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Fair. Anyone seen the recent Josh Scott fallout over the Digitech Bad Monkey? His shithousery really adds to the charm. Proper good egg is Josh.

I want to agree man, but after a shot of the vst version of the Helix (think they call it Helix Native) and I'm not completely sold. Mainly due to the interface but a few of the old fuzz patches were a bit iffy. Admittedly they were patches of the pedals I'd expect to be a bit iffy. Interface aside, most of it was absolutely bang on the money though. Is there a Space Echo patch? I went into it with pitchforks looking for faults in the old Ge fuzz stuff and overlooked a lot of the modulation stuff.

Christ on a bike. It's £300 here which should be about NZ$600. Well out of my current budget but honestly looks like boss have really nailed the old Space Echo with DSP. End game delay pedal for tape-delay fanatics. Looks a little bit more user-friendly for knuckleheads like me compared to the Hazarai Memory Man too. Maybe in time most of it will appear as a Helix patch (if it hasn't already). Shame they never incorporated a "random failure/disaster" button that emulates the tape slipping or one of the motors burning out and catching fire. On paper seems the only trick they missed.

@Andrew the Boss RE-202 might be worth a look if it's not already on your radar. Bit pricey but should do everything the Caverns does (and more) without any of the limitations. I've yet to try one but looks like a cracking bit of kit.

I might have misremembered. No affiliation but Thorpy's work is usually completely top drawer. Looking at the internals of this there's no cheaping out at all, but like a say the missing components do make me suspect it's an adaptation of another Thorpy circuit rather than something that Victory and him built from the ground up. Could be a modified thorpy pedal dressed up in Victory marketing wank, but again just speculating and not even a bad thing if that's the case. I haven't used the Keeley Caverns but if memory serves its a delay+reverb and both sides function on the old PT2399 chip which I love for it's simplicity but it has some severe limitations. Long story short: for very short delay times it still works really nicely and has a faux-analogue (almost tape style) warmth but at longer delay times the repeats will suffer severe signal degradation and just sound a bit shit. The madprofessor "Deep Blue Delay" and Keeley Magnetic Echo/delay half of the caverns are basically lifted from the same circuit. There's a place for those bbd chips but I couldnt recommended them over digital options in good faith.

Just discovered this weird lot, albums are all synth and written by one guy. Live they're a full band and have this kid on lead. I'm really digging not just his amazing hybrid picking technique but just how well the synth only album material translates to two guitar and live drums. Not the most high-brow of stuff, just good riffs. Takes some serious chops to pull off some of those synth lines on guitar too. That's a hell of a rig @Tom. Just needs a few CRT telly's playing old Commodore Amiga demoscene videos.

Thought we had already done this? Sure I remember mentioning Thorpy here before. Looks a pretty classy and top quality build, which Thorpy has a good reputation for. Could be anything though but looks more distortion pedal than another attempt to emulate the Kraken pre-amp section. Can't find a schematic though so hard to say anything for sure. Only one thing I'd mention is the handful of components that have been left off the board (C1, C6, R6, R18, C19, C27 etc) would make me suspect this could be a modified version of some other ThorpyFX pedal circuit rather than a completely new design. But that's pure speculation.

I've always loved the idea of a motorbike, but almost everyone in my extended family that went into nursing always referred to motorcyclists as "donors" and I'm a big shite-bag so fuck that. Also have known at least two folk who have been in their car and collided with someone on a motorbike and never driven again. Admittedly one was my 80yo grandfather and the other had passed his test a few days prior and was a massive stoner, but still.

Ah well worth a shot. If it's the update that's the cause hopefully get resolved with further patches. I'll used to hang around the XDA developers forums some moons ago, could often be useful for getting answers to this sort of shit (not always solutions, but at least explanations). These days more of a "my phone/laptop is fine and does everything I need it to, fuck being a guinea pig for the new OS if I can avoid it". That said my laptop seriously fucked me over by discretely updating to Windows 11 a week or so ago despite my constant objections to their offer of the "free upgrade". I'm absolutely livid. If I had more time on my hands I be on another short-lived "that's it, I'm boycotting Microsoft" crusade.

How much internal storage have you got left? I worked mobile tech support for a good while and it was pretty common on all brands of phone to see them start doing all sorts of weird shit when you getting low on storage space. I think that's down to phones constantly suspending apps that are running in the background, once you have enough apps open to max out your RAM they look to temporarily utilise unused parts of the storage drive as a sort of SWAP space, and if there isn't enough storage for that the apps they'll shit they'll stop responding. Worth a look. General rule of thumb is to keep at least 20% of storage free.

Yeah it takes like two minutes, just export the midi from TuxGuitar and import it to your DAW. It can take quite a bit of editing velocities and such to get them sounding human though. Best bet is probably still to just program parts from scratch if you really want it to not sound like a drum machine. This is probably the most convincingly "real" sounding drum track I ever managed to get from EzDrummer. Think I probabaly sat up all night programming this, for no real reason at all. Dont have that level of patience for it anymore but its still fun to faff around with.

Is ggd the Kontakt patch? Ezdrummer works either standalone or as a plugin, I'd imagine you could just swap the plugin, feed it the same midi and your good to go, might have to rearrange the pads though. I haven't played with GDD, no idea where it sits on a scale of ezdrummer to SD. The toontrack stuff just came along and hooked me in the right place at the right time, which was probably some ten or so years ago so I'm probably at least a decade behind the times. I get lost in it but it's just another vsti at the end of the day.

Appreciate I'm not contributing much to the conversation here, but tonight I'll be mostly drinking a shit overpriced Guinness impersonation and have already descended into the realms of David Minnick's batshit mental acapella covers of the entire Cardiacs double album "Sing to God".

Ezdrummer is a much cheaper alternative but missing a lot more basic and stripped back. SD is a bit overwhelming with so many options. I'll usually program the main parts in EZD and if it's something I'm really chuffed with will swap over to SD and polish it up a bit more. Then my drummer mate will tell me it's all wrong, try to fix and somehow make it worse. Really handy for knocking out backing tracks if your trying to learn a cover song too. Just nick the midi drum part from a Guitar Pro Tab and feed it into one of those plugins.

Ah well that sucks. Helps explain why good, extended highlights are so rare though. I'd enjoy MOTD far more if there was less Hansen and Jenas and more real-time, uninterrupted footage of the actual game.

Early bit of that video looks a lot like sequenced/midi drums. I love messing with plugins like Superior Drummer, but I swear the time I've poured into that as probably taken years off my life. Musically it remind me a lot of Devin Townsend's astonishingly brilliant Ziltoid albums, which I think at least one was recorded with the superior drummer plugin. I'll shit the fuck up now since I've only watched one minute of the video. Cool stuff though.

I'm alone here in thinking maybe Linekar and Shearer have done us a solid? Less bullshit waffle and longer highlights of each game sounds magic.

Good at their job, hard worker and really good person (but a bit of a dipshit thats probably around even-money to do something mental and completely fuck up their lives) probably describes a good 1/3, maybe even as much as half of all the friends, family and work colleagues I've ever known tbh.

I'm back on a Titus Gein kick. There was time I'd travel the length of the country to see this lot, despite them being local. Funny enough one of the few gigs I missed was them playing out the back of my nearest record shop. No cunt thought to tell me, everyone just fucking assumed I knew given could practically see the place from my living room window at the time and barely missed a gig. This is the one where the guitarist/synth guy plays the drums and the drummer plays the synth on what I think is a Sega Megadrive control pad.

I mean if he really wants the sound and functionality of a UL730 without having to fork out for the amp, this is probably as close at he'll get. Should have plenty headroom too. I was staring at the tone section on the Dr. Robert for ages thinking it looked really interesting and really weird to see in a Vox circuit, but turns out it's almost exactly the same configuration as the UL730 after all. I'll probably build one at some point and have a play around. Does look interesting, especially the boost and mids controls. Strikes me as something that might be better suited to running straight into the return of an effects loop rather than before another preamp though, and my amp sadly doesn't have an effect loop.

Is this a reference to those Fuzz Factory transistors man? Hope I didn't ruin anyone's Christmas like, can't really find fault with those pedals, it's just all the marketing wank I've got no time for. I try to ignore it all and let stuff slide, just now and again I lose perspective and go off on one. £300 is probably a bit steep for this Dr. Robert for what it is, but in all fairness its probably two or three times as expensive to build as one of my RM or Sunface clones, and it does look legitimately like an well crafted, original design that took a fair bit more R&D time than anything I'm doing. Kinda having to grudgingly tip my hat to however is behind Aclam pedals* for this, cool idea that looks to be really well executed tbh. Steep price tag, but none of the shithousery that usually pisses me off with these things. Fills a niche I wasn't even aware existed. Fair fucking play to them.

Bad news for you @Tom, I did some digging into the Dr. Robert and I hate to say it but now I want one. Schematics I found all seem legit, and looks really faithful to the pre-amp section of the UL730 amp circuit it claims to emulate. Good news is clones do pop up from time to time and they all seem to be based on the schematic from Robert over at PedalPCB, who I dont doubt. He usually buys original pedals and traced them by hand, no guesswork or modifications. Raygun Clone RGPCo Clone

First I've heard of it man. Seems to have been traced and cloned 6 ways from Sunday already though, which surprised me almost as much and the photo of the internals on the bax link you put up. A glance at those internal photos on the bax listing, first thought was the combination of carbon film resistors and WIMA looking Capacitors are a bit of a red-flag for a £300 pedal.* I've found two revisions of the schematic from a quick Google search, but the missus is out and I've got weans still bouncing off the walls so haven't managed to dig into finding the source to guage how accurate they are or really analyse it. Piqued my interest though! I'll have a closer look when I get the chance. Looking at the internals though £300 is a bit of a pisstake. At a glance theres nothing in there that's rare or hard to source. Good chance you'll get accurate and more consistent clones for a fraction of the price. * I can elaborate on that but didn't want to get out a calculator and descend into a full-on numbers and percentages rant about tolerance.

"Rock Climbing Routes" my arse. It's a cardboard prop they wheel out to avoid heavy defeats in promotion campaigns. Swear I've been to games there before and never fucking noticed the rock. 'mon the Bino's.

Surely a reference to Dumbarton rock, an unexplainably large stone (thats fairly out of place compared to the rest of the landscape out there) that overlooks the stadium. The massive shadow it casts is probably why the pitch is always fucking frozen.