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Sadly he concludes it doesn't have a chubby neck - which would be my preference. Though for anyone that way inclined, the following YouTuber seems to have found a HB with a very big neck (going by how much he bangs on about it anyway)
I've been eyeing up HBs for a while but yet to pull the trigger. I'm not expecting them to feel as nice as a Gibson/Fender by any stretch, but as a cheap way of trying a few different guitar styles for a while they're very appealing.
I don’t subscribe to ‘vintage = better’. Not frpm a technicians point of view anyway.
I'm just jealous
I'm more aware of it from the recording world where one would (sometimes) want a mic preamp that boosts the signal from the mic without colouring it in any way. We're living in a time where even cheap products provide a good amount of clean gain but possibly to a mastering engineer with 100 grand speakers, his idea of clean might require a more expensive unit.
I'd guess that using a clean boost for guitar would be to distort the amp even more than the amp's gain up at full would. So the result wouldn't be clean at all but the colour would all be from the amp rather than the pedal itself.
Could be wrong, maybe someone will suggest a different use for a clean boost in guitar. I don't use them personally so just guessing.
I don't but, like I said, I don't have any more real proof for my belief than they do for theirs.
The entire electric guitar business could be a huge conspiracy.
I don't think that percentage is over 1000% though.
If it really is that huge I'm almost tempted to buy one.
I'm different to the average person in that regard though, I only believe things based on evidence if I can help it. There may well be things I believe despite lack of evidence but am unaware of it - if so, my mind would change as soon as I became aware.
Even in the above guitar example, it's not that I specifically believe R8 is better than HB, I'm not convinced either way. Just think it's more likely guitars differ widely in quality than there existing a conspiracy big enough to allow those guitars to be equal.
It’s *always* diminishing returns when you go above something which is the cheapest that will do the job.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It's not really a big leap of logic or an unrelated tangent, just one of the many ideas on the topic.
One might wonder if someone has convinced themselves that there isn't a big difference between a 250 quid and a 4500 quid because they have a cheap guitar and don't want to feel like they're missing out.
A similar accusation could be made that someone who's spent 4 grand on a guitar wouldn't want to believe that they could have gotten pretty much the same thing for 250 quid.
P.S. the "jealous" comment was me saying it about myself, wasn't bashing anyone.
The real cutoff point is when paying even more *doesn’t* result in a quality improvement, even a small one.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein