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

[elxsound]

Might ruin that new Reverb posting for QMMG at $9,999

tbh, if that sells, ill be listing mine

If the what I saw for reverb history was correct, I think one sold for 6k not that long ago?

I wouldn’t have the energy to deal with hecklers.

I still remember posting my Chase Bliss Factory pedal for sale at a loss, but more than the original asking price and had to deal with idiots who couldn’t do basic math. They acted like I was on my way to get rich.

They didn’t understand there was sales tax and shipping on the original purchase, then selling there were fees plus more shipping costs. That was exhausting. Waited another year before selling again to avoid that.

[justin3am]

I talked to Make Noise today. All remaining QMMG units have been claimed.
I'm glad that more folks were able to get theirs without paying scalper prices.

[vurt]

If the what I saw for reverb history was correct, I think one sold for 6k not that long ago?

imagine youd just completed that purchase, then they announce the reissue
ridiculous what some folk will spend, and i say that as a man who has spent £30 + on a single lego minifigure (custom made silver surfer)

[vurt]

I talked to Make Noise today. All remaining QMMG units have been claimed.
I'm glad that more folks were able to get theirs without paying scalper prices.

i may have got the last one then

[elxsound]

I talked to Make Noise today. All remaining QMMG units have been claimed.
I'm glad that more folks were able to get theirs without paying scalper prices.

Crazy! Nice to be able to sneak a purchase in. I’m gonna take it as a win!

I do plan on using too. This thing sounds chunky

[vurt]

yeah i have plans to use it to death

[felis]

2024 - mostly GForce stuff, and I just got an Oberheim TEO-5 today.
I think I'm done for a while now.

[dark water]

Just picked up a WMD Geiger Counter Pro: something that I've been interested in for more than 10 years (at the time, it was 'just' a WMD Geiger Counter non-Pro version).

Well-known gnarly distortion / bitcrusher pedal but still pretty unique imho.

The developer stopped producing these a couple of years ago due to issues, but earlier this year started making them in small batches again.

This is a nice video of the mostly non-pro version (but a little bit of the Pro version too) doing some curious things on synths:

[elxsound]

I have Tymp Legio and am very impressed with it. I still need to try Librae Legio.

Librae is another one where the software offers a lot more control than the firmware -- but given the things I typically use it for now, the firmware would be just fine. I should probably switch back to it -- right now it's on Morbus and I'm not using it that much after the initial honeymoon.

(I should probably have included a disclaimer in that previous post, I beta test software and firmware sometimes for Noise Engineering. Not all of their modules though, sadly )

Finally looked up the manual for Tymp Legio. I didn’t know that it would duck the audio (Boot & Cat). This is great for my current setup.

But back to the manual… Nice shout out to Starthief from NE.

[Constructed Identity]

Behringer Go arrived today, 3 zones of one amp each. It is just the right size to have an 80 hp Behringer synth next to my 60 hp Specrtavox like this:

ordered Pamella's PRO workout and a couple ribbon power cables...

[Constructed Identity]

The mixer above is only available in white at P.C.
But thinking more on my goals and the restrictions of a euro rack case, I wonder if a mixer is really the best solution. I could just get Expert Sleepers' ES-9 and mix in my DAW. I want to be able to pan (noise) hats and other percussion like I do now and adding panning CV and the associated wires and function generators would be extremely complex. Also, doing the whole aux effect send thing with Mnimeophon adds more complexity...
I have been watching the Make Noise YouTube videos recently and he's got quite a complex noodle soup going on...for simple ideas really.
What do the experts on here think?

[elxsound]

The mixer above is only available in white at P.C.
But thinking more on my goals and the restrictions of a euro rack case, I wonder if a mixer is really the best solution. I could just get Expert Sleepers' ES-9 and mix in my DAW. I want to be able to pan (noise) hats and other percussion like I do now and adding panning CV and the associated wires and function generators would be extremely complex. Also, doing the whole aux effect send thing with Mnimeophon adds more complexity...
I have been watching the Make Noise YouTube videos recently and he's got quite a complex noodle soup going on...for simple ideas really.
What do the experts on here think?

Not an expert, but my own take on this is that if my rack is next to my computer, I’d forego that mixer and choose something like OptX or ES-9.

If I were performing I’d want a mixer. Or if you’re dead set on a Dawless setup, like my current semi-modular setup a mixer is helpful. I have 1010music eurorack BlueBox for mixing and recording because I want to turn it on and just make noise.

For the dual Brute Rack that I put away after each use, I prefer to keep the mixer out of it but still use CVilization for panning if I’m recording to a 1/2 input or I’ll use the desktop BlueBox and just record there, then mangle in the box later.

I still might swap CVilization for an OptX later to record directly to the computer, or to Push 3.

[cryophonik]

The UDO Super 6 didn’t really do it for me, so I replaced it with a TEO-5:

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[elxsound]

The UDO Super 6 didn’t really do it for me, so I replaced it with a TEO-5:


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This is such an amazing time for synths

[justin3am]

The mixer above is only available in white at P.C.
But thinking more on my goals and the restrictions of a euro rack case, I wonder if a mixer is really the best solution. I could just get Expert Sleepers' ES-9 and mix in my DAW. I want to be able to pan (noise) hats and other percussion like I do now and adding panning CV and the associated wires and function generators would be extremely complex. Also, doing the whole aux effect send thing with Mnimeophon adds more complexity...
I have been watching the Make Noise YouTube videos recently and he's got quite a complex noodle soup going on...for simple ideas really.
What do the experts on here think?

Mixers are very important in my racks but I don't have a big full featured mixer like the Cosmix or the WMD Performance Mixer. With 3 or 4 simple 4-channel mixers, I can use one for layering oscillators, another for mixing CVs and a pair for sends/returns. Since I frequently use arbitrary feedback in patches, it can be useful to mix signal at several different points in a patch.
So I'm definitely in favor of having mixers in my rack but like elxsound, I tend to feed my voice outputs into an outboard mixer or an audio interface.