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Goredho

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  1. Where I can tell a big difference between the cheap maple veneer tops and say the maple tops on the Les Pauls I currently or have owned is in the depth and movement of the flame. With a badass maple top, it almost is like a hologram. The flames move, shift and fade in/out in the top as your angle of perception and/or the angle of light changes. These tops don't do that. It's more static, so it is more like a photo-realistic snapshot of a badass flame maple top vs a badass flame maple top. At least when you are holding the guitar in your hand and looking at it.
  2. It’s “maple veneer”, which is allegedly a real piece of maple, albeit much thinner than say the top on a Les Paul standard.
  3. So I got the Harley Benton Fusion in and tl;dr I think it lives up to its hype as far as being good bang for the buck and a great platform to upgrade from. This has the same features as the Suhr I had and sold. 24 stainless steel frets, HSH pickups with a push/pull coil split on the tone knob. For a new guitar and if you can do your own setup and mods, its a steal. It has a couple minor cosmetic issues, but looks great. Playability was good out of the box, very good after a basic set up. If I work on the nut a bit and polish the frets, I think its going to play excellent. The locking tuners seem to be ok and the trem as well. At least they don't feel cheap, but how good they really are will be known over time. The sounds disappoint me. Its extremely low-midrange heavy and kind of dull and mushy across the board with pickups full or split. I wouldn't use it at a gig or to record with right now for this reason. I imagine I'm just gonna replace all the electronics in it to get it to where it would be something I'd want to play and hear along with my other guitars. I recently bought a used PRS SE Mark Holcomb (2nd pic) and its as playable but sounded real good without needing any upgrades. I spent $300 more on the used PRS, but by the time I buy new pups and such, I'll probably have roughly the same amount into both guitars with more time/effort spent on the Harley Benton, so I don't know. If there is a used PRS SE or Reverend that offers what you want, you're probably better off getting one of them for $500-$800. But those brands don't offer an HSH guitar, or a Rick 12 knock off, or electric mandolins and banjos, so... I'll keep tinkering with this, and you'll probably see more Harley Benton NGD in this thread for some of those niche instruments that would be nice to have on hand to record with, but which I don't want to invest much in.
  4. Some interesting articles from the last two weeks. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft https://stackdiary.com/chatgpts-training-data-can-be-exposed-via-a-divergence-attack/?utm_source=tldrai
  5. Society collapses and stock traders are among the first wave of humans cannibalized for sustenance.
  6. Will do.
  7. Have been riding a creative wave, so verse 4 is mostly wrapped up. This pretty much completes the song minus the tracks to be done by others and forever-in-progress vocals as mentioned previously. Then I guess a final mix and master, which I may do myself or outsource. I'll post the full song end-to-end once I get everyone else's tracks in place. Feedback/thoughts appreciated.
  8. Cool, thanks. Yeah, I’m probably going to pick up superior drummer for drum samples when it’s time to do the drum track with a real drummer.
  9. Alright, spent the past week working on verse/part 3 and I'm digging it, so gonna share now. Again, no Sidis piano or real drummer yet, and the vocals are a work in progress. This has an extended instrumental section in it, and is the longest of the 4 parts at 3:22. I am not 100% certain I like how this wraps up, I am going to let it sit for a day or two then I may play with the end a bit more, but its good for a first pass and check in if anyone wants to listen and critique. Dearest brother,Is that you at the door?I can see your faceBut I can recognize you no moreNo, no, noIt's not a good timeYou shouldn't have comeYou should go back to your homeBeyond a distant sunFar away from me
  10. There’s a whole lot of room between “we should ban all guns” and “we shouldn’t have any gun restrictions whatsoever” that should be able to be explored to “keep mentally ill people with a track record of violence from owning guns.” But not in this cuntry.
  11. I took a flier on a fusion HSH, will see what it needs to be made to play good, and if I can provide that. If that works, I'll see what it needs to be made to sound good. Intriguing company with some gear offerings that might allow one to round out a sound palette with niche instruments on the cheap. Like, I see they make a knock off Rickenbacker 12 string, as well as mandolin's and banjos.
  12. I personally don't give a shit these movies are being made, or that actors are collecting a paycheck for them. There is a market for evangelical infotainment. There is nothing inherently wrong with someone serving that. And there is nothing inherently wrong with someone making a living from them. But I don't want to consume that. And as far as causes go, I don't want to waste my time and money supporting the maker's mission. So don't sell me Blade Runner then hand me a Proselytizing bible lesson and expect me to be happy with the transaction. And after, don't try to directly recruit me and my kids to spread your word and expect me to give you a high net promoter score. Since we're both-sidesing this, the liberal equivalent would be a trailer that made Brokeback Mountain out not to be a gay love story, but a western along the lines of Tombstone, and then at the end of the movie, made a direct appeal to the audience to spread pro-gay messages everywhere. If your movie and ideas are worth a shit, they will spread without the need to ambush moviegoers or beg for them to become evangelists.
  13. Lol. You’re pretty effective at being a cunt. I get it, it’s your fetish. Anyway, I’ll say it again. PSA: the Shift will sell you on it being something like Blade Runner, but it’s a Jesus pamphlet. Go watch if you want the sermon. Spend your money elsewhere if you don’t.
  14. I know people here have dicked around with Firefly guitars. Anyone ever pick up a Harley Benton to see if they could make it worth a shit? They seem to have a pretty good reputation on TGP for being a good value for the money and a good platform to mod from. I'm considering picking one up just to be the equivalent of a 9th grade biology frog to dissect and learn from without risking the money invested in more valuable instruments.
  15. I’m sorry you took your kids to see Brokeback Mountain.
  16. He makes a pretty good Satan.
  17. Having to be concerned about this when taking my kids to a movie at a mainstream family theater is wholly new to me.
  18. I had forgot this happened. I mean, I know it happened, but I don't think about it anymore except when this thread gets bumped. How sad and unsurprising that this tragic event came and then faded from public consciousness without a damn thing being done to ensure it doesn't happen again. Its no more difficult for a troubled young adult to get his hands on the right tools for the grim job of murdering school kids, and its no more difficult for small-town law enforcement to shrug in helplessness when confronted with an armed gunman playing GTA at an elementary school.
  19. There's an audience for it, and so yeah, we'll see more. What I don't appreciate is the bait and switch marketing. Don't sell me a thriller but put a bible in the bag.
  20. I went and saw "The Shift" this past weekend with my kids, thinking it was a sci-fi dystopian thriller. Well, its gateway evangelical entertainment made by the same people who made Sound of Freedom. It was not wholly bad. It had good production values and decent action, but as it goes on, it becomes more and more apparent its goal isn't to entertain you, its to give you a sermon and win you over to a cause. At the end of the movie, the protagonist is on screen and tells you that if you want to do your part to help the world be a better place, you should buy a ticket to this movie for someone else, maybe someone who can't afford it themselves, and pay it forward. Then a QR code pops up and he tells you its ok to take your phone out now and scan the QR code for more ways to make the world a better place. I didn't scan it. Kind of pissed me off. If I want a sermon, I'll go to church. Even my kids were like, "Why is he begging people to buy extra tickets to his movie?"
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