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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2016 8:29:37 GMT
If some of you are in the market for a strum tuner NUX is a very good brand in my experience and this tuner will be on me pedal board in the near future. You strum all strings and you instantly know which ones are off. Sweet! And its very cheap! LINK HERE
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2016 7:58:40 GMT
Seem like NUX has become very popular in Australia thanks to Shane's (InTheBlues) review/demos of some NUX pedals
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2016 10:46:52 GMT
Lets not forget that China now has many specialists from Japan and other countries working for them and training them for the last decade or so. Today's Chinese Quality is not as the early days "Chinese Quality" anymore. I have watched a guy on you tube comparing the components of a MXR and Biyang pedal and the Biyang had a few better components yet cost MUCH less. They sounded the same.
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DefJef
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Due to musical differences I've decided I can't work with myself any more.
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Post by DefJef on Apr 15, 2016 11:09:38 GMT
Lets not forget that China now has many specialists from Japan and other countries working for them and training them for the last decade or so. Today's Chinese Quality is not as the early days "Chinese Quality" anymore. I have watched a guy on you tube comparing the components of a MXR and Biyang pedal and the Biyang had a few better components yet cost MUCH less. They sounded the same. I'd almost guarantee that most of an MXR pedal is outsourced to China anyway. In order for an item to be labelled 'Made in USA' only a certain legal proportion of the assembly has to be carried out in the USA. It's a sham and one that even MXR doesn't seem very proud of any more as the last time I saw their pedals there was no 'Made in USA' sticker anywhere to be seen. What would it be claiming if it was anyway. Perhaps ethics? The biggest cost saving in mass production is labour costs rather than the value of a capacitor which opens up a HUGE can of international worms. Such as, what is the point of having labour protection laws, minimum wages, minimum holidays etc in one part of the world if we don't insist that everything we import has been made under the same conditions? It's like deliberately hampering yourself. Same goes for animal welfare. It should be all or nothing but such a stance cannot be done unilaterally. So instead we get the nonsense that if you want to buy a homeland sourced item or foodstuff it will cost you several times what an import will do and may still not be of an equal quality. But that's the price of ethics. You could say ethics are for the rich. There has been a huge amount of snobbery over the west being more competent than the east in constructing stuff. The US in particular kept insisting that it's cars and guitars were better because they were made by Americans which justified the higher price, and then watched through the seventies and eighties as Japan and now China overtake them in quality. The book about the history of Squier guitars is fascinating on the subject. Fender were literally frightened by how good Japanese built Squiers were. So much so that they had to lean heavily on jingoism to attempt to keep their US arm afloat. Oh heck. I feel a chant coming on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2016 13:27:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2016 13:38:43 GMT
Just make sure you have your towel and a bag of salted peanuts on you once it starts happening Sincerely yours, Ford Prefect (and yes, almost forgot, ehm, DON'T PANIC)
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