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Rimbo

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  1. I'm avoiding Van Halen songs because (1) I'm trying to cancel out my massive VH fanboyness and (2) you could pretty much just point to their entire discography.
  2. "Let's Go Crazy" and "Enter Sandman" are top notch choices. Let's bring in some favorites from 90s/00s EDM... it's a shame the Orbital song doesn't go nearly as hard as its intro
  3. Not a pic, but... OMG. https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/filing/10509027302965
  4. ☝️ That's the actual best, but it's not my favorite. THIS is my favorite intro.
  5. OK, "you aren't going to be persuaded otherwise" is just being rude. Which given my asshole response earlier is warranted, OK, but I'm trying to have an actual honest conversation here. Secondly, "Quieter things get relatively louder when you have tons of dynamic compression" -- clean-channel vs high-gain -- is literally the definition of what dynamic compression does. You're basically saying here that dynamic compression doesn't do ... the thing that dynamic compression does. I guess if you have a lifetime to learn an instrument AND no intention of being professional, "just let it happen" is fine. But I don't have enough hours available in the day or years in my life to wait for a skill to subconsciously appear; I'm going to steal and develop every skill-building exercise I can get my hands on, find the ones that are most efficient, and dedicate the beginning of my practice sessions to doing those things, so that I can make the path from being shitty to being adequate as short as humanly possible.
  6. I see what you're saying here. Thing is, that's not a new skill for me. I have plenty of control over volume and expression with my right hand. I've gained that from decades of bass fingering and plucking, cello bowing/plucking/col legno, etc. Including palm muting on the bass. What I lack on the right hand is: 1. A really good feel for the gap between strings, since they're so much closer; hitting more strings than I intended is exaggerated at gain. Like, if you barely brush the wrong string with the pick without gain, it's not really going to be audible if you're hitting the strings you intend more forcefully. At high gain, every little tiny mistake like that is going to be as loud as the things you meant to do -- the result of dynamic compression at those levels. 2. Palm muting techniques at high gain are really a whole different technique from what I do on the bass or with a clean guitar. Also, more to the point, palm muting's not a habit I want to gravitate to instinctually. It's a capability I want to deliberately train. That's what exercises are for; training your hands into flexibility and skills that you can use, or not use, at will.
  7. Ok...I have no idea why I responded to these like a complete raging asshole. Sorry about that. I'm looking at my responses now and thinking, "What the fuck was I so mad about?" BUT....... I saw this interview snippet with EVH and it reminded me of this... because I think he's talking about what I was trying to describe. Point I was trying to make then (with a heaping mound of unwarranted assholeishness)... and I think what Ed's talking about here... is that direct into the amp, high gain sound, every time a finger on your left hand brushes the wrong string, every failure to palm mute, is going to make an absolute mess of whatever you're trying to play. For me in particular, since I'm used to playing bass clef strings that need a lot more effort to play, and even on my acoustic guitar with its broad neck, my tendency in the left hand on the electric guitar is to smack around the other strings when I play. My hands are trained to pull-off and hammer-on with every note rather violently (taught explicitly to do so by cello teachers - the string doesn't speak fast enough without it) ... and that doesn't work at all on a narrow-necked electric at high gain. As for my right hand, palm muting is an entirely new technique I'm having to learn. Doesn't matter so much on a clean channel; critical at metal gain levels so that you don't end up recording slop.
  8. Top notch shit, @sidis and @Goredho.
  9. Labrador retrievers are better than golden retrievers
  10. what I'm getting from this is Sydney appeals to the sort of guy who married a white chick what I don't grasp is if that's because of the similarity, or the contrast
  11. dude, half of recruiting is convincing kids with poor judgment to make the right decision just because a guy has bad judgment doesn't mean he's bad at football
  12. I mean ... that's what shrimp do. They're bottom feeders. Eating what everything else poops out.
  13. It's funny and great ... best of all time? Naw man. Vicki Lawrence's incensed response to Tim Conway is the greatest of all time. The first third is the dress rehearsal. Then Conway *changed* the story for the actual recording, which is the rest of the video. Lawrence is the only one who maintains character during because she's pissed off at him... and plotting revenge.
  14. Tell me you've never been to Lubbock without telling me you've never been to Lubbock, Dan.
  15. 1. Enough others have him on ignore that he's effectively insulated from the crowdsourcing he deserves. 2. I've been on the Internet since '91. I've seen some major drama queens. I've BEEN a drama queen. Hell, I was on a board with Derek Smart. But this guy beats em all. 3. Constantly trolls #2. 4. Fatass scam artist $9.95er who has his own damn message board and needs to fucking stay there. And many others who aren't even worth mentioning. Life is too short to read their posts OR play guessing games about them.
  16. Thing is Craftsman is still around, and some of their stuff is still made in the USA. I've seen it at Ace Hardware, for example.
  17. OG Radio Shack when they were in every town and actually sold electronic components, before they became a glorified mobile phone reseller.
  18. i had McDonald's breakfast this morning, a sausage mcgriddle no idea what y'all see in this
  19. hi I've been away for a few days and i heard that i was supposed to be in here panicking ok, I panicked, the voracious demon spirit of BO&W should be appeased now
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