brad_frostMusicians, what's your:
1. Best music gear purchase, and
2. Most regretted gear purchase?
John Timaeus1 Best music purchase: Stew Mac bridge and nut file set
2 Most regretted: A bunch of good equalizers, compressors, etc -- cheap; right before the whole world went to digital boards with eq on every channel.
Peter Herndon@brad_frost
Best: my Roland JC40. I love the chorus, and it serves as an incredible stereo platform for whatever preamp I run into it.
Most regretted: I spent a _lot_ of time trying to figure out how to make an Engl Ironball work for me, back before I knew what my own personal tastes in tone were, or how to get there. Good amp, but I didn’t know how to use it, and I didn’t learn much from the long time I spent trying to figure it out. I regret the wasted time more than the money. #gearsquad
Nate Vack 🍴@brad_frost I'm not a proper musician, but my $70 ukulele and then lessons has been one of the best investments of my entire life
Rijk 🐰 ✨1. API CMP compressor
2. Gretsch Electromatic baritone
jake lazaroff@brad_frost best: NeuralDSP Quad Cortex and carrying case. it fully replaced two pieces of gear: my pedalboard (i live in NYC without a car, so carrying that around was miserable) and my recording interface.
most regretted: Universal Audio Apollo Solo. it was expensive, i never learned how to use it to its fullest potential and eventually it was fully replaced by the aforementioned Quad Cortex.
Zach@brad_frost 1. OX amp top box because it allowed me to play at least little bit every day. 4 years later it’s still the case.
2. ‘60s EB-0. Could never get a good sound out of it, though the neck was fantastic.
2. ‘60s EB-0. Could never get a good sound out of it, though the neck was fantastic.
Seb Lee-Delisle@brad_frost difficult to pick one! But…
1. Event TR-6 powered studio monitors. Incredible flat response speakers that are going strong after 20 years and have outlasted the company that makes them.
2. Ashdown 15” combo, not because it’s bad, but because I got the wrong size speaker. I also got a 2 x 10 extension cab. I sold the combo and got the separate amp head instead that I use with the 2x10. This amp could have been choice 1 because it’s so good and has lasted over 20 years!
T.A. Walker@brad_frost I’d probably nominate my last music-gear purchase: the MeloAudio Tone Shifter Mega. A combo USB audio interface and MIDI footswitch - means I can turn my iPad Pro into a full-blown guitar/guitar-synth “rig”. I wish I’d known about this around 2020; it might have saved me assembling a 20kg hardware pedalboard…
Colin Macdonald@brad_frost 1. & 2. same guitar: a 1973 Les Paul Custom 1954 reissue that I purchased in 1973. Most regretted because it was stolen from a recording studio less than a year after I bought it.
@colinmac OH NO!!!
Katy Swain1. Best music purchase: The cheap acoustic guitar my dad bought me (at my insistence, inspired by 1970s repeats of the Beatles cartoon series and Sunday afternoon showings of A Hard Day's Night and Help) when I was eight years old. I still have it, 45 years later.
2. Worst music purchase: A tin whistle in the key of C. Only beginner piano players play in C, and nobody involved in folk music can afford a piano.$10 down the drain.
Adam Auckland1. “Best” a bunch of those $20 D’addario clip on tuners. I use them all the time.
2. An Ibanez metal style guitar which takes so long to set up, I can’t be bothered.
Adam Argyle@brad_frost best: handmade fretless banjo
regret: a usb microphone for my phone, it's wacker than the built in one
now i want this fretted gourd banjo with the deer antler wrist rest, no way that'll be a regret!
@argyleink WHOA that's incredible!
Chris Ferdinandi@brad_frost My best: (at the time) $99 yamaha acoustic dreadnaught guitar, and my clown barf picks
Regretted: My extremely overpriced ovation acoustic/electric guitar that sounds like shit and has terrible action, but "looks cool"