Heads and combos and March 7th

This blog is also for my sanity, as is talking about amp choices.  Really missing having a guitar amp.

The DSL40c is probably my perfect choice except for one thing: the "c" in the name is for "combo".  I tell people what combo amplifier means and they snark at me like I was telling them something everyone knows.  I talk about heads and cabs though and I get blank stares, so... there's that.  Technically you can say heads are combos too(pre-amp and power amp), but its not common nomenclature.



So why does it suck that the DSL40c is a combo?  Well, it goes back to my search for a bass amp.  I have almost opposite views when it comes to bass vs guitar equipment.  Its stupid, I know.  Anyway, I knew and planned to try a bunch of different bass amplifiers.  I could switch bass "head" units to figure out which I liked better, and the speaker cabinet acts as a sort of known quantity.  The speakers stayed the same, so it was the head that was making any changes.

There's another, more practical reason.  If a amplifier head goes bad, you still have the speakers.  You do not have to replace your entire set up because a circuit went bad.  This happened to me early in my bass head search, but I still had another head, so it did not affect me very much.  This is the reason I really want to do this with my guitar set up.  I don't plan on owning a lot of amp heads or going on a search with my guitar heads like I did my bass units, but the way my brain works, I need that ability to not lose my entire rig because a circuit goes bad.







March 7th

I wasted the day.  Yea, it makes me feel horrible, so get your hate on.

I watched Season 3 Walking Dead, though I'm not quite done with it.  I have to say that I enjoyed Season 1 mainly for the company that was with me while I watched it.  It was the first "show" that me and my girlfriend really shared together.  Later we've shared Adventure Time, Big Bang Theory and Doctor Who, but Walking Dead was first.  I felt the pacing was kind of tedious with season 1, but overall rather enjoyable.  I'm into the whole post-apocalyptic thing no matter which genre of it that the show is.

Season 2 was a bit too much telemundo if you get what I'm sayin'.  I mean that it was too much like a soap opera, and felt like entire episodes did not have any "this is the end of the world in a zombie invasion" feel to it.  The last episodes of season 2 picked things up and ended in a "holy.. what?" kind of moment.  So it took me over a year to get around to watching Season 3.

Season 3 has blown me a way.  There's drama, but its not all "highschool with 30 year olds" drama, its drama about what it means to be human and just how much has the world changed the characters living in it.  It is also ruthless.  It makes it hard to get attached to a character in the same way Game of Thrones does, except... its brilliant.  You do not want to like someone because they might die.  Read that again.  That's exactly how the characters on the show feel about new people.  You're protecting yourself just like the characters do.  You share a little bit with them, and that's something "screen acting" has struggled with causing since the first shows stopped being performed in front of audiences.