Gear you fell in and out and back in love with

[retinal orbita]

Blackout Whetstone

I’ve bought and sold two - it’s great, really, but I just don’t have that much use for all those bells and whistles when I hardly ever phase....

[odontophobia]

Blackout Whetstone

I’ve bought and sold two - it’s great, really, but I just don’t have that much use for all those bells and whistles when I hardly ever phase....

Yeah. I would take just the pad mode phaser in a stand alone. That’s what I miss about it most.

[Jwar]

Guitars.

Same man. I stopped playing guitar when I was 19 I think and didn't pick one up again until like last year I think. Then I actually started to play for the first time in my life. In my mind I guess. Totally feel this though.

[More_Divebombs]

Digitakt.

I got one, loved it. Then I hit a wall, it just felt a bit meh and it gathered dust for a while. Traded it for a Digitone. Love the Digitone, started to go real deep with the Elektron workflow and sequencer, which made me get a serious hankering for a Digitakt again. Picked one up again recently, and it makes more sense now than it did the first time around. Definitely back on board.

[tremolo3]

Digitakt.

I got one, loved it. Then I hit a wall, it just felt a bit meh and it gathered dust for a while. Traded it for a Digitone. Love the Digitone, started to go real deep with the Elektron workflow and sequencer, which made me get a serious hankering for a Digitakt again. Picked one up again recently, and it makes more sense now than it did the first time around. Definitely back on board.

The "Elektron workflow" it's actually a thing

[odontophobia]

Also, Boss RV-3.
Which I bought yesterday. YOLO.

[Ghost Hip]

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]

This is such a great episode, and I definitely thought about gear when I watched that cup part!

[PanicProne]

Boss DD-6.
The first pedal I ever owned (after the TU-2).
Bought it after hearing a local indie band use what I thought was the warp mode in one of their song passages. It was the coolest thing I'd ever heard in my life. I needed that sound. Turns out later it had nothing to do with the DD-6's warp mode. It was in fact a DD-3 self-oscillating. But anyways, after saving up I got a DD-6 from the local music shop. I never understood how to do the thing that guy on stage had done but ended up mostly using the hold mode a ton for super short loops (obviously). Had it for like a year pr two until I found out about and could afford a DL-4. Shortly sold the DD-6 after that cause I just felt it was boring and didn't sound as good as the DL-4. 7-ish years later I came across a used one for a fourth of the price I originally paid for my first one. I thought "why not?" and grabbed it. Now it's on my board and has been most of the time ever since. It doesn't get used A LOT, but works perfectly for the small specific things I want it to do. Also, even though I now deffo know how to, I'm still not using it for oscillation and I've never owned a DD-3.

[Paul_C]

I've recently found use for my Micrkorg which, along with my Tenori-On, I've been trying to sell on and off for years.

Tomorrow I'm going to use both at once to see what happens

[Confuzzled]

idiot box effects pedal of the month offerings. I had a few that came in last year that I thought were shit but have fallen in love with just about all of them except for the vibrato which to me is the slow relative of the tremolo.

[Inconuucl]

Tbh, fuzz in general. I know! Blasphemy! But I'm always in a constant war between note definition and absolute fucking chaos. I've just settled for having one clearer od and a fuzz and calling it a day.

[coldbrightsunlight]

I always love fuzz but I've definitely experienced this with specific fuzzes.

[$harkToootth]

- Reading the fucking manual...

It's amazing what this can do for someone. Or Re-reading it (if you like to read manuals before you buy).

I sincerely hope this is the first post someone sees on their first visit here.
"Hey let me check out ILF. Those guys have great tips! Alright!"
Reads -> READ THE MANUAL

[Jwar]

If I have to read a 50 page manual to mess with a pedal, I'm not a happy camper. I'm looking at you Eventide. lol

[coldbrightsunlight]

Haha yeah agreed. Happy to do that with other things even other music gear like synths but a pedal nuh-uh