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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:34 pm
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Yeah, well id take a handwired amp anyday too, but I'm not going to fork over $1400 for a handwired 5watt champ reissue. Those of us who don't have piles of cash buy what we can, and improve them as much as we can.
I think people have issues with some members because they present themselves in a smug, holier than though fashion, and people take offence when spoken down to. I personally don't like Vintage Modified amps myself. Id rather get an all tube one, then use effects to achieve a sound I want. But I'm not going to btalksmack about them. Whether or not you like them, most are areally good value, and allow not only gigging musicians, but bedroom warriors the oppertunity to get a good tube amp for $500.
Iplayed bothversions of the champ reissue. While there's a difference, I don't find it to be worth the $. Especially since with a little practice with a soldering iron, I could build a handwired champ for a fraction of the cost.
No one likes gear snobs. Now my board has mostly boutique and handbuilt pedals I made, it also has plenty of MXR equjipment. For one reason, they sound great, another is after the nuclear appocalypse, there will be cockroaches, buggs bunny, and a working dyna comp.
Plus I've dealt with almost all manufactureres, from Fender and Martin when I have to submit warrantee work (btw, people: a warrantee is not the same as an insurance policy, if you neglect a guitar, like not keeping your acoustics hydrated sothey crackk, the won't cover the repair, so get ann Oasis 2, they're cheaper than most of the others, but work better and martin suggests them), tp Warmoth(terrible to deal with). Dunlop are by far the best company to deal with. I can't count how many times I email them for a part #, and a week later it show upin the mail, free.

Ivee winessed this forum go from a group of really helpful, knowledgable, but humble people, to (with exceptions) filled with those that just want to embarras and diminish people who only want helpm I come on this forum 95% of the time just to see if someone is asking a question I can help out with. I do all I can, including shipping replacement Fender tremolos to a guy who had one that didn't work, for nothung. Then, the 5% I come on with a question; I get 1e2 reponses, 11 of which are to tell me I'm an a hole for making a mistake.
There are a few members that where here when I fisrt joined, afteri discovered I liked skydivibg more than guitar and sold ny stuff, who helped me. I hardly EVER see them here anymore. They've been replaced with jerks? Cyber bullies who feel tough behind a keyboard, and the like. But, such is life.

How many times do you read a question when someone is trying to decide betgween a few items that rujn about $400-500, and all they get is "forgegt buying A or B, buy C, which costs 5 times as much. Or they ask which guitar they should look at, anf get 15 responses of "you have to try them yourself". No kidding? Really? How about instead of making your answer that, you finish with that statement, after you describe some ddifferences, and pros and cons of the items they're talkibghabout.

I think the member whomade thepost questioning why another member comes on, is because they only seem toshow up o bad mouth products they don't use, or even more welcome, to badmouth us plebs who go to NAMM? I've been there. As one of the unwashed masses & with manufacturers because besides building, I'm also a decent salesman. I rather talk to gearheads than journalists, company mouthpiecesm

TC electronics had the Nova Delay out for a couple years. There was an electronics shop that was modifying the input buffers for yhears. The engineers heard about what the shop was doing, and on paper thought it should make it sound worse, not better, but to be sure they asked th co to mod one for them. To theirurprise, it made it sound and perform nuch better. Now they offer a special edition with that input buffer. So little guys sometimes make a big influence large companies build their gear.

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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:56 pm
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I rag about equipment no doubt. I know these forums are monitored. I think in a small way all my ragging about the HRDlx brought some of the minor changes like the audio taper pots, a little thicker board and a better speaker. Before I ever recommend a HRDlx, I'd recommend a used DRRI that goes for about the same money. I discourage folks from spending their hard earned buck on cheaply made unreliable gear. Like I said mine was a total POS that I refused to mod into a mediocre amp. Anyone who gigs with these amps are tossing the dice. I did and lost three times on stage. It wasn't my tech because I've used the same guy for over twenty years. It was different crap all the time. It was pretty embarrassing and I had to roll in my backup amp that I didn't really want to lug around in the first place.

I don't see anyone here acting like a jerk. The problem is when someone has a hard time with a piece of gear and someone makes a negative comment about it, they act like someone insulted their mother and start name calling and making personal attacks. It's a stupid piece of gear. If you buy cheap gear and it breaks, take the advice your given and the lumps that may go with it, or don't ask for help. That's what I did when my HRDlx failed for the third time. If you think people are hard here, try http://www.thefenderforum.com. That's where I got my lumps and some of the best advice on my amp. My tech said I was an a$$hole for buying a HRDlx. He also walked me through all the design flaws of the amp. I didn't get mad, I thanked him.

There are some brilliant people here, Arjay, Jim, BMW, Bill, Shim, and the list goes on and on. Try to understand their sense of humor and not take things so personally. Everyone will learn something. This whole forum has gotten weird lately. Lots of kids which is fine and very thin-skinned people who think if you say one bad thing about something they bought get all upset and start name calling. It's really getting old fast.

I don't have tons of money for gear, but I'll save and but smart and have something for years rather than settle for something that will be landfill in a year or two. Personally I wouldn't but an overpriced Champ RI, I'd build my own. Check out the MOD DIY 5 watt kit. It's only $200 and true PTP, no boards, just terminal strips. A buddy of mine built one and it's pretty sweet. I plan on building one this winter.

As far as guitars go, yes you do need to try them yourself and try many. What works for me probably won't work for you. :wink: I never relied on anyone to help me pick out a guitar. I look at the specs and go play them. I have gear that I value that many people wouldn't look at twice. I found it myself when I didn't play professionally.

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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:39 am
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There are many jerks on this forum. Your statement about taking your lumps with the advice would be valid. The problem with that, at least in my last question was that there was no advice, just the poking and proding, and there are members I see(and I'm talking about in response to other memebers posts) that like tgo gang up.
I posted the same exact post on another forum, and the response couldn't have been more different. There was no ;why did you do this or why would you do that?. 5 or 6 members just kept posting proceedures on diagnosing what went wrong. Guess what; bt the 8th post, the problem was diagnosed, noneof the posts on this forum was even close to getting it right, except for the very vague (tube issue).

It doesn't anger me when it happens to me nearly as much as when I see it happen to new members, who from gtheir posts areobviously noobs. Now I want to make clear, there are a lot of helpful people here still, and yyes the members you mentioned are knowledgeable. But out of those only a couple were in the group of original members I was aluding to. The reason you didn't mention the others, is because they're not around anymorem and even some of the people you mentioned aren't on as much as before.

People here aren't just ragging on equipmet, they're ragging on the owners. When someole asks a question about a piece of gear you don't like, but you know how to deal with it, just give them that, how crappy the equipment is doesn't help them. Now, if they haven't bought it yet, bu all means, tell them what you think, but if they already own it, and you don't hae something to help out with, leave it bbe. I go by the saying "I may know my wifes a $@!$, but tghat doesn't mean you can tell me she is." And if you partake in any kind of flaminga. And get callede on it, to threated to "contact the moderators" is a pretty cowardly thing to say. And that member knows who they are. The ONLY reason I didn't close my account was because of the several contacts PM'd to me asking me not to, and specifically called out that member.

And when someone does something that damaged their guitar, pedals whatever, pointing out that what they ddid was dumb is the equivelant of opening a cabinet door, hitting someolne in the face, andsaying "watch out" after it already happened.


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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:55 am
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The only thing I can suggest is to put the people you don't like on your ignore list. That's what I do. There's only two people on mine. I'm sure I'm on many. :lol:

It's a forum and I really can't waste that much energy being pissed off anymore. Hopefully, you'll get to that point and stop taking a stupid forum so seriously. It's only opinion, nothing more.

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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:03 am
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Its not the forum, its the members. I dont want to have to move to other forums because they keep getting new members that act like they're in junior high. These are the places most people go first to try to get answers before they have to dig deeper, or spend $ to find out what's wrong. I look at it as a tool, but now its like a tool you loaned someone and it comes back broken.


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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:14 pm
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I'll tell you what, I've seen some pretty bad advice not just on here but lots of other forums. I stopped posting on photography forums because I got tired of arguing with idiots.

This forum has grown quite a bit since I joined. Now I'm just gioing to narrow it down to a handful of people I respect. I don't need all the drama from the crybabies around here.

I'm close to leaving myself. There's lots of forums around to check out without dealing with crybabies, trolls, spammers and drama queens. Rig Talk is pretty good. I even have some fun on the Martin and Gibson forum.

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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:24 pm
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63supro wrote:
I'll tell you what, I've seen some pretty bad advice not just on here but lots of other forums. I stopped posting on photography forums because I got tired of arguing with idiots.

This forum has grown quite a bit since I joined. Now I'm just gioing to narrow it down to a handful of people I respect. I don't need all the drama from the crybabies around here.

I'm close to leaving myself. There's lots of forums around to check out without dealing with crybabies, trolls, spammers and drama queens. Rig Talk is pretty good. I even have some fun on the Martin and Gibson forum.

Funny you mention Martin. My Martin customers are my favorite ones. I know its a very general statement, but Martin owners tend to be, I dont know how to put it. They know their stuff, they appriciate the work we put in, and they dont have unrealistic expectations.


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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:37 pm
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I just had the action adjusted on mine last week at the factory in Nazareth Pa. I'm only an hour away. I won't trust it to anyone but the people who built it. I had the local place where I bought it tell me it was just a truss rod adjustment. I knew better the neck was fine and I was right. I usually do my own setups on my cheaper acoustics but not this one, it's too new and Martin adjusted it at no charge. The place I bought it from wanted fifty bucks too. WTF? The saddle just needed to be lowered a little. Less than an hour later, I was on my way with a perfect setup. No appointment necessary. The Martin factory is a fun place to visit. The new museum is great and there's lots of fine instruments to play while you wait.

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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
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I was just out there a couple months ago. Authorized repairmen(or women) are required to go every once in a while to stay accredited. Not to badmouth Taylors because they serve a purpose, but for $2500, I want a dovetailed neckjoint like someMartins, almost all Gibsons. After a certain year, almost all taylors are bolt ol necks. Even the Epi masterbuilt are dovetailed neck joints. But they're still disposable. They're non-serviceable, like mostt import versions of american brand acoustics. They use epoxy instead of glue. Its stronger, too strong, you can't fix them because you can't loosen them like you can with glue using steam.


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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
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I tried the Epi Masterbuilt and it was horrible. Terrible setup, and the craftsmanship wasn't there. I was really disappointed. I really liked the reviews. I tried Taylors in my price range, they played really well but were way too bright to my ear. The Martin picked me. I couldn't put it down. I bought a new Performing Artist Series because I wanted something easy to play with a cutaway. The neck's great and the Fishman electronics are really natural sounding. I just picked up a Fishman Loudbox Mini. Great little grab and go acoustic amp.

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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:57 pm
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I picked up a Masterbuilt as a beater, and its now one of my favorite acoustics. there were a few there that had setup issues, but thats nothing that cant be fixed. Time of year is EXTREMELY important to how the guitar will sound feel. Martin will not ship new acoustics in the winter because of what the cold does to it> I was actually there to go over the new Performance series. they're beautiful, just not my cup of tea. I dont like cutaways. I never play higher than the 14th fret, but if i was a player that did a lot of acoustics, id go for one. Taylors, I just never liked them; they're built well, good material, they just seem dull and lifeless to me. No mojo at all. Rememeber their first artist who endorsed them?

Prince. Playing that big $@! Taylor. I think it was pink or purple (probably purple). It was in the Rasberry beret video. It was a dreadnaught, but looked like a cello becaue he was so small.

Personally, Im a Gibson acoustic guy, though I have issues with their CEO and the crap he was pulling a couple years ago.

Id say; try another Masterbuilt in the springtime. Winter and fall, everything shrinks, frets feel sharp, etc.


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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:01 am
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :!: You know what, I went down to the music store yesterday and I really didn't realize how many Egnater's they had on display. When I started messing around with the Rebel 30 things began to get really interesting. I have been banging my head around for months trying to figure out my next amp, and now I know. I have got to get a Reble 30. As soon as I get it, I will be back with the review and pics.


Well, yesterday I pulled the trigger on a Tweaker 40 w/ the 2x12 Cab from Sweetwater. Got a really good deal. It should be here by Tuesday. Will post pics when I get that baby in, plus a quick review. I'm out!
11/19/2011: I got my Tweaker 40 this past Tuesday, but was not able to play it until late last night, due to all my guitars being under repair. I can't give a decent review on because I really couldn't open her up, but at low volumes she still sounds like a f*$+%ing Singing Mermaid.
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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
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Welcome to the "Brotherhood of the Egnater"! :mrgreen:

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Post subject: Re: I ordered a egnater tweaker 40
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:42 am
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63supro wrote:
ny_byooboy,
Welcome to the "Brotherhood of the Egnater"! :mrgreen:

I humbly thank you for allowing me to be in, what I consider, such an auspicious fraternal organization (Ok House enough of the brown nosing, now get on with it Millhouse). I still haven't played through her enough to give any feedback or opinions, so I'll just abstain for now. But so far I am having a freaking ball with the tweak'in thing. I'm Getting Killer Blues-Rock Tones out the whaazoo... 8)

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Try a bit less fibre in your diet, or have a discrete word with your pharmacist. You don't have to go on suffering like this.. :oops:

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