Musician Gear & Tech Discussion

Just bought some more crap I don't need...
believe it or not sitting in my closet is a digitech 2112/peavey 5050/hafler t3
and here I am buying up effects pedals... I truly must be addicted.
anywho,
have you checked out that boss/fender 65 deluxe rev pedal?
my digitech does some cool stuff but there's nothin' like that reverb.

also bought a boss md2 and a pederson strobe tuner lately... I can't help it.
My name is mike and I have a problem... I love gear.
the md2 is not at all what the name would lead one to believe(mega-dist). very flexible. does the metal thing well and can produce some nice "mild" flavors of distortion/crunch. killed in front of a crate palomino 8.
toys toys toys.

odd thing tho... I started out on pedals, then went to programmable floor models, then went rackmount and I kinda feel like exploring with floorpedals again. full circle.

So what stage of terminal gears disease has your diagnosis progressed too?

WOW!! What a freakin' trip!!

I was just writing kind of a joke to Sanshouheil about this very thing in another thread. Then I see this thread. F***in' a.. What are the chances?

Yea dude.. Some of us just can't help ourselves.


I just cleared out my back room so I can practice at the house again, and I started going through all my boxes of stuff, all the sudden realized how much stuff I've accumulated over the years. Some of this stuff I don't use a whole lot, but I don't feel like getting rid of any of it either.

My opinion.. You can't beat individual pedals. I've done the full circle as well. I'll never do the multi effect pedals again. And rack mount stuff just seems to have a small delay time from when you stomp 'em on and stomp 'em off. Both bugged the sh*t out of me.

It's called Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Guitar Acquisition Syndrome is very similar, but restricted to guitars...I'm afraid I have both...

Fender Squier Strat
Peavey Patriot (1984 model, black)
Washburn BT2 (blue)
Cort CL 1500 (Cherryburst, gorgeous)
Tom Anderson fake Telecaster (black, slightly modified and getting a Peavey pickup soon)
Harmony Bobkat (1966 Tobacco Sunburst)
Takamine EGS 330 SC
no name telecaster copy (modified, soon to get more)
Electromuse Lap Steel (1945-47 some replaced parts, unmodified)
Fender Champ (1974, modified, KILLER practice amp)
Fender Super Reverb (1973 slightly modified, best rock/blues amp around)
Peavey MX (80's-early 90's unmodified, super clean 30 or 130 watt solid state preamp into tube power amp)
Peavey Classic 212 (mid 70's 50 watt 2x12 combo great amp but currently in need of repair, same solid state/tube setup as the MX)
Harmony practice amp (60's probably, solid state, unmodified)
Artley Flute ($8 resale shop find)
King Cleveland Alto Sax (mid 70's school horn, sounds nice)
2 xylophones one of them very nice
Wurlitzer Electronic Piano (mid 70's works perfect, missing sustain pedal, needs very minor repairs)
3 recorders
antique german mandolin in need of repairs
no name (I think from a kit) ukelele half rebuilt
Ibanez SD 9 Sonic Distortion pedal
Marshall Bluesbreaker Overdrive pedal
Arion SAD1 Analog Delay
DOD Compressor
Dan Electro Rocky Road (supposed to be a Leslie simulator, makes a better flanger, modified.)
Boss 10 band EQ
DOD A/B switch
Schaller Fusschweller volume pedal

I'm sure I'm forgetting something...

Next thing I plan to add is an acoustic amp and another acoustic guitar, so I can keep one in open tuning and not have to constantly swap back and forth. Then most likely a stage stand for one so I can play it and electric during the same song.

Then there's always more guitars, mics, guitars and pedals...and guitars...

The thing that kind of sours me on my digitech is that all effects seem to sound the same after a while. The nice thing about individual effects is you can buy a boss chorus (one of the best IMO) and an mxr flange and a line 6 echo... and get the best of all worlds...
but then the drawback is when you find the perfect sound and record a song based on that specific sound and then you realize you have some track bleed and you try to recreate it and...
lost forever.
I suppose you could diagram everything...

dude with all the gear... yea you know what I'm talkin' bout.
I could list a gaggle of stuff as well - es295,hamer-steve-stevens, jem77floral print, 80amer std strat, "custom-shop" tele, ibanez lawsuit, carvin, dano u2, jackson frankenstein, percision bass, fretless, acoustic, 71 crybaby, 65dlux pedal, mega dist, dano octave, 2112, peavey5050, hafler t3, mackie mixer, keyboard brains and controller, drum machines, samplers, one massive guitar rack and speakers, compressors, sonic maximizers, midi patchbay, midiverb, several mics, stands, elec drum kit, boxes I can't even lift full of cable I'm not using right now... studio monitors, several iterations of various software products... old 15inch blue label fender cab that I've used for all of 15minutes one time... a drawer full of pickups I'm not currently using...

To top it all off... I just noticed the other day that between my sabine/pederson/casio/digitech I have four tuners! and yet I'm too lazy to get any one of them so I tune by ear. That's the best part.

Lets turn this into a bunch of rediculous lists of gear!

G E A R !

fading fast...

got to hang on...


only chance for survival...


more gear.


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must have more gear.

I think digital effects just sound sterile, I tried a couple and kept my trusty analog boxes. I use a home built pedal board, which is about to be upsized, and am planning to build a true bypass box with it to get rid of the "tone sucking" quality of a string of effects. For recording I usually just use one effect at a time if possible, to cut down on noise and keep as much of the amp's own sound as possible and minimize buzz and hum that's often a problem with distortion boxes and effects chains.

I also just modified my Fender Champ to get more gain, I'm hoping I can use it for recording leads, nothing but guitar and amp and still get a good distortion sound, with no extra noise.

GAS...there should be support groups for this...

hmm, I'd have to beg to differ on the digital fx all being sterile... but you're not alone in your thinking.
I think certain things are great and others not... for instance that line6 echo... it's digi... but I defy anyone to come up with a better delay sound... short of actually lugging around an echoplex.
but this brings me to an important idea...

lets have a discussion - anyone can answer:

catagorie: myanswer:
best overdrive blues driver,ts909, dano daddy-o,fulltone
best distortion digitech grunge, boss turbo dist, rat
best octave love my dano french toast - believe it!
vest fuzz bigg muff
best tube pre sound late 60's bassman, matchless, ada mp1
best reverb real fender sring verb (d-lux rev), lexicon
best delay echoplex, line6 greenie, digitech delay
best chorus eventide, boss chorus ensemble, jazz chorus
best flange mxr
best phaser boss
best wah crybaby, vox
best compressor electroharm
best noise gate rocktron hush





feel free to add categories: what's your fav/best x,y,z -bar none?

Cripes! I don't even wanna THINK about listing all the crap I got over the years...lol...I still have an old Maestro fuzz, fer crissake!

Gentlemen:

It is a contageus disease process with no cure. You can only treat the symptoms by buying more stuff you dont really need. I have either been infected online by you guys ( thanks) or the Guns and Gear Acquisition Syndrome (a related disease process) has mutated on me. I hope I didnt pick it up off the toilet seat in the music store.
I am afraid it is terminal. Sorry.

Sincerly
DR. Demento

maestro, hmm, they just don't make em like that anymore. As I get older it occurs to me how I should have hung on to so many good pieces I owned at one point or another (original 80's pro co rat, gibson skylark, gibson sg90... my best friend sold his gibson sonix for $75 dollars... I sold my orig red marshal mini stack for $100... pawned a yamaha motion b for $75... I could go on and on)

AFA gears disease and gun disease... yeah, so much crap I DON'T NEED so little time.

Off the subject some but in around 1978 I sold a 65 Mustang for $750.00.

Off the subject some but in around 1978 I sold a 65 Mustang for $750.00.

ouch... I love mustangs. got an 01GT right now. It's no classic but it sure goes fast!
must be something wrong with my tires... they're always smoking when I leave a stop sign....

Yes Ive been sold those defective tires from time to time myself