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14 hours ago, StrangerInThisTown said:

Good ear man, it's GuitarRig 5. Some guy on facebook actually thought I was using a JCM 800 or something like that. Also the reason why I recorded all acoustic stuff with clean electric, got no mic to properly record my acoustic guitar

I've experimented with a bunch of different home recording set ups. Including GR5, so I've definitely gotten better at telling "fake" vs. "real." Not that the software sounds bad necessarily. And from what I've seen/heard, with the the right studio work you can make it sound pretty much identical to a real amp (in a mix).

What setup are you using in GuitarRig? It sounds very good. Have you experimented with any acoustic simulators? I think GR5 comes with one stock, don't remember if it sounded any good.

About to start my first NG+. Heavily modded. Very excited. Been reading the books and getting into a Witcher mode the last few weeks.

Holy shit man, that's cool. Some of those riffs barely get attention by the YT guitarists, great to see them; especially the Snakepit stuff. For doing it all in 5 days, very impressive. How did you record the guitars? Not sure if I'm right, but it sounds a bit digital like GuitarRig or AmpliTube?

On 7/26/2017 at 6:14 PM, AxlisOld said:

Don't. If you don't know how to do it, it can snap the neck. Especially on a Les Paul because of a design flaw.

This. Slash wrote in his book he destroyed a Les Paul this way.

It's a cool thing to do, but a minor embellishment that is not worth risking an expensive guitar's functionality. If you're loaded with cash and have 20 Les Pauls... sure, go for it.

8 hours ago, Oldest Goat said:

Sounds like it could have been cool.

I recommend Ryse: Son of Rome which is criminally underrated.

I have almost bought Ryse a few times, partially because it's so cheap now and partially because the combat looks great. But, it seems to be a fairly one-dimensional game; not much there other than the combat. And I hear even that gets boring after a while.

Fallout 4. It's my first Fallout game, I've got about 35 hours on it. While it is fun and entertaining at times, I'm getting sort of bored. Definitely prefer Elder Scrolls. If there weren't fairly extensive mods for this, I don't know that I'd be interested enough to play the vanilla game. Haven't gotten any DLC yet. Probably will finish at least the main story.

3 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

(Modern) American ww2 films tend to be directed in the same style: lots of Copelandesque music; lots of slow-motion shots of soldiers looking out of sorts and bewildered; even more so, ''why we fight'' speeches. I blame Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.

Personally I miss war films that were chocks away and consisted of people like David Niven and Richard Burton doing espionage missions.

Play Dirty and The Sea Wolves come to mind.

Currently playing Rising Storm 2: Vietnam. I played RO2/RS a few weeks ago when it was free, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I think the second one has some issues, but it's a lot of fun. And at $10, you can't go wrong.

I was unfamiliar with this series, so if you are too, it's basically Battlefield meets Arma. Squad is also a similar game. Anyone here playing this by any chance? I could use some regular squad mates. 

On 4/2/2017 at 3:14 AM, Silent Jay said:

Nothing has changed. They've practically done the same thing over and over for a whole year. This is NuGNR again on their endless ChDem tour now with Slash & Duff.

On 5/10/2017 at 4:17 PM, Amir said:

Looks like a sequel is a good few years away: http://kotaku.com/sources-bioware-montreal-downsized-mass-effect-put-on-1795100285

Fine with me, I'd also be fine with another series reboot. I finished Andromeda a few weeks ago. Overall, I stand by pretty much everything I said in my half way review.

Finished with 93% completion in about 84 hours. That's a pretty good amount of content, so I can't complain about that. Much of it was unique (though not at all like Witcher 3, which BioWare compared it to), but not all of it was interesting. It felt repetitive, and certain plot points were reminiscent of ME:T.

Combat, graphics, the loyalty missions, were all very good. 

Main story felt weak. I don't think the Angara (or Heleus inhabitants in general) were done well. The planets were too big, filled with too many fetch quests and not enough variety. We had 3 desert planets (Voeld is technically a desert) which I think is too many. Going from Shepard who always had an in control and step ahead attitude to Ryder who was basically tripping over himself was very noticeable. I think this was inevitable given the purposeful decision to take a "lighter tone" with Andromeda. But I preferred the slightly angst-inducing, but always thrilling ME:T style. I also really had trouble seriously liking any of the crew. I don't really dislike any of them, but I can't say I felt bonded with any. Crafting and all of the menus were pretty poor.

Disappointing game, though still fun and probably worth playing.

2 hours ago, Rovim said:

But it sounds like nightmares.

Speaking of... where's Snakepit?

If you like your rig as it is @ZoSoRose, no reason to trade IMO. I've only played a 900 once, and I don't remember it. $600 is an good price, but again if you like your tone, I wouldn't do it. If you can play the 900 first and it's clear that you like it better, that's a different story.

Rovim that top is nice, looks slightly a slightly less faded version of the "faded" tops. I don't like the pickup config, I prefer neck closed, bride open but that can be changed. Here $1,600 is a solid deal on a flamed Trad, I've seen better but not too often. Other details matter though for the Traditionals that can effect value: year/weight relief, tuning system, and electronics.

On 4/27/2017 at 7:18 AM, AtariLegend said:

Been a while since I played FFIX, but this is fucking cruel;

 

Typical FF with the mini games being the worst part of the games. At least it wasn't as bad as lightning strikes in FFX.

This is a screenshot from when I replayed FFX a few months ago (I didn't even bother with the Thunder Plains dodging, I had Lulu Doublecasting Ultima at 1MP usage anyway ):

2 hours ago, Rovim said:

Im posting from my phoneon my way to purchase my first custom shop. Its a fender strat 1967 nos in tobacco sunburst. Seller assures me its hendrixian

Need pics ASAP 

8 hours ago, Silverburst80 said:

I love my Duel Rec. An infant could dial in a good chugging metal tone on it, obviously that's what they're famous for and i have a brutal sound on the 3rd channel for lower tunings. The clean channel took some dialing in but i have it sounding real chimey and bright now...the second channel which i play hard rock out of was the hardest to get to my liking, trying to get rid of the infamous Rectifier fizz took some doing but finally after a few months i found the sweet spots and shes purring now

I like the DR, I owned an older one from '93 that was absolutely killer. Shouldn't have sold it. 

On 4/21/2017 at 11:25 PM, ZoSoRose said:

I'd love a WWI COD. I know COD has become a joke, but they still know how to make a solid (if not silly) campaign.

I really like Battlefield 1, but the campaign was another colossal failure. I'd like a WW2 Dice game for multiplayer and a WWI COD game for campaign

Either way, I am excited about this. It has been so long since we have had a good WW2 game

That was my thought as well. I was really excited at the official announcement, but then I remembered it's CoD not Battlefield. Single player will be awesome, but I doubt MP will be as good as BF1.

How'd you do the guitars?

On 1/10/2017 at 9:00 AM, AxlsMainMan said:

Final Fantasy 8

Legend of Dragoon

Driver 

Twisted Metal

Hell yeah, I'd love an HD remake, but I doubt that will ever happen.

Ah that's much much better than the X51 that showed up on Google. Definitely would agree to reuse those parts. I'd get a Z170 motherboard from Asus or MSI to go along with your CPU and RAM. Case and power supply look good to me, I don't think you need as much advice as you may think.  You're pretty much set.

Yes, but before you do that - I had the same issue changing my CPU cooler from liquid to fan-powered. My new cooling unit was about an inch bigger than my case... so I leave the side panel slightly ajar; it's leaning against the case and heatsink, been running this way for about 2 years. Luckily my CPU's heatsink fan brings heat out through the rear of the case and isn't directed at the side, so this is a good DIY solution. You may be able to do something similar with the GPU.

You will want to monitor your temperatures for sure if you do this, but it's a much cheaper option than doing a new build.

On the other hand, depending on what games/applications you will be using, an upgrade from the X51 may be almost necessary if you want to run them at the highest settings and get the most of the GPU, especially thinking 6-12 months down the road. The specs I'm seeing for the X51 aren't bad, but an i7 and some faster DDR4 RAM will have a better time handling newer games. I considered doing a new build when I got my 1080, and even though I ended up not doing it, I did run a few builds through pcpartpicker: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/DQYksJ 

Random tips from memory for self-building:

• Make sure your motherboard and CPU are the same socket type, and that your motherboard supports your RAM type 
• Don't skimp on the case and power supply, doing so could result in poor cooling and possible power failures
• A fully modular power supply will generally be easiest to work with
• The "K" versions of Intel processors are easier to overclock
• Liquid cooling sounds cool, but IMO is tougher to maintain and more expensive than fan cooling without getting much benefit in terms of actual performance/temperatures
• Read through your motheboard's manual to ensure the correct RAM layout is applied (if applicable) and get any other details that may be easy to miss (this one is from experience )
• Bring a friend! It's always more fun to have a tech savvy friend assist, and having two pairs of eyes on the parts/directions can't hurt either

Honestly though, I know I just typed all of that up, but ultimately if I were you I'd sell/return the GTX 1080 and buy a used 980 Ti for about £250. You'll still be getting ~60 fps in most games and high quality image rendering. Then start thinking about a new PC when you get a 2K or 4K TV (or monitor).

I'm probably going to get a DSL40C at some point soon. I am getting sick of lugging around my half stack, which is way overkill for most of the venues I play.

I do prefer the newer DSL40C and DSL100H to the older DSLs and TSLs, especially when comparing the combos. The DSL40C will have EL34s and the older DSL/TSL combos won't. I also think the lead channel sounds way better on the newer series. I'd personally replace the speaker with a V30 or G12H-75, or maybe G12H-30; but some people do like the stock speaker. 

If you wait for the right deal (and they come up all the time tbh), you can get yourself a great condition DSL40C and V30/your speaker of choice for under $500 all together. Hard to beat that in terms of value.

9 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

Yeah, I don't need a new amp or anything but in the next few years I may have to get one. Having a Marshall would be cool alongside my Fender

Always....need....new....amps....

Very skeptical of this. I think the trailer and the concept behind the story are both very interesting, but this feels a bit too early for a sequel. EA churning the dev machine to maximize $ (ME: A....).  Obviously they want to capitalize on the hoopla surrounding TLJ.

Looks like the details we have so far confirm that they are improving on the first one and even innovating to some degree. Notably missing though is space to ground combat/vice versa. I'll probably end up preordering this, but will absolutely use Origins 24 hour return policy if need be. 

Hopefully this game will address by far the biggest issue from the first one for me: I couldn't fucking play it. Trial worked fine, release version would not connect to servers ever - I tried everything: resetting IP, adding exceptions to firewall, dropping firewall completely, hell I even forwarded a bunch of the ports the game uses. Didn't matter. I ended up buying Battlefront (release) twice, both times returned within 24 hours. Hope this is a better experience. But coming off of recent and not so recent EA dealings, I'm not holding my breath.

2 hours ago, Amir said:

https://www.masseffect.com/news/the-journey-ahead?sf53509845=1

Think I'll pick up Andromeda in a few months after all these patches and improvements are out (and it's cheaper).

Good plan. These patch notes don't address all of the noted issues, hopefully the patch itself will - but I'm not confident. The game plays like it's in beta testing tbh. At least BioWare is semi-acknowledging that the game still needs a lot of work.

Metal crew still here?

On 4/1/2017 at 11:46 PM, Mendez said:

Does anyone know of any other non-Gibson archtop Les Paul style guitars for around $1200-$1300 (USD) and under? I'm planning on getting one within the next 6 months. Planning on keeping it for the foreseeable future.

I was looking at the Gibson LP Studio which goes for around $1200, but I've heard people say you can get a more quality instrument by going with another brand for that price range, such as the Carvin CS3. I know there's also the Epiphone line, but I'm gravitating towards a non Gibson brand just to not put myself into a Gibson-bubble.

So far the ones that I know of that are around that price range are:

-Carvin CS3

-ESP EC-1000 (which have various pickups for different finishes)

Anyone ever tried out any of these? (Including the Gibson LP Studio) And any other makes that I should look up as well? I mainly play hard rock type music for reference

If you're set on the LP sound/look, I think the closest thing to get is a Japanese made LP. There's thousands of pages of discussion on the net as to which are best, and it partially depends on what you're looking for. The $1,200 - $1,300 price range should you get something just as good as a Gibson Studio/Standard, possibly better. Epiphone Elitists are made in Japan - but the others to look for would be: FGN, Edwards, Bacchus, Orville by Gibson, and Orville itself. ESP makes some too which are good, including the very expensive Navigator series. Some Burny, Greco, and Tokai models can be good too.

Most of the major brands do offer Les Paul "style" guitars in that price range, so it's just a matter of going down to your local shop and playing them.

On 4/2/2017 at 3:05 AM, Rovim said:

I know no one probably cares cause it's a Strat. But just talked to the 1954 Reissue Strat chick on the phone. She said it's still for sale. It's her husband's axe and she wanted to know if I wanted to also buy a Mesa Boogie Duel Rectifier amp. I don't have the ears for it so had to decline.

After many fails and almost wins, I think this is gonna be my first custom shop finally. Driving over there tomorrow probably.

I'd like a Strat actually. I don't get to play them often, but I played my buddy's American Standard Strat a few weeks ago and it was a lot of fun. I've never played anything from Fender's Custom Shop though. Did you get it?

1 hour ago, SoundOfAGun said:

Dragon Age Inquisition officially abandoned; I got Horizon Zero Dawn this week and it is gooood! 

How far did you make it into DA: I?