Every one of these shows is a damn rabbit hole. I'm constantly pausing to watch demos of gear mentioned, looking up people etc. A few more episodes and surely I'll have learned more from this show than I did in college.
Joe Morgan's lack of interest and direct attention doesn't do much to bolster his already poor reputation. Other than Joe it was a good show and I appreciate your efforts making it!
Everyone thinks they’re owed something smh the gear community needs to stop taking things so personally and feeling so entitled. The dude makes great amps. He has great customer service. Beyond that, he doesn’t owe you a thing.
@@wearesofucked He has a history of terrible customer service...that is the problem. There is plenty of discussion all over the internet if you want to educate yourself.
@@rydoggsc2 damn I’m basing my opinion on my own instance. He was great. Highly informative. Super nice. Full service purchase. (MVP66). Never been happier.
@@wearesofucked I'm happy you've had a good experience. Many others haven't been so fortunate and that does not make them sensitive or entitled like you said in your earlier post.
I’ve always been a real amp guy but a few years ago I bought a Kemper because I was tired of lugging gear around and the Kemper was easier. I ended up going back to “real amps” because there’s just nothing inspiring about playing with the Kemper or a Modeler. Sometimes you want to just sit down an have a small limited set of options so you can be inspired to play. I got tired of drilling through 20 menu’s just to run some effects. Then I started hearing amp builder thoughts on profiles and realized that it really is unethical in many ways. Like Dave said, they put their heart and soul into designing an amp, let alone the fact that they invest tons of R&D time as well, just to have a dork like the guy from Tone Junkies basically borrow an amp so he can make profiles and profit off the hard work of Amp bulders. Not cool. I’m a software engineer, if another developer stole my code to make the same app that only runs in a emulator I’d be pissed too. Not to mention modelers and the Kemper feel nothing like the real amp.
I’ve used both amps and modeling at some point. I think Dave is on the right path offering his own direct out on the amp. I need the real amp for most gigs. I do not want to rely on any old “sound guy” for my stage monitoring. That being said, there are gigs with sound engineers that require very low or no stage volume where this DI is clutch. We still NEED tube amps.
1:57:30 Theft? Lol... saying people using and/or doing amps that are the endless copies of the Fender Bassman, Marshall Bluesbreaker, Vox AC30 and their children... that's either ironic or hypocrite at this point, I can't really decide!
LOL found the Modeling fan. The difference is they’re actually buying parts and building something with their own hands as apposes to the dork at Tone Junkies who borrows an amp from a friend to make profiles just to sell and does 0 of the actual work nor does he partner with the amp builders so he’s not taking money out of their pockets. Should Automobile makers just let people steal their cars off the lot just because Ford was the inventor? No because common sense.
Joe is awesome and I love his amps! I’ve had great customer service in the past when emailing him. BUT this was hard to watch. He was clearly not fully engaged and appeared to be playing video games or something the whole time.
Duvel beer! It's my go-to beer to give to drink to foreign visitors. The first one goes OK, you don't realise it's so strong, "Oh this is nice," they say. Then during the second glass of beer, they start getting a hint of something being off, but by then it's too late :D Greetings from Belgium.
I think napster like things kinda went out of fashion and music diggers still bought albums, just got to listen to what's trash and what's not before buying and got introduced to more artists than they used to, got to know a band that they wouldn't have gotten to know otherwise and got to go to their gig when they were in town, the rest were listening to radio lists as usual. Not sure if it ruined music business. Not even spotify ruined it, but the record labels worked really hard to ruin it. From what I've gathered, the record labels benefit from spotify deals, and the artist doesn't, through kinda clever licensing. But that's pretty common with the business anyway, that the labels do decisions that hurts the artist and brand to get short time profits (not always even profits but fantasized profits). Kinda like all the dmca business on youtube, making artists unavailable, teaching material unavailable and so on. Violating fair use and whatnot. I think music business has ruined itself proudly without the help of platforms and other technology. Not saying that the current business models of becoming the middle hand that doesn't provide any real value, but taking most of the profit and selling short other people's work is necessarily great. It's rampant in western societies and the governments don't know how to deal with it because they're always behind in technology and for democraty's sake they allow everything that's not listed as illegal already, and when they realize where it leads, it's too late for them to step in. Good example is food delivery companies in europe where some kid works their ass off with ridiculous wage and on their own risk, they aren't hired like real employees but kinda rented work force (although it is like as if they were employees), they don't have any benefits, insurances or stuff that's usually expected for employees. If their own car used to make deliveries for the company breaks, they need to pay to fix the car and they lose the work shift's income. And yet the service cost to use the company is pretty nice, the money goes into a business man's pocket in germany who bought an IT system originally come up and coded in finland, and is only running servers and some customer service personnel (for barely any cost), while the hard work is done for pennies in finland. The food and the delivery. Someone owning web service servers collects the profit. That convenient for customer clever technology service model where the middle hand takes the profits is what is currently a problem and in many senses violating our welfare country's basic rights of people and the working system that was designed to prevent this kind of stuff and guarantee everyone a decent place to be useful. Sorry about the long rant! Tone-talk inspires wild and unexpected tangents sometimes!
He's enjoying his life and has boundaries. He answered every question he was asked and seemed likable. Plus important to me he shared his amp intentions and goal as to what he will make and why
Excellent show! Missed the "live" show, but got through the replay over the weekend. I liked the Q&A format after the guest appearance too! Regarding the Synergy Amps. If you have a Runt 20, could you buy the Synergy components and Dave's licensed Dirty Shirley module and have the best of both worlds? Would the tone be the same as the DS amp? Also love the way described the Buxom Boost! Can't wait til it hits the streets!
Hello guys another great show thanks again for all your time and information. Joe Morgan yes he does have excellent analogies! I had heard of Morgan amps before I didn't know a lot about them so very informative. Dave I'm sure you're going to regret talking about this Friedman/Celestion speaker but yeah still waiting to buy the ultimate high-wattage capability Greenback sounding speaker. Also still waiting for the Synergy 50/50 power amp release. I might have the Marc syndrome lol ...the show is definitely going to cost me some money and holy crap a Neil Schon amp very excited to see that as well!! Cheers guys!! Well done!
Would love to hear Dave talk a bit "in-depth" about his Runt amps and the differences between them and the BE amps. Specifically, how different is the tone/feel of the BE channels and the Runt's gain channel? I am saving every penny I have to buy a BE-100 or BE-50 Deluxe...already have a Runt 50 and want to compare the amps.
Couldn’t help myself. This episode has been informative and started off being enjoyable but I have to say that Dave and Joe making all of us non Eddie Van Halens feel like the inexperienced, talentless, def losers they think we are is really making me look elsewhere for an amp. Mark, I have to the say the opposite about you. Real down to earth guy who in my opinion seems more like one of us guitar enthusiasts. Do the amp makers know who is paying their bills? They talk about some famous guitar players being so humble. Maybe they should learn from them. As a side note.. I’m still a fan of Tonetalk and what is is teaching me about guitars and amps. Dan Boul from 65amps seems like a great guy and makes killer amps. Think about him for the next guest!
