Cheap is bad.
More is better.
Audiophile power cables are superior.
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Cheap is bad.
More is better.
Audiophile power cables are superior.
...that only American-made instruments are any good (says Ch Willie as he grins with pride about his Am. Gibson, Fender, and Rickenbacker).
That a notorious tinkerer (who was incapable of just 'leaving it alone') named Leo 'got it right the first time.'
Great designs (duh), but there's still plenty of room for modernization.
Alkaline batteries sound better than normal batteries.
Cryogenic strings and cables.
You're probably right about the terminology...not familiar with carbon zinc per se but I'll play devils advocate anyway:
I like old film cameras, the one I use is a 70's model Konica. The light meter calls for mercury oxide batteries, which they don't make anymore (environmental thing). Problem is not only do the alkaline units come in the wron g voltage (1.5V instead of 1.35V) the voltage drops off steadily, instead of maintaining correct voltage, then dropping off all at once when the battery dies like the mercury ones.
This basically means that your pics are off at first, then they gradually get better, then gradually worse again until the meter stops working altogether.
Again, I don't know carbon zinc and obviously haven't bothered to google it but there may be some validity to the effect on sound via voltage dropoff rate.
I had a Konica SLR I bought while I was on the road in 1976! GREAT camera for the bucks!
Which has nothing to do with gear myths, so... sorry.
Some of the best manual focus lenses ever made, too. :smile:Quote:
Originally Posted by silent j.
Right, back to gear myths...
Try Lithium Ion batteries (I think they're called). The ones that charge in 15 minutes or so. My son and I used to use them in little RC cars becaue they'd keep a steady voltage until just before they died. Way more fun than alkaline batteries where the cars were slow half the time!
"All your pedals should be true bypass."
Ha........."true bypass".
Ampeg only makes bass amps
Amps w/EL84s = Class A, or "Voxy"
I was just practicing with my Carvin DC150 through my MESA/Boogie Express and a whole bunch of false assumptions about gear came to mind!
One that came to mind- that Carvins, especially the neck through guitars, lack tone or sound sterile. Maybe it's just my incredible skills (that's a joke!), but this guitar's got a great sound!
Blackface is better than Silverface.
This one's not overly bright even though it has an ebony fretboard and stainless steel frets (more false assumptions!). Maybe it's the mahogany body and neck (another false assumption?).:ola
I think my biggest fear is that I just got the right guitar for my needs and you can't just go and duplicate it by using the same ingredients and methods. What would I do if something happened to it?:bonk
Maybe that's part of the reason why we try to rationalize our gear and create a bunch of false assumptions?
You wanna play metal you godda have a half stack..
If this professor is correct about the side effects of assuming, then it must follow that this the result of our false assumptions.
Not pretty. :wah:
A 100 watt Marshall is twice as loud as a 50 watter.
New pickups will make you a better player.
No, you'll just suck with better definition.
That was uncalled for I apologize.
Regular, displined practise will make you a better player.
Oh wait.... that's true. Dang.
Following on from this, educating oneself about music is bad.
When I started taking guitar lessons (after a few years of being self-taught), the guys I was in a band with disapproved because they said I'd lose all the feeling and emotion in my playing. A near-exact quote from one of them was "when you're trying to get us all to play something in E flat trigorian scale or whatever and we don't know what you're talking about, don't blame us, it's your fault".
Not really a gear falsehood...more of a theory/knowledge falsehood...but still. :/
To be fair, trigorian is pretty lame.
But you make a good point.
that one pedal or amp 'sucks' cause it doesnt sound good with one particular amp or pedal (or guitar/PU for that matter) ...
nice call gris
I didn't expect so many postings on this topic, and there's a lot of wisdom here.
I'm guilty of some of these assumptions, especially the ones about tubes, and American gear.
I can't help but to remember a posting on another Fender forum years ago. The guy said that he started out with mid-price gear and over the years got better / more expensive gear. Then he compared a recording he'd made with the cheaper gear to one he'd made with his expensive stuff. He said the difference in sound was minimal.
I love my American gear, but one of the best sounding recordings I ever made was on an Epiphone Les Paul with a Seth Lover pup.
That chorus is a good thing to have built-in to an acoustic amp.
When I think about sought after examples of acoustic guitar tone, swooshy doesn't come to mind.
RT uses a univibe to great effect, even if I wouldn't call it authentic.
I think most acoustic folks who add chorus do so because they think it adds depth to a thin, cheesy piezo sound.
OTOH, I do plan on using the M9's Tri-Chorus when we play Don't Dream, It's Over. It nails that sound. Maybe on Sweet Dreams too. But that's it.
"With this modeler,you can leave all your heavy tube amps at home."
I jammed with a clown who had a PA system. He said "you don't need to bring an amp. You can plug right into the PA!"!
I was on the fence about the USACG T-Style that I built until I came across the correct amp! I know it's worked incredibly well for other guys, but it did not work at all for me with my Vibrolux Reverb or Princeton Reverb! I was ready to give up on it and either sell it or heavily modify it!
We did a blind study once with two Super Reverbs. One was a stock RI (mine) and one a vintage black-faced model with NOS matched tubes and original Jensen speakers (my bud's). Same guitar, same settings, same volume, etc..
Had everybody leave the room, put up a sheet in front of the amps and shuffled them around for each test.
Of the three of us, two picked the RI ?!
Both sounded great imo, but my bud with the black-face was a bit deflated.
I've probably received more compliments on my stock Pro Jr than any other amps I own or have owned.
I'm starting to think the bottom line is that there are even false assumptions about which assumptions are false. Seems like every point mentioned in this thread has drawn at least one respectful disagreement.
I've certainly got my pet peeves too. For instance I honestly believe nobody can tell the difference (in sound) between rosewood and maple, but many would disagree that they can (and they may be right). However I also believe I can tell the difference between guitars that have the "thin skin" nitro finishes and the regular thicker poly of later years. I don't think the nitro v. poly is the difference, but rather the use of less of either of it on a guitar. However I know many think that too is bunk.
For me though, I have to agree that in order to have an opinion about it, you dang well better have experienced it yourself. I too get awfully tired of the people who believe any "tone truth" just because they saw it on the 'net.