How much transparent plastic do you have as a building material in your house? Because we already have a non-plastic alternative - it’s called glass. And that’s what ALL the clear surfaces are in my house envelope.
PennyRoyal
joined 7 months ago
I’m lucky to be old enough that “Pirating” for me was one of those twin-tape-deck stereos. I miss physical media, and in all honesty I’m still mad a Minidisc for not becoming the universal format. They were way more futuristic than an iPod. My cousin putting his headphones on me, sat in the back of an old pickup, and playing me Tail Gunner by Iron Maiden when I was maybe 9 is still burned into my brain - his Walkman had EQ sliders in the front, which made it the coolest tape player ever pretty much!
Obviously my tastes were pretty cheesy to start with, but by the time I was 17 I was sneaking off to see Biohazard, and, over the years, having heard bands like Killswitch and Gojira pop up and fit into niches in my brain that I wasn’t really aware of existing is still as satisfying in my 40s as it was as a teen.
Edit :- putting his headphones on me. I can’t stress that enough. That would have been a very different anecdote
I reckon that those first heavy bands you find imprint themselves on your teenage brain. I remember taping the Radio 1 Rock Show while I was asleep, and then playing it back and hearing Monster Magnet and Machine Head for the first time. That opened a door in my 13 year old brain that’s never been closed since
YSK about SomaFM, an independant non-commercial internet radio with really nice and diverse curated channels
Ok, this was on sale this weekend, and bugger me if this isn’t one of the weirdest, most amazing games I’ve played. I don’t always have the attention span to play a game through once of its not really gripping, but within a short while of starting this I knew I’m going to have to play it at least once more, it’s fantastic
I’m mystified how this isn’t a more well-known pedal, it’s about the most perfect fuzz tone to my ear. The sub switch takes it from a high, sizzling tone that cuts through a mix like a saw, right through to the noise of an earthquake. It’s in a similar realm to the Carcosa (which I reckon is probably the best value fuzz ever made, really versatile) but a bit weirder and heavier. Joyous.
Bunged a couple of pedals from the B-team box onto a little board I’d bashed together a while ago. I’ve had to cut the right-hand end down a bit to plug the Dirty Robot in.
I’ve been using this on synths, just as a bit of fun really. The dirty robot is fantastic, and very versatile. Seems redundant, using a synth pedal on a synth, but on rhythms it does all sorts of joyous things. The Bass Overdrive is a great little budget drive, and the wet/dry mix and low/hi tone shaping makes it well suited for synths. The Aurora is a nice, simple delay that you can manhandle nicely, and the Exosphere is a reverb that can be rather wild especially with the Little Monster expression switch.
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Now I want to know what these slang sayings are