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r/Luthier•

I have just got a 2 year old used guitar, its a bolt-on 3-piece baked maple neck with ebony fretboard. It's carbon fibre reinforced and has a dual-action truss rod. I use 10-46 strings, in Eb standard. Scale length is 25.0-25.5".

I went to set it up yesterday, and noticed the relief was quite high, around 0.4mm (0.020"), with 0.25mm (0.010") being my target. Measured at 8th fret, with capo on first, fretted 16th fret. When I turn the truss rod clockwise, its quite stiff to turn, and feels like it's almost at its maximum travel so I'm unwilling to push it further.

In that position I am able to get it down to just over 0.3mm, which will let me roughly get to where I need to be, but is this a

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r/Guitar•

I have just got a 2 year old used guitar, its a 3-piece maple neck with ebony fretboard. It's carbon fibre reinforced and has a dual-action truss rod. I use 10-46 strings, in Eb standard. Scale length is 25.5".

I went to set it up yesterday, and noticed the relief was quite high, around 0.4mm (0.020"), with 0.25mm (0.010") being my target. When I turn the truss rod, its quite stiff to turn, and feels like its almost at its maximum.

In that position I am able to get it down to just over 0.3mm, but is this a safe position to leave it in?

With all the strings slackened, and the truss rod in its neutral position, theres around 0.25mm of bow in the fretboard (measured with a notched straight

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r/Strandberg•

How many springs and what configuration are you all using?

I have 2 springs in a V using 10-46 strings in Eb. I’ve had to screw the claw in to about 7mm from the wood.

Is there any danger to really cranking the claw close to the wood?

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r/ableton•

I've just got a Push and would like to use it with EZDrummer, which unfortunately, doesn't allow you to remap MIDI layouts (e.g. move C1 -> D1).

If I load a drum rack onto a MIDI channel, then drag EZDrummer VST to C-2, I can then set EZDrummer to receive all MIDI notes which allows me to play in beats. However, I'm not a big fan of their note mappings, and I would prefer to group drums together (e.g. all snare hits together etc).

If I add a chain, I can set Receive and Play note numbers, but they don't seem to have any effect after setting the VST to globally receive all notes.

Is there any other way to do this, short of just sticking with the mapping they use, and using Chains to col

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r/shortcuts•

I have a travel shortcut, which starts podcasts, then opens waze for an address.

I only use two addresses, either home or work. I'd like to share that behaviour between two other shortcuts. So I can say "Work time" or "Home time" and the shortcut will run selecting either address from the other shortcut automatically. Is this possible or do I have to duplicate the short cut and change the address?

The only thing that changes is the Waze url scheme:

waze://?navigate=yes&favorite={{home or work}}

Ideally I'd like to not have to say or tap an option.

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r/shortcuts•

I have a set of rehab exercises I need to do every other day, so I like the idea of creating a workflow of a 30 second timer, then vibrate.

I have 4 different exercises, so I can duplicate the actions to do the timer and vibrate, but is there any actions that allow you to display text onscreen? The closest i can see is 'speak text'

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r/RetroPie•

I have a Raspberry Pi 2, which has a usb wifi dongle, and bluetooth dongle plugged in.

I now want to connect a couple of genuine PS3 pads. I installed the ps3controller driver, and went to configure then pair. I plugged in the USB then disconnected and pressed the PS button. After a second or two it vibrated and the lights flashed. I then went back to the ES controller setup screen and the controller isn't detected.

If I press the PS button the pad vibrates and burst lights the LEDs. About 5-10 seconds later the LEDs switch off. It doesn't do the 'night-rider' scanner thing like this video.

What am I doing wrong? I followed [the wiki](https://github.c

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r/HomeNetworking•

I've just got an Edgerouter X and want to add it to my very simple network but I'm not sure that I correctly understand how I should be connecting everything.

My old network setup looks like this. My proposed new network will look like this.

In order for ports 1-4 to all connect to each other, do I need to add them to switch0 in the Edgerouter software? To summarise:

  • eth0 - Setup as WAN, connects to the ISP modem, and to the internet
  • eth1 - Add to switch0, connects to WIFI router to provide WIFI downstairs
  • eth2 - Add to switch0, connects to WIFI router to provide WIFI upstairs. Additionally, a single computer is con
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r/DataHoarder•

I'm looking at moving my data away from unRAID to either snapraid or ZFS to gain integrity checks. I only have room for 4 drives so my options are perhaps limited. I do have a burning question though which would be the statistically 'safer' storage method:

  1. 2x 6TB drives mirrored in ZFS. If one drive fails, another can be mirrored quickly. If the mirror dies when copying, then all is lost.

  2. 3x 2TB, 1x 2TB parity using snapraid. If one drive fails, all remaining drives are used to rebuild. Potentially, this taxes all drives increasing the risk of another failure, but if another drive fails, you can at least recover the remaining drives.

I realise that any RAID is not a true backup, but

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r/ukulele•

I'm a guitarist researching my first uke, and I've narrowed down to either a soprano or concert. However, while watching reviews I've noticed that the sopranos I see seem to have worse intonation than the concerts.

  1. Is a soprano harder to intonate than a concert?
  2. Does the fret spacing on a concert differ from a soprano or is it just there are more frets?

I should point out that the reviews I've watched are for the tried and tested sub-£100 beginner ukes. I'm sure a more expensive or luthier built one would have better intonation.

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r/getnarwhal•

Version 2.11.1 (21114)

Opening the following link crashes while trying to load comments:

toxic link

Unsure if theres something specific in this link, or whether the story is so ridiculous the app quits in disbelief.

Edit: iPhone SE iOS 10.3.2

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r/Guitar•

I'm trying to understand the relationship between truss rod, bridge height, nut height and action better. The guitar in question has a 0 fret, so that takes the nut out for now.

The maker recommends a setup of 0.010" relief (measured at the 12th fret with capo on 1st, holding 24th), with 2mm string height on low E, 1.5mm height on high E.

This seems to be a pretty common starting point for most guitars. I struggle with legato with this setup and wanted to drop it a fraction. In this case do I want to reduce relief, string height, or combination of both?

I tried straightening out a little, and very slightly reducing string height. This feels much more playable to me, however I get small fr

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