Terrible day at work today.

Nikko

Never ceases to amaze me the mental strength some people have. I don't know how you cope under such inhumane conditions. Stay strong brother.

RobDavies

I got offered a job by Yamaha in about 1989...

I think it was at the British Music Fair at Olympia and I was fiddling with some keyboards.  Bloke comes up to me, gives me a Yamaha business card and says, "If you ever fancy a job demoing this stuff, gimme a call".

As an eighteen year old, I was waaaay too metal to be playing keyboards for a living so I threw the card in the bin.

What it is to be young (and immensely stupid), eh?  

english_bob

littlegreenman said:

I was unprofessional enough to ask her to do the "I choose violence" line. Despite being incredibly jet-lagged, she was sporting enough to agree, and it was way more chilling in person than on TV!

It's all in the motivation. Unprofessional little twat asks me to do a performance for his personal spank bank.

Fortheloveofguitar

Sorry to hear you're having work troubles 

sending lucky poo's your way 

monofin

From now on I will spend my working day hating you

IvisonGuitars

viz said:

I went for an interview with Blackstar once and they made me play through all their pedals and amps as part of the interview!

Christ, you could sue them for cruelty in the workplace for that!

ennspek

How did the Helix compare?

professorben

ennspek said:

How did the Helix compare?

I thought they were seeing how the amps stack up against the Helix????

joeyowen

twwaaaaatttttttttttttttt!

Not jealous
Not jealous at all

twat.

Bogwhoppit

This reminds me of a friend who worked for a well know distributer. He 'always' had loan gear for training purposes, his house was like Coda Music.   Knowing my luck I'd get a job at Ann Summers

mudslide73

Tell your boss that the room was too reflective for a proper assessment.. then get the gear carted to another venue for a redo. Cheers...

rossyamaha

professorben said:

ennspek said:

How did the Helix compare?

I thought they were seeing how the amps stack up against the Helix????

Unfortunately we ran out of time to do any amp comparisons. It was more about getting hands on with it. As we haven't had any stock since they started shipping, it's the first time I've actually sat down with one for any length of time! 

We did however do some shootouts with pedals. Verdict on those....

Vintage Dyna Comp vs Helix - Very good. Subtle feel differences but didn't spend much time dialling in. 
Vintage Phase 45 vs Helix - indistinguishable. Exactly the same amount of subtle volume drop and everything. 
Gold horsey Klon vs Helix - almost identical. Slightly less mids in the Helix but that just says to me we modelled a silver rather than the gold. Having owned all versions of the Klon I had the same experience. 

Hopefully you all should know by now that I give a warts and all approach to talking about our gear. I'm not the type of salesman that says something is good if it's gash. If it doesn't do something I say so. If you lie you get caught out quickly. I need more time with it. I've been enjoying reading others experiences with it and will continue to follow that thread and try new things. I'm looking forward to having some fun with it. Pretty sure the snapshots are where I will live, purely as that seems to be the most like the way my G2 works. I probably don't need to do any kind of review as there are plenty of user reviews out now but I guess it would be good to share my experiences with it. 

One thing I did take away from yesterday. I need an AC30 in my collection! 

rossyamaha

Bogwhoppit said:

I'd get a job at Ann Summers

I'll be honest, I can't see any downside to that. But then my wife is hot. ;-)

Drew_TNBD

rossyamaha said:

Bogwhoppit said:

I'd get a job at Ann Summers

I'll be honest, I can't see any downside to that. But then my wife is hot. ;-)

Pics or gtfo.

thomasross20

Apparently everybody's partner is hot lol. 

goldtop

Nice!

But a word of warning if any of those Marshalls are old enough to have aluminium chassis: do not leave them 'on end' for any length of time. It will accelerate the collapsing/tearing of the chassis due to the weight of the transformers. As shown to me by Phil at Marshall.