Members JBecker Posted February 25, 2012 Members Share Posted February 25, 2012 I haven't been here in a long time. I pretty much stopped playing guitar by the end of 2009. I was finishing up my bachelor's, headed into grad school. I still fooled around about an hour a week for a bit but by Jan 2010 I just didn't feel like playing much. Grad school finished, I got a job, and life has just been too busy. Work, keeping up a condo I bought, living with my girlfriend, got an awesome dog... you know how it is. On top of that, I just haven't heard much inspiring or even good music lately. I'm listening to pretty much the same stuff now that I listened to 5 or 6 years ago and I find myself with less time and less interest in listening. So, a real musical funk. My electric guitars and amp are all in storage (my parents house) and I just have an acoustic around. I've been playing so little I no longer have calluses and I'm at least a month away from getting back the strength in my left hand to really play for a while. As much as I've always preferred playing acoustic, it's just not getting me excited right now. So on to my real question-- I'm going to NY this weekend. I'm thinking of grabbing my main electric and getting a fresh setup. Maybe having an electric guitar around will get me going. I'll leave the amp behind-- it's completely impractical to have one at any volume in my apartment and I'm not playing anywhere else, but I have to plug into something. So what's out there that doesn't sound awful and has a lot of interesting, decent effects. I'm not interested in just guitar textures right now. I'm not interested in even recording something that I'll be proud of the sound. I just want to get down some scratch song ideas, play around with textures, etc and try and start composing a little in the hopes that it jump starts my interest again. If I start writing stuff that excites me or sounds good, I can always step it up and upgrade the {censored} out of my equipment. I don't need to be cheap about it, but professional perfect-quality everything is not important. Most important is access to lots of sounds, easy, for my headphones and to record that don't sound awful. Ease of use matters here because I have to just pick up my guitar and start having fun. tl;dr what's up bitchez?!?!? recommend me some mapz modellers with good multifx, in b4 should have got a deluxe (axefx). Did I do that right or have I been gone too long?:cop: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JBecker Posted February 25, 2012 Author Members Share Posted February 25, 2012 Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JBecker Posted February 27, 2012 Author Members Share Posted February 27, 2012 A bump for the working crew and then I'm giving up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sleewell Posted February 27, 2012 Members Share Posted February 27, 2012 what kind of dog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JBecker Posted February 27, 2012 Author Members Share Posted February 27, 2012 Half Pom half beagle mix. All pretty. I'd post pictures but Im on my phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sleewell Posted February 27, 2012 Members Share Posted February 27, 2012 cool whats your budget? sub 400 bucks try: with amp modeling check out the HD series from line 6 without amp modeling check out the tc nova system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R00PE Posted February 27, 2012 Members Share Posted February 27, 2012 i got a podhd500 and im quite happy with it... sounds good and it has a looper on it. you can get users tone from the website and some of them are quite good. as always the higain doesnt sound like the real thing but overall i think you can get a sound you'll be digging. direct recording via usb and you get a user interface to control your sound via your pc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JBecker Posted February 27, 2012 Author Members Share Posted February 27, 2012 Sub 500 is impulse buy territory which is mostly where I am but I could do as much as 1000. I'm thinking I shouldn't have to spend that much but I'm willing. Whatever I buy I want it to be something I could dump again quick for the same price in case the inspiration doesn't come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sleewell Posted February 27, 2012 Members Share Posted February 27, 2012 Agreed but I would at least play some, they sound a lot better than they used to. I don't know many in the 500-1000 range, maybe someone else can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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