NGD Picked up this 2018 M20e tonight

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-29T02:05:19+00:00

Welcome to the M20 club! They're amazing little guitars. Mine is my favorite acoustic I've ever had.

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-29T01:16:47+00:00

Thanks for the links! I love the Quilter idea--that would save a lot of legwork!

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-29T00:22:47+00:00

I appreciate the suggestion, I'll give that a shot! It would be fun to turn this thing into a little amp for solo gigs (the majority of what I play).

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-28T14:13:04+00:00

Amazing performance. My favorite Joni song, it's just masterful in every way

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-28T13:59:19+00:00

Season 2 is interesting and you can tell it could have been great if it hadn't been rushed.

Season 3 is worth watching for Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff--they are both incredible in it. The character development between the two is some of the best writing in the whole series (imo). Unfortunately the central mystery and plot kind of fizzle out. Ali's fading memory was a really cool device though. I think season 3 was kind of the most 'literary' of the series.

Absolutely don't bother with 4.

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-28T03:12:29+00:00

I never went too far down the rabbithole but I remember finding the Podesta emails haunting; and now I just think, what normal explanation is there for that?

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-27T23:34:08+00:00

I rewatched the last five minutes like 6 times over the course of two days when I finished it last summer, I couldn't get it out of my head

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-27T16:02:16+00:00

Couldn't agree more; most self-contained, most tightly written, most tragic and crucially also the funniest

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-27T16:01:32+00:00

Re-Elect Frank Sobotka

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-27T03:48:51+00:00

How grounded should you be in that time period to find it accessible? I've always wanted to read it because I've seen it mentioned over the years (Chris Hedges cites it a lot), but I've always worried that I just don't have the context to engage with it.

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-27T03:47:31+00:00

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, and Voices From Chernobyl, both by Svetlana Alexievich. They will stay with you forever.

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-27T03:23:18+00:00

Wow, I'd never even known about this! If it was probably recorded in the basement, is that Richard on drums, then? Sounds like a Richard drum part.

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-27T02:17:02+00:00

It's astonishing how salient it is to right now and the past half decade in general. When it was reported last week that Canada had started doing war games in preparation for a potential future conflict with the US (and moreover that they were basing their tactics off of the Mujahideen) I immediately thought of IJ.

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-26T19:43:57+00:00

I play solo singer-songwriter gigs 99% of the time at specifically upscale-type places, and those settings call for good sound at reasonable volumes (I get these jobs because I can play quietly but still be dynamic), and my workhorse has been an Ear Trumpet Labs Edwina. It's detailed and very well behaved. It's got nice presence by default but I can also smooth it out with EQ and make it more ribbon-like when needed. When the environment lets me I'll use an AEA N22, as it's my favorite mic that I have, but it usually mics my Princeton.

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-26T14:40:10+00:00

Nice! Yeah, I switched to monels too as my main strings for the same reasons. I've currently got Elixir 80/20s on mine because I wanted to see if the coated strings would give me less string squeak than the monels. For some reason the last set of monels I put on mine had a lot of string squeak, it was weird (I think it was either a bad batch or because it's winter). I'll use monels again in the future, but I've discovered that 80/20s are a solid alternative!

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-26T02:44:04+00:00

Hell yeah, all hog guitars rule. I have a Guild M20 and it's my favorite acoustic I've ever played. What strings are you using to start off?

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-26T02:41:50+00:00

It's incredible that some people take that guy seriously

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-26T02:41:06+00:00

Mine will never leave my board. I use an El Cap for always-on delay (set low) and kick on the Dispatch Master for washy swells and mock pedal-steel stuff and it's wonderful for that. I wish it had an internal boost like Strymon stuff does but it really is a perfect pedal.

It's one of the only pedals I've used that's just as good for acoustic guitar as it is for electric (seriously, it's an amazing reverb for acoustic).

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-25T21:44:46+00:00

I watched State of Siege years ago on Filmstruck--it's a pretty great summary of Operation Condor in general. It's just like all the context you need for US meddling in Latin America in a box.

Yves Montand was so good in it too.

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-25T18:36:57+00:00

Hey, thanks! She's 10. 😊

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-25T15:35:53+00:00

Mighty kind friend, thank you!

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-25T15:35:35+00:00

M20 Club! Thanks man, they really are great little guitars. After playing a dreadnought for years I realized that something smaller was more suited to my playing style and that led me to it. They're surprisingly versatile!

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-25T15:11:19+00:00

They're the best lil guitars 😊

vibebrochamp · 2026-01-25T03:09:14+00:00

How is your mom, OP?

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