Blastronaut

Aye pretty much. Fucks me off when people talk about sectarianism being a west-coast problem. > anti -catholic bollocks is a dying thing and definitely frowned upon by the majority. Frowning upon it isn't good enough. Call it out when you see it, which is all I've done here. > You saw a stick and grabbed completely the wrong end of it. You reached for the kiddy-fiddler stick. I just threw it back at you and pointed out the anti-catholic connotations. I'm trying to give you the benefit of any doubt here. > I prefer Celtic because I fucking despise the hun cunts. Fucking hell. I'm gonna assume you've never said that out loud at tynecastle?

Loads of Hearts games and you've never noticed any anti-catholic sentiment? Were these matches played in some sort of alternative Scotland? I'm not saying all Jambo's are bigots, I'm just highly suspicious of the ones that default to "they fiddle with kids" whenever Hibs or Celtic are mentioned.

Plenty other things you could've used to take a dig at Hibs without resorting to patter that's on par with the Jambo's singing Billy Boy's in Edinburgh this morning.

On a lighter note, something just died in me reading this and realising that Johnnie Walker master Distillers wake up at 6am, commute 90 minutes each way and spend most of the day looking at Excel spreadsheets. https://www.thecut.com/2022/08/how-emma-walker-gets-it-done.html

Happy Days. There's already too many Alex Jones's in the world. He's the first one I'd vote to get rid of. The memes and Bill Hicks thing we're admittedly mildly amusing until I realised he managed to play on all the mockery to successfully further his narcissistic grift. Get him away to fuck.

It's all good. Tbh there's loads of options. I'd personally look at something with at last some more EQ options and maybe Bluetooth. But I'm a tight bastard and would likely end up just cobbling something together from some old car stereo parts.

You'll want to check the load (ohm's), power rating (watts) and what type of connection they use. Should say on the back somewhere. Assuming they have an RCA/Photoconnection, something like the "Fosi Audio TB10A" on Amazon would be a really cheap (and basic) option that would probabaly get you by.

In short, passive speakers need an external amp, active speakers already have an amplifier built in. Search on Google for Active Hifi Speakers and you'll find loads of options. The important bit in Gemmills link is probably the "RCA input" bit so add that to the Google search. Those ones Gemmill linked should do the job and look decent to me on paper. Those controls being on the right hand side of the right speaker looks like it could be a ballache depending on where you put the speakers though.

As in hifi separates? If it's just for the turntable and you don't have radio or cd you also want to hook up, it might be worth looking at active speakers instead.

I'm not local but if you've got time for a leisurely morning out and about in town, most spoons have an outdoor smoking area as well as cheap coffee and whisky. Breakfast of champions.

Ha, that's fair, I forget how limited your options are. Must be a right ballache. I'm curious now though, do you think there's potentially an untapped market for left handed pedals?

If you've played it, liked it and want it, it seems like a no brainer to me. That said I've never managed to marry guitar purchases with sensible financial decisions.

Is this the same V you mentioned a few months ago? I'm guessing they're much rarer than a Custom Shop Tele, especially a lefty model, I'd just be concerned it would be a bit harder to shift if you didn't get on with it. Im probabaly the last person you should listen to on this though. My go-to advice when I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about is just have a wank and then go for a drink. If it still seems like a good idea then go for it, life's too short. In your shoes I'd probably want a shot of the V first but I wouldn't look at it as a financial decision.

If you can solder a little, pedal kits from somewhere like Fuzzdog might be worth a look. If you just want to read a bit about it what's going on in circuits there's websites like this that go quite in depth on the function of each component in some Amps and pedal circuits. https://www.electrosmash.com/dallas-rangemaster @Andrew no idea what it's worth. Even if it is worth as much as the Tele, something makes me think a lefty V would be a lot harder to shift in future than a lefty Custom Shop Tele.

Ha. might just be an pedal impedance issue if just re-arranging the pedal chain solved it. If it makes you feel any better I lose the fucking plot at my pedal board all the time. Last time was down to me forgetting I have buffer/splitter hidden underneath thats always on, but I'd borrowed the DC jack to test something the night before.

If it works for you, go for it man. If you can find an old working Ibanez CP9, that might be worth a good look as an alternative. It's pretty the same circuit but with a little more funtionality and doesn't kill your high-end in the same way the Dyna-Comp does. Not the CP10 though, that was a totally different circuit.

Aye. It wouldn't be my first choice to solve the issue he's describing but there's a lot of variables and it's all subjective. Nae right or wrong, all just preference. I just noticed @Tom saying that he'd tried his mates mxr and loved it. Fair fucks, I feel like a bit of a dick I hadn't noticed that earlier. If it works it works. Still interested to hear if it was the Dyna Comp, which still sell 50 years down the line and (probabaly) for good reason. The helix patch @Gemmill mentioned looks like it emulates a totally different box of frogs from your usual 70's era guitar compressor pedal. More late 60's high-end rack mount gear that would have been used in post-production, not something commoners like us would have been feeding into the front of guitar amps back in the day.

Is it the Dyna Comp? I'm not gonna talk you out of buying one but you'll find it kills a lot of high end, especially if your a fairly high-gain guy. I'm not a huge compressor guy, I use quite a lot of gain (to cover up my ham-fisted playing) so my guitar sound is already pretty squished by the time it hits the amp. I've played with the Dyna Comp and other really similar circuits (Ross and Ibanez from the same era) and some Optical compressors, never got on massively with any of them. I think if I could pick like Paul Gilbert I use a bit less gain and might need one but that's an absolute pipe dream for me.

@Tom I've never played much with particularly hot pickups, was just thinking out loud. I'm not sure a compressor pedal would be the first thing I reach for to tame them. Hate to be that guy but distortion is compression. I'm just skeptical a compressor will solve whatever bugs you about the Charvel.

Calling it now, CT will be magnet fishing within the year.

I honestly think you'll be fine this season by just focussing on making sure your admin and legal staff are a step above their counterparts up here at Hibs. On that note, your away top for this season is weirdly Hibs-y looking. Hope to fuck it's not an omen.

My other half has been playing Fontaines DC stuff a lot lately. I couldn't be arsed with them for the first few weeks but I've been beaten into submission and somehow managed to convince myself they're a bit like what would've happened if Spacemen3 were Irish, 30 years younger, and more into uppers. Anything for an easy life.

Tried lowering the pickups a bit?

Christ. Shame for the guy. MND is horrific. My mates dad was fairly recently diagnosed and they're all going through the wringer, struggling to keep him comfortable and involved while watching him lose all his motor skills at a really frightening rate. Must be even more devastating for someone this young. Maybe I'm blinkered or don't pay enough attention but it's not a disease I've ever heard talked about much, bar the sad last few years of Fernando Ricksen.