I was in a Guitar Center tonight....

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...I needed to pickup a panel mount XLR for a project.

While I was there, I ran my fingers along the edge of a number of the electric guitars out on the floor, and with the exception of the ones in the acoustic room and the high dollar dumb guitar room (relics and the like), every single guitar I felt had it's fret ends sticking WAY out - which is to say that every one of them was REALLY dry. The only exception was a fretless bass!

Yet another reason to stick with a good local music shop.


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ditto..

i totally agree with what your saying, its just hard to find alot of the things you need in a local shop, especially pro audio wise. i went to the local shop in my neighborhood i recently started some advanced jazz guitar lessons there so decided i should try to support them, just wanted a nice dynamic instrument mic, but they had none:( i guess they normally carry peavys but the guy said they wouldn't have another one for a few weeks and i am very impatient and also partial to shure. also they are les paul haters there and have no guitars even with the same shape... all fender. and no drumsets at all. i relle want to support these guys cuz their nice and not 45 mins away like gc but man its hard if they don't sell anything i need.
 
Light said:
...I needed to pickup a panel mount XLR for a project.

While I was there, I ran my fingers along the edge of a number of the electric guitars out on the floor, and with the exception of the ones in the acoustic room and the high dollar dumb guitar room (relics and the like), every single guitar I felt had it's fret ends sticking WAY out - which is to say that every one of them was REALLY dry. The only exception was a fretless bass!

Yet another reason to stick with a good local music shop.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
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Sure they were not all Strats? ;)
 
Outlaws said:
Sure they were not all Strats? ;)
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Strats, Les Pauls, PRS's, and everything else - they were ALL dry. There is simply no excuse for treating instruments like that, and if the manufacturers wanted to they could easily deny any warranty claims on any of those things. GC's contracts all state that they will sell the instruments in good condition, and if not GC is responsible to pay for the repairs. Not that any of the manufacturers would ever piss off GC like that, but certainly that is what their contracts require.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
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Hey Light, what kind of environment would you suggest for guitars in the home? At the moment my guitars are all out of their cases in my attic studio? It's totally decoupled from the rest of the house so there is virtually zero heat transfer from the first floor to attic level due to about 25" of insulation. The thing is that it gets pretty cold up there at the moment - no moisture issues though. So I usually turn the heater on for a couple of hours when I'm up there which heats everything up and makes my EBMM go out of tune (not top lock). When I tune it up in the warm temperature all is well but when I come back and the room is cold again the guitar is out of tune again. Don't want to keep doing this if it's going to mess up the guitar... any suggestions?
 
Light said:
...I needed to pickup a panel mount XLR for a project.

While I was there, I ran my fingers along the edge of a number of the electric guitars out on the floor, and with the exception of the ones in the acoustic room and the high dollar dumb guitar room (relics and the like), every single guitar I felt had it's fret ends sticking WAY out - which is to say that every one of them was REALLY dry. The only exception was a fretless bass!

Yet another reason to stick with a good local music shop.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
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Honestly, maybe its your ears? If you think all guitars sounds dry, it's probably you, not the guitars.
 
destriaero said:
Honestly, maybe its your ears? If you think all guitars sounds dry, it's probably you, not the guitars.
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Did you even read his post? He said they FELT dry--not sounded dry. And he determined this by the protrusion of fretwire on the edge of the necks--something one feels, not hears.

Oh yeah, and he knows what he's talking about when it comes to guitars.

So your first post is to incorrectly correct an expert. Hmm...maybe you should hang around and see who's who and what's what before jumping like that.
 
Fer cryin' out Pete's sake folks they are FACTORY MASS PRODUCED JUNK!!!!Did you think fer a second that they cloned Jimmy D'Aquisto a thousand times over to make these things????
Minimum wage flunkies...just like Larrivee...trust me...I have some friends there.:mad:
 
destriaero said:
Honestly, maybe its your ears? If you think all guitars sounds dry, it's probably you, not the guitars.
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Yeah, probably not your best foot forward here, as I'm afraid that you soundly inserted it into your mouth.:rolleyes:
 
Corndog said:
Fer cryin' out Pete's sake folks they are FACTORY MASS PRODUCED JUNK!!!!Did you think fer a second that they cloned Jimmy D'Aquisto a thousand times over to make these things????
Minimum wage flunkies...just like Larrivee...trust me...I have some friends there.:mad:
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Whether they are or not--sorta isn't the point. Even factory mass produced junk can be kept from drying out. I've got cheap guitars, and I've got nice ones, and the dry winter months wreak the same havoc on all of 'em.

I think Light's point was that GC was doing a lousy job of providing the guitars with the proper environment--whether the guitars are cheap or not.
 
I went to a "local music shop" and they had Reverends - nice guitars, but same story - sharp fret edges. :eek:

and it IS a small store, with humidifiers running. :confused:
 
guitar center is to music store - AS - homedepot is to hardware store
 
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