{"id":4710,"date":"2025-01-22T01:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2025-01-22T01:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:26:44","slug":"opposite-of-gratitude-directed-at-fender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/engineering\/opposite-of-gratitude-directed-at-fender","title":{"rendered":"Opposite of gratitude directed at Fender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look.. guys.. let me spell it out for you. STOP ENGINEERING EVERY LAST PENNY OUT OF THE PRODUCT! You&#8217;re engineering away the shine, the reliability, the worth. Money isn&#8217;t worth it. You are selling your soul so your boss can drive a lambo that at some point will also be worthless because *their* engineers will make the same mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.. this is a *guitar amp*, not a piece of bespoke stereo equipment that&#8217;s going to sit on the shelf somewhere. It&#8217;s going to get taken to bars, knocked over, have it&#8217;s instrument cable tripped over.. and that&#8217;s the world I *want* to live in. The one where all that happens, and the thing still works.<\/p>\n<p>STOP IT WITH THE PLASTIC PCB 1\/4&#8243; FOR THE INSTRUMENT INPUT. I cannot POSSIBLY state this more clearly. Use a pigtail and a switchcraft jack. And a lock washer or two nuts while you&#8217;re at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look.. guys.. let me spell it out for you. STOP ENGINEERING EVERY LAST PENNY OUT OF THE PRODUCT! You&#8217;re engineering away the shine, the reliability, the worth. Money isn&#8217;t worth it. You are selling your soul so your boss can drive a lambo that at some point will also be worthless because *their* engineers will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}