What are you GAS-ing for?

Zzzzz said:
How to be an addict:
Step 1 - Go to Sweetwater. Try it.
Step 2 - Leave with only a few minor accessories. Start jonesing now. "I should've bought it"
Step 3 - Go home safely. Think about how it sounded, how it played, how well it fit you. It consumes your thoughts.
Step 4 - Play your other guitars for a cheap fix. They aren't enough anymore. You start searching around for it.
Step 5 - Get on the internet sites. You know you want it. Your friends do it.
Step 6 - Back on the internet. We're just gonna put it in the cart. We're not gonna buy it! It's okaaaaaay.
Step 7 - A few days later. "Why shouldn't I have it?" CLICK!!! Goodbye, money!
Step 8 - Pull up tracking. Watch every city it goes through. Will they be careful with it? Was it packed well? What if it's lost in transit???
Step 9 - Just when you can't take another second...DELIVERED! Rip open the package like a kid on Christmas morning.
Step 10 - Check it over, tune it...play it and forget about every care in the world. All's good & right in the world.
*Repeat steps 1-10 until you're dead or broke.
My name is Zzzz. I'm and addict.
G.A.S is no joke!!!
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Zzzzz said:
How to be an addict:
Step 1 - Go to Sweetwater. Try it.
Step 2 - Leave with only a few minor accessories. Start jonesing now. "I should've bought it"
Step 3 - Go home safely. Think about how it sounded, how it played, how well it fit you. It consumes your thoughts.
Step 4 - Play your other guitars for a cheap fix. They aren't enough anymore. You start searching around for it.
Step 5 - Get on the internet sites. You know you want it. Your friends do it.
Step 6 - Back on the internet. We're just gonna put it in the cart. We're not gonna buy it! It's okaaaaaay.
Step 7 - A few days later. "Why shouldn't I have it?" CLICK!!! Goodbye, money!
Step 8 - Pull up tracking. Watch every city it goes through. Will they be careful with it? Was it packed well? What if it's lost in transit???
Step 9 - Just when you can't take another second...DELIVERED! Rip open the package like a kid on Christmas morning.
Step 10 - Check it over, tune it...play it and forget about every care in the world. All's good & right in the world.
*Repeat steps 1-10 until you're dead or broke.
My name is Zzzz. I'm and addict.
G.A.S is no joke!!!
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Wow. So, I guess you needed a fix, huh?

What do you have for an amplifier?

(Nice looking guitar!)
 
Zzzzz said:
How to be an addict:
Step 1 - Go to Sweetwater. Try it.
Step 2 - Leave with only a few minor accessories. Start jonesing now. "I should've bought it"
Step 3 - Go home safely. Think about how it sounded, how it played, how well it fit you. It consumes your thoughts.
Step 4 - Play your other guitars for a cheap fix. They aren't enough anymore. You start searching around for it.
Step 5 - Get on the internet sites. You know you want it. Your friends do it.
Step 6 - Back on the internet. We're just gonna put it in the cart. We're not gonna buy it! It's okaaaaaay.
Step 7 - A few days later. "Why shouldn't I have it?" CLICK!!! Goodbye, money!
Step 8 - Pull up tracking. Watch every city it goes through. Will they be careful with it? Was it packed well? What if it's lost in transit???
Step 9 - Just when you can't take another second...DELIVERED! Rip open the package like a kid on Christmas morning.
Step 10 - Check it over, tune it...play it and forget about every care in the world. All's good & right in the world.
*Repeat steps 1-10 until you're dead or broke.
My name is Zzzz. I'm and addict.
G.A.S is no joke!!!
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I'm glad I'm a lefty and somewhat of an introvert.

So there's almost nothing available to begin with.

And the things that happen to be manufactured and are somewhat interesting aren't in stock anywhere.

Or if it's in stock, at least it's not anywhere local.

If it happens to be somewhere local, I can't muster up the courage to go check it out anyway.
 
Yargnad said:
I would be honored to be your personal shopper. Just add me as an authorized user on your credit card account...problem solved.

That should work a lot better than calling dibs on other member's gear. I can simply directly insert myself as the middle man during the initial acquisition phase. I don't know why I hadn't thought if this sooner. :H5:
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What could go wrong!
 
Maybe a mini Mesa now. In the brutal honest with myself & in being in settings with people to hear now & mix me in. it el84 tubes that fit me. The TH30 &( Bugera v22 (started it all) paired with green backs in closed & V-type & old crate celestion in semi open gives me that s complete sound with mic options for dif rooms. Also, all that gear i have, everybody says by far that set up sounds best in mix & on stage. Fought it cause of the gear i have, the mind says gotta play the so called legends but in a way it was dating my sound, nothing wrong but being original, found my niche.

Seem to be unloading all gear as we get ready to go live. Down to TH30 - Triple - OR15 & the triple might go now. Really have freed up my time to focus on playing vs buying

Way more focused now. not playing live for 5 years. Sorta replaced playing in a band with gear hunts. Was awesome tho what ya learn. Need clean, slight crunch, heavy crunch & lead pop..that is consistent. Thats it basically, rest is on me to extract song creation & learn how to present it live without having much thought or reliability issues.
 
Yargnad said:
I would be honored to be your personal shopper. Just add me as an authorized user on your credit card account...problem solved.

That should work a lot better than calling dibs on other member's gear. I can simply directly insert myself as the middle man during the initial acquisition phase. I don't know why I hadn't thought if this sooner. :H5:
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Hey, kid! Go play in the road or something! :rolf: :rolf: :rolf: :rolf: I'm a much better shopper! ;)
 
Zzzzz said:
How to be an addict:
Step 1 - Go to Sweetwater. Try it.
Step 2 - Leave with only a few minor accessories. Start jonesing now. "I should've bought it"
Step 3 - Go home safely. Think about how it sounded, how it played, how well it fit you. It consumes your thoughts.
Step 4 - Play your other guitars for a cheap fix. They aren't enough anymore. You start searching around for it.
Step 5 - Get on the internet sites. You know you want it. Your friends do it.
Step 6 - Back on the internet. We're just gonna put it in the cart. We're not gonna buy it! It's okaaaaaay.
Step 7 - A few days later. "Why shouldn't I have it?" CLICK!!! Goodbye, money!
Step 8 - Pull up tracking. Watch every city it goes through. Will they be careful with it? Was it packed well? What if it's lost in transit???
Step 9 - Just when you can't take another second...DELIVERED! Rip open the package like a kid on Christmas morning.
Step 10 - Check it over, tune it...play it and forget about every care in the world. All's good & right in the world.
*Repeat steps 1-10 until you're dead or broke.
My name is Zzzz. I'm and addict.
G.A.S is no joke!!!
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Ms. Amgassador:unsure::unsure::unsure::unsure:
 
My LP GAS is really getting bad now!! I'm ready to buy, problem is there are no Standards available for me to play and I've decided I'm not buying without playing. The few stores that sell LPs around here have everything but standards and that's what I want. Looks like I'll be planning a trip to Nashville soon.
 
DirtySteve said:
My LP GAS is really getting bad now!! I'm ready to buy, problem is there are no Standards available for me to play and I've decided I'm not buying without playing. The few stores that sell LPs around here have everything but standards and that's what I want. Looks like I'll be planning a trip to Nashville soon.
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You definitely need a Standard at the minimum. Anything (except a V) without fretboard binding goes right in the litter box. Too can deal with it.
 
I was playing one of my SGs today. I really think that I'm done with new stuff. Everything I have has a particular job, and they do what they're supposed to do. Playing with my '64 Fender Bandmaster this past Thursday was a ton of fun, and reminded me of how good and different all my amps are. I love the ES-335 and Martin that I bought within the past year. I just want time to play and enjoy what I have. And, also get around to finishing projects that were either already started or that I have most of the stuff to get to the initial start up phase. And maybe building a couple of interesting new things to learn more, and improve my knowledge.
 
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Cadorman said:
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SoloDallas Schaffer Replica EX Tower Schaffer Vega Diversity System...

If you're looking at this, you probably know the story but I'll relate it anyway: Once upon a time, an engineer named Ken Schaffer built the world's first wireless guitar system — the Schaffer-Vega...
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Are these things any good, or just a gimmick?
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People rave about them, mostly from the Agnes Young fan crowd. A grand seems like a steal, because they are hard to come by, and Fillipo is pretty obsessive. His Marshall and Celestion info sites are excellent reference sites. I've never heard anything bad about him or his stuff.
 
Yargnad said:
I've been deep diving into the Plethora X5 and this thing can do some absolutely incredible things. It takes a bit of tweaking, but you can accomplish a ton of stuff with just an expression pedal. I can't wait for mine to get here tomorrow.

One of the videos I saw shows that you can have a delay ramp its feedback up to 100% with the expression pedal while at the same time ramping down the volume of the input on the delay so it will capture the beginning of what you're playing thru the delay and drone it out. By the time you reach full toe down the delay input signal is fully attenuated and all you're left with is the drone while you can still hear the dry guitar signal coming thru, and that's only a small part of what the video covers; you can have very complex expression pedal mappings.

I really had no idea to the extent of which this pedal can be automated very easily. I know a lot of people complained about the lack of drive pedals being built-in, but honestly I'm not a huge fan of digital drives and likely wouldn't have used them anyway. Besides the only TC Electronic dirt pedals I can think of are all analog.

I'm on a MIDI foot controller quest now...
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Looks like a great unit. TC makes killer stuff.
 
Yargnad said:
I used the Alltobucks I got from buying the X5 to grab a RAT2. After all of the posts back and forth a couple months back about the RAT and various clones available now, I decided to finally grab one and try it out for myself since it's only $1.04 after my store credit.

I never liked RAT pedals as a kid, but that was surely my ignorance about how to get good tone back then. Was going to grab a clone, and then the new Lil RAT, but I figured I'd just do the original. I suspect I will like it much more now.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I've settled on the Boss ES-8 switcher, but it's a bit spendy, so that'll have to wait until I sell some more gear. Going to keep an eye out for a good price on a used one. It can easily handle all of my pedal switching, MIDI, and stereo rig needs.
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Rats are tasty!
 
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