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I am starting to get this bad. Its just me, walking into music stores, looking at stuff, listening to what the stuff can do, and then me justifying how I might be able to pull off affording it, or financing it. Its like a big expensive heroin addiction... seriously. I am about to go out and try to get myself signed up for a credit card, just so I can get an mpc, a second microsynth, and a couple effect units to use as sends for the mixer I bought today. Anyone else got this? or recovering? I can't afford this... any ways of getting around it (not buying stuff goes without saying, but that doesn't really work) Any alternatives? Or hotlinks to devils that might want one slightly beaten soul for a couple pieces of gear? |
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you could try saving up. it will give you more sadisfaction. |
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perhaps you could find cheaper secoond hand stuff on ebay? but i know how it feels, i had same problem with buying cd's.. |
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I´m (almost) recovered from this... I´m using PowerBooks and software since a couple of years.... (my old gear is stuffed away in the basement, waiting to be sold/given away) But the recovery didn´t stop me from buying a new, better midicontroller last month! ;) |
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I really want to get some hardware but so far I've resisted. I don't think it'd help me at all but I just really like the idea of having something I can use hands on and experiment with. I'm not talking about my cock either. |
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Tolstoyed: The stuff I am looking for ends up going for about the same in ebay as it does in the nearby equipment store... and I can actually go there and finance stuff without a credit card (which is very badbadbad...) I think this is carryover from my cd buying days. I got the internet because I couldn't afford buying 300 dollars worth of cd's every month.... Avart: Yeah. I am software based mostly, but as giginger said, I like having my hands on things... it kind of feels more satisfying to press a button, throw a switch or move a slider than it does to press a mousbutton. I am just glad the really expensive gear is practically unatainable... |
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i'm in the process of updating my studio so I sympathise, I think the most important thing to remember though is, it ain't what you've got, it's what you do with it. The people who IMO make the best stuff are those that learn their kit like the back of their hand. Theirs plenty of people with a whole warehouse full of gear but churn out drivel because they keep buying new gear all the time and therfore never really master anything. |
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Its best to save up for something and really appreciate it when you get it. Buying lots of things quickly is not good, unless you know what they do and you are just making a studio. If you are intending on making music, its best to spend wisely, save if something is worth getting, and enjoy it all the more. I'm saving for one of these babies but could buy other 'cool' things, MPC,xoom fx unit,etc, But I REALLY want the synth, so I'm gunna save for it. The thing is there is always loads of stuff out there which I would want, but just think do you need it? and will you appreciate it in a years time? If I was you, I'd stop buying and start making more music. You have to justify the money being spent. Are you collecting equipment or making music? |
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don't fall into this trap. do as much as you can with what you have already. you don't need a mountain of fancy gear to make music. look at a guitar, for instance. there doesn't seem to be any end to the variety of sounds you can make with one. people are still doing creative and new things with guitars. this is very surprising to me considering how much it's been used in music. the point is, you aren't going to run out of musical possibilities if you only have one instrument. you can run out of ideas, sure, but that says more about your creativity than the limitations of the instrument. |
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Well, I am buying the things to use them... not just collect. I have been working on my studio for a year now, and am getting kind of impatient. I am thinking of trading in my current controller (an m-audio O2) for a novation x-station 25. And I know that I don't need a mountain of it, or anything too fancy. I just want some, but it adds up to a hefty price tag for very little. dave_g: I spend money too fast. If I have over 100 dollars, then I will spend untill I get there, on stupid shit. At least if I get in over my head, then I get to my 100 dollars and stop, I will still have something good to show for it. Saving and me don't like eachother. |
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you will never be happy or satisfied. especially when the baliffs come a knockin' |
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Yeah. Thats why I used the term gearlust. I don't know. I wish people would quit assuming I am just accumulating for the sake of accumulating. Most people here don't just buy cd's to have cd's (I hope). They actually listen to them. Just because you have over 500 doesn't necessarily mean any will slip through the cracks. |
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why don't you get "limewire" or just buy mp3s and burn them onto a cd. In the meanwhile see your cd collection as an investment not as a waste of money. |
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It wasn't mp3's or music I was talking about, it was gear. The cd's was an example. |
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