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#391 Re: The Garden » Gibson Guitar Is a Remarkably Unpopular Company » 557 weeks ago
Don't know anything about guitars, but having a tv, a blu ray player and a monitor crap out on me this year I'm never buying Asian again. I still have an alarm clock from the 80s that is working, but apparently that kind of quality is not the case anymore.
That's true for all CE equipment these days, regardless of where it's manufactured. If you're looking for quality, there's very little brands left that focus on that. For TV's specifically, I'd be hard pressed to list anyone besides maybe Sony, who still do all their design and manufacturing themselves. Visio buys and builds OEM stuff in China, RCA is owned by a French company and licensed to Chinese brand TCL, Philips TV's are actually Chinese TV's made and designed by Chinese brand TPVision, ...
There are literally no American or European made televisions that you can buy anymore.
#392 Re: The Garden » Gibson Guitar Is a Remarkably Unpopular Company » 557 weeks ago
What kind of asian guitars aee u referring to ... I have yet to see an oversees made guitar that matches the workmanship of my american made fender or gibson. .. also the material quality and electronics on oversees guitars are often suspect
Well, of the famous brands ESP/LTD for one make absolutely excellent guitars and none of them are made in the US. PRS' SE series (made in Korea) beat the pants off of PRS' S2 series (made affordably in the US). Both are as reliable as their custom shop counterparts if you buy a version with proper electronics. Then there's brands like Chapman Guitars, who make absolutely amazing quality guitars and produce exclusively in Korea.
What a lot of American guitar companies tend to do is build their lower end guitars in Asia and their high end stuff in the US, which creates an image that Asia creates low-end crappy guitars and the US is always top notch. However, if you have a same-spec guitar built in the US and in Asia, you'll end up with equal quality instruments but very different prices.
I've always found it flabbergasting that a lot of people think Chinese or Korean people can't make quality goods. They can and do all the time, but if you ask them to make cheap stuff... they will make you cheap stuff.
Point is, there's absolutely no reason to pay extra for quality US made gear over the quality stuff that you can buy from the far east.
*edit* I just want to add there is no 'instrument quality' based reason. Of course you might want to support your local economy and all that, but on the other hand that might not be worth getting ripped off for.
#393 Re: The Garden » Gibson Guitar Is a Remarkably Unpopular Company » 557 weeks ago
It's been cool to hate on Gibson for a couple of years now, and I can't speak for the newer guitars, but some of the comments you listed are typical wannabe guitar audiophile bullshit statements. For one thing, machine-made guitars are infinitely more reliable and precise than hand made guitars. You can make a great handmade guitar, but you can make the same quality guitar for a fraction of the price if you set up a machine-based production line. Also, the 'extra' cost of 4 pots, a cap or two and a wiring loom is nothing. So what if you have to throw out a PCB when you put in new pups? Boo-fucking-hoo...
Having said that, a Gibson (and American made Fender) is overpriced, for one due to labor costs (Asian factories deliver the same quality for a lot less money), but also because they charge you for the "made in USA" label. An American made Les Paul standard should sell for no more than about 1200 USD, if they used similar margins to guitars manufactured overseas. That is the reason why I will not by another Gibson guitar, not because they are supposedly crap instruments.
In that sense, Gibson is a lifestyle brand, pretty much in the same vein as Beats, Monster, ... and the likes. The real shame is that Gibson at the very least really did make quality products (which cannot be said of other "lifestyle" brands).
But yeah, that CEO is a delusional prick.
#394 Re: Guns N' Roses » RUMOR: GN'R Reunion @ Soundwave » 559 weeks ago
The album just sounds great.
This, this, a thousand times this! After the bloated production of the UYIs, TSI is an incredibly "raw but polished" sounding record with some massive guitar tones.
#395 Re: Guns N' Roses » RUMOR: GN'R Reunion @ Soundwave » 559 weeks ago
It might happen at a festival, provided that it has a link with their past, or has enough cachet. My guess would be Rock in Rio, or Download. Rock Am Ring might be candidate as well.
#396 Re: Management » Side banners » 559 weeks ago
I actually prefer the new look. Good job!
#397 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 559 weeks ago
Not an American, but given how the rest of the western world is impacted by your elections and that I have a lot of American friends I feel like I should share my opinion anyway 
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I hope he gets the nomination, not because I think he's a good candidate (I don't, I think he's too dumb and too volatile), but because he's not funding his campaign with interest group money. I think it's unlikely though, and expect the vast majority of the 75% of Republican voters that don't currently support him to coalesce around a more sane candidate as the field whittles down.
I'm naively hoping for Trump vs. Sanders, with Sanders taking the presidency. Sanders has the same advantage as Trump, in that he's also not taking money from interest groups, but he's intelligent and dependable to boot. Plus (being European and all) I don't think electing a socialist democrat will kill your economy and it is time the American people get a president that actually represents their needs.
#398 Re: Guns N' Roses » New song for trade (FAKE) » 568 weeks ago
The vocals sound real "phase-y" in the first sample, which is a side effect that you get when vocals are "extracted" from a full mix track. Not 100% sure if that's the case, and it would make me wonder why someone would rip original unheard Axl vocals from one song to paste them onto another, but there's absolutely no reason why even an olc demo would have such an effects applied to the vocals.
#399 Re: The Sunset Strip » I am in love with Taylor Momsen » 569 weeks ago
Lzzy is cool, but I wouldn't call her hot, she's pretty plain IMHO.
#400 Re: Guns N' Roses » Stay of Execution » 571 weeks ago
personally I don't get in to the production that much as I listen to old country stuff from the 30's up....just care about the songs
Production is just as much part of the songs as the individual instruments are. A well-produced album doesn't necessarily mean that it's "polished" sounding, Jack White's producing on Elephant is a good example of excellent production that sounds very low-fi (but fits the songs very well). Conversely, bad production can easily kill an album for me. Down's Nola comes to mind as an album with great songs and absolutely horrible production. Or anything from Pantera as well really.
