Your Year in Gear - 2016

stickyfiddle

Have we done this yet? It's december so definitely time to reflect on our successes and sins in the endless merry-go-round of music equipment. So...

What have you bought this year? What have you kept? What have you sold? 

If anyone can find January's thread on old plans and expectations it might be fun to compare...  

stickyfiddle

I'll go first, I suppose! 

After a restrained 2015 I have pushed the boat a little further this year. Not many items, but I'd like to think all high-quality stuff that I plan to keep a long time. 

IN:
MJT Jazzmaster - Awesome thing and worth every penny AND the long wait
Bad Cat Cub III 15R combo - It's only been here a week but it's chuffing good. 
Ninevolt Pedals Surfing Bear OD - Just a tubescreamer, but comes with happy memories of a great holiday, and it has a bear drinking a cup of tea on it. What's not to love?
Copperpeace straps - not a major GAS item, but really very well made, comfy on the shoulder and fantastic to look at. 

OUT:
Laney Lionheart L5T combo - really nice amp and I'm glad I've tried the 5W class A thing because now I know I definitely prefer a good 15W with a decent master volume. It was really nice looking though, and I miss the built in tilt-back stand.

Is that it? I think it might be. I must work on this through 2017...

impmann

Shit.... long list. If it says 'kept' that means it was bought this year and I still have it.

Hmmm, here goes.

Guitars:
PRS 305 (kept)
Gibson 335 (kept)
Fender AVRI Jazzmaster (sold)
Partcaster Jazzmaster (body sold)
GSP body Jazzmaster (kept)
Squier Japan Strat (kept)
3x Partcaster Strats (built from bits - all sold)
Roland GR202 (kept)
Gibson Les Paul Junior (traded)
Shergold Masquerader (traded)
Fender Telecaster Deluxe Tremelo (kept)
Epiphone Casino Gary Clark Jnr (bought/sold)


There's probably more than that... but I think I'll stop there.

Amps:
Laney Lionheart 20 (bought - sold)
HH IC100 (bought - not yet received)

Cabs:
Marshall JTM30 extension cab (kept)

Effects:
Catalinbread Echorec (kept)
Catalinbread Belle Epoch (kept)
Analogman ARDX20 (kept)
Digitech Obscura (bought/sold)
Boss Blues Driver Keeley Phat (kept)
Boss RT20 (kept)
Boss CS3 (bought - sold - bought another)
Crybaby 535q (bought/sold)
EHX Small Clone (bought/sold)
Boss TE2 (sold)
Boss MO2 (sold)

There's loads more but I'm getting depressed thinking about it...

Nikko

I started the year with an Epiphone Plus Top Pro Les Paul (in Desert burst), and a Vox VT20+ modelling amp, then during the rest of the year ive...

Part Ex'd the Epiphone for a 2016 Gibson Les Paul 50's Tribute.

Sold the Vox VT20+ as most of my very limited practice time was taken up twiddling with knobs trying to decide what sound I wanted.

Purchased a Vox Lil' Night-Train and a Jet City 1x12 Cab

Purchased a used Vintage (brand) V6 Icon SG -a-like.

Sold the Vox Lil' Night Train and Jet City Cab.

Purchased a Boss Katana 50w Combo (yes, back to modelling)

Purchased a ESP-LTD Viper 256 in See-thru Black Cherry (NGD post shortly)

...and the Vintage SG-a-like will probably be gone after this weekend

So, compared to what im expecting to see in other responses to this thread, its been fairly quiet for me

RandallFlagg

Been a stable year for me, bought all these around the start of the year after a major gear change:

2016 Gibson Standard Historic Les Paul 58
2015 Fender American Vintage 52 Telecaster
2015 Martin D28
Pedaltrain Nano+: TC Polytune Mini 2 Noir, J Rockett Archer, TC Flashback, TC HOF, TC Ditto powered by Cioks DC5

Through A Victory V40 & 1x12
 

octatonic

In:

Musicman Stingray
Mark Bass amplifier
DW Collectors drum kit
Zildjian Kerope and K Custom cymbals
Hald a dozen snare drums

Out: Nothing.

meltedbuzzbox

The list of shame (guitar stuff only)

In

Pedals......
OCD
Amp 11
Carl Martin octa switch 2
Lexicon rack thing
Line 6 rack thing
Eventide h9 Max

Boss slicer

Guitars...

Gibson 345
Fender Coronado 2

Out

Can't remember... Sold a fair bit though

Col_Decker

A game of two halves for me. Redundancy and CC debts last Christmas saw lots of gear go, then a new job and clearing debts saw new gear come in.

OUT

Fender Custom Deluxe 76 Tele (still hurting over that)

Epiphone Wildkat

Orange Rocker 30 head + Martamp 2x12 cab

Ibanez bass

Various pedals

IN

Gretsch G5420

Fender 68 Priceton reissue

various pedals

p90fool

Out:
Fender '68 Custom Princeton and Jet City 100HDM.

In:
A pair of Jet City Custom 22 heads, built into old Fender combos with a Celestion Classic Lead 80 speaker in each.

Apart from the usual merry-go-round of pickup and wiring experimentation I think that's about it. Since gigging has become the major part of my income again I've reined in the spending on gear this year.

EDIT

I'm a total liar, I just remembered I've given away three guitars and a 2x12 this year, and I've built a partscaster.

I'm not going to chance looking at my Paypal history though!

ANOTHER EDIT!
I also built a tweed Princeton clone, I'm going to stop thinking about it now!

lasermonkey

In: Fender '62 AVRI Thin Skin Jaguar.
      Mojo Jazzmaster pickups.
 As the DOD 565 Chorus didn't work and went back, that's it for this year.

crunchman

I've not (yet) bought a guitar!  I actually have one less than last year.  There was an amp in but that was in part ex on the guitar.

There have been 2 or 3 pedals in plus 2 or 3 out, and I bought a new audio interface and some recording software/plugins but that's about it.

Quite restrained.

goldtop

Sold one guitar, a few small amps, mixers. Nothing significant.

Bought far too many synths! :-/

peteri

Gulp!

New this year:

Les Paul Custom ('72) - keep

Fender Strat ('66) - keep

Klon KTR - keep

Thorpyfx Gunshot - keep

Tubescreamer Mini - keep

Matchless Hotbox - sold

Bogner Blue - sold

Bogner Red - sold

Line 6 M5 - sold

Two Notes Torpedo - keeping for now, but should sell - never use it

Cry Baby Mini Wah - for sale now

MXR EVH Phase 90 - for sale now

Gigrig QM10 - sold

Gigrig QM8 - for sale now

Gigrig QM6 - keep

Carbon Copy Delay - sold

Keeley Super Mod Workstation - sold

Keeley Monterey - keep

Analogman ADR20 - keep

Peavey Classic 30 - for sale now

Carr Skylark - keep

SP Compressor - sold

SL Drive - sold

Legacy that I've sold this year

Jet City JCA22H

Les Paul Faded Studio

Fender Wilco Johnson Telecaster

Epiphone Casino

Marshall 1x12 cab

TC Electronic HOF Mini

TC Electronic Flashback Mini

Malekko Omnicron Chorus

Not quite one a week

Sporky

In:
Yamaha SVC110 silent cello
Genz Benz Shuttle 3.0
Line6 Helix
Source Audio Reflex
Touchprone MIDI clock generator
Presonus Eris E8
Caparison 7er

Out:
MJW Roadster
Arrowhead Tele
Rickenbacker 360
G&L Legacy
Lots of pedals

CountryDave

Gone

Gretsch 6120SSU

Squier CV Telecaster Custom

Rockett Archer

Boss DM2W

Boss BD2W

Through (traded in and then out again)

PRS CU22 Artist - should I have let this go? Probably not.

Lonestar Strat

Les Paul Jr

In (and still here - for now)

Cabronita Telecaster

Pink Paisley Telecaster

American Special Strat

EBMM Luke

Dr Z Carmen Ghia 25th Anniv

Boss Katana 50w

BRISTOL86

Started the year with a Takamine laminate acoustic, a capo, a few picks and three chords. 

Finished it with:

Taylor 324ce
MIM Strat
Yamaha THR10
Digitech JamMan Express

Oh, and I now know four chords!

Kalimna

Hmmm, I'm a little new to this trading malarkey, but here goes

In -

Way Huge - Supa Puss, Blue Hippo

EHX - Cathedral

my first (and only) pedals in about 15 years!

Blackstar TVP 15 - I know not everyone likes Blackstar, but I genuinely preferred it to the Katana (thought it lacked 'depth') and THR10C (lacked volume)

Not yet arrived, but ordered

Thornton Dexter amp - beautiful sounding amp from newish UK builder who deserves to be more widely known (Thanks DrBob, of this parish)

633 Drive King - still a ways to go on this one, but deposit down......

Out

Marshall 6101 combo

Palm Bay Tidalwave (still to be delivered though)

Line6 PodXT

I suppose I should also count in my first two homemade pedals (a Way Huge Red Llama clone, and a Lovepedal Woodrow clone), and a bunch of timber acquired from D Dyke to be made into various beasties.

Cheers,

Adam

dindude

Well a baby stopped play pretty much so it's been a quiet year, and you know what, it didn't compromise my enjoyment of guitar one bit, so a lesson learned I think.

Guitars:
2016 Gibson SG Standard P90 (bought and sold).
Godin Core CT P90 (still have but prob up for sale soon).

Amps:
Vox AC10 - cracking little combo but sold anyhoo. 

Pedals:
Quite a bit of activity at the start of the year if I recall, will have to go through old photos and update later!

BRISTOL86

dindude said:

Well a baby stopped play pretty much so it's been a quiet year

I'll bet it hasn't. 

TTBZ

I've done a lot this year and basically ended up with the same setup haha.

Guitars
Put together a telemaster parts, spent ages doing it then realised I hated the neck/fender scale length so sold at a massive loss. Should have just got a jaguar.

sold Pearl LP Custom which I sort of regret but not really as it was so heavy. But sounded and looked really cool.

Bought Epi LP Standard and sold after a few weeks as I realised I didn't need it, I just thought I needed an LP in my collection.

Pedals
bought a TC Spark Booster then realised why I sold my first one haha, just prefer my tubescreamer !
Fuzz War clone which I do love but wish I did a ToneBender clone instead as it'd be more versatile
Fuzz dogs LPB-1 clone which I'm yet to build. Could have bought a real one for cheaper but wanted it in a smaller mini shell.
Sold vox wah 
PT Metro 16 and onespot psu, kinda wish I go a metro 24 but I love the PT design still.

Pickups
loads for my SG, finally settled on an Axesrus Purist bridge humbucker and late 50s hum size neck p90. May replace the neck with another Purist but haven't decided yet. Axesrus pickups are awesome if this is anything to go by. Better than BKP and Irongear imo, or at least the best I've found for my guitar. 

Amps, tried selling my Laney to get a Marshall but no luck at all.

Stevepage

In:

Gibson Les Paul Studio
Ibanez RG550

Out:
Ibanez RG8
Digitech RP1000