What did Santa bring you this year? (2009)

Trick Fall · Post by **Trick Fall** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:44 pm

Got an Electroharmonix Memory Toy which hasn't come in yet and a Catalinbread SFT. I'm really digging the SFT. It's a very lower midrange kind of distortion.

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:45 pm

superaction80 wrote:Why is Underneath the Bunker the one song that gets stuck in my head?

Perhaps you have an undeniable appreciation for pseudo-rhumbas.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

dennisjames · Post by **dennisjames** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:07 pm

The Road is a fantastic book! I just finished Blood Meridian and highly recommend that one as well. The movie "No Country for Old Men" -

! When that movie ended, I just stared at the screen in disbelief at the genious I had witnessed. Could not have ended any better!

As for Santa, he gave me 20 db of much needed extra gain for my Cascade Victor in the form of a TritonAudio Fethead. Have only been able to try it out, but damn did it'll do the trick! And thanks to all who cautioned against the Rode DPowerPlug.

Brett Siler · Post by **Brett Siler** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:24 pm

superaction80 wrote: Damn! I thought i was going to be the hipster theremin-guy in this thread, and then i go back and read over it after posting.

That thing does look awesome.

mwahahaha! Moog is classic though.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:03 pm

sfsonarboy wrote:My sweetie got me a cool little "beater" acoustic guitar - Yamaha FG-110 - to keep at the in-laws while we're staying here.

oooh, i used to have one of those.

it was actually my first guitar cos my mom bought it in 1974 and then never learned how to play.

i loved that guitar...and then some asswipe wrecked the trussrod.

nick_a · Post by **nick_a** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:38 am

kinda bought myself a partsmaster for christmas. i couldn't resist. Hand-finishing the body this week.

the lady got me a really kick ass cast-iron enameled dutch oven. i've wanted one for years. the rents got me two tickets to leonard slatkin conducting the SFO next weekend, which is to me an awesome thoughtful gift.

Z-Plane · Post by **Z-Plane** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:54 pm

CraigS63 wrote:
Z-Plane wrote:My first lap steel. Now trying to avoid sounding like Gilmour.
Get a set of C6 strings (C E G A C E) - you can't use a regular set for this - the lower strings will be way too tight.

Lots of info and opinions at steelguitarforum.com

Thanks, am browsing now. There goes another month

!

Jay Reynolds · Post by **Jay Reynolds** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:39 pm

cgarges wrote:
superaction80 wrote:Why is Underneath the Bunker the one song that gets stuck in my head?
Perhaps you have an undeniable appreciation for pseudo-rhumbas.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

Or its the first song on that album with no tambourine?

Nah.
Gotta be the pseudo-rhumba.

kingmetal · Post by **kingmetal** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:42 pm

my folks were getting fed up with me telling them that I didn't want anything for Christmas so my dad hounded me until I cracked and told him he could buy into the Phenom II X4 965 I was about to purchase.

My Corporate Dayjob helped me to purchase the following things for myself for Xmas:

1. Phenom II X4 965 as previously noted
2. Kore 2 (w/ controller)
3. LiquidMix 16
4. T-shirt with a diagram of a vacuum tube on it (which prompted me to steal my dad's Sunn 200s so as not to be a total poser).

Besides the fact that Liquidmix is firewire and is fighting with my MOTUs (and Microsoft's broken FW drivers) like cats and dogs, it's the best piece of gear I've bought since my 01V96. Can't imagine life without it and I've only had it a few weeks -- remixed the entire album I thought I had finished because I knew I could do a better job with the LM16 (and lo and behold, I could!).

EDIT: Forgot an important one! My dad got a second copy of The Real Frank Zappa Book which I promptly stole and claimed as my own.

lyman · Post by **lyman** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 5:59 am

cgarges wrote: That's such a terrific album and not very talked-about.

Definitely. It's just a solid album front to back. Speaking of REM as xmas presents, I asked for the new remaster of Murmur but got the original version (used, to boot). But it's the thought that counts and besides, I got plenty other cool music stuff:

a bunch of the Beatles remasters
Shakey - the Neil Young biog.
wall mount guitar hangers

dickiefunk · Post by **dickiefunk** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:24 am

Cubase 5

Marwood Williams · Post by **Marwood Williams** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:51 pm

Santa brought me an Apex 460 Tube Condenser mic.

cale w · Post by **cale w** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:50 am

superaction80 wrote: Re: 5-way.
Spock is the Vulcan LLAP sign. For Dino you make a gesture like you've got a sock-puppet over your hand. Spock beats Rock (he disintegrates it) and Scissors (dude definitely knows how to run Scissors (he's freakin' Spock)). Paper beats Spock (it's less emotional than he is) and so does Dino (it eats him). Dino beats Spock and Paper (he eats it) and loses to Rock (gets his head smashed) and Scissors (he gets stabbed).

Dinosaur beats EVERYTHING. I don't care what your hipster shirt says.

sfsonarboy · Post by **sfsonarboy** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:28 am

Birthday Claus just showed up with a Zoom H4n - great toy!!

NewAndImprov · Post by **NewAndImprov** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:37 am

I just got myself a pretty seriously deep Christmas present: New MacPro Quad 2.66, 8gigs RAM and 4 hard drives, UAD Solo, MOTU 828, and Logic 9. This is upgrading from a 1.8 G5 that is nearly 10 years old, so I think it was time.

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