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lol well not to be argumentative but the title of the thread seemed to naturally steer the conversation that way Speaking of the thread.. The usual arguments are “millennials are lazy” etc.. This is the first time I’ve heard someone suggest that boomers are better than millennials at math. Any way obviously this type of video isn’t about actual math skills it’s about finding maybe a relatively dumb person and making them so camera shy that their mind goes blank. I wonder what it would look like if you did this type of predatory journalism at Woodstock for example. One important thing is that I don’t know that boomers would actually react the same way. They see a kid with a mic and a camera and think “big deal”. They would probably be more intimidated by a local news reported not realizing how many magnitudes larger the internet audience. A young person like you see in this video knows that millions of people will be judging her and it has a major effect on her ability to think

You’re asking if Gibson would charge $400 for an exclusive finish, limited run, and special case. The answer is obviously yes lol

Do you have any custom buckers to compare with? I’ve got it in my head that these are custombuckers with double cream bobbins, collector swag, and maybe more accurate covers if not the same covers I feel like this was done as a direct result of the dimarzio lawsuit

The dude misspelled “you’re” in the title of his video about stupid people

I knew his age because at some point we discovered that we have either the exact same birthday (including year) or are one or two days apart

Alright somebody here needs to buy one of those Byrdland’s so we can enjoy it vicariously

What a devastating loss for his friends, family, and us here on the forum We will all fondly remember him as a very kind person who was passionate about music

If you buy that preassembled “harness” you’re wasting about $90 and then paying a tech to do the installation anyways. You’re already going to pay a tech, let him solder it up. The wiring is the easy part of this job, it’s fishing the electronics through the holes that’s tedious

Not to turn into a Chinese thing but I just had a funny interaction with a Chinese guy yesterday To sum it up quickly I had a Chinese billionaire guy come up to me and tell me I couldn’t park on his street. I was very polite but he was immediately threatening to call the shitty and get me towed and all that. The look of frustration on his face was priceless. It was like in China this guy probably has IMMENSE power but here he’s just a goofball with a nice car and a funny accent I gotta point out that I was polite the whole time and my truck was parked perfectly out of the way and legally amongst many other parked vehicles. The guy just had a massive superiority complex and maybe a bad morning

For pots the general recommendation is going to be CTS. I like the ones from “The Art of Tone” on eBay. He has good prices and the log taper works well for guitars. Not sure if a Casino is like a Jr or if it’s all 500K. Short shafts for sure though

Are you planning on getting a pair? If you do and you happen to have experience with the custombuckers I’m really curious how they compare

That’s a handsome little guy

Man that is a good looking guitar. I’ve always lusted for the Byrdland

So from what I’ve gathered the main problem with the sound of this pedal is that it’s not a real amp. It’s an algorithm which anticipates you do certain things which you might not necessarily do. For example, if you roll back the tone knob it’s almost no effect until it’s all the way down then you get that throaty sound you expect. But in between there’s almost no gradient. As a player you notice that stuff but again you can adjust your playing to cope This thing is a ton of fun and I don’t mean to besmirch it but it’s not as good as a really good amp. As a practice tool with headphones this is absolutely perfect and I’m having a lot of fun. I would not want this to be my only option for recording or gigging but it is exceptional as a practice tool

Now when I look at gear related sites with ads I keep getting an ad for this cable at sweetwater. It’s actually like $436 and their algorithm thinks I really want to buy it

You guys catch that this comes with double white bobbins? I think this must be related to that recent DiMarzio lawsuit The display case is cute but a little confusing to me. Are you supposed to not install the pickups so they can be displayed in the case? Do you install the 59 pickups and then put the old pickups in the display case? If you install these do you ruin the value as a collectible? I wonder how these differ from the custom bucker which is supposedly an exact paf copy and all that. I wonder how this competes with something like Throback where they are using Gibson’s original winding machines. Gibson can analyze an original pickup and reproduce it with CNC, throback just reproduces the components as accurately as possible and then lets an original winding machine do that part of the magic. The custombucker is like $600 for a pair. I wonder if the extra $400 gets you a completely different pickup or essentially the same pickup with special bobbins and display case etc

In that pic we can see 10 jacks, 9 switches, and 3 knobs on the BACK of the amp At which point do you put down the meth pipe?

I have probably had a bit less than two hours on this thing so far so I’m hesitant to give much a review what I can say. It’s a hit in terms of ease of use and instant gratification. It will be a hit for my intended purpose as a practice tool i really like how it goes from the cleanest amp model to the most saturated. The ease of use is unparalleled. The sound is absolutely going to be better on a Kemper or a real amp. This has some fizz and digital artifacts which are to be expected at this level. I think I have more to learn with this thing but it’s a great product for my intended purpose im sure you guys know what I mean. I can hear the shortcomings and adapt to them to where it sounds good, but it’s less forgiving than the real thing

Your ac10 and ac15 bear very little resemblance to their original counterparts except maybe cosmetically. The originals were not Fender copies either

I’m not sure how this is relevant to the post you replied to but Vox is a bit of an outlier. The ac30 was not a copy of any Fender product, it was probably made from application notes from a Mullard book or something ac30s have always been unreliable and less easy to work on than fender. When Korg bought out Vox, everything except the hand wired series were made in China and very poorly designed Korg’s whole deal is make an ac30 looking object cheap so I can sell a bajillion through guitar center. The first run of Chinese amps was the custom classic series (the amp that I have). If you manage to find a schematic for these you will see the amp itself closely resembles an ac30 top boost without the ef86 channel. That part of the amp sounds good albeit highly unreliable and poorly implemented. Remember the goal of Korg is to sell a bajillion units, so the amp must have tremolo and reverb and effects loop to compete right? This is where things start getting screwy. You have a solid state tremolo which works but is just as boring sounding as it gets. Anybody could just do without that tremolo but the point wasn’t to sound good the point was to convince people to buy. The spring reverb is also solid state driven and is by all means the absolute worst sounding spring reverb I’ve ever heard. It is so obvious that the reverb was just slapped on to be more competetive in big box stores. the effects loop is also solid state buffered. I’m not an effects loop guy but I will say the loop on my ac30 did not sound good Ok so Korg is selling bajillions of units but they are seriously unreliable, they’re a bit expensive to produce, and the random added features were kinda crap. This is where the C series begins (C1 is 1x12 C2 is 2x12 etc) With the C series amps the first thing anyone should notice is the solid state rectifier. In order to cheapen production and improve reliability the C series changed from tube to solid state rectifier. This is kindof a big deal for the sound. An ac30 gets really saggy when it’s really cranked up because of the tube rectifier. The solid state rectifier provides tighter faster transient response. The C series saw a marked improvement to the solid state reverb driver circuit. It went from being literally unusable trash (CC series) to decent but nowhere near as good as fender (C series). I’d have to check the schematics (which as noted is an issue with Korg) to compare power sections but I want to say the power amp was biased just a bit colder on the C series to prevent so many power tube failures C series also had what would generally be considered better speakers compared to CC TLDR Vox was never a fender copy, new Vox has increasingly less in common with old Vox, and Korg Vox is extremely low quality. When a Chinese Korg Vox has an actual problem you will absolutely struggle to find a tech who can help. The newer Korg Vox improved reliability by making an amp which is less similar to an ac30 as an aside, notice how the hardwired ac30 doesn’t have tremolo or reverb or effects loop etc. What you get there is the best ac30 copy that Korg could legally make at the time and it is actually very good. Super important that it isn’t loaded down with all those extra crap features and the construction is actually serviceable

I don’t remember where I got the schematic for the ac30cc1/2 but it is technically correct. It’s a really badly designed amp to work on though. as I was getting into that amp I actually just threw all of the pcbs in the trash and salvaged the transformers, chassis and cab. I drew a tag board layout for a more stripped down version with the old ef86 and top boost preamps. At the time I was really hot on adding a tube driven trem but I should let that go. There are already a lot of tubes and it’s just more complication for a feature I don’t actually care about much. Since I was scratching my head on the tube trem and then moved apartments that project kinda fell by the wayside. I gotta get back to that project. The sound and power level of the ac30 tend to be just right for me.

Neither of you have argued with me if that’s what you’re implying. I’m talking about ease of repair, you keep going on about ownership and gigging. Its ok. Amp techs don’t like Mesa for obvious reasons which have already been discussed. That’s it.

You’re gonna have to try a lot harder than that to convince me that my ac30 isn’t a pile of ****. It’s a great sounding pile of **** that I’ve gigged for years

Ok now that I’ve seen that picture I’m convinced that Mesa amps use only components with infinite lifespans and in the impossible event of repair it would be a piece of cake

I should probably seek counseling for how much I dislike this song. That guy sounds like a 2” tall dancing monkey selling his soul for a dollar it sounds like it sounded bad, then they turned up the tape speed a bit