Rediscovering Old Gear

keeponrockin
keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
edited December 2010 in Musicians and Gearheads
So, I have this old 80s Fender Champ 12 kicking around the house. Was my first amp, until I bought a solid state Crate 212 (yuck) and a big Traynor YCV80. I sold the crate, and mainly play the traynor.. I hadn't played the Fender in ages...

Well, this thing kicks ass! The Distortion channel sucks, but with a Blues Driver in front of it it is golden!

Anyone else ever re-discover old gear?
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Picked up my Mustang after a long time and it was pretty good. Bought back my old Epi SG Special. Still sounds like crud (and the previous owner didn't keep it in any good condition) but the nostalgia returned :)

    Also bought back some old pedals I sold a while ago. Totally brought back memories!
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  • All Those Yesterdays
    All Those Yesterdays Posts: 2,723
    I still put my first bass Peavey Axcelerator Plus, in the bass rotation at practice. I bought it as a factory second so I got it for next to nothing.
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  • mfc2006
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    about 2 years i found my old digitech digiDelay pedal and remembered how much fun the reverse delay setting was. i don't have a lot of pedals, and i've found myself using the old digitech quite a bit lately.
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    mfc2006 wrote:
    about 2 years i found my old digitech digiDelay pedal and remembered how much fun the reverse delay setting was. i don't have a lot of pedals, and i've found myself using the old digitech quite a bit lately.

    That pedal is really pretty damn cool. Those(x-series) were comin out just as I started playin seriously and I bought a few of them. I've moved on to better gear since then, but I wouldn't mind havin the digidelay back.
  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    DewieCox wrote:
    mfc2006 wrote:
    about 2 years i found my old digitech digiDelay pedal and remembered how much fun the reverse delay setting was. i don't have a lot of pedals, and i've found myself using the old digitech quite a bit lately.

    That pedal is really pretty damn cool. Those(x-series) were comin out just as I started playin seriously and I bought a few of them. I've moved on to better gear since then, but I wouldn't mind havin the digidelay back.
    I love the Digidelay-more than almost all the other digital delays out there. I have two on my board. I sold my Hyper-phase pedal. It had sweet tones but sucked more tone than any other pedal I've seen.
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    "Pearl Jam always eases my mind and fires me up at the same time.”-Jeff Hardy
  • AzWicker
    AzWicker Posts: 1,162
    I especially love the internet for rediscovering old gear, just the amount of schematics online for pedals or amps I used to have that I sold because I had Gear Aquisition Syndrome... If you have a soldering iron and time, you can probably build at a fraction of the cost those pedals and use better components... I did that with an old fuzz box I had and while searching there are dozens of sites out there where you can build clones of current and discontinued pedals.
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