2024: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2024)

[justin3am]

Thanks! It plays like a dream!

[vurt]

Thanks! It plays like a dream!

youll have to send it over, let me have a noodle

[elxsound]

I finished assembling the last module on Thursday and the case arrived yesterday. I've already got soooo many patch ideas!

Congrats looks lovely!

[Constructed Identity]

Eowave Supamix on the way. Also, picked up a deal on a Disting EX last night.
Currently looking at distortion/overdrive modules, favorites are Sovage Engineering's Le Brasier, Expert Sleepers' Pandora, and Noise Engineering's Kith Ruina.

[elxsound]

Eowave Supamix on the way. Also, picked up a deal on a Disting EX last night.
Currently looking at distortion/overdrive modules, favorites are Sovage Engineering's Le Brasier, Expert Sleepers' Pandora, and Noise Engineering's Kith Ruina.

Oooh. Didn’t know about Supamix. Nice pan control and love the mute.

Is Ohmicide crossed off the list?

[pekbro]

i have one of those small NE distortions, not
sure which, its good, tho not exceptional
soundwise imo. It will fill its role nicely still.

[Constructed Identity]

Yea, they make a bunch of _____ Ruina modules with various features, leaning on ones with eq so Kith is on there for its small size and low power draw. Great video Divkid did on the Pandora and it made it the fav.

[foosnark]

I've been thinking about grabbing the Viol Ruina, and would set aside my Legio for now. I do like a distortion/filter combo.

What's holding me back is that I do already have Blades, cDVCA, Lacrima Versio, Rossum Morpheus (whose distortion admittedly tends to be very different) and could put the Roucha Legio firmware back on instead of Librae. (And there's Runciter and other software options too...)

And me and my wallet both like the idea of just not buying more gear for a while.

And with Aodyo Loom unlikely to see the light of day, my next purchase might be an Erae II (if *it* has a successful launch and good reviews)

[Constructed Identity]

I've heard hardware distortion can do things software can't....and then there is the immediate gratification of hearing something bathed in distortion.
Again, CV control will be a factor. I might have to get an expander for Pamela's Pro workout.

[foosnark]

Well yeah, I used to have a Devi Ever Truly Beautiful Disaster and no sane software is gonna imitate that It occasionally picked up truckers' CB radios (we're about 2.5 miles from the highway as the crow flies and the pedal didn't have an antenna, at least not on purpose...)

For my purposes my bases are covered though. (I do have the wild-ass distortion in Elmyra, the aforementioned Blades and cDVCA which are all analog distortion.) The analog Ruinas definitely have flavors of their own, but eh, I'm good.

[pekbro]

My best HW distortions are in filters mostly.

[vurt]

Well yeah, I used to have a Devi Ever Truly Beautiful Disaster and no sane software is gonna imitate that It occasionally picked up truckers' CB radios (we're about 2.5 miles from the highway as the crow flies and the pedal didn't have an antenna, at least not on purpose...)

as a kid, my portable tv (with the dial and circle antenna) would pick up cb conversations, in the middle of programs.
watching some wildlife documentary, and a polar bear suddenly asks for your handle?

[elxsound]

Well yeah, I used to have a Devi Ever Truly Beautiful Disaster and no sane software is gonna imitate that It occasionally picked up truckers' CB radios (we're about 2.5 miles from the highway as the crow flies and the pedal didn't have an antenna, at least not on purpose...)

as a kid, my portable tv (with the dial and circle antenna) would pick up cb conversations, in the middle of programs.
watching some wildlife documentary, and a polar bear suddenly asks for your handle?

SOMA probably repurposed those old televisions into Messeiver

[vurt]

probably.

i also learned a bit of welsh from that tv, as it would only pick up bbc wales and s4c

[foosnark]

New, fancier Disting just dropped

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I'm personally not going to go for it. I've found that this kind of thing feels like a compromise between modular and a DAW, and it doesn't make sense for me when I'm already integrating those two things in their best forms anyway. But it's still a cool thing. Polyphonic Plaits for instance...