★★ BILF 2015 (Category Winners Announced Pg 27! Fuck!) ★★

[PetZounds]

I'm thinking two per category, maybe three if 2nd and 3rd place are really close.

[Iommic Pope]

ILF has average members?.. what's next, boring near-death experiences? coherent japanese commersials?

Comp is going great PZ!
Nice work.

[phantasmagorovich]

What has everyone thought of the competition thus far?
Does anyone have any complaints, suggestions, comments, compliments, etc?

Thank you to everyone who has participated so far!
I'm gonna let the polls run a couple more days, just so everyone will get a chance to vote.

I actually found the big mass of pictures a little hard to handle. My mind was blown after like four or five and I had to go back and forth between the voting and the pictures a couple of times. But I have the attention span of a fly and it is fairer to have everything in one place. So I guess that evens it out.

Maybe you should put a definite deadline, last year there were still some votes trickling in, but once a decision about an end was made even the last slackers got to voting.

[PetZounds]

What has everyone thought of the competition thus far?
Does anyone have any complaints, suggestions, comments, compliments, etc?

Thank you to everyone who has participated so far!
I'm gonna let the polls run a couple more days, just so everyone will get a chance to vote.

I actually found the big mass of pictures a little hard to handle. My mind was blown after like four or five and I had to go back and forth between the voting and the pictures a couple of times. But I have the attention span of a fly and it is fairer to have everything in one place. So I guess that evens it out.

Maybe you should put a definite deadline, last year there were still some votes trickling in, but once a decision about an end was made even the last slackers got to voting.

Yeah, the large number of pictures was my biggest concern.
I'm sure there has to be a better way about it, but I don't know what.
There were so many entries, I would have had to have at least 7 voting threads if we used ILF's built-in polls.
I like not splitting up the categories, but like you said, the sheer volume is a bit difficult to manage.

That's a good point on the voting deadline, too.
In that case:

Voting ends Thursday, Feb. 5th!
Get to voting, dorks!

[goroth]

I think you've done a stellar job Joseph.

[MrNovember]

I think you've done a stellar job Joseph.

I definitely think so too.
Maybe when there are this many entries we could break down the categories into smaller groups and make it kind of a tournament style competition with quarter-final voting, semi-final voting, and final voting for each category

[excane]

I just show my girlfriend pictures from UG or WhiskeyFace and she's like, "ok, as long as it doesnt get THIS ridiculous."

I saved a copy of Excane's humongous family photo of all of his pedals laid out, just so I can pull it up every time my wife gives me shit about buying a pedal.

"Saving relationships one pedal at a time since 2005"

[cedarskies]

now the question remains; how do you people without tuners play along to stuff, and what about having several guitars?

the board i posted is primarily used for keyboards

[UglyCasanova]

I've actually never owned a tuner.

Options
1. Mess around with the tuning machines 'til it sounds okay.
2. Tune after instrument of dude who owns a tuner.
3. Use an app on my phone. Not super accurate but it gets me there.
4. Use free space to add another fuzz.

The few times I have played shows I borrow a tuner from someone in possesion of one...like my mom.

[ChetMagongalo]

My only criticism is that it would have been better to put the signal chain in the descriptions of the imgur photos. I didn't even look at signal chains cause I didn't want to cycle through 3 tabs (pics,voting poll,chains)

[UglyCasanova]

My only criticism is that it would have been better to put the signal chain in the descriptions of the imgur photos. I didn't even look at signal chains cause I didn't want to cycle through 3 tabs (pics,voting poll,chains)

Pretty much this. If I couldn't tell the chain from the photo I just assumed it started at od/dist/fuzz and ended with reverb or delay

[PetZounds]

My only criticism is that it would have been better to put the signal chain in the descriptions of the imgur photos. I didn't even look at signal chains cause I didn't want to cycle through 3 tabs (pics,voting poll,chains)

Pretty much this. If I couldn't tell the chain from the photo I just assumed it started at od/dist/fuzz and ended with reverb or delay

I was going to do that, but some people had such long signal chains.
I felt that having tons of text after each picture would be even more overwhelming for folks scrolling through.
I figured most people only look at signal chains for reference, so having a streamlined album of only images seemed the best way to make voting easier.

[rfurtkamp]

I have my venerable quartz needle tuner from the 80s.

And a bunch of the multis have them built in too so why buy a dedicated one?

I never liked the 'step on something and stare at a LED seven feet away' of pedal tuners though.

[morange]

I played with this dude who tuned to notes he had recorded on his computer. It's the only way his guitar sounded good, because the nut on his guitar was too tall (slots not cut deep enough), so his chords played out of tune, but in a very unreproducible, good way, with his special tuning. But there I was wondering why my open chords don't sound right.

But I have one of those sonic research strobe tuners, it's excellent. I do the intonation with it, too. Like, you don't realize, sometimes, how shitty you sounded until you actually get in tune.

[PetZounds]

For one of their tours, Animal Collective tuned to an out-of-tune piano (which they had tuned to a bunch of samples of an out-of-tune piano they'd used on an album).
Or something like that.
I'm not into them but I always thought that was really cool haha.