Blastronaut

What a glorious Saturday. Stirling Albion only needed a point today to seal promotion to the third tier but somehow managed to get 3 against the run of play. 'mon the Bino's! All that said, the smart money is already on us to get relegated next season btw. I'm already looking around for a price to ease the inevitable pain this time next year.

Look like right shred machines with that 14" radius. I'd look like a right twat playing one with my shit picking hand.

Me and the missus had a listen last night (actually might have been Saturday). First few songs didn't grab me and felt a bit Metallica-by-numbers but it really picked up pace wherever Lux Eterna was on the tracklisting. I fair enjoyed it tbh, Hetfield on form and some great riffs and choruses, even if a lot of was bit predictable. Only real complaints I can remember drunk me having were some of Kirk's leads sounded like he phoned them in and it all went a bit Annihilator without the self-awareness at points. I'll give it another listen through sometime but it felt like a bit of a marathon. Fuck me do they know how to drag out a riff. Bit gutted there's nothing on the album that ties in with bridge in Atlas Rise.

Dissapointed with the lack of chat here around Stirling Albion being 9 points clear in the Scottish 4th tier, Hibs winning the Edinburgh derby and Celtic having to play on an artificial pitch. It's almost like we're watching entirely different sports.

Nice one @Tom. Hope youse smash it and end up too big to play the 13th Note in September. Btw, if any of you were ever into that Freidman/Becker and Malmsteen-esque Neo-Classical shred thing, I'd recommend checking out Eduardo Taddei. Caught him last night and don't think I've ever seen cleaner or more precise sweep picking and legato runs. I'd normally write that kinda stuff off as "load of wank, clearly playing to a click track" bollocks but somethings different with this guy. He's only 23 but I'd already put him somewhere between Jeff Waters and Paul Gilbert on the virtuoso scale.

Oh ya beauty. Dumbarton dropped more points. Hate to say I told you so, but the Scottish 4th tier run-in is really looking box-office. Bino's inexplicably had 1500 turn up for the potential 6 pointer on Saturday but created nothing in open play and somehow got away with a point. Automatic promotion still on the cards for both. 'mon the Bino's.

Maybe nothings wrong with the Spanish national team and Steve Clarke and John Carver are true football geniuses. 😆 That said, Iago Aspas being the go-to sub for the Spain national team chasing a game at a raucous Hampden isnt a great look. No offense to him, he's clearly a far better player than he showed during his time in England but he doesn't strike me as a big game player that can handle the pressure of of being in a side that's expected to win. Mental Tuesday night. Think it's been 30 years since Scotland beat Spain and on paper we had no right to change that tonight. Clarkeball for the win. He's a football genius, our Steve.

Yeah I get it. Since I'm currently without a speaker cabinet I've found myself mostly just plugging into my laptop and using vst amps when I'm messing about. Pedalboard is only get used when I'm testing stuff I've built. On a sidenote, I just discovered how easy it to use an android device as a midi controller. Feel like an absolute moron to have only just thought about it now.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually exactly the same circuit just from looking at the controls. Just with smd components to get it to fit in the small enclosure.

@Tom £150 including shipping (from the other side of the world) for a Dr Robert clone if yer other guitar player is still looking at them. https://reverb.com/item/65865711?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=65865711

Sorry @Tom. Hate to admit it but some pedals might be worth £300 after all (ah fuck, I don't even recognise myself here). Not that I'm ever paying that like, I'm still being a miserly prick and dragging the arse out of looking for a new cab. The locally listed1912 has had no takers and the asking price has dropped but I'm still preferring the look of the HB V30. Only thing stopping me is the thought I could save £40 by holding off another week or so (there we go, Im back to myself again).

Aye, either he's played a really long epic troll with that Kemper thing or he's just woke up one morning and felt the overwhelming urge to fuck with the cork sniffing gear snobs that follow him. Either way, great patter. I'll need to confess when I first heard of JHS pedals I just assumed it was the John Hornby Skewes branding again, so my first impression of Josh was "who the fuck is this guy?". Really quite impressive how he's made such a success of his pedal company and channel while his main message has always basically been "you really don't need any of this. It's all in the hands. Practice more".

Fair. Anyone seen the recent Josh Scott fallout over the Digitech Bad Monkey? His shithousery really adds to the charm. Proper good egg is Josh.

I want to agree man, but after a shot of the vst version of the Helix (think they call it Helix Native) and I'm not completely sold. Mainly due to the interface but a few of the old fuzz patches were a bit iffy. Admittedly they were patches of the pedals I'd expect to be a bit iffy. Interface aside, most of it was absolutely bang on the money though. Is there a Space Echo patch? I went into it with pitchforks looking for faults in the old Ge fuzz stuff and overlooked a lot of the modulation stuff.

Christ on a bike. It's £300 here which should be about NZ$600. Well out of my current budget but honestly looks like boss have really nailed the old Space Echo with DSP. End game delay pedal for tape-delay fanatics. Looks a little bit more user-friendly for knuckleheads like me compared to the Hazarai Memory Man too. Maybe in time most of it will appear as a Helix patch (if it hasn't already). Shame they never incorporated a "random failure/disaster" button that emulates the tape slipping or one of the motors burning out and catching fire. On paper seems the only trick they missed.

@Andrew the Boss RE-202 might be worth a look if it's not already on your radar. Bit pricey but should do everything the Caverns does (and more) without any of the limitations. I've yet to try one but looks like a cracking bit of kit.

I might have misremembered. No affiliation but Thorpy's work is usually completely top drawer. Looking at the internals of this there's no cheaping out at all, but like a say the missing components do make me suspect it's an adaptation of another Thorpy circuit rather than something that Victory and him built from the ground up. Could be a modified thorpy pedal dressed up in Victory marketing wank, but again just speculating and not even a bad thing if that's the case. I haven't used the Keeley Caverns but if memory serves its a delay+reverb and both sides function on the old PT2399 chip which I love for it's simplicity but it has some severe limitations. Long story short: for very short delay times it still works really nicely and has a faux-analogue (almost tape style) warmth but at longer delay times the repeats will suffer severe signal degradation and just sound a bit shit. The madprofessor "Deep Blue Delay" and Keeley Magnetic Echo/delay half of the caverns are basically lifted from the same circuit. There's a place for those bbd chips but I couldnt recommended them over digital options in good faith.

Just discovered this weird lot, albums are all synth and written by one guy. Live they're a full band and have this kid on lead. I'm really digging not just his amazing hybrid picking technique but just how well the synth only album material translates to two guitar and live drums. Not the most high-brow of stuff, just good riffs. Takes some serious chops to pull off some of those synth lines on guitar too. That's a hell of a rig @Tom. Just needs a few CRT telly's playing old Commodore Amiga demoscene videos.

Thought we had already done this? Sure I remember mentioning Thorpy here before. Looks a pretty classy and top quality build, which Thorpy has a good reputation for. Could be anything though but looks more distortion pedal than another attempt to emulate the Kraken pre-amp section. Can't find a schematic though so hard to say anything for sure. Only one thing I'd mention is the handful of components that have been left off the board (C1, C6, R6, R18, C19, C27 etc) would make me suspect this could be a modified version of some other ThorpyFX pedal circuit rather than a completely new design. But that's pure speculation.

I've always loved the idea of a motorbike, but almost everyone in my extended family that went into nursing always referred to motorcyclists as "donors" and I'm a big shite-bag so fuck that. Also have known at least two folk who have been in their car and collided with someone on a motorbike and never driven again. Admittedly one was my 80yo grandfather and the other had passed his test a few days prior and was a massive stoner, but still.

Ah well worth a shot. If it's the update that's the cause hopefully get resolved with further patches. I'll used to hang around the XDA developers forums some moons ago, could often be useful for getting answers to this sort of shit (not always solutions, but at least explanations). These days more of a "my phone/laptop is fine and does everything I need it to, fuck being a guinea pig for the new OS if I can avoid it". That said my laptop seriously fucked me over by discretely updating to Windows 11 a week or so ago despite my constant objections to their offer of the "free upgrade". I'm absolutely livid. If I had more time on my hands I be on another short-lived "that's it, I'm boycotting Microsoft" crusade.

How much internal storage have you got left? I worked mobile tech support for a good while and it was pretty common on all brands of phone to see them start doing all sorts of weird shit when you getting low on storage space. I think that's down to phones constantly suspending apps that are running in the background, once you have enough apps open to max out your RAM they look to temporarily utilise unused parts of the storage drive as a sort of SWAP space, and if there isn't enough storage for that the apps they'll shit they'll stop responding. Worth a look. General rule of thumb is to keep at least 20% of storage free.

Yeah it takes like two minutes, just export the midi from TuxGuitar and import it to your DAW. It can take quite a bit of editing velocities and such to get them sounding human though. Best bet is probably still to just program parts from scratch if you really want it to not sound like a drum machine. This is probably the most convincingly "real" sounding drum track I ever managed to get from EzDrummer. Think I probabaly sat up all night programming this, for no real reason at all. Dont have that level of patience for it anymore but its still fun to faff around with.

Is ggd the Kontakt patch? Ezdrummer works either standalone or as a plugin, I'd imagine you could just swap the plugin, feed it the same midi and your good to go, might have to rearrange the pads though. I haven't played with GDD, no idea where it sits on a scale of ezdrummer to SD. The toontrack stuff just came along and hooked me in the right place at the right time, which was probably some ten or so years ago so I'm probably at least a decade behind the times. I get lost in it but it's just another vsti at the end of the day.

Appreciate I'm not contributing much to the conversation here, but tonight I'll be mostly drinking a shit overpriced Guinness impersonation and have already descended into the realms of David Minnick's batshit mental acapella covers of the entire Cardiacs double album "Sing to God".