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Re: Creamy Dreamer Very Ordinary

4/28/2000 2:06 PM
Mark Hammer	Re: Creamy Dreamer Very Ordinary Sime time ago, the maker of the Creamy Dreamer (who might be about 20 by now) received a serious scolding from a number of people at this site for what was seen as unethical behaviour. For a period of time before the CD came out, he was pumping folks for tips about tweaking BMP's for best tone. When word got out that he was now charging impressive sums of money to do these mods on existing BMP's, and portraying it on his web-site as some kind of unique wizard-like insight that he alone possessed, he received a wholesale shunning here, and it kind of soured people about passing advice for a little while. Given his age (between 18 and 19 at the time), we grumbled and forgave. I've seen them but haven't played one, so I can't vouch. My sense is that the CD is simply a tweaked "boutique" BMP. The case is nice, the construction solid, and I'm sure the tone is decent enough. The price tag is another thing. When Mike Fuller buys up a ton of transistors and hand-selects a small bunch to make an expensive Fuzz Face, you grumble, but you say "Okay, at least I didn't have to buy up a box of transistors, test equipment, and go to college, to make one. It's worth the extra hundred bucks to me." When someone takes a box you can buy for 80 bucks or less, makes a few part changes that require no testing, no exotic or selected parts, and use information that people here are willing to step you through for free, the extra 120 bucks doesn't seem quite so "worth it".

4/28/2000 2:06 PM

Mark Hammer

Re: Creamy Dreamer Very Ordinary

Sime time ago, the maker of the Creamy Dreamer (who might be about 20 by now) received a serious scolding from a number of people at this site for what was seen as unethical behaviour. For a period of time before the CD came out, he was pumping folks for tips about tweaking BMP's for best tone. When word got out that he was now charging impressive sums of money to do these mods on existing BMP's, and portraying it on his web-site as some kind of unique wizard-like insight that he alone possessed, he received a wholesale shunning here, and it kind of soured people about passing advice for a little while. Given his age (between 18 and 19 at the time), we grumbled and forgave. I've seen them but haven't played one, so I can't vouch. My sense is that the CD is simply a tweaked "boutique" BMP. The case is nice, the construction solid, and I'm sure the tone is decent enough. The price tag is another thing.

When Mike Fuller buys up a ton of transistors and hand-selects a small bunch to make an expensive Fuzz Face, you grumble, but you say "Okay, at least *I* didn't have to buy up a box of transistors, test equipment, and go to college, to make one. It's worth the extra hundred bucks to me." When someone takes a box you can buy for 80 bucks or less, makes a few part changes that require no testing, no exotic or selected parts, and use information that people here are willing to step you through for free, the extra 120 bucks doesn't seem quite so "worth it".