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Why would you need to crank it at all? That amp is gonna sound fantastic at half volume. For grit they make excellent overdrives these days.

This is really only an issue if you're driving 100 watt amps to the brink to get higher gain. You can buy 20 and even 10 watt tube amps that sound fantastic and are much more manageable.

Guitar players always think you need a gigantic marshall stack to get good tone when for most people that is way too much and they'll never hear it the way it's supposed to sound.

The idea that this technology is "the most popular" is incorrect as is the idea that tube amps are unreliable.

The katana and fender GT sound "fine" but the assertion that they can model traditional tube amps well enough for stage use is also a little suspect. Those specific amps sound thin and lifeless compared to the amps they attempt to model.

Where these types of amps shine is that they're lighter and you can have a more consistent sound at lower volumes. For a person in their house who isn't really worried about having a specific sound or may not even know the difference between british and american voiced amps these are great options. Also the volume issue only comes into play when we're thinking about gain and compression. My fender Deluxe Reverb sounds amazing at low volume.

The AxeFx and helix stuff is a little better but that stuff is way more expensive than your average tube amp, particularly on the used market. Your average 40 watt tube amp from fender, vox, marshall, etc will run you $700-$1500 while these high end modellers can easily be $2500+.

As far as tube amps being unreliable goes I'd love to see some sources on that. I've played fender amps from the 50s and marshalls from the 60s that sound every bit as good today as they did when they were made.

I work in very high end music retail where I'm fortunate enough to get to play all kinds of new and very old gear. I can confidently say that modelling is getting better and has drastically improved in the last 20 years but still has a ways to go if it's going to completely replace tube amps for stage and studio use.

100% this. I work in vintage guitars and this is a huge part of it. This why a 62 strat costs way more than a 62 jaguar.

The use of force guidelines in prison vs use of force guidelines for free civilians are totally different. These BoP guards might treat a situation a certain way and not even know they're violating someone's civil rights while doing it.

My ROG runs HOT as hell.

Nah cyberpunk is it's own thing and the aesthetic way predates the 90s.

Nice to meet you. I sent you an email. Let me know how I can help.

Those modellers are expensive as hell and super complex. With this you don't need to dig into sub menus or even need to know how a tone stack works. You just tell Alexa what you're trying to do and it does it.

This definitely is very useful to a huge chunk of the guitar player market.

It's about knowing your market. Is this a Kemper profiler? No. Does it claim to be? No.

This is absolutely perfect for anyone total beginner to high intermediate. It sits in the same space as any mid range amp modeller except it's voice controlled and can cue up a backing track and a tone to match it with just voice. It solves all of the things that intimidate new to mid range players and cause some to quit.

I want to say this looks like a great product. I was very surprised at how "complete" it seems. I manage one of the most iconic guitar stores in the world and have been selling gear and generally been a gear head for 15+ years. Needless to say I was extremely skeptical when I read the title of this article.

If you can market this and produce it at scale I guarantee you'll sell millions of these things to the middle of the road guitar center learning to play guy. That demographic is fucking huge and probably represents 80% of the guitar based economy.

I would market it that way. I would market this as an easy fuss free interface for conjuring classic tones to learn and play with your favorite artists. If possible a Rocksmith style learn along feature would be amazing.

Really impressed with the simple interface, the apparent ease with which you dial up reasonably good jcm 800 and acoustic type sounds, and how the Alexa script seems to automatically dial in a tone to match the backing track.

Really well done. If you get it to market hit me up I guarantee I can sell these things.

My guess is that if you no longer live in CA you're no longer covered under the CCPA so no. It's about residence, not where the photos were taken.

If you're not covered under CCPA or GDPR (most of the world) then you're just shit outta luck. Cool.

7?!

What is your prediction based on? I really hope we're not still in this in a year. I work in soho in NYC and still have to go and handle stuff at the shop and the city is crazy right now.

This rules, nice work.

Keep a routine. Get up, exercise, work, read, etc. Stay busy and try not to let your imagination get the best of you.

Which medication(s) are you using? My personal experience with both Suboxone and methadone were absolutely horrible and made my getting clean 10x worse.

He had his day and the charge was dismissed and can never be brought back. In the US at least this is a done deal as far as the justice system is concerned.

While true this is way more complicated an explanation than using more traditional concepts. This also barely scratches the surface of useful music theory as it doesn't explain note relationships to one another. A 3rd, a 5th, a 7th, a 9th, etc are fundamentally important concepts to grasp. Also your comment about modes being the key to composing music intelligently is somewhat nonsense. Most jazz players will tell you that understanding the chord/melody relationship is far more important than worrying about what mode you're playing in, particularly in an improvisational setting. It's way more useful to understand that you're playing a ii v7 I and know what triads are available to you as well as maybe which color tones are useful to Target than to try to keep track of which mode you should/could play over a given chord. You're better off understanding the function of a chord in a key.

I dated someone with a meth problem for five years and would disagree with you. Meth completely changes a person's personality.

I think all drugs should be legal and think humans have done amazing things with/on drugs. I've also seen this go horribly awry and witnessed some absolutely insane things from people on speed. There's a lot more to it than simply a lack of sleep.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulant_psychosis

The police must stop questioning you. Then they take you to jail until your public defender has time to see you. The courts automatically will assign a public defender to your case if you do not have one or cannot afford one.