over time I think we've grown to dislike Big Leather Guitar Straps we might have to move to team Wide Nylon
13.03.2026 06:15
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over time I think we've grown to dislike Big Leather Guitar Straps we might have to move to team Wide Nylon
offset guitar specific sounds
reposting a 2018 twitter thread thats spookily related, from LittleBigPlanet 1: 2 weeks to gold, a Japanese QA tester started reliably crashing the game by leaving it on over night. We could not repro. Like you, days of confirmation of identical environment, os, hardware, etc; each attempt took /
these guitars weigh the same amount but one of them wants to point towards the horizon and the other one wants to stay beautifully pitched at 30-45 degrees
it's un fucking believable how much better jaguars balance than strats, we hadn't played the strat with a strap since the jaguar showed up, just put a wide-ass bass strap back on it and after playing the jaguar for a week all of a sudden we can feel the strat tugging on our shoulder
the quiet listening part here is essentially just replacing occlusion via coexistence with other instruments, with occlusion via approaching the lower limits of your hearing's useful dynamic range
this is really basic shit but it's something I forget sometimes, "oh, things sound fundamentally different at different volume levels", "oh, if I listen quiet enough for the quieter details to disappear, the rough strokes of the sound as they'd jump out of the mix become more apparent"
music production pro tip? sort of?
listening to an isolated instrument at high volume makes you focus in on all sorts of details that may not even be audible in the mix, I find that monitoring a soloed instrument very quietly gives you a better representation of what it might sound like in the mix
one day we'll fucking get it
why are we doing this song to ourselves again
I hear from engineers that slightly less drastic versions of this *were* actually around in the 80s in the form of unnoticeable synths backing up the actual backing vocals
particularly super tight pitch corrected harmonies are a major part of a particular modern sound and I really wonder if we can capture the vibe in a more retrofuturistic fashion with an unedited lead vocal accompanied by vocoded backing + envelope tracked noise, etc, this is pretty foreign to us
since we're both committed to not using pitch correction even artistically because we're ideologically opposed to the inhuman standards of performance it has created, but we're also into music genres contingent on not humanly possible pitch accuracy, we've been brainstorming some alternatives
I am not responsible for what follows but good luck
after that arduous process he didn't even manage to set the second system up correctly yet to stay in relative tune while bending...
decades of innovation have managed to accomplish the impossible: making a guitar harder to set up than a fender jaguar www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhN-...
this is the most backlash I've ever seen to an f1 regulation change
apparently 50% of total power is electric, entire ability to go fast on straights depends on doing enough regenerative braking and coasting meaning risky cornering is a thing of the past and you're just farming boost to use on straights, the car systems are complicated but the driving is easy
I look away for a year and they turn f1 into mario kart, cool
xkcd 2347, but edited by me to say "All post-WWII popular culture" for the mass of things built on the shaky foundation and "Lax enforcement of copyright law" for the critical single piece of that foundation that, if removed, would topple the whole thing
what I wish I could scream whenever I see artists clamouring to extend the scope of copyright and enforce it harder, be it to stop AI or for any other reason
if you're running a really good guitar building business you should dehumidify in summer to keep the humidity at a calibrated low level so all your guitars transition comfortably into winter but realistically barely anyone actually climate controls their facilities properly
indoors humidity is at its lowest during winter, which causes wood to shrink down to its smallest, so in winter is both when the guitars least likely to sprout their frets are made, and when you're most likely to be able to detect fret sprout on a guitar you're looking to buy
we repeat this advice a lot but I don't think we've ever yelled it over on this site so
if you're buying a guitar IN PERSON, the best time to do so is DURING WINTER
if you're buying a guitar at a distance, it's best to buy one MANUFACTURED DURING WINTER
fortunately it looks like this should be pretty easy to contest since it's a default ruling / the case hasn't ACTUALLY been argued so we'll see what happens when the next smaller company is on the chopping block I guess
this makes roughly 30-50% of all electric guitars illegal in the EU
