Are some of you guys on the Guitar Summit?

Hey, at least you spend a lot of time trying your best to capture the Plexi back in the day, so you'll still "have it" in that sense, Geraldo.

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Smoking is my nemesis...

Nicky's recipe for guilt-free smoking:

1) Buy the German "Manitou Organic" tobacco.
2) Smoke it through a pipe.

1) Will remove those thousands of chemical additives from your life (they're what cause toxicity-related diseases, IOW, all those associated with smoking except emphysema and moisture-related issues).
2) Will eliminate the scarring effect (tiny burn marks on your lungs' alveoli that result in scarring and therefore compromise oxygen absorption) of hot ash particles' hitting them - all cigarette, joint and chillum-pipe smoking produces these.

Your lungs and trachea move undesirable particles upwards towards your mouth using tiny hairs at the rate of, IIRC, 8mm / minute. This constant action is a part of our design, so by "simulating" the breathing of smoke from bushfires, BBQs, camp fires and whatnot, which is what I've recommended would achieve (minus the embers thanks to the water pipe), you're effectively operating within the bounds of nature, albeit with added pressure on the previously-described elimination system.

One last thing - I've argued for decades that my recommendations are technically-non-toxic, and I stand by that. A recent discovery in horticulture happens to confirm what I've been saying all along:
Some growers are now applying what they call "smoke water" (water containing smoke - duh) and finding that it benefits plants in many ways. If it were toxic in any way, this would not be the case. If you attempted to use smoke water made with cigarettes, you'd kill 'em, no doubt.

Rant over. Hope this helps with your nemesis, Brother Geraldo, and get your ass back to Kemper Land™ pronto, bud.

Hi Geraldo, I remember you and just thought you got bored of the forums. Interesting that you sold your Kemper and now want one again, I did that once and had to buy another.

But 8 totally agree with you, it's more important to be making music and playing out than worrying if your gear is not as good as player X. In the end of the day, if your playing smokes, nobody is going to care about what you're playing through.

Hopefully you will get one sooner than you think, now that you have started this thread

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... if your playing smokes...

Touché.

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In the end of the day, if your playing smokes, nobody is going to care about what you're playing through

Actually, I find the opposite is true. No one cares what rig the crappy guitar player is playing through, as his playing makes anything sound rubbish. On the other hand, everyone wants to know what the great guitar player is playing through, even though he makes anything sound good
We all want to believe that the greats have some secret that makes them sound awesome, and if only we could all be in on it, then we would sound great, too. Just not true

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Actually, I find the opposite is true. No one cares what rig the crappy guitar player is playing through, as his playing makes anything sound rubbish. On the other hand, everyone wants to know what the great guitar player is playing through, even though he makes anything sound good We all want to believe that the greats have some secret that makes them sound awesome, and if only we could all be in on it, then we would sound great, too. Just not true

Sorry, I think there is some confusion about what I meant by "your playing smokes". It was supposed to be more akin to that Mask movie ("smoking!") rather than sucking.

If a player sucks, it really doesn't matter what they're playing through. But what's interesting is when a super guitar player plays through some rig that is not his signature equipment. You can get better ideas of the actual tone from videos of that imho, rather than some censored bullcrap where they tell you what you should publish/broadcast

I don't think there was any confusion, AJ.

We all know that great players can make "anything" sound good, and yet we still tend to fall into the trap of thinking that if we could just acquire such and such a piece of equipment 'cause [insert guitar hero here] uses it and it must therefore be a part of his or her secret, that it'd help us be better players somehow.

Since i save up and only buy high end gear a dood once was really interested in some of my gear, he also smoked...he went on and on about how some of this gear sounded and was just blown away, he had to have it, i asked him how long he had been smoking for.

I got out my Ipod calculator(high end one ) and did a few clicks, i showed him the figure he has spent on this habit and compared it to how much GEAR he could of bought by now.

He gave up 3 weeks later.
He saved a lot of money after that.
True story.

And no it was not AJ

Ash

Welcome back @Geraldo7

I'm not sure what the Guitar Summit event is, but it sounds cool. Can you explain a little?

Nice to see one of the early guys back on the scene. You and I did alot of tips on the Midiraider and Allaccess programming troubles pre KPA Remote days. Good to have you back mate!