u/Thriaat

Can anyone please recommend decent drop in replacement for the stock tuners on an FFTL? Or know what specific size to look for?

I started using a humidifier over the winter. I’m in the northeast US with very dry winters. I kept the room at around 45-58% most of the time and it was comfortable (my guitars loved it) but maybe it was too much. There’s a musty smell that airs out when I open the windows or run an air purifier but comes back overnight when I turn it off or close the windows. I think the humidifier’s wicks may have been partially to blame too, they got pretty smelly a few times before I was able to change them. 

Currently, thankfully, the smell isn't SUPER powerful. More like "hmm, bit stinky..." when I walk in.

It’s a 13x22 room with a large oriental rug. The walls have a large number of acoustic panels that are covered in acoustic fabric. There is also a small loveseat.

I have a fragrance allergy, especially to lemon lime scented stuff, but unfortunately to a lot of fragrances. And a very strong sense of smell (an unexpected bounce back after effect of losing my sense of smell due to covid in 2020).

Anyway, how should I go about cleaning out the musty odor? 

I started using a humidifier over the winter. I’m in the northeast US with very dry winters. I kept the room at around 45-58% most of the time and it was comfortable (my guitars loved it) but maybe it was too much. There’s a musty smell that airs out when I open the windows or run an air purifier but comes back overnight when I turn it off or close the windows. I think the humidifier’s wicks may have been partially to blame too, they got pretty smelly a few times before I was able to change them. 

Currently, thankfully, the smell isn't SUPER powerful. More like "hmm, bit stinky..." when I walk in.

It’s a 13x22 room with a large oriental rug. The walls have a large number of acoustic panels that are covered in acoustic fabric. There is also a small loveseat.

I have a fragrance allergy, especially to lemon lime scented stuff, but unfortunately to a lot of fragrances. And a very strong sense of smell (an unexpected bounce back after effect of losing my sense of smell due to covid in 2020).

Anyway, how should I go about cleaning out the musty odor? 

I started using a humidifier over the winter. I’m in the northeast US with very dry winters. I kept the room at around 45-58% most of the time and it was comfortable (my guitars loved it) but maybe it was too much. There’s a musty smell that airs out when I open the windows or run an air purifier but comes back overnight when I turn it off or close the windows. I think the humidifier’s wicks may have been partially to blame too, they got pretty smelly a few times before I was able to change them.

Currently, thankfully, the smell isn't SUPER powerful. More like "hmm, bit stinky..." when I walk in.

It’s a 13x22 room with a large oriental rug. The walls have a large number of acoustic panels that are covered in acoustic fabric. There is also a small loveseat.

I have a fragrance allergy, especially to lemon lime scented stuff, but unfortunately to a lot of fragrances. And a very strong sense of smell (an unexpected bounce back after effect of losing my sense of smell due to covid in 2020).

Anyway, how should I go about cleaning out the musty odor?

Every two months the filter on our septic tank needs to be cleaned or it runs the risk of black water coming up through the toilet.

If the downstairs toilet starts to gurgle when the upstairs toilet is flushed, I know it’s time. The first time I encountered the gurgle I didn’t know what it meant and black water ended up flooding out of the toilet. 

I now use a company that maintains the tank. I used to have them do a full pump four times a year but they told me I don’t need to empty the tank each time, that just cleaning the filter would suffice. That used to get me about three months (now two for some reason) before I start hearing the gurgle. They come and hose down the filter and it works fine for about two months.

Knowing that the leach field is aging I could understand why the tank would be *almost* full most of the time. But what I don’t understand is, why does the filter clog so easily and so quickly? I asked the guy who does the maintenance and he said it’s the best filter they sell there (they didn’t do the original install or sell me the filter), and that it’s working as it should. But I don’t see neighbors cleaning out their filter ever really.

The pitch on all the pipes leading to the tank appears to be correct. I use proper, septic-friendly toilet paper. The house has no other plumbing issues that I know of. What might be causing the filter to clog so quickly?

I have an amazing sounding acoustic guitar with a typically crap sounding piezo pickup. I want to mic it, play and make an IR out of what the mic captures. 

Can Apple’s Impulse Response Utility or Logic’s Space Designer do this?

I’m suspecting Impulse Response Utility will only do it with me playing live into the app? Which I can do but I’m not seeing how to accomplish that either.

I don't want to use any Melda plugins to do this. Cepstral doesn't seem to work with any software I have. I just want to load in the two files I’ve recorded (the DI track and the corresponding mic capture) and have something spit out an IR file.

There are plenty of tutorials showing how to make an IR of a room but I haven't found anything pertaining directly to acoustic guitar and Impulse Response Utility. The technique seems to be a little different as there is no literal sweep being used for an acoustic guitar IR.

I have an amazing sounding acoustic guitar with a typically crap sounding piezo pickup. I want to mic it, play and make an IR out of what the mic captures. 

Can Impulse Response Utility or Space Designer do this?

I don't want to use any Melda plugins. Cepstral doesn't seem to work with any software I have. I just want to load in the two files I’ve recorded (the DI track and the corresponding mic capture) and have something spit out an IR file.

I’m suspecting Impulse Response Utility will only do it with me playing live into the app? Which I can do but I’m not seeing how to accomplish that either.

There are plenty of tutorials showing how to make an IR of a room but I haven't found anything pertaining directly to acoustic guitar and Impulse Response Utility. The technique seems to be a little different as there is no literal sweep being used for an acoustic guitar IR.

I use Reddit a lot using a tv as a monitor over Airplay. I got a new phone and it auto updated to iOS 26.5. After it did that the Reddit app no longer works over Airplay. It’s fine on the phone itself but displays a frozen, incorrect screen on the tv. Anyone else experiencing this?

I got an FFTL this week. It’s fun to play and looks good but I’m feeling let down by the quality.

The fret ends are kind of unfinished. They’re not super sharp or protruding but there’s almost no angle at the ends.

The frets are completely unpolished. Lots of audible scratching when playing. Feels like shit. Fortunately polishing frets is an easy, if time consuming fix.

Also a magnet sticks to the frets, and might indicate they’re not “stainless” like it says on the product page. I noticed today it doesn’t actually say they’re steel lol, just “stainless”. I don’t know how to discern this with more accuracy.

I just removed the strings and found a few very thin, long cracks along the rosewood fingerboard. Maybe not unusual for rosewood idk

The nut is cut too high and most of the strings bind in the slots. I’m going down a gauge to 9’s anyway. Not to excuse anything but the $1800 SG I bought last year had the same nut issues. As does my squire strat. It seems like most companies mess up this part at the factory.

Cheap sound overall. Turning down the tone knob on the bridge pickup brings out how cheap it sounds. It sounds cool all extreme treble on the bridge pickup when the tone is all the way open. But turning down the tone knob to back that off a little shows the budget sound quickly. The neck pickup is kinda weak too. They both sound sick with heavy distortion. I might change the pickups if I can find something that biting but without the cheap sound (which could have been from the tone pot’s capacitor for all I know). Or even just the pot I guess but that might be a stretch.

It’s also got a weird almost hollow feel overall. Are they chambered or something? Even the neck feels hollow somehow. Maybe that’s the roast?

The knobs are janky but that’s to be expected on a sub $200 guitar fr. I can accept this but will bitch anyway haha

I don’t have a preference when it comes to painted or varnished vs bare necks but the neck on this just feels unfinished. It’s plenty smooth though. Most or prob even all of my other guitars (maybe around 30 guitars atm) are either painted or varnished whatever, maybe I’m just not used to the unfinished feel and it seems weird to me.

It looks pretty great and I do enjoy playing it. It’s totally fun to play. It delivers on the telecaster vibe for sure too. Just kinda disappointed as some seems to arrive to people in way better condition. I have four more days to decide on a return. I get the impression they’re not so easy to work with on that. Anyone have any direct experience?

Let's say I'm in the arrange window and have two tracks. Both tracks are visible, and no volume lanes are currently visible. I click and drag an item on track A to track B. when I release the mouse button, the item is placed and track B's volume lane becomes visible. How do I make Reaper not automatically show the volume lane?

Does anyone know of any good tai chi spots in parks between Albany and Saratoga Springs, NY?

Where I’m originally from it’s common for people to get together and practice this way.