Gear Aquisition Zone [buy/sell/swaps]

[nyarla]

Bought another Schecter off ebay.. Blackjack C-1. Just went and picked it up tonight.. it's awesome. Best feeling guitar I've ever played. I haven't had a chance to plug it into much yet, all I have at the moment is a tiny little Leem practice amp.. which actually sounds really good! I'm thinking of buying a slightly bigger practice amp.. an Orange Crush 30R. It's not a fancy tube one or anything, those are a bit expensive for me... one day...

[matt303]

I'm having a clear out and here's my JV2080 that I've owned from new, mint cond, £200 before it goes on ebay.



While I'm whoring my stuff how about some really nice sounding Rega R5 speakers £325


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Nice detailed and lively sounding speaker with very good bass extension, easy to drive from even a modest amplifier.

[sty]

For no good reason other than it was going cheap I've just bought this and it's winging it's way to me by courier right now


it's a custom made valve pre-amp, basically a Plexi layout with an extra gain stage (so apparently it's got the tone of a plexi and the gain of a JCM800)

I'm wondering if I can use this straight into my Mac for recording, via an audio interface obviously (when I buy one)

[Muttley]

For no good reason other than it was going cheap I've just bought this and it's winging it's way to me by courier right now

it's a custom made valve pre-amp, basically a Plexi layout with an extra gain stage (so apparently it's got the tone of a plexi and the gain of a JCM800)

I'm wondering if I can use this straight into my Mac for recording, via an audio interface obviously (when I buy one)

Nice. Just make sure you have a speaker load attached to the thing before you power it up. Valve amps don't like it otherwise.

You may be lucky and have a line out or speaker emulated out (less likely) that you can hook up, otherwise you'll need to get a mic (Shure SM57 or Audix i5 recommended) and mic it up for recording.

[sty]

For no good reason other than it was going cheap I've just bought this and it's winging it's way to me by courier right now

it's a custom made valve pre-amp, basically a Plexi layout with an extra gain stage (so apparently it's got the tone of a plexi and the gain of a JCM800)

I'm wondering if I can use this straight into my Mac for recording, via an audio interface obviously (when I buy one)

Nice. Just make sure you have a speaker load attached to the thing before you power it up. Valve amps don't like it otherwise.

You may be lucky and have a line out or speaker emulated out (less likely) that you can hook up, otherwise you'll need to get a mic (Shure SM57 or Audix i5 recommended) and mic it up for recording.

It's just a pre-amp, and is able to run into the FXLoop return on an amplifier (like my TSL) or into the signal in on an outboard power amp.

So I can't connect directly to speakers, so I was thinking it was different to a normal valve amp that needs speaker load. The worse I can imagine is I'll need to connect to a line level load but those are tiny (unless pre-amp out is greater than line level).

Looks like I have some more investigation to do.

It should arrive this morning hopefully so I'm waiting for a call from reception to say the courier has been

[Muttley]

For no good reason other than it was going cheap I've just bought this and it's winging it's way to me by courier right now

it's a custom made valve pre-amp, basically a Plexi layout with an extra gain stage (so apparently it's got the tone of a plexi and the gain of a JCM800)

I'm wondering if I can use this straight into my Mac for recording, via an audio interface obviously (when I buy one)

Nice. Just make sure you have a speaker load attached to the thing before you power it up. Valve amps don't like it otherwise.

You may be lucky and have a line out or speaker emulated out (less likely) that you can hook up, otherwise you'll need to get a mic (Shure SM57 or Audix i5 recommended) and mic it up for recording.

It's just a pre-amp, and is able to run into the FXLoop return on an amplifier (like my TSL) or into the signal in on an outboard power amp.

So I can't connect directly to speakers, so I was thinking it was different to a normal valve amp that needs speaker load. The worse I can imagine is I'll need to connect to a line level load but those are tiny (unless pre-amp out is greater than line level).

Looks like I have some more investigation to do.

It should arrive this morning hopefully so I'm waiting for a call from reception to say the courier has been

Ah, in that case you should be able to go straight to the line-in. It may not sound as good as expected like that as a lot of the sound of a guitar amp comes from the speaker cab, etc. So what you need is learn how to use Impulses: http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/prod ... e-faq.html

[sty]

Cheers Muttley

I checked with the previous owner and like you say all will be OK.

I've a presonus firebox arriving today hopefully, and I already have an SM57 at home so I now have plenty of options, although I may need to use cab sims until I get to move all the gear out to the new studio in an attempt to keep the volume at family friendly levels.

[Zoot]

One of these:



It's the Duo version and, because I registered it in September, I also got the UAD 4K Channel Strip and UAD 4K Buss Compressor free (value $448). In addition, my previously-registered UAD-1 plugins were also transferred. Yay is me!

[Narrengoat]

a behringer em600 "echo machine" delay pedal

I'd be interested to know what the em600 is like, I got one of their Vintage Overdrive units and it was rather excellent for the price

Fun little unit, but it lasted two gigs before imploding. Replaced it with the Line6 pedal it was ripping off. Is good value for money, but will pop like a lightbulb.

[Zoot]

A Steinberg CC121 Controller. Took a bit of setting up, but is sweet as now:

LINKY

[Narrengoat]

Just picked up a Line6 ToneCore Developer Kit:

http://line6.com/tcddk/
but haven't had time to fiddle with it yet due to work pressures. Seems to be freescale dsp + stomp box shell + knobbydials. Will let y'all know how it works out!

[DrStrange]

OK, I've got a fair bit of kit that I don't really need and could just about bear to part with providing it was going to a good home where it would get some use.

If anyone wants to make me an offer on any of the following...

• Yamaha A3000 Sampler, 96Mb RAM, Hard disk (can't remember how big). Latest OS, manuals, original 3.5" disks.

• Korg Wavestation A/D, Rack Wavestation. Inc manual.

• Sony V77 Multi Effects. Inc manual.

• Roland Super JV-1080, manual, fully loaded with the expansion cards.

• Roland SP-808 Groove sampler, updated to EX OS. Original ZIP set, and some zip disks. Complete with original and upgrade manuals.

• Roland W-30 Sampler workstation (a-la Liam Howlett). Complete with 3.5" disks and manuals. Fully serviced just before I retired it from the studio.

• Novation Nova. Manuals, rack ears etc...

It's all working, and in good condition - all was used in my studio, so hasn't had heavy road use. Unfortunately with little ones on the way I'm having to move into a smaller room

[Zoot]

One of these:



It's the Duo version and, because I registered it in September, I also got the UAD 4K Channel Strip and UAD 4K Buss Compressor free (value $448). In addition, my previously-registered UAD-1 plugins were also transferred. Yay is me!

Well, I liked it so much, I went out and bought another one! Whoo! Loads of DSP processing goodness. Boo! Diminishing bank balance

[Wudzi]

I've bought a few things lately and my spare room is now a proper studio

Firsty I got a on of the


This works like an absolute dream with Mac Pro Tools and Reason. Everything mapped perfectly with the hypercontrol and the ability to send ASCII strokes is ace. Spend a little bit of time setting it up and you can do anything you want.

Also go a one of these


I'm using this with traktor and it's great but I wasn't keen on all the MIDI mappings. It must have taken me 6 hours, many beers and lots of swearing last Saturday to map everything (and worse, the LED behaviour) but it works a treat now.

An ace feature of OSX I discovered while doing this was the ability yo aggregate sound cards. This means I can create a single virtual sound card made from the one in my hackintosh and the Mbox2 it's attached to

Finally with this kit, it really needs some nice monitors to go through. KRK RP6 - Flat as fuck

[hukka]

Here's my new toys



I also ordered some MsPinky timecoded vinyls which are yet to arrive.