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Ideas that have altered my perspective recently - billionaires are just human dragons, and we know what to do with dragons; parallel is better than series (and matrixed is better still); we need to talk about seasonal shift more.
@cstross Okay, let me see if I have a handle on this…
⁃ Musk wants to IPO SpaceX.
⁃ So he wants to merge SpaceX and his AI company, because SpaceX looks better if he can glue in the $N-billion investments that he's getting for AI stuff.
⁃ He shouts “AI datacenters in space!" This has no business or economic meaning; it's just stringing VC buzzwords together for a SpaceX/XAI merger.
⁃ Nvidia says “Sure, boss, we can do you an AI-in-space chip.”
My Little Xeony, obviously.
So, with a strat(style) fuzz faces are the classic and interact really well with the pickups;
JHS series 3 fuzz
TC Electronic Rusty Fuzz
Rowin G-Fuzz
Dunlop Mini Fuzz Face
Other ‘classic’ circuits worth internet searching a cheap clone of;
Tonebender
Big Muff
Octave fuzzes (subsets are octavia and COB)
Super fuzz/hyper fuzz
Buzzaround
Shin Ei companion fuzz
All worth exploring to get an idea of what you like.
LLM, fine. AI, way too broad. LLMS aren’t AI for example, they’re predictive text engines and are not intelligent (they are certainly artificial). Conciousness, well that’s the rub. It kinda matters what we’re talking about there, but if you’re simply going for ‘alive’ then obviously a machine can’t and never can be, until possibly we make some really fancy biomech stuff.
There are loads. Fuzzes are beautiful creatures and very very simple so can be pretty cheap.
There are only a few classic designs with lots of modern interpretations, and then some very very modern versions that tend to be boutique and expensive.
Rats are fabulous pedals that go from boost to fuzz and iconicly rock sounding, but not usually thought of as ‘fuzz’ pedals. What’s the budget (and what’s the main guitar you use)?
I think it depends on how you define ‘llm’, ‘ai’ and ‘concious’.
Guitars are noisy beasts, they are basically microphonic microphones that pick up radio static, even humbuckers produce hum (although a lot less). It’s probably not your cables.
And the noise is meaningfully different when that pedal is out of the chain? If so, it’s a fault in the pedal. It should make almost no
Noise when it’s off.
If the hum is there with no guitar, cable changes are unlikely to do much imho, unless one isn’t plugged in properly, or full on broken.
Fuzzes are pretty unfiltered square wave noise machines. I don’t know that one well but most fuzzes are pretty noisy, certainly older designs before better noise supression techniques came along.
That said, there’s noise and there’s NOISE. The later would indicate the pedal may have a fault. Is there still noise when the gain/volume is down? Is there noise when the pedal is off? How does the noise change when the guitar is unplugged from the chain?
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