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Mr Tronical I presume!?
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
Better informed now, I presume?
This still makes no sense... No matter how much I might like using G-Force tuners, if they failed within a couple of years and needed replacement, it would hardly be worth buying up unwanted units at £60 a pop - I'd soon be spending hundreds on stockpiling tuners. If I took what you're saying seriously, I'd be looking for bargain priced regular tuners ready for the day the Tronical units fail (actually, a much more sensible idea). Anything else is utter stupidity. Sorry, but it is a totally dumb, ridiculous concept, endlessly buying the same product because the last one broke almost as soon as you'd bought it.
Did I call anyone an ignorant Luddite? (Pretty sure I didn't). However, can anyone who hasn't used a device really speak with any authority or are they inevitably speaking from a position of ignorance? (Your word).
My experience of these units:
2014 MinEtune. Needed to be adjusted to work slightly slower and be more accurate, then worked flawlessly until upgraded to a G-Force after about 2 years, sold on Ebay with positive feedback.
2015 G-Force on a Midtown. Worked flawlessly up to my sale of the guitar after about a year.
2016 G-Force on an SG HP. Still working flawlessly.
201? G-Force bought from Ebay and fitted early in 2017, working flawlessly.
2018 TronicalTune Plus Strat-style, bought from Tronical. Perfect fit, but faulty, returned for a refund.
OK, I admit, it's a small sample size... But I'm just sharing my honest experience here.
If robotuner-hating folks were truly luddite in their thinking, they'd be stripping the GPS units out of their cars, installing an atlas in the glovebox, and selling the GPS units on Ebay. Pretty sure few of them do that. It's not about being a Luddite.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
They fixed a problem that didn't exist by creating a problem of their own - several in fact.
I'm not a luddite. I just genuinely don't need them, and my experiences of them were that I could do the same job with more reliable tech I already had more quickly and more confidence.
When you talk to others who've owned 2015 Gibsons with them or similar, the vast majority say similar.
That says to me two things:
1) The tech wasn't ready for mass market yet ( under developed, refer reliability)
2) The market wasnt ready for the tech (and I'm not sure they are now)
Fine that you had a different experience with the guitar you owned, compared to the experience I've had with my guitars. Natural that we would therefore have different opinions. Nonetheless, it was ridiculous to suggest I should be spending money on stocks of used tuners - either because you're right and they're worthless junk, or because I'm right and they don't need replacing. Doesn't make sense whichever way you cut it.
Note that my main point in this thread was that Tronical seems to be in some difficulty themselves. But just mentioning anything that isn't entirely negative about these tuners means you always end up batting away the crap people throw at you. Like the presuming twat who though it was clever to call me a big tart...
As for fixing a problem that didn't exist - this can be said of many, many things, like the internet, GPS, television, gramophones, right back to the wheel and cooked food. The latter being the likely reason we've got brains big enough to solve problems that don't exist... Which is sort of the point, inventions tend to fix problems we didn't know we had (and as such, didn't exist), or looked at another way, enable us to do things we didn't know we wanted to do. As such, it's meaningless.