Gear you fell in and out and back in love with

[Ghost Hip]

Something that has interested me lately is the urge to flip gear as soon as it loses its honey-moon phase. I've found my laziness and "don't want to bother" attitude with listing gear for sale/trade has led me to fall back in love with pieces of gear that years ago I would have just flipped instantly. This is definitely a result of the privilege of more disposable income due to a better job than when I was younger and working retail jobs. Anyways I'm hoping to make a youtube video about when and when not to flip gear. Just thoughts and vague guidelines to help people gauge whether they should hold onto a piece of gear or not. What are reasons you keep certain pieces of gear around? What made you fall back in love and decide something is a keeper?

Some examples for me:
- Putting a pedal in a feedback loop. Definitely reignited my love for the Shallow Water.
- nostalgic pedals like Devi Ever/Holowon that I know I'll just buy again. I've learned to keep my SP-AE, White Spider, etc. because I've bought/traded for them or some variation multiple times before.
- Watching people produce with an OP-1 really reignited my use of it after my first months long spell of not using it
- One time my friend played my Ovation Preacher electric I was thinking of selling and he made me want to keep it because it sounded so good. In short, let your friends play your gear.
- Really simple but putting a buffer before fuzzes to alter the character. Mask Audio NO, devi ever, even my most recent Dwarfcraft ECT purchase
- Reading the fucking manual...

[coldbrightsunlight]

maybe I should have put the SW in a feedback loop before flipping.

Definitely like your list.

Simplest one for me is: sleep on it. But you're totally right that part of this is the good luck/privilege of having a better financial situation.

Try it on different instruments? I definitely have pedals I would have sold if I was only using for guitar but I like them a lot on synths (e.g. Superego).

[tremolo3]

Guitars.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Oh not necessarily applicable to much else but

I've had a like/hate relationship with my bass VI pretty much since I got it. Tried all sorts of stuff to make it better as a bass, then to finally realise I would in 100% of situations rather play a 4 string.

So as a last ditch effort I got new strings, retuned it A-A, now I've put a guitar pickup in the bridge. Aaaand I love it, finally 6 years later.

So is the lesson here... try using it differently?

[friendship]

I follow Jake the Dog's advice on this matter (skip to 0:47, I don't know how to get it to embed at the time I want)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tO0QV6VYu4[/youtube]

[coldbrightsunlight]

good advice

[retinal orbita]

I've sold a Malekko 616 Ekko pedal twice and then recently bought a third one last year. Sometimes I love the crispy Boss DD7 which is my go to delay, and sometimes I want that analog sound. Both times I've sold them and regretted it - I've vowed to NEVER flip this one! Even if it just sits in a box I want it handy when I get that urge!

I sold my EHX Big Box Deluxe Memory Man for $600 about 8 years ago when I was in purge mode, I really miss it, but don't want to pay the asking price now. Which is probably the same as before, but I have no need for a $600 delay....

[Dowi]

I hated the Interstellar Overdriver when I first bought it like 10years ago. I put for sale the day after, but luckily at the time nobody was interested, so I kept it. Incidentally some months later I bought a new amp, casually plugged the overdrive in it to see if it was still working, and fell in love with it. Now it's not going anywhere, I even got it rehoused.

I didn't get the Tensor the first time I put my hands on it, but one month after selling it I was still intrigued by it, so I bought it again and tried to approach it with the manual etc, and I learned to love it.

Probably this could have happened with other pedals but usually I sell the things I don't use asap because of self-limited funds for gear.

[Bearstripes]

Boss ps3.

I’m on my third and this one may stay for good. Mode 7 and the dual detune have been 2 effects I use constantly. Mode 7 not so much anymore but I love havin that wash of weird octave stuff. Had a particle 2 which did it way better but I wasn’t using it to it’s potential and needed dough. After looking at all my other options I ended up back with the ps3. Stuck with it I guess and now that they are cheaper (remember like 6/7 years ago where these things would sell for like 200?) it really can’t be beat.

[coupleonapkins]

BOSS PS-3 4 LYFE

I sold off all mine last year after harvesting/resurrecting several PS-3's from parts/etc. & swapping them for a Pitchfactor, but purchased another a few months ago because I was so used to those particular sounds/form factor/shiny shiny blueness. It was also the first pedal I ever really fell hard for when I was a kid, so that nostalgia will never die. And it also sounds great in tandem with a Pitchfactor

I do regret selling the last revision of the Dwarfcraft She Fuzz, but the ex that keeps calling me during quarantine & leaving me spaced-out voicemails is still the Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZaXCwhoJI[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZaXCwhoJI

[goosekevin]

Dr Scientist RRR has happened to me twice now. Had one, sold it and then missed it enough to buy it again. Tried to replace with big box things but i promised myself that I wouldn't sell it and I'm quite glad I didn't because I love it a lot and I think I'm gonna go back to it.

Have also sold and rebought a clari not (twice), el cap and driving notion too. Gonna hang onto those for as long as I can too. Also agreed that this is helped by having stable employment for a couple years now.

[manymanyhaha]

Guitars.

Me too. Dint know why I gave up on it for electronics but so happy to be back.

Digitech Polara. Ahead of it's time small format reverb that I recently put back on the board just to fill a space and dont know why I took it off

[01010111]

The Volca FM. It’s completely counter to my normal gear philosphy: no sub menus and knob-per function. I sold it twice because I got extremely frustrated trying to program the FM parameters. It’s really not too hard to get great flexibility and sound just using the front panel controls. It also has a kick ass sequencer and arpeggiator. So, ultimately I liked the sounds and surface-level functionality enough that it’s become one of the few pieces of gear that I’ll never sell.


The Zoia also breaks those rules, but I’d rather have it than spend money on everything I randomly use it for.

[Errant Tiger]

I don’t know if I’ve fallen back in love with it, but the recent sale on Rubbernecks has had me thinking I should really give it another try.

[odontophobia]

This would make for a very long list.

RedBear MK60
Mesa Dual Rectifier
Orange Rockerverb MKII
Sunn Beta Lead
Sovtek MIG50

Chase Bliss Dark World
DOD Rubberneck
Fuzzrocious Cat Tail
Blackout Whetstone

EGC Neck VMJM -- but only for cool factor, didn't like it that much