Calling out BS?

[squidtastic]

Program that machine to play my set list while I sit in the audience, relax with friends & beer, and collect my cash at the end of the night, then I'm in.

 

[bassbully]

So stupid..why not tape a vibrator to it and let it rip.

 

[hover]

So stupid..why not tape uthe a vibrator to it and let it rip.

Yeah, tape it on the back to rest next to your frontbits, and DOUBLE the bennies.

 

[JLS]

Between this, and the titanium neckplate...

 

[PazzoBasso]

Just hang it in a GC for a few months - it'll get broken in...

Possibly relic'ed & dirty too...

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

It isn't the "break in", it is the drying of the wood for acoustic instruments. One thing I heard years ago was to store an acoustic guitar next to the refrigerator. The sympathetic vibrations help dry and age the wood. But, that might be just as big a joke as that machine.

 

[gln1955]

It isn't the "break in", it is the drying of the wood for acoustic instruments. One thing I heard years ago was to store an acoustic guitar next to the refrigerator. The sympathetic vibrations help dry and age the wood. But, that might be just as big a joke as that machine.

If you play it for two minutes every time you get a beer from the fridge, it'll be broken in in no time.

But, if you spill the beer, it sets back the drying for a week.

 

[tr4252]

A used car salesman once told me "Tommy, there's an ass for every seat." Meaning, no matter how bad a thing is, somebody will buy it.

A wine company used to run a "snob appeal" type tv commercial, showing some obsessively stupid process, in which the message was "Because the wine remembers." I jokingly repeated the phrase to a real wine expert (a down and out drunk who lived in an aircraft engine crate). He replied "The wine...........th' w..........the wine don't know $h!t !!!"

If the break-in machine was really worthwhile, they wouldn't have made it out of that tinker toy 80/20 extruded aluminum. The 80/20 probably induces resonant frequencies that will make the instrument sound like a badly designed gang milling fixture.

Tom

 

[Ajapses]

An instrument starts to accumulate 'mojo points' once a human buys it and starts playing. The operative term is human. That poor bass is in negative territory after being man-handled by that tire-changing apparatus. Somebody, please buy that bass, so you can play it back up to even and it gets a chance at a good life.

 

[Robroy]

The hi-fi industry is rife with things like this. People that are fanatical about a thing, and still own a lot of Microsoft stock, will spend ridiculous amounts of money on stuff like this if for no other reason than they have nothing else to spend it on. They've bought the "best" bass, amp, etc. The only place left to go is exclusive (due to price) solutions to often non-existant problems.

If only they would spend it on lessons instead...

 

[iiipopes]

I'll stick to the old-fashioned way: just keep playing.

 

[twoByFour]

I heard this at a guitar seminar:
A man was appreciating a new guitar for sale, but was concerned about its 'non-vintageness'. He says to the salesman, "So, when will this really start to sound good?".
The salesman replies, "When you practice."

 

[Smooth_bass88]

Why not?
If people can be sucked into thinking a bridge can do magical things because it is big and has gaudy writing on it they will buy into anything

I have one of these magical bridges...an let me tell you it is really really MAGICAL! It helps me play better. It can also be used for chopping onions, as well as getting the wrinkles out of old, big-collered shirts that have been hanging in your closet for months on end. This comes in handy when you get a last-minute call for a gig with a 70's disco tribute.

 

[Doc Mojo]

I tie little bells and strings to my bass , my cats do that for free.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Anyone have an opinion on this? It did make me laugh pretty well. How could this do anything but wear the strings? Vibrations in the wood? Common....

This is the device we need to pluck the strings so they can be analysed by computer to finally tell us the age old questions:

1. Does body or neck wood affect tone
2. Is an orange drop cap worth it.
3. Which is the best bass for metal

 

[-Asdfgh-]

I have no opinion one way or the other on this, but I will ask how the idea is any different from breaking in new drivers?

Indeed, if this was connected up to an amp both could be done at once, saving time.

 

[Doc Mojo]

Thats fine and dandy for pick players but I want one for finger style. Maybe use cadaver fingers?

 

[Geekydad]

Thats fine and dandy for pick players but I want one for finger style. Maybe use cadaver fingers?

That's a sure fire way to deaden the tone.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

It's a valid test, and I see that some modern composers (the ones who do concertos for randomly tuned shortwave radios) might adopt this for pieces.

 

[000_Unknown]

I bet that thing could play nothing else matters on a 6 string..