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It's not what you got, its what you do with it.
Author: Rivel on April 01 2007 Viewed 2927 times. 18 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I always believed "it's not what you got it's what you do with it" when it comes to making electronic music, or any kind of art. Every once in a while though, I will meet the kat who has more than adequate gear and usually isn't that proficient at making or mixing music. It’s like in middle school when the rich kid gets the fancy guitar and can't play worth a crap. The poor kid will eventually get a POS git and blow the rich fool out of the water, because he wants it that much more! Having cheap gear makes you work harder at creating a better and more original sound. Whether all you use is just one tracker, or an old ass drum machine, if you are proficient, the rich dudes will always be saying "how does he do that?" A friend of mine used to scratch on belt drive turntables and now he has some HQ stuff and blows away the competition. Start out with the Fender Squier of equipment and when the time comes move on to the Les Paul quality. I'm still buying the cheap crap (cause I’m still poor haha) and am having just as fun a time as anyone else. I know there is a finite end to my logic where you cannot surpass the quality of the equipment you have, but when that time comes, buy the good stuff! | |
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celibacyclub
nice fruity pic
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datathinner
i don't know why you think the dr-202 is a poor man's drum machine ... it rocks. plus you can bend it.
edit: i agree with your blog too.
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VC
Yeah I agree to this also. I have only 2 budget synths and some found trash + cheapest pedals, and i definetly rock. It's ridiculous how much diverse stuff you can make on a limited equipment.
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EsromCole
Preach on brutha!
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deltasleep
there is nothing wrong with squiers! and its really got nothing to do with the cost of equipment, its about finding gear that has character. most people are just too tasteless to do that unless money forces them to. theres plenty of expensive gear with character too, its not all tritons.
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ricemutt
haha, I think it's even harder for people to have character themselves, sometimes, let alone finding gear that has character...
I totally agree, by the way. That reminds me of that funny paradox of people spending loads of cash trying to get guitars and amps that sound like the old blues guys, but they were just using the cheapest shit back then, because that's all the could afford. hah. I guess the typical example in EM is the tb-303.
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tonearm
no, you are right. All the best stuff I have ever done has been on shitty borrowed or found gear. It forces fresh ways of looking for good sounds, and there's never anything wrong with that.
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lematt
...but sometimes it's so nice when you have the money and then you run in a music shop to buy what you really want.
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11t1
last week, i bought an acoustic guitar with a pick-up in it so i could record it directly. turned out all i could afford was the cheapest model in the store. by your theory, i'm gonna record some absolutely amazing music with it. can't wait!
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sAMsKi
by your theory my tunes must be shite...oh hang on...
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astroboy
reading the headline i instantly thought this would be a sexual blog
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dach
I've nothing but crap gear, and I'm pissed off that I make crap music. Will buying more expensive stuff make me sound better? I certainly hope so.
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tapirA
I've been gear-lusting for a couple years, and haven't really made anything because I'm so caught up on having gear. Having a job and a little bit of cash is a bad thing when making music, I think. I made more music when I only had a guitar, delay pedal & a 4-track... it might have been crap music, but at least I wasn't making my attempts back then. I totally agree with your blog, but I've been slowly starting to make more tracks and forgetting about gear. It takes a while to digest what I have... it'll take about 50 more years with the guitar, the first gear I bought.
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goguru
Yeah I agree with you Rivel. It reminds me of my first electroacoustic composition group class. Our teacher asked us to compose a piece with only 2 sounds and the effect allowed were only transposition, reverse and basic cut and paste. I wouldn't say it's the best stuff I composed, but it made me really aware of the form and the importance of musical syntax, before even starting to think about the timbres.
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TecknoMan
Yes -- the whole timbre thing is extremely overdone! It's why there's so much boring laptop music.
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