This is Steve Henning of Henning Amplification. I was hoping this was just going to die, but Jim deciding to continue to post again in this thread is too much for me to put up with and I rejoined just for the purpose of addressing this thread. For the record, the reason I left here is much more serious than being upset with someone's silly posts, but I'm not going to discuss that.
I'm going to address this once and then I'm not responding to any comments, so you can all say whatever you want because this is the only post I'm going to make here period...
As far as not servicing MetalHeadMike's amp...
I am a one man shop. My policy has always been that I only provide warranty service for original owners. Many one man shops like myself have the same policy. I do not have the time to be able to do non-warranty service, even if paid for. I wish I could, but I just can't. It is always better to take the amp to a tech rather than ship it across country to me and risk additional damage anyway. I have always provided schematics, layouts and any other phone help I can to techs who work on my amps and have successfully helped with the mostly minor issues that have happened. It's unfortunate that MetalHeadMike doesn't have any techs around, but as many builders have the same policy I do, he could have called or emailed me before buying the amp.
I was very courteous in explaining all this to the MetalHeadMike, despite his insistence, but when I would not change my policy and take his amp, he was angry. You cannot please everyone. He returned the amp to the original owner, who sold it to him for a full refund. I don't want to bring the original owner into this, but when he got the amp back, he took it to his tech and guess what, THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT! In fact, he re-sold it to another person in short order and hasn't heard a peep from him.
On Jim at Scumback. I'm very upset about this. We got into a yelling match over the phone over it yesterday. I'm totally confused and blindsided by what he wrote and that is why I called him. It is really unfortunate that Jim, a person I was friendly with, has decided to badmouth me and my business over 1 clip that was posted over 9 years ago, based on hearsay from third parties, rather than contacting me and confronting me directly where I could have resolved it with him YEARS AGO. I want to point out that I only ever used one clip that this guy provided to me 9 years ago, I did not hire him to "make all the clips for my site". I do not even remember what speakers were used and didn't discuss that in my posts here. I can't find anywhere that I posted the clip was made with G12H30s. I don't even remember how I paid the guy, but I think I gave him an unloaded cabinet - I really don't remember. We're talking about, "Well, so and so said that Henning said that clip had G12H30s on it." - I mean, really? Really?
Think about this. I have NOTHING to gain by purposely lying about what speakers were used on a clip? I've sold like five or six cabinets since 2012. I make ZERO dollars on speakers. I am getting no kickbacks from Celestion. Why would I purposely try to hurt someone I was casually friendly with?
Jim - you ever think that maybe someone else is recollecting something incorrectly?
To be clear, I have never knowingly and purposely told someone that a clip recorded with Jim's speakers were from a different maker. I don't remember ever telling anyone that speakers used in that clip were G12H30s. I can't say for a fact that that did not happen as I talk to many people, but if I had done it, it would have been bad memory, not malice against Jim and if he had just called me, I would have made a public statement apologizing because there would have been no intent behind it. I am not saying I did this, I truly don't remember discussing that particular clip from 9 year ago with anyone. For the record, here is the email I sent to him after our call and it is the absolute truth:
Jim,
I'm very upset about how the discussion we just had on the phone got out of hand because I've always considered you a friend. I truly believe that you are confusing me with someone else or there is some other misunderstanding on this issue on your cabinets and clip George made for me.
[Name redacted] made some clips for me early in 2013. That is the only time I've ever used him for anything and the only clip I ever posted on my site is still up on the Cherry Bomb page today. A George Lynch style tune he did. I've never posted any of the other clips he made for me on my site. Here is the thread where I first posted the clip. You can see the date is June 21, 2013. I don't see where I mentioned speakers here at all.
https://www.rig-talk.com/forum/thre...-bomb-clip-one-of-my-favorite-players.139030/
See the attached email below [EMAIL NOT ATTACHED HERE]. I bought the NAKED cab from you in January of 2018. I came up to your house, I was afraid of your dog if you remember, I brought my Bartlett up for you to play. We went out and had Sushi and you told me all about [redacted for personal reasons]. I left with the cab after that.
If you lost respect for me for a clip I posted from George in 2013, I'm totally confused as to why we were together playing our Les Paul's and having a nice sushi lunch in 2018? George hasn't done any clips for me for over 9 years.
I'm going to say this again as I did on the phone. I would never knowingly and purposefully say a clip was not your speakers when it was. What would I possibly have to gain by doing so, Jim? I've sold, like 5 or 6 cabinets since 2012. I don't make any money from speakers. If I mistakenly, ever, said that that clip wasn't your speakers years later, which I can't find anywhere, it was just a mistaken memory on my part and not purposeful. I've always been cool with you, I think you would know that. I'm also a bit confused on why you would be so mad about one clip from 9 years ago now...
I'm open to discussing and resolving this with you if you are interested. I'd like to have no hard feelings between us. If not, it's a shame that a misunderstanding or fading memory on our parts means we are no longer friends...
Steve
I will reiterate That's all I've got to say on this matter...
