This is the kind of corksniffery gear that gives me irrational GAS.

[Blix]

A $699 tube buffer/boost/pedalboard interface:

 

[itchyfingers]

 

[Blix]

It's the überboutique version of pedalboard interfaces you see Friedman and David Phillips use on some of their pedalboard builds.. :)

 

[itchyfingers]

I mean, you did put irrational right there in the thread title. I've lusted for some random ass unobtanium myself. Why do we do it ourselves?

 

[la szum]

Give your pedals the purified, high negative ion content they truly need.

 

[la szum]

This is mine. No real reason. I'll probably get it sooner or later, because that is what we do.

API Select TranZformer GTR EQ, Boost, and Overdrive Guitar Effect Pedal | Reverb

API Select TranZformer GTR PedalThe API Select TranZformer GTR Pedal incorporates API’s legendary EQ circuit into a versatile and compact guitar effects pedal. Designed to easily fit into your pedal board and engineered to run on standard 9V power supplies, the GTR offers ±15 dB of gain on 3 spec...

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[Blix]

This is mine. No real reason. I'll probably get it sooner or later, because that is what we do.

used API Tranzformer LLX, Excellent Condition! | Reverb

Here we have for sale this used API Tranzformer LLX. It is in excellent cosmetic condition and proper functioning condition.The product box is not included. This pedal does not come with a power supply. The pedal in the photos is the actual pedal for sale.

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I have definitely been eyeing this one'.

 

[la szum]

Yup. We are not helping each other are we?

 

[Blix]

Yup. We are not helping each other are we?

This is gear codependency lol.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

A $699 tube buffer/boost/pedalboard interface:

This is absolutely the kind of irrationality I've been hitting the last couple of years. "Totally happy with my sound. Not really looks ng for new modeler/amp/etc. But THIS. This extremely expensive thing that is going to do nothing, but something, but nothing, to my sound, but in doing nothing (but something) it will TOTALLY make it more betterer. It's not worth the asking price until you play it for a while and then take it away and realize your same sound sounds the same, but less betterer without it, you think. Just trust me, YouTube compression (which isn't a thing) will totally not capture what it does/doesn't/does do to my sound.. Totally worth the astronomical price!!"

 

[Blix]

This is absolutely the kind of irrationality I've been hitting the last couple of years. "Totally happy with my sound. Not really looks ng for new modeler/amp/etc. But THIS. This extremely expensive thing that is going to do nothing, but something, but nothing, to my sound, but in doing nothing (but something) it will TOTALLY make it more betterer. It's not worth the asking price until you play it for a while and then take it away and realize your same sound sounds the same, but less betterer without it, you think. Just trust me, YouTube compression (which isn't a thing) will totally not capture what it does/doesn't/does do to my sound.. Totally worth the astronomical price!!"

Nailed it. Now I'm definitely getting one!

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Nailed it. Now I'm definitely getting one!

Totally want one of those discontinued big-box Origin Effects compressors. So I can not use the compressor at all, just have it in line "for what it does to my signal".

 

[la szum]

Nothing like them Tone Sweeteners.

 

[la szum]

Totally want one of those discontinued big-box Origin Effects compressors. So I can not use the compressor at all, just have it in line "for what it does to my signal".

Man, I wish I would have bought 3 or 4 when I thought they were outrageously inflated at $500-$600.

 

[Blix]

Totally want one of those discontinued big-box Origin Effects compressors. So I can not use the compressor at all, just have it in line "for what it does to my signal".

Surely that custom Lundahl transformer is THE thing that will get your rig to the next level!

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Surely that custom Lundahl transformer is THE thing that will get your rig to the next level!

WITHOUT CHANGING THE SOUND ANY!!!!!!!

 

[la szum]

I had one briefly sometime in the early 2010s (too much gear to recall exactly). It was really freaking good.

I'd like to snag the big box Slide Rig. Don't even play no slide.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

There are two types of gear forum posters: those in search of the thing that makes them sound better without doing anything to their sound and weeding out all the things that don't change the sound but do introduce "tone suck" and will get violent with anyone that calls them crazy.

And those that don't care because whatever they plug into they just sound like them, but still wanna fight about this issue with anyone and everyone.

 

[TSJMajesty]

I must be the odd man out, cuz I don't know what this "we" stuff is.
Now otoh, if I could just get this one lick-that-I'll-never-use up to speed cleanly, I could die happy!

 

[Gearzilla]

There are two types of gear forum posters: those in search of the thing that makes them sound better without doing anything to their sound and weeding out all the things that don't change the sound but do introduce "tone suck" and will get violent with anyone that calls them crazy.

And those that don't care because whatever they plug into they just sound like them, but still wanna fight about this issue with anyone and everyone.

Doesn’t that make three types?