Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the modulator masses

[Chankgeez]

Harmony Bobcats are great! I used to have one. Haven't played a new one. They may be "better made", but I'm sure they don't feel the same.

That EVA clone is much rarer than a Maestro. Probably not as generally appealing, but a nice score for a ring mod collector.

[dubkitty]

apparently there are new (and assumedly pricey) Silvertones coming as well. if they’re going to bring back funky guitars from the city i grew up in, couldn’t they do one of those uber-chonker Kay jumbos? or bring back the Supros with the fiberglass tops. those were great guitars and now the reissues of some models are, again, as costly as original National/Valco builds.

[Chankgeez]

Those Chicago days were truly the Golden Age of Budget Guitars.

[dubkitty]

and i was too young and totally missed it. none of the good/cool Silvertones or Nationals were made beyond the late 50s->mid-60s and were rare as hen’s teeth because they didn’t sell a lot of them.

if i could go anywhere in any era to buy guitars other than 1968-70 when less loved Gibsons like the ES-125/150 were going for $100 if you could sell one—i bought my ES-335 for $250 in 1975 when still nobody wanted them other than blues dudes—it would be the 60s to stock up on goofy-looking guitars like Nationals, guitars with patterned vinyl coverings, and crackpot specs like the Wandré necks. Germany i think did better with patterned vinyl; Italian guitars try to epitomize the peculiarities and tend to fall down in the pickup department. but i could probably make a crappy one playable.

[dubkitty]

those baby thinline ES guitars that you could hardly give away in the late 60s/early 70s now go for $1500 and up.

[echorec]

yeah, that looks like it's from the Eighties. Who knows how available a Maestro was in 1980s Japan. I just thought it was semi-noteworthy. I'd never seen one before.

The manual says 2017, and the listing says "one-of-a-kind", so it seems to be a prototype or proof of concept. It's definitely a rare item, albeit extremely overpriced.

[Chankgeez]

[echorec]

What RMs are you rolling with these days?

[Chankgeez]

Day to day, still, Randy's Revenge.

When I wanna get noisy, RMA Monobius.

What you got goin' on?

[dubkitty]

Randy v1 all the way. i would have considered a MoogerFooger, but not for the insane premium currently charged. i don’t even like paying $1000 for a guitar or amp, though i see that current Reverb listings vary wildly from ~$350 to over a thousand which could make one an option. more curious about the Behringer Meatball clone than i probably should be given that it’s far too huge for pedalboards. but then, i have other improbably large effects units—SnazzyFX, i’m looking at you!—so that isn’t necessarily a disqualification. the thing about the RR is what i can only call a certain purity of sound, just that little bit more consonant and appealing than most RMs. if someone could combine that with the crazier stuff more complicated RMs do i’d be interested.