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On the verge of buying a neck fretted in just intonation, 24 frets to the 2/1. Maybe don't talk me out of it, though.

Played a nice set of contemporary Gretsch USA Customs at a work event last week.

Wonderful sounding drums, very tempted to maybe start shopping around, but would need to move/liquidate some gear first.

I flippn hate Behringer and have until now sworn off those synth knockoffs... but that $400 Prophet is really giving me the sad puppy eyes.

Kniferide wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:31 am I flippn hate Behringer and have until now sworn off those synth knockoffs... but that $400 Prophet is really giving me the sad puppy eyes.

I'd just do it, honestly. Not to say that Behringer is great, but I'm not gonna pretend like most mainstream brands shouldn't involve some level of guilt either.

ok, flipping the script a bit Talk me out of selling my Carvin X-100B to a good friend and fellow PRFr you can probably guess the only other dude on the forum who has been known to use this amp.

This amp is a swiss-army knife of an amp, as discussed many times, very under-rated and can do many different things well. Probably the only amp I have that's close to "modern-sounding", especially in the clean channel. Say what you want about active EQ, you can dial in a ton of crazy stuff between the graphic and the standard stack.

That being said, I only trot it out about once a year to use as backup to the backline at the Campout. I'll probably never be in a band playing guitar again and I have way, way too many other guitar amps, including a Marshall 2204 which was my dream amp forever.

IDK, hard for me to get rid of things. I've had this for 25 years now and it was the first very good amp I ever bought. Been on tour with it, recorded a lot of albums with it, and when I was doing studio stuff, this was used by a lot of younger dudes who showed up with amps that weren't recording well for what they wanted. I guess I'm saying I'm a bit sentimental about it.

Marie Kondo this thing or hang on to the dream?

penningtron wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 10:03 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:31 am I flippn hate Behringer and have until now sworn off those synth knockoffs... but that $400 Prophet is really giving me the sad puppy eyes.

I'd just do it, honestly. Not to say that Behringer is great, but I'm not gonna pretend like most mainstream brands shouldn't involve some level of guilt either.

mmmm hmmmm. And it isn't like there is any other way to get your hands on a vintage Prophet unless you sell a Honda Accord or something. I'm pretty sure it will fit on the top of my Nord too. Stupid Flanders. Maybe I'll just buy a used one once they are out for a while.

Garth wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 10:49 am I guess I'm saying I'm a bit sentimental about it.

If you're waffling on it at all, I say keep it. If you don't need the money and/or the space, just keep it. I was just talking with a client about regretting selling stuff....

My strat is ~25 years old, probably worth more than I paid for it, I hardly play it anymore because compared to the Warmoths I've been building, it kinda sucks, it's like driving a jalopy after getting used to finely-tuned race cars. And it's not even particularly cool looking or anything. But selling it just seems weird, all the shitty songs I wrote in the last quarter century were on that thing, selling it would feel like kicking a family member out of the house.

Kniferide wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:00 am

penningtron wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 10:03 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:31 am I flippn hate Behringer and have until now sworn off those synth knockoffs... but that $400 Prophet is really giving me the sad puppy eyes.

I'd just do it, honestly. Not to say that Behringer is great, but I'm not gonna pretend like most mainstream brands shouldn't involve some level of guilt either.

mmmm hmmmm. And it isn't like there is any other way to get your hands on a vintage Prophet unless you sell a Honda Accord or something. I'm pretty sure it will fit on the top of my Nord too. Stupid Flanders. Maybe I'll just buy a used one once they are out for a while.

I'm still eyeing the Sequential Take Five as kind of the updated Prophet lite. Someone on here tried to talk me out of it due to the only five voices feature but I'm no great pianist (annunciate that carefully please). More pricey than a Behringer though, excellent tones.

Maurice wrote: Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:36 am On the verge of buying a neck fretted in just intonation, 24 frets to the 2/1. Maybe don't talk me out of it, though.

Officially ordered. Now I can play more than twice as many wrong notes.

Garth wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 10:49 am...

Marie Kondo this thing or hang on to the dream?

One guy's take...

The central thing here is that Carvin is no longer in business. Even if you can set aside the "Sentimentality..." component here? You can't just walk into a Sam Ash, and grab a replacement if the "Just The Facts, Ma'am..." part of you brain comes to the conclusion that you have goofed.

That being the case, I'd only let it go if it was almost entirely about selling it to whoever was interested in buying it from me.