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After twenty one years since I last really played, I've decided to pick up the guitar again. I'm really enjoying diving headfirst into practice and getting my head back into relearning music theory. The added benefit of being financially stable enough to buy pretty much whatever gear I want has lead to today's delivery.
I always bought the best I could afford at the time. Since I'm a big believer in "buy nice or pay twice", I've treated myself to some new, high-quality gear. The first items I ordered - which arrived today- were a Line6 Helix Rack, the floor controller and a 3U case.
Is it overkill since my playing is almost back to square one and I doubt I'll ever play live again? Yeah... It really is.
Personally, I say buy the best you can afford (or are willing to spend) and like because you'll actually want to play.
A £300 Jackson at the start became a 3rd-hand Ibanez Jem, a Frankenstrat self-built from bits on Denmark Street and a Marshall JMP-1/9100. (Obviously, I really love rackmount gear!). All that remains is that old Jackson (which for some reason that I can't put my finger on, I never really liked) until a shiny new Charvel DK24 arrives from Germany, next week!
Done. Plus, I'll be all-ready to go when the new Charvel DK24 HH FR SW arrives with all the cables and the Mission Engineering expression pedal, etc.
Many things have changed in the last couple of decades, but my preference for a Floyd Rose trem ain't one of them.
If I do go back to live playing, it's gonna be an 80's hair metal cover band (think Ratt, Motley Crue, Quiet Riot and the like). A maple-necked Charvel with a gold FR in Snow White? They downloaded my dreams from my youth and assembled them in Mexico.
If they do an anniversary reissue of the swirled Ibanez Universe in the same colours as Steve Vai had in the cover of Passion & Warfare, I'm buying one... Or getting Ben Eller to swirl it for me.
I had the presence of mind to take one when it was all assembled from the boxes and powered up, but every subreddit seems to have different photo posting rules and options. I'll post one when I figure it out on this sub.
I'll do another post when the Charvel and other bits arrive too.
I've got step one of your recommendations applied (thanks for those, btw). The rest of my stuff should arrive on Monday.
To me, it just seems a different approach from the traditional guitar-pedals-amp arrangement.
I was never a fan of having loads of pedals (volume, wah, distortion, flanger and delay were pretty much my lot). This way I can have everything I like in one unit and set it all out in any way I like without having to tapdance while playing, or fix everything to a piece of wood and have a load of patch cables and powers supplies everywhere. A MIDI controller was too rich for my blood, back then.
No more recording into a Portastudio that was almost 20% gaffer tape by volume. Plug straight into my Mac and I'm all done (I got Logic and some other assorted stuff for free when I worked for Apple).
I remember (admittedly, this was 20 years ago) that modelling amps and multi-fx sounded like shit.
I can't wait to use it. Sadly, the cables and other stuff are in the other part of a split order. 😡
I like protecting all my gear and keeping everything organised, and rackmounting meets my criteria. I have over $20k worth of studio lighting and cameras for work, and you'd better believe that's all in flightcases and organised.
Keeping as much as possible off the floor - at home or on stage - makes better sense to me.
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