2018 gear goals?

[O Drones]

Playing my shit with my badass band live.

Yeah, this is also a goal for me.
And recording another album autumn 2018

Same. Apart from that, maybe an HM-2 of some sort. Hopefully Boss will Waza it.

[goroth]

Playing my shit with my badass band live.

Yeah, this is also a goal for me.
And recording another album autumn 2018

Same. Apart from that, maybe an HM-2 of some sort. Hopefully Boss will Waza it.

Fuck yeah, a Waza HM-2 has to be in the works.

I also might pick up a BD-2 next year, because I've always liked them and have never gotten around to buying one.

[molokaio]

This year I have no time to practice\play since my newborn is probably satan reincarnated.
So I can only accumulate shit and my wishlist consists of:

1) Elektron Rytm mkii
2) Meris mercury 7 & polymoon
3) Elektron Analog4 mkii
4) Red panda Tensor
5) Turn on the octatrack2 and the analog heat at least once in 2018


I'd really love to learn ableton and record some ambient stuff tho

[ibarakishi]

Rochambeau tourbox hype.

this^

and focus on solid recording gear. Want to record more this year and possibly release more than i usually do

[$harkToootth]

Getting a DOD distortion pedal.

BRETHREN!!!
I have honestly debated getting a second one of these just cause I like them so much and they can be had for $36.

I got way too much cool shit this year. 2018 is going to be the year to "digest" everything.

I'm taking a page out of rfurtkamp's book and just recording a lot in 2018. Very 'process' oriented gear. I'm not exactly motivated to play out live or put out a product (album/LP/EP whatever...). Is anyone else motivated to make music (besides for the sheer creation) because you want to collaborate with people you respect? ANCIENT METHODS put out a cool EP this year where every track had a different vocalist. So I guess that's kind of an end goal is just getting people who would actually 'like' to collaborate with you.

[Kacey Y]

BRETHREN!!!
I have honestly debated getting a second one of these just cause I like them so much and they can be had for $36.

I got way too much cool shit this year. 2018 is going to be the year to "digest" everything.

I'm taking a page out of rfurtkamp's book and just recording a lot in 2018. Very 'process' oriented gear. I'm not exactly motivated to play out live or put out a product (album/LP/EP whatever...). Is anyone else motivated to make music (besides for the sheer creation) because you want to collaborate with people you respect? ANCIENT METHODS put out a cool EP this year where every track had a different vocalist. So I guess that's kind of an end goal is just getting people who would actually 'like' to collaborate with you.

I got my DOD DM for like $25 shipped and it was essentially NOS in the box with all the papers and the receipt from the late 90's. It's a genuinely good pedal, even if it's not the most flexible. In Mental Waste one of my creative directives was to always use cheap gear for every recording and never be snobby about anything. First album was all digital in the box, for the second the guitar tone was a $30 Soundtank TS into a $140 Randall SS head. We did some one off tracks specifically for comps and always just used different cheap ass pedals for fun. The last song we recorded in 2015, for a comp that I think still hasn't ever come to fruition, was using the DOD Death Metal on guitar and the Boss ODB-3 on bass and it's probably the flat out heaviest track we recorded and we backed the volume on the guitar off quite a bit when using it. You can definitely get that "chainsaw" tone with it easily.


I've been making a lot of gear related spreadsheets in the past few months. I really want to boil down the gear I have to the minimal configuration I need to do all the types of musical projects I like, get rid of any extras and fill in whatever gaps I have. Then once my basement space is fixed up, I can just record any time easily again, like I did in my old house. I used to have a guitar rig and a bass rig permanently setup with mics, ready to go, with just my pedalboard out front, so I could switch around easily. I think I might do that again, but with a slightly larger setup and just have a dedicated board for each station, ready to plug in and go. I wanted to get a drum kit again and have it permanently setup with mics, but I think I might just upgrade my SuperiorDrummer 2.0 to the new 3.0 and call it a day. I can't ever find drummers anyway and I don't really have the free time to practice drums enough again to be useful to my own songwriting. Sequencing tracks works fine most of the time for what I like to do.

[repoman]

[BetterOffShred]

Dude... yes.

[rustywire]

From 2017 gear goals thread:

XLR patch panel
Boss VB-2w
Sig shortlist
Altec "rs124"
Another pair of 1970s g12h30 75s to load a halfstack
MK I 'bender
Octave fuzz
Replace Gen Loss, PS-3
Another LFLJ or 2

Complete and total, abject failure if it weren't for the Octave fuzz, which wound up being the #1 item on my sig shortlist for 2+ years, the LAL Super Fuzz 45. Worth it.

2018 gear goals:
Continue trimming excess [and in the same breath] settle remaining balance on layaway TubeTech EQ
Streamline tabletop setup
Elektron Octarack II
Fix/repair longstanding keepers and either keep it move'n or move them
Fix rgb monitor
Excavate remaining childhood game consoles out of storage, recap as needed; play with old friends
TR-909 [yeah, right]

[Chankgeez]

If you have 136 Metal Zones to trade, we may have a deal.

[Zeus]

I'd like to have better organisation with how I spend my gear money. I bought some cool stuff this year, almost all of which I ended up selling when I was short on cash for bills, etc. Rather than splurge, regret spending the money, sell, regret selling the gear, I'd like to just put some small amount of cash away each week/fortnight and only buy stuff where I know I can justify it and it won't cause any undue stress in other parts of my life. Pretty basic life skills here but I've been bad at striking the right balance over the last year or two.

[damnableman]

Up my games:
Expression pedal and auxiliary switch use
Presets
MIDI
Synthesizer programming
Recording/mixing skills

Not gear, but related games to be upped:
Scales/modes
Counterpoint & general melodic inventiveness
Finger-picking


Pedge (relatively speaking)

[BoatRich]

Playing my shit with my badass band live.

Yeah, this is also a goal for me.
And recording another album autumn 2018

Same. Apart from that, maybe an HM-2 of some sort. Hopefully Boss will Waza it.

Fuck yeah, a Waza HM-2 has to be in the works.

I also might pick up a BD-2 next year, because I've always liked them and have never gotten around to buying one.

According to my Roland Rep at work there’s not a huge chance of a Waza HM-2. I’ve been asking them like once a month for almost a year now lol.

[rfurtkamp]

Realistically, a Waza Metal Zone would be more up their alley.

[Faldoe]

On guitar - using less pedals which I’m kind of already there.

Getting some more synths.