music stuff i bought this year
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Author: kwyj on December 21 2006
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--> Here's a list of the music stuff I bought this year, in order of usefulness:

1. EMU 1616m laptop soundcard
- So cool to have more than 2 ins and outs, and 2 midi interfaces thrown into the mix as well. Masses of routing possibilities.

2. cable ties
- An amazing improvement to workflow for just a few pence.

3. Lakewood D-1 acoustic guitar
- An absolutely beautiful sounding guitar, looking forward to recording this more in 2007.

4. NI Complete Upgrade 2->3
- Lots of extra goodies in this upgrade, and you get a separate manual for each product. Very steep learning curve though, and I mostly just use Kompakt, Elektrik Piano, and the beat machines in Reaktor.

5. Korg Electribe ES1 Mk 2
- Got this for £70 on ebay. Really just use it in a youthwork project to give the kids something to rap over. Goes down a storm mind, and pretty resilient to liquid attack.

New year gear resolution:
Learn to use the old year's gear, buy less new stuff.
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i bought so much stuff i cant remember it all

just got a mackie desk for £150 !!!

I brought :

Live 6 [Sampler & Operator]
Lots of various plugins

Novation ReMOTE SL Zero
Novation ReMOTE LE 25

Focusrite Saffire

Seagate 320Gb external drive

I love all of it as its all what I needed/used and none was impulse buys

Oooo, Novation ReMOTE SL Zero - nice. I was thinking of getting one of those this year, but I decided to figure out how to use my BCR2000 instead. It doesn't have all the automapping stuff, but after putting in a couple of nights effort into manual mapping it works great.

How's Live 6 working out? I'm really getting lots of use out of v5, and I don't find myself missing much in the way of v6 features.

I have a BCR as well but will use it exclusively on my nord micromod. I wanted the SL more for studio work than live - i just hate trying to access pages and pages of vars when they all appear right infront of me really easily [yup, im lazy].

Live 6 is good - havent had lots of time on it yet to delve too deep - I had a lite version of 5 previously that i upgraded from so Im just finding my way around. im blown by the whole instrument racks thing - I know you had devices in 5 but this is stacked devices and opens shit right up!

hmmm. i bought

1. acer laptop
2. akai s950
3. yamaha ez ag midi guitar
4. a whole fuck load of cd's and records.

The cable ties you want to get though are the new velcro style. I had stacks of them from when I was installing Cat 6 cable about 2 years ago. They are reuseable and you can cut them to size as well. They are also 'multipurpose'! ;)

yar what a year for buying shit.

i bought
1. a new desktop, (amd x2)
2. focusrite saffire (fisrt time it was an empty box lol)
3. roland jx3p synth (mainly because i coundnt get a mks80)
4. 1990 acura integra (what a piece of shit but its so fun)


3.
and a new fleshlight, what a year 4 u cc! i was wondering how the saffire sounded
compared to the mbox pres. Like it?

yes, it sounds good. works well.

im not much of a singer though, so i couldnt give the best advice on mic pre for vocal recording goodness.

focusright made the original mbox pres.

Stuff I bought or otherwise acquired:

Alesis hr-16
Alesis mmt-8
Realistic MG1
Snarling Dogs Mold Spore (ring mod/wah)
2 Gameboys, Nanoloop 1.3 (still in shipping)
Colorsound Fuzzphase
digitech rp80
Digitech bass synthwah
TI Touch and Tell (now bent)

Golly jeez that seems like a lot of stuff. I actually only spent about $70 on the Alesis stuff. The rest was trades or given to me.
I should liquidate all this shit and get a good lappy and Max MSP.

i bought a load of stuff this year (i'm gonna start counting from last september)

1. g4 tower
2. pc
3. gigastudio 3
4. computer monitor
5. computer keyboard
6. 300g hard drive
7. dvd burner
8. evolver
9. tx81z
10. vz10m
11. nord micromodular-upgraded to g2
12. peavey 1600x
13. axiom 49
14. ableton live 6

2, 3, and 14 were bascially all given to me, though.

that's a lot of stuff

I mostly bought effects boxes and plugins this year.

1. Sansamp Para Driver (one of the best investments I ever made)
2. Digiverb (looooove reverse reverb!)
3. iZotope Trash (so flexible)
4. Refx's Slayer (nice sound)
5. Magicstomp (so sweet)
6. Behringer GDI21 (trashy and fun)
7. A pedal board (has changed my life)
8. Cheep Mics (so good)

Renting the cello currently, but my teacher thinks it's a pretty nice one so might eventually buy it (rent to own program).

Echo Layla 3G
Chandler Germanium Pre
Audio Damage Reverence
Live 6 update
Adam A7's (recent purchase...fukkin amazing sounding nearfields)

ok ill try... stuff marked '?' mightve been late last year
not in order of anything
yamaha mep4
yamaha mep4
yamaha mep4
alesis sr16
alesis quadraverb-gt
alesis 3630-compressor
alesis 3630-compressor
alesis 3630-compressor
alesis datadisk-sq
tascam pe40
tascam 38
tascam pb64
peavey q431f ?
DOD real time audio analyser ?
simmons spm 8:2 ?
akai me30p ?
akai mb76
akai me15f
akai s612+md280
fostex dcm100 +mixtab ?
fostex dcm100 ?
philips 770 cd recorder
27u rack cabinet ?

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