miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
I cant understand why anyone would ask this question even of themselves unless it was for tax purposes. I neither know nor care how much I have spent in total. Christ, i bought the house I live in now specifically to build a home studio and also have a three car garage, should i count that bill? I'm not a gear snob, I buy what i can afford and make it do what i want. Sometimes cheap ass crap is exactly what is needed. But i also am not so deluded as to think there is no sonic difference between cheap ass crap and a piece of well made quality kit. Frankly , if you cant listen to something like the Sweetwater Mic shootout and discern obvious differences in what can be gotten "sonically" for more money, then either your ears or monitors need repair. And as the OP claims that it is a "fact" that spending more money doesn't get better sound only different sound makes me question the validity of his assertions, let alone his acquaintance with the concept of "facts" which require proof that thus far has not been offered. Miro is expanding , at least partly to enable upgraded possibilities to record at home, even though his setup is already perfectly workable. He can do so so why not? Aspiring to better ones recordings, whether through learning or acquiring better quality gear or space is not something that can be dissed without making one look like a mean spirited wannabe playah hater. Rant completed.
Yup...
When anyone repeatedly makes extreme broad blanket statements and offers them as "fact" simply because that is his belief...they either don't know what they are talking about, or they're just taking those positions because they have nowhere else to go...
...and it's pretty obvious that the purpose of this thread was to extract some kind of ammunition to denounce people who can afford to up-scale their studios and who see that as an evolutionary process with a longer goal.
I mean...that's kinda sad, to look down on anyone who has more than you do...I mean, WTF?
Comments were repeatedly made about gear "snobs" who are putting down people without...but I don't see that anywhere.
It's actually the opposite...the one without putting down those with, and trying even to toss some guilt on them, that they are wasting their money...blah, blah, blah.
I tell you...during the last couple of days of this thread...I picked up a pair of Audio Technica SDC mics, a Fender '57 Custom Twin Amp (the low power Tweed Twin), a new Scumback speaker, and a Telecaster Nashville showed up at my door today, not to mention some "boring" studio power distro gear that I want to upgrade when I move into my new studio after it's built...and I don't feel guilty about it, or have one ounce of regret.
There's only so much life here on planet earth folks,...and when it's done, it's done.
You wanna put your eggs in the "life after death" basket, and wait for that before you "go for it", that's fine...though even if there is something, I bet there won't be any guitars and amps, well OK, maybe some ethereal "air guitar"...but if I have the means and the resources now, I'm gonna put together the best damn studio that I can, and never for a moment feel any of the money was wasted. I worked hard all my life...so I'm gonna play hard as long as I can.
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Oh...and I wasn't just looking to brag about the gear I bought...but this thread was specifically asking how much people spend on audio gear, so that should provide some idea. I'm not going to add it all up...I really don't care. It's what I like to do and that's what money is for.
I could probably go on some stupid big cruise and drop $5k-$10k...which to me WOULD be a true waste of money...but I would rather spend it on more audio gear.
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