GAS - Gear Acquisition Syndrome (Part 1)

Yes, this is what I do with my 500w combo as I don’t want the sound of the preamp (just the power and the speaker of the combo)…got this combo as it had the power I wanted at a great price

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Line 6 Hx One

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cool…packed with over 250 effects and the flux thing sounds interesting

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Line 6 making moves in the lower price tiers? Interesting. $350 is cheap for them and it will be the highest quality effects of any of the competitors in that range or less.

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Yep, but it still does matter that it’s an amp with a good power stage. The Harley Benton does indeed have an Ice Power OEM power stage that’s crystal clean. It’s a very widely used power stage in quality equipment. I haven’t found any way to get that power stage less expensive than the Harley Benton, not even buying the module and putting it in a case myself.

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Here’s one for the DI geeks. Boutique Neve clone with a 3-band shelving EQ and two filters.

$325

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After reading this thread I fed my BDI 21 in the return input of my Rumble 100 and it sounds great.

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Eventide just released a one-knob plugin that does what I currently do with many plugins (multiband compression and overdrive, filtering and EQ of the bass input to prevent it from being too muddy in the mix).

For $25.

Adds clarity and tone to the low end while trimming out the mud below 40Hz, and keeps the kicks articulated. Sounds pretty good in their examples.

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Those 1 knob type of plugins are actually killing it. Got 2 from Bogren

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So far so easy. Same effects as in the Stomp but one at a time. Sounds great and scroll through to find the effects you like.

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I’ll keep it in mind - especially to test it via input and also via FX return, assuming I’ll go for it. But first I have to sell the BC208 and get the KO 212 :wink:
Highly appreciated!

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Looks like a great buy!

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Christmas present from the family, the last of the Gamechanger pedals. The Plus. Simplest in design but quite challenging to sort out everything that can be done with it.

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Santa was very generous this year… Gotta love Harley Benton for making beauties like this affordable

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That is gorgeous! I don’t know how they do it.

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Wow, that looks nice!

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Cool - congrats! Which model is that?

Now, sent Santa over here… he missed a spot :wink:

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Come on, brother. With all your beautiful babies, you don’t have a spot left open. :joy:

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GAS can be debilitating and occur at any time so beware. I’m in remission right now but suffered from it when I wanted to learn to play harmonica. After buying quite a few inexpensive blow harps I ended up sending for several custom made left-handed chromatics from Germany. Beautiful instruments but $x,xxx.xx. I bought big with my first bass hoping that it will head off more GAS. :roll_eyes:

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Cool. But since you brought up your new bass, you gotta make with the pics.

Head on over to the Show Us Your Basses (Part 2) thread and flaunt it some. :guitar:

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