20th Anniversary - Guitar Amp by db audioware

NeuM

@Jamie_Mallender said:

@Gravitas said:
@Jamie_Mallender

Though it may seem funny to you, ‘pissypants’, doesn’t really sound that good.
It lacks a certain....,’Respect’.

Granted many of us are feeling it under Lockdown
here in the U.K but I do find that rather disrespectful.

I was actually going to have a look at your channel as I remember when you first started.
I’m not going to bother now.

I’m sorry if you dislike my use of the word pissypants. I gather from your post that you haven’t already checked out my channel, which would explain why you’re not familiar with my use of the word, which isn’t even really a word. It isn’t meant in a disrespectful way whatsoever, has nothing to do with lockdown or anything like that. It’s a phrase I use instead of saying faff about with, mess about with, fanny around with etc.. I’ve said it for many many years. I said it once in a video and it got a lot of laughs so it became a thing on my channel. it is totally lighthearted and a little humour goes a long way. Many viewers find it very amusing and are purchasing Merch with it written on to help out the channel. You are the only person who has every expressed any concern over the word and you know, you can’t please all of the people all of the time.

I found it a strangely amusing turn of phrase, certainly not one familiar to an American audience (not to me, anyway). I try not to be offended at every little thing other people say or do. It didn’t seem to me like a malicious or deliberately offensive comment.

Jamie_Mallender

@NeuM said:

@Jamie_Mallender said:

@Gravitas said:
@Jamie_Mallender

Though it may seem funny to you, ‘pissypants’, doesn’t really sound that good.
It lacks a certain....,’Respect’.

Granted many of us are feeling it under Lockdown
here in the U.K but I do find that rather disrespectful.

I was actually going to have a look at your channel as I remember when you first started.
I’m not going to bother now.

I’m sorry if you dislike my use of the word pissypants. I gather from your post that you haven’t already checked out my channel, which would explain why you’re not familiar with my use of the word, which isn’t even really a word. It isn’t meant in a disrespectful way whatsoever, has nothing to do with lockdown or anything like that. It’s a phrase I use instead of saying faff about with, mess about with, fanny around with etc.. I’ve said it for many many years. I said it once in a video and it got a lot of laughs so it became a thing on my channel. it is totally lighthearted and a little humour goes a long way. Many viewers find it very amusing and are purchasing Merch with it written on to help out the channel. You are the only person who has every expressed any concern over the word and you know, you can’t please all of the people all of the time.

I found it a strangely amusing turn of phrase, certainly not one familiar to an American audience (not to me, anyway). I try not to be offended at every little thing other people say or do. It didn’t seem to me like a malicious or deliberately offensive comment.

Thank you for that. It’s not a commonly used phrase anywhere that I know of, it’s just something I’ve said for a long time and it usually gets a laugh. That has always seemed like a good reason to keep saying it. It doesn’t go any deeper than that.

Gravitas

@Jamie_Mallender with respect, it wasn’t said with malice but
I’m an award winning pro musician/composer and respected
professional teacher of thirty years here in the U.K and still going strong.

When we teach, though we are having fun, we approach music with respect.
We don’t ,’piss’, about.
Though it may not be deep for you, many of us are trying to
rebuild the music scene including careers as 60% of musicians
here in the U.K have quit and you’re pissing about.
Pissy pants and pissing about isn’t what we do.

Hence why I said it.
As you have an audience who enjoys that, cool.
This is merely an opinion.
Nothing deeper than that.

wingwizard

@Gravitas said:
@Jamie_Mallender with respect, it wasn’t said with malice but
I’m an award winning pro musician/composer and respected
professional teacher of thirty years here in the U.K and still going strong.

When we teach, though we are having fun, we approach music with respect.
We don’t ,’piss’, about.
Though it may not be deep for you, many of us are trying to
rebuild the music scene including careers as 60% of musicians
here in the U.K have quit and you’re pissing about.
Pissy pants and pissing about isn’t what we do.

Hence why I said it.
As you have an audience who enjoys that cool.
This is merely an opinion.
Nothing deeper than that.

All music, art, literature is pissing about, however seriously you’re into it. If you’ve forgotten that, what you’re making isn’t music.

Respect/worth/professionalism is the currency of empty men.

NeuM

@wingwizard said:

@Gravitas said:
@Jamie_Mallender with respect, it wasn’t said with malice but
I’m an award winning pro musician/composer and respected
professional teacher of thirty years here in the U.K and still going strong.

When we teach, though we are having fun, we approach music with respect.
We don’t ,’piss’, about.
Though it may not be deep for you, many of us are trying to
rebuild the music scene including careers as 60% of musicians
here in the U.K have quit and you’re pissing about.
Pissy pants and pissing about isn’t what we do.

Hence why I said it.
As you have an audience who enjoys that cool.
This is merely an opinion.
Nothing deeper than that.

All music, art, literature is pissing about, however seriously you’re into it. If you’ve forgotten that, what you’re making isn’t music.

Respect/worth/professionalism is the currency of empty men.

Agree. All that matters is the music (or art, or what have you).

Gravitas

@wingwizard said:

@Gravitas said:
@Jamie_Mallender with respect, it wasn’t said with malice but
I’m an award winning pro musician/composer and respected
professional teacher of thirty years here in the U.K and still going strong.

When we teach, though we are having fun, we approach music with respect.
We don’t ,’piss’, about.
Though it may not be deep for you, many of us are trying to
rebuild the music scene including careers as 60% of musicians
here in the U.K have quit and you’re pissing about.
Pissy pants and pissing about isn’t what we do.

Hence why I said it.
As you have an audience who enjoys that cool.
This is merely an opinion.
Nothing deeper than that.

All music, art, literature is pissing about, however seriously you’re into it. If you’ve forgotten that, what you’re making isn’t music.

Respect/worth/professionalism is the currency of empty men.

That isn’t my currency and my conversation wasn’t with you
as it was directed at Jamie Mallender and the conversation
between us as he replied respectfully and so did I, though we have
differing opinions, still wasn’t directed at you.
But in keeping with your comment,
I’m an empty man and please ignore whatever I say.
As mentioned before it’s merely an opinion.

Us empty men, women and gender fluid are going to try and
save some respected careers, livelihoods and a devastated music scene.
I tend to treat such things with respect.

roygbiv

Back to our regularly scheduled programing (or programming).....

I bought this yesterday and fooled around, er, seriously played with it for several hours last night.

I must say, while it doesn't quite get there for matching a tube amp in feel/sound, it gets VERY close. Especially in the "have fun with, er carefully execute some classic rock riffs". And i say that as a guy in his late 50's that has a number of 60s and 70s era Fender amps of varying sizes.

Although I have (and like) several Nembrini amps, this 20th Century Anniversary Amp is really what I've been looking for.

Very easy to dial up a great vintage 70s clean/dirty clean/sparkling dirty sound. With little effort, I was getting some very good, usable sounds, all the way from classic rock to punk (Stones, to the Clash, Cheap Trick to Chronic Town-era REM, etc.) All tones that can be hard to capture easily with most SIMS I've tried (why are so many SIMS so heavy on the heavy?). It also passes the open chord and power chord test - you know, give them a whack, let them ring out, and listen as the harmonics fight it out.

Anyway, yes, there is a little bit of sponginess noted above by others. And if you really listen, Yes, the upper-mid/top end sparkle of the distortion is a little flat. But jut a little, and you have to really listen to notice it.

However, more importantly - the overall interactivity, usability and general "feel" factor is great!

Having all the basic options laid out in a very intuitive fashion (to me) more than makes up for the slight negatives above.

This is the only amp sim (of the many many many i've tried over the years) that I can actually see using live, on stage in a bar, after a couple of beers.

Its all there. No menus, no routing madness, just "I need more gain". move knob. "Wait, I mean less gain, more treble". Move knobs. "Nah, I was right the first time. Wait, maybe also add some delay that would be tasty". Move more knobs.

You get the idea, very interactive.

Gonna try it at JamKazam band practice in a couple of hours, will report back how well that worked.

Jamie_Mallender

@Gravitas said:
@Jamie_Mallender with respect, it wasn’t said with malice but
I’m an award winning pro musician/composer and respected
professional teacher of thirty years here in the U.K and still going strong.

When we teach, though we are having fun, we approach music with respect.
We don’t ,’piss’, about.
Though it may not be deep for you, many of us are trying to
rebuild the music scene including careers as 60% of musicians
here in the U.K have quit and you’re pissing about.
Pissy pants and pissing about isn’t what we do.

Hence why I said it.
As you have an audience who enjoys that, cool.
This is merely an opinion.
Nothing deeper than that.

It’s just a word. It doesn’t mean I’m actually pissing about. If you care to, you could look me up and find out how serious a musician I am. I don’t shout about it but it’s out there for people to find out if they wish to. You have presumed an awful lot based on one word which seems somewhat judgemental to me. As much as music is my life, my job and I live and breathe it, I also like to have a laugh. The more successful you get in the business, the more you realise the importance of that, because the music business will bring you the best of highs but also it’ll stab you in the back and break your heart. In those times I found there was great value in being able to make my band mates laugh by saying something irreverent, stupid, inappropriate or whatever. Laughing through the tears. I don’t expect you to order a “Don’t Pissypants About” T-Shirt anytime soon but maybe before you judge too harshly, just learn a little about me and you know, context is a thing too.

Gravitas

@Jamie_Mallender said:

@Gravitas said:
@Jamie_Mallender with respect, it wasn’t said with malice but
I’m an award winning pro musician/composer and respected
professional teacher of thirty years here in the U.K and still going strong.

When we teach, though we are having fun, we approach music with respect.
We don’t ,’piss’, about.
Though it may not be deep for you, many of us are trying to
rebuild the music scene including careers as 60% of musicians
here in the U.K have quit and you’re pissing about.
Pissy pants and pissing about isn’t what we do.

Hence why I said it.
As you have an audience who enjoys that, cool.
This is merely an opinion.
Nothing deeper than that.

It’s just a word. It doesn’t mean I’m actually pissing about. If you care to, you could look me up and find out how serious a musician I am. I don’t shout about it but it’s out there for people to find out if they wish to. You have presumed an awful lot based on one word which seems somewhat judgemental to me. As much as music is my life, my job and I live and breathe it, I also like to have a laugh. The more successful you get in the business, the more you realise the importance of that, because the music business will bring you the best of highs but also it’ll stab you in the back and break your heart. In those times I found there was great value in being able to make my band mates laugh by saying something irreverent, stupid, inappropriate or whatever. Laughing through the tears. I don’t expect you to order a “Don’t Pissypants About” T-Shirt anytime soon but maybe before you judge too harshly, just learn a little about me and you know, context is a thing too.

Edited.

I take words seriously as you’ve noticed.
I saw ,’pissypants’, and it appeared disrespectful to me especially
for the anniversary release from a really well known sound designer.
I’ve seen your show as I’ve mentioned, though the
most recent one that I’ve seen was your review for Mixbox.
Your explanations for instance when you gave the review for Mixbox?
I almost bought Mixbox from your review but what
I actually remember the most wasn’t Mixbox, it was your playing.
You’re a good player, both on guitar and bass.
You have good tone which is equally as important as technique.
That requires patience everyday.
If I was hiring solely based upon your playing,
I would’ve hired you there and then and I still would now.

Agreed, music can break your heart.

I remember when you were ill and you were
still doing a review from your hospital bed.

That’s dedication.

I respect that.

I’m not judging you, I’m judging the usage of the word pissypants.

If it is a running joke on your show now???
Then forgive my opinion.

If it’s like ,’The Young Ones’, the T.V show then certainly I get the humour.

That’s it.

dokwok2

The app just went on sale. What do people think of it, a year later?

MAtrixplan

@dokwok2 said:
The app just went on sale. What do people think of it, a year later?

I see no updates and new features but maybe it has to be that way

hisdudeness

@dokwok2 said:
The app just went on sale. What do people think of it, a year later?

Liked it when flying haggis was released , and still like it in present form, does not emulate anything , sound just great

espiegel123

@dokwok2 said:
The app just went on sale. What do people think of it, a year later?

If you are after clean sounds, it is pretty nice. I am not a fan of its crunch/distortion/overdrive.

SNystrom

Here’s the link, for those interested:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1553090626

NeuM

@espiegel123 said:

@dokwok2 said:
The app just went on sale. What do people think of it, a year later?

If you are after clean sounds, it is pretty nice. I am not a fan of its crunch/distortion/overdrive.

I like the fact that we have abundant free and paid alternatives for almost anything we need these days to make music production and performance easier.

Poppadocrock

@dokwok2 said:
The app just went on sale. What do people think of it, a year later?

Yup $8 off down to $11.99.

mojozart

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