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Sweetwater and Musical Wishlisting

posted December 2nd, 2012 in Guitar,Music

I had checked all of the Black Friday-Cyber Monday sales at Sweetwater, Guitar Center, and Musician’s Friend in hopes of finding a Line6 James Tyler Variax (any model, really) on sale for sub-$1k. (There were a couple possibilities, except that no coupon at Guitar Center or Musician’s Friend seems to apply to the JTVs…or, any piece of gear I want, for that matter.) All I ended up with was ordering a copy of Superior Drummer 2.0 from Sweetwaer. This was the first time I’d actually ordered something from them; I’ve been on their mailing/calling list for a while, courtesy entering several of their gear giveaways. (Fingers crossed for their Christmas giveaway to win a full Toontrack pack or the Protools rig!)

Anyway, along with shipping my order out, they sent me their Winter 2013 “Gear Encyclopedia” — they had occasionally sent them before, although since I hadn’t ordered anything or entered any contests recently they had been sending them to an old address. So now I have a 500+ page catalog of music toys showing up right before Christmas. It reminds me of when I was a kid and one of the exciting things at Christmas was when we would get the giant Sears Christmas catalog and go through circling or marking the toys and games that we wanted, like a proxy list for Santa.

Maybe I should go through and mark everything exciting in this catalog and then hand it to my wife…