Bias supply and tonal affects?

[walkman]

How do you know SGM has gone? Was there some sort implosion or simply absence?

[Chuck H]

How do you know SGM has gone? Was there some sort implosion or simply absence?

g-one seems to have garnered more specific info about SGM's current circumstances. All we know about him here is that he came in swinging (as noted), took some heat from us here and there and then went away. One member here did trouble to identify the person that is SGM for the purposes of discrediting him. With this information, this member also looked up his license to practice electronics. That license expired about the same time that SGM stopped posting here. This raised some questions. As much as we didn't enjoy his "advice" he had become a novelty here to some of us. No one wants to see the floor drop out from under anyone.

[Justin Thomas]

I occasionally enjoyed his exchanges... while I am not at a technical level to argue with him, I often agreed with his opinions on buying quality gear and avoiding non-quality gear. I was violently opposed to the manner in which he made his opinions known! Telling a teenager or beginner to bias ther Crate-Peg with a pickaxe is NOT the way to encourage beginners to move up in the gear world! Not every teenager HAS $2000 for a tweed Bassman or whatever "quality" amp you may think is good. And I would venture a guess that anyone playing through cheap amps already knows it's a cheap amp and either 1. Doesn't care, or 2. Already aspires to a great amp, but can't afford t. What they DO need is help fixing their Frontman 212R so they can make their $75 bucks or whatever about 15 times. Whad'ya know, that cheap Chinese amp just earned them an old Pro Reverb.

Funny enough, most beginners who are given a great old tube amp to play thru as a first amp I see them sell it or trade it in for a Whiz-Bangotron with distortion & all the cool effects... if you don't start at the bottom, you never realize what you had to begin with... The sad part is, they end up paying double for the crap amp but still get way less than their amp is worth. Like the woman who asked me to get her $200 for her 66 Princeton Reverb... I just couldn't do it!

Justin

[Chuck H]

I fully understand some of the more technically savvy members position on SGM. Your observation that he did have some valid convictions is correct. In his favor I'll also note that there were a few occasions where, with what would seem like very little information to the rest of us, he was able to predict very well what was required to fix a Mesa product. He seemed to know many of those models very well. He also seemed to dislike them openly in the face of those who owned them. He was a little soft on social skills

[Enzo]

I know his type, he's a sample of one guy. If he ever sees any particular thing wrong, he assumes that is always what is wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but it isn;t something one should rely on.

The whole Crate thing: he/they had some Crate amp he couldn't fix, so they sent it off to "Crate". It came back not right. So obviously then Crate amps cannot be fixed, and if you fix part of one, something else will break. All because it happened to him once.

I'll believe he has been around amps a while, and may even know a trick or two. But he demonstrated in ample fashion that he didn;t understand the circuits.

[Jazz P Bass]

II'll believe he has been around amps a while, and may even know a trick or two. But he demonstrated in ample fashion that he didn;t understand the circuits.

Sadly, nor did he have any people skills.

[g1]

How do you know SGM has gone? Was there some sort implosion or simply absence?

Absence. And there is no way he would have left on his own accord. So that left either something catastrophic or removal from the forum. I've confirmed he's still among the typing, so someone here must have put the hammer down.

Edit: Thinking through a bit more, I realize he quit posting on several forums all around the same time. This makes it doubtful that he was barred or in any way removed from the forum. To the best of my knowledge that has never happened to anyone here.

[eschertron]

Sadly, nor did he have any people skills.

But he did call me a genius!

See, eschertron is the ultimate genius of all electronics...
but he wants to know about "sound."

...or maybe he was being sarcastic and this was one of his famous unprovoked attacks.

[Jazz P Bass]

Scuba Diving off of Hawaii maybe?

[Chuck H]

Scuba Diving off of Hawaii maybe?

More likely Schick Shadel!!! Anyone else here notice his behavior became more erratic right before his disappearance? And it coincides with low voltage license expiration too. Like his life just $h!t the bed all at once. I'm thinking rock bottom or rehab.

[Leo_Gnardo]

Scuba Diving off of Hawaii maybe?

Scuba sounds about right. Why don't the sharks attack? Professional courtesy.

[Chuck H]

Scuba sounds about right. Why don't the sharks attack? Professional courtesy.

Sharks don't eat clowns because they taste funny.

[nsubulysses]

Daaaaaaammnnnnn, SGM's wearin' clown shoes.

Someone should reach out to him and see what's up. I bet something like this would happen, but probably much more crude and with more of a "kiss my ass" tone

[J M Fahey]

FWIW just last Saturday, October 4th, he was at the Mesa Forum bashing "all other" Techs, which by definition are dumb.

Enjoy:

I have seen this on several 400+ amps...you are not alone on this.

A normal "bench test" does not detect the problem. It will test normal.

Which is WHY most repair efforts will fail. The problem comes back again.

When techs claim that this problem is "fixed," typically the real problem is NOT fixed.

That's WHY most techs can't detect it, or fix it.

sprocket wrote:
Got it fixed mate ! Free bump if not .

SGM wrote:
It's probably not really fixed.

Alive and kicking and with the batteries fully charged

Maybe he's right.
Personally I feel quite depressed, will junk my tools and take a course at the local Job/Employment ofice about flipping burgers ... they say it's a nice career and holds a better future than trying to service amps which will break again very soon .... or are impossible to fix by definition.

Or simply watch a few Bob Sponge Squarepants cartoons, might help

[g1]

FWIW just last Saturday, October 4th, he was at the Mesa Forum bashing "all other" Techs

Oh dear. He hadn't been there since Feb. (or anywhere else near as I can tell).
My spider sense is tingling. I hope our "anti-virus" is up to snuff.