Kris wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:24 pm
400 usd for an overdrive.
i really dont understand guitarists minds sometimes
If I'm spending thousands on guitars and amps, it's a relatively small expense in the grand scheme of things. Whether you could get the same sound from a cheaper option is obviously a valid question. Personally I think the answer is usually "yes", but I haven't heard a Klone that sounds a good as the Halcyon Gold, or anything that gives a bright edge-of-breakup feel like a Benson Preamp. So in my mind they're money well spent.
I suppose we're getting in the territory of which is better, the original painting or the print.
Many are happy with the print, many would prefer the original.
GrantB wrote:Tony, your taste is, as always, very refined. Or as HG would say, "bloody awful".
Kris wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:24 pm
400 usd for an overdrive.
i really dont understand guitarists minds sometimes
If I'm spending thousands on guitars and amps, it's a relatively small expense in the grand scheme of things. Whether you could get the same sound from a cheaper option is obviously a valid question. Personally I think the answer is usually "yes", but I haven't heard a Klone that sounds a good as the Halcyon Gold, or anything that gives a bright edge-of-breakup feel like a Benson Preamp. So in my mind they're money well spent.
luckily for everyone involved i have to go out-or this would be gasoline for a rant. Maybe ill save it for later, or just let it go lol )
Kris wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:24 pm
400 usd for an overdrive.
i really dont understand guitarists minds sometimes
If I'm spending thousands on guitars and amps, it's a relatively small expense in the grand scheme of things. Whether you could get the same sound from a cheaper option is obviously a valid question. Personally I think the answer is usually "yes", but I haven't heard a Klone that sounds a good as the Halcyon Gold, or anything that gives a bright edge-of-breakup feel like a Benson Preamp. So in my mind they're money well spent.
luckily for everyone involved i have to go out-or this would be gasoline for a rant. Maybe ill save it for later, or just let it go lol )
Do your best Dennis Lillee impression and steam in off the long run. It's all good fun.
Jops wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:46 am
Spring is the comic sans of reverbs anyway.
robthemac wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 5:48 pm
Is this by count or total value. If the former, can I hazard a guess that you own approximately 120 pedals?
Just by count. It's definitely at least 110, but there's stuff like desktop devices, or little boss mixers that aren't quite "stompboxes" that muddy that chart to about 116.
Going through the receipts has been interesting, although I've only done the trademe stuff so far, so mostly good deals.
robthemac wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 5:51 pm
Do your best Dennis Lillee impression and steam in off the long run. It's all good fun.
OOOf im just super jaded with the majority of gear chat i guess,most because americans dominate that space, At best they are ignorant of the rest of the world existing, at worst -the dictionary definition of loudmouth arrogant yanks. The whole sunken cost fallacy of you spend xxx on the guitars/amps, what is 400 in the grand scheme of things? is common-by the same rationale we should be spending 180 dollars on a set of strings... I mean it matters not a jot to me what people do with their money, People collect lumps of plastic they never take out of the box soo...lol
This is a cool place full of cool people,its not an issue here and i didnt want to go misfiring a shooting the wrong crowd with bullets loaded from elsewhere heh.
robthemac wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 5:51 pm
Do your best Dennis Lillee impression and steam in off the long run. It's all good fun.
OOOf im just super jaded with the majority of gear chat i guess,most because americans dominate that space, At best they are ignorant of the rest of the world existing, at worst -the dictionary definition of loudmouth arrogant yanks. The whole sunken cost fallacy of you spend xxx on the guitars/amps, what is 400 in the grand scheme of things? is common-by the same rationale we should be spending 180 dollars on a set of strings... I mean it matters not a jot to me what people do with their money, People collect lumps of plastic they never take out of the box soo...lol
This is a cool place full of cool people,its not an issue here and i didnt want to go misfiring a shooting the wrong crowd with bullets loaded from elsewhere heh.
I’m so here for these proclamations
GrantB wrote:Tony, your taste is, as always, very refined. Or as HG would say, "bloody awful".
Came across these online a little while ago when looking at options for my distortion sound for the Blink 182 tribute. By far the hardest part of the guitar work is replicating Tom’s blended Marshall/Mesa tone. Went through a few different options and was really happy with my last one, and then I found these! Someone following our Blink project messaged me with a video of them re-creating a Boxcar Racer song and it totally sold me on grabbing one.
Released in very small runs, I managed, by luck, to have woken up in the middle of last night and when I checked the time on my phone I had the release notification. And they were nearly all gone! I got one of the last few and it should arrive before we hit the road in May!!
I think I’ve just about nailed down what will be the final guitar rig now. Stoked!
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