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If they do, it's a fairly recent upgrade. [edit]Yep, they do, but these are different in several ways than mine, which was noticeable for a different headstock design. I'd wager the neck is also much different than the old ones as well.

I had one for a while a few years ago. It was OK for a plywood guitar, nicely detailed with decent sound. I got it at GC on long sale just to have a beater, but the neck was too big and the fingerboard was too wide for me to really use, so I unloaded it. I've found better instruments for less...

Whatever you do, avoid the "J-45 Deluxe" from the '70s, broadly recognized as the worst guitar Gibson ever made, to this day -- which is really saying something, given the garbage that they get away with shipping. The "Deluxe" was Norlin's attempt to make the J-45 for about half the production...

I have seen some breathtakingly, jaw-droppingly awful Fender acoustics. I have never seen a really good Fender acoustic.

SVX. Good combination of models.

I have one. It's OK. Newer is better. The old ones (green PCB) had numerous problems, most notably an egregiously misdesigned reverb circuit. Much of this speaker swapping is to compensate for the scooped Fender tone stack. It's easier and cheaper to fix that. Bill Machrone has a lot of...

Great! Thanks, I'll get on it!

Yes, that's an interesting thread, and curiously, I long ago came up with very similar ideas through my own monkey logic, but lack Harvey's organization and presence of mind to actually put them into practical use in the insane environment of the typical gear emporium. :o I'm thinking that in...

What's an FFT? The acronym doesn't immediately ring any bells. This is pretty much along the lines of what I was thinking, but I couldn't really get my thoughts organized around the specifics...such as the most convenient/cheap way of getting white noise output, etc., etc.

Strange that there's not a peep on the shure.com site on the fakes issue, at least not that I can find. :confused:

Yeah, the studio, but I wouldn't consider that method useful or objective enough to keep from possibly fooling myself. :rolleyes: Like most people in the world, my ears play tricks on me. Unlike most people in the world, I'm aware of it. :D I never really trust ears. Anyone's. "Controlled"...

How do you do it? What's a fairly quick and meaningful way to test/cherrypick a batch of several nominally identical microphones, or so-called "pairs," especially inexpensive ones that tend to be inconsistent? Thanks for any guidance; my purely subjective listening impressions don't strike me...

The BDI21 is not so much a DI as a very good, subtle sound-shaping device that has a DI capability. I've seen these new for as low as US$20 new, online. Great unit, similar -- but not identical -- to the SansAmp at a tiny fraction of the price. Someone here recommended getting one as the best...

I won't be using firewire in the immediate future, so that's not an issue. Thanks for the reassurance that Reaper isn't hardware-finicky. :)

With luck, tomorrow I'll probably get a new motherboard/CPU at Fry's and build a dedicated Reaper box. I'm assuming that by 2009 there shouldn't be much issue with hardware, but I thought I'd check for known issues with chipsets, etc. I'm planning on AMD Quad-Core, XP, and whatever motherboard...

A slight diversion here: How do these compare with hardware modelers, and why? Thanks for any in-depth answers!

All other things being equal, a dumb idea. I've seen this question approached by serious pickup mavens who know far more about it than I do on other forums and the answer is always the same. Unless you're a marketing genius, you'll never make any money -- and if money isn't important to you...

Since installing a MIDI interface driver for a Yamaha device, I get the following Windows error when I try to use J-Edit for another modeler, and others report the same problem with other devices: "Midico~1 A device ID has been used that is out of range of your system" I've seen many...

I'm not 100% convinced about this new Bain Capital proprietary :rolleyes:, but if you order one in the next few days, the shipping's free (as opposed to an additional $70-$80 normally) -- though they're backordered about six weeks. If you like these, that's a persuasive deal.