I always thought the artwork was excellent also. That's my wife on the cover! Now that’s a story needing fleshing out. I asked and she rattled off a whole long thing that I was, and am, too stoned to transcribe with 100% accuracy, but the gist was: She was at SAIC, friendly with the Skin Graft guys...

The question is really “would a better high gain distortion pedal fix this?” If so can people recommend a good “metal” distortion pedal with good note separation. I like this thing for metal. That said, i only play metal once in a great while. Most of the time I'm playing strummy indie/shoegaze kin...

^^^^Yep. We all know what it sounds like when dudes switch off their ears and start playing with their hands. One of my all-time biggest pet peeves. 20 years ago I coined the phrase (or at least I'd never heard anyone else say it prior) "play with your ears, not your hands". Sounds like DU...

M.H wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:53 pm I always thought the artwork was excellent also.

That's my wife on the cover!

That's been my main preamp for 20 years now, they sound great.

I bought Surfer Rosa and Number of the Beast Cassettes on the same day at my local record store in like, 1989 or 90 and the dude behind the counter called me fucking weird. Haha, brilliant. When I was 11 I got my dad to take me to the local 'alternative' record shop so I could buy No Sleep Till Ham...

Can't go wrong with any of them but I'm gonna say NOTB cause it was a formative record freshman year of high school, just before discovering Metallica. But really it's Live After Death by a mile, what a great record, still play it regularly. If you haven't watched Flight 666 yet, I can't recommend i...

This dude's stuff is free and good:

https://nickcrowlab.blogspot.com/

You'll need an IR loader after the amp for speaker sims, I use NadIR from STL tones, it's also free and apparently their amp is too, scroll down to the bottom here:

https://www.stltones.com/pages/file-downloads

Just a little side story here you may or may not find interesting. Old band made a record circa 2000, the first record I ever mixed in a DAW. I did a lot of things wrong. So many things! I was never happy with how it sounded. Sitting around bored a decade later, I decide to remix it. Dig up all the ...

Here is an experiment that everyone can try. Get a high-res file of a track with some good dynamic range. I like to use a 96/24 render of Dire Straits' "Ride Across the River", but most things will do. Do it to Shellac. Import the track into your DAW. Then export it at 44.1/16, and with _...