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I'm always a bit sceptical when people claim that x, y or z pickups make a hugh difference, when they're essentially a very similar spec as the previous ones and the guitar has been out of the owners hands for a week or two while the new pickups are fitted by a tech.
Jeff got sidetracked, totally forgot. Bass player returns an hour later, picks up bass: "Hey Jeff, I don't know what you've done to this, man, but it's absolutely transformed."
For my own part I painted my Tech 21 Liverpool over the weekend in a minimalist all-white gloss. Sounds way better
Don't tell him if you didn't charge him, no harm no foul, he's happy?
One year, as a cost cutting measure, the team decided to strip down the bikes, get the workshop to respray the frames in the new colour scheme, and rebuild them with new components. Of course, all the riders were extremely pleased with their lovely new springy and resilient frames.
I've had a similar situation where someone asked me to modify a pedal to give it more bottom end. Which I advised heavily against after trying it and finding out that to give it enough more bottom end to make the boost noticeable, made the pedal flubby, which I told him. He still wanted more bottom end (before even hearing the modded pedal), so I did what he asked but intentionally put a trimmer in there so it could be dialled back to somewhere near stock if he didn't like it. He didn't like it, it was too flubby.
This is why I don't modify pedals for people any more to 'tweak them to the sound in their heads'. Because inevitably messing with the eq of a circuit can fundamentally change it's sound. Also because tone chasing is the equivalent of an audiophile in Hi-Fi, and they will never actually be happy as it's always in their head that it could be better...
I've seen people on this forum buy and sell pedals that are fundamentally the same thing by different names over and over again chasing tone. That just seems madness to me. The pedals are all going to be in a similar area and playing with a band, any small nuance difference is going to vanish. No place is this more obvious that in the Klone threads. But I've seen it with other pedals, I just tend to keep out of it because to some, these tiny difference are massive, and who am I to say that that's not worth swapping/modding things for?
Obvs really.
To be fair that's simple also...
The journey is about 20 miles down a typical country A-road - a nice drive on a dry sunny morning like this one was, but a bit more challenging than just pointing it down a motorway. Anyway - I drove down there and noticed nothing unusual. Changed the arm (easy job, two large nuts and a couple of plastic covers - five minutes max in the dealer's car park) and drove back.
What a difference - on the way back, the car's handling had improved massively. The irritating vibration when cornering on a rough surface was gone, the steering was noticeably more positive and the engine response to acceleration was a lot smoother. It just shows what a difference fitting manufacturer's own proper part makes compared to some third-party knock-off - a good thing given the price!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
That would be an ecumenical matter.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
There is an anecdotal story of Hendrix trying every wah in the store before being happy with the "very last one" which was actually the first one he'd tried. Preconceptions colour everything in life from what we think about people to how we think a glass of wine tastes based on bottle and its label. They are going to colour what we hear too.