Victor (Fret Friend) Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 On one of the sale post the other week, we had another epic ad calling a Hamer 'Hammer!' Someone posted that Kramer never gets called Krammer. Well, I just came across this (check at 35 seconds); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Haynie Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 It sounds like he said Kramer correctly to me. He called the pedal a "dodd", though. At the music store and everywhere else we called those pedals "D-O-D." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhitcomb3 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 People are familiar with hammers, not so much with krammers. Or Hamers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottcald Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Yeah, I get tired of that. Wonder what these guys do when they encounter an MXR product? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerhead Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 'Krammer' does have a nice painful ring to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biz Prof Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 42 minutes ago, jwhitcomb3 said: People are familiar with hammers, not so much with krammers. Or Hamers. Back when she was in preschool, my oldest child called a photographic device a "krammer". Never quite caught on with the general public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamersaur Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 A Long & McQuade had a nicely framed 8-1/2x11 photo of this guy hung on the wall front and center at the designated Kramer guitar display space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottcald Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 5 hours ago, gtrdaddy said: And that would be correct. DOD are the initials of the founder of the company David Oreste Di Francesco. Didn't know that. Thanks for the info. 4 hours ago, Hamersaur said: A Long & McQuade had a nicely framed 8-1/2x11 photo of this guy hung on the wall front and center at the designated Kramer guitar display space. "Hey Jerry, these guitars play like the butter I just shaved my face with." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizanski Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 I saw the DOD box and knew that I had seen all that I needed to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorch Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 15 hours ago, gtrdaddy said: They call them "MIXER" products. The obvious. I know MXRs from childhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSII x 2 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Back in the day, I used to encounter more people calling them Hammer than Hamer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor (Fret Friend) Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 20 hours ago, gtrdaddy said: And that would be correct. DOD are the initials of the founder of the company David Oreste Di Francesco. In DOD's defense, the FX65 Chorus pedal is a brilliant pedal. It's the only DOD effect I ever liked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorch Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 21 hours ago, Hamersaur said: A Long & McQuade had a nicely framed 8-1/2x11 photo of this guy hung on the wall front and center at the designated Kramer guitar display space. DOD - Dude On Dope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSB0531 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 So an MXR mixing pedal to some would be pronounced Mixer Mixer?? And someone with little lead solo time, a Kramer and very few songs in the set list would be: Kramming in his Krammer solo on his Kramer?.............that sounds very NSFW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSB0531 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 There are many mispronounced words in the musical lexicon: UREI: often pronounced like a Russian first name it’s actually U.R.E.I. Short for United Recording Electronics Industries. Steinberger Bass: pronounced George Steinbrenner Memorial Baseball Bat. ( It’s true it’s true I tell ya). Mini-Moog: we never new which was right: long O as in Moo or short O as in Moe. To make matters worse, I heard people use both in the same editorial: Bob Moog (Short O) and his Moog synth (long O). Electronic Music Systems: EMS Synthi-AKS which we used to pronounce synthi-axe (wrong. Pronounced Synthi-A KS (Synthi-A model with keyboard sequencer). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomteriffic Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 I may still have one of those D-O-D choruses around here someplace. Their delay and modulation stuff was pretty good for the times, I thought. Having said that, the DOD pedal that we sold the most by a country mile was the FX55 distortion. Standard piece of student kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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