Latest gear you've acquired.....

[Scodiddly]

these are meant more for permanent installation in a Muzak system I think.

Well yeah, I'd imagine so. That's the whole Radio Design Labs thing, odd little problem solvers. Need a mic preamp to feed the bingo announcements into the organ speaker? They've got you covered! Need to mix a stereo thing down to one mono channel for the ceiling speakers? No problem! I don't imagine that any of it has the Special Sauce sound, but on the other hand they'll happily sit under a blanket of dust for thirty years of 24/7 usage.

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[T-rex]

I picked up those Amazon SDC shock mounts mentioned earlier for my Oktavas. Really nice for the price.

I also got Kazrog's True Iron and True Dynamics. The 26W compressor is SOOO THICK sounding. Wow. They have a sale going on right now. I want to try their 242 and Synth warmer plugs but really trying to not buy anything for a bit.

[trodden]

I picked up those Amazon SDC shock mounts mentioned earlier for my Oktavas. Really nice for the price.

I also got Kazrog's True Iron and True Dynamics. The 26W compressor is SOOO THICK sounding. Wow. They have a sale going on right now. I want to try their 242 and Synth warmer plugs but really trying to not buy anything for a bit.

Yeah, those SDC shock mounts are great! I'm still surprised by how cheap they are!.

The True Iron has become one of my favorite new plugs.

Thanks for mentioning the sale! I've been wanting the 5150 guitar head they make.

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a Slick tele, my third - I love the sound and playability and look, but damn this one is heavy

a 50% steel guitar - cool with heavy distortion, I already had the requisite bar slide (on top, a bunch of other "slides" I use at lower right)

the Fox pedal Killface (bass) and Kingdom (guitar) dirt pedals, very flexible and sound great, stack well and are cool with boosts in front, the Killface is good on guitar, as well

Keeley Phat drive - a very flexible boost-to-dirt drive

the Fender Hammertone delay - this might be what I was looking for, surprisingly enuff on the "digital" setting - I fell into it for about a half hour last night

MXR Super Badass Fuzz - has a built-in Variac which is fun, kinda like a bias adjustment ...

[trodden]

I don't know if plugins count as "new gear" but I gotta say that the Kazrog True Iron and True Dynamics plugs are fucking tasty. I've still not messed with "HEAT" but i've been throwing True Iron on individual tracks as well as busses, and really like the subtleness.

I've also been stacking instances of the Lindell 50 buss plug on busses, with each one modeling a different channel on the "console" and I like how it's making things like bass guitar and high gain electric guitars have more "weight" and open up in a pleasing manner.

I should have done this pro tools and computer upgrade years ago. I've always been a "less is more" type of engineer, mostly due to technology and my access to it. But seems like it's getting too easy to have 3-5 plugs on a track at a time which is probably gonna get me into some trouble. But at the same time, i was stacking outboard EQ and other hardware before hand and now not feeling the need for it. That said, I'm still hanging onto one Effectron for delay and it's crunchy limiter section as well as keeping all my outboard compressors for tracking.

[T-rex]

I don't know if plugins count as "new gear" but I gotta say that the Kazrog True Iron and True Dynamics plugs are fucking tasty. I've still not messed with "HEAT" but i've been throwing True Iron on individual tracks as well as busses, and really like the subtleness.

I've also been stacking instances of the Lindell 50 buss plug on busses, with each one modeling a different channel on the "console" and I like how it's making things like bass guitar and high gain electric guitars have more "weight" and open up in a pleasing manner.

I should have done this pro tools and computer upgrade years ago. I've always been a "less is more" type of engineer, mostly due to technology and my access to it. But seems like it's getting too easy to have 3-5 plugs on a track at a time which is probably gonna get me into some trouble. But at the same time, i was stacking outboard EQ and other hardware before hand and now not feeling the need for it. That said, I'm still hanging onto one Effectron for delay and it's crunchy limiter section as well as keeping all my outboard compressors for tracking.

I loved my affections, really miss those.

True Dynamics is worth it for the 26W alone. That thing is thick as hell.

Yeah, so I've been doing that a lot more lately. I too was trying to keep it simple on the mixing thing but now I'm like, fuck it, if another plugin on this track makes it sound better, I'm throwing it on there.

[trodden]

I don't know if plugins count as "new gear" but I gotta say that the Kazrog True Iron and True Dynamics plugs are fucking tasty. I've still not messed with "HEAT" but i've been throwing True Iron on individual tracks as well as busses, and really like the subtleness.

I've also been stacking instances of the Lindell 50 buss plug on busses, with each one modeling a different channel on the "console" and I like how it's making things like bass guitar and high gain electric guitars have more "weight" and open up in a pleasing manner.

I should have done this pro tools and computer upgrade years ago. I've always been a "less is more" type of engineer, mostly due to technology and my access to it. But seems like it's getting too easy to have 3-5 plugs on a track at a time which is probably gonna get me into some trouble. But at the same time, i was stacking outboard EQ and other hardware before hand and now not feeling the need for it. That said, I'm still hanging onto one Effectron for delay and it's crunchy limiter section as well as keeping all my outboard compressors for tracking.

I loved my affections, really miss those.

True Dynamics is worth it for the 26W alone. That thing is thick as hell.

Yeah, so I've been doing that a lot more lately. I too was trying to keep it simple on the mixing thing but now I'm like, fuck it, if another plugin on this track makes it sound better, I'm throwing it on there.

We need to remind ourselves that if it sounds better, then it sounds better. We all know our gain staging rules, and I think that's where some people fuck up. I'm still trying to wrap my head around "over sampling" and other "computer techy" crap.

[T-rex]

I don't know if plugins count as "new gear" but I gotta say that the Kazrog True Iron and True Dynamics plugs are fucking tasty. I've still not messed with "HEAT" but i've been throwing True Iron on individual tracks as well as busses, and really like the subtleness.

I've also been stacking instances of the Lindell 50 buss plug on busses, with each one modeling a different channel on the "console" and I like how it's making things like bass guitar and high gain electric guitars have more "weight" and open up in a pleasing manner.

I should have done this pro tools and computer upgrade years ago. I've always been a "less is more" type of engineer, mostly due to technology and my access to it. But seems like it's getting too easy to have 3-5 plugs on a track at a time which is probably gonna get me into some trouble. But at the same time, i was stacking outboard EQ and other hardware before hand and now not feeling the need for it. That said, I'm still hanging onto one Effectron for delay and it's crunchy limiter section as well as keeping all my outboard compressors for tracking.

I loved my affections, really miss those.

True Dynamics is worth it for the 26W alone. That thing is thick as hell.

Yeah, so I've been doing that a lot more lately. I too was trying to keep it simple on the mixing thing but now I'm like, fuck it, if another plugin on this track makes it sound better, I'm throwing it on there.

We need to remind ourselves that if it sounds better, then it sounds better. We all know our gain staging rules, and I think that's where some people fuck up. I'm still trying to wrap my head around "over sampling" and other "computer techy" crap.

I watched a Dan Worrell video on over sampling and now it makes sense to me. But it was an hour of my life I'll never get back.

Yeah, a lot of plugins have a small bump in gain as soon as you engage them (looking at you waves and UAD) so they immediately sound better. I try to set my defaults on those with the output down to compensate and that helps a lot when popping it on a track.