Saturday, August 05, 2006
The Beast Within...
Recently, I saw a car that had a sticker on the side of the door that read "When all else fails, READ INSTRUCTIONS" I discovered certain reasons for the sticker as well. As repulsive as the idea is, there are reasons for it: it works. I have now had my Digitech RP 80 for a year, but I only used the factory presets that it had, oblivious to the wide range of wahs, flangers, amp models, pickup simulators, expressions, reverb settings, noise gates, and choruses available to me at the touch of a button or three. Presently, I have designed several settings, but I don't really like any of them, but the wahs are fun... very fun.
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I'm not going to pretend to understand a word of any of that. Wahs? Flangers? Noise gates? You enjoy this, don't you. Grrrr.
I think you are making words up Graham. And even if you are not, using technojargon is mean (unless all your friends understand said technojargon).
Hahaha! What is up with guys and not reading directions!?
How's the US? Surviving without the Blackwood family? :-) Are you having fun with all your friends there? Kathryn Held told me about organizing a youth group thing for you guys. Did you enjoy "The Village"?
I'm ready for it to get warm again here, but a week in the snow should be great!
I do enjoy it, and I didn't make a thing up. A Wah is built into your expresion pedal so that the whole bloomin contraption goes "WAH" when you push it down. Flangers make the sound all "wiggly" and noise gates prevent your speaker/amp from making static noises like walky talkies do. There, now you all understand my "technojargon"
Reading directions is dull, especially when you can figure the thing out without them. it is fun for several reasons. A, it makes you feel smart: you don't need them, B, it takes time to read the directions, and if it is designed well, we don't need to, C, it is fun to just fool with the thing until you understand it, especially if you are mechanically/technologically orriented.
The Village was great, but I liked the Sixth sense better. Second only to the Matrix in cool concepts I think... Signs was illogical, becuase all life needs water period. I should see the Lady in the Water now.
The US is missing you, and they are all praying for you, You are probably more current than I am on the subject though.
What's this? Has our dear friend Graham become addicted to the horror movie? Count on him to analyze what is physically possible and not possible when watching a movie designed to scare people with unrealistic events. And you still didn't mention what a noise gate was.
oh... heh. They weren't all that scarry, not compaired to the ring...I don't want to see that again. A noise gate is this thing that when turned on prevents your amp from humming, it doesn't (or at least, its not supposed to) make any noise in and of itself. Basically, it turns the system on when your guitar gets loud enough.
haha, yeah, wahs, flangers and noise gates...everybody knows that stuff...lol!
instructions...defnitely for the mechanical and technological minded, they are unnecessary...heh
well... in my unfortunate case, the instructions were at least beneficary. Makes me wonder if I will make it into engineering.
you thought the Ring was scary? but it was so absurd. And you didn't like Signs? maybe aliens don't need water. seriously. . .willing suspension of disbelief my friend. So, have you seen Lady in the Water yet? It's amazing. I loved it. But I like all of M.Night Shymalan's stuff. He's so amazing. There was one other one, that was older about comic book superhero's. . .it has Bruce Willis in it. . .It's amazing. . I can't remember the name of it though. Drives me crazy.
Oh, and how is Signs illogical, and not the Ring? That is way less believable. dork.
that would be unbreakable... I think. If you knew enough about celular functions, you would realize that everything has to be supported by water for anything to work.
I found the ring scarry because it was illogical, I couldn't predict what was going to happen, why the ghost did what it did, ect. I don't like it as a movie, it was incomplete as a story and some other stuff, but that didn't stop it from being the scariest thing I ever did see.
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