What's the latest gear you've acquired?

New Buisness model we get some big name to say ----- is on everyone of his mixes, I start a thread on GS wait a a couple of weeks
You list $$$$$😎

That sucks... sorry about it.

Waiting on Waves to handbuild my brand new SSL 4000 collection 😂😂😂
So $749 retail ( $590 on plugin sites ) and I was searching for used licenses and surprisingly used eBay SW is high as hell. Anyways it's about 75% off where I purchased. I am one step closer to 64 bit land. I just need to upgrade my melodyne, auto tune, wave lab, and some other randoms..

For $180, I got the E channel, G channel, Bus Comp, and G Eq, less than $50 a plug. Unfortunately most probably have paid double to triple what I just did and no telling how many more users have cracks ( I know waves are notorious is the crack pirate community )

Chase, I just tried parallel compression for the first time on a drum bus, using the Waves SSL, and it worked nicely.

I had to sell my gorgeous mint vintage ES-335 last summer to pay bills. I only had my Aerodyne Fender Telecaster left, which I loved the sound of because of the P-90 in the neck position, but never really liked the rosewood neck it had on Tele's as much as maple. I missed having a Gibson sound when I need one for tracking, so I traded someone my Tele yesterday for Les Paul Studio 50's Tribute. I grew up on SG's, Les Paul SG's and standard Les Paul's, so I love the binding on those necks. The plain neck on the Studio is a bit of a personal letdown, but it plays well, and reminds me a lot of a 57' Les Paul neck, and I can accept that there is no binding for a while, because I also played a 61' Les Paul Jr. as a main guitar which had no binding for years, so it's not a deal breaker right now. The person I traded with got it from someone who relic'd it, which I hate, because it's so fake, but... I feel it was still a lot more guitar than my Tele was, and I thought the nickel pickup covers was a nice touch.

Meanwhile, I did have a $150 Squire 51 in my closet I used for students. It has a Tele neck and a modified Strat style body. It was the only Squire ever made that wasn't a copy of a more expensive Fender. It became so popular an entire website was devoted to all the mods people were doing. Mainly because at that price, they didn't care if it got mucked up. Some of the mods I'd seen were quite interesting and very well done. This way, I still have a Fender sound if I need one, and will get another Tele at a later date. The 51' actually sounds pretty good, it's closer to a Tele, but not quite the same. It really is somewhere between a Strat and a Tele.

Sop, I brought both guitars to a shop for a setup, and I'm changing the Squire 51 nut to a bone nut to get more sustain. The 51' was so popular, Fender actually began making one under the Fender name that was identical, except with a slightly nicer finish on the neck, selling for $799!

Here's the Studio 50's Tribute. The correct knobs are back on now, so they're all gold, also the pickguard too. I haven't decided if I'll keep the pick guard or not.

Martin John Butler you can still access the modders forum through web archive. Here it is starting at Page 98. It's so addictive!
web.archive.org/web/20110524014028/http://www.instituteofnoise.com/squier51/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=891&whichpage=98

Sure, that is a simple thing to do! Can you do it yourself? You know, there are some decent spray can types of lacquer out there.

Simple strip all hardware off the neck, except for the frets and nut. Spray the whole thing after a good thorough cleaning and any needed buffing.

Cut away the lacquer from the frets and nut crowns with a single sided razor blade (or 3 or 4). once really dry. Then just pick off or rub off the rest that you wish to get rid of.

There are all kinds of tutorials about this on line. Youtube etc.

Anyhow, back to the new gear!!

That is inexcusable. The seller should get banned. I want my chuck taylor's run over by a car, not my Neumann's.

I got a couple of new EV mics to play with.  Musician's Friend is blowing them out cheaper than a bottle of cheap rum.

One could have been fine, but for the price, why not both.

I am experimenting with some new guitar mic techniques.  One common advanced technique is to use a bright mic, and a dark mic in coincident, then blend them in the mix for the right tone instead of EQ, or in addition to EQ.  Albini and Eric Valentine have both talked about this.  I took an educated guess that the EV CO4 could be my "bright" mic, since that's what everyone was complaining about.  In my case, this is a feature and not a defect.

I have to say in my first test, it worked out really well.  My dark mic was my modified Apex 205 ribbon.  I blend in the CO4 track for a little bit of that top end grit and sheen.  I cannot do this without the Little Labs IBP plugin from UAD.  That is another essential element to getting the phase right, and the sound right between the mics.  My placement skills are not legendary enough to nail the phase every time.

I also am going to try this out with one of my more neutral tube mics as the dark mic and see what happens there.

Also my mics were three feet out in front of the cabinet and not jammed up on the grill cloth.  This is another thing I've been messing with lately to get a little more of the room in the sound.  I am tired of claustrophobic sounding mixes.

T minus 1 day until I post a picture of a certain mic pre...

Where'd you get the km84? I've been thinking about getting one again.

I bit the bullet and paid the VK premium.  I bought my first one from them two years ago and have been very happy with it. I guess I'm willing to pay a bit more for one that I know has been properly serviced. 

I guarantee he already has... 😀🤗