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Goredho

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  1. That's interesting and all, but we're all really waiting on the opinion of @Incredulity.
  2. I'll buy a walnut hollow body Gibson when MrFuck buys a generic Strat Sounds great!
  3. Rejected. Your Mr Perky would fit snuggly into that little fold of elbow flesh.
  4. Whatever you think of JoeB as a musician or songwriter, he is a responsible steward for a shit ton of historically significant guitar Americana. Hope he keeps it all safe. I guess have to also wonder about Norman's Rare Guitars and all his warehouse stashes, too.
  5. Yeah, some of the others are nice for cleaning up mud, but you can achieve that in other ways in a mix. And I guess position 2 and 3 can give you a scooped mids sound. I can't remember what they were when I played my brother's but there were a couple of settings beyond position 1 that sounded situationally decent.
  6. Introduced by Gibson in 1959, the Varitone 6-way tone control is a circuit that acts as a notch filter, reducing frequencies at set points along the frequency spectrum. Filtering is achieved by passing the signal through capacitors that effectively remove or reduce specific frequencies. As the Varitone knob is rotated from positions 1 to 6, the center frequency of the filter shifts from high frequencies to lower frequencies, producing unique tones at each setting. Probably the most notable use of a Varitone circuit in an electric guitar is B.B. King’s Lucille. An example of the various settings and the tonal effect of a Varitone circuit: Position 1: Bypass (no effect) Position 2: -8.5dB at 1875Hz (or 1.875kHz ) Position 3: -12dB at 1090 Hz (1.090 kHz) Position 4: -15dB at 650 Hz Position 5: -16dB at 350 Hz Position 6: -20dB at 130 Hz The specific frequencies impacted by the Varitone will be dependent on the values of capacitors used.
  7. Drool and congrats. My brother has a nice ES-345 that he loves and I covet. I'll be curious what you think of the vari-tone knob.
  8. The Daily Texan "On what subject should you be considered Surly's resident expert?" thread got me thinking about our local guitar/music experts. On what subject are the posters here experts at? I'll toss out a few nominations. @Deej for his Rainman-eque skill at pickguard screw accounting @AnotherUTFan for his "WWLD" (What Would Lemmy Do) ethos @noharleyyet for knowledge of "Joe Bonamassa's Greatest Hits" @Chad Fuck for how to be the worst GAS Anonymous sponsor in the world I realize I am opening myself up to a counter offensive here...
  9. I am sorry, man. I am glad it looks like your house is going to be ok. Here's to you and your neighbors rallying around each other to rebuild the community.
  10. We are in Colorado, but all the same "concerns" for insurers here. We were dropped by Geico earlier this year due to wildfire risk even without any wildfires affecting our direct area since we moved here 5 years ago. The only overlap we have with areas that have been affected are "mountains" and "Colorado". We were able to obtain other coverage, but I can imagine insurability is a problem that is only going to get worse for areas like California, Colorado and Florida. These LA fires are going to cost insurance companies billions in claims. I am happy to read that our known resident Californians are all safe. I hope yall's homes are ok.
  11. I’m getting too old for that shit.
  12. No. Get what inspires you to play.
  13. So there are legitimate security concerns there voiced before recently?
  14. How long has Denmark “owned” Greenland? Why has it not been a threat to the U.S. before now?
  15. Looking like we are gonna roleplay as the Axis this time around?
  16. Consistent intensity and execution for 4 quarters in all phases of the game. Not success, because the other team has a say in that, but operating at or close to our potential for 4 quarters. 3 or less unforced error penalties like false starts and shit. Have less turnovers than the opponent. You know, the type of games Ohio State has played in the playoffs so far. We haven't approached that in a long time, though Clemson was getting there. If we do it on Friday, we win. Here's to Sark and the other coaches pulling the right levers and pushing the right buttons with the team this week.
  17. If the U.S. is looking to annex all of North America, I am guessing that Russia and China have their own plans and assurances.
  18. Yeah, if it’s a local pickup and you have the opportunity to play/inspect, that would mitigate the issues I brought up.
  19. I have been so approached in the past and I’ve declined, mostly due to not having buyer protections from Reverb when buying outside their platform. If you take them up on that, it’s just a private sale between you and someone you haven’t met to buy a guitar that you haven’t played that will be shipped across the country to get to you. That’s more risk than I am willing to accept.
  20. You know, those who oppose “they.”
  21. Give 20 year old me a lambo bill boarded up with Dell, Amazon, IBM and St David’s logos like a nascar ride and I would have represented like a mother fucker around town.
  22. How much in NIL money is from alumni/schools and how much is from major local/regional/national businesses who actually want the name, image and likeness of players for marketing purposes and are expecting a return on that? I would think the latter could eventually dwarf the former. I mean, Austin will never have pro football, basketball or baseball. The pro spots franchises in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio won't allow it. Longhorn football will always be the biggest sports franchise in whats the 11th biggest city in the U.S. The name, image and likeness of the same player in Austin is potentially worth a lot more than the same player in Tuscaloosa. Not to mention the alumni fold into the population of all the other major cities in Texas makes the NIL valuable there, too. I am not sure there is a university better set up for NIL success than Texas. Some teams that I think would be poised to do well would be Oregon, Miami, USC, Georgia, Michigan. But I don't think any of them have a better combination of advantages than Texas has.
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