The way I'm understanding Kbob's statement, they told him they were going to ship Sweetwater's "pre-sold" orders first.
I agree with that principle.
If I had money down then I'd want mine to get here sooner too.
I have to assume that Cordoba does have other dealers who also have sold orders and that's why they're telling Kbob how they're going to divvy up what's available.
I'm quite sure if they get more guitars out of finishing than they estimate then they'll start going down the list of sold orders by dealer and date and fill anything they can.
It's the only fair way to allocate when there are orders for more guitars than they think they'll get out of this production run.
I've seen the principle at work in other industries.
Sometimes and end customer
does cancel.
If the dealer doesn't tell Cordoba that, then they get an extra guitar for inventory (or the next order in line) a little sooner than expected.
Nothing is for certain until Cordoba has have finished guitars ready to ship.
It could turn out they don't even get as many as they're telling the dealers they're going to get, if they have a massive QC fail, for instance.
All the assumptions that might be valid for a production line that's been running smoothly for at least a couple of years simply can't be made in this case.
I can understand if KBob hasn't put 2 & 2 together about that yet, and I admit I kinda lost patience on that point.
I apologize for my earlier snarky comment about the helicopter, Kbob.
My best advice would be to ask Sweetwater if your order is one of the 7 that Cordoba recognizes as pre-sold and then hope they get 100% yield on this production run and get the guitars there on their quoted timetable.
And don't feel singled out because it could still happen that the other 6 or 7 guys wind up not getting their guitars as soon as anticipated, either.
I'm comfortable assuming you've got much better insight about recording techniques than me just because you actually do record and spend time experimenting.
My real point wasn't just poor playback devices but what happens to a file as its digitized and then re-translated to analog and all the potential variables of playback equipment that color the original recording.
I
am prejudiced against earphones as a playback device.****(see note below)
I'll tell ya what's interesting to me is that my GF's recordings of me sound best played back on her cell phone, because it's coming back out through the same speaker (mic) it was recorded on.
**** Here's why, from
"the usual source" :
Function[edit]
The auricle's functions are to collect sound and transform it into directional and other information. The auricle collects sound and, like a funnel, amplifies the sound and directs it to the auditory canal.[2] The filtering effect of the human pinnae preferentially selects sounds in the frequency range of human speech.
Amplification[edit]
Amplification of sound by the pinna, tympanic membrane and middle ear causes an increase in level of about 10 to 15 dB in a frequency range of 1.5 kHz to 7 kHz. This amplification is an important factor in inner ear trauma resulting from elevated sound levels.
Notch of pinna[edit]
Due to its anatomy, the pinna largely eliminates a small segment of the frequency spectrum; this band is called the pinna notch. The pinna works differently for low and high frequency sounds. For low frequencies, it behaves similarly to a reflector dish, directing sounds toward the ear canal. For high frequencies, however, its value is thought to be more sophisticated. While some of the sounds that enter the ear travel directly to the canal, others reflect off the contours of the pinna first: these enter the ear canal after a very slight delay. This delay causes phase cancellation, virtually eliminating the frequency component whose wave period is twice the delay period. Neighboring frequencies also drop significantly. In the affected frequency band – the pinna notch – the pinna creates a band-stop or notch filtering effect. This filter typically affects sounds around 10 kHz, though it can affect any frequencies from 6 – 16 kHz. It also is directionally dependent, affecting sounds coming from above more than those coming from straight ahead. This aids in vertical sound localization.[3]
Even before I started realizing that sealing the ears with headphones wasn't all that good for your ears, I was never satisfied with losing "Feeling the bass" when using earphones.