Kev

Ah nice one buddy, glad you enjoyed 😁

Honestly, many couriers are really delayed at the moment, absences from COVID are nightmare. Many couriers are stating clearly on their websites now that they cannot guarantee their usual service. Hermes Next Day is dodgy at the best of times, absolutely NO chance at the moment. A delay of 3 days is common. I posted something first class signed for last Friday, and it is yet to have arrived.

Exhausting indeed. Gotcha 👍 To the OP: did you discover what courier was used and their tracking number?

I can only assume something has been lost in translation, because nothing i said warrants that response, at all. You were merely wrong in what you said, and I assumed companies like P2Go must operate differently in Europe than in the UK.

I just mean, by going to one of the broker services here (just remembered you're not UK based), you pay less for the same service you'd get direct with the courier. They're literally just a way of booking, taking advantages of the discounts they get for their booking power, and no they're rarely interested once you've booked, mainly because they have as much influence as you over the courier you choose.

That's not true. The Brokers just buy services in bulk, you're getting the exact same courier service you would if you went direct, and I'm not sure I know of any courier that doesn't appear on some service like P2Go.

Hermes are having problems at the moment, lost two of my parcels end of last year, and a few more took a long time to delivery, 5 weeks being the longest. If your friend used a Hermes service (which may have been the cheapest P2GO offered) buckle up, you could be waiting a while, and they will do absolutely nothing to help you.

Who is the courier? Understand that P2Go is just the broker, so any issue with the parcel after collection will be with the courier. Do you have a courier tracking number, rather than P2Go, from the parcel label?

I take my comment in the mini bass thread back. What a mess...

There is a disappointing lack of the actual weird and wonderful in this secton these days.

We live in a world where people pay millions of dollars for a pixelated digital image. Nothing surprises me about this world anymore.

Do you have any sound clips where an ACG sounds like the tones in the OP?

Think they were the videos I saw. The MCs get things a little closer than before, but it's just such a polite tone, none of that Wal character.

Fascinated by this. Loved the sound of my Wal to bits, hated everything else about it. I've yearned for the sound every since I got rid, but the absolutely abhorrent profiteering in the used Wal communities has kept me away for good, and they're still much more than I can afford new anyway. Certainly agree such a huge part of the sound must be the pickups. I bought an ACG with regular humbuckers and a filter preamp whilst I still had the Wal in some kind of hope it would emulate it in some way, but no, not even remotely Wal like. ACG have since released their own MC pickups too and have updated the preamp, but from YT videos it doesn't seem they get that close either. That sound clip of the pups you've bought sounds brilliant, and I can only imagine a filter pre would help bring out more. Intrigued!

They seem to have maintained their standard of build, albeit with fancier woods and hardware, and tripled the price in some instances. Hopefully the 2022 models are better.

A lot cheaper 🙂 But why oh WHY they insist on squaring off the end of the fretboard rather than following the nut is beyond me. It just looks horrific. When I had an SRMS, I bought a fretwrap for no other reason other than to cover it up 🤢

37" Ibby almost half the cost of a Dingwall NG. So that's now a Spector and Ibby with distinctly more expensive build quality offering a 37" MS significantly cheaper than Dingwall. I live in hope my genre may yet get some originality back...

Agree, odd choice but presumably one to keep the prices south of £1,500

Ha. I like to think I know that album, and it's bass tones, back to front. I never suspected that track had two different basses on it, but isolated its obvious that ain't no Wal!

Mmm. I don't think there's too many like Origin who seem to really ramp prices up for foreign markets, but a lot of US built pedals do seem to be a lot more expensive over this side of the pond. But, then again that could just be how its perceived from listings without sales tax. Anyway, how much is this one going to be? £100?? 😁😁

Course not, they're not "mass produced" pedals, they're handbuilt by a very small factory in Finland. I do struggle to understand why sometimes people think pedal prices should be based on their components, without considering everything else. By the way, LOVE how a Tech21 release has somehow resulted in another thread moaning about Darkglass being expensive. 🙃