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@Starise If you get some time, Mickey Hart's book 'Drumming on the Edge of Magic' is a worthy read. He often delves into discussion of music, spirit, and the magic of it. I started typing in a section and decided I would be typing too much for a post. Another interesting read of Mickey's is 'Song Catchers: In search of the world's music'.

I think music itself is soothing. I love having a way to express without words. I don't think having an outlet for expression by itself assures mental health, but it does seem to promote it. I think when you consider music as a profession and ask the mental health question, there are too many variables to show anything meaningful. Like, who is drawn to it as a profession. How often is it a profession of last resort? What are the weird pressures applied on musicians by how the money in the industry is choked to flow this way and that. How much impact does living around alcohol soaked people have on your life? Spending nights in bars? Getting paid in liquor? But then, most musicians I know have a better social life than non-musicians in my experience. That can be another mental health booster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkmMiMek6k This video is noisy and goofy, but man are analog delays cool. I messed with the delays in THU and couldn't get anything like these. The video includes the 2 boss delays and a moog MF and we tried an old DOD but the knobs weren't werking. Moog stuff is just so wild. I have no idea what makes them so cool but the sounds they make are wild.

Last night, me and my friend Scott compared delays. The boss waza dm-2w delay compared favorably with the moog, but being able to use the foot pedal to increase the feedback on the moog set it apart. The moog has a dip switch inside to switch the expression pedal between rate and feedback. This means any held note could be held and swelled by moving the expression pedal. There is no doubt that the boss waza delay surpasses the boss dm3. So much fun!

I'm doing everything backwards. I really enjoy playing through my amp with pedals. I'm all alone. I know. and I've got my FCB-1010 and my AmpSims... they're fun... but I really enjoy playing outloud.

I traded a friend this old pedal... For this... I totally love this Delay... it's soooooo much fun. ? I have an expression pedal and that gets all these crazy sounds as you change the rate. Trading pedals with friends is the best way to explore new sounds. https://www.boss.info/global/promos/waza_craft/

After the we turned off the camera, Scott played this awesome guitar jam for like 1/2 hour. He used a looper. It was wild... totally awesome. Bummer I didn't catch it. Maybe next time.

My friend has 3 champs with different speaks in them. I play on them all the time. They're great! I think he has one with a trem? There's a trem, idk if it's built into champ. These are a tons of fun. I do prefer my 4x10 with a Rock Crusher, but the champs are so great! I'm playing on it in this vid...

https://www.diyrecordingequipment.com/products/l2a I use this for reamping. I don't need a direct box. I'm not talented at soldering. I just read directions and watched some YouTube videos. If you are on a budget, this might help.

I use expression pedals. My pedal board has a splitter built in so i can can record clean and the amp with fx concurrently. Sometimes, i record direct and send out from the interface to a reamp box and that lets me play with the fx all i want when my family are out. I record direct while they sleep. Real-time fx are expressive so real time play changes..

deep.

Gave me a big smile, ty.

I've been enjoying using my spare processor cycles to donate to things like Cancer and Covid related research through BOINC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing Probably not interesting to most of you, but some have beefy computers that sometimes sit idle and maybe I'm not the only one who doesn't mine sharing the cycles. If you use this link to join, I get credit for you joining. There's no money involved. It's charity only. https://join.worldcommunitygrid.org?recruiterId=1121627&teamId=136RWX2QBN1 I did this ages back with an old laptop and spun the fans so much I wore out a bearing. Now, this may or may not happen to you, but a worn out bearing on a fan would make your PC get louder until you replace the fan. Other than that case, I haven't had any issues volunteering my pc when I'm not using it for something. I measured the electricity consumption and for me, it uses about 4x as much electricity as when otherwise on and idle. This means about 75% more in electricity costs. You can pick the projects you want to volunteer to work on.

https://www.furmanpower.com/support/legacy-product-documents?div=01&id=SPB-8 This link has manuals. Whatever i have is exactly the spb8 with a hard case. It is awesome.i basically use it as a suitcase for pedals. I don't leave it configured. I plug in what i want when i open it. The splitting feature is cool but kinda complicated. Mostly, i use it for a pedal power supply and carrying case.

I have this pedal board and love it. Mine says skb not furman. These have to be the same thing rebranded, right? Mine has a hard case that is a suitcase for pedals.

Totally great article. I read every word.

If you don't have the ashtray cover for the bridge, i recommend it. It's comfortable and changes your playing. Less palm muting.

I'm not sure I'd use the LED cable when I'm re-amping. I don't use it direct into my amp. It does kinda change things a little. But with Amp Sims it definitely helps.

https://craiganderton.org/transient-tamer-diy-project/ This is what I'm talking about when I mention LEDs on a guitar cable for use with Software Amp Simulators. This really helps and I do switch to it if I start using another one. I can hear it and prefer it.

Man i feel for you both. My deep compassion and sympathy.

Beautiful!

Yes, I've tried them and think they are pretty good. Craig Anderton did a blind test with us comparing professionally mastered with landr. Many could detect the difference. I think it is great for quick efforts, but if you really love your song, you might try both.

Only in cakewalk for you. It doesn't happen for me. Try a new project. Single track, mono interleave, panned hard. Do bounce to tracks and split mono. Now normalize the quiet track. When i take these steps i get a flat line. Now when i add a nice stereo reverb to the master bus, i have signal on both sides. Other fx will do this too. Console emulator on the master bus will bleed to the quiet track, for example. No one is in a dither over this bc we are mostly thinking pibcak.

@Starise I'm really sorry to hear it. I wish you all the luck in the world.