I will never buy from Lone Wolf Audio and Abominable Electronics. Two really bad people own those two brands.
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Ever write off an entire brand?
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i'm open to new ideas by new or old hands so i wouldn't say i've "written off" entire brands. that said: there are some things i wouldn't buy simply based on 'knowing better' to begin with. but blaming a "brand" just because you personally haven't had satisfaction with it is a bit over-the-top when others have the same stuff...and are happy with their purchases.
as i read it: this thread topic goes back to the question: what do you do when you don't get what you want?
as i read it: this thread topic goes back to the question: what do you do when you don't get what you want?
Welcome to the effects forum. Bye now.
i'm open to new ideas by new or old hands so i wouldn't say i've "written off" entire brands. that said: there are some things i wouldn't buy simply based on 'knowing better' to begin with. but blaming a "brand" just because you personally haven't had satisfaction with it is a bit over-the-top when others have the same stuff...and are happy with their purchases.
as i read it: this thread topic goes back to the question: what do you do when you don't get what you want?
How is writing off a brand because of poor/hostile customer service, incompetent tech support, or inconsistent workmanship/quality over the top? In all cases, there will be people who never needed CS or tech support, or got one of the good items. Does their individual satisfaction negate the larger crapitude? And done of these things are tough to discover until you run into then first-hand. It's not a matter of "knowing better". And yeah, it's completely appropriate to blame the brand for such issues.
They're not going to compete with Greektown Chicago or any other joint with a vertical rotisserie. But since they're readily available and usually $3, I'm a regular.
Now I'm hungry too.
And now that you mentioned a vertical rotisserie in a Greek joint I'm really hungry.
Not a musical instrument brand.
But an insurance company: GEICO.
Why? Because in the 1990's they wouldn't insure any driver who owned a radar detector, which frankly was none of their business. But it was a policy, and they asked about it on insurance applications.
At the same time, guess which company was donating a large number of radar guns to police organizations? Right: GEICO.
And guess which company got to raise the insurance rates on their customers who got caught speeding through the use of radar guns? Right again: GEICO.
I considered this a pretty underhanded method of jacking up rates on their customers. Maybe I was unfair, but I haven't changed my mind about this in the last 30 years.
But an insurance company: GEICO.
Why? Because in the 1990's they wouldn't insure any driver who owned a radar detector, which frankly was none of their business. But it was a policy, and they asked about it on insurance applications.
At the same time, guess which company was donating a large number of radar guns to police organizations? Right: GEICO.
And guess which company got to raise the insurance rates on their customers who got caught speeding through the use of radar guns? Right again: GEICO.
I considered this a pretty underhanded method of jacking up rates on their customers. Maybe I was unfair, but I haven't changed my mind about this in the last 30 years.
All the effects in my Deepmind 6 are either T.C. Electronic or Klark Teknik(and it has both their names on it).
The actual sound before it hits them is analog, though(and why i bought it)
I almost wrote off an F-brand last year due to their marketing moves on an U-series. I'm not the biggest fan of their business model as well, although they obviously don't have the self-destructing tendencies of the G-brand. But I still want an S-brand (O))) stack! 
Yes. t c electronics. I’ve tried two of their pedals. Overcomplicated, ineffective support, poor operating instructions and unreliable editing software. Never again.
Living Colour for me, saw them live, honestly the music wasn't my thing, like not a single song, and I like, Blues, 90s pop, punk rock, pretty much every individual piece that makes up the sound of that band, but combined ... it was an awful soup of garbage
Electro-Harmonix. Every one of their pedals I've owned has either sounded like butt or died multiple times. *EDIT* And Fulltone for the same reason. I'll also add Frantone to the list because it's overpriced for what you get (assume Fran is even still in the game).
TC Electronic is quickly trying to add itself to that list.
TC Electronic is quickly trying to add itself to that list.
Warwick. Not basses, but strings. The red label strings (the Korean ones) were excrement. I find them bland in the midrange, slightly dead in the top end. When I bought my SG bass the seller installed these as "gifts". First thing to throw away when I brought the bass home. Now probably their "proper" strings are good, but I'm too busy with my trusty Rotos to ever risk trying these.
