[QUOTE=The_Mop;17931191] sadly because idiots will keep buying whatever piece of crap Apple piss out next.
[/QUOTE]

Not like those customers of [I]other[/I] companies.

sup guys im in a mental institute sexing women in mah third eye


looking for a hot midrange pickup probably gonna get a dimarzio, one that petrucci uses idk any suggestions

[QUOTE=Futuro;17931253]
looking for a hot midrange pickup probably gonna get a dimarzio, one that petrucci uses idk any suggestions[/QUOTE]


Well I have a DiMarzio Tone Zone, Super Distortion, and Norton (in bridge positions which is where I assume your replacement will go). If you like the more classic style crunch I think the Norton is pretty good. It deals with gain really well, though I don't down-tune and all that jazz so I don't know about that if that is what you're after.


The biggest difference I hear is when palm muting, or any type of muting really. The Tone Zone has more of a thrashy quality to it, the Super Distortion is kind of old Metal chug chug with depth, and the Norton is kind of classic rocky crunch crunch.


With that said I find the Super Distortion kind of dull. I actually tried out an guitar with a DiMarzio D-Activator the other day. It was similar to the Super Distortion in how it handled gain; good. Though the D-Activator was really trebly to me. I was playing on a Mesa/Boogie Express 2:25 1x10 in the store. Though it has more of a thrashy type palm muted sound like the Tone Zone but the over all gain sound similar to the Super Distortion. Which I have recently found to be a rather decent lead pickup. :lol:


My favorite bridge is the DiMarzio Tone Zone. I'm not keen on ceramic magnets. I like my Alnico 5. Even if the TZ doesn't have output out the rear, it is a great over all pickup. If you like a thrashy kind of palm mute/string mute/etc. then I'd say definitely look into the TZ.


If you might want a little hotter sounding pickup than the TZ the Seymour Duncan JB has a thrashy quality to it as well. The question is are you a DiMarzio guy, Seymour Duncan guy, or another company like EMG ore Bare Knuckles.

Wow that's interesting do go on

[QUOTE=The_Mop;17931235]Yer, I was about to upgrade to that phone. I decided that I'd wait for a new LG thing to come out. basically has the same features as our phone except it's a touchscreen thingymabob with a better camera. No wifi or GPs sadly :([/QUOTE]

Good call. This is a hunka junk.

I've considered going back to my P1i loads of times. Sell this pos to mazuma.

Thing is, feature-wise, they're pretty much the same phone (difference in UI, camera and touchscreen ). I could get an HTC hero for 20 quid a month as well, but that'd be on a 24 month contract and I can't be arsed with that.

[IMG]http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww187/aidancowen/PICT4430.jpg[/IMG]

Honestly mate, I would just stay away from LG. Like I said - 20 seconds just to open my messages, with nothing running in the background.

Pic unrelated, but it's my 80% finished crossbow.

[QUOTE=AG;17931215][IMG]http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww187/aidancowen/LG.png[/IMG]


That's my phone Mop. Anyways I'm a bit drunk on Pimms. What do?[/QUOTE]

lol LFD

Glad all I want is a regular phone, which aren't as hard to be happy with :P
my krzr k1m/l7c I think it is, works great fo meh

i shall post photos of my phone soon

rite now


i drank a lot again

hey ag, one of my flatmates has those same logitech speakers.

I have the same one as dave, except i didn't get the surround sound one, because why the hell to i need 3 extra speakers.

[QUOTE=mnemonic;17932506]hey ag, one of my flatmates has those same logitech speakers.

I have the same one as dave, except i didn't get the surround sound one, because why the hell to i need 3 extra speakers.[/QUOTE]

So you can hear those bastards creeping up behind you in stalker?


I love those speakers. They're awesome.

Anyone wanna see more stuff in my house? I'm bored. Here's a list:

TV
Fishtank
Toolbox
DVD shelf
Book shelf
Gun stuff
Card/Board games
Fireplace
Bathroom storage
Storage Cupboard
PC

I'll post whatever, then you post. I wanna see everyones stuff.

[QUOTE=JoshIsNumber3;17931251]Not like those customers of [I]other[/I] companies.[/QUOTE]

When other companies release crap it fails and they learn

When apple release crap the fanboys redefine what is considered good

eg "Apple are going to keep a whitelist of apps with ridiculous rules for membership (including not allowing SWEARS)"

becomes

"It's so secure, you can't get a virus"

not like all those phone viruses everyone has huh

Seeing we are still on the topic of phones. I got the iPhone 3GS 16Gb today, the only thing stopping me from returning it for a Blackberry BOLD 9700 is the $35 restocking fee. The GPS on this thing doesn't work in-doors, thankfully works in my car, which kind of scares me. I mean, if it can't work in-doors when there is a clear sky outside can it work if it was cloudy outside?


Irony is I pretty much found out ways around almost every complaint I've heard about the phone or found out that people are just stupid. It has some multi-tasking, but not much. Of course why would I want to listen to music while taking a phone call? I can listen to music and play solitaire, which tells me it depends on the application.

Found out how to create my own ringtones using iTunes. Which saves me money from what the guy at the store told me; that you had to buy them. I use my GPS a lot, and FFS if I buy a $200 phone with GPS I don't want outdoor-GPS; I want GPS!

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17932703] I mean, if it can't work in-doors when there is a clear sky outside can it work if it was cloudy outside? [/QUOTE]

:lol: Those clouds, always absorbing radio waves, the bastards

What kind of building were you in? It's quite possible that it was to do with the building itself (could have been made of concrete on a metal grid frame, which can sometimes absorb the signals)

Just my house, made of wood with like plastic siding or w/e they use. Nothing fancy, no metal roof or anything like that. Hell, I went outside on my covered porch, no walls just a roof that is around 1 1/2 feet thick, and it said I was a mile away from my house. Tried for 5 minutes, the location changed a few times but still put me 1-2 miles away from my house. Walked about 5 feet (I was near the center of the porch sitting at the table we have) so I was just off the edge, no more than a foot off the porch. It finds my location correctly in like 3 seconds.

Hell, I've used my Blackberry's GPS in CEBA on LSU's campus. The thing is 3 floors tall, concrete, built nice and tank like. On the first floor, second floor, and third floor. My gripe is my Blackberry could do it in my house, exactly where I am sitting now. Yet the iPhone, both my 3GS and my mother's 3G, can't. I'm sitting 4 feet away from an open Window in my room and the iPhone can't even find me here? really?

I blame the guitar application that was on the AT&T show floor iPhone. It sucked me in, but I'm too cheap to buy it for $10. I figured it would be like $5. This is what I get for getting something that is fancy. Just should have got the Blackberry to begin with, saved $50 because it comes with a leather holster w/ belt clip (granted the Otterbox Defender series protects the iPhone like a champ and looks good while doing it), and just said so what if the Blackberry doesn't have the best web browser. Granted since I last looked at Opera Mini it has been upgraded a lot. It wasn't that great when I tried it a couple of years ago on my BB 8310.

Opera mini runs on my shitty gprs nokia and is plenty good enough for the 3 times a year i actually use the internet on my phone

I also like how the iPhone can't play half the videos on youtube that I want to watch. It sounds dumb, but the GPS thing really gets me. That I can't use songs on the iphone as ringtones, that the camera takes two years to load, and another few things are minor complaints. The GPS not working 1/4th as well as the one on my Blackberry that I bought for $50 two years ago, an issue with hardware more than software probably, is a big thing to me.

[quote=Bruce E Kinesis;17932680]When other companies release crap it fails and they learn

When apple release crap the fanboys redefine what is considered good

eg "Apple are going to keep a whitelist of apps with ridiculous rules for membership (including not allowing SWEARS)"

becomes

"It's so secure, you can't get a virus"

not like all those phone viruses everyone has huh[/quote]

Exactly. 'Not like those other companies' doesn't stand in this example, as there isn't really any other technology company aimed at the home user that so blatently and inexcusably puts restrictions on what you can do with their tech, to the point of alienating developers and arbitrarily disallowing compatability with certain programs/scripts/plugins/devtools/connectivity e.t.c..... the list goes on.

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17931266]Well I have a DiMarzio Tone Zone, Super Distortion, and Norton (in bridge positions which is where I assume your replacement will go). If you like the more classic style crunch I think the Norton is pretty good. It deals with gain really well, though I don't down-tune and all that jazz so I don't know about that if that is what you're after.


The biggest difference I hear is when palm muting, or any type of muting really. The Tone Zone has more of a thrashy quality to it, the Super Distortion is kind of old Metal chug chug with depth, and the Norton is kind of classic rocky crunch crunch.


With that said I find the Super Distortion kind of dull. I actually tried out an guitar with a DiMarzio D-Activator the other day. It was similar to the Super Distortion in how it handled gain; good. Though the D-Activator was really trebly to me. I was playing on a Mesa/Boogie Express 2:25 1x10 in the store. Though it has more of a thrashy type palm muted sound like the Tone Zone but the over all gain sound similar to the Super Distortion. Which I have recently found to be a rather decent lead pickup. :lol:


My favorite bridge is the DiMarzio Tone Zone. I'm not keen on ceramic magnets. I like my Alnico 5. Even if the TZ doesn't have output out the rear, it is a great over all pickup. If you like a thrashy kind of palm mute/string mute/etc. then I'd say definitely look into the TZ.


If you might want a little hotter sounding pickup than the TZ the Seymour Duncan JB has a thrashy quality to it as well. The question is are you a DiMarzio guy, Seymour Duncan guy, or another company like EMG ore Bare Knuckles.[/QUOTE]

dang thnx for the detailed response you are too kind hehe,


i have only played stock pickups in a 6 string so idk what kind of tone i want, i like bands like sea, periphery, and emarosa, so imma probably just get the tone zone if you dig it for those kinds of sounds

i like a big midrange chug i guess

The tonezone is really good, I've owned it for several years but it had a weird midrange that I never liked. So I bought some Nailbombs from bkp. It's quite similar but has a nicer, highend imo. But it really comes down to taste. The best is definitely to test them, but it also takes a while finding the sweetspot. So a quick jam with them never shows their true potential.

I did a shootout, you can hear the difference between a Dimarzio breed in neck position and tonezone in bridge position versus calibrated Nailbombs here: [url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/933491/Dimarzio%20VS.%20Bareknuckle.rar[/url]
Do notice that I tweaked the patches for the Dimarzios. And that I now have adjusted the Nailbombs to a less extreme position then I had when I recorded it.

But if you want Blub-tone he uses Cold sweats from Bareknuckle if I remember correctly.

[QUOTE=AG;17932666]So you can hear those bastards creeping up behind you in stalker?


I love those speakers. They're awesome.

Anyone wanna see more stuff in my house? I'm bored. Here's a list:

TV
Fishtank
Toolbox
DVD shelf
Book shelf
Gun stuff
Card/Board games
Fireplace
Bathroom storage
Storage Cupboard
PC

I'll post whatever, then you post. I wanna see everyones stuff.[/QUOTE]

wires on the speakers aren't long enough to put them in the back of the room, so I would end up with a row of speakers next to my computer, eliminating any advantages of 5.1

Ahh, k.

/dissertation

[QUOTE=AG;17932666]So you can hear those bastards creeping up behind you in stalker?


I love those speakers. They're awesome.

Anyone wanna see more stuff in my house? I'm bored. Here's a list:

TV
Fishtank
Toolbox
DVD shelf
Book shelf
Gun stuff
Card/Board games
Fireplace
Bathroom storage
Storage Cupboard
PC

I'll post whatever, then you post. I wanna see everyones stuff.[/QUOTE]

you must be ****ing kidding

[QUOTE=mnemonic;17933147]wires on the speakers aren't long enough to put them in the back of the room, so I would end up with a row of speakers next to my computer, eliminating any advantages of 5.1[/QUOTE]

A have a set of 5.1 Logitechs that are similar to those. The RCA cables weren't very long at all so I just got 2 female/female RCA couplers and some longer cables for the back 2 speakers.

The wires on mine are really long. Like 10m.

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17932742]I also like how the iPhone can't play half the videos on youtube that I want to watch. It sounds dumb, but the GPS thing really gets me. That I can't use songs on the iphone as ringtones, that the camera takes two years to load, and another few things are minor complaints. The GPS not working 1/4th as well as the one on my Blackberry that I bought for $50 two years ago, an issue with hardware more than software probably, is a big thing to me.[/QUOTE]

Hack it and you can probably use anything as a ring tone

If I keep it maybe I'll hack it. I mean, Apple has like a one year limited warranty or w/e that comes with it. Other than that, you can't buy a protection plan through AT&T or Apple for it. So I really have no warranty to void. One of the reasons I bought the Otter Box Defender as a case for the thing. Crazy videos of crazy people dropping their iPhone out their second story window on to concrete and that thing didn't miss a beat; just a few scratches on the Otter box defender case.

guys I'd like to learn guitar, are there any good online sites or youtube people that are good? Also what books would you guys recommend? I'm looking into getting a cheap college kid for lessons hopefully, but until then I'll try and teach myself.

Thanks

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Yes how

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no but really

use google dude, there's lots of people on youtube I'm sure, but they like to think they're important instead of getting down to it in other words lengthy

[QUOTE=SgtBaker;17933816]guys I'd like to learn guitar, are there any good online sites or youtube people that are good? Also what books would you guys recommend? I'm looking into getting a cheap college kid for lessons hopefully, but until then I'll try and teach myself.

Thanks[/QUOTE]

what do you want to learn and how much do you already know

[QUOTE=SgtBaker;17933816]guys I'd like to learn guitar, are there any good online sites or youtube people that are good? Also what books would you guys recommend? I'm looking into getting a cheap college kid for lessons hopefully, but until then I'll try and teach myself.

Thanks[/QUOTE]

To be honest I just found tabs to songs that I liked and played them when I first started. It takes a lot of patience to be a theory buff, i.e. "the right way", but then again I also played trumpet for 7 years in school so I knew it to an extent already. I use www.911tabs.com to find tabs for the most part now a days. Miss the days of old before the darn Government shut down a lot of sites like MX.


If anything the Guitar Grimoire series of books are good for just an over-load of information. I have a Scales & Modes book [GT1] as well as Chords & Voicings [GT2] book from them. I believe there are three in total, but they are great reference books. There is no way you will/need to memories these books. They open with 20~ pages or so worth of explanation of how to read the book and the subject which they are on. Then there are around 170 pages worth of what the book is on. I'd reckon just the scales book has over 300 different scales in it shown in full and broken down into shapes.


Past that, and maybe I can find and link you what I'm talking about, I actually like to watch Paul Gilbert little instructional videos. He is actually a pretty good guitar teacher and while a lot of his stuff is too advanced for some one just starting. He does have some techniques that if you can cement them in your practice routine will probably help you over the long run.


Probably two you can implement rather quickly in to a practice:

Rhythm
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNCwzjnqdiU&feature=PlayList&p=3A8A7F872A49FBCC&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1[/url]

Alternate picking/how PG holds his pick
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJNUGHxC3M[/url]


You can probably find a scale reference web site. Just a google and a quick skim of a few sites and this one seems decent for just getting scales:
[url]http://www.blackbeltguitar.com/ChordScaleGenerator.php[/url]

don't listen to anything that man just said

2 mile run.

Feel good now.

Ung, more dissertation to follow.

[QUOTE=fingers mccoy;17934679]don't listen to anything that man just said[/QUOTE]

No, don't listen to anything that man just said. :p

the only thing that lfd can give advice about is how to stay logged into the site as long as possible and pretend that you're interesting.

hey josh

[QUOTE=fingers mccoy;17934036]what do you want to learn and how much do you already know[/QUOTE]

how to play guitar well enough to write stuff (and understand as opposed to just hitting notes randomly, hoping that the next note sounds good following the previous, etc.) rather than just doing covers.

I know basic theory from drums but can't read melodic sheet music or anything. I know hardly anything about guitar either.

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17934554]To be honest I just found tabs to songs that I liked and played them when I first started....Just a google and a quick skim of a few sites and this one seems decent for just getting scales:
[/QUOTE]


Sounds good man, thanks for all of the information, I'll check it out.