[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 25 points 4 months ago
  1. My horse, Lola. She’s an amazing 9yo grey quarter horse mare. “Retired” barrel racer, she’s the perfect trail/ranch horse. She’s got the best quirky and silly demeanor, she loves to hang out, and she’s playful, but never gets crazy under saddle.

  2. My guitar. 2012 PRS 513. I absolutely love that guitar, and it got me back into playing after almost 20 years off. It’s my “do everything” guitar, and the difference in sounds between pickup combinations makes it incredibly versatile.

  3. A good mattress. I spend a solid 1/3 of my life sleeping (or trying to) and a great mattress helps so much.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by CarrierLost@lemmy.one to c/guitars@lemmy.world

Decided to try my hand at a pickup swap. I ordered Seymour Duncan Mark Holcomb Alpha and Omega pickups, an adjustable soldering iron, and watched about half a dozen YouTube videos.

I’m fairly handy, but I’ve never soldered anything before. This was an entirely new experience for me, but I figured worst case I could take it to a shop and have them fix it. So let’s get started!

Strings off Strings off!

Going to change the strings anyway, so they come off first. It’ll make things way easier to deal with, too.

Back cover off Pull the back cover and check it out.

I pulled out the tone pot, which is a push/pull unit on the PRS CU24SE, and compared the wiring diagram I downloaded from PRS and the one that came in the package with the new pickups. I had a pretty good idea what I was looking at, so it was time to start taking things apart.

Stock wiring This is the stock wiring. Going to start desoldering things now.

Bridge pickup out Bridge pickup is out!

Stock pickup came out very easily. Just heated up the solder blob and out she came.

New pickup wired in

New bridge in.

Took me a few tries to get the new solder blob nice and neat, but it went in very easily as well.

Pickup in.

Tested it out, and the coil splitting works! Got it on the first try. The instructions are perfect!

Neck pickup in

Now for the neck.

First one was easy, so I was more confident with the neck pickup.

Mounted up and tested out well.

All mounted up and tested out. Everything is awesome!

Tidy up the wiring

Tidy up the wiring a little and close up the back. Put the new strings on, level and set the pickup height, then let it rip!

All done

That’s it! All done. I was really surprised at how easy it actually was. If your thinking about trying it out, go for it.

The new pickups are phenomenal, and I feel like they’ve elevated the rest of the guitar. The PRS SE lines are really good as is, but I felt like the pickups were a weak link in an otherwise awesome guitar. The Alpha/Omega set are really good. A lot of clarity in the cleans while keeping articulation with distortion. Great addition overall.

[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 32 points 7 months ago

Bought in Dec of 2020. I guess we’re never moving…

[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Kinda? Someone can correct/add on to this but:

FA = Fender Alternative series (“beginner” series/line) -laminate guitars of pressed fiber

CD = Classic Design series - spruce tops, mahogany body

PD = Paramount series -solid mahogany wood top and body

The “E” At the end means they’re electric (likely Fishman pickups)

Dreadnought will be the body shape. This is the big American acoustic shape with deep low end.

Not sure what the individual numbers mean.

[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 21 points 9 months ago
[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 31 points 10 months ago

Because people don’t look at who, they just check the box with the R in Texas. It’s why we’re in the mess we’re in these days.

[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 58 points 10 months ago

As the owner of several horses, I will attest to the fact that they fart on us WAY more than we fart on them.

[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 75 points 11 months ago

Defederation isn’t the answer. Use the tools you have available as a user and block instances/users you don’t want to share content with.

[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 16 points 11 months ago

I think it’s less the what and more the why. Kevin Mitnick was, by a lot of accounts, not even a very skilled “hacker”. But his high profile arrest and sentencing highlighted the issues of a developing internet and the immediate backlash of institutional forces, both government and corporate, quickly rushing to shut down any and all discourse around information and knowledge being “free”.

This created an equal but opposite backlash AGAINST the perceived ignorance of the government at what the internet actually was, and the corporations that wanted to control and monetize it. (In hindsight, we can see who won that one)

This helped propel an entire “hacker” subculture into pop culture and modern life.

“Free Kevin” became a common sticker or t-shirt at local 2600 meetings, or other hacking groups all over the U.S. and you’d see it left on defaced websites from young groups testing out their skills or latest exploits on poorly configured servers.

Even as quite a bit of these hackers would ridicule and deride Kevin for being bad, the saying continued because, in the end it wasn’t about Kevin. It was any or all of us. Doing things made illegal by legislators that didn’t even understand what was in the laws they were signing could have put any of us in jail. So “Free Kevin” became kind of synonymous for “Free Information”.

Through all of this was Kevin, just trying to live his life. He got out of jail, settled down and went on living. His passing was a lot like his life after prison, quiet and uneventful. Like a lot of people, I didn’t even know he was battling cancer.

So my comment below that Kevin is free is just, to me, one final call out into the dark for an idea, and a person, that helped me get to where I am today.

[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 29 points 11 months ago

Kevin is free

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by CarrierLost@lemmy.one to c/guitars@lemmy.world

2012 PRS 513

The 513 was, to me, one of the most interesting guitars to roll out of the PRS shop. Boasting a unique pickup and wiring arrangement, it allows for incredible diversity in selecting and splitting pickups.

With 5 single coils and unique wiring, the 513 is able to deliver everything from single coil twang to humbucker crunch, in 13 total combinations.

5 coils, with 13 different configurations, the 513 is my personal "do it all" instrument.

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[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 15 points 11 months ago

Totally agree! Phenomenal on the steam deck.

[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

New nazi bar over there apparently.

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Classical guitar (imgur.com)

This guitar was built by my brother-in-law back in 1999. Third guitar he ever built.

The back and sides are hand scraped rosewood from a stump in his yard while he was living in São Paulo, where he learned to build guitars.

It was originally given to his father, but was passed along to me as one of the only guitar players in the family.

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submitted 1 year ago by CarrierLost@lemmy.one to c/chat@lemmy.one

It’s been an interesting 10-ish days on the internet in general. Big thanks to @jonah@lemmy.one for hosting Lemmy.one. It’s a cool community, and I’m really enjoying the fediverse thus far. Looking forward to seeing how it develops!

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