The Official Guitar Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Alex
Still a Music Elitist
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Yeah the reviews are amazing. But I want to actually play one. I'm very picky about neck profile and fret accessibility and I need to play one before I dump $1500 on a guitar. Unfortunately all the guitar shops are closed right now.
pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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Pedal still isn't here today. Priority shipping from Indiana to Michigan. Last tracking update said it left Indiana and nothing since. Been telling myself that I'm just being paranoid but meh that really reeks of a USPS employee that recognized a Sweetwater package and got away with it or some shit... Not being scanned IN anywhere five days after being scanned OUT, and it's Priority mail? Those boxes stick out you don't misplace those. Blah.
Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
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I wouldn't worry about USPS employees. That's a federal crime and they have a full division that all they do is investigate mail fraud by employees (they even are armed, it's serious)
Shipping anything lately has been a crapshoot.
Check out this package I ordered. UPS failed to deliver it for a week straight. I had to change delivery to a pickup location to finally receive it.
Shipping anything lately has been a crapshoot.
Check out this package I ordered. UPS failed to deliver it for a week straight. I had to change delivery to a pickup location to finally receive it.
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Got my Jp160 last week via fed ex. It took proaudiostar a week to ship it because of bat aids, but fed ex had it here in 4-5 days. Proaudiostar did offer a discount on my next order because of the shipping delay. Happy with the guitar. The main music man line must be phenomenoal because the sterling is great. Fretboard feels great, no sharp edges. Came with a serviceable gig bag.
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Borzak
Bronze Baron of the Realm
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I've ordered a number of things from them lately. It all came free shipping and they send it Fed Ex and was delivered in two days. Once on a Sunday. Beats ordering stuff where the last leg of it comes via the USPS which I am not a fan of in the least.
pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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Just so damn weird that the last update was "depart facility" then it never made it to the next facility. So gotta ask if it even made it on the truck, or if it did make it on the truck if it made it off the truck at the Flint sort facility it should have showed up at later that night.
It was buried in a phone menu and then the phonebot had to text me the link but I found a way to flag shit like this on the USPS website to have someone look at it.
And yeah man I wish my Sales Engineer told me the free shipping was gonna be USPS, I might have even paid for FedEx with the BS the USPS is dealing with right now
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Springbok
Karen
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Can only speak to their acoustic line, but their premium dreadnoughts and GA’s are wonderful guitars and have a really rich, full sound with awesome projection. I would say they’re every bit as good as an upmarket Martin or Gibson in tone. In fact, I bought a new acoustic myself this week and had a damnable time deciding between an Eastman cutaway and a Breedlove full Myrtlewood. Ended up with the Breedlove because of how rich the Myrtlewood sounded, made in USA (and uniqueness of the wood), but walked away really loving what Eastman is doing. I’d avoided them previously because many are Chinese made on assembly lines, but whatever they are doing sonically is working so more power to em.
AC622CE
Neck Material:Mahogany Fingerboard:Ebony Fingerboard Radius:12" Neck Profile:Traditional Even "C" Nut:Bone 1 3/4" Fretwire:22 Jescar-FW43080 Scale Length:25.4"
www.eastmanguitars.com
Oregon Concerto Bourbon CE Myrtlewood - Myrtlewood
Oregon Concerto Bourbon CE Myrtlewood - Myrtlewood
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I'm looking at a couple 2x12 cab's. Can anyone give me a good usability reason to go with one over the other? I haven't messed with amp heads or cabs so I'll be figuring it out as I go if I get one. I like the vertical for the way it will sit, but being able to do stereo sounds cool even thought I don't know why I'd want to do that? These are thomann's budget Cab's. They sell them cheaper than the cost of the speakers usually.
Horizontal - L & R inputs. 16 ohm stereo and 8 ohm mono.
Vertical - 8 ohm input. Through output.
Horizontal - L & R inputs. 16 ohm stereo and 8 ohm mono.
- Equipped with: 2x 12" Celestion Vintage 30 speakers
- Power rating: 120 W at 8 Ohm or 2 x 60 W at 16 Ohm
- Inputs: 2x 6.3 mm jack
- Mono / stereo switchable
- Housing made of 16 mm poplar plywood
- Grille with decorative strips
- Made with black Tolex
- Dimensions (H x W x D): 520 x 742 x 300 mm
- Weight: 25 kg
- Suitable protective
Vertical - 8 ohm input. Through output.
- Equipped with: 2 x 12" Celestion Vintage 30
- Power rating: 120 W
- Impedance: 8 Ohm
- Housing made of 16 mm poplar plywood
- Made with black Tolex
- Decorative strips
- Dimensions (W x H x D): 49.5 x 65.8 x 35.5 - 29.5 cm
- Weight: 24 kg
pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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Lol rub it in!
For real tho, in my continued oddyessy...The local Postmaster called me yesterday to let me know he got my inquiry and was going to personally look into it. I got the impression that he was looking for an excuse to get away from the chaos up front lol but hey I'll take it.
And then today Sweetwater told me that if it doesn't arrive by tomorrow they'll FedEx me a replacement order. So I should have it by this weekend, I hope, assuming that the fucking dam that burst nearby isn't going to affect shipping haha (I mean, not that me having my pedal late is as bad as having to evacuate like some of my friends, but still, what timing
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Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
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Not really any reason for one over the other. Keep in mind v30s are extremely bright. They were too much for me
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