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Haven't we all?..........
Fractal Talk
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You're proper filthy you are. Slag.
Next time you should listen when I tell you it's best to be strapped down.
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You’re damn skippy! Even better, I seem to have found someone who can keep up with me
Frodebro
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The comment was about processing power, and nothing to do with anything else.
But some people let their personal biases override their common sense and here we are.
madmarcus1960
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Be attentive, my hernia, chronic reflux, a following stricture, and then Barrett's esphagus, led to a Esophageal cancer diagnosis 2006(46 yo). They caught it in dilatation of the stricture. I had radical surgery 2 months later and have been cancer free since, due to early intervention.
NO ON SHOULD IGNORE THESE SYMPTOMS!!!
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Dez
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I think that if anything, get yourself checked if you’re experiencing strange symptoms that haven’t been there before and don’t go away on their own. Whatever kind of cancer it may be, you NEVER know (I had testicular cancer and I always tell people to check themselves lol)
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My dad actually had the same thing in the late 90's. His surgery was something like 17 hours, involved a bunch of specialists in different fields and they cut through his back shoulder to get to his esophagus, which they had to reconnect to his stomach after they removed 1/4 of it from the front of his body. I didn't get to see him until about 3 months after the surgery and it looked like he aged 10 years. That's some intense surgery, congrats on your recovery!
madmarcus1960
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Through the front of the neck and from the bottom of the ribcage to the belly button. Bottom 2/3rds of my esophagus and the top 1/3rd of my stomach. The stomach was reattatched to the remaining esophagus. It's called a gastric pullup.
My doctor, Dr Malcolm Decamp, a superstar in thoracic surgery(Cleveland Clinic, Beth Israel Deaconist/Boston, Northwestern U Medical) was one of the coolest Dr, I've ever had treat me.
Quick story, when the came on discharge day, they had to remove the tube going through my nose into my new digestive anatomy.
The tube was so long, removing it reminded me of the scarf gag on the 3 Stooges. I mentioned this to DeCamp and in front of a group of residents, he starts Woo Woo Wooing like Curly!
The look on their faces, to see their mentor, acting like a Stooge, was almost worth the price of the entire ordeal!
madmarcus1960
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Hard to believe, but they got me walking the halls, with an IV cart attached...LOL, like the MUMMY, on day 2.
I was 46 and in really good shape. I bootcamped myself for the 2 months leading up to the scheduled surgery.
I'm adamate, that this is why I bounced back so quickly.
I was 46 and in really good shape. I bootcamped myself for the 2 months leading up to the scheduled surgery.
I'm adamate, that this is why I bounced back so quickly.
paisleywookiee
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What do you guys think a fair price for an FM9 Turbo MkI with EV-2 expression would be?
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paisleywookiee
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I swear that that function hasn't been working well for me. Yesterday when I did it, Reverb said "That's some rare gear!" Fucking app sucks.
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really? I've been selling a bunch of stuff there haven't had any issues so far.I swear that that function hasn't been working well for me. Yesterday when I did it, Reverb said "That's some rare gear!" Fucking app sucks.
Looks like around $1650-$1700 for both combined.
paisleywookiee
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Yeah it worked in my browser just now, but not in the app on my iPhone or iPad.
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Posting here so that I don’t piss on the stadium thread…
I spent a few hours with helix again Sunday. The amp sounds I used were the newer ones, and they were good. Totally enjoyed them and would be happy with them. I know I like some of the mod sounds in there and the delays have always been solid, didn’t bother with them.
So I went over to the reverb which has long been my hang up with helix. Subtle stuff was fine, decent spring sounds available, then I went looking for an ambient reverb I liked…. It just isn’t in this box. There’s some usable stuff for sure, but nothing I really enjoy.
Fired up the fm9 with a commitment to run a similar experiment entirely from the hardware like I did with helix. It just rips. The amps sound killer with minimal tweaking, the reverbs are killer and with minimal tweaking I can find something that will make me really happy.
The hardware UI is more workable than I gave it credit for. It isn’t intuitive, it isn’t easy to remember where certain things are, the knobs and buttons don’t do what they probably should, but I could get around on it well enough and do all the things I needed to once I committed to it. It isn’t great, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was either after spending some more time with it.
Interesting thing is that while the hardware on helix is faster and more fun (less frustrating) to navigate, I felt like it ultimately took more time to dial in something like the reverbs where the algorithms aren’t as good. The hardware ui is clunkier on FM9, but the algorithms are better and it ultimately took less time and effort to get sounds I wanted on the hardware than it did with helix.
If they improve things over time in the effects algorithms, which I’m sure they will, and fractal doesn’t leapfrog them with UI improvements, I’ll probably end up checking out a stadium at some point. That point is a long ways out though probably as the difference in sonics is too far apart for me right now and I don’t think that gap will close any time soon.
The results of all this - I’m sticking with fractal for the foreseeable future.
I spent a few hours with helix again Sunday. The amp sounds I used were the newer ones, and they were good. Totally enjoyed them and would be happy with them. I know I like some of the mod sounds in there and the delays have always been solid, didn’t bother with them.
So I went over to the reverb which has long been my hang up with helix. Subtle stuff was fine, decent spring sounds available, then I went looking for an ambient reverb I liked…. It just isn’t in this box. There’s some usable stuff for sure, but nothing I really enjoy.
Fired up the fm9 with a commitment to run a similar experiment entirely from the hardware like I did with helix. It just rips. The amps sound killer with minimal tweaking, the reverbs are killer and with minimal tweaking I can find something that will make me really happy.
The hardware UI is more workable than I gave it credit for. It isn’t intuitive, it isn’t easy to remember where certain things are, the knobs and buttons don’t do what they probably should, but I could get around on it well enough and do all the things I needed to once I committed to it. It isn’t great, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was either after spending some more time with it.
Interesting thing is that while the hardware on helix is faster and more fun (less frustrating) to navigate, I felt like it ultimately took more time to dial in something like the reverbs where the algorithms aren’t as good. The hardware ui is clunkier on FM9, but the algorithms are better and it ultimately took less time and effort to get sounds I wanted on the hardware than it did with helix.
If they improve things over time in the effects algorithms, which I’m sure they will, and fractal doesn’t leapfrog them with UI improvements, I’ll probably end up checking out a stadium at some point. That point is a long ways out though probably as the difference in sonics is too far apart for me right now and I don’t think that gap will close any time soon.
The results of all this - I’m sticking with fractal for the foreseeable future.
