What is your next guitar/gear purchase gonna be?

[MaxOfMetal]

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Got any suggestions for ways to call out sick from work after you've already shown up and worked 5 hours and are clearly fine ?

No one questions food poisoning. Say it's coming out of both ends and they won't let you go back in for a day or two.

 

[thebeesknees22]

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Got any suggestions for ways to call out sick from work after you've already shown up and worked 5 hours and are clearly fine ?

migraines are common go to

 

[wheresthefbomb]

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Got any suggestions for ways to call out sick from work after you've already shown up and worked 5 hours and are clearly fine ?

I deal with actual chronic pain that comes and goes. I've never had anyone question me when I told them that I was in a lot of pain and needed to leave immediately.

In your case there's no need to specify that it's the pain of not being at home to play with your new toy. The best excuses are vague and assertive.

 

[sakeido]

I deal with actual chronic pain that comes and goes. I've never had anyone question me when I told them that I was in a lot of pain and needed to leave immediately.

In your case there's no need to specify that it's the pain of not being at home to play with your new toy. The best excuses are vague and assertive.

This one is actually true because my back and neck are perpetually fucked and the pain just travels up and down my spine from day to day. Today's a low back day and it's so bad it might actually keep me from trying out the st9 tonight

 

[Crungy]

I deal with actual chronic pain that comes and goes. I've never had anyone question me when I told them that I was in a lot of pain and needed to leave immediately.

In your case there's no need to specify that it's the pain of not being at home to play with your new toy. The best excuses are vague and assertive.

Less detail the better if you don't feel good or if you "don't feel good"

 

[rokket2005]

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Got any suggestions for ways to call out sick from work after you've already shown up and worked 5 hours and are clearly fine ?

Vitamin B3 - Niacin. Get the kind that causes a flush. It's good for clearing out your arteries and also it makes you look like you've broken out in hives. It feels weird, but I like it and most people have no idea what it is. Can take a little while to flush depending on what/how much you've eaten and if you take it every day.

 

[Shask]

The only real issue I foresee is the nut, which on some necks, don't like more than a 9-42 set on them. I've not had any experience with nut filing, and I'm not particularly interested in learning at the moment, so that's a bit of a hinderance.

Just take a piece of sandpaper and fold it until it is thick enough to fill across the nut slot. Swipe it a few times, and move on to the next string. That usually works pretty well if you dont need to go deeper.

That being said, I have used up to 0.52 without any nut issues.

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Vitamin B3 - Niacin. Get the kind that causes a flush. It's good for clearing out your arteries and also it makes you look like you've broken out in hives. It feels weird, but I like it and most people have no idea what it is. Can take a little while to flush depending on what/how much you've eaten and if you take it every day.

I had a friend who swore by Niacin for passing drug tests. I don't think he ever failed one but I'm also not sure it actually worked, I think he just got lucky.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Sounds like an excuse. 99% of guitars handle 10-46 from factory since thats what many ship with and is barely a change from 9-42. Im running 10-46 with no issues.

Just build the guitar, put on the strings and play it. Or dont

I've had more than one tha didn't tune well because of string gauge, so I went with 9-42 and the guitar tuned fine. My experience trumps your opinion.

Anyways, I have to get new strings for it, but I have one guitar currently tuned in D standard that was in Eb standard.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

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Got any suggestions for ways to call out sick from work after you've already shown up and worked 5 hours and are clearly fine ?

Your lumbago is acting up. Or gout that comes and goes.

 

[rokket2005]

Yeah, I'm not sure on the efficacy of that, and to be clear I use it because most people are B3 deficient and it helps with removing arterial cholesterol buildup and a bunch of other things, triglycerides/oxidative stress etc.

 

[Jon Pearson]

I have literally told sent this exactly to my boss in a Teams chat:

"Leaving early. Wife"

Got a thumbs up and we never discussed beyond that.

 

[MatrixClaw]

Anyone have a suggestion for a solid power conditioner? I know a real one is expensive, but I'd love to have one with at least a voltage meter and courtesy outlet on the front, preferably also lights. I've had a Furman PL-Plus in my rack for like 15 years and it's never had an issue, but its stationary in my recording setup and I want another one that I can plug 4 amps into, my Fryette PowerStation and my amp switcher, plus my board into the front. I could plug them all into a power strip, I guess, but I'd like something that will be permanently mounted.

Furman still makes the PL-Plus in an updated version, so that seems like an obvious choice, but I see there's also the Black Lion Audio PG-1 & PG-XLM, Furman PL-8C & M-8Dx and ART PS8-II & PS4x4, plus a ton of others. I don't even know where to start.

 

[sakeido]

Anyone have a suggestion for a solid power conditioner? I know a real one is expensive, but I'd love to have one with at least a voltage meter and courtesy outlet on the front, preferably also lights. I've had a Furman PL-Plus in my rack for like 15 years and it's never had an issue, but its stationary in my recording setup and I want another one that I can plug 4 amps into, my Fryette PowerStation and my amp switcher, plus my board into the front. I could plug them all into a power strip, I guess, but I'd like something that will be permanently mounted.

Furman still makes the PL-Plus in an updated version, so that seems like an obvious choice, but I see there's also the Black Lion Audio PG-1 & PG-XLM, Furman PL-8C & M-8Dx and ART PS8-II & PS4x4, plus a ton of others. I don't even know where to start.

I just got the cheap Radial one this time around. Power conditioners have been tested by the nerds at ASR a few times and it has been found, over and over, that they do nothing. If you want really clean power you need a UPS battery backup system that basically takes AC power in, uses it to charge a battery, then uses the battery to generate clean DC that then goes through an inverter to get clean AC out.

So conditioners are mostly just power bars in a rack mount format, anything works. Do not spend big money on one

 

[budda]

@sakeido whats ASR?

 

[sakeido]

@sakeido whats ASR?

Audiosciencereview.com

They measure all kinds of audio products objectively cuz there is a lot of subjective gobbledygook in the audio business, that sometimes gets people to do really stupid things like spend $2,000 on an "audiophile grade Ethernet switch".

Power conditioners are another product type they really don't like over there, because any competently designed audio product is already filtering out any mains noise it's taking in and a tiny bit more filtering between the wall and the amp/Dac/whatever isn't going to make a measurable difference much less an audible one

If you are having noise issues an isolation transformer or two is going to make a way bigger difference than a conditioner.. I use an ART transX preamp with a transformer isolated DI, and always "reamp" through another transformer in a littlelabs redeye for that exact reason

 

[crushingpetal]

Audiosciencereview.com

They measure all kinds of audio products objectively cuz there is a lot of subjective gobbledygook in the audio business, that sometimes gets people to do really stupid things like spend $2,000 on an "audiophile grade Ethernet switch".

Power conditioners are another product type they really don't like over there, because any competently designed audio product is already filtering out any mains noise it's taking in and a tiny bit more filtering between the wall and the amp/Dac/whatever isn't going to make a measurable difference much less an audible one

If you are having noise issues an isolation transformer or two is going to make a way bigger difference than a conditioner.. I use an ART transX preamp with a transformer isolated DI, and always "reamp" through another transformer in a littlelabs redeye for that exact reason

I need to get around to test my wall voltage. My guess is something like the brown box is more helpful (for some people) than a power conditioner. 2 cents.

 

[Bearitone]

Vitamin B3 - Niacin. Get the kind that causes a flush. It's good for clearing out your arteries and also it makes you look like you've broken out in hives. It feels weird, but I like it and most people have no idea what it is. Can take a little while to flush depending on what/how much you've eaten and if you take it every day.

Be prepared if you do this^^^

500mg had me flush bright red. Feels like you have a sun burn all over but without the pain if that makes sense. Very uncomfortable feeling, even feels itchy for a little bit.

That said it is safe and healthy to take.

 

[nightsprinter]

I need to get around to test my wall voltage. My guess is something like the brown box is more helpful (for some people) than a power conditioner. 2 cents.

Same. I had to spend like $3500 a couple years back to replace a bunch of wire/transformers (or something) with my electrical system. I have a focusrite interface and windows pc all plugged into a Tripp Lite Isobar and every single guitar I got has a noise floor that annoys me to death. Somethings gotta be up because there's no way every guitar/bass I have is wired like shit.

 

[Crungy]

Same. I had to spend like $3500 a couple years back to replace a bunch of wire/transformers (or something) with my electrical system. I have a focusrite interface and windows pc all plugged into a Tripp Lite Isobar and every single guitar I got has a noise floor that annoys me to death. Somethings gotta be up because there's no way every guitar/bass I have is wired like shit.

You did have a bad string of Ibanez

Maybe you're cursed? Probably that?