Blastronaut

Aye. At least explore it as an option. I grew up with a border collie as the family pet, local farmer just cast the poor thing aside because she was too lazy to round up sheep. The dug was probably smarter than me to be fair. Just slept all day and ignored everyone until someone said "walk". Even then half the time she would look at you in a way that said "sound. You go for your walk, prick. I'm quite happy here"

Just build/buy a bigger board man! Paul Gilberts homemade pedalboard is fucking hilarious but if that's good enough for him it's good enough for anyone. Mines are all loosely inspired by the IKEA pedalboard hack and it's probably the only area I think I've got the upper hand on Gilbert. Good to see you're still getting use out the RM, genuinely would be interested to see how it compares. Boosts are still too underrated if you ask me.

I like him and genuinely hope the English National Team stick by him. He's eveything Courtois isn't.

That's a decent shout tbf but those books usually run to at least 200% and aren't worth a punt. Guaranteed Postecoglu and Van Bronkhorst will be up amongst the false favourites.

If we ignore the mention of Basset Hounds the only thing that ruined that for me was the word "socks".

Aye. Telly is off, the Newcastle game and anything else that mattered finished hours ago man.

Ah fuck, the more I read about it the more I think I might want one. This is a shite state of affairs. How's the "Deranged Master" patch compare to your Rangemaster? Don't hold back like I'll no take offence. I'd expect at least a lower noise floor and wouldn't be surprised if they've tamed it a bit so it's slightly less bright than stock Rangemaster treble frequencies (which I think everyone bar maybe Brian May modded theirs to).

Seen this that answers my question on how it handles Fuzz Face clean-up, fucking hell that quite impressive. Think this is the full Helix rather than the stomp though. Bit surprised looking at the list @Tom posted that there's no real Tonebender patches. Somebody needs to start a petition to get at least the mk1 and 2 added. Would've expected to see the Super Fuzz and Tone Machine, but I'll let them off with the SF since I'm sure the Boss is 90% the same thing. Other than that it looks a pretty nice collection of fuzz modes and if there all as decent as this FF demo they've knocked it out the park.

Like I say, I honestly think the impedance thing is pretty overblown. In the analogue world it mostly only rears its head if someone wants to put a univibe or something in front of a fuzz face. Otherwise just put the FF first and be done with it. Tone suck is mostly something else like cable capacitance, either from having 20 true-bypass pedals in a chain or just insanely long guitar leads. Usually you can just stick a buffer in somewhere and it's problem solved. Tones on that video sound really good though. Shame he didn't roll off the guitar volume a bit and show that off, that's half the magic of the Fuzz Face.

Tl;dr I dolunno. You're the one with the Helix, man.

I've got no idea how they've implemented this on the Helix. Tbh I think the input impedance issue with fuzz pedals is overblown and mostly only applies to stuff based on the Fuzz Face (so loads of stuff really, from the Fulltone 69 to the Vox Tonebender) since that circuit really relies on being able to load your guitars pickups, which it can't do properly if it's not first in the chain. It still "works" if it's later in the chain, it just sounds different and doesn't respond the same way to adjusting the volume control on your guitar. You can probably see how well the feature works by playing with that Vox Tonebender patch Tom mentioned and playing with the "first enabled" thing. Difference should be night and day. > So now if your fuzz is bypassed, it looks to the next pedal in your chain - which generally means your signal impedance goes back up to a more "normal" level. The issue is that most pedals have a high input impedance and a low output impedance. In a chain you generally want the output impedance of a pedal to be lower than the input impedance of the pedal after it. The low input impedance of the FF can fuck this if it isn't first. In digital stuff though, I've not got a fucking clue. Im not even sure how a low input impedance could "load" guitar pickups in a digital pedal. I'd have thought the first thing the guitar see's will always be an Analogue/Digital converter.

Were talking about a multi-billionaire that launched one of his cars into space just for a laugh. I'm having a hard time believing there aren't other multi-billionaires that have been watching him a see him as a thick cunt they could easily manipulate. If it's true that his main outside investors in this takeover are Qatar and Saudi based, Twitter dying on its arse weeks before a world cup in Qatar can't just be coincidence.

Vox Tonebender should seal the deal, it's basically a germanium Fuzz Face and roughly the same circuit that Solasound cheekily snuck into pedals between the MK1 and MK2 when they were struggling meet demand (unofficially dubbed the MK1.5). If either you or @Tom get the chance, I'd be really interested to hear how that patch responds to you rolling back the volume control on your guitar just slightly. If it's on the money then dialing back your guitar volume knob from 10 to 9 will give you a much cleaner sound. If it doesn't, they've half arsed it.

My only point was that the $44 billion seems to have been be partly backed and financed by other investors and didn't come entirely from Musk's pocket. I'm sounding a bit tinfoil hat but it it looks a lot like he's been completely played by a collective of other rich cunts with nothing in common besides wanting to see Twitter collapse on its arse.

Is there patches on this for any old germanium based fuzz pedals? I'm curious how the clean-up is on stuff like MK1 Tonebender, 60's Fuzz Face and all that ancient stuff. Honestly not trying to pick holes in it, the tech is more than capable of getting it right, just curious if it's there yet. If there's convincing MK1 and Zonk Machine patches I'll need to start looking for a new side gig.

I should clarify that by adding I dont like the cunt. I just think he's spectacularly naive and wonder how much he is being played by other influences.

Honestly can't help but get the impression that killing it as platform was always the end game of this takeover. Only real question for me is whether Elon himself was aware of that.

As a skinny bastard I've never had to worry much about portion size or go down these dietary rabbit holes but this is captivating. Where do I sign up?

Pickle Rick eat your heart out. "Check it out Morty, I've turned myself into a pickle!".

You probably want to speak to the Internet King. More seriously though, the buffering is likely caused by bandwidth limitations, either or your end or the side of whoever is hosting the stream you're trying to watch.

Fucking hell I completely missed that loan deal and thought you'd misworded that. What an amazingly weird and thoroughly entertaining timeline to be living in.

Thats just a natural reaction to being served Red Label when you definitely said black.

A massive stylised letter N and a solitary Magpie? I'm not even superstitious but that's a bad omen. That aside, the artwork has big Rich Energy vibes at best. At worst it screams "Blastronaut is on the Johnnie Walker and fucking about with Microsoft Paint again".

Fucking hell, I'm a sucker for the snooker and I had no idea the UK Championship was even on. Probably the first time in 15 years it's completely passed me by. Can't say I'm even all that arsed.

Are Leeds the English Hibs? This is almost as hilarious as the Rocky Bushiri saga.