YET ANOTHER scammer on Reverb.com

[NoiseUnderTheFloor]

So far I've had only positive experiences Reverb (knock on wood). I make it VERY clear to potential buyers that I'm a private seller, not a store, no returns.

Ebay is another story. I had one guy want to return a Marshall JCM 800 4010 combo because he "didn't know it wasn't a good amp for the office, way too loud!"

 

[Salos]

In my experience the Reverb.com staff are vastly more helpful then dealing with Ebay. They aren't nearly as biased towards buyers as Ebay/PayPal are now. There's still nothing to stop him from opening a case with PayPal if that is how he paid, but consider sending a message to the Reverb support staff and they may be able to talk some sense into the guy. The item arrived in the condition it was advertised in, end of story.

This. Reverb staff are GREAT, contact them ASAP to get ahead of this - even if part of you thinks the guy isn't trying to pull something.

I will say on Reverb, I've only had great experiences. I even received a powered pedal board from a seller that had a serious grounding hum issue making it unusable... the seller immediately refunded payment and told me to keep the board - don't know if he knew about the issues, said he used single coils and it wasn't that bad, he thought it was his pedals making the noise, either way, he did the right thing when I brought it up.

I think scammers/morons on Reverb are in a very small minority, much smaller than eBay.

 

[Caulk Rocket]

Never had a problem with selling gear on eBay. They'll side with the buyer anyway, so at least I don't have to go through the pain of explaining how to hold a guitar pick to a noob.

 

[amptweaker]

I have two overdrive pedals. One is an Amptweaker tight rock. When I engage this pedal, the amp basically shuts down. Very weird frequency sounds -as if the amp is going to explode. Not cool.
I don't know why this is not happening. I know the effects loop comes after the pre-amp. Maybe this has something to do with it.
Can you please advise ... as if this is not correctable, I would want to return the amp.
Other than this issue, everything else seems fine."

The guy you're dealing with might be confused by the fact that a LOT of guys use our TightMetal/TightRock pedals straight INTO the effects Return, bypassing the preamp. It sounds like he's trying to run the pedal in the loop like a chorus, because he heard people saying they used it 'in the effects loop'. Feel free to quote me that although you could patch a clean boost pedal that way, a high gain distortion like the TightRock pedal won't work well that way, unless you're bypassing the preamp by and going straight in..... Guitar>TightRock IN, TightRock OUT>Amp FX Return. Some guys also will patch their amp's preamp into the SideTrak loop, so when the TightRock is OFF, their regular Amp's preamp works. To do that he would patch it this way:

Guitar>TR IN, TR SideTrak SND>Amp IN, Amp FX SND>TR SideTrak RET, TR OUT>other effects like chorus/delay, Out of that chain>Amp FX Return.

James B
amptweaker.com

Thanks. That's a great help. Can he damage the amp running it that way? Do you mind if I put him in touch with you?

It's not likely that just running the pedal inside the effects loop could damage the amp....maybe he could damage the amp in the process of plugging/unplugging things if the amp isn't grounded and things are floating up in voltage, but that's a stretch.

First send him my comments here, and then if that doesn't help you can sure send him to my site to email me questions.
James B
amptweaker.com