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Ampeg Micro VR issues poll with new video
- Thread starter fenderhutz
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Functional oddities? I see you've met the guys in my band 
Care to detail them? It sounds like this fix is going to be cool, but would like to know more about these FO's. I trust it's nothing to get panicked over, right? If it's just knobs acting differently, that's cool...I can deal.
Care to detail them? It sounds like this fix is going to be cool, but would like to know more about these FO's. I trust it's nothing to get panicked over, right? If it's just knobs acting differently, that's cool...I can deal.
Functional oddities? I see you've met the guys in my band
Care to detail them? It sounds like this fix is going to be cool, but would like to know more about these FO's. I trust it's nothing to get panicked over, right? If it's just knobs acting differently, that's cool...I can deal.
Yeah, me too. I was really thinking about one of these, but the issues have me stepping back. If they have a good solution for it, then I'm willing to take another look.
Jimmy these issues are just for this test unit. AUX in doesn't work, gain light looks like it's on a pulse, doesn't react at all to the actual signal going into the amp and just fades in and out about every second.
I was assured this is a product of this being a "test" unit and the final product wouldn't have these issues. This head was sent to me solely to verify/test for the cracking issues.
I was assured this is a product of this being a "test" unit and the final product wouldn't have these issues. This head was sent to me solely to verify/test for the cracking issues.
Wow, talk about being the crash test dummy, go the 'Hutz!
I hope Ampeg is geared to retrofitting the fix wherever it's needed.
I hope Ampeg is geared to retrofitting the fix wherever it's needed.
I was told this is the case. They might even be rolling off the line as l type this.
Regardless if my input REALLY means anything it was a really cool gesture of Ampeg to do this.
Probably when they make the new ones, would be my guess. Since the A00 heads had the tolex issues anyway it would a LOGICAL move to just replace the heads anyway.
But when has logic ever won in business
(I kid I kid)
I'm sure they're probably working on the most cost efficient way to do it, plus they're all at Summer NAMM. Anyway you slice it, it's not going to be cheap for them to do this. But the good karma they will receive will pay off in the long run. It's a very impressive level of stepping up they're doing. One nice thing about being 50 is you feel a lot less impatient about stuff like this. That's the only nice thing, but still...you certainly can't complain about Ampeg's commitment level so whenever they get it done is fine by me.
Impressed I am not. The story seems to be they dragged their heels for a long time on a defective product line and now it's a case of making good. Isn't an American company selling their own branded product expected to perform way better than that?
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Any company is expected to better than that, IMO.
They are making it right, which some folk do not.
They are making it right, which some folk do not.
Yeah, well I hope when you make a mistake at your job, nobody busts your balls for not being 100% at all times
I'd expect to get my balls busted if I made a mistake as big as releasing a head that didn't work properly with the cabs it was designed to be used with. Anyway, good on em for fixing it, although they kinda had to now it's out in the open otherwise people would stop buying them. I for one was considering getting one but was put off not being able to run it with both cabs. I'll be sure to check em out when an updated version is released though.
Releasing it I can understand, we don't know what might have gone awry in production, it was the slowness to do anything about it that irked me.
I'd have thought even Ampegs #1 fan would have been a bit miffed he couldn't get them to take his own case of crackles a bit more seriously.
Who says they didn't take me seriously? They sent me a second head to try out when I first contacted them, and at the time I tried out the second head and it did it, I thought it was because I had QP's in the P Lyte jacking my gain structure as it didn't seem so bad with more normal output basses. And then when Hutz had his deal, I figured something was more up with it than a too hot bass.
But they took me seriously, no question about it.
But they took me seriously, no question about it.
