Buying new equipment... Addiction???

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What are your thoughts on this? Do you feel it's like an addiction to always get new equipment that you really don't even need? Or do you just go with the basics and only get what you REALLY need? Or do you feel the need to have the biggest studio with tons of equipment? Drop your thoughts...
 
More,..... must..........have.................more.................!!!!
 
Yo 9 of 13 and Startrek:

Not only MORE -- but, BIGGER headroom, more db+ & -, more faders, more fader slide room, more knobs, more dials, more programs, more effects, more dynamics and more of more.

What we really need is a unit that will hear your voice and when you say, record on tracks 2/4 and add whatever, and move this in the background -- Voila -- it will be done.

A lot better than when Bruce says, "Just push up the faders and record."

But, till then, "Just push up the faders and record."

Green Hornet :D :D :cool: :p :p
 
Of course you have to get more. how do you know you don't need it til after you get it? Can any man have too many LED's or toggles?
 
at the moment I'm pretty pleased with what I have... I don't think the limitations in my recordings lie in the equipment... yet...
 
nine13 said:
What are your thoughts on this? Do you feel it's like an addiction to always get new equipment that you really don't even need? Or do you just go with the basics and only get what you REALLY need? Or do you feel the need to have the biggest studio with tons of equipment? Drop your thoughts...
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That depends on the individual and their motives. Do they serve music or do they serve Musician's Fiend? It also depends on how you define what is needed. Does one need an extra fader to capture, reproduce or create music? Does one need an extra fader to capture the magic of 4 guys realizing freedom through rock and roll? Maybe.

Does buying the gear with the extra fader put you beyond your means? Does playing with knobs distract you from the pain in your life? If one answers yes, then maybe they are addicted...

Maybe.

I think the important thing for us to remember is that all of this, is to make music, an art. Focus on the music and what you can do to promote creativity and the spread of true music, unless you're into the whole manufactured corporate music scene, then gear addiction is the least of your problems.
 
I try to focus on quality over quantity.
It's tempting to run out and buy a pair of RNP's or VTB-1's and a pair of RNC's, but that puts you out what, about 750 clams? That's not to say that those aren't quality items, but I'd rather hold off, save my money and put it towards something like a racked pair of API 312's.
I don't have a lot of outboard gear, but what I do have is pretty nice.
If you buy a rack full of less expensive outboard gear, you'll probably be happy with it, and it will probably work well for you but to my way of thinking, you're going to be left wondering how your chain would sound if you had waited and bought that Great River or Avalon or classic Neve.
 
I didn't literally mean ADDICTION haha Just couldn't think of any other word
 
Michael Jones said:
If you buy a rack full of less expensive outboard gear, you'll probably be happy with it, and it will probably work well for you but to my way of thinking, you're going to be left wondering how your chain would sound if you had waited and bought that Great River or Avalon or classic Neve.
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Or not. It depends on the person. I have inexpensive cheap gear, minimal to do what I want (record 8 channels simultaneously). My wallet tells me that I'm not too curious about what 8 channels of Neve pres and 1176 sound like.

I guess I got a little too serious in my last reply, which was in response to people in general forgetting what this is all about - MUSIC, SONIC ART.
 
Ok you guys got me. Gotta love the knobs... but only a minimal amount of very powerful, important knobs.... lol
 
ecs113 said:
I guess I got a little too serious in my last reply, which was in response to people in general forgetting what this is all about - MUSIC, SONIC ART.
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For me it is about the music, but also the fact that I am building something for my friends and associates to use. I think there is an artform in the way things are designed and put together in the studio. The fact that when someone steps into my studio, there are limitless possibilities to what they can do. That is very important to me.

More equipment.....Hell yes

Personnaly, I am addicted to vintage guitars and amps. I am just getting started on the studio. :)
 
G.A.S. - Gear Acquisition Syndrome. The reason equipment manufacturers stay in business.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
I was like you guys, strung out on plastic and electronics. Then I had a child and pow, overnight my whole life changed.

Buy it, buy it all while you can. I had a habit now I have a responsibility. I used to sacrifice food for gear now I'm all about the fruit and diapers. Rent is way higher on the list than mics these days....sniff.:(

Don't get me wrong, I love my baby I just need to install some inputs and maybe rackmount her.:p
 
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