What's the single best piece of guitar gear you've bought this year?

[CaptainDesslock]

I keep thinking of getting an interface and attempt recording again

what's so special about the fireface since the price difference is huge!!!

Congrats on the legra, captain. Great stuff, innit! Shame about the shipping damage but at least the guitars OK and the case did its job!

Yeah I'll post a review thread but its kinda hard to review a custom guitar properly on only a busking amp....and I don't really want to bring it to guitar center cause last thing I want is to be bugged by annoying sales staff and kids.  It does everything I want I'm just lacking a proper amp...surprisingly the FF directly into the street cube sounds spot on.  In retrospect I realized I might have bitten off more than I can chew when I took me roughly 10 minutes to get the guitar to "turn on"  :P

[Spiteface]

Might be my Devi Ever Rocket:



Probably the closest thing I've heard to a pedal that can be described as "Smashing Pumpkins in a Box"  Does great Muff-style tones, wacky octave fuzz a bit like certain settings on a Fender Blender, and even more "out there" scrambled stuff.

Or my Squier Classic Vibe Tele.

[Alex]

This guitar! Love it!

[Fourth Feline]

Still this : albeit an amalgum of a great 'replica' guitar - and the B.K.P Manhattans. Not so much a guitar, more a way of life ...  8)

[Twinfan]

Classy Derek, very classy.  Glad to see you're still enjoying the world of Jazz  :)

[sambo]

Alex is that a BFG?

[Philly Q]

It's a Voodoo, Sambo. Swamp ash body.  :)

[Fourth Feline]

Classy Derek, very classy.  Glad to see you're still enjoying the world of Jazz  :)

Cheers Dave !  :)

It's the reason I have been away from the B.K.P family / forum recently ;  as there is so much great stuff to absorb and practice.  Jazz is providing the most fun, creative absorbtion and development I have experienced for many a long year.   As another student of Jazz guitar once commented on the internet :

" With Jazz, G.A.S quickly becomes K.A.S "...     ( Knowledge Aquisition Syndrome ) .

[MDV]

Classy Derek, very classy.  Glad to see you're still enjoying the world of Jazz  :)

Cheers Dave !  :)

It's the reason I have been away from the B.K.P family / forum recently ;  as there is so much great stuff to absorb and practice.  Jazz is providing the most fun, creative absorbtion and development I have experienced for many a long year.   As another student of Jazz guitar once commented on the internet :

" With Jazz, G.A.S quickly becomes K.A.S "...     ( Knowledge Aquisition Syndrome ) .

How I wish that were the case more often!

I know I'm as GASy as anyone (well, mabye not Dave :lol:) but thinking you can just throw gear and money at sound and tone and it will automatically magically improve is, I'm coming to think more and more, bollocks! Knowing how to use your gear (the strings on the guitar included!) will get you much further in everything, not just jazz.

Well, maybe not indiee

Or punk

But most things!

[38thBeatle]

I have posted in the guitar section my best new gear of 2009.

[dave_mc]

Humbucker equipped guitars cannot get any better, so I've given up looking for them:

LOL, when are you going to stop posting ridiculous blanket statements which make you look silly when you change your mind? ;)

for me... i dunno. what did i buy this year? :lol: I think i bought my JJ jewel retro this year, which I like, and i bought my valvepower 18 watter, which i also like, but you can't really compare a guitar with an amp, can you? i bought a bunch of pedals, too, but same reason...

i used to be indecisive...

[Philly Q]

Humbucker equipped guitars cannot get any better, so I've given up looking for them:

LOL, when are you going to stop posting ridiculous blanket statements which make you look silly when you change your mind? ;)

Oooh, pistols at dawn!  :lol:

[Fourth Feline]

Classy Derek, very classy.  Glad to see you're still enjoying the world of Jazz  :)

Cheers Dave !  :)

It's the reason I have been away from the B.K.P family / forum recently ;  as there is so much great stuff to absorb and practice.  Jazz is providing the most fun, creative absorbtion and development I have experienced for many a long year.   As another student of Jazz guitar once commented on the internet :

" With Jazz, G.A.S quickly becomes K.A.S "...     ( Knowledge Aquisition Syndrome ) .

How I wish that were the case more often!

I know I'm as GASy as anyone (well, mabye not Dave :lol:) but thinking you can just throw gear and money at sound and tone and it will automatically magically improve is, I'm coming to think more and more, bollocks! Knowing how to use your gear (the strings on the guitar included!) will get you much further in everything, not just jazz.

Well, maybe not indiee

Or punk

But most things!

Certainly : I cite Jazz as my catalyst, but the things I am having to re-learn / improve upon ,  are of course common to many styles and instruments.  It is a vehicle for going back to tonal basics as well ;  the resonance of the guitar body, choice of pick, strings  - the need to make the guitar and what you play on it sound sweeter and more eloquent, before adding the next pieces of the sonic puzzle.   To be able to elicit the reaction of " That was a nice phrase / harmony " before gleefully ( and skillfully ) adding more layers.   This enthusiasm for re-examining the very foundations of what we currently profess to know,   being ( in turn ) something that I wish some of the 'cork sniffers' in the Jazz guitar would desist from thinking that they own exclusively.  :)

 

[dave_mc]

Oooh, pistols at dawn!  :lol:

:lol:

he knows (i hope) i'm only keeping him going :D

[sgmypod]

This guitar! Love it!

Nice....think mine is my duesenberg 49er(think was this year)
or the tv jones for my bluesbird....also zen, ocd and not forgetting amp50 lovepedal