Your latest G.A.S. purchases

[nialldoran]

This little guy, for my ultra clean livingroom practice amp. I'm quite surprised by how good it is. It has a nice gradual break-up when going from soft playing to hard hitting, and the definition of the chords stays clear. It is very responsive to the volume knob of the guitar, so you can clean it up even on "high gain" settings. Another thing I find remarkable is that the tone knob on the thing sounds good from one extreme to the other.

The boost-side of the pedal is a clean boost, that gets pretty damn loud when turned up. Always nice to have. It is set AFTER the distortion side btw.

The thing is supposed to emulate a vintage Marshall JTM-45 with everything on 11. I don't know if it does that, since I've never played one of those, but I can confirm that it gives my little clean tube amp a very warm and lively character and it can make it roar. Gain-levels aren't for modern metal, but it does things like AC/DC, Zeppelin, Hendrix, etc, easily.
And finally, it works well together with other pedals, like a TS or even a Rat in front of it.

We use this all the time in the studio and we have the z.vex fuzz factory too, i think they are amazing pedals, great for rock stuff as you were saying, doesn't work for everything but you know when you reach for it what you're getting

 

[AD Chaos]

It was Guitar Center, sent from their Atlantic City store. The Austin store was nice about it though.

They did the same to me with a GT5 Boss multi effects back in the day, it was from one of their stores in Florida.. sent me a unit beat to sh*t and not even functioning properly, and in a generic cardboard box, the nerve.

All because I wasn't the one picking the thing up personally.

 

[Lowberg]

Saw another GC horror story on SS.org the other day.

Some kid ordered one of those new jackson pro rhoads, and it finally came in.
He went to pick it up and they had it just laying in the back, not in it's case that it came with or the orignal box.....wing chipped.

Jackson's supply/production of these are so limited they called up jackson and they don't even have any left in the warehouse let alone at any other GC's to replace it. Kid kept it with a hefty discount they offered but that's ridiculous. Hate to rant but I really dislike guitar center, I've had similar experiences myself....

On the other hand my friend has gotten some excellent deals from the guitarcenter used site, a lot of the prices are much lower than ebay or craigslist prices.


On topic, I just bought myself my first 7 string not from Guitar Center of course! It will be here tomorrow!

 

[sprack]

Oh man that sucks for the kid with the jackson. Hope he got them to eat some cost on that.

It's been a crap shoot with GC. I've got some very nice guitars (Jackson Soloist and a Destroyer) out of them for a lot less than I would have paid on Craigslist or Ebay, but I've had this happen before too. I always unbox and try it in the store so I can return it immediately. I've also had my CC number stolen twice by stores I've bought from remotely so I use a virtual account number with a fixed amount and time limit now.

 

[FIXXXER]

 

[Ashgarth]

My band bassplayer is in India, he met a sitar craftsman, and he chose this one out of ten sitars:

Should be here in 15-20 days, can't wait!!

 

[~BURNY~]

Yet another modded NT1a. (Michael Joly accidentally sent me a second one, I notified him, I'm not a thief lol)

Oh and they sound FANTASTIC!

And here's a real pic of my SG Junior:

I know... Probably not metal enough for ya'll

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

Slant cab actually belongs to the other guitarist in my band, but as of last night the straight on the bottom is mine baby

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

My band bassplayer is in India, he met a sitar craftsman, and he chose this one out of ten sitars:

Should be here in 15-20 days, can't wait!!

Amazing! You and/or he have gotta post a video when it arrives

 

[Ashgarth]

Amazing! You and/or he have gotta post a video when it arrives

Sure!

He won't be back here until september, the crazy bastard went to Nepal last september, a few weeks ago bought a bike and went to india, now he's spending some time in india, then will cross pakistan and iran, meet a friend at croatia and keep coming to spain, all in a fucking bike!
But he got an electric sitar, and mine should be here in 15 days! So I'll have tu put some nice pics and vids of it!

 

[jeid]

Having a bit of a splurge of late.

Picked up these AKG K271's for £70 second hand.

 

[rfahey86]

Im finally moving up from my mbox 2....... I ordered a Mackie Onyx Blackbird a few days ago. I should see it by wednesday or so. Can't wait.

 

[Max Morton]

Got drool everywhere around my mixing room today! Thanks to the Adam SX3-V's!

And finally got myself this little bastard a couple of weeks ago, needs no introduction:

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Nice purchase, I'm so happy with my S3X-H !!!

 

[RevoltStudios]

This...

 

[Max Morton]

Nice purchase, I'm so happy with my S3X-H !!!

Oh yes, I've heard both, loved both, but it's pretty damn hard to place two pairs of speakers properly, considering my two-screen setup.

Cheers!

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Hehe, had the same problem, fixed it by putting the screens in portrait mode

 

[Metal Overload]

After a lot of years of being a member here... finally jumped into the home recording wagon

 

[Max Morton]

Hehe, had the same problem, fixed it by putting the screens in portrait mode

I'm actually preparing to make a similar move - wanna try placing them one over another and see how it works for me

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Bad for the neck.