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Paul Wesley

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  1. Tip of the hat to tbone in the RS guitarist thread - who posted his first distortion pedals. First three pedals I ever owned below. I have no idea where they came from, but I can tell you there was no auditioning involved, and likely these were sold to me by my "older" friends who played guitar (older = 16 or 17).
  2. I remember my first fuzz pedal.
  3. Jeffries is going to outpoll Jordan. Maybe by a lot.
  4. I was too depressed to read any sports stuff last week, but I’d guess that Texas-OU out-drew the other 12 schools combined.
  5. Having an old hound dog as a college mascot is like finding some old bullshit trinket in your house and giving it as a wedding present.
  6. that looked like a fumble
  7. If you want to work on your own mix/mastering skills, then sure, buy all the software and put in your hours. If you want your stuff to sound its very best, then hire a pro. Mastering engineers have gotten absurdly inexpensive compared to 10 years ago. Ozone 11 "advanced" is $299. For less than that, you can get a true pro like Ryan Smith (Adele, Coldplay, ACDC, Beyonce, Bob Dylan, etc) to master your single, and he'll do it in a couple business days. That's who I hired for "Boomtown." There's also an argument to spend more on a mix engineer, and (arguably) then the mastering gets less and less crucial because there's less for them to "fix." Just putting that out there for perspective.
  8. Yeah, obviously Gabriel is really good. I’m fine with anyone thinking he’s better than Quinn. But “if you knock the shit out of him on every play, he’s less effective” is a “no shit” statement you could say about anyone in any sport. It’s the “Quinn panics” stuff that seems detached from the facts. Also, he’s just a system guy with an average arm.
  9. I've watched about half of the Ikard/Lehman videos this year, and they're generally really complimentary of this Texas team. They had a few critiques of Texas that are already widely acknowledged on this board: our safeties don't have great foot speed, neither does Watts. Also, the Texas ends are not elite pass rushers. But they had some extended commentary on Quinn that seemed pretty homerish and absurd: Gabriel is the better QB. Quinn is the product of a system where Sark is the one getting guys open. Quinn panics under pressure. Quinn has average arm talent. If they blitz Quinn early, he will come unglued. The red-zone struggles at QB show how Quinn is limited. Sometimes what your critics say about you is true (slow safeties, average edge rushers), but they seemed like they went way over the top there. I think the advanced metrics rate Quinn as elite on plays where he gets blitzed. I guess we'll see on Saturday. They also had some extended criticism of Kelvin Banks. "Kansas really got after him." You think we had a 200-yard rusher and 660 yards of offense (despite playing without our 2nd best offensive player) while our left tackle was getting dominated? Hmmmm. They also claim the OU LT is better than Banks. Can't comment on that, because I haven't watched their guy, but I know Banks is pretty good, and that seems like nonsense. Again, we'll see. I hope somebody shows it to Banks though.
  10. I watched CNN for an hour or so before I went to bed last night, and they interviewed numerous Republican congressmen during that hour, and every one of them had their prescribed talking point about making the McCarthy ouster a "both sides did this" issue, and then blathering for another full minute or so about "both sides" dysfunction, blah blah blah. "A few people from my party plus all the Democrats did this disgraceful thing." And I was kind of shocked at the number of times the host let their bullshit go uninterrupted and unchallenged, and let them go with a cordial "Thanks for being here!" Maybe that's the informal agreement for getting interviews? "If you ever interrupt our intellectually dishonest diatribes, we won't go on your network anymore."
  11. If only there would have been some way to know he was a clown.
  12. Am I the only one who didn't know Tesla's "Little Susie" was a cover?
  13. Thanks, guys. I am a huge Baerwald fan as well. That song started out as acoustic guitar backed by a string quartet. But it wasn't sounding as cool as I had hoped, so we ended up bringing the strings back to add a bunch more layers mic'ed at a distance (sound of an intimate string quartet becomes sound of a huge orchestra), and instead of rock drum kit we used all orchestral percussion, including a massive bass drum and hand-held cymbals. Also tracked some flutes and oboes. The string score (which I didn't write) is still doing 99% of the heavy lifting in the arrangement. It was fun to work on. I have always loved the song.
  14. Check out what the rest of the league looks like when the two revenue-generators play against one another... And keep in mind that last week, the Tech vs UH game drew 3% of the audience that the Texas game did.
  15. So Tech vs UH got 3% of the viewership of Texas vs Kansas? That disparity is incredible.
  16. I hope Yormark gets a good, long gander at that. Next year will feature 13 weeks of those ho-hum matchups with regional (at best) interest. That's your future, asshole. Imagine generating half the fucking revenue for a league where the rest of the schools don't merit a worthwhile TV slot on their own, and then having that league's commissioner openly mock and root against you year after year... Someone should start a thread and call it "The Big 12 is fucking awful."
  17. That would have been a great retort 7 years ago (the last time Kansas State beat Texas). edit: I see a lot of others have pointed out the same thing.
  18. So my old phaser was the Empress one. As phaser pedals go, it's extremely complex, with several modes, numerous switches and knobs. I bought it because I was writing a funk/disco record, and the Empress has some modes where it's more of an envelope filter than a phaser, so you can get some pretty cool quacking things from it. But I almost never used all that functionality because it was way too hard to see what you're doing when it's on the back row of a board. The Waylon phaser has some versatility, but it doesn't try to do all of those sweeping, quacking things. It lets you dial back the depth, so the phasing can be more subtle (which, for me = more useful). I shot it out against the Mobius. The Mobius sounds thicker but also seems to lose some of the dry signal's high-end sparkle. I don't own an MXR phaser anymore. In the past, I've had a couple different versions of the Phase90, and I'm pretty sure I'd pick the Waylon phaser over any of those (more versatile for sure).
  19. Paul Wesley

    Tupac

    Didn’t see an old thread: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/suspect-arrested-tupac-shakur-murder/index.html
  20. Nice guitar. Apparently a solid color, maple neck, and maybe a pearloid pick guard (as per jj) - that’s my type.
  21. Trust me, it’s not that I’m overpricing anything. I’m invariably below the “going” rate - sometimes way below - and I get that anyway.
  22. Really? People don’t offer 30% of your asking price… you know, for their “praise band?”
  23. I found a dealer that had the Waylon phaser in stock. Just unboxed it and put it on the pedal board.
  24. Honestly, 7 or 8 wins every year, an excuse (youth, difficult schedule, QB injury), and some small reason(s) for optimism is probably ideal. I hope they get every last minute of the Jimbo that they're paying for.
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