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Post by jtc111 on Feb 26, 2019 14:13:37 GMT -6
On the first day, the Lord gave us Jan Terri. And on the second day, Antares gave us Auto-Tune.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 25, 2019 13:15:09 GMT -6
Tell you what... start giving realistic product delivery estimates based on your track record and not your best case scenario fantasies, and I'll say not another word. I don't mind. When you can't reason with somebody it is best to ignore them. I won't be able to see further comments from you Life is too short for fighting dear Jim. I guess my offer was unreasonable.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 25, 2019 11:04:00 GMT -6
So you're doing stand-up now? Still obsessed I see ... Tell you what... start giving realistic product delivery estimates based on your track record and not your best case scenario fantasies, and I'll say not another word.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 25, 2019 10:32:08 GMT -6
I am not down with giving unrealistic shipping times... Josh So you're doing stand-up now?
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 24, 2019 17:47:38 GMT -6
You'd have to pry my Flea 47 from my cold dead hands. I've never used the mics aremos mentioned so I can't compare to those, but to every other mic I've ever used, the Flea is miles ahead. I don't find it especially bright at all. The top end is smooth and the bottom is nice and full as a 47 should be. Vincent R. used my Flea 47 in a recent video which I'll post below. I'm also going to insert the video shootout that I must have listened to a couple of hundred times while working up the courage to drop more than $3k on a microphone (I'm pretty sure I hadn't cracked even the $1k point on a mic up until then).
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 20, 2019 11:16:58 GMT -6
I got the news today, OH BOY!! Mine ship out tomorrow. Isn't that your third promised shipping date within a week?
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 18, 2019 16:48:50 GMT -6
If it was clearly stated you would wait a year when you ordered then you'd have no leg to stand on for getting impatient or mad. It's the continual moving of the goal post that will drive you nuts. I suggested to him numerous times that he should give more realistic delivery dates. Every time he insisted that he does give realistic delivery dates. No business can fix a problem they don't acknowledge. But I think perhaps the issue is more duplicitous than simply being overly optimistic. I suspect the promises of early deliveries drives more business. Once he has your money, it's easier to string you along. Yes, he'll give refunds to those who want them, but most people are just going to wait it out.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 18, 2019 14:35:50 GMT -6
Wasn't it always obvious that the point of the pre order price was to get operating funds to pay for the build and make some money to pay for other orders all as they came i ? If that's the case, doesn't that indicate that the initial delivery date of July was never realistic and simply a lie to draw in customers by making it appear they wouldn't be waiting very long?
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 18, 2019 12:10:43 GMT -6
I'm hoping that when he delivers all this will be in the past for him. I know he's frustrated - but so are we. The whole situation is like kindling - without much room for error. There are no doubt legitimate issues that cause delays...but after all the waiting, when those things happen, people freak out. It's over until people are waiting for delivery on the next thing from Groundhog Day Audio.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 18, 2019 11:46:26 GMT -6
This reply five minutes ago on GS. “The Ponzi scheme is shipping 30 pieces this week and another 150 in the next weeks Enjoy the ponzi reviews. Josh” That's the kind of press you get when you constantly miss shipping commitments and refuse to address the issue in a way that alleviates the problem and complaints, and when you talk about improving communications for six months but that "improvement" is really just an increased number of posts addressing the same old complaints due to an uptick of the same old complaints. Some folks here are going to call the shipping of the ADG a sign of improvement but it's nothing more than your turn finally coming up on a product that was promised for deliver last July.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 18, 2019 11:32:28 GMT -6
In the video it sounded okay on the vocal, nothing special about it but it wasn't bad. I didn't love what it was doing with the guitars, especially with the acoustic which sounded kinda brittle to my ears. The microphone sounds sibilant to me on the femvox. A lot of mics do on some people. I don't think slight sibilance by itself takes a mic out of contention. I suspect I already own mics that would sound better on that singer (richer in the top end certainly) and that's what would take the Stealth out of contention. I guess what I'm saying is that in listening to the video, nothing stood out as being particularly nice sounding to me. I thought the vocal was the best showing it had and that wasn't terrible but it wasn't remarkable in any way.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 18, 2019 10:35:36 GMT -6
In the video it sounded okay on the vocal, nothing special about it but it wasn't bad. I didn't love what it was doing with the guitars, especially with the acoustic which sounded kinda brittle to my ears.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 17, 2019 17:33:41 GMT -6
Well, implicitly, according to Josh outside North America, but I don’t have any specifics? Hi, Gentlemen, Trying to help... I was curious about that as well, so I Googled "Stam Audio €". Here's what came up: masteringmansion.com/pro-audio/marca/stam-audio/If it's true that those items are in stock, that's a big F-U to every person who's been waiting on gear.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 17, 2019 15:34:48 GMT -6
The amount of patience many of you have shown Josh is amazing considering the constant stream of obfuscations and delays. I consider myself a pretty patient person but you folks have me topped by a long stretch.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 17, 2019 11:39:38 GMT -6
I haven't used his bass pickups, but Klein guitar pickups are the best I've heard. He goes to extreme lengths to match vintage specs exactly. I have several guitars set up with his EPIC series pickups and they're just amazingly good.
From the website:
We are your Vintage Pickup specialists. We have created a niche of manufacturing the most accurate vintage pickup reproductions to which can not be equaled. Our process is to chemically analyze an original pickup magnets and wire, then we reproduce them with the exact same magnets and wire. We don't use stock magnets or wire. We don't degauss magnets and say they are vintage. Our magnets are only as strong as the elemental composition will hold. Our wire is specially manufactured for us, we have many batches of wire with all different types of resistances and O.D.'s. Our wire also is processed differently than modern conventional wire, these little details are what makes the Klein Pickups Reproductions the most accurate in the world.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 17, 2019 8:12:02 GMT -6
I don't think he'd share the information truthfully, and I don't blame him given the amount of backlog there is, but it might be helpful to everyone waiting and every potential buyer to know just how many outstanding orders there are. Then again, if he's not shipping 20 units of something every single day, the information would be misleading.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 16, 2019 22:56:29 GMT -6
Just making sure everyone reading is aware that you can Hide plugins in Console that you don't own. And for PT users, since Type Ahead was introduced, I haven't scrolled through a plugin menu in ages. Regardless, lots of good feedback/ideas here! I don't use Console so that doesn't help me. And if I'm looking for something specific, the search feature helps but sometimes I like to audition different things and I don't have a particular plugin in mind. This shouldn't be a hard problem to fix. In fact, I suspect the hardest part is getting UA to simply agree it needs fixing.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 16, 2019 19:28:13 GMT -6
:::Sniff::: :::Sniff::: I smell March... anyone else smell it?
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 16, 2019 14:05:50 GMT -6
The thing is, I don't want a workaround, I don't want a third party solution, I simply want UAD to let me put my plug-ins in the order I choose when I go to instantiate one. They can keep their list of every plug-in if they want, just let me put my favorites on top or at least highlight them. The is just a no brainer. Look at the responses to my Facebook post to see what UAD users really think. So you've left me with nothing to say but "noted". It's not just him. The UAD library has become pretty vast. Going forward, this is a problem that just gets bigger and bigger as more plugins are added. I understand the desire for UA to keep the names of those plugins in front of us, but I concur with others who have said seeing the name over and over has never made me buy any plugin. Having them all in the list does nothing but cost me time. And this is coming from someone who owns 107 plugins (according to my account page), so it's not like I own a dozen and can't find them. It's a real issue.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 16, 2019 10:53:27 GMT -6
Figure out what you want to buy. Make sure it’s a “need” and not a “want”. Take the cost of said piece of gear and triple it. When you have that amount saved up, take 1/3 of it and buy the gear. The other 2/3’s goes into your savings or retirement fund. Enjoy your new gear and thank me in 40 years. That's good advice. You don't want to be in a situation where you HAVE to work when you're 80. I was luckier than most in that my day job came with a great pension. I did my 30 years in the classroom and retired last June. But I know enough people who weren't so lucky and because they didn't plan well, will be working well into their 60s and maybe longer than that.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 15, 2019 15:00:30 GMT -6
I'll sometimes do the 0% interest/XX months thing for expensive stuff and on items for which there's no wiggle room for price negotiation so long as I can set up an automatic payment online. But be warned; doing it that way limits how good a deal you can get since the interest you're not paying is being paid by the dealer. The more time you want to take to pay it off, the less of a price reduction you can expect. For example, when I bought my Flea, Vintage King was running a deal for 24 months interest free. To get that deal, you had to pay full price. I was able to get them down to a price I liked better but it had to be paid off in 6 months. I went for that option.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 11, 2019 14:36:02 GMT -6
The thing is, I don't want a workaround, I don't want a third party solution, I simply want UAD to let me put my plug-ins in the order I choose when I go to instantiate one. They can keep their list of every plug-in if they want, just let me put my favorites on top or at least highlight them. The is just a no brainer. Look at the responses to my Facebook post to see what UAD users really think. Totally agree. It's a feckin' chore to sift through the list and try to remember what you have and don't have. I created a sticky on my desktop screen of the ones I own, but that's an imperfect solution because to keep it visible costs screen space.
Which group is it? The link doesn't work for me.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 11, 2019 10:23:43 GMT -6
My take: they need the money from pre-orders on 'new' products to pay for the manufacturing of products already sold. House of cards. A pyramid shaped house? But what's in the basement?
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 11, 2019 9:32:33 GMT -6
They've been teasing this computer for a long time. At one point the talk was late 2017/early 2018. I was thinking about holding out for it but in the fall of 2017 my 2007 cheesegrater was pissing me off too often and it became clear the new Mac Pro wouldn't be out as soon as hoped, so I bought a tricked out iMac instead. 18 months later I'm still happy with that choice.
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Post by jtc111 on Feb 10, 2019 11:12:02 GMT -6
So theshea from five hours ago was wrong when he said, "yeah, something i've asked myself as well. did they have the finished working prototype last may when offering it first, or did the they need the time/delay to make it work/develope it?"? it was something i asked myself. i didn't answer it. now i think you can't run a business with this strategy. maybe i am wrong. I think you may have been more prescient than you gave yourself credit for being.
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