themindwillnotletgo
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I dig all kinds of gear. Betraying my age, I got a few pieces that I spent enjoyable parts of my life with. I'm always interested to hear other people's musical lives. You got anything meaningful to you?
Here's mine:
Ibanez PUE-5 - This got me through my college band days. It sounded good, had stereo headphone out for playing in the apartment, complete with noise gate, external loop and stereo outs. I was poor, so I ran stereo out to a solid state Crate amp and a band mate's Peavey Bandit. I even re-covered the speakers in matching, unbranded, fabric to hide all the poverty
I had guys coming up after shows asking me how I was getting the great tones. After I bought the amp (below), I loaned my original PUE to some tweaker and the last time I saw it, it was half destroyed. The only piece of gear I regretted letting go of, I recently found an excellent specimen online.
Johnson Amplification Millennium Stereo 150 - This was one of the first modelling amps, JA and Line-6 came out about the same time right around the turn of the century. I chose the Johnson mainly for the tube preamp section, the Digitech effects processor, and the ability to perform firmware updates via desktop computer. Line-6 survived obviously, as far as I know, this is obsolete. Great sounding amp, I ran it with a 2x12 extension cabinet for live, and still use its XLR direct outs today for the vast majority of my DAW guitar tracks.
Roland R8 - I've worked with a couple guys that had these. This is (was, lol) my brother-in-law's, high-school band mate, college roommate, collaborator of almost 40yrs. I was getting back into solo recording at the time, and he asked me if I wanted to borrow it. If memory serves, this was the first drum machine to use samples of real drums. You could load all kinds of different kits into it via memory card. As with the amp above, if you could wrap your head around the (sometimes deep) scroll-and-button menu navigations, both are incredibly robust and almost infinitely flexible.
Here's mine:
Ibanez PUE-5 - This got me through my college band days. It sounded good, had stereo headphone out for playing in the apartment, complete with noise gate, external loop and stereo outs. I was poor, so I ran stereo out to a solid state Crate amp and a band mate's Peavey Bandit. I even re-covered the speakers in matching, unbranded, fabric to hide all the poverty
I had guys coming up after shows asking me how I was getting the great tones. After I bought the amp (below), I loaned my original PUE to some tweaker and the last time I saw it, it was half destroyed. The only piece of gear I regretted letting go of, I recently found an excellent specimen online.Johnson Amplification Millennium Stereo 150 - This was one of the first modelling amps, JA and Line-6 came out about the same time right around the turn of the century. I chose the Johnson mainly for the tube preamp section, the Digitech effects processor, and the ability to perform firmware updates via desktop computer. Line-6 survived obviously
, as far as I know, this is obsolete. Great sounding amp, I ran it with a 2x12 extension cabinet for live, and still use its XLR direct outs today for the vast majority of my DAW guitar tracks.Roland R8 - I've worked with a couple guys that had these. This is (was, lol) my brother-in-law's, high-school band mate, college roommate, collaborator of almost 40yrs. I was getting back into solo recording at the time, and he asked me if I wanted to borrow it. If memory serves, this was the first drum machine to use samples of real drums. You could load all kinds of different kits into it via memory card. As with the amp above, if you could wrap your head around the (sometimes deep) scroll-and-button menu navigations, both are incredibly robust and almost infinitely flexible.
