For a really long time I was playing and practicing via computer only. Then I decided to treat my music passion and to buy some fancy thing. First was this beautiful community membership (never will regret it), then I registered in Freak Guitar Camp 2026 (to meet more people, build presence and inspire), and the last was QC Mini. Since it is always in Sold Out mode, I waited for the device for a 12 weeks. And yesterday was The Day. I was going to delivery station and back wearing one of the happiest faces in my lately life. Tear apart delivery paper box. Carefully unboxed packaging. Plug the power supply (according the manufacturer it should run immediately, but can be set upped later). And? Nothing… Device seems completely dead. I read through the manual, googled an issue, while my mood on a rollercoaster was falling from the highest hill down. Nothing… Then I mailed to both Thomann and Neural DSP, described an issue. And got the answer from manufacturer that power supply is wrong, they will change it ASAP I tested the plug, it works according the values on a description. Compared with the input values, seems right. And this is the only device that has lock power supply system. Which was there. So I tend towards the device itself. While waiting for everything else I tried alternative power supply system with similar values. 0 reaction. Pain

I am practicing dry 99.9% of the time and I love it. But I can't make a decent solo patch to save my life. Anyone could share some simple recopies for solo patches, like what type or reverb and delay you use and how you route it?

I fell way behind on Legato Intensive because of work related nightmare. But here’s a cool all hammer etude from Kiko: https://youtube.com/shorts/m7xdYMpTKSQ?si=hLC_CCO5gcLgHIVQ

Earlier today, after finishing my legato routine, I was just noodling around and decided to pick up my old Jackson, which I hadn’t touched in a month or two. It immediately felt strange. The action is insanely low, almost effortless on the fretting hand, but something about the overall feel was off. It actually seemed like the string tension was lower than on my other guitars, even though they all share the same scale length and string gauge. Out of curiosity, I plugged it in and started playing. It was brutal. Everything sounded sloppy, like I’d completely lost control of my picking. Then I switched back to the guitar I’ve been using lately, and suddenly everything felt normal again. My picking was controlled, consistent, and accurate. At that point I started going back and forth between guitars, trying to figure out what was happening. Every single time I returned to the Jackson, my playing regressed. It genuinely sounded like I’d gone back a full year in development. Naturally, I concluded that all my progress was guitar-specific, so I chopped off my fingers and threw out all my gear. Has anyone else experienced something similar? Was this my emg 81 brutally revealing sloppiness that my emg 57 masks? 🤯

I just saw this great cover of Kee Marcello’s solo on ”More Than Meets The Eye” by our fellow community member (and also a member of Pro) @Josh Mark Raj pop up on Kee’s Instagram story. Very cool! Great job Josh!