Gear Thread: Week of Feb. 13

dr_lugh · 2017-02-16T23:57:59+00:00

It's a Kala KA-JTE tenor ukulele :)

dr_lugh · 2017-02-16T23:56:20+00:00

indeed they do.

dr_lugh · 2017-02-16T23:56:08+00:00

It's really nice, albeit it took me forever to play it quietly enough to not shadow other uke players, it's really loud.

dr_lugh · 2017-02-16T23:55:23+00:00

I used to do live shows with a small UV light shining from my pedalboard, it was extremely effective as a visual prop.

dr_lugh · 2017-02-16T23:54:21+00:00

It's the best thing ever.

dr_lugh · 2017-02-16T17:02:19+00:00

Ok, get comfy:

Casio CTK-3000 keyboard
Washburn AB10 acoustic bass
ESP Ltd F-254 upgraded with EMG pickups and tuned BEAD
Samick LB-11 (my first bass) upgraded with Biarnel handmade pickups
Biarnel Prassi handmade bass
Schecter OMEN-8 double course bass
Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass Special Short Scale bass
Epiphone Les Paul Studio guitar
Kamaka double course baritone ukulele
Kala U-Bass
Kala KA-JTE tenor ukulele
Ortega OUBJ100 concert banjolele
Moog Etherwave Theremin
Kala KA-EBY soprano ukulele
iUke Mini piccolo ukulele

dr_lugh · 2017-02-16T16:50:59+00:00

I started by buying 1 bass and several ukes (much cheaper, and don't need amps), then a couple of years ago I got 3 basses here and now the rest of them and the guitar and the keyboard. My amp should arrive next week :)

dr_lugh · 2017-02-16T16:49:41+00:00

Exactly this. That's the first in time of many things that attracted me to the uke: if as a bass player I took a classical guitar in my hand I found mystelf playing it like a bass, this just doesn't happen with the uke. The traditional "musical roles" are almost opposite as well.

Thanks to this, I'm developing new skills on it and also I can sing while playing it, thing impossible on the bass for me.

dr_lugh · 2017-02-16T14:37:50+00:00

Basses & Ukes (mostly): after 3 years of having moved to another country, I finally have most of my instruments with me again!

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T20:58:33+00:00

Keep in mind, you'll never know what you and your group will enjoy until you play it, and that goes both ways: I'd never expected my group could enjoy a game about planting and selling beans, or about making a patchwork, until we tried them.

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T20:38:21+00:00

Not really, Shut Up & Sit Down is to blame for most of my purchases...

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T19:59:51+00:00

Played it, liked the idea, liked less the lack of player interaction to commit to it.

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T19:52:44+00:00

Cheers, I grew a bit tired of kallax pics.

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T19:52:01+00:00

I do the same, but we are just moving the setup time around, we aren't reducing it...

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T19:17:43+00:00

I mean, to each it's own. There's plenty of people that prefers it with respect to the games I love and that's fine. It personally fell flat for me but not nearly as much as other modern games I luckily don't own, like Smash Up, Machi Koro, CAH, or Fluxx just to say some. Others enjoy them and that's perfectly cool with me :-)

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T19:11:51+00:00

Well, I already slowed down quite a bit, I bought only about 5 games in the past 6 months :)

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T17:08:33+00:00

It's a great game, simple and somehow pure.

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T17:04:52+00:00

It helped that the whole core play group started buying them at around the same time, so we had a chance to play many during the initial exuberant phase!

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T15:26:48+00:00

Cook to know thanks!

Also, about Camel Up: the AP is not bad but even 2 minutes of it can become tedious with 7 or 8 players. This is a game best enjoyed with a frantic pace and people screaming typical camel names like "You Bastard" :-)

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T15:22:53+00:00

If you like short, mean games it's very well worth the price. If you don't like being mean to your friends it's not the game for you. If you don't like a setup time that is almost as much as the game get the app version.

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T15:18:19+00:00

Well yes, I'm not nearly as hardcore as other people here :)

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T15:13:15+00:00

I 3D printed it myself using these project files.

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T15:11:40+00:00

Indeed. Such a good experience!

dr_lugh · 2017-01-19T15:11:06+00:00

I don't do kickstarter, so I'm waiting for Santorini to either come to normal distribution or on the used market, but I think it's great and I look forward to it. I've not seen Twixt yet but looks cool. On the abstract side I also wish to try and possibly get some GIPF games like YINSH or TZAAR but I had no chances with those yet.

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