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Where has my GAS gone?

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My birthday approaches and my beloved wife has offered to put a few hundred pounds towards a guitar (“or whatever you’d like”).

 

Clearly, this makes her a keeper and underlines the wisdom of my marrying her in the first place but here’s my dilemma…..

 

I can’t think of anything I really want.

 

I can add more to the birthday money from the recent sale of a bass and some car stuff so I’ve probably got £1000 or so to spend if I really wanted.

 

But nothing is floating my boat.

 

Not guitars, amps, basses, keyboards…..

 

Nothing.

 

Does this mean that I’m cured?

 

Or ill?

 

If I can’t think of something soon I’ll end up with a dressing gown.

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My gigging rig is the GR55, a Korg keyboard and my K-line which I put through a Simplifier 0watt amp. All that goes to a mixer so I can balance levels and EQ before sending a stereo signal to the PA.

 

I want to be able to add some FX (reverb, chorus and delay) to both the guitar and synth signals (the GR55 patches all have their own FX set up onboard) as well as having some FX (overdrive/distortion) just for the guitar.

 

I may also get an acoustic IR modeller to improve the acoustic emulation on the GR55 - or not, it’s pretty impressive anyway so the small improvement I might get isn’t worth it for the Dog’n’Spittle.

 

But, you know….new pedal. Hmmmm.

 

GAS is cured! Who was I kidding?

 

 

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I actually bought my first pedals in 11 years not long ago.

 

In truth I've never been that big on drowning the guitar's natural sound in mush of one sort or anoth... but I digress.

 

Anyhoo, I got one of these:

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and one of these:

 

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After playing with them for a while, I thought to myself "fuck me, pedal technology has moved along a bit since I last looked!"

 

I do like them though, even though I have no foreseeable opportunity to use them in anger.

 

In fact, I may well invest in a looper as well:

 

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I'd like to look at an RC-30, but not sure I can justify the outlay for home noodling.

 

 

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As I’m plugging delay and reverb into the fx loop on my mixer, I wanted stereo effects so I ended up with a cheapo behringer reverb….

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….and a T-Rex delay….

 

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I’ve had an RC2 for years…..

 

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…and use it a lot. I’ve yet to find a need for it at gigs but for trying ideas at home or practicing tricky sections, it’s brilliant. I did go crazy a few years ago and buy an RC30* but it blew my little brain and I could never get my head round it so I flogged it.

 

 

 

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…not one of these…

 

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…although I’ve always lusted after one and if I ever found a decent one at a sensible price I might still be tempted.

 

 

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