LeviathanKiller

Knee-shooting Archer, from Deep Southeast

1. LeviathanKiller
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  Apr 30, 2018
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Location:

Deep Southeast

Primary Seven:

Schecter KM-7 MK-II (BP)

Main Rig:

Axe-Fx III + Kemper

Primary ERG:

Agile Intrepid Pro 828

Other Guitars:

Ibanez bass

Preamp/Amps:

Axe-Fx III
Axe-Fx II XL+
Kemper

Effects & Pedals:

Moog EP-3 Expression Pedal
DigiTech JamMan Solo XT

Cabinets / Monitors:

Electro-Voice ZLX-12P

Studio & Recording Gear:

Focusrite 2i4
JBL LSR 308 set

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Guitar (obviously), photography, computers, other tech, the outdoors
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But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You shall form an essential part of my backline." - prlgmnr
You can click on the items to be taken to their NGD/NPD/etc post.
Feel free to ask questions about any of the stuff. I like to help people when I can. It makes me feel justified in being a gear hoarder.

"Amps": Fractal Axe-Fx III, Fractal Audio Axe-Fx II XL+, and Kemper Profiler (rackmount)
Speakers: JBL LSR308s and Electro-Voice ZLX-12P
Picks: BlueChip TAD60-1R, Wegen (Trimus 350), PurplePlectrums (Mid-Tech UHMWPE Scallon, Torlon PAI Shield), Winspear, Dunlop Jumbo Flow 3mm
Guitars:
Agile Intrepid Pro 728 (Charcoal) w/ SD Blackout set (will swap)
Agile Septor Elite 727 SS (Oceanburst Flame) w/ Bare Knuckle Juggernaut set (alnico 5 + ceramic) (might swap to Seymour Duncan Omega/Alpha set)
Agile Septor Pro 728 (Charcoal) w/ Guitarmory Red Stone set (alnico 5)
Agile Septor 727 (Tribal Red) w/ Guitarmory Polaris set (ceramic) {amazing pickups}
Agile Legacy 727 (DBBR) w/ Cepheus passive set
PRS SE SVN (Gray Black) w/ Guitarmory Orion set (alnico 5)
Schecter C-7 Apocalypse w/ Schecter Apocalypse-VII set (alnico 5 + ceramic) {amazing pickups}
Schecter KM-7 MK-II (Black Pearl) w/ Guitarmory Atlas set (alnico 5) {amazing guitar and pickups}

NGD posts (or post addendums) coming soon for these (in planned order):

Washburn Parallaxe Solar 17ETC w/ Duncan Solar set

Agile Intrepid Pro 828 (Oceanburst Flame) w/ Cepheus passive set (doing a Guitarmory Voyager rewind likely)

Schecter C-7 SLS Elite (Black Fade Burst) w/ Fishman Fluence Modern set (might swap for Tosin Abasi set)

Schecter KM-7 MK-II (Natural Pearl) w/ Fishman Fluence Keith Merrow set {amazing guitar and pickups}

Schecter Hellraiser Hybrid PT-7 w/ Guitarmory Foxbat set (ceramic)

Schecter KM-7 MK-II (Natural Pearl) w/ MojoTone Black Magic set (alnico 5 + ceramic) {amazing guitar and pickups}

Jericho Elite 7 (Satin White) w/ DiMarzio Titan set (seem a bit thin, maybe swapping to Guitarmory Polaris set?)

Solar A1.7 BOP Artist LTD w/ Duncan Solar set (will swap)

WAITING ON: Schecter KM-7 MK-III (Blue Crimson) (swapping to Guitarmory Foxbat AlNiCo 5 set maybe)

WAITING ON: ??? arriving Friday 10/5/2019

WAITING ON: ??? arriving next year

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Andrew Lloyd Webber said: ↑

Mike’s stepping into a market in which preorder shenanigans are not only standard, but the single determinant of whether the product trips over its own dick upon leaving the gate. If he wanted to go against the grain, the product wouldn’t even have been considered.

The target consumer for this recent slew of DAW amp plugins is the djent/prog-aestheticist who already has a djent/prog rig and DAW, but needs to always be filling the void in their soul with the latest and greatest means of getting their hypothetical guitar signal to sound like a spring door stop mixed with a utensil in a garbage disposal, no matter how redundant each replacement is.

In this lifestyle, the outboard components of the perfectly functional and streamlined bedroom rig are constantly being recontextualized as, and relegated to, the “gig rig for when I gig some day” - AKA, the corner.

Imagine if Apple released a $50 emulation of your iPhone to be used from your iPad, but (due to unqualified parenting) you only ever used either in your bedroom - So you’re looking at your $825 phone while you’re using the $875 tablet’s $50 emulation of the $825 phone, rather than picking up the phone. And now that you’ve paid the $50 for the emulation of the $825 phone, you find yourself consciously choosing the cheaper emulation over the more expensive hardware in order to justify the cost of the cheaper emulation, rather than the more expensive hardware.

And because the target market is limited those who think this is a great idea, the model comes loaded with an inherent imperative to saturate the Youtube Influencer-consumer market with enough role models in a chair bragging that they’ve replaced their collection of outboard hardware with redundant emulation that the demographic is inundated with the tacit assumption that this all just makes sense, somehow.

And that neckbeard-niche is such a slim slice of the already-niche djent/prog market, that the only realistic means of one of these products dominating sales is, again, if at least one of the major players in the competition trips over their dick out the gate. Whomever the major players in the redundant DAW amp plugin market end up being, they will only succeed by their competitors’ abject failure.

Come Winter NAMM, we’ll all be playing armchair CEO about how, in hindsight, Company A shouldn’t have bet everything on a singular celebrity endorsement drumming up preorders, whereas Company B underestimated how much the announced release date-postponement harmed preorders. Meanwhile, Companies C and D out of left-field could have had equal success, if only D hadn’t failed to address crash-bugs in the first week following release. This resulted in C being the most well-regarded, even though it ultimately had fewer features than what was promised by D.

And then, come the Winter NAMM plugin announcements, those who constitute the target-consumer base will be afflicted with amnesia.

This market exists not just because these people spend the money,

but because they perpetually believe they’re One Major Purchase away from being this:

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