Music Gear

[Emphyrio]

Anyone keeping up to date on NAMM? Not really in the market for anything myself but it's nice to look. Strymon have a new Tape echo yokey which seems to have a lot of people interested. Probably not my thing so much.

Curious to see what Schecter and LTD bring out. Not that I need a new guitar...

[Juggz]

Gibson are at this one? I'm curious to see how they're going to repackage the same guitars they've been building for the last 60 years.

[Emphyrio]

I'd imagine Gibson would have to be there alright. But ya, wouldn't be expecting much in the realm of innovation.

[Juggz]

They skipped it last year, I thought? What I've seen from their post-bankruptcy output is, basically, doing away with the robot tuning but keeping the chambered bodies.

[Spoderman01]

Those 2019 Schecter E-1 SLS Elites haunt me regularly

[if6was9]

Pigtronix released a cool new one. The Resotron. A synthy /filter pedal in the same type of family as the Digitech synth wah/dirty robot with some cool other features. I'll be keeping an eye on this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKH-kbyIeto

I've to buy a Behringer XR18 mixer this week. I need a new desk for my bands jam space and this doubles as an 18 input USB interface so I can multitrack record rehearsals straight into a laptop. I'll also get use of it in work and at some random gigs I'll play where I need a PA so should pay for itself in no time. They halved in price lately too, it's  whole lot of stuff for 390 euro!

Of course now that a thomann order is on the cards I've made a wishlist with all the other bits I've been telling myself I need.  Looking at the Arturia Keystep midi controller, an EHX silencer and a small basic lighting desk for the metal gigs we do in Dolans.

[Floss]

MusicStore clearly getting the shaft from Klark Teknik..
I ordered an EQP and 76KT there back in early Nov... being told they won't ship til March now at most recent guess. Dropping the price clearly drove huge demand...

[ldj]

Anyone know if there's any guitar shops around Dublin that sell ESP/LTD guitars?

Have me eye on getting an LTD EC1000 later in the year and would like to play one before I buy. Definitely a dream guitar right now, comes loaded with Seymour Duncan's too.

[Emphyrio]

I reckon you'd be perfectly safe buying that without trying it. Those higher end LTDs are brilliant.

[Juggz]

They're great guitars. You'll often see one on adverts, maybe keep an eye out there and you might save a bit of cash.

[TurnTheAirBlue]

Anyone know if there's any guitar shops around Dublin that sell ESP/LTD guitars?

Have me eye on getting an LTD EC1000 later in the year and would like to play one before I buy. Definitely a dream guitar right now, comes loaded with Seymour Duncan's too.

https://www.musicminds.ie  stock LTD. They don't have a lot in stock but I'm sure they could get one in for you.

[Spoderman01]

@Emphyrio - any update on the EHX Mod Rex?

[Emphyrio]

It's grand Spud. Lotsa fiddling around required, which isn't my bag at the best of times. If I was using it on guitar it'd either be a) I annoyed at the amount of tweaking or b) I'd have spent a lot more time trying to get the most out of it.

As it's gonna be for synths I'll get around to using it more once I start recording more stuff.

[Spoderman01]

Well that's underwhelming  Was kinda hoping it had blown you away

[Emphyrio]

The chorus/flanger sounds aren't as good as dedicated pedals and the pattern tremolo sounds aren't as easy to dial in as on the M5 so I couldn't recommend it for guitar if I was being honest.

Some of the presets are cool and they're all programmable for track's BPM which is handy but I'll keep it for synths.