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JamesKPolk posted:Is there anything else that would do it for me? If i were looking for something smaller and cheaper than an AxeFX floor unit (which is my first thought for anything like this independent of price/form factor) I'd probably demo an HX Stomp against whatever I was considering, also.
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If it matters to anyone: I bought one of those Placentia strats when it was a stupid deal of the day awhile ago and it was really nice for the price. Needed a little filing on fret ends, it had a few sharp ends, but otherwise was a killer guitar for the price.
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Mar 7, 2023 22:45
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I said come in! posted:He is mostly correct! On the internal side, there is a system in place to single out the bad products and who they came from. Reading the reviews, this does seem to be getting counterfeits, but a different team handles that, compared to what I do, which is address issues from rights owners. The hard part is that its a lot of different teams with different information, so sometimes getting rid of fake products can take awhile. Its a major pain point that has been worked on for years. So like Bernie Ball can see that Bernie All as well is selling their products, and come to us with the proper legal paperwork and be like, mods??? and we force bernie all to remove their stuff. No offense but you're talking about fake products on their own fake product pages. You're just computer-touching. The problem is that counterfeiters routinely send in counterfeits to be "fulfilled by amazon," sold off the same product page, and dumped into the bin with all the other things that claim to be Ernie Ball Super Slinkies. If you're not sending a team into each warehouse to pull down the bin with all the EB Super Slinkies in it, then checking each one for signs of counterfeit, then you're just touching computers. There's no way Amazon is doing that, it's too expensive. They'd rather send them out and count on people not returning them. Too many people gaming the system these days on Amazon, I'd rather pay the whole $12.99 for my NYXLs and be sure they're authentic, because Im not going to be installing them until well after the return window.
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Mar 7, 2023 23:08
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duodenum posted:If you're not sending a team into each warehouse to pull down the bin with all the EB Super Slinkies in it, then checking each one for signs of counterfeit, then you're just touching computers. There's no way Amazon is doing that, it's too expensive. They'd rather send them out and count on people not returning them. There is a process for checking bins, but in my experience its about as useful as you would expect (not at all). Its time intensive, and relies on the person checking the bin to actually know what they are looking for and to relay back good usable information. Apple, and Microsoft cant even keep fakes, or infringement on their patents under control, so I don't disagree with anything you're saying. Its an uphill battle.
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Mar 7, 2023 23:20
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Where is a good non-Amazon place to buy strings online?
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MrMojok posted:Where is a good non-Amazon place to buy strings online? Probably the one that sends you candy like another poster said yesterday.
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Mar 8, 2023 00:29
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MrMojok posted:Where is a good non-Amazon place to buy strings online? the one that sends you candy
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Mar 8, 2023 00:31
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TheMightyBoops posted:Probably the one that sends you candy like another poster said yesterday. ethanol posted:the one that sends you candy team string candy
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Mar 8, 2023 00:36
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MrMojok posted:Where is a good non-Amazon place to buy strings online? My friend Corey owns this shop. He rules, his store rules. Give him your quiche https://martelmusicstore.com/
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Mar 8, 2023 00:41
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Gramps posted:My friend Corey owns this shop. He rules, his store rules. Give him your quiche I'm gonna use this for when I decide to get the Red Panda Bitmap2.
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Mar 8, 2023 00:55
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I said come in! posted:I'm gonna use this for when I decide to get the Red Panda Bitmap2. That's awesome! It really is a special little shop. I still have no idea how he has such a clean, well run shop with a great web presence and a fantastic selection of truly great gear and it's just he and his wife. I worked in guitar shops most of my life and it does not compute that basically 2 people can run a shop that well.
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Mar 8, 2023 00:58
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MrMojok posted:Where is a good non-Amazon place to buy strings online? stringjoy is also good if you want custom string gauges or sets. but they don't send you candy
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Gramps posted:My friend Corey owns this shop. He rules, his store rules. Give him your quiche I’ll tell him Gramps sent me!
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Mar 8, 2023 01:20
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JamesKPolk posted:I'm thinking hard about buying an Iridium. Boss’ amp/ir thing might be worth a look if you can get past it’s ugly
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Mar 8, 2023 02:09
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Speaking of strings, I put NYXLs on 2 different guitars a couple weeks ago and I've already taken them off. They were noticeably noisy(the squeaking when you slide, and I already tried washing/moisturizing hands, using fast fret, etc) and felt a bit rougher than usual. I think I'll stick with Stringjoy mostly. What I'd really like, is custom sets of Elixirs, I love how smooth they feel. You can go online and buy singles which I'd be willing to pay the markup, but their gauge selection is abysmal. They don't really offer any between gauges like .0095 on small strings, and they have weird gaps in wound strings, like you can get a .38 then a .42, which is still a fairly big jump at that size. Cleartone has custom coated sets, but their coating is that kind that you can't really feel and while their gauge selection is a bit better they still don't offer the smaller increments on the high strings.
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Mar 8, 2023 02:12
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JamesKPolk posted:I'm thinking hard about buying an Iridium. Walrus Audio ACS1 or Two Notes CABM+ work well too as slightly cheaper alternatives
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Mar 8, 2023 02:13
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:They were noticeably noisy(the squeaking when you slide, and I already tried washing/moisturizing hands, using fast fret, etc) This is starting to annoy me also now that you mention it. Might give some non-NYXLs a spin the next time I get strings. I broke Ernie Balls habitually but standard D'addarios were fine, tried out XLs because I liked that they lasted longer and sounded a bit brighter. What do you guys like?
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Mar 8, 2023 02:33
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Well then. Turned on my Mark V, it sounded way too loud and was clipping my cabclone, and then it started smelling funny. Like, ozone and electrical shorts funny. That was an expensive thirty seconds of playing guitar.
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You've been blessed by Saint Eddie, he has granted you 30 seconds of THE BROWN SOUND.
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randall smith has astrally projected into your amp to break it and make you buy a mark vii
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Southern Cassowary posted:This is starting to annoy me also now that you mention it. D'addarios and variants are my standards. I've also had pretty common breakage occurrences with Ernie Balls, those things are just a name on some garbage as best as I can tell... For my acoustics I loving love the Martin monels. I put those on months ago and they still sound great, no corrosion
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Southern Cassowary posted:randall smith has astrally projected into your amp to break it and make you buy a mark vii MY MIIIIND’S TELLING ME NO BUT MY BODY MY BOOOODYYYYY IS TELLING ME YEEEEESSS
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:Speaking of strings, I put NYXLs on 2 different guitars a couple weeks ago and I've already taken them off. They were noticeably noisy(the squeaking when you slide, and I already tried washing/moisturizing hands, using fast fret, etc) and felt a bit rougher than usual. I think I'll stick with Stringjoy mostly. What I'd really like, is custom sets of Elixirs, I love how smooth they feel. You can go online and buy singles which I'd be willing to pay the markup, but their gauge selection is abysmal. They don't really offer any between gauges like .0095 on small strings, and they have weird gaps in wound strings, like you can get a .38 then a .42, which is still a fairly big jump at that size. Have you ever tried Dadarrio half rounds?
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TheMightyBoops posted:Have you ever tried Dadarrio half rounds? No, are they smoother or something? e: Stainless steel? Will that chew up my frets? Some of my guitars have SS frets at least edit: can't buy singles to put together a custom set of them anyway which is pretty important to me with my different tunings and multi scale guitars. I'm picky about tension for fast trem picking. Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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Kazinsal posted:Well then. Turned on my Mark V, it sounded way too loud and was clipping my cabclone, and then it started smelling funny. Like, ozone and electrical shorts funny. I had no-poo poo come back here to post this thing from Reddit, and when I saw your post I just had to quote it above the link. https://www.reddit.com/r/guitars/co...utm_name=iossmf
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Sweetwater is the place to order strings from if you want candy but also unsolicited phone calls from Fort Wayne. The first time I can remember someone ordering something off the internet back in the 90s was my dad buying pedal steel strings from JustStrings.com. Their selection is pretty good, although I think stringsbymail.com might still be the best at that. I try to stick to D'Addario strings because I'm saving up loyalty points for... something? I guess? NYXLs do seem bright and noisy to me, so I try to stick to XLs, or XTs if I'm feeling fancy.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:No, are they smoother or something? They’re half flat wound; I get almost no string noise from slides. I assume they do eat up frets faster, but idk they’re just what I use on all my strats. Edit: I should mention I don’t bend very often so sliding is important to how I play and I have a light touch so these sorts of things are things to consider with stainless steel strings in the couple minutes research I just did. TheMightyBoops fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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I wonder how bad it would be if you lightly waxed your strings, if it would affect the tone much on an electric. I might give it a try. Fast fret doesn't really work all that great imo.
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I use nyxl's on a couple guitars and the other day I realized that the only thing I don't like about them is you can't get a good pick scrape sound from them cause they are too smooth
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My sweetwater rep is pretty cool and has helped me out a ton even though I've only spent <$1500 there. Went out of his way to talk to the Gibson guy and get details on left-handed Tangerine Bursts, and I mentioned I liked root beer barrels, and I always get some now. I'll shoot the breeze with him once a year for that.
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I wish all my guitars just had stainless steel frets now. They’re like 35 bucks more on warmouth necks. I’d gladly have paid that on all my guitars when I bought them.
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TheMightyBoops posted:I wish all my guitars just had stainless steel frets now. They’re like 35 bucks more on warmouth necks. I’d gladly have paid that on all my guitars when I bought them. That makes me excited - I have a warmoth neck coming soon with Jumbo SS.
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I can't even imagine the number of billable hours to work on a Mark VII. Circuit board origami, that one.
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Gramps posted:That's awesome! It really is a special little shop. I still have no idea how he has such a clean, well run shop with a great web presence and a fantastic selection of truly great gear and it's just he and his wife. I worked in guitar shops most of my life and it does not compute that basically 2 people can run a shop that well. I wish I could do that but for table top miniatures. I am too stupid though so it wouldnt work.
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luchadornado posted:My sweetwater rep is pretty cool and has helped me out a ton even though I've only spent <$1500 there. Went out of his way to talk to the Gibson guy and get details on left-handed Tangerine Bursts, and I mentioned I liked root beer barrels, and I always get some now. I'll shoot the breeze with him once a year for that. Sweetwater has the best customer service, for sure. Complaining about the phone calls is just a meme at this point. I don't have any real complaints about them otherwise. I'll take 100 Sweetwater phone calls over one call to Guitar Center to do a return because they've sent me something used with painters tape on it again.
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:they counting the jp2c as mark vi? They're saying they did a Mark VI prototype internally then I guess kitbashed improvements from the 2C onto it and went "ehhhhh it's more of a Mark VII now". Looks like channel 1 is clean/fat/crunch, channel 2 is fat/crunch/Mk7, and channel 3 is MkIIB/MkIIC+/MkIV. So they canned Tweed, Edge, and Xtreme. The manual says that Mk7 is supposed to be somewhere between a Mark IV and a Triple Crown. Also they jammed a full on IR box into it so I guess that explains why it's loving $3500 USD  e: They added native MIDI support and footswitchable reverb as well, that's kinda handy for people who gig a bunch.
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seems sick. my triple crown does everything i need but maybe someday i’ll treat myself to a marky-7
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I dunno if I'll ever get to play one but it sounds awesome. Doesn't look like Gibson ownership has changed anything from a sound/design perspective. Will be interesting once the teardowns/repairs start, post-warranty.
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Southern Cassowary posted:HX Stomp massive spider posted:Boss’ amp/ir thing lazerwolf posted:Walrus Audio ACS1 or Two Notes CABM+ Thanks y'all, worth demoing all of these at least. I think what got me looking at the Iridium the first time was wondering if I could get a cheaper HX haha. Like that the Boss has bass amps too. The CABM keeps coming up in searches etc - it just does the cab and power amp sim right? Like I'd need a preamp pedal w/ it still?
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