Best music purchase of 2022?

[SumOne]

What are your best music purchase of 2022?

 

For me it has been an MPC One. It's almost too good as it has seriously dented my Bass practice time. 

[T-Bay]

Boss Gx100, amazing bit of kit and stupidly good value when you consider what it does.

[binky_bass]

Peavey USA TL6. Fantastic instrument.

[lidl e]

Lusithand single NFP jazzplate

[Lozz196]

Epiphone J-200 EC acoustic guitar. My first mid-priced acoustic, only ever had beginner grade before, really makes a difference having a decent instrument.

[Doctor J]

Bacchus Standard 04

[Dad3353]

A second-hand Millennium MPS-850 e-drum kit, still boxed, and at a splendid price. A very nice kit. 

[NickD]

Finally went for a Double Bass. Drove up to Scotland and made a weekend of it, met some great folks in the process (as appears to be the Basschat way) and haven't stopped wrestling with the damn thing since. It also appears to have killed my GAS, to the extent that I think I'll be paring down the bass guitars a bit next year.

[Steve Browning]

I think mine will be my Greco PB450. It's inexpensive, has got the wrong name on the headstock but it's a really nice instrument.

[gafbass02]

My laser stomp was pretty amazing for the solo gigs, that and my SR300 purely for the colour! 

[jimmyb625]

Origin Effects BassRig. Definitely the best purchase I made, with the Cali 76 close behind for a brilliant small touring board. 

[msb]

Two amps I picked up on kijiji, I saw the SWR right after it was posted , the seller was only asking for a hundred bucks. It’s a nice little amp , 400 watts at 4ohms. Everything works perfectly. Great deal.
And a Darkglass E500 , a completely different thing. Using the software Darkglass has made you have a choice of 22 effects and pedals , you can design , save and store presets you create. I’ve been mostly playing around with the E500, it’s a hoot to create presets. And I’m getting better at it.

[Frank Blank]

@Jabba_the_gut is building me a matching pair of short scale basses, fretless and fretted. The first one, the fretless, was, by a country mile, my best purchase of 2022, of my entire bass playing life, actually...

 

 

 

 

[PaulThePlug]

Ibanez SR300E in Iron Pewter... daft £ and just around the corner

[Reggaebass]

I’ve had a few in and out but probably my favourite is the jazz elite bought in February 

[WinterMute]

Without doubt the ACG Krell fretless, what a fine bass it is.

 

Honourable mention to the Quad Cortex, in any other year a hands down winner.

 

[asingardenof]

My Barefaced Two10S, sounds amazing and will save my back a lot of grief.

[neepheid]

Me personally? Nothing. Mrs. Neepheid bought me a Reverend Triad so it has to be that. What a shame

 

Edited December 24, 2022 by neepheid

[Lo-E]

A dear friend (and great bassist) who lives in a small Manhattan apartment called me during the summer to ask if I wanted to buy his 1967 Ampeg SB-12.

 

He had realized that, with his bad back, he had only used his lightweight rig for the past several years and he didn’t want the Ampeg to languish in his closet. He offered it to me at a very generous price and, naturally, I said yes. 
 

To be honest, this was the best purchase of the last several years. 

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

My Shuker JJ Burnel Signature.

 

[bassbiscuits]

A toss up between my Cali76 compressor I got in March, and the Yamaha FG512SJ acoustic I picked up in October for absolutely peanuts.

Both immediately became my go-to bits of kit which is always a good sign. (Yammy pictured here with my Crafter electro acoustic).
 

 

[uk_lefty]

Tough one... I'm going to say my Darkglass Duality Fuzz pedal. I was never really one for fuzz, having only had it on multi fx pedals and never really needing it. The last year I've played a lot more modern music and guitar versions of pop songs so the fuzz has become essential for replicating synth tones, especially with a boss OC-2 in front. The Duality is a great pedal, there's so much flexibility in what you can get from it, including a soft and subtle fuzz sound which I've never been able to find before. 

 

It was, of course, bought on the BC Marketplace too.

 

Honourable mentions: ABM600 amp head, Sire V9 five string bass, Harley Benton jaco-alike fretless jazz which I've barely touched as it arrived on the day I went away on a work trip.

Edited December 24, 2022 by uk_lefty

[BlueMoon]

For me it was my Buzz Hornet unlined fretless P bass. Superb instrument.

 

[Leonard Smalls]

Line 6 Helix... No more dodgy connections, or duff power supplies, no noise at all bar what I play. 

[Paul S]

I have two, possibly three contenders.  A Retrovibe Faker and an Epiphone Thunderbird Classic Pro.  Both completely different to my beloved precisions but in a good way and have joined the rotation cycle for use at gigs   The third is a bitsa '54 Precision that I suspect will usurp many once I have finished fettling.