food for thought: time travel

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if time travel ever actually became possible & commercially available, then someone could create a rackmount or pedal that could turn sounds backwards AS you play them. or apply reverse reverb in realtime.

i'd buy one. :)
 
there are plenty of guitarists that play in a manner so predictable that it is possible to have such a device.
 
it's really not that complicated.

you guys enjoy planet Earth while it lasts.
 
If time travel were truly possible, why would you waste such an innovation on something so silly and trivial as reverse reverb?


What would really be cool would be if you could have your future self sing or play the guitar solo. Like after several years of practice.

It would be kind of a bummer, though, to have your future self play and think to yourself: "Damn, I still suck, even 10 years from now." I suppose it could save you a lot of wasted time, though, and you could just go and concentrate more energy on your pizza delivery career.
 
chessrock said:
If time travel were truly possible, why would you waste such an innovation on something so silly and trivial as reverse reverb?


What would really be cool would be if you could have your future self sing or play the guitar solo. Like after several years of practice.

It would be kind of a bummer, though, to have your future self play and think to yourself: "Damn, I still suck, even 10 years from now." I suppose it could save you a lot of wasted time, though, and you could just go and concentrate more energy on your pizza delivery career.
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ROFLMAO!!! :D :D :D :p

Wasssup Chessie!
 
see, this was a passing thought that amused me for a moment. i thought to myself "who else would find this funny? maybe musicians and music gear people." apparently not, and now you people have made it a bigger deal than it ever should have been.

and chessrock, are you trying to make fun of my guitar playing? you don't even know me. i am not a guitar player. why are you flinging random insults at people you know nothing about? i'm not hurt by your "pizza delivery career" comment, just confused as to why it exists. :confused:

here's what i'm saying: playing things backwards is the ONLY effect you could never do in realtime, because it requires that the sound already exist before you apply the effect (ie, flip it backwards). what if time travel became so commonplace that it were applied to everyday stupid little applications? you could have an FX box that looks ahead, sees what you're GOING to play a few seconds in the future, then flips it. realtime reversal.


sorry to post a theoretical music gear idea on a music and music gear board. jesus.
 
matt_macfarlane said:
see, this was a passing thought that amused me for a moment. i thought to myself "who else would find this funny? maybe musicians and music gear people." apparently not, and now you people have made it a bigger deal than it ever should have been.

and chessrock, are you trying to make fun of my guitar playing? you don't even know me. i am not a guitar player. why are you flinging random insults at people you know nothing about? i'm not hurt by your "pizza delivery career" comment, just confused as to why it exists. :confused:

here's what i'm saying: playing things backwards is the ONLY effect you could never do in realtime, because it requires that the sound already exist before you apply the effect (ie, flip it backwards). what if time travel became so commonplace that it were applied to everyday stupid little applications? you could have an FX box that looks ahead, sees what you're GOING to play a few seconds in the future, then flips it. realtime reversal.


sorry to post a theoretical music gear idea on a music and music gear board. jesus.
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Yo' take it easy bro! You put this out there so eventually you were assured of getting a little ribbing! ;)
 
I don't need a time machine to tell me I'll still suck in ten years ;) And I failed the entrance exam for pizza delivery.
 
matt_macfarlane said:
and chessrock, are you trying to make fun of my guitar playing? ... i am not a guitar player.
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Yea, but theoretically speaking, if you were to make a commitment to become a guitar player, and to practice every day ... and someone invented a time machine that worked ...

... you could theoretically summon yourself from like 10 years in to the future -- after you learned -- and have him / you play. That would be cool. Come to think of it, someone has already thought of that. Ever see "Bill & Ted's excellent adventure?"

i'm not hurt by your "pizza delivery career" comment, just confused as to why it exists. :confused:
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The pizza delivery thing was just a joke. Like if you found out that the future you actually sucked, then you could spare yourself a lot of time and effort. You know ... "Don't give up your day job," hardy-har har har.

Never mind. I would have thought someone who posed the idea of a rackmount time machine would have had a better sense of humor than that. :D
 
if time travel existed........

i would have used it to look ahead into this thread, pm'ed you and told you not to post it cause chessrock is gonna start crackin on ya.

nah, i probably would have let it play it. :D

come on man, you gotta admit, that was funny shit though.
 
matt_macfarlane said:
it's really not that complicated.

you guys enjoy planet Earth while it lasts.
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still have'nt figured this one out though.........
 
it was a good joke, i just wanted to know if it was directed at me for some reason...
 
and can someone tell me what this whole "rep point" thing is about? i go to my CP and some nameless pussy has sent me a "negative rep point" with an enclosed message that reads simply "dumbass." how do you people function in such a pussified message board system?
 
matt_macfarlane said:
how do you people function in such a pussified message board system?
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We have a lot of pussified people posting here. Honestly, I wouldn't worry about the rep point thing. It's just kind of a game. No jokes were directed at you. We're just playin' around.

Except for that Mr. Q guy. You gotta' watch him. He's bad news.

Dude, your thread rocks, by the way. Don't let us discourage you. I gave you positive rep for posting something original. In case you haven't noticed, some of the threads get a little monotonous, and it's refreshing to see ones about rackmount time-travel, etc. Don't stop just because some hecklers (read:me) give you some shit about it. :D
 
matt_macfarlane said:
and can someone tell me what this whole "rep point" thing is about? i go to my CP and some nameless pussy has sent me a "negative rep point" with an enclosed message that reads simply "dumbass." how do you people function in such a pussified message board system?
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Look at my post count, man. I got 17 good rep points. :p It's not that hard. If you can't think of anything relevent to say, say something funny. And what you just said(see above quote) was hilarious!!!!!! I mean, if I were you, I'd edit that "dumbass" part out. WE CRACK JOKES HERE!! Get over it. But seriously, I wouldn't think time travel would get to that kind of point, ya know? You'd have some douche going back making a hit CD and fucking it all up. They'd keep it mega-secret(that's a new term, write it down). It's a good thought. But just like mayonaise and chocolate, don't flesh it out. It's kinda obvious that time travel will never be invented or used by humans that care about people in any way. Remember the Holocaust? Me too. And then there's the whole economic factor. Then again, theoretically, if you wanted 5 whole minutes reversed, plus you could make it out in reverse, you could catch your future wife walking in and being a bitch. Then you could lock the door or just wait and greet her with a "Gee your hair looks awesome! Gimme five minutes, ok? I gotta write a song about it." You an me, pal. We're dreamers.
 
matt_macfarlane said:
it was a good joke, i just wanted to know if it was directed at me for some reason...
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If we don't know you, and you're not a guitar player, how could it have been directed at you?

Geez, dude, it's not ALL about you........

lol
 
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