I'm going to start a new currency backed by guitar pedals. It'll be a limited supply, sound money.
Just ask @vladcostea
@NunyaBidness @vladcostea OTOH, unlike acoustic guitars, you'll need to scour the post-apocalyptic landscape for generators.
@pete @NunyaBidness @vladcostea I'm ready for post-apocalyptic distortion pedals. When I studied electronics at trade school, I built a distortion pedal from parts found in an old coffee brewer.
It was like 1 NPN transistor, 2 capacitors, 4 resistors.
Check out Tom Scholz's (founder of the band Boston) history in circuit engineering and be amazed!
Potato batteries.
@NunyaBidness @vladcostea IN POST APOCALYPTIC FUTURE POTATOES ARE FOR EATING!
Sheeeeeeeeet. Potatoes are are easy as shit to grow.
Coconut batteries . . . now that's a different story altogether.
@NunyaBidness @vladcostea Serious response: the power in a potato battery actually comes from the metallic electrodes, not the potato.
@pete @vladcostea When ICO sir?
@pete You'd be surprised to see how easily they can turn into collectibles. But it's only the first editions that are most valuable and a few brands that really count. If you buy clones, don't expect to ever recover your investment unless the person who made them gets famous.
They also tend to become more valuable when some famous artist records a hit with a particular model. But since rock is no longer in the charts, it's become more difficult to get songs that sell pedals.
@vladcostea "You'd be surprised to see how easily they can turn into collectibles."
I mean, beanie babies were a thing...
@pete Yeah, but beanie babies won't help you sound like THAT album and won't give you the special eureka moment that you get as soon as you figure out how some famous guitar player uses effects to get a particular sound.
TLDR: Beanie babies don't give you the joy of twisting knobs.
@vladcostea "the joy of twisting knobs"
Pff, your puny guitar pedals got nothing on @alyssa's modular synths.
@vladcostea @alyssa I mean, they are divisible... what about 1/10th of a modular synth rack?
@pete @vladcostea @alyssa Completely out of topic, but the mathematics behind the training of neural networks is like playing with modular synths.
@unabomber @alyssa @pete themoreyouknow.gif
@pete @vladcostea Might as well. Generally speaking most pedals are built to withstand a nuclear event and are small enough to take several with you in a suitcase.