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Posted: November 14 2004 at 17:22 |
What's your most treasured piece of gear. or what's the best piece of kit you'bve bought in recent times? I'm looking for instruments, software, outboard, nics whatever, always good to get some tips on what's a must-have
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sigod
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Posted: November 15 2004 at 07:17 |
Ooh, good question.
I'd have to say it's a pedal called Total Sonic Annihilation by a company called Death By Audio. You plug it in to your old cheap/crappy pedals and it changes the sound of them in endless ways, distortion pedals become delay pedals, phasers become strange chirpy bird boxes. Change the chain of pedals and the sound changes again.
A fantastic device.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: November 15 2004 at 07:42 |
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For me, it would have to be that champion among valve amps, the Leslie 145 - set that to just above half-way, floor the swell pedal on the Hammond, whack the speed to 'fast' - hear that baby scream.
I don't care how good Leslie simulators now claim to be, you cannot emulate a good old valve amp
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James Lee
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Posted: November 16 2004 at 04:21 |
I've played through a lot of fuzz pedals, and still get pleasantly surprised by my old Boss FZ-2...I haven't heard many fuzztones that I can't come damn close to replicating with it (including some ridiculously expensive and noisy germanium ones...*cough Zvex cough*), and it was super-cheap. It even does a half-decent preamp in the boost mode; my passive-pickup bass sounds great that way.
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sigod
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Posted: November 16 2004 at 10:54 |
 James Lee wrote:
I've played through a lot of fuzz pedals, and still get pleasantly surprised by my old Boss FZ-2...I haven't heard many fuzztones that I can't come damn close to replicating with it (including some ridiculously expensive and noisy germanium ones...*cough Zvex cough*), and it was super-cheap. It even does a half-decent preamp in the boost mode; my passive-pickup bass sounds great that way.
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And that's a really cool bowl the fuzz box is sitting in too 
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Posted: November 16 2004 at 12:16 |
interesting chaps, sigod - I love the notion of that total sonic annihilation thing - it sounds creatively veryinteresting.
Funny how people often choose the little things as their favourite bit of gear. I absolutely love my Sovtek small stone and mu Ibanez Tube Screamer.
My old Hohner ST57 guitar is still my favourite and my collaborator, Mark, has this old Korg Poly 6 that he bought for £100 about 10 years ago that we couldn't do without.
Gotta say tho, that my one prize possession is my AC30, it's old, road weary and has definitely seen better days, and I don't even use it any more, owing to volum levels, but I will never, ever sell it. It's part of who I was throughout my 20s and stll part of who I am. It rocks!
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Posted: November 16 2004 at 15:34 |
It's gotta be the Pod XT Pro! - it's even got an AC30 setting... OK, not the best for gigs, where you just can't beat the real McCoy, but for the studio, it's awesome! Fed up with your amp sound? Change to a different amp! Want a new effect? Dial it up!
Although my real "precious" is my 250 Watt Yamaha semi-valve natural sound bass amp combined with my Peavey cab (2x10, 1x18 Black Widows). I would sell the Pod before I sold that.
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Posted: November 27 2004 at 10:18 |
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Guitar - wise
Epiphone Wildkat
Musicman Stingray II
Squier Tele Custom
Jim Dunlop Cry-Baby Wah-Wah
Boss DD-2 digital Delay
MXR Compressor
Fuzzface
E-Bow
Synths
Korg Prophesy
Novation Nova
Software
Reason
Fruityloops
Korg DD8 Digital Mixer/Portastudio
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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aliensporebomb
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Posted: December 24 2004 at 16:09 |
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I can speak of guitars and keys later but actual gear
I use religiously:
TC Electronic BLD - very clean boost.
Mesa Boogie Studio preamp - mainstay of my sound since
the early 1990s.
Lexicon Vortex - most underrated processor ever made IMHO.
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aqualung28
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Posted: December 24 2004 at 19:42 |
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My theremin and my Fender Jazz Bass
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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
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Sound Chaser
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Posted: December 24 2004 at 21:39 |
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My Aguilar DB659 preamp for my bass rig. I got a great deal on it and I absolutely love it.
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Posted: December 27 2004 at 18:22 |
^ Alembic Series II Fretless Bass.
It looks somewhat like that except without frets. over 20 years old.
Also for newer gear:
Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass. It has the like, the best sound I've ever heard for a fretted bass ever. It has both precision and Jazz pickups so you can switch between the two, or combine both for awesome sound.
They are my babies.
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Posted: December 27 2004 at 21:02 |
As far as guitars go:
I'm real partial to this particular guitar:
But I like this one too:
Sigh.
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aqualung28
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Posted: January 04 2005 at 00:15 |
once I get a Mini-Moog I can say that's my treasured gear
but until then
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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 21:17 |
Gear that I treasure but DO NOT own:
Gibson ES-355
Moog Taurus Bass Pedals
Oberheim OB-X
ARP 2600.
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sigod
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Posted: January 11 2005 at 05:04 |
arcer wrote:
Funny how people often choose the little things as their favourite bit of gear. I absolutely love my Sovtek small stone and mu Ibanez Tube Screamer.
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Both the Small Stone and the Tube Scremer are fantastic bits of gear. 
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- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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