When do you decide to flip?

[blakestree]

You remind me of my grandpa.

[frodog]

If you folks had played guitar twenty years ago, you'd have been guitar into amp.

Picking pedals based on looks is just a foreign concept, it really is.

I didn't pick my pens based on how they looked when I wrote with ink either - all I cared about was what they made!

Haha, I did play guitar about twenty years ago. I'm 36. Guitar into amp, or actually mostly acoustic. Effects were foreign to me, until one of my friends brought a Green Russian Small Stone to rehearsal one day. Blew my mind.

And I also draw and write on paper. With ink, or pencil, even.

You're not the only old guy here!

[rfurtkamp]

Heh, I had the luxury of effects before I started playing, but I was recording friends and doing live sound before I picked up an instrument.

And those little boxes were *why* I picked up the instrument, boring old guitar did nothing for me by itself.

[rfurtkamp]

Back when I was your age, we could still smoke and drive drunk.

[rfurtkamp]

I still do in video games.

[Iommic Pope]

This place is a goldmine.
A diamond encrusted goldmine.

[coupleonapkins]

Just buy two of each of everything & you'll be set !

[Jwar]

If you folks had played guitar twenty years ago, you'd have been guitar into amp.

Picking pedals based on looks is just a foreign concept, it really is.

I didn't pick my pens based on how they looked when I wrote with ink either - all I cared about was what they made!

I'm 33 (34 in July) and I DID play guitar 20 years ago. I also played with one pedal that I could have gave a fuck less what it looked like. hah. I totally agree with this.

[Jwar]

You remind me of my grandpa.

I think, in a way, he's all of our grandpas. He's our grandpa.

rstfumeinkampf, grandpa of ILF. Or GILF, for short.

Grandpa I'd Like to Fuck???

[psychic vampire.]

I usually just flip a pedal if I am not using it on any of the many instruments I fuck around with. If it doesn't sound good on bass, polysynths, monosynths, drum machines, or tape loops, what the turn am I doing with it? If it does one specific thing that another broader pedal does better and there is no reason to have two, buh-bye. If i get it for a musical project that never takes off and I don't need it for anything else, or if it fails to impress me after multiple tries. Sometimes i will try a pedal once a week or once a month. I don't need more shit, libraries sound cool, but I would rather actively contribute to making the music i am making at a moment. Right now i will probably get more ise out of a midiverb 2 or other cheap stereo racks than I will most things, so that is prolly what I will get.

[jrfox92]

I was always under the impression that most people here were 35+
Young people don't have money.

[waltdogg]

I was always under the impression that most people here were 35+
Young people don't have money.

we don't. it's true.

[D.o.S.]

I was always under the impression that most people here were 35+

Who you callin' old?

[DRodriguez]

I was always under the impression that most people here were 35+
Young people don't have money.

I'm 24, I'm just irresponsible.

Also, I've been working full time in music for like 4 years now, so I can sorta justify the expense.

[Eivind August]

I thought we agreed that we're all 24.