rottingcorpse
Well-known member
We all have a favorite, go-to amp that is your main bitch.
The one that never fails you. It always makes you smile more than the others.
Yet most of us added to our stable,wanting to try as many flavors as we could.
"Maybe there is something I might like better...."(whispered quietly to ourselves while looking at the credit card)
Perhaps you tried every model a certain manufacturer had before settling on a particular one(Me with Diezel,ENGL,VHT,Marshall etc)
Or the various revisions of a specific model(looking at you guys with the C2+ and rectifier habit).
Or upgrading when newer higher gain options came out(me with the Peters...hyrda/chimera/FSM).
But there is always one that you come back to that makes it all worthwhile.
Now in you head....try to do the math.
Figure out when you found THAT amp.
Then TRY to remember everything you bought after THAT amp.
Or maybe you sold THAT amp,went thru a bunch of others before getting THAT amp again.
I can pretty much call my 3 local bros and point to my amps and between us we might be able to do this math.
But in some cases I can't remember how I acquired them.
Some were ordered,some were trades...but most came from this forum in some way, shape or form.
My reason for this thought process was trying to whittle mine down to a top 5.
If I sold everything else, what would I recoup?
Then I took it a bit farther to "what if I had ONLY bought those 5?"
Or worse yet...what if I had just taken a best bros advice and only bought my main bitch?
In reality,the chase is often better than the catch(big shout out to Lemmy).
But if I go into Baskin Robins,I know I'm not going to like 25 of the 31 flavors....because I tried them all.
The chase for MY main bitch(s) is over. Has been for a couple of years.
That doesn't stop me from wanting an M.I. or Driftwood or even a...(can't believe I'm saying this)...AXF3.
But just stopping the chase and ending the collecting has meant not only clean credit cards but also a fat bank account.
On the other hand,my awesomely bad ass credit rating is a DIRECT result of amp chasing for about 15 years.
Was it all worth it?
Would I do it again?
Would I avoid this forum and all you fucking enablers?
All I know for sure is what amps I would avoid like the plague.
Big thanks to those here who helped along the way.
I sure enjoyed the chase.
Now....try to do the math yourself.
The one that never fails you. It always makes you smile more than the others.
Yet most of us added to our stable,wanting to try as many flavors as we could.
"Maybe there is something I might like better...."(whispered quietly to ourselves while looking at the credit card)
Perhaps you tried every model a certain manufacturer had before settling on a particular one(Me with Diezel,ENGL,VHT,Marshall etc)
Or the various revisions of a specific model(looking at you guys with the C2+ and rectifier habit).
Or upgrading when newer higher gain options came out(me with the Peters...hyrda/chimera/FSM).
But there is always one that you come back to that makes it all worthwhile.
Now in you head....try to do the math.
Figure out when you found THAT amp.
Then TRY to remember everything you bought after THAT amp.
Or maybe you sold THAT amp,went thru a bunch of others before getting THAT amp again.
I can pretty much call my 3 local bros and point to my amps and between us we might be able to do this math.
But in some cases I can't remember how I acquired them.
Some were ordered,some were trades...but most came from this forum in some way, shape or form.
My reason for this thought process was trying to whittle mine down to a top 5.
If I sold everything else, what would I recoup?
Then I took it a bit farther to "what if I had ONLY bought those 5?"
Or worse yet...what if I had just taken a best bros advice and only bought my main bitch?
In reality,the chase is often better than the catch(big shout out to Lemmy).
But if I go into Baskin Robins,I know I'm not going to like 25 of the 31 flavors....because I tried them all.
The chase for MY main bitch(s) is over. Has been for a couple of years.
That doesn't stop me from wanting an M.I. or Driftwood or even a...(can't believe I'm saying this)...AXF3.
But just stopping the chase and ending the collecting has meant not only clean credit cards but also a fat bank account.
On the other hand,my awesomely bad ass credit rating is a DIRECT result of amp chasing for about 15 years.
Was it all worth it?
Would I do it again?
Would I avoid this forum and all you fucking enablers?
All I know for sure is what amps I would avoid like the plague.
Big thanks to those here who helped along the way.
I sure enjoyed the chase.
Now....try to do the math yourself.
