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Shooshie wrote:[edit] wait a minute.... I didn't see no 11 in the picture. Is this some kind of a joke? There's a band called Spinal Tap. Now THEIR equipment actually DOES go to 11. I saw it once in a movie. Really. I mean, they actually showed it. It was awesome, dude. I'd try to get that system in my DAW, but DP actually goes even farther. It goes into the 60's or 80's or something. But their engineers must have been high. They got it backward. To make it louder, you have to turn it down to zero. I just tell people it's a new scientific system whereby less is more. And they STILL want it to go up to 11. Just can't please some folks.

Shooshie

New-fangled technology, eh?
What will they think of next?

I've managed to get my mits on a crystal amp (more vintage than valve, man), and a natural magnetic stone recorder.
It only records two tracks, but I figure if I can achieve half of what Sir George managed with four, I could start a "Fab Two" thread that'd be good for at least 14 pages.
Of course I'd have to wait 40 years in order for the thread to have any cred whatsoever.

As a bonus, the track width is like, 10+ inches.
Whilst frequency response charts are availble in Braille, an hysteresis curve printout has proved all but impossible to track down.

Shooshie wrote:

HeadMaster wrote:You need the Sonalksis TBK3, it ACTUALLY goes to 11...

http://sonalksis.com/index.php?section_id=104



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HM

My goodness! This modern technology! Getting a volume knob to actually go up to 11. That's a full number past the maximum standard. How DO they do it?

Shooshie

[edit] wait a minute.... I didn't see no 11 in the picture. Is this some kind of a joke? There's a band called Spinal Tap. Now THEIR equipment actually DOES go to 11. I saw it once in a movie. Really. I mean, they actually showed it. It was awesome, dude. I'd try to get that system in my DAW, but DP actually goes even farther. It goes into the 60's or 80's or something. But their engineers must have been high. They got it backward. To make it louder, you have to turn it down to zero. I just tell people it's a new scientific system whereby less is more. And they STILL want it to go up to 11. Just can't please some folks.



Shooshie

actually, in honor of the movie, soldano amps, and a later tufnel signature marshall actually DO go to 11.

Appalachian Boy wrote:Damn unicorn's with your tricky sense of humor!

Us? We are all so stoic and formal here. We hardly crack a smile. Our emoticons are all straight faced and serious. We read monkey mans posts and stare in disgruntled abhorrence. We have as much humor as a college level calculus textbook.

Appalachian Boy wrote:(my guitar amp goes to 12 )

My amp has this infinity setting. It's a red button that reads "do not push this red button." I wonder what would happen if I do?

kelldammit wrote: for those purists that prefer the sound of an analog leafblower or chainsaw, this ain't the ticket. it works for me, though, as i tend to prefer the tone of early-80's 4 bit digital weedwhackers. though, there truly is nothing that sounds quite like a well-tuned leafblower...

I would suggest a bari sax, but I think you're right, the leaf blower is much more tunable...


Well actually...
Analog leaf blowers are notorious for drifting out of tune over time. Gigsters from the 70s will remember having to turn the leaf blower on at least three hours before the show to allow the tuning to stabilize.

I think it may have been Roland who introduced the first digital controlled leafblower technology (DCLT).

And then of course, the next step was the virtual leafblower. This is not to be confused with the rare Tasmanian Virtual Leafblower, which is a small bird with a large set of lungs. The Tasmanian Virtual Leafblower has been hunted almost to extinction by the notorious Black Lion Mod (usually seen wearing bellbottoms and listening to Quadrophenia).

I haven't been able to use my virtual leafblower because I don't have space on my drive for the 20 terrabyte sample library it requires. Even if I did have the drive space, I hate the 9lb MasterLock titanium dongle. Don't get me started about titanium dongles...

Dave

billf wrote:My amp has this infinity setting. It's a red button that reads "do not push this red button." I wonder what would happen if I do?

You'd never have to do yardwork again. And DP would settle into an otherworldly silence, with the stillness interrupted only by the distant sound of incredibly realistic baritone weedwacker VI's resonating against the hissing of summer lawns.

HCMarkus wrote:

billf wrote:My amp has this infinity setting. It's a red button that reads "do not push this red button." I wonder what would happen if I do?

You'd never have to do yardwork again. And DP would settle into an otherworldly silence, with the stillness interrupted only by the distant sound of incredibly realistic baritone weedwacker VI's resonating against the hissing of summer lawns.

lol, so it seems like I better slap the Waves L3 on top of that thing and make sure I keep it at reasonable levels.

well my amp only goes to 9 because i play harder

reminds me of the old jazz saying 'turn down and play harder'

in this day of over compressed cd and overcompressed everything by turning in down u actually stand out from the crowd.

marshall made an amp that went to 20 but i think it was false advertising because it didn't sound twice as loud as one that only went to 10

billf wrote:

HCMarkus wrote:

billf wrote:My amp has this infinity setting. It's a red button that reads "do not push this red button." I wonder what would happen if I do?

You'd never have to do yardwork again. And DP would settle into an otherworldly silence, with the stillness interrupted only by the distant sound of incredibly realistic baritone weedwacker VI's resonating against the hissing of summer lawns.

lol, so it seems like I better slap the Waves L3 on top of that thing and make sure I keep it at reasonable levels.

Oh, so now you want roses, too? New analogy: L3 = Horse Manure (but in a good way!)

magicd wrote:Don't get me started about titanium dongles...
Dave

Wish I had a titanium dongle.

monkey man wrote:

magicd wrote:Don't get me started about titanium dongles...
Dave

Wish I had a titanium dongle.

As with so many things, it's all about inspiration and perception Monkey... years ago I married the girl who made me feel like titanium. Wear-resistant qualities of this material have now been proven.

HCMarkus wrote:

monkey man wrote:

magicd wrote:Don't get me started about titanium dongles...
Dave

Wish I had a titanium dongle.

As with so many things, it's all about inspiration and perception Monkey... years ago I married the girl who made me feel like titanium. Wear-resistant qualities of this material have now been proven.

You lucky bugger, HC.

HCMarkus wrote:Oh, so now you want roses, too? New analogy: L3 = Horse Manure (but in a good way!)

Don't get me started on Waves.

LOL, no, the L3 itself is quality. The truth is that Waves = Monkey Poop. Or perhaps it is better said that WUP = Monkey Poop, otherwise known as the Waste Update Program.


I am glad that there are sane companies out there like MOTU that don't force such ridiculous policies onto their customer base.

Now, back to my amp with it's shiny red button....

billf wrote:Now, back to my amp with it's shiny red button....

billf wrote:...The truth is that Waves = Monkey Poop. Or perhaps it is better said that WUP = Monkey Poop, otherwise known as the Waste Update Program.

Waste Update Program.
That's the best I've heard yet, Billy.

billf wrote:I am glad that there are sane companies out there like MOTU that don't force such ridiculous policies onto their customer base.

Let's hope it stays that way, touch wood.
I can honestly say that if MOTU were to pursue this course, I'd ditch the computer and look at all-in-one boxes.

billf wrote:Now, back to my amp with it's shiny red button....

Where'd you get it?
Are red buttons expensive?
Does yours require a dongle?

I've gotta get me one of these new-fangled red buttons.