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Wow! How did you do that? LOL! Hmmm .... *rUbBiNg My ChIn*

P.S. ... why am I only seeing 3 tuners in the photo?

I dunno. No matter what they call it, I play the less conventional way. And it sucks. It's impossible to find a decent lefty local. None of them will invest in having one around yet I see overpriced Gibson's and USA Fenders out the wazoo everywhere. And they are there for months, if not years. *deleted* Never mind. Cryin' won't help me and prayin' won't do me no good. You righty's have it so good.

What I'd do is go grab one that's under $900 off the rack at G.C. and sell it online. That's probably where he got this one. That should cover most of your cost unless you can talk him down. Use headphones and tell him the pots crackle, the jack crackles, it needs new strings, and the bridge is rusty. ??

I was watching an Unknown Hinson interview. I love that man. He's a hillbilly rockabilly vampire. LOL! He said he is left handed but his dad made him switch to playing a right handed guitar because his fretting hand was the stronger hand ... hence my point about so called lefty guitars actually being right handed and vice versa.

I used to fix blown PA speakers between sets with red glitter fingernail polish and some of that surgical gauze wrap. I used to use that red glitter fingernail polish for a lot of work related stuff like that. Cheaper and more effective than Loctite. Wow! I spelled it right the first time according to the spellchecker! I know I just set myself up there but it's true so go 'head. I can take it. ? And now, if you'll pardon me, after having several things rammed in that general vicinity this week, I have to go get one final needle rammed in my butt at the doctors office in 20 minutes. Ta ta.

Well. My fingers have come uncrossed. No guitar. It seems Sweetwater has already started falling apart due to the buyout. So not only did I get screwed out of the software, twice, I got screwed out of the guitar, twice. LOL! It's ok though. I really don't get upset about material things like this but it is a lesson learned and I've added them to my list of 'Never Buy From Again'. This is the exact reason why I never buy guitars online. I've never, not once, had a good experience. I'd like to buy local, but nobody has the lefty gear I require and they all tell me they can't get it. Yet on the back of the broken guitar I received from Sweetwater it said Manufactured 8/2021. I guess you have to be one of the big boys to get anything, and even then chances are it will be messed up. Anyway, I need to get back out to my pond. My Bulrushes await me. I've cut and sold roughly 600 so far this year. I have 2 large orders pending and I just took another large order last night. Who would have ever thought? I cut, dry, and seal them by hand myself. Keeps me in shape. For what, I don't know. Later fella's. ???

Their their now. Just relaxe.

I lost over 7K. Almost 7.5K iirc. Oh well. It's not important. Nobody loved me there anyway. Sniffle sniffle. Here either. In fact I don't even know why I come here. Lol.

He once said he never met his father, but he knows he was named after him because it says so on his birth certificate ... "Father's Name: Unknown."

I know, but it's my only option. I live outside of town. I get my service from a radio tower that transmits it via line of site to a satellite on my house. I pay a year in advance so they give me a discount. It divides out to $100 a month if I pay a year in advance. But yeah, they are robbing us but we have no choice. The only reason I got it that cheap is my new neighbor knows the owner and he let it slip that he gave him a discount. He gets a 40/40 for $130 a month so they knocked mine down a little and made it work out to $100/Month. Elon Musk's satellite is supposed to be up and running here by the end of next month. That's 300Mb Up/Down I think. Not sure how much it costs. My neighbors signed up for it in advance. I'll wait to see how it works for them. He runs an IT business out of his barn.

Just curious, how fast is your connection? Mine is 30Mb Download/20Mb Upload. My ISP tells me I should be happy paying $130/Month and that I'm faster than 98% of the country.

Yay, got my new guitar today! Aw, it's dead! LOL! And to add insult to injury, no candy! This thing feels great and the Tele emulation portion of it is excellent. The Fishman acoustic modelling portion is dead. It's already being taken care of so it's all good. ??

If I were to be honest, I'd be raising my hand now. Nothing I do is that important or that good to even back up. The stuff I complete that I like I'll throw on my 14 year old backup drive that has bad sectors and you have to unplug and plug back in 5 times to be recognized. Everything else is on it's own on my main drive. A while back my DAW must have gotten zapped and I lost both HDD's. I threw in an old small drive to boot from and ran Studio One off of those little SD cards you put in camera's and backed up on to those. I've run them through the washer and dryer. I've popped them in to my car stereo to see what would happen. They're still working. And not once did I ever have a problem recording to them and even using samples off of them with Studio One. Never tried it with anything else. NAS systems are really coming down in price and if you're adventurous you can build your own. I started a thread about it in another sub forum here. There's some good info there. There is a lot of free software and you can do some amazing things. There's a lot of easy to follow tutorials out there also.

I'm currently building my own NAS with an old PC. Im currently just using an external usb drive. HDDs especially SSDs are so reliable now Im not worried. And now that I've jinxed myself Ill go in the house in a few minutes and my daw will be on fire.

I'll let you know Tuesday. It's when the tracking email says my new geetar is showing up. ??

You were on subject. My concern is the moderators banning you and/or removing the thread. IOW I felt like I may have set the conversation up to get people in trouble and I regretted posting the video. Every company I have ever known that was bought out the Sweetwater has been bought out has been destroyed. It's happened at two companies I worked for. The more I think about it I don't think Sweetwater will be any different but it may take longer to destroy them because they have such a great reputation.

Well there goes this thread. Sorry I posted the vid. LOL!

I wasn't on the forum when you first started this thread. This is the first I knew about it. I've lost several family members to pancreatic cancer and I know it's one of the worst forms there is. I'm sorry she didn't make it Greg. I wish it would have turned out different. Condolences to you, her friends, and family.

This is a pretty good video about the topic. Pretty much sums it all up imo.

Same here but I came to the conclusion I can let everything eat me alive or say ***** it, I'm 50 years old, I'm going to try to enjoy what little time I may have left. There's nothing I can do to change anything other than simply try to help my family and neighbors and leave the planet a little cleaner than I found it. (I left out friends because I have none, at least locally. They're all in NJ and most have passed away.).

Seems I remember money and who did what was always a problem. There was someone who was friends with someone else in the band whose justification for his friend being on stage and in the group was slapping a tambourine, singing backups in to a mic that was never plugged in, and the two of them would go out weeknights and book band jobs. (nudge nudge wink wink) Every once in a while without asking he would say he's taking $100 or so out for his friend because they worked so hard booking band jobs. We had a private meeting without them and decided to just pay his friend a percentage so they would always have money, we would always know how much we were getting, and in the end they actually got more money over time than randomly taking some every once in a while. It just felt wrong. We thought everyone would be happier about the situation that way. Immediately the bookings stopped. They dumped getting bookings on the rest of us and his friend kept taking the money and we had no contacts so it was the beginning of the end. There's more than one lesson here. Never depended on someone's side piece to keep the band going for more than one reason.

Man. Somebody got up on the wrong side of the apocalypse this morning. ?

They just opened a massive storefront at their headquarters in Indiana. You can try any guitar amp or anything they have in stock. Everything you see online you can pick up there or try first. I don't think they are going anywhere. But who knows. https://www.sweetwater.com/local/music-store/

Just out of curiosity I did a search for every face, by name, in your video on youtube. Pages of results came up with 10's if not 100's of millions of views. It must have been something else or you just caught the 'fill in' staff while everyone else is off for the long weekend.