Cool. I wasn't familiar with this brand. Seems pretty steep for a U.S. manufactured T-shirt, but whatever floats your boat!
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Is Ampeg done for?
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Cool. I wasn't familiar with this brand. Seems pretty steep for a U.S. manufactured T-shirt, but whatever floats your boat!
Some of their stuff is not a great value, some of it, even at $200 for a long sleeve t shirt, is. It can be trial and error unfortunately figuring out what's what. Many of their shirts use a japanese cotton that is butter soft and very durable. Looks amazing with jeans and sneakers, or under a sport coat and chinos. My entire wardrobe consists of maybe 20 things, not including socks and underwear and a few undershirts, but I can literally wear any one item with any other item.
When you have a nice pair of common projects you suddenly don't need 7 or 8 more pairs of shoes cause you don't want to wear anything else. Nice side benefit of living simply is that I can travel for a week with nothing but a smallish travel backpack. EO Travel Backpack
175 dollars for a shirt !!
I could buy over 40 shirts for that price lol.
Back in the day I wouldnt wear a outfit twice.
But now I can do maybe 3 shirts 3 pants and go for a long time
I could buy over 40 shirts for that price lol.
Back in the day I wouldnt wear a outfit twice.
But now I can do maybe 3 shirts 3 pants and go for a long time
I could buy 4 bottles of skol for the price of a bottle of tito's. But then I'd have 4 bottles of skol and nothing to drink.
You could probably apply the same concept to a PF350
But cotton shirts dont cost 175 dollars.
WholeSale is about 3 dollars, If you pay more than 14 dollars for a cotton shirt its a marketing rip off.
14 dollars is a incredibly greedy mark up as is.
The " overdyed" gimic usually brings the ridiculous 14 dollar price to 35 dollars.
The last shirt I sold for 175 dollars was a Authentic Prince Purple Rain concert shirt.
Far more value than a 3 dollar cotton shirt.
I use to buy thrift store Levi's for 3 dollars and sell them to Japanese collectors for 50 to 120 dollars.
This is of course when you could find vintage 60's and 70's Levi's at thrift stores.
Some very rare jean jackets styles I could get 200 dollars for.
Very good money in the 90s
Uhhmm...I'm sorry...what was the question again?
Oh yeah, I remember now...almost as irrelevant as the point to which this thread has now devolved.
Oh yeah, I remember now...almost as irrelevant as the point to which this thread has now devolved.
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LOL pretty much.
As far as being slightly on topic.
Ampeg did the 7 pro class D which would be a 1000 watts at 4 ohms.
Im not sure how much power people need. But 1000 watts can still pretty much destroy almost any
cab out there.
Way before the class D thing a 4 pro can be bridged to 1200 watts at 4 ohms.
Meaning it has 2 amplifiers that are 600 watts stable at 2 ohms.
If you dont think 2 ohms at 600 watts is a big deal.
Go ahead and wire up 4 x 810 cabinets and goose them with 1200 watts and tell me a what a 810 doesn't do.
As far as being slightly on topic.
Ampeg did the 7 pro class D which would be a 1000 watts at 4 ohms.
Im not sure how much power people need. But 1000 watts can still pretty much destroy almost any
cab out there.
Way before the class D thing a 4 pro can be bridged to 1200 watts at 4 ohms.
Meaning it has 2 amplifiers that are 600 watts stable at 2 ohms.
If you dont think 2 ohms at 600 watts is a big deal.
Go ahead and wire up 4 x 810 cabinets and goose them with 1200 watts and tell me a what a 810 doesn't do.
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If you want everyone on the supply chain to be paid a living wage the cost might not be $175, but it certainly won't be $3 or $14.
If you want to limit the country of manufacture to 'Merica, it'll probably be a bit more than that.
I agree.
Any successful business model usually includes minimum 60% markup.
But many think competition or success comes from lower prices.
So many markets have cut rate prices at 15 to 30% markup.
They dont survive.
Cost for a cotton shirt is 3 to 8 dollars.
So minimum markup would be 4.80 to 12.80 dollars Revenue
Profit would be 1.80 to 4.80 per unit.
You will find cut rate prices around 10 dollars and 80% mark up around 14 dollars
This is the only way to make money with non brand clothing.
You have to establish a brand name, then clothing is extremely profitable
Brand names will markup 200 to 300%
I've been thinking about these posts the last couple of days. (There was also a post by someone who said with HPF and LPF some bassists are sending a butchered signal to the FOH but I can't find it.)
So, with the talk earlier about high pass filters with poles of the first and second order in motown recordings... I was wondering about the high end and low pass filters.
It seems like low pass filters (especially from Broughton) are also becoming popular.
What are the exact specs on those? What are the slopes on those lpf's?
Wouldn't it be a great idea to have a DI signal for live use with no hpf, so the sound engineer can do his job, but also on your end to have a hpf with low-order slope to emulate (not simulate) a tweeterless cab. And not give the soundguy much of a headache and he can cut low pass and high pass on his end more thouroughly for the best live mix.
@Azure Skies makes the Broughton pedals, right? Can you shed light on my maybe naive query? thx
edit: sorry, rereading my post I may have worded this all difficultly
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Uhhmm...I'm sorry...what was the question again?
Oh yeah, I remember now...almost as irrelevant as the point to which this thread has now devolved.
Well played!
I always enjoy the discussion of pricing for those that have never made goods or sold them directly to the public.
Similar to MI design, build, marketing, and sales.
But on TB ones' truth does not have to be based in fact. Maybe that's why nearly half of all new business go under in the first 5 years.
what percentage of new business go ounder - Google Search
James Perse t-shirts are probably pretty comfy if you are staying at his Cabo Property. He must love being mentioned in an Ampeg thread and should have a killer custom P plugged into an SVT+810 at his Malibu store accordingly (do the whole thing in matte black, from Tolex to tapewounds).
His dad Tommy is the legend behind a store called Maxfield.
BTT sorry.
His dad Tommy is the legend behind a store called Maxfield.
BTT sorry.
I think Josh said they have a 12db per octave slope. The tech end of H and LPF's isn't my strong suit. I just know that they're brilliant
One thing I always liked about Mark bass was the low pass filter thing. Can almost kind of get a flat wound vibe with round wound strings by rolling off the highs. Definitely it’s own thing vs just rolling off the treble.
Josh Broughton started making H and LPF pedals based on a request by me to put that Markbass knob into a pedal.
You're welcome.
Lol, probably take credit for the sun rising in the morning too, I’m guessing.
I’m a big moog fan and I have an MF101 I could use for the same purpose. I’m not a pedal guy with bass guitar cause I prefer to be as streamlined as possible. But if they put a similar feature on every head from every brand I wouldn’t complain. Sounds pretty tasty.
So second order then? First order would be too subtle and useless I assume. The tech isn't my forté either. I need to get a Broughton LPF maybe. It wouldn't do much if my cab has a higher roll-off... I think, but for recording and live sound is where it would shine.I think Josh said they have a 12db per octave slope. The tech end of H and LPF's isn't my strong suit. I just know that they're brilliant
Dude come on. It's okay to have a (harsh) opinion on a piece of gear or an entire brand. But that's rather snarky.
Jimmy's post might be cocky, but on the other hand credit is due where credit is due.
Would love to hear more about the MF101. I'm not familiar with it.
I will take all of those tolex ripped dinosaur ampeg cabs that are well done. I'll provide a good home for their elder years and provide everything they need. Its a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.
