Dusty Chalk

No it's not. If you have to have human intervention for every time someone tries to negotiate a special deal or do anything outside of what's allowed, you have to pay the person on the other end of the line for their time. I really need to become a hermit.

...and for determining whether or not a market exists.

But don't you think that at least part of the reasons customers leave is so that they can get the first-time buyers' deals? It's a viscous loop. So they're just making work for themselves, which increases overhead, which increases costs, which they have to, in turn, forward to the customer. Companies just can't afford to be bureaucracies in this market any more.

Yeah, no argument there. Criterion 50% off sale w/code: SUZY

And...sold. (This is my future setup, although at this point, I don't know why I'm putting it off any more, I should just get it.)

I forget all the time. But then I remember and overcompensate -- I hardly had anything yesterday.

I'm a 'scruff'.

If I could have a soulmate that was a pair of speakers, that's what they'd look like.

You don't want a buzzing ringing sound to sound like a thousand bees in the center of your head, just like it's supposed to sound? They make it sound like a good thing. Someone listens to the same kind of music like I do.

Thanks, will keep that in mind when I need new earbuds. Sorry, Al, can't recommend what I'm currently using, as they were a lot more than $100, IIRC. I think I got them on ... purk's (?) recommendation from the ... Hifiman store (again: ??) before they sold their own.

:*(

Etymotic ER-6i.

My friend Spacey/Spacetoner/??? (don't know what he goes by on the list) is probably on that list. That is all. Cheers. I didn't go out last night, probably should have. My Facebook friend/musician I follow apparently "flashed the pigs [her] tatas".

Yeah, everyone says I need to get a Peterson, I just have a hard time believing I don't throw it more out of tune with my fingers.

Yeah, that's a pretty sweet clean tone. Not to feed your GAS, but have you heard a Dr. Z Stang Ray? I'm eventually getting one of these: Yup, I've burned out the tubes on both the Archon and the MDT, I think, so next amp is going to be a solid state. Roland Jazz Chorus or a Quilter or maybe just something cheap like a Bugera Veyron M.

Someone posted this to me privately on Facebook: Some people just know me so well.

Oh. It was in my timezone. and a belated (party favour noise)

Restaurants that don't fuck around for the win.

Actually, I was talking about the clean tones -- in general, I don't want it to break up early. (In general, mind you, I do like the occasional dirt/overdrive/distortion/fuzz, I just usually do that with pedals.) That said, there's a ton of people that would want just that -- the ability to get a great "dirty" tone at sane volumes. (Including me, occasionally -- would love to be able to record at sane volumes.) (Not that there's anything wrong with that -- I do understand I'm in the minority on that. I do understand that most guitarists want to know what an amps tone is right around the point of breakup, either right over or right under.)

Lollers -- if that's as "all over the place" as the set of compilations I streamed on Spotify once, there's some weird shit buried in there.

PRS used to have something called a Studio amp that I've always lusted after (that looks like that), but personally I prefer that they breathe more than that (Dave Grissom's Custom PRS amp is practically see through and has two powered fans). I'm sure it's not hermetically sealed, but I'd just like to see more ventilation. Doug -- I'll prequalify this with, I have very weird tastes, in both guitars and guitar amps. My favourite guitar is my Parker Fly Deluxe, which is wood wrapped in a carbon fiber/silicon/epoxy exoskeleton, and it has a delightfully clean and dare I say "hi fi" sound -- it's practically an electro-acoustic, and I don't mean that thin and reedy piezo sound, although it can do that too, but it practically sounds like an acoustic guitar through the pickups. With lots of extension in the treble, and almost no diffusion or saturation. So that said -- my ultimate amp reflects this (PRS MDT Custom). It's not a neutral acoustic amp, it does have a tone profile, but it has neither that vintage mid-forward sound nor the modern ultra-low and ultra-high and scooped-mids sound (although I do tend to lean that way with the bass/mid/treble controls). So..."really warm" not really my thing, but my curiosity in what sort of guitar amp head design you would use is undiminished. Care to describe the tone stack? Especially if it's not that hard on tubes. Is it?

This guy would be very popular around these parts. I love how he's all non-assuming and listens to all this stuff. This is me in a couple years, except, you know, less fat.