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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Nothing beats the original delivery

Movie Clip

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Eh my amps scale is from 0 to 32 bit intiger limit. (it's just as loud as the ones that go from 0 to 11)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My peavey modeling amp was very proud that it went up to 13! :}

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ahhh. The vypyr.. I love everything about that stupid amp series.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

6227020800 is definitely higher than 11.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Here's the original for higher quality

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Title text too:

Wow, that's less than $200 per ... uh ... that's a good deal!

https://xkcd.com/670/

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Relevant xkcd about these xkcd's:

image

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I believe it's mandatory to add jpeg when linking to that comic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

If I can't find a well used vintage I'll weather it myself in the deep fryer. I don't do too much, but just a little touch goes a long way.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It would be better to use .PCX or .TGA

The Digital Dark Age is real. At best, we are carving out runes out in a language the future will no longer understand.

What do you have stored on your Zip drives and DAT tapes? Because not only are we carving runes but in fact we are chiselling them into sandstone.

Paper writing will last vastly longer than most digital archive formats. If the data is not actually lost, the devices to read them will be. If we somehow read the data off, it will be incomprehensible gibberish. The file formats could eventually be decoded I suppose, like hieroglyphics. Unless of course they are encrypted….

500 years from now, there will be less information about what we were doing day to day than there is for things that happened hundreds of years ago. If anything is left, it will be the “official” record. In other words, all that will be left are lies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

man, I haven't seen that image in ages. So much nostalgia

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For $2000? Is this comic from the 50s?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The smart engineer then buys a stock amp for $1000, 3D prints a dial that goes to 12, installs it, delivers it to Spïnäl Täp (I can never remember where the umlaut goes), and pockets his well-earned profit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

No 11 is much less than 3,628,800

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel like the last one is a marketer, not a smart engineer.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Self employed and beyond comfortable, financially.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sales executive. Paid more than engineers, is substantially dumber.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah but it’s where the real magic happens and the company would fall about without them because they’re irreplaceable.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Just for the record... it has to do with practicality.

the notches are spaced similar to a clock, but with the deadzone most potentiometers have, it doesn't go a full 360 around, so they stop at 11. This makes for an intuitive scale with familiar spacing on the notches- even if it is entirely arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is not at all the case.

Most potentiometers have a full rotation or 270°, sometimes up to 300°. By convention the mid-travel is at 12 o'clock. That would make the 0 around 7:30 and the 10 around 4:30.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

so they stop at 11

you mean 10, most amps stop at 10.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At the 11 o'clock position, I think they mean. That's a bit arbitrary tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Even the 11 clock position makes no sense, most amps will go from 8 to 4.

Edit, I see what they did. In the picture they used 7 to 5 o'clock as min/max, (which is essentially the same as my 8-4). For some reason they adapted the o'clock numbers to the dial number which is not helpful.

The o'clock numbers are meant to be a static reference point with 12 always at the top most position. You don't bend the clock scale to match the knob min/max.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Based off of my peripheral I really thought that deadzone was Saddam for a second

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

dammit.

missed an opportunity...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

With the power of editing and bribery, we can all pretend you did it right the first go around.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I prefer my dials in base 16, my amp goes to F.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Wonder what that'd look like to a layman. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... Awesome? Beastly? Crushing? Deafening? Ear-shattering? Fuck that's loud?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mineis also base 16 and goes to 10. Which one is louder?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yours is one louder

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

40 years ago someone made a joke

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