u/HillbillyAllergy

Was doing my usual weekend estate / garage sale crawl and happened upon this g100.

The homeowner was looking to get $250 (the usual 'I know what this is worth!' line), I offered $100.

'Well, let's at least plug it in and see if it works.' (I always have my little homebrew signal generator in my pocket)

It did power on, but the amp was letting out a loud thump, thump, thump in time with the amp's tremolo circuit (it's passing some of the signal though). A quick Google of the probable cause says it's about a 90% chance of being leaky / dried out caps on the tremolo or amp power PCB.

I was just going to walk away but he offered it for $50.

I'm going to put it up on the bench and see.

These are pretty cool late 70's-era solid state amps - sort of the 'poor man's JC120' with the jazz cats. There's some paint spatter on the tolex, it's missing one knob and a chip off the logo on the face plate. But I'm pretty confident I can bring it back to its former glory.

Suno's invested a lot of money into paid influencers astroturfing social media with ragebait posts. They're not exactly hard to spot. Constantly lobbing grenades at the 'haters' who are stuck in the old ways of actually playing instruments, writing their own chords / melodies / beats, and castigating them as outmoded dinosaurs.

As the saying goes in politics, "if you're explaining, you're already losing."

To many of us, the closest thing we've ever felt to divinity is the joy of creation - the feeling that we've somehow willed our hearts, minds, and hands into something that is tangible, something that stirs a connection in the listener.

I'm not sure what the TLDR is here other than that I've begrudgingly learned to live with the fact there are people out there who are perfectly comfortable making slop AI plagiarism and calling it their own. But knowing that the companies that enable it are paying accounts to not only defend it, but preen and brag about it? It's a hard pill to swallow.

I'm going to run through some snare drum rudiments now.