ColdPie posted:

Tone is for suckers, play acoustic imo

Pollyanna posted:

Coming from touching synths, I can’t help but miss a lot of the weird poo poo I used to do with synths. Guitars don’t have nearly as much or as interesting modulation options. Chorus, flanger, phaser, and delay are all here, and you can get like 10 different flavors of distortion, but man what I wouldn’t give for a filter envelope, or a wavefolder, or gated plate reverb, or a mod matrix, or something off-the-wall like an FM operator.

Granted half the fun of synths is sequencing volt-per-octave, but still.

Baron von Eevl posted:

Many of those are available as pedals, although some are expensive.

edit poo poo if you were using physical synths instead of softsynths you could just plug your guitar into the filter section of a synth and use the guitar as the oscillator.

ethanol posted:

mac or pc? apple silcon is undetectable latency for me. my roundtrip is something like 10ms in logic

Pollyanna posted:

I’ve been thinkin’ about my lessons too.

I worry that my teacher is too high level for me. He speaks a lot about high-level music theory concepts that do interest me, but that I can’t speak meaningfully about yet - and certainly not at the speed he does. And I might be projecting and/or just being my usual anxious self here, but I think he gets frustrated at how slow I am to recognize the chords he’s playing, replicate his fingering, and think at a higher level as opposed to a lower one (i.e. bust out a V7 or whatever for any particular root instead of fumbling around for the open C chord).

He really knows his poo poo, and he’s a phenomenal resource for experienced guitarists and musical college students, so I don’t mean to downplay him or anything. I just wish this wasn’t the equivalent of discussing Camus with a toddler

a.p. dent posted:

finally got this recording from music camp, of my song "In the Buds"!

https://voca.ro/1ndtDzhzZcN1

this is from "Band-in-a-box" where you get to play your song with a bunch of extremely good session musicians. this was done in 20 minutes, start to finish. recording quality isn't great, but the experience was truly one of the coolest things ever. i'm supposed to give credit to "Miles of Music" for it, so there it is!

for comparison, here's my solo recording: https://soundcloud.com/user-656458997/in-the-buds

Plank Walker posted:

Idk what half the settings in ASIO4ALL mean or do, but after 5 min of randomly toggling them around, I got rid of any noticeable latency running my guitar into Guitar Rig via a Rocksmith USB cable. With default settings, I had some weird clipping but decreasing the buffer sizes seemed to get rid of that? Idk it was all trial and error

chippy posted:

I can't remember my roundtrip time right now but my latency on Windows is undetectable with a decent interface.

ethanol posted:

in logic, you can turn down the buffer to reduce latency. not sure how that works on various windows DAWs.

Spanish Manlove posted:

With radio shack closed, where can I physically go to in order to find discrete analog electronic components? I need a few things for an electronics project and don't want to order them online

Baron von Eevl posted:

I think the 612s have FR style trems, which would probably be kind of a lot and overwhelming for a relative newby to deal with. I'd go with the 112 personally and see how that does ya.

I have a THR and love it, it's not perfect and it doesn't work that nicely with a pedalboard but I can get a bunch of good sounds out of it very easily and it hooks up to my computer for recording very easily.

Shogi posted:

sorry to barrel in here but - does anyone that plays sat down get pins and needles in their left foot?

in recent years i've switched from the dodgy self-taught 'modern fingerpicking' type style i've used since i was 15 to a dodgy self-taught classical style, so i've now got the neck jacked up with an ergoplay support. the ergoplay is great imo and works a lot better for me than resting one foot on a stand or whatever. finally starting to feel like i've got somewhere with the style, playing some pieces with tremolo etc, and have managed to deal with a few old man issues like left thumb pain by making slight technique adjustments. but now whatever i do i get slight pins and needles/numbness in my left foot the second i sit my rear end down to play, which magically vanishes if i switch to playing the keyboard and doesn't happen playing my electric stood up with a strap.

could just be psychological and it's not a huge issue, just slightly annoying. wondered if anyone else has had it before i wait in line for six months for a physio to tell me to go and see a guitar teacher or vice versa

TheMightyBoops posted:

I get pins in needles in my strumming arm after playing any guitar without the shoulder contour for more than like 15 min. It feels weird, but I just go with it or switch to a strat.

Armacham posted: