Your latest G.A.S. purchases

[arv_foh]

Good Luck !

Keep us updated on how the build goes and turns out,
im sure everyone would appreciate hearing about a good known working spec if they wanted to build one themselves.

Certainly will!

 

[Virgil.]

One of my main weaknesses as a guitarist is having the motivation to practice actual playing with full instrumentation and improvising over it - I tend to noodle and write to basic drum patterns and such more than just outright jam. So, I've been mulling over this purchase for quite sometime since first seeing it presented at this years NAMM, and after seeing Jack Thammarat's demo videos on YouTube I finally pulled the trigger and ordered a BOSS JS-8 eBand unit - now the wait for it to arrive. by the way if you have never heard or seen Jack Thammarat, the kid is truly a stunningly talented guitarist that can simply play any style of guitar fluently as his demo's of the JS-8 show.

If you have not seen the BOSS JS-8 eBand, it's essentially a "Band in a Box" type gadget. It's takes the COSM modelling of the BOSS GT-10 and puts it in a desktop tool loaded with over 300 backing track loops of almost every style of music you can imagine. It can also play back your own WAV/MP3 files and includes such features as a built in phrase trainer, 40 second phrase looper, metronome, tuner, center cancel to remove existing guitar and vocal parts (they call it center cancel, but it is frequency and positional sweepable to remove it from anywhere in a stereo field), ... Pretty much any practice tool you need all in one unit. It's also a full fledged guitar audio interface with re-amp capabilities for external tracks. Too fully understand it's capabilities you really need to watch some of the videos available.

Could I already do many of these things with my existing gear? Sure, but this is just too damn handy and so much simpler for quick practicing anywhere including out in my living room with the unit on my end table, a pair of headphones, and my guitar (all while my wife watches TV or reads).

You will find nothing but high praise reviews of this unit wherever you search, and if it's gets me playing more and improvising more than all the worthwhile. I could end up being the best investment I've made towards my playing but who knows - if not, it should be an easily sellable item.

Here are some demo videos displaying the sounds and capabilities:

the first three are all 10 minute videos of Jack Thammarat jamming over all the different styles. All the tones are automatically selected by the unit for the style, but also remain fully editable through the interface if you want to change them as it is a BOSS GT-10 under a different skin).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rF4VaTgJb4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Rtm12oXEc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh_JIxOiSrE

Last video is the BOSS Demo video of it's capabilities:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX6R-IxaVaI

Nice purchase Jind! Let me know how you like it... I've been considering one of these too.

 

[ThatGuitarGuy]

Yeah, I've never heard of it before, but it really does seem really neat. I'd love to hear your review of it as well.

 

[Norsyna]

I have that same Antec case - love it. The fan speed controls and the extra USB access right at the top are great to have.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

My MC Control Was getting lonely so i bought him a friend,
Its a shame the V1 MC control faders and buttons dont line up with the MC Mix, but its a small issue, maybe one day il up grade to a V2 but its bearable for now.

I believe they don't line up either, which is really stupid in my opinion...

 

[LeSedna]

This Boss guitar trainer seems awesome. I've always found those types of units unattractive but this one seems killer.

 

[Ensi]

Yeah it's pretty cool, i've played it sometimes, seems really practical just to lay around to just play and chill

 

[Charlez]

Grabbed one of these from ebay for $99 + $15 shipping:

 

[if6was9]

Grabbed one of these from ebay for $99 + $15 shipping:

One of these sold on an irish classifieds site for 75 euro. Sickened I didn't pick it up!

 

[ArthurD]

Grabbed one of these from ebay for $99 + $15 shipping:

Fatcity+

 

[Russtopher]

Projects that were taking up 85%+ of my Core2Duo CPU are now taking up around 7% on this puppy. I am a happy boy. It's an i3 2.4Ghz with 4GB RAM.

 

[Ermz]

Figured it was time to make the move. Toying with the idea of moving to 64-bit for more instances of Nebula.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

2 voltage regulators because I fucking broke them off when pulling my headphone amp out of it's rack adapter and putting the OEM sides back on (a presonus HP4).

Wasn't really a gas purchase, need to fix this fucker so I can sell it.

 

[Saculus]

x6

 

[::XeS::]

 

[jeid]

First pieces of new gear in a while..

Swapped my EMG's for this. See how it works on guitars/toms.

Also bought this since it was mega cheap.

Hopefully have something else to add later on

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Ah, forgot this one:

Absolutely ridiculously lovely plugin, and it quickly became my go-to M/S mastering EQ.

 

[~BURNY~]

Sandberg California VM5 with alder body.
(probably not the finish in the pic, I'll have whatever is quickly available)

 

[sprack]

Very nice. Congrats.

Absolutely ridiculously lovely plugin, and it quickly became my go-to M/S mastering EQ.

 

[dissident]

Sandberg California VM5 with alder body.
(probably not the finish in the pic, I'll have whatever is quickly available)

Coooool!
Price?