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Goredho

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  1. What narrative happens to be the best for Ewers draft stock? That he played mediocrely when healthy or mediocrely while injured? Maybe he was injured all year and that was the only reason he struggled, but I would also expect these stories to protect his payday if it weren’t the case, too. We don’t know, and it will be NFL scouts, coaches and GMs to figure out whether it’s spin or legit.
  2. Attaching the same gif twice to an old man rant post really sells it.
  3. In this game of Axis & Allies Russia's Russia, The U.S. is Germany and Europe is Poland.
  4. Meanwhile, somewhere in Colorado these are being made… I guess those Firefly’s and Harley Benton’s have a use after all.
  5. Will be interesting to see what is eventually done with National park land without anyone to administer/steward them. The small government answer to national parks has been conservation easements in the past. Encumber the land with an easement held by a conservation group that prevents it from being subdivided or otherwise developed and get a tax break for the difference in its “highest and best use” value (developed) and its value with the encumbrance. Then you get to enjoy it as your own personal private wilderness with little/no cost of ownership. There is no stipulation that it needs to be open to the public, even though the public are indirectly paying for it through lost tax revenue. If it were up for auction and you had a serious tax liability and access to a few billion dollars, you could buy the Grand Canyon for several billion, put a conservation easement on it, get several billion in tax breaks and wind up owning it for treefiddy, more or less. Great little vacation spot for a billionaire.
  6. Did you appreciate not having the government interfere with your decision making?
  7. I like the Eastman's a lot at half the price of the equivalent Gibson. I've liked every Yamaha guitar I've ever laid my hands on, so I doubt you could go wrong with any of their models.
  8. Bought a couple Eastman’s for this year’s gigging as part of a jazz quartet. Essentially ES-335 and an ES-330/Casino knockoffs from China. They have a nice, fat 1.72” nut width for extra string spacing for jazz chords. Eastman’s are a pretty killer value relative to Gibson (at least before tariffs). Resale sucks.
  9. Trump’s a figurehead for a movement. He’s just signing executive orders that others have authored and playing golf.
  10. Do you leave the Tonex on all of the time? How are you liking the EQ? I'm looking for something like that on my pedal steel board. So for question 1, I am using the tonex one in dual mode, with basically a green and red setting that I toggle between. They are the same amp model (60s Vox AC30), but the green is clean and the red is sorta crunchy. The vast majority of the time I'm on green and using combinations of the blues mood and ratsbane to drive it, but if I want higher gain than I can get from that, I go to the red and use both pedals to push it. The little parametric eq works great for what I want. It's super quiet, does not color the tone with everything set at unity, and gives you control over a single band from 50hz to 5Khz. You can make that band as wide as you want, and boost or cut, and it's got an overall volume knob, too, so it could even be used as a boost pedal. If you just want to cut a single problem area, or boost an area for certain passages (like hitting a TS for its mid hump in a solo), it's great. If you want something to more comprehensively sculpt the signal, you'd want something like an Empress Para EQ MK II (which I also have and is great, but not for this little gigging board).
  11. Needs a turret or two.
  12. Oh, it's coming, alright.
  13. Seemed the most appropriate place to put this.
  14. He's got at least as much influence with the people giving Trump his power as democrats do.
  15. At least he’s got a criteria.
  16. Amongst other things, lol.
  17. They should be arrested, tried and punished accordingly if/when found guilty by a jury of their peers.
  18. Have fun!
  19. For anyone wondering what all this sounds like, this is just the gear in the previous post: The guitar is a Casino type fully hollow with P-90s. Its plugged straight into that little pedal board I've posted pics of recently and the only things active are the Tonex One pedal using an amalgam captures Vox AC-30 model, pushed slightly with a blues driver clone (in front), with a little reverb (behind). From there its out to a looper and then to the Laney AH150. The looper is used to record the first pass of chords/harmony/accompaniment and then I'm improvising over that. This is all just recorded with the mic on my iphone, so no processing or tricks on the recording end to improve sound quality or anything. I get lots of compliments about tone from guitarists who can't believe what I tell them when asked about my rig.
  20. It would be hard for me to not do it this way now. As often as not, this is what I’m taking to practice and gigs and just plugging straight from pedalboard to PA. If a PA with monitoring is not available at the destination, I add my Laney AH150 that’s basically a mono 5 channel PA with power amp in a 1x12 combo footprint. Can have a mic or two for vocals plugged in, guitar, etc… and it’s never been not loud enough for places that didn’t have a PA on premises. We are talking coffee shops, small clubs/restaurants, patio gigs.
  21. Yeah, I think modeling/emulation is great, but if you have a great amp you like and don’t mind lugging it around for gigs, I would just get an attenuator and use that. I think the modeling shines when you: - want to record and dont have the mics or acoustic space for it - want to play a variety of styles, need a variety of amp tones but don’t want to pay $1k+ per amp - are short on space and can’t afford the footprint of more physical amps - you are old or otherwise decrepit and don’t want to haul an amp around to gigs anymore All four of those are a yes for me, personally.
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