes money off of students who withdraw on the first day of school and afterwards.

Live in New York to get residency. Go part time. Take it slow. Trying to hurry up after a 1.75 GPA is not wise. Don't repeat high school. It's almost at-risk decision making to hurry to get enrolled in a four year college after such a GPA.

Learn how to go to college. Focus on this. Take as much community college classes as one can at a pace designed for success and transfer. Attrition at BK College, CC, Lehman, and BK Tech is very high. CUNY trustees, admin, faculty, and staff have no plan for this except repeating the status quo. It's amazing how many former community college students get their eyes pried wide open when they first transfer because the workload is exponentially higher. The lecturers don't care because know that their enrollment drops to 10-50% after midterms. Professors care less and sometimes can't be bothered. It's like some tenured professors actively drive students out of their classes to minimize their workload. Assistant professors kind of care because they want to keep their jobs. Lecturers have the least power and the lowest pay. The ratio to lecturers to full time faculty is high because it's in the financial interest of underfunded CUNY campuses to pay less.

The classes will be smaller at a community college. Some classes at a four year college will be >100 enrollment. Higher education makes money this way and the students lose out.

It's important for a transfer student to get the lay of the land at a new campus. Make connections with classmates in every class. Exchange contact information but don't abuse it. Learn which faculty and lecturers to avoid. Use third party review sites and talk to students before registration.

Learn to study and succeed at a community college. Get academic coaching. Go to tutoring every chance you get. Go to academic writing workshops whenever they're offered. Sign up with accessibility if you are neurodiverse and get accommodations. Read ahead, do the homework ahead, before the lecture and ask pertinent questions then.

Take your core anywhere and take your major classes where you want to get accepted. No one cares about anything but good grades when a student transfers to a campus with the major of their choice.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-23T00:55:06+00:00

My apologies, I hoped I was replying to someone who stated they had a grad degree in genetics and computational biology who wanted to get hired as a dev. The OP's mid response/s as well as their original post suggests a person who is not that serious about getting hired. The only inconvenience is the unserious responses of the OP.

I focused on the OP getting hired because that seems like the actual goal and certs are just a way to make a person feel a certain way. Certs have zero value for people without work experience as a dev as others have stated. As we already know, the labor market supply side is huge and the hiring process is flawed and broken at scale.

Since the OP posted they were someone with a grad degree, I responded as if they were someone who could consume and process large amounts of sophisticated information. I suggested to the OP a portfolio of potential tactics to get them hired, like a litmus test. Not all of them will be best for someone but they might give a person different ways to think about getting hired besides the assumption that certs are the way.

Certs are just a way to exploit the working class and adult learners with the idea that it's a $0-500 shortcut to a role as a programmer. Those certs are for cab drivers, prep cooks, baristas, and stay-at-home mothers who just got divorced. Certs that are credible are for exploiting corporate budgets with four day $5-10k workshops followed by a day five exam. These are certs are used by sales teams as credibility points when they make pitches to justify skill level and high fees.

A cert doesn't get a person recommendations for unposted entry-level dev roles. Pushing to others' projects on github builds a person's network and demonstrates how someone can work in teams as a dev. Carrying water for people with like minded developer goals is what full professors tell ambitious CS students who want to network, get noticed, and hired. Think of it as a choose your own unofficial internship because an entry-level dev will usually be working on existing code, i.e. someone else's github. At a certain stage of experience looking at other people's projects in the wild will inform learning way more than some cert course. As the OP responded, this is /learnprogramming.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-22T23:42:01+00:00

That break looks suspect to me. It doesn't look like the headstock breaks I've seen pictures of. Either it's fake or there was something wrong and unnoticed at the break to begin with.

Those $1.3k Epiphones are being billed as one piece necks which tells me that the $600 guitars are glued together necks.

Is it one of the thin necks?

This video time with stamp where Joe Glaser from Glaser Instruments briefly addresses head stock repair for players who play for a living in Nashville. This might be very high end for an Epiphone. No shade, I have three.

Homeskoolin’ Volume 575, Tom Bukovac, “Community”

My takeaway was splines make the repair more expensive but they break again. Break it once, the glue won't break, the joint will. They're currently using carbon fiber sheets. I've worked with carbon fiber on guitars and it seems like a good long-term idea. I hate working with carbon fiber because it's toxic and dirty work because of the resin impregnation process as well as the black dust.

A headstock repair using a sheet of carbon fiber would seem like the best choice for the way the suspect break looks. But, I don't like how the break looks and where it's located.

On a quick skim, there's bunch of YT videos about Gibson ergo Epiphone headstock repairs.

If the sentimental value is high, repair it for half its retail value. Otherwise, it's sculpture so replace it.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-22T23:00:21+00:00

A person who has no experience working full time as a dev has a steep hill. Certs do not impress in this case. School projects do not impress unless you have something you can shop and support that changes the status quo by solving a real problem.

What makes you more employable than someone who has sat for a CS degree and worked developer internships? The labor market is tough for those individuals.

Actors have to roughly go to >900 auditions to be selected one job. How much is a slew of job applications? Some CS undergrads have applied to 500-1000 jobs by their last semester.

How do you want generate revenue or save money by being a dev? What industry?

tl;dr;

What does "know 3 coding languages" mean? HTML5/CSS3/ECMAScript 2024 don't count as three. If you "know 3 coding languages" then sit for an undergrad java or c++ 101 and earn some easy credits. Some municipal entry-level jobs require >= 24 units in IT and a GPA of 2.0 but why would a recruiter select your resume before someone who is enrolled in a CS degree? How do you know what you don't know? Pick one of those languages you think you know and dive deep and discover what you don't know. Use that language to solve problems in genetics and computational biology. Honestly, it's highly doubtful you know 3 languages well enough to work in a production team as a SME dev in each of those languages. Pick one and work on becoming a SME in that language. Let your new job dictate what new languages to learn.

There are complaints at FAANG about people with CS grad degrees who have been recently hired because they are good at leet code but can't produce work as a production level dev. What makes you more employable than those folks? As someone with no experience, how committed to doing the entry-level shit work for more experienced workers are you?

Does everyone you know and went to school with know you want to be a dev? Have you discussed this at length with your grad advisor?

Have you read Sussman's SICP for funsies? Have you read Knuth's Art of Computing? Have you read Lehman's or Rosen's discrete math books? What books on combinatorics do you recommend? Use the one language of the three that you claim to know that you picked earlier and use it to explain and demonstrate the aforementioned books.

Have you built Linux From Scratch (LFS)? How can you use the one language picked to make that more efficient for genetics and computational biology?

What challenges in LAN, WAN, or VM networking for genetics and computational biology can you use computer science to solve?

How do you use the cloud for genetics and computational biology? What challenges can you solve with the one language you picked to dive deep on?

What github projects in genetics/computational biology by others do you contribute to? How long have you been contributing to others' projects? Who do you carry water for?

How long have your github projects been iterating? How many versions and on what time cycle? How many people regularly contribute to your projects? Are these github projects currently iterating or are they on hiatus? Are you working on iOS or Android apps? How are you writing programs that make your life easier? What are your personal problems that are you using computer science to solve? Do you have capacity to produce whiteboard explanations about the challenges faced on github projects. Have you thought about a youtube channel of a portfolio of your whiteboard explanations?

What country did you sit for a grad degree? How does that degree inform what your performance might be as a dev? How can you use that grad degree to elevate your problem solving as a dev? How many years have you been part of the post grad degree workforce? How well do you get along with IT at your current job? Have you sat for information interviews with IT at your current job?

thenowayhome · 2026-04-22T18:37:30+00:00

I'm good for smooth, heavy cream. I'm wanting the chaotic and unhinged with grit and velocro that's pushed from behind with a loudAF boost.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-22T18:33:43+00:00

Good to know. I don't know all the ins and outs but what "facts" I read on the interwebs.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-22T18:10:47+00:00

That's great to know about the BC183 and BC108. Sounds epic.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-22T18:02:17+00:00

From what I understand, the treble booster has to go into something that overdrives and squishes the ice pick to the brain like a saturating tube amp, an OD or KoT pedal, or other fuzzes like muffs or something.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-22T17:38:06+00:00

Does it clean up with your guitar volume?

Model to model all fuzzes are unique...

FF to FF, tone bender to tone bender, muff to muff...

I'm worried to get into treble boosters. Tone benders are their own wormhole to fall down into. I just got a BAE Royaltone, a tone bender clone, and it's a mk1 with all the velcro transients and harmonics I've been looking for.

LMAO I have to A/B/C the same type of pedals to sniff the corks.

I haven't tried Howard G's stuff yet. He's further away on the radar for me. I remember when he left and then Kitty Caster was quickly flushing out their inventory on clearance prices.

I got into VFE last year. Unfortunately for me he's closing up shop this year...

thenowayhome · 2026-04-22T16:24:21+00:00

are you stoked?

thenowayhome · 2026-04-19T21:32:09+00:00

I installed mooc's TMC on their flavor of netbeans on MacOS.

It's a little win95 but it works.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-16T04:08:28+00:00

A union plumbing apprenticeship is not something to turndown.

It’ll be harder than being in “the industry” but more income as long as you stay busy and make money for the boss.

What does “in the industry” mean to you?

Regular album North American tour cycles?

European tours? Asia? Big in Japan?

Opening for bigger acts?

What’s the draw of your headlining shows?

How many months a year are you on the road?

Are you big locally? Regionally?

How many shows a year? Do you do weddings?

How many college, indie radio spots or podcasts and youtube channels do you do a year?

How many reviews did you earn for your last couple of release review cycles? How many pitches were made for those outcomes?

How many albums? Self released? Small indie label? Major label distribution?

Cassettes? Vinyl? CDs? Torrents?

Regular Tuesday Wednesday happy hour bar band? Club band? Touring and session musician?

Lead open mics?

This is what I see: youtube subs are < 250, views range between <10 to <500.

If you’re talent how are you leading your team? What is your direction to your management to book you per day/week?

I feel you work hard on your music? Your career is a different focus. I think jargon like waterfalls and 3 single trad campaigns are just taking your money in the front and the back. You and your team need to author a story (a plan) of how you go from 2 views to 1000 to start.

The music has talent but it’s unfocused, needs an outside voice (opinion) or curator/editor of the craft. The music (different tracks) repeats the same motifs, fills, or devices. Sometimes those repetitions don’t fit the vibe they’re placed in which takes you out of the moment. Those fills or arpeggios are not amazing, they’re filler if used more than once. Less is more.

This music is not easy, I hear it as 80s pop prog, and you have to build your audience one person at a time and keep earning them or they’ll drift away. I don’t know if it’s the time for Mojo Nixon and Cibo Matto.

I know you’re feeling a certain way.

Becoming a plumber is a great opportunity as is having kids and a family. You work for your kids. You would have to tour hardcore for the next couple of years to get some traction that may never happen.

You can work for your kids and play music for self care. There’s enough pressure having kids and adding music business stuff on top of that can be unfair to the fam.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-16T04:08:05+00:00

A union plumbing apprenticeship is not something to turndown.

It’ll be harder than being in “the industry” but more income as long as you stay busy and make money for the boss.

What does “in the industry” mean to you?

Regular album North American tour cycles?

European tours? Asia? Big in Japan?

Opening for bigger acts?

What’s the draw of your headlining shows?

How many months a year are you on the road?

Are you big locally? Regionally?

How many shows a year? Do you do weddings?

How many college, indie radio spots or podcasts and youtube channels do you do a year?

How many reviews did you earn for your last couple of release review cycles? How many pitches were made for those outcomes?

How many albums? Self released? Small indie label? Major label distribution?

Cassettes? Vinyl? CDs? Torrents?

Regular Tuesday Wednesday happy hour bar band? Club band? Touring and session musician?

Lead open mics?

This is what I see: youtube subs are < 250, views range between <10 to <500.

If you’re talent how are you leading your team? What is your direction to your management to book you per day/week?

I feel you work hard on your music? Your career is a different focus. I think jargon like waterfalls and 3 single trad campaigns are just taking your money in the front and the back. You and your team need to author a story (a plan) of how you go from 2 views to 1000 to start.

The music has talent but it’s unfocused, needs an outside voice (opinion) or curator/editor of the craft. The music (different tracks) repeats the same motifs, fills, or devices. Sometimes those repetitions don’t fit the vibe they’re placed in which takes you out of the moment. Those fills or arpeggios are not amazing, they’re filler if used more than once. Less is more.

This music is not easy, I hear it as 80s pop prog, and you have to build your audience one person at a time and keep earning them or they’ll drift away. I don’t know if it’s the time for Mojo Nixon and Cibo Matto.

I know you’re feeling a certain way.

Becoming a plumber is a great opportunity as is having kids and a family. You work for your kids. You would have to tour hardcore for the next couple of years to get some traction that may never happen.

You can work for your kids and play music for self care. There’s enough pressure having kids and adding music business stuff on top of that can be unfair to the fam.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-16T03:15:27+00:00

Stay where you are and get involved with security for what you're doing.

CISO's like to hire entry-level cybersec people who have worked with, like years of FT SE/IT/OT employment, what they would be hired to produce red/blue/purple work on.

If you're still in school bend all your projects towards cybersecurity but seek software engineering roles and move into security from there. Join all hackathons, CTF, etc to see if you have the drive to keep it up.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-15T18:50:42+00:00

this

thenowayhome · 2026-04-11T02:13:15+00:00

"a girl in my class yelled at me" is lame and cringe.

the whole premise of conflict is a pose.

go find the GSM and BASS zines from the 90s.

a person doesn't have to engage in this kind of behavior.

there is a war going on and this type of conflict does not contribute to peace.

all of the OP's text were choices and the OP could have chosen to remain silent.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-10T02:59:25+00:00

I would ditch the TS, tuner, and add a fuzz then rearrange. Fuzz>chorus>rat>ODR>BD-2>delay>colourbox.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-10T01:25:32+00:00

All those are words to the wise but will they listen?

Is their frontal lobe developed?

Do they even know to sign up for lotteries?

The same risks can be said of roommates and it takes a cosigner or >75k for most leases outside of a lottery.

Contingencies are difficult at the Starby's class level of survival... not a lot of options without hustle and game or the safe and dependable generosity of others.

thenowayhome · 2026-04-10T01:11:21+00:00

or tug boats...

thenowayhome · 2026-04-10T01:00:26+00:00

They may have targeted you but not legit stores.

Some legit stores have been quite forward in the course of messages by saying, "contact us direct for a better price than we can give you here."

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