What's the latest gear you've acquired?

Link please.

I’d love a decent cable label maker.

I spotted one with 10 hours use on the clock for 1/3rd less than a new unit! 

Normally, second hand they cost as much as a new one due to the hassle of importing, tax, courier charges etc
not to mention one actually being in stock!

I've just bought a new computer system and a TC Clarity M meter so I was totally cleared out financially
but my lovely wife stepped in and told me to go for it and not miss out on a great price.

I'll hopefully receive it mid week and I'll report back after I've tested it out against the STA Level and Thermionic Phoenix MP.

I'm hoping to get a BLA BLuey and I'm looking forward to trying them out as the classic opto/FET pair.

Then that's it - no more new gear EVER!!!!








 

Awesome, look forward to your tests!

I just bought an apartment so that was my big acquisition for the year, don't think I will be buying much gear in the near future unless I hit the jackpot, and since I don't gamble, odds are low.

with the originals…if you could smell ‘candle wax’ after an hour of being ‘on’, you had a good one. But the opto won’t catch fire! Like the stam, changing the T4 can make a difference!

This is absolutely true.  I'm certainly there.  After purchasing another home to help a family member, and having to put on 3 new roofs due to storm damage in the last 2 years, the coffers have certainly thinned out.  Although I have to admit that my microphone GAS has cropped up a bit as of late....  

Some prefer a slower or faster attack, at one point there was a clone that had switchable opto’s, who made it escapes my memory. What Ward is trying to say is that if the t4 isn’t perfect for you it isn’t that hard to get it there.

Grounds for immediate RGO termination.
Or having to do Mod duty here.
Or both!
Chris

I haven’t dived into opto’s for a while.

Beautiful Emu leather strap from Chopsuey Australia. 

I've outsmarted myself.  I knew I could do it.  When I bought my guitar cabinet, I wanted to make sure I didn't overstuff it with things.  One of those would have been a Fender bass. But I realized that those years when I was doubling on a Precision were really helpful in building my strength and flexibility on guitar. But there was no way to squeeze a real P-bass in there.  I know it's probably a sacrilege, but it turns out this little Mustang PJ bass does the trick nicely (it's one of their Player series basses). Only a 30" scale, but that's enough to help stretch out the fingers and have some fun doing it.  Tonally it's not bad at all, and it's nice to go quickly between 'J' bass and 'P' bass sounds.  But it does feel a little strange. The waist of a P-bass is perfectly-placed to drape your right arm and this one doesn't quite do that.  But it fits in the cabinet and does the job.  I've actually had it a couple of months ago, so we're getting on fine.

But yesterday I said goodbye to my Heritage 535.  It's a really fine instrument, but I'd been realizing that it doesn't really do what I want. It's me that's changed (back in the day, I played an ES340 for years). Heavy strings and light guitar bodies wormed their way into my affections.  So I've commissioned another Benedetto, which I'm not likely to see till next summer. It will be a bit smaller than the Benny I've been playing a while and will give me some sonic flexibility while having the same neck and big heavy strings. The current Benny isn't going anywhere.

If you guys want to kick me out of the treehouse, that's OK.  I know my equipment lust is pretty much restricted to instruments nowadays, but I know some of you secretly share that lust.  Wait till you see something else I picked up.  You'll know I've lost my mind ;-)

I played several shows on a Mustang bass back in May. It just fit the band better than the Jazz bass that was on hand.