Saturday Night Special

[LtKojak]

Re: Saturday Night Special

Lt., just what is "trustworthy as Trump" supposed to mean?

See post #135 of this very thread.

 

[Demanic]

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Just reread the whole thread. Still don't know what you mean. Is Arwin trustworthy or not?
But then, that's my point regarding your reference to Trump.

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[LtKojak]

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Is Arwin trustworthy or not?

Judging from what I've seen, no.

 

[Demanic]

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OK. Now that makes sense. But it also highlights my objection to the way you phrased your original post on the matter.

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[LtKojak]

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OK. Now that makes sense. But it also highlights my objection to the way you phrased your original post on the matter

Yeah, my bad. I should've used the "used car salesman" analogy.

 

[Demanic]

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Cool, good enough for me.

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[smokey88]

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Looks pretty damn cool if you ask me :cool2:

 

[Davii]

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These don't do much for me, too brittle sounding for my ears, though they do seem to suit an SG.

 

[Lampy H]

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These don't do much for me, too brittle sounding for my ears, though they do seem to suit an SG.

Are you basing this opinion on demos or first hand experience through your own rig?

 

[Davii]

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Are you basing this opinion on demos or first hand experience through your own rig?

Based on the video presented on the SD link.

 

[chadd]

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Based on the video presented on the SD link.

I was interested in them until I heard the video, it really turned me off to them.

 

[Lampy H]

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Based on the video presented on the SD link.

I mean no offense to anyone at Seymour Duncan (they work hard on videos and the like, and that's much appreciated), but that's honestly a terrible way to decide whether or not a pickup will be right for you. I also don't mean to offend you at all, I just hope to open your mind a bit. I'm sure someone could plug your #1 into your amp and sound awful, but that rig still works for you.

 

[darthphineas]

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I was interested in them until I heard the video, it really turned me off to them.

that's why I don't do videos or audio samples. aside from taking up a LOT of resources (time, production tools, etc.), it's just way too much risk-to-benefit of presenting a product in a way that won't suit the best possible representation. plus, I'm an 80s-hard-rock guy, so samples of djent and nu-metal or samples of grandpa-rock don't always translate to what I might want to hear.

but... if you check out enough pickups and have an ear for what people are trying to do in their video samples, it can be easier to tell what a product is capable of doing. when I checked out the SNS, I had no issues playing hair-metal and blues-rock and arpeggiated cleans. I can get the same from a Seth set and a WLH set using the same guitars and same amp settings.

and some video/audio sample do themselves in. pick a signature pickup. any one. a Yngwie or an Eddie or an Angus or a Vai (or whoever) pickup. then do a video/audio sample playing only songs from the respective artists with amps set up to copy those artists tones. how does that show what a pickup can really do?

 

[Davii]

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I mean no offense to anyone at Seymour Duncan (they work hard on videos and the like, and that's much appreciated), but that's honestly a terrible way to decide whether or not a pickup will be right for you. I also don't mean to offend you at all, I just hope to open your mind a bit. I'm sure someone could plug your #1 into your amp and sound awful, but that rig still works for you.

I agree, not ideal, and no offense taken/intended either, but it is swings n' roundabouts - I need (prefer) something to go on before paying out any money etc.

 

[Lucy Diamond]

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Youtube videos will get you in the right zip code but buying solely off the video is still a crap shoot.

The ideal chain should be.

I saw the video

Now I'll try them

Now I'll buy them.


We just don't live in that world, so the crap shoot is real.

 

[JeffB]

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One of the reasons I waited two + years to try the wlh set was because of no good demos. zmb at one point posted the isolated tracks from his demo, and that was what finally got me to consider them seriously.

Sometimes demos are their worst enemy. They can't usually hit on everyone's tone taste in amp/gain/musical.style and we often focus on the great player and not the sound.

 

[Mincer]

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Videos remain the best way to promote pickups. And a lot of time, pre-and-post production goes into them. Yeah, not everyone will dig them (or this particular one), but our research shows that these seem to be the most effective in communicating something very quickly.

 

[Guitar Rod]

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I dug it. I dug it so much.

And the promo vid for the WLHs was what first made me take notice. Then other video reviews and written reviews pushed me over the edge. I didn't jump, I was pushed!

 

[Lucy Diamond]

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I'm noticing a trend with 70's throwbacks right now.

The show Vinyl, The movies The Nice Guys and Everybody Wants some...The cover art to the latest Shameless Season and now pickups that nail 70's tones.

I for one support this trend.

\m/,

 

[J. Burns]

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So, who's going to be the first to swap in an A8 on the bridge model?