Latest gear you've acquired.....

[ubertar]

Got this weird little instrument called a bulbul tarang. They were invented in Japan around the turn of the century (19th to 20th) and became popular in India. It's a keyboard instrument, similar in principle to a clavichord, but instead of each key pushing up on a string or pair of strings, the keys push metal bars down across 8 strings, all tuned to the same note, and the bar makes the new note. Then you strum. Kind of a cross between a clavichord and an autoharp. There are also two sympathetic strings, but they seem kind of useless for this instrument (they're far from useless on a sitar, sarod or sarangi, but on this thing they really don't seem to add anything) so I may tweak things so those two strings work like the rest and there are 10 melody strings instead of 8. Will have to coil a pickup for it too. Nice fun toy for $20.

Awesome free stuff from craigslist: a suzuki digital piano, zildjian hi hats, medium ride and crash/ride. The crash ride has a crack along a seam, in a semi-circle. I guess I should epoxy it. The others are in great shape. Much better sounding than the cheap crappy cymbals I've been using.

[Matt C.]

picked up a few classic mics - beyer m160, RE20, D112

and a few classic capacitors and opamps for modifying my MS-16

[nick_a]

baseline mac pro tower. finally out of the laptop world....what's this pci i keep hearing about....?

[Gregg Juke]

Vox AC4TVmini...

So far, so sweet.

GJ

[Knights Who Say Neve]

Korg MS-10!!!! What a sweet little keyboard.

[roscoenyc]

Vox AC4TVmini...

So far, so sweet.

GJ

I like that thing a lot. Perfect for at home. It's also cool as a second amp in a 2 amp rig.

[EasyGo]

Just picked up a Fatar Studio Logic SL-161 MIDI Controller. so far so good!

[CraigS63]

A right-angle power plug, so my Korg M1 can sit in my "Ultimate" rack farther back. Yeah, boring...

[Gregg Juke]

roscoenyc wrote:

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Gregg Juke wrote:
Vox AC4TVmini...

So far, so sweet.

GJ

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>>>>ke that thing a lot. Perfect for at home. It's also cool as a second amp in a 2 amp rig.<<<<

AND, it can be used as a head to drive a 16 ohm cab! Still only 4 watts, but you could spread 'em around a lot more...

GJ

[roscoenyc]

finally got my own Dr Z Carmen Ghia. There
was one at our old studio that belonged to a friend. Always loved it. Took
me a while to realize I needed my own.

Z offers it in a 1 x 10" combo now with an Eminence Red Fang alnico 10".
Excited about it.

[Sean Sullivan]

Before I left for vacation I ordered a Lavry DA11, a pair of Sony MDR-V6 headphones, and Pro Tools 9 to use at home. Hopefully I'll have a new home when I get back because we also put in an offer for my first house!

[DougK]

This all came in and just blew my mind:


Liked it so much I went ahead and ordered a second lunchbox with a little labs vog,
a standard audio level-or, and a radial x-amp to start with.
Love how these fit in skb pelican-style carry-ons (got a couple of those too).
Selling off my studio hurt, but this ultra portable stuff is easing the pain nicely.

[CraigS63]

'82 MIJ Squier Strat, at a flea market for 40 bucks. So much for my "thinning the herd" phase.

[A.David.MacKinnon]

Frontier Designs Tango 24 8 channel AD/DA.
Which means I can happily unload my Behringer ADA8000 (even happier because I sold the Behringer for the same amount I paid for the Tango).

[No-Fi]

BOSS RDD-20 Digital Delay

http://www.bossarea.com/other/rdd20.asp

nice little digi delay. it's like a portable effectron with the modulation. it can do chorus, flange and has a noisy feedback oscillation, dub style!