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Re: Customers listening too critically & imagining noises in repaired amps - what to call that phenomenon?


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8/26/1999 7:30 PM
Trace
 Re: Customers listening too critically & imagining noises in repaired amps - what to call that phenomenon?
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"...even though the amp is working properly after a complete repair. There ought to be a word for that. Any ideas?"
 
 
 
 
Paranoid or tonedeaf?  
 
 
 
(ha, ha)  
 
Trace  
 
  
8/26/1999 8:28 PM
John S.
Hey Ed....you know how it is.A person brings in the amp with tunnel vision of the repairs the amp will need along with the price,then when the amp is completed they listen for every little sound before taking the amp out of your shop since they just layed out some dough for the repairs!  
 
 
 
I call this an aquired anal position...post repairs.John S.
  
8/26/1999 8:46 PM
Matt D
This perhaps slightly unrelated, but I hate it when I hear obvious noise but the tube merchant tells me I'm wrong or that "it won't matter at stage volume." I don't like having to argue about what I hear!  
 
 
 
Matt D
  
8/26/1999 10:45 PM
Giacomo
It's no more "pure and perfect". Virginity is lost :)  
 
 
 
Be good  
 
Giacomo  
 
  
8/27/1999 1:54 AM
Ed/SS
Wow! So I'm NOT the only one!  
 
Thanks for all the replies guys, but I don't know what to think of Bozoism - what the hell is that?  
 
 
 
This P.A.O.A Bullocks Paranoid A.A.P (didn't want to include "moron" - they're not really that stupid) stuff comes up every once in a while (actually, a little too often) - usually it's hiss thing: tube hiss, solid state hiss. "Well gee, howdya get rid of that?" is the main question.  
 
 
 
The latest example is a guy with a Strat playing only his bridge Lace Sensor (low noise, but not noiseless) thru an overly high gain Peavey 5150 (that I had to work on, but claims the guitar hum wasn't there before). Uh huh. Played it myself with test-guitar Strat which DOES include a Vintage Noiseless pickup - no hum. Hmmm.
  
8/27/1999 3:16 AM
Lee
Heck, I hear noises I didn't hear before every time I work on my amp!
  

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