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  • sweepysweepy Frets: 4158
    My APS Aeon monitors, scarily accurate and yet still musical 
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  • RockerRocker Frets: 4943
    Peterson StroboStomp. As the blurb says: you are either in tune or you are not....
    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [Albert Einstein]

    Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

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  • I still say its my 6505+ head, the best amp I've ever played through to date, and next would be my Orange PPC412.
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  • RolandRoland Frets: 8590
    Coil of resin cored solder which I bought in a Tandy stock clearance sale about 30 years ago. Cost me pence. Still using it. Counts as music instrument related because that’s what I use it on.

    A pile of tortoise shell picks. In this case it was a music shop stock clearance about two weeks before selling them became illegal. Still have a few.
    Tree recycler, and guitarist with  https://www.undercoversband.com/.
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  • ChalkyChalky Frets: 6807
    Boosey and Hawkes 926 Imperial for £55 about 12 years ago.
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  • Boss TU-2.
    Bought late 90’s. Still going strong after hundreds of gigs.

    Earplugs. Started using them about 20 years ago after realising I was losing some of my top end in one ear. Had many different versions and recently got some ACS moulded ones. Wish I’d done it years ago.
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  • Another one with ACS moulded earplugs....should have got them much earlier than I did, but my hearing would be a hell of a lot worse than it is today had I not finally bought a pair.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10644
    Just got an immaculate 2-year old hifi amplifier with 18 years left on the warranty, for half price. Less than half price even. It really seems to be a buyer’s market at the moment. 
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • maltingsaudiomaltingsaudio Frets: 3098
    edited November 2018
    Best value item at the time of purchase has to be my original  Line 6 pod, so much vintage tone in such a cheap package. Obviously the market has moved on a lot in the last 22 years but at the time it was nothing less than stunning, and yes I still use it occasionally
    www.maltingsaudio.co.uk
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  • duotoneduotone Frets: 971
    My Hi-Fi.  Bought it in 2003 for £670 and just used to listen to CDs on it, now as time & technology has moved on I mostly connect my phone to it & stream music (Spotify/Amazon Music). 

    Listened to some Dave Brubeck last night on it & it sounded so good, especially that sax playing (Paul Desmond)

    https://youtu.be/PHdU5sHigYQ


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  • Yamaha Reface CS for 150 quid. Yeah its virtual analog but it sounds soo good and fits in the mix really nicely which is rare for modern synths.
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  • stratman3142stratman3142 Frets: 2177
    edited January 2019
    reaper

    Yes I'd say Reaper, which I've been using since version 1.

    It's not a competition.
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  • BlueingreenBlueingreen Frets: 2582
    edited January 2019
    MusicMan 65 1 x 15" combo.  Bought it from a name player late 70s, can't remember what I paid but it certainly wasn't a stonking bargain - I paid market value or thereabouts.  It was my main gigging amp for several years, and I loved it.  It still would be but for weight considerations.

    I may look to sell it soon which will be a pity because these things don't fetch much and mine is in pretty poor cosmetic condition (was stored in a damp cellar for years).  Probably get a couple of hundred for it.  But I can't justify keeping it when it's bulky, shabby, not being used and taking up space.  Will feel like a chapter closes when it goes though.
    “To a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail.”
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  • Winny_PoohWinny_Pooh Frets: 7731
    Neumann KH120s
    Wegen Picks

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  • 57Deluxe57Deluxe Frets: 7329
    Atari ST1040
    MT32
    Pro24 v3

    £1050 1988 Soho Soundworks - Midi changed my life...
    <Vintage BOSS Upgrades>
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  • steven70steven70 Frets: 1262
    edited March 2020
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  • monquixotemonquixote Frets: 17485
    tFB Trader
    I bought an EBS 4 X 10 for £100 once.

    They are £1300 new.
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  • sweepysweepy Frets: 4158
    Definitely my Ryder Les Paul, it just keeps getting better

    https://i.imgur.com/3fkkB8N.jpg
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  • blobbblobb Frets: 2914
    A seiko tuner about 20 years ago. Always resisted tuners, thought I had perfect ability to do all that 5th fret / open string thing, not cool to admit your ears aren't up to it etc.... How wrong I was, now I do have the ears for it. It always worked perfectly and I've probably only changed batteries once in it's life.

    My Manson comes a close second, instantly made all my other guitars redundant.
    Feelin' Reelin' & Squeelin'
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71956
    Probably my old Peavey 4-channel 50W PA head, bought for £40 in 1989. It's not actually very good as a PA amp since it has 1/4" inputs not XLRs, a single tone control on each channel, and is only 50W - but it's a very useful amp for almost anything else. I've often used it as a power amp to drive monitor speakers, as a backup guitar or bass head, as a standalone reverb unit, a simple mixer to add extra channels, and currently it's being used as my main guitar amp into a cab with a multi-FX in front of it. And I have even used it once or twice as a PA amp for very small gigs...

    Apart from that, probably the TC Polytune app for my phone - £2.99, and it more than paid for itself the very first time I used it, to set up a guitar with a Floyd Rose. It probably saved me about ten minutes, which is over £6 at my hourly rate.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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