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  1. GunpointMetal

    Are tube amps the new vinyl?

    I have several friends in the live sound industry. According to them there’s more modeling on bigger/expensive shows because everyone is running some sort of click/iem/synced production and digital is much more consistent and available for redundancy and routing options. They might have live...
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    Unpopular Opinions

    You think so? I think the home recording thing partially kicked off due to the availability of forums on the subject. I'd almost argue the opposite. Sure, some people would rather be terminally online instead of creating art, but their art was probably gonna be shit anyways if that's the case...
  3. GunpointMetal

    Unpopular Opinions

    Ah shit, jam bands. The one collective genre that is actually worse than country. *stuff that sucks is subjective - songs with no purpose other than showcasing playing are not enjoyable, neither are nasally drawls.
  4. GunpointMetal

    Unpopular Opinions

    Nah, country sucks. Everything you just said could be applied to any genre of music, except they all sound better than country, even when they suck. The "country sound" is traaaysh even when the songs are good.
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    Unpopular Opinions

    Most of my unpopular opinions are only unpopular to guitar players. Direct to FOH and IEM is waaaaaay better than loud cabs and wedges. More strings = better. More is More. There is no such thing as "guitar range" or "bass range".
  6. GunpointMetal

    New The HAARP Machine music

    It was fun tearing this shit apart when we all thought he was just a narcissist douchebag. Seems a little sad now.
  7. GunpointMetal

    Anybody wanna play bass for Fear Factory?

    Do you HAVE to drink a bottle of tequila, or you just have to be able to get back on the bus if you DO drink a bottle of tequila?
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    Alternatives to Kalium?

    Guess I'll find out, just placed a big order yesterday.
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    dialing in noise gates

    I mostly use the Horizon gate out front of everything in the Helix at pretty low settings (like 2 on the sensitivity) and that’s it. Haven’t really felt like I need one after the amp/pedals. I use to run a boss gate in the x pattern on my board.
  10. GunpointMetal

    Are tube amps the new vinyl?

    Most people I know that buy vinyl never even take the shrink wrap off of them or own a player/system that would even have a chance of “sounding better” (noisier, er I mean warmer).
  11. GunpointMetal

    Are tube amps the new vinyl?

    I’ve found the last ten years of modelers to only be as complicated as you want them to be. For my live DI sounds I use virtual Fredman-style 57s on a Mesa OS cab and a 5150-style amp and a bunch of random stomp boxes, but it’s just like a pedalboard once it’s set up and I pretty much only fuck...
  12. GunpointMetal

    Are tube amps the new vinyl?

    I guess if mythical magical feel is part of the “sound”. I find all of the convenience and consistency factors make me sound better when I play live, so they sound better, too.
  13. GunpointMetal

    Are tube amps the new vinyl?

    Yes, because they're noisy, they don't actually sound better than their modern counterparts unless you have your nostalgia goggles on, and they are almost always incredibly inconvenient in any capacity outside aesthetics.
  14. GunpointMetal

    Wintersun's Groundhog's Day Thread

    There would still be tons of music to listen to.
  15. GunpointMetal

    Wintersun's Groundhog's Day Thread

    My band's chats are just quoting Half Baked, Dracula Flow, and Hoss/Clibbins memes. Edgy stuff.
  16. GunpointMetal

    Wintersun's Groundhog's Day Thread

    If random comments on the internet really have people questioning their own taste, did they ever really like the thing to begin with? Whatever, I'm gonna go listen to Car Bomb.
  17. GunpointMetal

    Wintersun's Groundhog's Day Thread

    So far I'm being proven right in that a lot of metalheads have shit taste and are stupid.
  18. GunpointMetal

    The Orange Cab Problem (Solid State into 16ohms)

    Had this same issue at our last show. The one show I didn't bring my powered speaker for backup. Headliner wanted to backline their cabs, all their custom cabs are 16 Ohm, everyone except the headliner had anemic on-stage sound because nobody else's gear was made to push that stuff. Sharing a...
  19. GunpointMetal

    Wintersun's Groundhog's Day Thread

    That shit is corny AF. Even by power metal standards.
  20. GunpointMetal

    Alternatives to Kalium?

    Is he back on his bullshit with long turnarounds and no communication? It was going good again for a year or two. I tend to order in bulk and my last couple of orders went without issue, but it was probably last summer when I last ordered. Edit: I haven't found anything else US based that goes...


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