2021: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2021)

[WatchTheGuitar]

Stumbled across a pretty cheap Elektron Digitone on reverb.com and couldn’t resist.

[foosnark]

voice control now

can anyone top that?
im looking specifically for "vague wave of hand" so i can pretend to be a jedi

When I was a kid, I read an article claiming plants react to kind or angry thoughts, and they used some kind of sensors to detect the changes. I was pretty dubious about it, but in a short story I was writing, I added psychic cybernetic houseplants, just so you could unlock your door by thinking about how much you love your cactus.

[pekbro]

So having the strymon BigSky and Timeline together is pretty awesome. I have to give them very high marks imo.

[elxsound]

Not a sexy purchase, but I just bought a Cioks DC7 through the Perfect Circuit sale. This will be my desktop power supply for the make noise desktops and 4ms pods (the voice controlled power up).

I’m moving the Eventide (Cioks) PowerMax to the nano pedal board and the once again setting free the Cioks 4 to keep me portable in my mansion of an apartment. It seems overkill but eliminating setup/teardown time and creating flexibility is huge.

On the pedal front I’m tempted by the Halloween edition of Walrus Audio’s (Rat clone) Iron Horse. Then JHS just released their 11 mode/11 types of Rat goodness for an extra $50 compared to the Iron Horse.
I still have my brother’s grunge era original Rat but we’re thinking it might be worth selling so I have to make up my mind soon.

[pekbro]

Not a sexy purchase, but I just bought a Cioks DC7 through the Perfect Circuit sale. This will be my desktop power supply for the make noise desktops and 4ms pods (the voice controlled power up).

I’m moving the Eventide (Cioks) PowerMax to the nano pedal board and the once again setting free the Cioks 4 to keep me portable in my mansion of an apartment. It seems overkill but eliminating setup/teardown time and creating flexibility is huge.

On the pedal front I’m tempted by the Halloween edition of Walrus Audio’s (Rat clone) Iron Horse. Then JHS just released their 11 mode/11 types of Rat goodness for an extra $50 compared to the Iron Horse.
I still have my brother’s grunge era original Rat but we’re thinking it might be worth selling so I have to make up my mind soon.

Cool, I gotta consolidate some of the power supplies here. I don't mind paying a lot for a premium solution, I need to do some research on it. The Rat sounds cool, honestly I'm not overly familiar
with it beyond some software emulations. Aside from the ehx harmonizer I'm going to pick up
from Uncle E. I'm pretty interested in the Zvex box of metal, because, I need more metal...

[elxsound]

Not a sexy purchase, but I just bought a Cioks DC7 through the Perfect Circuit sale. This will be my desktop power supply for the make noise desktops and 4ms pods (the voice controlled power up).

I’m moving the Eventide (Cioks) PowerMax to the nano pedal board and the once again setting free the Cioks 4 to keep me portable in my mansion of an apartment. It seems overkill but eliminating setup/teardown time and creating flexibility is huge.

On the pedal front I’m tempted by the Halloween edition of Walrus Audio’s (Rat clone) Iron Horse. Then JHS just released their 11 mode/11 types of Rat goodness for an extra $50 compared to the Iron Horse.
I still have my brother’s grunge era original Rat but we’re thinking it might be worth selling so I have to make up my mind soon.

Cool, I gotta consolidate some of the power supplies here. I don't mind paying a lot for a premium solution, I need to do some research on it. The Rat sounds cool, honestly I'm not overly familiar
with it beyond some software emulations. Aside from the ehx harmonizer I'm going to pick up
from Uncle E. I'm pretty interested in the Zvex box of metal, because, I need more metal...

Aside from picking up an OG rat, the JHS one is hard to beat. It covers quite a bit.

[vurt]

:holds tongue:

[pekbro]

wut, wut, wut? you don't like metal?

Heh, i dunno what from what when it comes to amps or pedals. Over the years i never
paid much attention to what all the software was modeled after, I just know I tended
to like stuff with any of the following words in the name, black, death or some variety
of snake, also the word muff.

[imrae]

Not a sexy purchase, but I just bought a Cioks DC7

It really is! Not cheap, but arguably the best DC supply around and in a great form factor.

Considering a Cioks 4 to live next to my modular and power misc synths and pedals. What are you running yours off?

[vurt]

wut, wut, wut? you don't like metal?

love metal! love dirt/fuzz/of/distortion.
jhs, not so much.

[pekbro]

wut, wut, wut? you don't like metal?

love metal! love dirt/fuzz/of/distortion.
jhs, not so much.

Ahh, k thx. According to the reverb guys, they are popular. I haven't really been interested by
anything from them as yet.

[elxsound]

wut, wut, wut? you don't like metal?

love metal! love dirt/fuzz/of/distortion.
jhs, not so much.

Is it the main guy, or the pedals?

I don’t own anything JHS, but after listening I thought they did a great job on their multi rat pedal. Iron Horse looks like it has its own sound, which is not a bad thing. It just misses that “thick” grungy sound.
There are also a crazy amount of rat clones including a convincing $30 Donner pedal. I think it was called Dark Mouse or something.

[vurt]

wut, wut, wut? you don't like metal?

love metal! love dirt/fuzz/of/distortion.
jhs, not so much.

Is it the main guy, or the pedals?
.

it is the guy not the gear.
much of the gear ive heard, i admit, not bad stuff. although in his early days, there were a lot of similar complaints to what behringer get now from synth folk about using others designs

[elxsound]

Not a sexy purchase, but I just bought a Cioks DC7

It really is! Not cheap, but arguably the best DC supply around and in a great form factor.

Considering a Cioks 4 to live next to my modular and power misc synths and pedals. What are you running yours off?

Right now the EventideMax (made by Cioks/cutdown version of the DC7) is handling those duties but DC7 will take its place on the desk.

I locked up my Cioks 4 on the pedal board but once the DC7 comes I’m going to keep it free to power up stuff when not at the desk. I love that it can be powered off a battery/power brick. I mostly want it to play the 4ms pods away from the desk.

I think Cioks 4 was the smartest buy I made early on. The EventideMax wasn’t so smart… because I should have just bought the DC7 (but I was trying to be cheap), but it’ll still serve a purpose moving forward.

[elxsound]

wut, wut, wut? you don't like metal?

love metal! love dirt/fuzz/of/distortion.
jhs, not so much.

Is it the main guy, or the pedals?
.

it is the guy not the gear.
much of the gear ive heard, i admit, not bad stuff. although in his early days, there were a lot of similar complaints to what behringer get now from synth folk about using others designs

Ah, got it. He does seem polarizing. Doesn’t bother me so much.

I actually don’t like the cartoon rat on the pedal or else I would have bought it.