I'm wanting to add another account of mine on another instance as moderator in communities I mod here. I don't want to have to go and drop comments on old threads or anything to be able to do it. I see there's an API for it

https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/post_community-mod

but I can't see how to get an API key. I've seen some indicator that Lemmy has a developer dashboard where I can find my API key, but I don't see how to access the dashboard.

Any guidance?

I’m an electronics engineer and a guitarist. Like a lot of people, I grew up as a bedroom musician, recording through an interface, a DAW, and plugins — dialing tones that sounded great at home, then completely falling apart once I plugged into a real amp in a rehearsal room.

At some point, the question became unavoidable: Why can’t I bring the same plugin chain I use on my computer into a pedal?

This is the story of how I spent two years building the guitar pedal I always wanted.

From here, the project will move into software: open-source plugins and amp modeling.

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EarthQuaker Devices has partnered with guitar amp expert Dr. Z for the ZEQD-Pre – a tube-loaded preamp that might just be the pedal that digital modeler users have been dreaming of.

It’s a pretty big collaboration. On the one hand, you have one of the gear world’s pre-eminent effects pedal makers. On the other, you have a boutique amp manufacturer whose builds have been championed by the likes of Joe Walsh.

The ZEQD-Pre Tube Pre Amp, then, is enticing indeed. Effectively, it aims to replicate the sound, feel, and response of an all-analog tube amplifier. Simple on paper, but there’s more to it than that.

EQD Product page

The fine folks at That Pedal Show have taken on the task of defining common tone buzzwords ..

Welcome to the show. You've been asking for this for a looong time, and it feels like we’re just getting started. All those tone buzzwords - transparent, scratchy, mids, bottom end, chewy… and so on and so on.

They mean something to us in the moment of saying them, but do they mean anything beyond that?

Join us then, as we pull a bunch of words at random from The Fez Of Truth and attempt to explain and demonstrate what they mean. What could possibly go right?

I see these two as the main search results

• https://github.com/Martichou/rquickshare
• https://github.com/nozwock/packet

Anybody here who has tried both care to give a comparison? I'm on Fedora 43 and have been using Flatpaks quite a bit over the old 3rd party yum/dns repo method for supplemental stuff like this. I guess that gives Packet a bit of an edge for now, as the rquickshare dev uses a 3rd party framework that doesn't yet support Flatpaks. But if the consensus is that rquickshare is better then grabbing the RPM directly is an option.

Apparently there are 6,000 units of this mystery pedal ready to ship.

“Honoring Iron Maiden’s fifty years of pushing heavy metal forward, this collection brings together the signature instruments that helped define their unmistakable sound,” said Max Gutnik, FMIC’s Chief Product Officer. “From Dave Murray’s high-performance Stratocaster models and Janick Gers’ energetic, vintage-leaning Strat to Steve Harris’ unmistakable Precision Bass and Adrian Smith’s versatile Jackson SC1, each instrument carries the tone, feel, and power behind Maiden’s multi-guitar attack. These anniversary models are more than tributes; they are stage-ready tools built to inspire today’s players and the next generation.”

The Custom Shop/Master Built Dave Murray runs > $10k, the rest are < $2k.

Shop the collection (at least one fender.com exclusive model) here.

Each team will play 10 regular-season games, hosting and traveling to every opponent once. After the regular season, the top four teams will earn a spot in the 2026 MLR Playoffs.

Anthem Rugby Carolina, California Legion, Chicago Hounds, New England Free Jacks, Old Glory DC, and Seattle Seawolves will compete in the 2026 season, which will kick off in April. Five of the teams earned a berth in last year’s playoffs, setting the stage for another thrilling race to earn a playoff bid and dethrone the three-time defending champion Free Jacks.

In the playoffs, the No. 1 seed will host the No. 4 seed, and the No. 2 seed will host the No. 3 seed in the Semifinal Round. Winners from each Semifinal will meet in the 2026 MLR Championship, with details and location to be announced at a later date.

Fans will be able to catch all of the action live on and on-demand via ESPN+

More information about the 2026 season, including a complete schedule release, will be announced in the coming weeks.

Teams	Season	Finals

In this episode host Adam Wakeling speaks with Jamie Stillman, Founder of EarthQuaker Devices about the impact of tariffs on small US businesses; why Jamie is not concerned about the current generation of digital modelers like the Quad Cortex and Helix, as well as how EarthQuaker Devices approaches product development at the company.

“I moved over to Fender for a couple of years, learning a lot of history there – but also how I didn’t want to make a guitar”

Very few names in our industry command as much respect as John Suhr’s. His creations are widely considered to be world-beating manifestations of design and craft colliding at the highest possible level, sitting at the ultra-boutique end of guitar manufacturing.

Universal Audio have a big firmware update for their amp emulator pedals (Dream, Woodrow, Enigmatic, Ruby, Lion, etc) that adds MIDI over USB-C. Linking HP42's video as I don't see an announcement on UA's own blog.