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Post by vvv » Sat May 03, 2014 4:18 pm

Just used the 421's for stereo bongos. 8)
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Post by CraigS63 » Sun May 18, 2014 4:51 pm

Ruby red Ric 330. Walked into a guitar show with a Gibson Tennessean, which I hadn't been playing. Traded that and $200 for this.

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Post by Sean Sullivan » Sun May 18, 2014 6:17 pm

I love my Rickenbacker 330 with flatwounds.

I've been getting a lot of guitar gear for me and the wife before we hit the road for 2 weeks in June.

I got a Dr. Z Maz 38 1x12", a bunch of pedals...I added a Wren and Cuff Caprid, Diamond Compressor, and Diaz Tremodillo to my board, that also has a tuner, Crowther Hot Cake, MXR Phase 45, and Way Huge Aqua Puss. I'm thinking about getting a Retro Chorus or maybe a Fulltone Univibe.

I'm thinking of replacing the Aqua Puss with a Maxon AD900 if I can find a good deal on one...the Aqua Puss is a little too modulated sometimes.

I also got a great deal on an API 10 space rack from my old boss, so now I have to start filling it.
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Post by vvv » Mon May 19, 2014 4:04 am

Beyer Soundstar II (M400?) offa the 'bog - we'll see if it works.

A pack of 10 Boss power jacks to fix a broken wah, and to replace some old DOD pedal jacks.

Reminds me, I gotta try and fix my MXL V69ME I dropped ... :(
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Post by Jeff White » Wed May 21, 2014 8:16 am

I'm in the middle of purchasing/restoring a 1971 Ampeg B25b with matching Ampeg 2 x 15" cab. I figured that if I'm going to play bass in a band that I should do so in style. And with back pain.

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Given these last weekend.

Post by lifeintime » Sun May 25, 2014 8:12 am

Went looking at houses and these were in the loft. Owner says "Go ahead and take them; I'll never use them." Thank you!!!

a pair of EV-676's that look like they've been in the box for the last 30+ years.

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Re: Given these last weekend.

Post by ubertar » Sun May 25, 2014 4:19 pm

lifeintime wrote:EV-676
Those are really nice on spoken word (male voice). Probably for sung vocals, too. I've seen footage of Jim Morrison with one, fwiw. I had one a long time ago, and sold it. Can't say I regret it-- I've got plenty of mics. But it's a good, relatively unknown mic.

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Post by vvv » Sun May 25, 2014 4:57 pm

Just got back my Shinybox 23L, repaired by Jon for a good price; it's new to me because when I got it offa the E-Bog it was broke.

Very cool.

Also just got a EHX 6072a offa the 'bog to tube-roll a TB1.
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Post by jgimbel » Wed May 28, 2014 9:38 pm

Finally upgraded to a new computer setup wrought with far less quirks.

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Post by vvv » Thu May 29, 2014 4:21 am

Looks 8).

Gotta CAD M9 coming from the E-bog, not sure why, I guess I couldn't resist the price in my never-ending quest to indulge momentary GAS.
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Post by Gilroy » Sat May 31, 2014 12:10 pm

a few fillers on the lunch box. a Burl B1, RND 551, and Radial EXTC. yea tone!

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Post by A.David.MacKinnon » Sat May 31, 2014 12:41 pm

I'm kind of breaking the rules with this one because this isn't something I recently acquired. More like stuff I've had forever that I've repurposed.

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It's a recreation of Hugh Le Caine's Special Purpose Tape Recorder. Le Caine built the prototype in 1955 as a way to allow players to use recorded sound as a composition and performance tool. His version had up to 20 tape loops running off of a single capstan and routed through a keyboard. It's a similar idea to the melotron although Le Caine's machine was 10 years ahead of the melotron.
My version uses a 16 track 1/2" machine playing a tape loop. Each track routes to a key on the keyboard of a gutted Baldwin Synth-a-Sound I've had in the garage for years. From the keyboard everything routes to a rack mounted mixer.

It's totally melotron like but you get to record your own tape bank for each sound. I've been playing around making a choir out of 16 recordings of my voice. Tons and tons of fun.

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Post by rhythm ranch » Sat May 31, 2014 3:28 pm

A.David.MacKinnon wrote:It's totally melotron like but you get to record your own tape bank for each sound. I've been playing around making a choir out of 16 recordings of my voice. Tons and tons of fun.
Let's hear it!

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Post by A.David.MacKinnon » Sat May 31, 2014 5:17 pm

Here's a bit of stuff I recorded while testing the thing out. There's a 2nd reel to reel incorporated into everything as well. On this little sketch it was used to build up a rhythm loop that I play over. The all the sounds are pitch shifted copies of me singing one note.

https://soundcloud.com/a-david-mackinno ... recorder-1

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Post by rhythm ranch » Sat May 31, 2014 5:25 pm

Excellent! :^:

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