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Gear Snob?
Mar 18, 2021 13:20:44 GMT -5
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Post by rickyguitar on Mar 18, 2021 13:20:44 GMT -5
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Gear Snob?
Mar 18, 2021 15:07:58 GMT -5
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Post by theprofessor on Mar 18, 2021 15:07:58 GMT -5
Crud - I’m like six of these.
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Gear Snob?
Mar 18, 2021 18:31:24 GMT -5
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Post by Pinetree on Mar 18, 2021 18:31:24 GMT -5
Jeez. American guitar circa 1979, Danlectro batteries, boxes of dusty old pedals, a roomful of tube amps...
They could have at least used my photo.
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Gear Snob?
Mar 18, 2021 18:44:27 GMT -5
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Post by Leftee on Mar 18, 2021 18:44:27 GMT -5
They probably thought you were too expensive.
A guy’s gotta have standards.
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Post by LTB on Mar 19, 2021 0:35:39 GMT -5
Well I didn’t think I was a gear snob until I got to this part; “ this player has carefully selected and modded their entire rig down to component level, and they’re’ not letting you leave until you hear why. They laugh at your stock capacitors, stare blankly in disbelief as you confess you don’t know the value of your pots, and can’t wait for you to slip up while talking about pickup resistance.”
😂😜😂😏😂
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Post by MoJoe on Mar 19, 2021 1:45:31 GMT -5
Nope. Usually don't bother much. What works stays untouched, else minor refinements and repairs are in order.Some entitled brat on YT blabbering away on technicalities or imagined eccentric tastes gets annoying fast. Only detected recently thanks to lockdown policies and the weather when I'd rather been out playing or riding my bike. Although that lured me into buying a Positive Grid amp and software to tinker with at home for the time being. Modeling amps is about the peak of snobism I could think of. 😑
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Post by sirWheat on Mar 19, 2021 5:24:33 GMT -5
Nope, me either. I am a grammar snob however and that article has my nose at the ceiling.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 19, 2021 9:56:24 GMT -5
I'm all of them and I'm not any of them.
To help clarify that: brand names do not matter to me, and I like tubes and SS amps equally. When people ask me "what's a good guitar?" My reply is always, "A good guitar."
The only pedantic gatekeeping I do is I work hard to keep snobbery out of the equation and keep things as real as possibe. Namely, continued practice is the absolute best thing I can do to improve my guitar tone.
But I cannot stop building 'em. It's a disease.
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Gear Snob?
Mar 19, 2021 10:05:18 GMT -5
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Post by Leftee on Mar 19, 2021 10:05:18 GMT -5
I'm all of them and I'm not any of them. To help clarify that: brand names do not matter to me, and I like tubes and SS amps equally. When people ask me "what's a good guitar?" My reply is always, "A good guitar." The only pedantic gatekeeping I do is I work hard to keep snobbery out of the equation and keep things as real as possibe. Namely, continued practice is the absolute best thing I can do to improve my guitar tone. But I cannot stop building 'em. It's a disease. Tone happens. Great tone is where you find it. I hope there’s no cure for the disease.
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Gear Snob?
Mar 19, 2021 10:26:07 GMT -5
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 19, 2021 10:26:07 GMT -5
Musicians are a wacky bunch, like most people on the artsy side. I give our tribe and myself included, leeway in the voodoo we doodoo. I'm of the opinion that when it comes to gear, if you believe something will make you play better, then it probably will despite the science. But I do not get the snobbery and contempt directed within our own ranks. From a non-musician's perspective it must be comical, like artists bickering over brushes.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 19, 2021 10:30:11 GMT -5
I guess I am a gear snob.
First gear is my favorite, because that is the gear I'm in when I'm having breakast.
And I lurrrrrrrrrv breakfast!
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Post by Ayns on Mar 19, 2021 13:04:41 GMT -5
I don't usually click on links, but I did for this one. I really only scanned the article, and I'm sure it was intended to be tongue in cheek/ humorous, but I found it to be quite lazy and cliched, and also strangely quite insulting to their target audience. Sorry
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Gear Snob?
Mar 19, 2021 13:09:47 GMT -5
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Post by Leftee on Mar 19, 2021 13:09:47 GMT -5
Agreed.
Bitter much?
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Post by modbus on Mar 19, 2021 15:29:21 GMT -5
I'm not a gear snob -- if you want to play a Glarry or Gibson Custom Shop through a Line 6 or a Dumble, I don't care. To each his own.
What does bother me is when musicians destroy their instruments onstage, or when guitar companies put most of their effort into making really nice guitars that are bought by investors to be locked in a case for 30 years.
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Post by langford on Mar 20, 2021 12:16:05 GMT -5
Put down as all of the above, depending on my mood. I only hope I'm self-aware enough not to make it anybody else's problem.
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Post by larryguitar54 on Mar 21, 2021 19:43:46 GMT -5
I'm definitely somewhat guilty of being a purist vintage snob.
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Post by Mike the marksman on Mar 22, 2021 7:16:52 GMT -5
I can't really afford to be a snob, but I still am, which is why I don't own much gear:)
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Post by Mikeyguitar on Mar 22, 2021 13:38:25 GMT -5
I thought I might read something that nails me...but no. If anything, I guess a part of me is #1. I like nice stuff. But not THAT nice. I think a guitar around $2,000 would be my limit. I'm more of a snob in the "Danelectro guitars are junk" camp...but they ARE, so...
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 22, 2021 14:52:43 GMT -5
I think there is a difference between snob and knob. The first having a picky preference for one's own gear, the latter being the one who looks down on the former.
Excluding all MT2 members of course. 😎
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Post by Lefty Rev on Mar 22, 2021 15:20:19 GMT -5
So.. the fact that I reamed out the bridge pin holes on my new Custom Shop Martin because they didn't seat them properly at the factory...
...means I'm anal?
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Post by Pinetree on Mar 22, 2021 15:55:41 GMT -5
Nah.
You just voided the warranty, that's all.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2021 18:42:36 GMT -5
I would love to be the Vintage Enthusiast if I could afford it. Most of that stuff is better lol. I'm more of what works for me and what works for you...that's how we learn. Wait, what kind of picks does EJ use?
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Mar 22, 2021 18:51:51 GMT -5
Hmmm. I'm not sure that a few of those are actual "snobs". I'm also reading it as the writer of the article being his own kind of snob by insisting what does and doesn't make a difference. Some nail it, though. Especially with brands. The guy who INSISTS on off brand guitars is a very real thing. With some brands I feel like I can't see the owners without them wanting to talk my head off about why it is better than the larger brand version. Just play the dang thing. I have/had (haven't seen him in a while) a client who played acoustic and loved bringing friends to show off his knowledge. Definite snob. I remember him sitting and playing a guitar and after one strum saying "ah, I can hear the dovetail!"....... suuuuuurrrreee you can, buddy!
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Post by Seldom Seen on Mar 22, 2021 19:19:55 GMT -5
I won't reveal my proclivities, but I sure chuckled reading about, well, someone.
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Post by drifter on Mar 26, 2021 14:02:12 GMT -5
Maybe
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Post by pcalu on Mar 27, 2021 8:15:17 GMT -5
Read that a couple weeks ago..
If I fixate on the minutia of my gear. .. It stops at ... with what I have laying around on a shelf.. (do I have the optimum set of tubes is the amp, do I have the right type of speaker for the amp to get the sound I'm going for, are my pickups set at the correct height.. do I have the amp dialed in correctly.
IMO... that makes a difference is squeezing the maximum quality of tone on of the gear I have. (without going on a time wasting... usually "money wasting" Tone Quest.
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Post by drifter on Apr 3, 2021 11:26:20 GMT -5
That's a practical approach, pcalu. Other than a couple of pedals and an amp my gear is nothing special, but fine tuning that gear makes all the difference...to me.
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