GAS - Gear Acquisition Syndrome (Part 1)

It’s just uncharacteristic for Sweetwater. Just pandemic things I guess. I’d actually be okay if they just told me what was happening.

Doesn’t help I’m already aggravated because one of my servers at the Cancer Center went down and I can’t press the reset button because the guy who racked it didn’t label the servers and you really don’t want to hit the wrong one

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@rjhambing

Just wanted you to know the Fender Jaguar PJ model has popped up again for $670 on Amazon. This is not a warehouse deal, its brand new. Everywhere else it is $1090. If you want you can do the 12 month payment plan at $55. If its out of stock just be patient. Mine took months before it was sent but for $400 off it was worth it. Also save the cash and buy some SD PJ Quarter Pounders. You can ask @John_E about those. I may do the same to mine.

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There’s a lot of good PJ sets out there. EMG has the Geezer set, SD also has the Steve Harris pup which matches nicely with the SJB2 jazz pup

Lot of good options for a PJ

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@Wombat-metal Very true. I have a set of EMGs on my Warwick Streamer. Totally slipped my mind. And so very easy to install because all their components are solderless.

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I just got another email from Home Depot informing me that the installation of my storm doors is complete, and it lists a contractor who completed the work.

  1. I am installing them myself.
  2. I haven’t even picked them up yet.

Apparently good web developers are hard to find.
Ironically, my ex has her own business and works on the backend of all these systems and integrating them. Her work dried up so much since covid started she took a corporate job working on stadium POS systems backends.
I think these companies need to go back to spending money on these realtime systems.

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I love purple and collecting picks :eyes:

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I happen to use a purple pick, but not that one. Looks like moths ate the middle.

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I meant to order some of those in Jazz-style my last string order :joy:

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oxymoron alert

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Well it turns out I am in the queue, but haven’t heard because my sales dude is out.

And last Friday when he told me they were working on it now, well, that was an exaggeration as it turns out.

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I do like the feel and size of these, and the beveled tip for what it’s worth, which isn’t much as picks are subjective

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If you unsubscribe from Stringjoy’s newsletter, they give you a 10% off code good for 24 hours.

Paging @Wombat-metal

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I guess they don’t take rejection very well, lol.

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lol. It said something along the lines of “we get it. to show there’s no hard feelings, here’s a discount.”

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I may need me some stuff. It is payday after all Thanks for the tip.

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Just ordered a Zoom H8 recorder. I know very little about recording but looking forward to having a play with this when it arrives! New toy day is always a good day :grinning:

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I have the H6 “Black Edition” which is basically an H6 minus all the accessories it used to come with, for the same price (ie GFY Zoom lol).

That said, it’s a good recorder and I imagine the newer H8 to be pretty similar, but with two more inputs. I use mine a lot for recording my synthesizer station or just as a mixer in general, or recording nature at the local pond

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Musician’s Friend has mics, audio interfaces, monitors, and the like on sale this month, for “Mic Month” - https://www.musiciansfriend.com/mic-month

In a couple weeks I’ll probably snag a cheap Digital Reference (made by Audio Technica) vocal mic (DRV100 or 200), a mic bag for my growing collection of microphones, and a pop filter.

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Swoon…

Edit The more I look at it, the more I hate it like the purple Maschines :rofl:

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I’ve been preaching this sermon for a while now. I got my Sire U5, which has been uber-rare in the US for months, from Thomann. Got the last one they had. And I got my blonde Sire M5 4-string from Thomann a few weeks later. Super-slick ordering and shipping processes at cheaper prices than the usual online suspects. Free shipping (fast) and no sales tax. And the instruments arrived not only safe and sound, but in tune! Yeah.

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