Your YEAR in GEAR! :)* 2016

[chrisdermo]

In:

Zvex Super Seek Wah (flipped)
MXR Iso-brick
Pigtronix Mothership (flipped)
Ditto X4
MF Ring Minifooger (flipped)
EHX 8 step
Boss DD-7
Copilot FX Molecule V2 (flipped)
Boss Slicer (Flipped)
Devi Ever Bit: Legend of Fuzz (flipped)
EHX Big Muff Pi Nano (flipped)
EHX Microsynth XO (flipped then re-bought)
Boss PS-5
MF Trem Minifooger (flipped)
Boss SY300 (flipped)
Catalinbread Antichthon (flipped)
EHX Holy Grail MAX
EHX HOG (flipped)
Dwarfcraft Memento (flipping)
MWFX Metal Glitch
Industrialectric 4046-m
Pedaltrain Terra 42
EHX Ring Thing (flipped)
Boss PS-3 x2
Iron Ether Frantabit (flipped)
Digitech Hardwire RV7
mtl.asm Count To 5
Mantic Flex XS (flipped)
Boss DF-2 (flipped)
Copilot FX Molecule V3
Henretta Engineering Purple Octopus
Boss HF-2 (flipped)
MXR Blue Box
Moog Midi MuRF
mtl.asm Your and You're (flipped)
Akai MPC500
Mantic Density Hulk (returned)
Little Bear Wooly Mammoth clone
Jomox T-Resonator II
Malekko Scrutator
Wee Lush Stereo Bypass looper, mono bypass looper with momentary feedback switch, line selector
Cave Passive Wasp
Line 6 M5
Bigfoot Octo puss
Seymour Duncan Hot rails + lipstick pickups
Sustainiac Pickup
Fender standard strat
Nobels Mix-42C micro mixer


BEST:
4046-m, Metal Glitch, T-Resonator, MuRF. I mean....it's really no competition
Surprise was Line 6 M5 with midi control for switching/altering presets. It turns it into a IDM squarepusher-esque effortlessly bonkers sound machine.

The WORST:
Minifoogers - they're neat and efficient, but so vanilla?! DF-2 Was hilariously crap, Ring Thing was the weakest sounding pedal I've ever tried, oh and the Mothership! Yeesh.


Compiling this list has absolutely frightened the crap out of me....... I'm forcing myself to work with what I have for a good few months now, the only changes I can allow are downsizing.

[weebles]

Bought:
SS/BS Mini
Bitquest
CT5
Your and You're
Caroline Meteore
RV3
DD5
El Cap
Neunaber Slate
Neunaber ExP
Old Blood Noise Black Fountain
Old Blood Noise Procession
Walrus Mayflower

Best: Either the Mini or the El Cap.

Worst: Caroline Meteore - the pre-delay thing couldn't be dialed back, and it was so loud it sounded like an actual delay pedal. The oscillation switch was so ear-piercingly loud it was unusable. The reverb itself was good, and the dirt component was fine, but altogether, not worth the price tag.

[pd~]

Negative gear year for me. Did one or two trades, but my only purchase was a GT-001. Everything's been sold. Down to one guitar, company and DIY effects, and an amp that needs fixing.

Hoping for a USB mixer and a Volca Keys for Christmas though

[resincum]

tried out tons of shit, got rid of lots of shit, ending the year with like 4 pedals

[rustywire]

Looking forward to whatever will be added in the final days...but this is my list.
Swung for the fences this year

Skinpimp pro mk2 Tonebender (oc81d)
D*A*M Green Bastard (oc82d)
Sola Sound Jumbo Tonebender
SS/BS Pretty Years
SS/BS F*ck
70s EBVP
'77 Crybaby
'79 King Wah
1980 DMM
Fredric Effects Perky Harlot
Guyatone Clean Box
Generation Loss [flipped]
D*A*M Sonic Titan [flipped]
'75ish v846 [flipped]

UTC transformer-loaded patch panel

Tubetech me1a
Tubetech pe1a

[Chankgeez]

Yeah, I can't really remember.

You thought you didn't buy that much, my my, barely a flanger or two, but no matter how little you flanged her...

I did get a SubDecay Blue*Shift Short Line Flanger. It's pretty nice. … and another flanger I grabbed from Jero.

I've got a Big Game Pedals Bedlam Drive III on the way. Also a WMD Acoustic Trauma.

I snagged a Mantic Thug, Stone Deaf Warp Drive and WD Blue Clipper as well.

HUGE thank you Chank

[elevenstrings]

Let's see:

Hexe Revolver DX
Iron Ether Divaricator
Bananana Effects Mandalala
Mtl. Asm. 856 FOR ZELLERSASN
Red Witch Synthotron
Strymon Ojai
TC Ditto x4 (currently back for warranty repairs for the 2nd time)
Arcadiator (flipped)
A/DA PBF Flanger (flipped)
EQD Grey Channel (flipped)
EQD Spatial Delivery (flipped)

I'm pretty sure that's it for 2016.

Best would probably be the custom Mandala with the Revolver DX and 856 right behind it.
Worst would be the Ditto x4 as the stupid fucking thing hasn't worked most of the year (glad I got it from Sweetwater instead of used).

Future... Will probably pick up another Ojai. Want a MWFX Metal Glitch if he ends up making more than one and I have about 5 pedals that I'd like to update - CT5, DMC-8D, Xerograph, Frantabit etc.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Pedals:
BAT Pharaoh
Red Witch Chorus
Caroline Kilobyte
Digitech Whammy V
EHX Superego
Ss/bs Pretty Years
Malekko Tremolo
Dr Scientist Elements (ss gift)

Synth:
Korg Electribe
Korg Microkorg

Guitars:
Nelson Coquette
Greco acoustic
Shitty p bass

Flipped a couple of things but not much.

Best:
NELSON!!
Best pedal probably superego, Pretty Years as a close second.

Worst:
I did a great job this year of not buying things I didn't end up liking. Would probably have to say electribe even though I like it a lot, because I'm going to have to flip it for something that suits me better.

Future:
Amps/cabs. Nice bass maybe. Maaaaybe a She Fuzz. Possibly a delay pedal, but otherwise I'd rather not buy pedals for a while.

Just paid for a RM-1N which might arrive next Jan/Feb. Pretty damn pumped about that!

[samzadgan]

wow...i never keep tabs...but from memory...

pedals:
EQD Sea Machine
ProCo Rat - japanes white
Dunwich 2 channel DA120

Amps:
Orange Thunderverb 200
EB Amps 25w Marshall superbass/lead


shit...i haven't bought much at all...

what I have done is sold all my unused stuff and only have 3 pedals on standby, BAT Ritual, Rat and Dirg Delay. The other thing I did was get a Cioks power supply and rewired my pedalboard so its perfect. For a long time I've been happy with all my gear with little gas for anything...which is probably why I haven't bought much this year.

for 2017...i have paid for half of a guitar...and the other half will be paid in jan...so I should get my Millimetric late Jan. The only other thing I want to buy is a Maximus Drone machine.

then I'm done.

[Ugly Nora]

There's some serious money being thrown around in this thread. Jesus people.

[Jwar]

There's some serious money being thrown around in this thread. Jesus people.

Hey I've seen what you got! You spent a boat load too didn't you?

[ProCarsteNation]

There's some serious money being thrown around in this thread. Jesus people.

for realz!
Also, how do you stand the stress of the constant flipping & re-flipping?
You are titans boys & girls, I couldn't hold a candle to you

[frodog]

First full year on ILF is first year in a while fully unemployed... Silly combo, but though I have had marginally less money for stuff I've had more time to actually play, so it's been good. I commit to the devices I buy and have found them all useful in some way, so it's rare that I flip anything. Still trudging along my noisy path to get the things I want + can really use in a variety of ways, and that might also contribute sounds to fit and expand the band's sonic palette, yo! It's like it's all connected somehow.

To the best of my recollections, this year I bought (most of it used except "*") ...

Dwarfcraft Wizard of Pitch (pretty sure it was early this year)
Blue FX Crash fuzz*
Boss HM-2
Crazy Tube Circuits Time delay
SS/BS Fuck Overdrive
Iron Ether Xerograph Deluxe*

Moog EP-3 exp*
Boss FV-50H vol*
Aqua Audio voltage sag box* (on its way)

YAMAHA CS01 II - this is my crush, love this synth so much

Randall RG60 combo - love this as well, props to Ryan Summit for making the thread that led me to believe

Catswhisker Pickups Fat Moggy P90 & Ranger DLX Humbucker

[Invisible Man]

Same here. I think I grabbed a Mini and a Moog Mother 32...every other change was outbound. Trying to simplify and get all the stuff I need to eecord music rather than just farting around. Pretty close, too...let's see what santa brings me.

Oh, and Frodog reminded me I got an EP-3.

[Jwar]

I honestly didn't know how bad it had been this year until I started writing it down and looking through my records. Next year, I'm seriously changing the way I do shit. I've tried so much that I now know what kind of stuff I dig, so unless someone invents something new, I at least know the types of effects that I like spending money on.

My only planned purchases for 2017 currently are-

Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run (miss mine and I used it a lot, so much regret)
Providence Brick Drive
a drum machine of some kind
a few Mountainking pedals
Pretty Years (fuck me for selling mine)
and an maybe a few things from Industrialectric

Nothing is a definite though. Finances are getting tighter, so I may not get anything. Who knows.