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MF or GC?
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Author: 11t1 on July 22 2008
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--> Hey all,

Looking at the possibility of putting ads on my new bl0rg: link

I'm officially affiliated with Musician's Friend and Guitar Center, although I've not used eother of them (not the best for non-US residents sometimes).

Anyway, what are your experiences? If I were to give preferential treatment to one or the other, which would you recommend I choose?

thx - stv
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Musicians Friend used to be a cool local Oregon business.

and all things Oregonian are cool, right?

Sweetwater all the way, baby!

i would go sweetwater 1,000,000%

MF and GC are essentially walmart for music gear. sweetwater is much much better but there's a lot of regional/local proaudio and synth shops around these days that i go to first. i'll get cables at GC if i absolutely have to but otherwise avoid it like the plague.

I worked at a GC for week. worst job i ever had.

btw- MF and GC are the same company these days. GC bought MF like 10 years ago or something.

just wanted to give a nod to audiomidi. not sure if they are the best to advertise with since they are a smaller operation, but i like them better than sweetwater because they are slightly cheaper, and don't have a chaz or tony call me up every month badgering me to buy a genelec surround system.

+1 on GC being a gigantic turd.

+1 to Audiomidi
+1 to Sweetwater
Both have really good customer service....

lol. @ highdroppod.

audiomidi is great
analogue haven is great
novamusik is great
mercenary audio is great
bayview proaudio is great and is regional (seattle) so shipping is always super fast and a little cheaper.
vintage king is great

i dealt w/frontend audio once and they were good as well but i have less experience w/them. the others i've listed have been excellent to deal with.
While we're talking online retailers, I must give a big thumbs down to Rogue Music. I bought a Kenton Pro2000 from them with a Cashier's Check and 2 weeks later they said they'd not received payment. I had to fax them the bank transaction as proof before they shipped me the unit. Fuckers tried to rip me off.

Yeah audiomidi rulez. GC can go eat a bowl of cock. I go to GC and the pro-audio guys all run for cover because I ask them questions they can't answer.

RogerRoger said: "
Yeah audiomidi rulez. GC can go eat a bowl of cock. I go to GC and the pro-audio guys all run for cover because I ask them questions they can't answer. "


like, what is a balanced input? how do you hook up a pair of speakers? Can you tie your own shoes? Name one band that's not metal? In what state would you find the capitol of California?

funny 27 page thread about GC people not knowing shit. some real gems in there:

link

Sweetwater++

MF > GC IMHO.

ignatius said: "funny 27 page thread about GC people not knowing shit. some real gems in there:

link"


thanks for this.

nagrom said: "MF > GC IMHO."


MF = GC

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