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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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12/21/06 + Zanf

Joel - pix or stfu ;)

I want to hear more stuff from you with all this gear

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edited: Dec 21 2006 + Tenine

Traded my old guitar and some cash for this (Definitely my favourite of all the guitars I've ever played)
Ibanez AD-9 Delay (I love it!)
Behringer Flanger (In storage, I might do something with it soon)
Unidentified Soviet-made fuzz pedal (Also in Storage. It's old - It has 5pin DIN sockets for audio! I will probably sell it in the future)
Kay electric guitar (Also in storage. eBay temptation, I gave in. In the process of looking for a buyer)
Black Pocket Gameboy

Also, not gear, but I got Bjork's Family Tree boxset off eBay the other week for £15 including P&P

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12/21/06 + kwyj

My, people have bought some way cool stuff this year!

I've used the velcro cable ties too and they're pretty cool, but the ones I bought this year are the thick ones which you can release for reusability - it's certainly cleared up the mess that was my cable bag.

I was thinking the other day about how em411ers could set up some sort of gear library. This was mostly because I'd love to mess around with something like an evolver, but its not something I'd use every day. I may use it for a few weeks, and then leave it be for a few months when someone else could have perfectly good use of it. The difficult thing is sorting out the logistics of sending the stuff round the world, and making sure gear doesn't go missing. I guess there would have to be some sort of booking system.

Any thoughts?

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12/21/06 + bla

zanf said: "Joel - pix or stfu ;)

I want to hear more stuff from you with all this gear"

so do i!
i havent had a chance to try to use it all yet
just a few more things i 'need' then ill record something

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12/21/06 + tmns

watkins copycat
electro harmonix worm
cheap shit bass guitar
line 6 verbzilla (which i blew up by plugging in the wrong power supply)
very nearly bought a dulcimer today, maybe tommorrow.

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edited: Dec 21 2006 + filarion

monome 40h - definitely made me rethink my approach to live performace, best buy this year hands down
rme fireface 400
dsi evolver desktop
live 6 update
Klipsch Promedia Ultra 2.0 - nice portable speakers to take with me when I'm not near the monitors

also sold a lot of stuff to finance the above, my studio is very streamlined now.. happy with it

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