Emerging gear trends of the 2018 gear season?

[friendship]

the new thing for 2018 is going to be piss. we will all become pisslords.

[Chankgeez]

the new thing for 2018 is going to be piss. we will all become pisslords.

If you buy a pedal from me, remind me to piss in it before I send it to you.

[friendship]

don't send the pedal, just send the piss.

[Chankgeez]

Open wide!

[neonblack]

If anyone ever asks me what ILF is like, I'm just going to show them this page so far

[Chankgeez]

I was trying to talk about gear.

[Ghost Hip]

I'd like to see more signature/collaborative pedals. Dwarfcraft/Fuzzrocious, and the DBA/Artist collabs are fun. Limited runs make the ever expanding hand built pedal landscape more fun for me to watch.

Reverb Artist Shop Predictions: Tom Delonge, John 5, someone from the foo fighters, I wanna say the bassist, and the second guitarist guy in Weezer.

[Jwar]

The latest gear trend will be gear nerds not bitching about size and jack placement.

[Kacey Y]

I was trying to talk about gear.

I'm being serious when I back top jacks. I didn't used to get it, but now I do. I want maximum pedal crammage.

I'd like to see Fender do updated offset reissues without terminally botching at least one key aspect. I feel like all they need to do is put on a tune-o-matic bridge with roller saddles, use a trem with the design/spring tension of the AVRI, have a trem arm that can stay under tension and keep the pickups on the hot side of vintage voiced. Get rid off all the switching and go with a 3 way toggle, they can always do something like a pull pot for the strangle or jazz circuit if they want to keep some options open. They can keep their period correct reissue for all the purists and have a modernized offset that isn't so weird or different from the original as to be pointless. Just functional updates without one weird wildcard thrown in, like they always seem to do.

[Kacey Y]

gear nerds not bitching

You might as well throw some dragons, lightsabers and jetpacks into this outrageous fantasy.

[$harkToootth]

not bitching about size

FINALLY 2018 is going to be my year then!!!
Been waiting for this moment since I was 13

[$harkToootth]

Reverb Artist Shop Predictions: Tom Delonge, John 5, someone from the foo fighters, I wanna say the bassist, and the second guitarist guy in Weezer.

I would welcome a Pat Smear shop. John 5 would be cool. I could see a Zakk Wylde shop happening or anybody on Guitar World circa 2003-2005.

I could see odd (read not standard) pickup configuration being a thing that hits mass interest.

[coupleonapkins]

Soft switches, since Earthquaker is already implementing it, and more builders will probably follow suit down the line.

More cats (actual cats).

Crazy ring mod akshun for......everyone?

Big-assed enclosures with bigger knobs since everyone went modular or is going there anyway & my fingers and feet are still made of meat and am tired of tweezing knobs.

Viable OP-1 alternatives, finally? Either that or a Teenage Engineering Smart Fleshlight for $499 (top jacks, obviously), with a TC/Behringer clone for $199.



It could happen!

[Ghost Hip]

I too would like more soft switches.

Also if builders who implement top jacks could offset the input/output from the power supply so I could actually plug it in without much hassle/cramming that'd be great. See the new top jack Great Destroyer for good example of successful jack placement. EDIT: on a 1590B enclosure

[Chankgeez]

Also if builders who implement top jacks could offset the input/output from the power supply so I could actually plug it in without much hassle/cramming that'd be great. See the new top jack Great Destroyer for good example of successful jack placement.

That's a good one. ^ Very important.

It could happen!

What would Judy play?

So, by posting a pic of Judy Tenuta, are you suggesting there should be more effects made for accordionists?