The Digital Doubt

[mercifulfuzziness]

Die hard Honda here. I've owned 4 of them, my wife 3, had 1 repair between us and it was on the oldest of them and in a location with BRUTAL winters. I had a 98 Civic save my life. Head on collision from a red light runner at about 50mph. Totally the car, hit so hard the sunroof started to fold in because the frame of the car started to buckle. Walked away with a headache.


Oh man you better count on that happening, and its gonna be an event for the kiddies with all that not very white fur anymore. One of our hounds has started catching rabbits. She doesnt kill them, she catches them and then gently carries them around like she does her toys. There are a couple dozen bunnies in therapy over here.

I’m Asian.
That’s always the joke of my friend: “You can only drive Honda, you are Asian.”

Maybe it’s a cultural thing but in the past it was the truth. At my grandma’s porch on a birthday .. all cars where Hondas.

 

[jellodog]

I’m surprised this thread hasn’t devolved into doubting farts that turn into sharts yet

When that happens to someone else, I enjoy that sweet shartenfreude.

 

[KingsXJJ]

I’m surprised this thread hasn’t devolved into doubting farts that turn into sharts yet

Give it time.

 

[deadpool_25]

Modelers are good at teaching you that you probably only like a subset of what they can do. I ended up selling my Axe-Fx 3 last year because I kept using such a fraction of what it can do, and the UI inconvenience was the drawback of having those features just sit there unused.

I still find it interesting that so many of us, myself included, have this feeling that because a modeler has so many options we are in some way wasting them if we aren't using a good number of them.

For years I've said all I really need for amp tones is three great sounds: ckean, crunch, and 5150 high gain. And then I need some great effects including delay, reverb, detune, and flanger. And truthfully I had all those things saved in a preset template and in my blocks library on my FM9. I could've just used those and been happy. Actually I was happy, I just needed to downsize.

Why do we maintain that feeling of "if I'm not using the majority of its features I'm wasting it"?

 

[holoholo]

I never use the full range of my car’s speedometer what a waste I’m selling this thing.

 

[norminal]

I’m surprised this thread hasn’t devolved into doubting farts that turn into sharts yet

 

[FuzzyAce]

I never use the full range of my car’s speedometer what a waste I’m selling this thing.

 

[KingsXJJ]

I still find it interesting that so many of us, myself included, have this feeling that because a modeler has so many options we are in some way wasting them if we aren't using a good number of them.

For years I've said all I really need for amp tones is three great sounds: ckean, crunch, and 5150 high gain. And then I need some great effects including delay, reverb, detune, and flanger. And truthfully I had all those things saved in a preset template and in my blocks library on my FM9. I could've just used those and been happy. Actually I was happy, I just needed to downsize.

Why do we maintain that feeling of "if I'm not using the majority of its features I'm wasting it"?

I don’t feel that way but I can see it being a possibility for some. Reminds me of the outdated old saying that we only use 10% of our brains. Accurate or not I’ll take a Fractal brain over a NUX one any day.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I got an Atomic Amplifire Box for small in the house rig.

It sounds quite good.

All I use on my Fractal is a Princeton amp with bias tremolo of the amp block often engaged and a reverb block.

I have zero interest in selling my AxeFxIII.

 

[holoholo]

I don't use more than the first 3 frets on my guitar I'm cutting off the other 19.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I don't use more than the first 3 frets on my guitar I'm cutting off the other 19.

Tone is in the 22nd fret

 

[DrewJD82]

I’ve never been able to wrap my head around that line of thinking (getting rid of something due to not using every option). How many people pay for streaming services or cable TV and don’t watch 90% of the shit on it? Add to another one I find silly, “I’m not a professional/gigging guitarist, I can’t justify owning that” and it’s not a cost thing.

I’ve had more growth as a guitar player since getting my AxeFX, starting off with just the high gain amps doing my metal stuff to eventually end up digging into the Fender/Marshall edge of breakup tones and changing my playing up because chugging in drop C on a Bassman is kinda, not awesome. I had zero intention of getting back in a band at the time, it wasn’t until my first night with the FM9 and realizing all I could do with it in a live situation that the band itch started up again.

 

[jay mitchell]

I don't use more than the first 3 frets on my guitar I'm cutting off the other 19.

Hank Williams said, "There ain't no money above the third fret."

 

[EOengineer]

Hank Williams said, "There ain't no money above the third fret."

Did Hank see the 80s?

 

[KingsXJJ]

Did Hank see the 80s?

Almost like a precursor GIF.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Hank Williams said, "There ain't no money above the third fret."

All money guitar

 

[Sascha Franck]

All money guitar
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Oh, I thought it was this:

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Oh, I thought it was this:
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That would be a great accompaniment to David Guetta's piano

 

[Mooselake]

Going back to the OP, I tend to learn when I visit certain sites (similar to this but way less cool) that I'm pretty much doing everything wrong, then I start fooling around either downloading patches or trying out posted settings. Maybe 1 time in 10 I have an aha moment and find something new I like but eventually I'll gravitate back to what I like the sound of for my bedroom navel gazing. So I totally get the FOMO involved. But I'll refer to two of my favorite musicians. I watched an interview where Alex Lifeson said of Geddy that Geddy's the type of meticulous guy who has to try every wrong option before he's satisfied he's found what's right, and says of himself that he gets bored easily and likes to just try a few things and when he finds something that seems to work he sticks with it. I'm much more of an Alex than a Geddy when it comes to dialing in my modeler tones. Specific to cabs/IRs, I use Helix and manually curating collections of IRs is generally tedious to me, and I'm much happier with the new cab models which for me can often be fine on or very close to the defaults. And exception is when I have a patch specifically intended for headphones in which case I usually use a dual cab and play around with the pan and delay to make a big wide stereo sound.

 

[Whizzinby]

I still find it interesting that so many of us, myself included, have this feeling that because a modeler has so many options we are in some way wasting them if we aren't using a good number of them.

It’s largely just something people say when they want to sell something to buy something else.

“There is just too much awesomeness” is generally not a bad thing for most people.