Recent content by friedtransistor

Uh, kay then. I clicked through a few names, and then popped up... FleshDick. wow. Ok, now I can't stop laughing... AssWhale... Nothing but AIDS... FistTorture... Chaotic Bowels... AssFart... The Worst Players... Ancient Fart... I could go on all day. Who the hell came up this thing! Oh, and...

That reminds me... I went to change my strings a while back, and the E string tuning peg popped right out of its hole. Had to take the tuner apart and screw the damn thing back together. And I wasn't even close to E yet. Thankfully it didn't fly in my face...

Wow, really? Nice. Although I don't think I would use it for bass strings, but maybe I might. I do have a guitar and an acoustic, though, so I would love to try some eb's and elixers and daddarios and martins and dunlops and... Oh my, the tones I could test out and stock up on... I can think of...

Ok, so I have been reading a lot about this whole string club stuff in every GC catalogue I get, and I have looked it up, but it still makes no sense. Ok, so, you pay $20, and you get $5 worth of strings every month. Great, right? So, how is it you can just walk in, sign up, and get $60 worth of...

Hell no, scratches are fine by me. Heck, it feels strange when I pick up an instrument that doesn't have at least a ding or two, because I just know that it is an accident waiting to happen. Actually, I think that with the right level of surface damage, a bass can become a work of art. I want an...

Well, they seem cleaner, and they feel nice and dry... Gotta shower, then I'll try them out. It sure is late, though, and I need to get up early as usual to head to church, so I may not get much time tonight.

Well, I have my old strings in the dishwasher as I am typing this, along with a few other items that could use cleaning. We'll see how this turns out. I couldn't use any of the extra features with the one-hour-wash, so I have it set on pots and pans. Vinegar in the prewash, vinegar and a gelpack...

Thank you so much! This helps me a lot, now I can now not have to worry about hooking b+ to a filament. Or between two gates... Uh, bases... Grids! I meant grids! Also I don't have to fear having a disposable-Kodak moment if I touch the pins on a tube. Out of the amp, of course. Oh, that reminds...

I have a marshall class v amp, and it has a couple ecc83 preamp tubes. I have been wanting to make a 12v tube overdrive, but just can't justify the price of a tube. So I want to just borrow one from my amp to test a circuit. Thing is, I don't know if the tubes themselves need discharged before...

I personally think that an album is better than live, just sayin. Heck, some bands I haven't seen live, but wouldn't after hearing live recordings, even if I love the studio versions. For example, I would never, ever, go see Tarja live. Her songs are awesome, but then she massacered the live...

Tell me, then, what silverware is made of? I was always under the impression it was stainless steel. And whisks? And paring knives? And some pans? Or what about strainers? How does that stuff not rust? I always hought that the high temps and heated drying evaporates enough water. Unless someone...

Something tells me this isn't how you should use alcohol (damn, how do you actually spell that? It never looks right.) to clean strings. And I sure as hell hope no one uses methylated spirits that way... :o For that matter, just use water. Hopefully not boiling water, as that'll ruin the...

I love symphonic stuff, but there is just something about doom that makes me shiver... Maybe it the fact that it kicks my sphincter into my chest cavity while vibrating my diaphram in the 4th dimension... Brutality and Beauty. Hey, those should be new genres; I can just see the headlines: Newest...

I was thinking about doing this too. We just got a dishwasher hooked up about a month ago, and it is one of those fancy ones, with the electrostatic buttons on top of the door. (The one at our old house had a dial, so this is a huge jump. Sure beats washing dishes by hand, though.) I was...

Not to be a downer (I happen to love dubstep), but seriously, how many times can you just add some wobble and cut up tracks and get some tight drums arpagiation going, without sounding like every other dubstep remix out there? I can't wait until the day when someone comes up with a way to drop...