Dr. Gonzo

I use an EQ pedal to make the clean channel less crap. Although it makes me very sad to see how the EVH 5150 models basically have the same crunch and lead channels... but they get a much more Fender-y clean, which is probably the best clean tone (at least in my opinion). Makes sense as the EVH branded shite is really just Fender making stuff for Van Halen's brand... but it's so much better than the Peavey 5150/6505 tone. I could mod that combo into a head and cab. It's worth looking into... I'm just not the most... handy person - I'm good at baking, cooking, doing maths/stats, and playing guitar but not much else.

@Happy Blue After I got my ESP E-II Eclipse... I haven't wanted another guitar (and I barely ever touch my other guitars since getting it). The person who owned it before me put in the EMG Het Set, which is fucking incredible (and not just for thrash, really great pickups) and it's just a very, very, very, very nice guitar. If I had to get another guitar (and let's be real, I would absolutely take another guitar) - I'd probably want to get some kind of super strat, either a Jackson, ESP, or Charvel model (I'd say Ibanez too, but I hate Ibanez necks). Something with an original Floyd Rose (or a Gotoh one), the EMG 57/66 set, and an ebony fretboard. Oh and a cool finish is necessary.

The MicroCube's still at my parents. It's almost 30 years old, but I play it when I go back still (well, sometimes) and it still sounds great. And yeah when you've got that 6505+ MH... I don't see why you'd still have your Spider seeing much action. And yeah, with that amp I don't see the point for a Metal Zone. So much gain on tap in that amp already, it can pretty much cover all bases - just needs another overdrive. In hindsight, I should have bought that + a cab over the combo. But I really just wanted a nice amp right away and I didn't want to buy a cab. In retrospect, that was really stupid.

So speaking of gear... what the fuck do I do to replace my stolen Helix? Right now I don't really want to go spend about a grand to get it replaced because... I've got this fucking wedding coming up and I'd recently just bought the fucking thing so I can't really justify spending that kind of money on a whim. I mean, I can afford it... but I don't really want to buy another one until the wedding is all paid for at this point. That way if there's any unexpected expenses, with life (or this fucking wedding that just keeps getting more expensive), I'm not too fussed about the money. I mean, for the time being for jamming with my friends, I'm alright - I just have a lot of shite I'll need to be lugging around with me which is a pain in the arse. But for playing at home, I don't really have many options that my fiancé or my neighbors are particularly thrilled with. My 6505+'s 60watts is a bit unpleasant for them, and if I turn the post-gain volume down to something that's more acceptable to them the tone is... pretty lackluster imo. I lose too much of the low end. I've tried fixing it with my 10-Band in the loop, lowering the overall volume and boosting the low end but... it's not ideal. I've tried using my interface plugins, and there's some good ones, but I just hate playing while sat in front of a computer. When I'm recording, I usually stand far as fuck away from the computer as I can and have someone else hit record for me... or hit record and walk as far away as I can. So that's personal preference and it's my own fault. And I'm willing to burn through some money... just not too much. So really I'm just looking for something I can use around the house and not piss my fiancé off when she's home (fuck the neighbors tbh). I was thinking at one of the more inexpensive modelers (maybe a Mooer GE200 again, I'd just get a used one... I wonder if the one I sold is still available at that guitar store when I made the trade up ; or one of the Zoom ones, although I don't really like the Zoom shite). My friend suggested getting a Boss Katana as a practice amp... I'm open to that. I feel like a modeler might be more useful as I could take that over to jam sessions when I don't feel like carrying a big fucking amp. But maybe having a dedicated practice amp would be the way to go. I also was looking at the Yamaha THRX amp, but I'm not sure I'll be able to find a used one anywhere near me and while they hold their value well, I think at that point if I'm spending that much I might as well get another GE200 again. And then a part of me is just saying "go buy another fucking Helix, just don't get it stolen again"

They'd need to be blocks that can still use each pedals input/output... it's a good idea, could be pretty tricky to implement too. Especially as there's no real "standard" shape or size for a lot of pedals.

He's got 2 videos of the Metal Zone up. One's a Waza Craft one, one calls it the "worst pedal ever"... I think it actually might be the one where it's called the "worst pedal ever" - but yeah he ran it through his signature amp, Hesu cabinet and fancy speakers which obviously might play a part in why it sounded so good. But he did also show how it sounded before putting it in the effects loop and it sounded like shit with the same gear... so there's that. Does the Spider have an effects loop? I've never had a Spider (my first practice amp was a Micro Cube - good shit for a first amp imo), but the one I do remember using at a friend's house didn't have an effects loop. Probably one of the smaller ones though. But yeah, with through the effects loop on a clean setting with the spider with you flattening out the EQ and it should give you a decent heavy tone.

My MXR 10-Band made me want to buy 2 more MXR 10-band EQs so I'd be able to put one before my drive pedals, one after my drive pedals, and one in the effects loop. EQ pedals are underrated, and so useful in different ways at different parts in the signal chain.

Oh and @Mel81x, @Happy Blue, @Fusion (do you play guitar? if so... cool, didn't know) and @Inverted(I know you're learning but gear is cool, so maybe you'd be interested) if you do want to see some pretty informative gear pedals... I recommend JHS Pedal's YouTube channel... because he's really informative. And like that Behringer video I posted, he doesn't just cover his own pedal brand. In fact, he doesn't talk about his own brand very much (they make excellent pedals though). He usually runs through what makes certain brands (even cheap ones) better, or explains why you'd want to use certain effects (and giving examples of famous pedals from that type of effect). His channel is so good, it makes me want to buy a JHS pedal just to support him (I used to have his Boss collaboration pedal, but I sold that after getting my Helix that was fucking stolen... wish my dickhead friend would sell it back to me...)

You mean the sequel to the Wolfenstein reboot? It's a much better game than the new Metro (which is a bit of a letdown tbh, maybe it's because the previous too raised the bar so high).

You seen the one where he takes the Boss Metalzone… and actually makes the fucking thing sound good? Instead of putting it before the amp, he runs it through the amp's effects loop and uses the pedal as a pre-amp. It actually makes an excellent pre-amp. That video basically singlehandedly changed the online guitar community's views of the Metalzone. Before being considered universally shit by pretty much everyone, now there's a view that it's either shit or (among people who've seen that video) it's actually an underrated pedal. But shit like that is why I love Ola, he can make most gear sound good. And he's pretty funny. Big fan of his content.

This guy is fucking brilliant for learning guitar - free courses, shitloads of videos on YouTube https://www.justinguitar.com/ - he wasn't around when I was learning how to play, I learned from an older kid on my street that was friends with my brother, but if he'd been around, I think I would have progressed much faster at the guitar than I ultimately did. You're clearly a bit beyond a normal beginner as you've figured out how to play scales and stuff. As for getting lost around the middle/upper part of the neck, the inlays can be a good reference while you're learning where all the notes on the fretboard are. If you learn what all the notes on the strings are where each inlay is - it makes things a lot easier to figure out what the other notes between those inlays are. If it makes you feel any better, I didn't know what any of the notes I was playing were other than the open strings (that I only knew from knowing what notes were supposed to be when I was tuning my guitar) for several years. I just relied on tabs. I still use tabs a lot (although I figure more stuff out by ear now, but when you've got a tab that you know is accurate that's always nice). But knowing what notes you're playing is obviously very helpful, especially if you're playing with other people.

Some of their pedals are quite good: I probably wouldn't ever use any for gigging (although I haven't played a gig in a very long time lol) because their housing is cheap plastic.

I think @Cicero has said before (and I've seen this said by lots of Chelsea fans elsewhere on the internet tbh) that Pulisic is most likely more of a long term replacement for Willian/Pedro. I think given his stats last season and comparing them to Hazard's, expecting him to pick up that same sort of contribution is unlikely. But I think that he'll have a better season than his last year at Dortmund - and because Hazard is gone and because he was so important to how they played... those goals will have to be replaced and my guess is they'll probably be spread around the team more. So no one player will really be replacing Hazard, it'll take a team effort to come close to replacing him. If Chelsea play well, I suspect Pulisic will get his share of replacing Hazard's contribution - but I suspect that it'll be spread out amongst the other Chelsea attackers as well.

Here's a thread for people for people to post about playing music, writing music, recording music, shit like that. I'm mostly making this thread so there's a place for @Mel81x and I, so we've got a place for our discussions on gear and shit like that and I'm hoping we pull in @Happy Blue and anyone else (like say one of you wants to learn an instrument or something and wants to ask questions). To get things started, here's a bunch of Megadeth tabs: https://www.abysslord.com/megadeth/tabs/tab.htm

Well I felt the 7.1 earthquake

I didn’t feel anything, so don’t worry about me

I’d never heard this album before, but holy fuck it’s brilliant. It’s fantastic blues rock, and the drumming is brilliant. Oh and Jeff Beck is on guitar so that’s not bad

That's from about a year ago right? Because Buvac took leave before the CL final against Real Madrid and then was officially not with the club by the start of the season. Buvac and Klopp are supposed to be very close on a personal level - but Klopp and those around the club have been very impressed with Pep Lijnders, he's supposed to be the reason why TAA and Gomez got their chances with us as well - and Klopp takes his tactical advice to heart. So if Buvac was upset with Lijnders getting more influence amongst our staff to the club's benefit, then it's for the best he's gone.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1147872/Hong-Kong-protests-news-latest-UK-residents-British-Overseas-video I wish we could have them back tbh

Another thing about the idea that negotiating out of a No Deal scenario seems to not account for is that we're not accounting for being in a weaker position at the negotiation table. Take for instance this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/alexspence/canada-is-refusing-to-roll-over-its-eu-trade-agreement-for - British outrage that Canada won't roll over it's EU trade deal with the UK if we have a No Deal scenario on our hands. But that position is mental because it's not taking into account what Canada will be seeing if they're to negotiate with Britain outside of the EU. They're in a position to get a better deal out of the UK than they would get from the EU, Canadian governments are going to represent Canadian interests, not British interests. Why on earth would the UK's negotiators expect Canada to roll the EU trade deal over to the UK if the UK is no longer in the EU? It's like the notion that the EU wouldn't be negotiating with the UK on Brexit with the distinct upperhand. It only makes sense if you only consider the UK's perspective and ignore the fact they're going to be negotiating with people that have different interests. And I'm not sure how on earth we're supposed to be okay with negotiators that don't seem to understand this basic concept of negotiating and being realistic about the prospects of what other countries' positions might be.

This is 7 days old, but if this sale is still going on: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/a-great-gaming-headset-is-on-sale-for-30-at-best-b/1100-6467958/ IMO the headsets you can get for 20-30 are going to be significantly shittier than the ones you can get for $50-60 (on average), so that's a good deal.

Headset for PC or console? Because with a PC on Skyrim... I'd recommend just using a nice pair of headphones rather than a dedicated gaming headset. But if you want/need a gaming headset with a microphone for other games as well as Skyrim... well then, what's your budget mate? I've got an Turtle Beach set for my Xbox... it's not the best, but it's better than some of the other headsets I had that were a bit cheaper (but not that much cheaper) and I'm happy with it.

He probably didn't train well or fit in with the personalities at the dressing room

Henderson only ever looked as shite as Lingard looks when he was played well out of position on the right. He looked good as a box to box midfielder before Klopp ever came in. Nice try, though.