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Post by Ward on Jan 31, 2021 6:09:40 GMT -6
There was a bunch of similar ads for Gibson Guitars, Martin guitars, Fender guitars, on facebook a few months back, all at impossible prices. The ads claimed a store was going out of business and rather than liquidate after bankruptcy, they'll just sell everything at $98 for any guitar. The photos were of real guitars. No way that was real, but it sure was tempting to see if it was true. That's how they get you. I know a legitimate dealer in NY who had a major shop for 40 years. He sold off tons of inventory privately, kept a lot and sells them online at proper prices. No way a Neumann is selling for peanuts. It says "Madon" right on the stinking badges. LOL A friend of mine bought a Chibson. It was so much wrong, it was nuts! LOL |
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Post by Martin John Butler on Jan 31, 2021 10:55:33 GMT -6
Yikes!
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Post by Guitar on Jan 31, 2021 10:59:47 GMT -6
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Post by chessparov on Jan 31, 2021 16:36:29 GMT -6
Imagine if there was a "yikes" button!
Chris
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Post by Ward on Feb 1, 2021 12:18:22 GMT -6
Imagine if there was a "yikes" button! Chris If so, I would imagine I'd be the biggest cause of using it and probably the biggest user of it as well. LOL |
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Post by johneppstein on Feb 1, 2021 15:12:31 GMT -6
There was a bunch of similar ads for Gibson Guitars, Martin guitars, Fender guitars, on facebook a few months back, all at impossible prices. The ads claimed a store was going out of business and rather than liquidate after bankruptcy, they'll just sell everything at $98 for any guitar. The photos were of real guitars. No way that was real, but it sure was tempting to see if it was true. That's how they get you. I know a legitimate dealer in NY who had a major shop for 40 years. He sold off tons of inventory privately, kept a lot and sells them online at proper prices. No way a Neumann is selling for peanuts. It says "Madon" right on the stinking badges. LOL A friend of mine bought a Chibson. It was so much wrong, it was nuts! LOL Some of the Chibsons are actually quite nice. My lead player has a copy of an SG Les Paul Custom and, aside from the utterly crap electronics (and somewhat cheesy hardware), is almost perfect. They got the type font slightly wrong on some of the engraving and of course did not have the sideways whammy, but aside from that it's pretty damn good - in some ways plays better than the real '61 I used to have, since it doesn't have fretless wonders on it. It plays great and he uses it a lot.
His son has a Les Paul Standard that is also pretty good - as good as any Epi I've played.
BTW, when we took the old pickups out of the Custom they all said "Epiphone" on the back. HMMmmmm..... Interesting.
And Gibson sues US makers who aren't even doing actual copies. Faugh....
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Post by drbill on Feb 1, 2021 21:34:04 GMT -6
I'd give the 103 about a 50% chance of sounding better than the real Neumann.  |
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Post by OtisGreying on Feb 2, 2021 1:24:32 GMT -6
Stay away imo
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Post by ericn on Feb 2, 2021 9:00:50 GMT -6
I'd give the 103 about a 50% chance of sounding better than the real Neumann. Your being conservative on that one. |
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Post by drbill on Feb 2, 2021 9:53:12 GMT -6
I'd give the 103 about a 50% chance of sounding better than the real Neumann. Your being conservative on that one. Hahaaa! Yeah, probably. |
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Post by chessparov on Feb 2, 2021 10:57:16 GMT -6
(Best Don Adams/Agent 86 voice) "Would you believe 60%?"
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Post by Ward on Feb 2, 2021 14:06:21 GMT -6
(Best Don Adams/Agent 86 voice) "Would you believe 60%?" Chris Ok Chief, how about sssseventy per cent? |
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Post by chessparov on Feb 2, 2021 19:35:40 GMT -6
(Chief) "Max, control yourself" "The fate of the entire Free World rests on this". "Don't you know that'd create chaos!" (Agent 86) "Sorry Chief" (Chief leaves) (Max turns to Agent 99) "Missed it by THAT much". Chris |
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Post by ericn on Feb 2, 2021 21:59:35 GMT -6
(Chief) "Max, control yourself" "The fate of the entire Free World rests on this". "Don't you know that'd create chaos!" (Agent 86) "Sorry Chief" (Chief leaves) (Max turns to Agent 99) "Missed it by THAT much". Chris It probably sounds like it has a built in compressor with a THAT VCA😎 |
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Post by jcoutu1 on Feb 2, 2021 22:28:42 GMT -6
(Chief) "Max, control yourself" "The fate of the entire Free World rests on this". "Don't you know that'd create chaos!" (Agent 86) "Sorry Chief" (Chief leaves) (Max turns to Agent 99) "Missed it by THAT much". Chris It probably sounds like it has a built in compressor with a THAT VCA😎 THAT is literally at the end of my street. I think that's super cool for some reason. 😂😂 |
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Post by Ward on Feb 3, 2021 8:19:09 GMT -6
It's gonna be time to 86 this thread soon.
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