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Originally Posted by jzucker
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01-11-2022 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by JSanta
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The USPS got raped by the current Postmaster General, who dictated the removal of automated sorting machines from many distribution centers and is cutting back on delivery times. Some packages are being delayed. I just got one that was delayed by a couple of days. But in general, the good old USPS works well, and I trust it more than the competition. Those have been having huge delays.
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
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IME, over the past decades, their tracking is better than UPS or Fedex, and is accurate. When I first started using the USPS, about 65 years or so ago, there was no tracking available. Your package came when the rural mail carrier brought it. Our mailbox was about 1/4 mile from the house, up on the road, and I got a lot of exercise checking to see if something I had sent away for had arrived. Weeks were the norm, not a couple of days. But when the digital age dawned, and online tracking became possible, I found that the post office was reliable and fast, compared to any competitor, and still is. The only iffy part is when a seller prints a shipping label, and then doesn't actually put the package in the mailbox for a few days. Once the USPS has the package, the tracking is usually very good. Since the pandemic started, I get packages almost every week, and I know when the will arrive most of the time. I'm sometimes surprised by an early delivery. I've never been surprised that way by UPS or Fedex.
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
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On tracking: trackingmore.com is far more accurate than UPS, at least seen from my angle. I have a hunch that couriers with standard and premium services often rest the standard parcels at a hub for a few days to justify the price premium of faster services. No tracking update during those days. In high season, the delays become more pronounced. Last fall, UPS was so swamped in Cologne that "Expedited", i.e. lowest-rate, parcels had to wait for weeks for a slot on the cargo plane. Postal services relying on space on scheduled commercial flights are even worse off due to Covid-induced scarcity of flights, and worse with tracking info. I'm telling my customers to spend the extra $20 for speedier delivery, but most of the time the reply is: "I can wait." For lowly, indestructible speakers, understandable, but for a fragile $$$$ guitar, saving in shipping is saving in the wrong place.
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
But this game USPS plays of "Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way. " really just means they have no !@#$ clue where it is.
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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Originally Posted by sgcim
Dan Wilson is also playing a bambino now. Also not clumsy.
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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Originally Posted by sgcim
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What's that on the upper bass bout, pickholder?
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
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I wouldn't say PB's sound blew away Pete's but I certainly prefer it. Kinda hard to compare the smaller thinner Benedetto w built in pickups to a full depth acoustic Zeidler w a floater, they're really apples and oranges. But that's probably why I gave up playing guitars w floaters years ago, I like that thicker less acoustic sound that built in pu guitars have.
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Originally Posted by jzucker
" "I’ve been using a GK powered bass speaker cabinet, closed back 12 inches, with a quilter tone block 202 in front of it. But in this case it was easier to walk to the gig, and just use what was there ha ha.
In front of whatever amp I use I put a Boss GT1 multi effects processor, but just using the preamp settings, and a nice long reverb. That was pretty much it!"
He said he digs the sound of it, but most of all the intonation of the Bambino. He was burning!
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Paul still doesn't get enough props though I have no idea why unless it's because he was literally in Joey D's shadow for years, but that was a long time ago. Wilson gets better every time I hear him and escaped the shadow early, though the exposure probably didn't hurt a kid from Akron.
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
Another pitiful year for Big Blue. At least they got rid of Gettleman and Judge.
Fly Eagles, Fly!
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Yeah but they're playing the goat and will probably get bounced in the first round, he's still po'd losing to them in the Supe in '17.
By the way Judge is from here, we sent him up there to sabotage the Gmen and it worked, but we were counting on him getting more than 2 yrs
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
When he helped get Garrett fired, I knew there was something going on. At least with Garrett they scored more than three points a game!
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Originally Posted by sgcim
But...I ordered the regular, not the deluxe. Paul and Dan also have the regular. Rodney Jones is playing the deluxe
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
Dan's a genius and a prodigy and a once in a generation talent. It was recognized early and he's been able to play with some of the greats very early on. Interestingly, he also did a stint with Joey D.
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Originally Posted by jzucker
In the guitar duo with Peter Bernstein, he was clearly straight ahead, played all hip tunes, and didn't play any of the pentatonic bag that he used to play. They both played so great that they should make a record out of that performance. I reacted the same way I did when Lenny Breau played a duo with Tal Farlow; the clarity of LB's guitar compared to the blurred sound of Tal's axe made me run out and get a Borys Jazz Solid. I got Kent Armstrong's version of a DeArmond RC1100 put into it, and through my Corus and RS-10, it gets that clarity, but still sounds like a jazz archtop. A bass player thought it was a 'real' D'Aquisto on a recent gig. After hearing Paul, I might want to check out using the Boss GT1 Multi Effects Processor on pre-amp setting like he does.
I'm sorry to hear that you're having problems with that Bambino. They're in heavy demand right now; I couldn't find one available on a long search I did last night. The only ones that were available were from that insane Japanese fleece shop on Ebay, which sells things at four times their usual price. They want 20K for a Bambino, so I'd be suspicious of any online offers for one. I hope things turn out okay for you.
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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