My studio gear is up for sale.

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Yep!

Hobbies come and go and with the photography now, it's still very much an artistic endeavor for me so I still feel like I'm keeping to those drives within me! ;)

And what I really like about it is that it's a much more compact hobby then analog recording which eats a lot of living space.

Anyway, I just a guy show up at my door from the ad and bought my Roland Octopad II which is pushing 30 years old and got $100 bucks for it! :D

Slowly but surely, it's disappearing!

Cheers! :)
 
The Ghost of FM said:
Joel,

Thanks for your interest in the MS-16.

When I moved it the last time, it took an incredible effort to find the right kind of boxes and packing materials to bundle it up safely for a trip across town that I was doing myself and it ended up being separated into 6 separate boxes which I managed to get from a TV store I used to work in. This was in the days when 36" tube TV sets were still being made as that's the size box required for the roll-around cart. Then a 27" TV box was needed for the transport and then a few 20" TV boxes for the other components of the deck. All in all, it was a tremendous task to do back when these boxes were readily available. Now, I have no idea where I'd find large and sturdy enough containers to put it all in. To mention nothing of the shipping costs to send it from Toronto, Canada to Nebraska! :eek::D

This is why I'm hopeful of finding a local buyer first and foremost. The alternatives are very ugly.

Cheers! :)
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Understood.

Best of luck to you, Jeff.

Joel, studio 52
 
Greatest Craigslist pictures I have ever seen! haha :)

If I had the money I would buy that16 track Tascam in a second!
 
samth3mancgp said:
Greatest Craigslist pictures I have ever seen! haha :)

If I had the money I would buy that16 track Tascam in a second!
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Thanks for the kind words on my photos! :)

What part of the world do you hail from? Maybe we could work something out?

Cheers! :)
 
The Ghost of FM said:
Yes, all of my instruments are listed in the ad too. I do have tremendous sentimental value in these things but the reality is that I haven't touched them in years so the practical side of me is telling me its time to part with them. :o

Cheers! :)
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Just hope everything goes to as good a home as you have given them Ghost. And BTW, if you do sell everything you have, it just won't seem right when you give me equipment help, suggestions, etc. I'll be sitting here thinking, " Geesh, this dude doesn't even OWN any recording stuff, what does he know " ? :laughings: In all honosty, and propably everyone else here who knows you or you have helped knows the smarts you have for all this. We all hate to see you let your things go, but we know. Take care.
 
poor_boy_record said:
Just hope everything goes to as good a home as you have given them Ghost. And BTW, if you do sell everything you have, it just won't seem right when you give me equipment help, suggestions, etc. I'll be sitting here thinking, " Geesh, this dude doesn't even OWN any recording stuff, what does he know " ? :laughings: In all honosty, and propably everyone else here who knows you or you have helped knows the smarts you have for all this. We all hate to see you let your things go, but we know. Take care.
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Thanks for the kind words on my equipment knowledge; much appreciated!

But, as it sits right now, I still have most of the gear as only a few smaller, cheaper items have sold.

Like many Craig's list sales, people write to you ask for your address and say they're coming over and never actually show up. :rolleyes:

I've been working on the premise of not giving out my address unless the person calls me to get it and that gives me the opportunity to talk with them and hear just how serious they are about buying the stuff as apposed to just farting around or worse. It's nice to make quick local cash sales. Not so good to have a gang of thugs show up to rob you...fun stuff!

So far, one mixer is sold, The EQ sold yesterday and the octopad sold the night before that. Everything else is still for sale.

Cheers! :)
 
The Ghost of FM said:
Like many Craig's list sales, people write to you ask for your address and say they're coming over and never actually show up. :rolleyes:

I've been working on the premise of not giving out my address unless the person calls me to get it
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Jeff, I would be very careful with giving out your address, unless the person provides a valid phone number and with whom you can actually talk and get a gauge on things. It can be very scary and potentially dangerous otherwise. Heck but I'm just paranoid anyway... but it doesn't mean it's not a valid point. ;)
 
The Ghost of FM said:
Thanks!

Do you have a van and feel like a 5000 mile road trip, by any chance? :D

Cheers! :)
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Jeff,

I do have a van, but don't have time to make the trip as I'm playing 3-4 nights a week. That trip could be a blast with the right travel companion!!


Joel
 
joel77 said:
Jeff,

I do have a van, but don't have time to make the trip as I'm playing 3-4 nights a week. That trip could be a blast with the right travel companion!!


Joel
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Yeah, road trips are cool with the right company and probably much nicer in the spring and summer months then now, in the middle of winter. I've done trips to Kentucky and Connecticut for Jamfests which were 600 miles each way and that was cool but kind of tiring being on the road for 11 or 12 hours. Doing one thats about 2500 miles each way would need about 4 or 5 days, each way! :eek:

If you're really serious about the machine, I could contact a couple of cartage companies to get a quote on the charges. I expect it would be somewhere around 500 bucks though plus the crating materials?

Cheers! :)
 
The Ghost of FM said:
Yeah, road trips are cool with the right company and probably much nicer in the spring and summer months then now, in the middle of winter. I've done trips to Kentucky and Connecticut for Jamfests which were 600 miles each way and that was cool but kind of tiring being on the road for 11 or 12 hours. Doing one thats about 2500 miles each way would need about 4 or 5 days, each way! :eek:

If you're really serious about the machine, I could contact a couple of cartage companies to get a quote on the charges. I expect it would be somewhere around 500 bucks though plus the crating materials?

Cheers! :)
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Actually, I just did a good maps search for a trip to Nebraska and it's only about 1100 miles each way! So that's like a 2 day trip each way or a straight 18 hour drive if you had a tag-team driver with you.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&sour...79687&sspn=6.309774,14.227295&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=6

Cheers! :)
 
Alesis 3630 stereo compressors...both now sold! :D

It's getting emptier in here! :eek:

Cheers! :)
 
The Ghost of FM said:
I live in an apartment building. It's impossible to bring a band in here unless I was looking to get evicted real quick! :D

Cheers! :)
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Rent a smaller apartment, just for you to live in.

Rent a self-storage unit big enough to use a a recording studio (See where I'm going with this?)

"Store" your gear there. Have local bands pay you to "move stuff in, out, and around" the SS unit.
 
stevieb said:
Rent a smaller apartment, just for you to live in.

Rent a self-storage unit big enough to use a a recording studio (See where I'm going with this?)

"Store" your gear there. Have local bands pay you to "move stuff in, out, and around" the SS unit.
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Yeah, I see where you're going but I'm not going there with you! :D

Most of the storage units around here that would be large enough to hold a working studio would cost more then what I'm paying now in rent and I have no intension of desire to set up and run a pro studio as my heart's just not in it.

Thanks for the idea though; I appreciate it. ;)

Cheers! :)
 
Man don't sell it!! If you can find a way to store it until things improve do it! Sooner or later you'll record again and you'l wish you had your gear!
 
Lance Lawson said:
Man don't sell it!! If you can find a way to store it until things improve do it! Sooner or later you'll record again and you'l wish you had your gear!
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The major components have not been sold yet...so far I've only managed to find buyers for the smaller, cheaper stuff.

That said, if I did want to get back into it at a later date, I could always just pick up some one else's used gear as this stuff tends to go around in circles.

Cheers! :)
 
The Ghost of FM said:
The major components have not been sold yet...so far I've only managed to find buyers for the smaller, cheaper stuff.

That said, if I did want to get back into it at a later date, I could always just pick up some one else's used gear as this stuff tends to go around in circles.

Cheers! :)
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I lugged my Teac 2300 SD around with me for 20+ years, unused. Then last year I dug it out serviced it and began using it again. I'm glad I kept it all these years its mint and I'd never find another one in this condition. A lot of stuff that seems replaceable now becomes impossible once you actually try and replace it! Good luck though however you decide.
 
Sad that you have to downsize (don't you love euphemisms?) to survive but "needs must".
I do hope you get a paying handle of the photography thing as you'll need the creative outlet.
There's a great chunk of "there but by the grace..." in my throat!
 
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