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How does a guitar company accumulate $500 million in debt? Amazing and sad, all at the same time. 
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Mad eh? I mean, they could have given away Les Pauls for the last 20 years and probably not used up that much!
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By buying up other companies that have little to do with your core business (the guitars) and investing in concepts that did not pan out like all of the synthesizer stuff they were doing. None of those have added anything besides debt and losses to their bottom line.
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I have to admit I've never been that much of a fan of Gibsons. They are heavier than I like for gigging and if you want a cheaper equivalent, later model Epi's are just as good. My biggest problem with them, certainly for the LPs, they are prone to headstock breakage. I've lost count of the people I know who've had to end up getting their headstock repaired - there's just an inherent weakness in the neck. Of course, I am known for being a fan of super strats, Ibanez in particular, so I might be biased.
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I heard that too. Mine dropped of the wall once and aside from a dent and having to retune, nothing happened to it. 
I also have a fender and ESP (LTD), a Chapman and a PRS and I like them all for their own character.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: later model Epi's are just as good
I have heard they vary from crap to reasonable.
A les paul does play very smoothly though. Also heard Tokais are very good.
I have one of each (strat and les paul (well, its a custom built in les paul style)). The les paul supports a lower action, plays quicker, and has way more punch from the humbuckers. The strat is twangier, lighter, more comfy, and has the whangy bar of course.
I kind of switch between them depending on mood.
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It has been coming these past few years with quality going down the drain since 2005'ish (or a bit after, mine is from 2005 and is an excellent instrument). Their acquisitions all over the place didn't do them much good.
My guess is they will sell most of their non-core assets and try to find some investors for the core products.
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Quote: Keep churning out Les Pauls and SGs!
That's what I thought, then a guitarist friend of mine (I'm a bass player) showed me the massive difference between old 50's & 60's Les Paul (which he had just inherited) and his 1994 model he had from new. The wood that was used in the '60s was older growth, not intensively grown meaning it was denser where as new growth wood is less dense. Gibson made a big thin out of tone which has changed despite there best efforts. The issue was pretty much the same when Fender were facing it the 1980's , combined with a Chairman who did his best to spread out to many weird and wonderful things the holding company looks ill. I don't imagine the brand will fall completely, I wonder if it comes to that wether Legend will look to pick it up?
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The quality of the wood has to affect every guitar made, so wont make Gibsons worse than any other. I can only blame it on ridiculous management.
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True, but Fender almost bit it and came back. The wood issue affects all of the makers today. I think the actual fault was taking over companies in trouble and wasting there assets, with out any benefit...
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They are costly and money are scarcer, any guitar can sound better with digital sound editing (which is cheaper and cheaper), rock is dying. Three good reasons to fall.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: They are costly and money are scarcer,
Goods have never been as cheap as today.
den2k88 wrote: any guitar can sound better with digital sound editing
That is just not true. You can not copy the analogue sound of a valve amp with digital.
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Quote: That is just not true. You can not copy the analogue sound of a valve amp with digital.
Preach!
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As in you agree with me? 
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Yup! 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: You can not copy the analogue sound of a valve amp with digital.
With the current (last 2 decades + punk) trends of music who cares? On one side we had indie metal and crossover with bands like System of a Down, Korn, Deftones, Nirvana who play heavily distorted. On the other we had faux rock like Nickelback who play three chords without much care.
And I'm naming only rock and metal since pop moved to computer generated music a long time ago, rap/hip hop/whatever use stolen bases and riffs from the beginning and dance/house/club/electronic/whatever uses synthetizers in the best of cases.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Any style of guitar music sounds better through a valve amp 
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Time to start buying up some guitars it looks like.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: What the hell kind of moronic management have they had in there?
Exactly.
The kind that goes out and buys "consumer oriented" companies for no apparent reason.
Of course, the Feds going after them because the wood was naughty didn't help.
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....because for the past 1 or so weeks, i'm being automatically logged out of codeproject randomly!!
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Chris would appreciate your help. If you could capture the codeproject cookies for him (the ones marked idtag, vk and lck). Also, try closing the browser and reopening without logging in manually to see if the auto log in kicks in.
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devenv.exe wrote: randomly
No such thing in computers.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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This seems unusual ... I use mostly IE11 and sometimes Edge, and in both cases the CP-login remains stable - never saw a problem with it so far ...
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The company I work for produces a software utility package for our OEM clients, and the executable must be personalised for each client. Does anyone have recommendations for a software package that can do the following:
- Insert personalised binary information in the application, without requiring recompilation of the application
- Will sign the application after the information is inserted (NICE TO HAVE)
- Works on Windows and Linux (32- and 64-bit) executable formats
The host O/S is immaterial.
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Looks like someone else tried something similar 7 years ago.
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