benadrian wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:54 pm

tommy wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:42 pm Also, that's a really great story. There are always going to be people that see some features as a bug.

I've been working for Line 6 for over 10 years now. In the process, I've also ended up working for Yamaha and Ampeg. I think it's only in the last few years that I've been able to rally show my full self in the products. I came out of the DIY punk and indie world, like everyone here on the PRF. We often love the harsh and absurd. FMSteve has made a life's body of work as a musician playing guitar through a PA speaker. That's a universal "wrong" in the guitar world. Sure, we're not all noise and chaos, but it's definitely part of this music community more than it is part of other communities.

And there's the DIY part. Many of us here are recording engineers, and we usually work in studios that we have built ourselves; cobbled together from great deals, used gear, and the discarded good of businesses who couldn't cut it. We don't have to worry about cutting it because we never wanted to be a business. We're losing money and having a blast.

So now I'm modeling my own gear, originally crafted for me and our community. I'm just inventing amps in the digital world that work. I'm trying to get the weirdo guitar players to embrace that there is fun and chaos in what had previously been thought of as perhaps gear that is "not for us." I was shocked to see Denison using a Helix as his pedalboard. Very pleased, but very shocked.

So yeah, I agree, I have a pretty great job.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 6:32 pm

Curry Pervert wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 1:02 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:42 am Pro-One for $1k? Talk me out of it!!

https://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/msg ... 66484.html

Remember to budget for all the maintenance issues incoming.

very good point! These are good talk me out of its

losthighway wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:31 am I was at a party and this dude had a collection of actual Gibson and Gibson inspired hollow body guitars. He handed me a Grote 335 and said they go for around $200, made in China deal. Played fine, could be solid with a little love.

I've had a hankering for a guitar in that fashion for a while and was thinking of souping up an Epi Dot or an Ibanez Art Core for a while, but this is potentially even cheaper. The pickups and possibly bridge will be quick to go on whatever I get. But the Grote would be a blind online purchase.

Bargain basement MIC guitar. Talk me out of it!

losthighway wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:31 am Bargain basement MIC guitar. Talk me out of it!

losthighway wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:12 am They also said the height adjustment screws on the pickups are fake(!). Just a little nail with a fake screw head.

tommy wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:13 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 6:32 pm

Curry Pervert wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 1:02 pm

Remember to budget for all the maintenance issues incoming.

very good point! These are good talk me out of its

I don't know, at $950 and it's the J-wire version. I probably would if I was there. It's pretty easy to clean the buss bar if need be, or to replace the bushings if need be (I've done both. Took about an hour): https://synthchaser.com/product/sequent ... shing-set/ As long as none of the pots don't have busted shafts (doesn't appear to be missing any) and everything works, you're probably golden for a long time.