Inherited a lot of classic home-musician gear I know zero about being an engineer.

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Home-musician and small all-digital recording studios keep going Belly Up in the Bay Area,
nobody wants their gear since all those people are going back to real instruments, microphones and reel-to-reels, and so we swapmeet guys and engineers inherit it after it fails to sell on eBay.

We don't have the knowledge, time, staff or interest in researching the value of all this equipment about which we know nothing, we don't want to take it to the charity thrift shops whose minimum wage floor clerks know less than we do and care even less than that, because it will just get left out on the sales floor for kids to destroy whose parents don't pay attention for it to end up in the dumpster or at E-Waste.

But, we can use all the reel to reels, microphones, cables and other analog-only equipment about which we know a great deal.

Any ideas?
 
Hmm. Rather minimalist post. Sounds like you have amassed quite a mess of that kind of gear, mostly digital, and are looking to unload it? Moresound is right- a list would be good.

I think you can do a private auction on eBay- limiting it to HR folks would eliminate most of the usual eBay riff-raff, leaving only HR riff-raff. :D Just start everything at $1.00, and let it float from there.
 
stevieb said:
Hmm. Rather minimalist post. Sounds like you have amassed quite a mess of that kind of gear, mostly digital, and are looking to unload it? Moresound is right- a list would be good.

I think you can do a private auction on eBay- limiting it to HR folks would eliminate most of the usual eBay riff-raff, leaving only HR riff-raff. :D Just start everything at $1.00, and let it float from there.
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I see your dollar Stevie and I raise it to a dollar fifty!
 
Home-musician and small all-digital recording studios keep going Belly Up in the Bay Area,
nobody wants their gear since all those people are going back to real instruments, microphones and reel-to-reels, and so we swapmeet guys and engineers inherit it after it fails to sell on eBay.

We don't have the knowledge, time, staff or interest in researching the value of all this equipment about which we know nothing, we don't want to take it to the charity thrift shops whose minimum wage floor clerks know less than we do and care even less than that, because it will just get left out on the sales floor for kids to destroy whose parents don't pay attention for it to end up in the dumpster or at E-Waste.

But, we can use all the reel to reels, microphones, cables and other analog-only equipment about which we know a great deal.

Any ideas?
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That's a bunch of BS.
I'm calling it!
 
moresound said:
You got a list of stuff?
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stevieb said:
Sounds like you have amassed quite a mess of that kind of gear, mostly digital, and are looking to unload it? Moresound is right- a list would be good.

A couple of the guys from the QQ forums are coming to ONE of the storages on Saturday and we'll see what there is piece by piece.

I think you can do a private auction on eBay- limiting it to HR folks would eliminate most of the usual eBay riff-raff, leaving only HR riff-raff. :D Just start everything at $1.00, and let it float from there.
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And QQ forums and BSN forums and the broadcasting forums and etc. etc. etc most of which are on all the same type of boards all at the same time.

Jim Lad said:
That's a bunch of BS. I'm calling it!
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Then explain to me why I'm paying $125 a month for three ten by ten storages in Silicon Valley?
Granted I haven't actually been IN them much other than to drop off.
So, whoever said a list would be in order is right - and why a couple guys from the QuadraphonicQuad forums are coming over to ONE of the storages just to see if we can take some kind of inventory.

But the engineering and gearhead culture is the same now as when I was a kid.

Since generally, anytime a guy dies, divorces or otherwise downsizes, whatever family is left has no idea - or no interest - in a vast number of the guy's possessions - other than what can be immediately unloaded thereby for money (car, house, stocks, bonds, etc), whatever they got gets passed down to whatever ``disciples'' were handy at the time . The rest - all they want it is out from underfoot.

Trouble is now, there's so few if any new generation of ``disciples'' that probably when my time comes, my family will just call the charity thrift shops and have em come haul it all away.

I know the first thing I saw right on top at the last drop-off was a Randall-wannabe-Marshall guitar amp.

So we'll try and start with a list next week.
 
whenever this mystical list comes out, make sure you either list prices, or do a private Ebay auction as was suggested. otherwise you will have a chaotic feeding frenzy and a bunch of folks who will end up feeling like they got the shaft.
 
I'm just going to start eating fellow members of the HR brotherhood to thin out the heard ..... then all the more gear for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :D
 
I've got a list of stuff I need. I'm going to be keeping an eye out cause if I can get any of the items for less than new you best bet I'm gonna fight tooth and nail for it before ordering from MF. Watch out MS, Here I come.
 
Ah, the buzzards are circling.
Happy first day of summer to all of you!
 
Happy day that follows the first day of summer to you Jim.
 
A flock of large, black birds is called a MURDER of crows.

I wonder what a flock of buzzards is called?
 
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