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So as I'm listening and trying to learn I realize some things. A) he's a far superior guitarist to me, I doubt I'll ever play on that level, 2) watching videos of the man, he's a consummate performer. Dude puts on a show like nobody's business. Would have loved to see them live back when they got back together with Diamond Dave.

But C), and this will probably get me killed for saying it: I don't actually care for his guitar tone. At all. It's unique, it's absolutely signature, you can tell when Eddie is playing, there's no doubt to it. But I do not find it aurally pleasing in the way I do other guitarists who play on that same virtuoso level (Eric Johnson, Yvette Young, Joe Satriani et al). It's got a rawer quality to it, I'll give it that, where say Eric Johnson's (for example) is more... not refined. That's not the word I want. Ethereal?

I don't know. Point is, I'm just not crazy about his tone. Like, I dig AC/DC, but can't stand Angus Young's tone. I dig Van Halen, but I'm not crazy for Eddie's tone. That might be more to do with me as a player than anything else though. And it makes me feel like a jackass listening to it, because it's like "Dude just died, man, you shouldn't be analyzing all this," but I can't help it. It's how I listen to music.

Anyroad. Yeah. Don't kill me, please. I got a spouse and kid, and a load of guitars to take care of!

Great musician gone. Still processing. This year has been nothing but death from the start, when we lost Neil Peart--with no one to play the Drum Solo of Life, though, what did we expect?

Man, fuck cancer. In all its forms.

RIP Eddie, guess it's time I actually try and learn to play Eruption finally.

Darrell Braun just reviewed a guitar, ALP or some such, has the exact same bridge. They are not (from a cursory search) a Chinese knockoff company--so apparently the bridge is good hardware, at the very least!

This'n has a little chuck key that's magnetized to the bridge. You pop it out, you chuck it up, you tune. Done. My hands being like they are, there's actually more leverage than on most of my other instruments (basses excluded), so this may become my go-to just for ease's sake!

Looks like a .strandberg, just doesn't have the EndurNeck profile they have (which I found a knockoff that does, that's my next guitar--it's supposed to, according to .strandberg, reduce tendon strain and make it easier to play for people with tendon/nerve damage--you know, people like me).

It may look weird as hell, but I can tell you from experience of playing it, it is super comfortable to play on. It sits natural, there's no neck dive, and it just begs to be played. The only real issue with this one is the fact that since it's a cheaper guitar from China, it does have some sawdust caught under the clearcoat on the back of the neck--you can feel those bumps a bit.

Still, I suggest it to anyone that wants to get into headless guitars. It's cheaper than a Steinberger, plays just as good, and is a hell of a lot easier to tune.

I did. I now have 3 headless instruments total. My Steinberger Spirit GT-Pro Deluxe, my Whatever-The-Hells-It-Is (Equipboard has agreed...ish that it's a Maestro BL52, though mine's black, so it may be a BK52?) headless fretless bass, and now my EART W2 .strandberg* copy. It's nice. I need to make a review video for each bit of gear I've acquired this year.

But bugger all... My bloody hands and the bloody nerve/tendon damage is just... It ain't great.

But yeah, so I have 3 now. And I love 'em all.

We won't quite have that exact functionality, BUT with the ability to make multiple lists, nothing will stop you from having, say, a "My Amps" list where you list your Vox Pathfinder 15R and any other amps you own, and another "Signal Flow" list where you lay out the order in which your guitar > pedals > amp is hooked up.

We'll call this upcoming revamp version 1, but be aware that this will not yet include an overhaul of the gear photos. Redoing gear photos requires some special attention, so we'll call that version 2 and it'll be released a little bit after.

Looking forward to hearing what you all think once it's out!

Looking forward to this update! Multiple lists sounds close-a-dang-nuff for me, especially since I've uh... essentially doubled my instrument collection since January of this year. That'll help me organize things a little better, and anyone who bothers to keep up with my stuff it'll help them see what it is I used to get the sound I got.

So this is going to be super cool. Very much excite!

I mean, give me long enough with it and a user manual, and I'll have it figured out. You've heard (or not, I don't know) what I was able to do after just a week of toying with soft-synths and free sounds from Spitfire Audio. All it takes is time. It's just a matter of being bothered to do it.

Right now, I've found a few arpeggiated settings in Analog Labs 4 what came with the Arturia, basically I just hold down a key and it does all this crazy do de da do da de do da stuff. I assume that's all there is to it? The more complex stuff is going in and tweaking the waveform, LFO, envelope, and all that. HELM comes to mind, where I can play with everything and make it sound like your basic 808 wubza, or I can tweak it enough to sound like a bell ringing.

I'll eventually figure out enough to do something with--but Dennis DeYoung I ain't.

Hey! The first image is from my page! I'm famous now! :D (also, the 12 string and the AK95 are 4 and 5 star reviews, respectively, not sure why that doesn't show up on my page, but there ya are)

I like the way the cards are now. It feels... More complete? More complete. I guess that's right. That's what I'm going with. Plus it lets me see at a glance what other people may think of the same gear I have so I can compare notes.

I know little and less of synthwork outside of the stuff I've done with MIDI sequencing and the very little bit I've done with my Arturia. So uh, I don't know what "latch" means as related to an arpeggiator (I do know what that is). I don't know how to program anything to change automatically when I change chords on guitar.

I am pretty much new to anything other than analog instruments. Guitar, bass, drums. Outside of my work a few months back in that class I took with Andrew Huang, I have zero experience with synth. So while you could probably churn out a backing track in no time, with me, it'd probably take a few days/weeks.

I'm learning though!

see, that video is still synth wave I guess... like in that miami vice sense...

Yes, exactly! That's what the definition of the genre is. Music inspired, informed, and influenced by the movies, TV, and video games of the 80's (and the artwork. I'm not sure how neon gridlines is supposed to translate to music, but apparently it do?).

So yeah. Anyroad, that's what I'm talking about when I say "synthwave" and I just feel like the headless guitar aesthetic would go really well with it.

And from clicking around on the YouTubes, "New Retro Wave" also seems to apply to the sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FAPzb9mlPk

Stuff like that, only I'm not nearly that good of a guitarist.

Nor am I that good of a synth player.

Still, something to faff about with, aye?

I see now where our misunderstanding is coming into play. You list Kraftwerk (who are absolutely brilliant by the way) as well as Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode (also brilliant). So you've got a Cold Wave band and two Synth-Pop bands, where I'm using the term "synthwave" as described by Wikipedia to refer to music based off of soundtrack music of the 80s from video games and movies, but is made much more recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave

So we're talking about the same word but using two different definitions it seems. There's the confusion. Hopefully that clears it up a bit.

Not a lot of musicians are adding guitar into the mix yet, but then again, synthwave (as previously defined) isn't really that fleshed out yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbikUTwyjjk

Stuff like that.

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Oh I wasn't specifically speaking to synth-based acts using headless guitars. Just that they fit well in a synthwave aesthetic.

But to that end: Allan Holdsworth is the dude that did entire albums of him play the Synthaxe. While I'd not call that synthwave, I would call that synth-based.

Take it you're not a Rush fan? Your loss. And yeah, Rush used a few MIDI triggered synths fairly frequently. Geddy actually had a pretty nice setup going on for that at one point.

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/images/books/keyboard-09.1984/keyboard-09.1984-0.jpg

So, uh... Yeah. Again, not synth-based but heavy usage.

The Police were also pretty heavy into synths during the mid-80s, so much so Andy argued with Sting about the lead on Spirits in the Material World and if it should be synth or guitar.

Pink Floyd is straight up Prog. They're as heavy users of synth as guitar. It blends very nicely. They are Pink Floyd.

Really the only two on the list that don't do heavy synth usage is Van Halen and Bowie--and even they dabbled in the 80s, even if it wasn't front and center/equal parts as it was with most of the others I've listed.

Sting and Geddy Lee both played a Steinberger L2 Bass. David Gilmour played a Steinberger I'm unsure of the model when he was with Kate Bush on Running Up That Hill. Eddie Van Halen had a Steinberger GL-T2 done up in his stripes. Alan Holdsworth played one for a bit. David Bowie was not only photographed with one in the 80s, he kept using it as recently as 2013.

That's just off the top of my head.

I wouldn't call them a prop with a list of players like that.

They're also a bloody perfect traveling guitar.

Now, though, the headless guitar craze is taking over. Keisel and .strandberg are the first two that come to mind, and they're being played by musicians like Plini, Yvette Young, Sarah Longfield, Stevie T., Kmac2021, and suchlike.

Also, having just received my .strandberg knockoff a few hours ago, it's NICE. I like it a lot.

Doesn't really make it any harder. Not really a fan if I'm being honest. And what ended up happening was my ADHD kicked in and now I've got the Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry, and I've got an EART Headless guitar on the way rather than the Harley Benton, and I'll probably end up with one of those 6+4 Headless Double Necks you see on DHGate and feeBay before I end up with the amp...

Because I've kind of went full-blown "I want headless instruments. Because synthwave. Because reasons."

Yeah, I know. Weird. But the story of how I ended up getting the EART is fascinating.

So I was a member of this Facebook group (not anymore), and this dude posted up a Lotus Strat knockoff. Now, I'm a huge fan of Lotus guitars. Like major. He gave a story about some hard luck whatever, and he needed dosh fast, right? So I'm like "Hey, [spouse]? This dood needs help. Can I?" and the spouse was all like "Yeah, sure! Helping people is great!" and so I message the guy, right?

A day passes.

Then two.

Nothing. Zilch. Noodle.

So here I am, primed and ready to get a Lotus guitar, but I've been rockblocked (hehe, geddit?). So I go on Reverb, and I find a Lotus LP copy (I can't ever play Authentic, because Mark Agnesi will break my legs if I show the headstock in a video), but it's not got any pics of the neck. So I message the seller, and I'm like "Hey guy, I'm ready to buy. But I need some pics, or it didn't happen, right?" A day goes by. Then another.

Nothing. Zilch. Nudist.

Well now I'm just angry. I've been rockblocked twice by people that just don't reply. And the spouse has OK'd my acquiring another guitar.

My buddy (we'll call him) Bob just happened to bring up in Discord that same day "Hey, Ash, remember those weird .strandberg knockoffs we were looking at? Those were cool."

Bugger me, man. I snatched it. It was supposed to be here on Saturday, because Amazon said "order in the next 23 hours and 15 minutes and get it by Saturday!" well that was a lie. But because they lied I have a tenner on my account now. I'm going to put it towards a cheap effect pedal like a Rowin or summat like that.

And that's the story of why I have an EART on the way here instead of an amp. And why I'll probably get one of those DHGate/feeBay headless 6+4 Guitars.

Because ADHD and rockblock and all that rot.

And now you know. The rest. Of the story.

All of the above sounds epic.

The only other thing I can think of is maybe a "Rig layout," where you can show off how you run your signal chain. For instance, mine right now'd look like: Firefly FFTH>Joyo Tauren>Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry>Joyo Aquarius>Vox Pathfinder 15R.

What would be even cooler is if you could figure out a way for you to list what settings you had the amps/pedals set to--but that's like, pie in the sky ultimate dream dear-gods-the-absurd-amount-of-coding-that-would-probably-take-nevermind-don't-listen-to-me stuff.

Anyroad, yeah, more pictures of gearporn, and the ability to select what three pieces of gear show up on forums, because seriously--you think YOU have it bad, Jim? Look under mine!

In a similar vein, there's a job lot that I can't find any info on at all here you may want to check out and see if they're legit

https://equipboard.com/band/band-on-a-budget

Did it again, folks. Ordered another guitar.

https://imgur.com/a/MpSIpc8

Should be here Thursday. May be a few days early, according to Amazon.

What is it, you ask? It's a .strandberg knockoff. Why did I order it? Well, that's a long story. Kind of. Sort of. Not really.

OK, so I'm on a Facebook group that's about inexpensive guitars. Dude was selling a guitar (not one like this) on the cheap, I reached out, never heard back. Then I saw a Lotus for sale on Reverb. I reached out about more pics of it, never heard back. I'm like, "Damn, I need a new guitar. But no one is reaching out..." Well, my mate Theo and I were discussing .strandberg on account of my being a way huge Plini fan, and my borderline obsession with Sarah Longfield's two-handed tapping technique (and how that's actually helping me with my nerve damage recovery--no, I am nowhere near as good as her, but it does help with the recovery), and they pulled this off Amazon.

It looks like a .strandberg (I would be putting the asterick, but then everything goes italicised), and from the YouTubes reviews I've seen, it apparently holds up to them soundwise, and playing after a decent setup.

And at roughly 20% of the price.

So... Along with the Gear4Music Double Neck and the Firefly FFTH, I'll have a third guitar to review. The video review of the other guitars are coming, just trying to get to a point where my hands allow for some extended playing that's not a couple minutes here, a couple minutes there.

I've also got two Joyo pedals (the Tauren and Aquarius) and the Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry. So I'll be trying to get those up eventually as well.

The goal on the Double Neck and Firefly are this weekend. We'll see though.

Tel, a wireless setup is a great idea. Not one I'd thought of, either. Will have to do some research on it. I know Stevie T. was touting the Nux wireless, Mary Spender (I am totally NOT in love with her... Wait, what do you mean you didn't ask that?) was hawking for Boss, and Ammoon makes one that's got a woodgrain finish that runs on the 5.4Ghz band. So that'd be something to do the legwork on here soon, methinks.

Jim, which words specifically, and I'll try and rearrange them lol

No no no, you misunderstand what I mean by "portable." I mean "Can fit everything in the Steinberger gigbag pouch" portable. This is not for pro recording. This is not for high quality. This is for "I have a riff in my head I need to get down lest I forget it before I get home or the spouse gets off" recording.

Literally fieldwork type stuff. We're talking Bandlab Link Analog Mini, the tiny thing that'll fit in a woman's jeans pocket (cause, ya know, women's jeans don't have functional pockets, that's the joke if anyone don't get it). Something that I plug my guitar in one side, my phone in the other, and it does the DAC thing quick dirty and cheap.

The tiny portable pedalboard is because I'll want something close to what my normal sound is. I've found some cheap pedals on Amazon (all sub-£20) I'm going to try out for that. I can hook'n'loop 'em all on a strip and have a second tiny bag for them if they won't fit in the gigbag pouch. They should, though. If my maths is right (it usually is). Point is, everything should fit in the one bag, and I should be able to carry it all to work with me in that one bag.

That's the idea, anyway.

Eh, I'm an equal opportunity kinda guy. Doesn't much matter one way or the other, I've been with every variation under the sun at some point or another.

I win bread, and eat bacon. Though I really need to cut back. The ol' ticker's been through two MIs already, this plate of BBQ is probably a bad idea as well. But as my mate says, I'm here for a good time, not a long time.

I would argue that the proper way to play a synth is how Yes, ELP, ELO, and Styx did/does it. But that's my take.

I said immoral, not illegal!

total change of subjects:

Now that I'm going back to work, I've got to put together a portable recording studio rig. Something I can use with my smartphone, I've got the Bandlab app, it works pretty good. Probably going to get there interface as well. I'll be using my Steinberger as my travel guitar (the whole reason I bought it). Portable pedalboard... Thinking the Moskey Silver Horse to do my Klonework unless I get ballsy and go for the Tumnus. Then work in that same price range and format of micro-pedals to build a cheap kit (pricerange of the Moskey).

Goal here would be to build a portable micro-pedalboard that covers my tone, into a micro-interface, into my smartphone. Yeah. That's a good plan. Time to eat, and research. Because when you've got the can't-sleeps, there's nothing like researching cheap-ass micro-pedals!

EDIT: BUGGER ALL AND BLAST ME FOR A BAWBAG EYED HUFFY WEE FUCKBUMPER. I forgot I was supposed to get a travel amp this payperiod. Something along the lines of an Orange Crush Mini or suchlike. Blast it all and bugger me backwards with a bent broadsword baked in borax.

Tel, it's the first pedal I've spent that kind of dosh on willingly. I fell in love with it hearing it. It's just a perfect blend of... well, I mean... Everything. And I tacked a £20 Behringer octave pedal on, so now I can really get some Dopethrone going on up in here! But yeah, you should get one.

Jim, hehe... The spouse can throw a muff at my face any da--OHHHHHHH, you mean the effect. Tracking now. My bad. I thought... nevermind. Anyroad... Yeah, the great thing about the spouse and I, we have very similar tastes, so their version of useless decor is also my version, so it works out. We also blow too much on books, computers, and video games. That said, I'm about to drop £400 on them some lovely video editing software, and then that much again on some storyboarding software and novel layout stuff. So while I do get reckless with my spending, we even out.

Which is only fair, I've been out of work with this bloody nerve damage since January, and they've been bringing home the bread, as it were. Granted, my insurance has been paying me to sit on me arse, so we've not been hurting for dosh, but you know how it goes.

OK, I don't even properly play synth (I bang around on my little Arturia Keylab), but I'd do immoral things for a Juno-6.

Honesty is a staple of our relationship, and one reason they've let me be as reckless with my spending as I have been. Could never lie to them about anything--especially gear related. They may not play or know half a damn about it, but that runs the risk of if it were found out, my days of buying any gear are over.

So, while it'll take a bit longer'n I'd like, I'll still end up with the same stuff, just more spread out.

And they are right, I have been a bit... Well, I've probably spent as much as a good used car in the past 8 months on gear acquisition.

But hey! Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry. It'll be here by probably Thursday. Super stoked on that! :D

And the answer is... I can have the pedal, because "It's the cheapest of the lot, and [my] spending is out of control right now. [I] can get the amp when [I'm] back at work regular."

SWMBO has spoken. NGL, kind of... well, not upset, but disappointed that I'd come up with a way to spend less money, and I get truncated further, but eh. At least I'm not sleeping on the couch, aye? And it's only another month until the amp. So that's no big deal.

Anyroad you walk, I got paid today, so the next step is talking the spouse into letting me spend the dosh.

THAT is the insurmountable object. The trick is going to have to be, methinks... Priority of acquisition, and making the argument of why. AC10 can be swung easy peasy argument. Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry, also fairly easy as to why. Harly-Benton, again, I can explain why.

The trick is, will they let me.

If not, this whole thread is moot.

Do not know when I'll get to talk to them about it, as they work today and I do not. May not be until the wee small hours of the morning...

With respect you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about here, you've confounded a slew of different features in your mind and that's easy to do when you don't know electronics, there's a million circuits with similar marketing names.

You are correct, I was thinking the "Brilliance" switch, apparently.

https://www.rueckkopplunghamburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ac30cc2_top.jpg

There's an image of the panel I'm seeing in my head when I think of an AC30, just got the labels mixed up because I'm a fucking idiot with serious memory issues who does often conflate one thing for another, and while I know macro electronics (i.e. how to wire your bloody house), micro electronics outside of building a computer is lost on me. May have mixed the terms up, but the point I'm making remains--the switch next to the volume remains off when I play, because just no. Lucky me, the AC10 has no such things to futz about with.

Never tried an AT7. Will have to look into that. Would that be a straight swap, or would I need to rebias or what have you with it? I know with some of the 12AInsertletter7 swapouts you don't strictly have to, with others you do. Also, any brand suggestions on that front? laughs in Sovtek

I think you're mistaking my using a Klone as a clean boost for me thinking that's what the Top Boost was for. That is not the case. As I've understood the Top Boost circuit, it's to give a 30db boost to the 10khz range, specifically. So yes, I actually do know what it says it does on the tin (I can read a manual, you know). I also know that with what I tend to play, flipping the top boost switch very rarely improves the sound I go for, particularly if I'm running a Klone in front of said amp.

That said, I've a very specific sound I've cultivated over the years, and know what piece of gear to use to get that extremely specific sound. I also know where Vox plays into that sound, and where the EL84 specifically fits in (I'm also the guy who'll usually take the 12AX7s out and put in 12AU7s for what I consider a better sounding clean).

I may not know the exact technical side of things, but I know what to do to get the sound I want. And I know that the signal chain I run, that 30db boost is too much, so I very rarely use it.

There are instances it's useful, but by and large, for me and my style, it's very situational, and very rarely used. I've played through my da's AC30 enough to know what I like and what I don't like, and I've played through enough AC30s, 15s, and 4s in studio, on the road, on stage, and in stores to know exactly how to set the controls to get exactly the tone I want for whatever one of my songs I'm playing. That's just me.

Oh I already know I prefer Vox's valve offerings to the Pathfinder. I've just had one of them in my gear rotation since I was 17, and I plan on keeping one in it until I die, because those lil' monsters can do things I'm yet to be able to do with a valve amp (there's this... it's not bell-like tone, it's more hollow, almost an overtone, that I can get with my Pathfinder and my Vox Bulldog guitar, I can't get it with any other amp and that guitar).

But yeah, the AC10 I'm really liking what I'm hearing, and the Top Boost, well, I've got a Klone around here somewhere now, so I'd likely never use that feature anyway (believe it or not, I don't really use the Top Boost when I use an AC30 anyway, I run straight clean with a little bit more bass than treble (about 1230 and 12, respectively) with my Strat, and let me tell ya, with just a hint of chorus? It's a showstopper with the way I play). Speaking of my Klone, I should probably add that to my gear page. Joyo putting out some decent stuff for cheap, won't lie.

As to the Collision Devices pedal... Dude. I have never wanted a pedal as much as I want that. It's everything I ever wanted in a single stompbox. Hel's Holiest of Bells, mate, sure, my sister thinks it sounds like hot garbage, but she doesn't understand what it can do.

But yeah, you basically hit on what I was thinking mostly, like I said, MOAR GAER == MOAR GOODER.

Still, would like some other opinions as well. Science needs data! Informed decisions! Plus, the more people I have that say one way or the other, the better chance I have of my spouse agreeing with the sudden change of plans. >.>

So the spouse and I were discussing my possibly getting the Shawn Mendez Musicmaster Fender. No, I'm not a huge fan of Mendez's music, but I am a fan of the Musicmaster, Fender, and that particular style of "floral print" (like it came out of a Victorian era science book--why yes, I am a Steampunk, thank you for noticing).

That said, it's $800. Now, I'm not miserly when it comes to gear spending, buuuuuuuuuuut. That same $800 could get me a Harley-Benton SC-500 WH guitar, a Vox AC10 (used, and used by my current Sire--I mean obsess--I mean Muse Yvette Young--whom I can neither emulate nor imitate), and possibly a Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry pedal.

I've always been of the opinion MOAR GAER IZ MOAR GUD, and the gods know an AC10 is something I just need. That said, that Musicmaster is dead bang-on-spot sexy. Like, I'm just really vibing on it, ya know? Does that mean it'll inspire me? No, not really. Don't mean it won't. Just don't know that I'll find myself picking it up every day like I do 80% of my other guitars (yes, I have a $%^7load of instruments, and I still play nearly all of them regularly, and do play all of them at least once a month).

And yes, I know this comes on the heels of my acquiring a Firefly FFTH and a Gear4Music double neck (review of both is still in the works, just had some post surgical issues with my hand that's really slowing things down), so getting even more gear may seem... extravagant. But I'm a musician, this is what I do. It's who I am.

Anyroad, right now I'm really leaning towards Harley-Benton SC-500, Vox AC10, and a Collision Device Black Hole Symmetry. But at the same time, I'm just not sure.

Wait now, I thought he got a complete blood transfusion every few years? Or was that just Robin Williams doing what Robin Williams did? "You know I smoked your uncle, mate? F^cking crazy."

I have a picture somewhere "Keith Richards tests positive for everything EXCEPT COVID-19."

You know, it is pretty shameful that they would add Vodka to Till Lindemann, but not add Jack Daniel's to Lemmy's page...

I mean... Pretty sure Lemmy was something like 33% Jack, 33% Coke, and 33% Nicotine. So I don't know that'd be equipment so much as just part of his DNA?

I mean... I'm not saying alcohol is part of my creative process, but I'm not saying it isn't either. But if we're going down that road, then Syd Barrett's page would have to have some very interesting additions to it. Questionable, but interesting.

As to non-standard gear and legit conversation, Sonic Youth uses a screwdriver in some seriously interesting ways, not as a slide--but actually UNDER the strings, the technique actually has a name: Third Bridge. Cool stuff.

Content is king. And I lack the focus to produce anything with any kind of regularity. My ADOLS (that's Attention Defi--OOHLOOKSHINEY) kind of precludes that. Even medicated, I just can't focus worth a damn for extended periods on any one project. That's why right now I've got like 5 half recorded songs, 2 art projects, 3-4 different works of fantasy/sci-fi I'm working on. I bounce between them at random, as the mood strikes, and there's just no way I could ever focus at all on doing a regular update channel lol

Wasn't always that way with her. Hard work, regularity, and the voice of an angel got her where she is (I'm sure the fact she's an absolute stone-cold stunner doesn't hurt matters, either--oh my giddy aunt she's beautiful).

One day I hope to be able to do similar.

I guess in order to do that, I should probably start actually making content... /shrug Course, I lack the regularity, the voice of an angel, and I am by no means an attractive individual.

I try to make sure all my posts are accurate, and have either magazine/website interviews, or actual footage of the artist in question playing the instrument/talking about the instrument/advertising the instrument (for Mary Spender, this is particularly easy, as she's a YouTuber).

But aye, that would also encourage disucssion about the gear itself. Which hey, talking about gear is always fun. Then again, I pretty much won't shut up about gear once I start talking.

Yeah, pretty much sums up my feelings about [redacted because the three things you don't engage in are politics, religions, and sportsball].

I don't think submitting gear to Equipboard brings any points, just like editing/revising submissions.

I thought the approval of it was what brought the points. There was a breakdown between the keyboard and the user in how the system worked. That was entirely this side.

Because the gods decided we should be here for a good time, not a long time?

Just remember the wise words of Kevin Bacon. "You gotta take care of yourself. You gotta eat right, you gotta excercise. You gotta, you gotta do safe amounts of cocaine..."

There you go!

Cheers mate, and thanks! You don't know how pleased I am my first submission was a Vox Phantom--my spouse thought I took leave of my senses I was cackling so mad (one has but to look at my gear page and see I'm in love with my Vox Bulldog).

Speaking of submissions, sure would be nice if someone could go and verify the ones I've submitted on Mary Spender and Dave Gregory cough cough cough hint hint cough

Damn, is it dusty in here? Sure feels like it's dusty in here. Sorry about that coughing fit, not sure what came over me.