Oh the Corksniffery
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Nostradoomus
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My favourite part is saying “if you know, you know” and then proceeding to explain absolutely every dumb thing about it.
p_wats
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Too soon!
UtilityBeltFX
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One of my biggest pet peeves in general these days...
Brett
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It claims to be the "finest true to vintage spec" tube screamer out there. Featuring some NOS components that are so unobtainium, it's like they never existed in the first place. Looking at you, 151588 diodes.
I guess I'm SOL when it comes to building a proper vintage spec tube screamer, all my darned NOS Toshiba diodes are 1S1588, shucks.
Brett
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That's fair and after checking, it seems the builder's Instagram lists the correct part number for the diodes as well.
Lighten up a little, I'm just poking fun at the ad that Cooder posted. The actual builder does some really nice looking work.
cooder
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Yes absolutely a second hand add I did not intend to blame thus on the builder that I have had not heard of or had contact with.
It's just a comical second hand add that wants to be taken serious. Right.
That's it.
The guy who sells this is with this blurb is actually a very well respected Luthier and guitar repairer in Auckland NZ ...
It's all about a sale I suppose.
cooder
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Oh yes fully agree.
It's a blend of arrogance, ignorance and narciss.
It's what happens when you tickle the tant.
In our local Gumtree ads a fella was advertising a "Vintage TS10" which he was asking Aust$1500 for - nearly a grand US. Back in the day I was talked into buying a then new TS10 by my bassplayer because he was convinced it would "improve my guitar tone". Not only did it sound very, very ordinary but it kept ejecting my guitar leads. I've never experienced that before or since.
pingpongcomputer
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I know Alpha pots are pretty high end compared to the tayda generic pots I use, but it terms of potentiometer quality they're still pretty close to bottom of the barrel. Might take that selling point out, or just say "bespoke +/-30% tolerance potentiometers give every pedal a unique character"