How much have you dropped on your "home" studio?

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Posted by JTZ on Jan-07-2005 19:48:

How much have you dropped on your "home" studio?

me ~$5000 USD

Started building in '98

But I keep selling my synths though for the VSTi versions (Novation Supernova 2) lame I know... And Ive broke 2 DJ mixers since then. Also my dad threw my first Event 1 monitors out the house and broke them. If I still had everything it would be ~$7000 USD I think.

Posted by CynepMeH on Jan-07-2005 20:28:

Started in '2001... Counting all the instruments and incidentals (cables, tables, monitor stands, power supply units) and things like PC and Software plus LCD monitors and other crap... I'd "guesstimate" it at about $25K...

Posted by alanzo on Jan-07-2005 21:17:

Does this include things that I've sold and (basically) gotten my money back for? There is a huge difference between everything that I've owned in the past and have sold.. and what I currently own

currently own: $700

currently own + have owned in the past: $4000 (god damn )

Posted by Luke Terry on Jan-07-2005 21:51:

around �2500/2700

so $5000 or so

Posted by staticblue on Jan-07-2005 22:14:

i'd say a bit less than 1000$

Posted by DJ Chrono on Jan-07-2005 22:21:

CND price breakdown

supernova: 2,000
daw: 1,200
display: 500
delta44: 550
midisport: 100
roland pc-70: 250
turntables: 1,000
mixer: 700
headphones: 150
amp: 250
monitors: 600
sub woofer: 700

= $8,000 CND ($6,500 USD)

Posted by nec on Jan-08-2005 01:29:

$220 (sound card)

Posted by Luke Terry on Jan-08-2005 01:38:

if studio includes decks that pushed me well into the top category, i totally forgot about vstis and sequencer that i'd bought too

ill change my vote to the top price bracket. quite worring that i've spent that much lol. better than drugs eh

Posted by TranceMasterUk on Jan-08-2005 02:26:

hardware and software

lets see

software over the past 3 years �3000
daw �2500
display �450
monitors �250
soundcard �340
headphones �110
powercore firewire �1000
Evolution MK461C �160

Total: �7810

thats not including soundbanks for various soft synths and the for access virus, and sample cd's

so id say it it would come in at just over �8000/$15000

alot of money for something im not doing professionaly, but i dont care really, producing is something i love doing, so why not spend some of the money i earn of buying stuff for it.

Posted by Limit on Jan-08-2005 03:12:

too much that I dare not think about. Don't have a car because of it.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jan-08-2005 08:27:

I don't even wanna start counting since that'd just make me sad... to think what all I could had done with that money...

Posted by LeeSale on Jan-08-2005 09:47:

This may be painful to think about.. I have managed to get some great deals though
Started to build in early 2002

in CDN Currency:

Audiophile 2496 - $215
TC Powercore - $490
Virus B (Powercore/VST) - $430
Yamaha CS6X - $700
Expansion Board for CS6X- $150
KRK ST8 Monitors - $330
Sony MDR-V700's - $220
Midi Controller - $135
Roland SRV3030 - $200
40 inch club speakers - $1500
Sony Amp - Borrowed from a friend... 2 years ago
Eurorack MX1602 Mixer - $150
MOTU MIDI timepiece - $80
Upgrades to computer - $700?

some pointless material..

Dual CRT monitors (Required new video card) - $300
Custom built desk for studio equipment - $250 (Got as a gift)
Stainless steel keyboard rack - $130
Yaggermeister - Way too much
Rack mount - $50

So I basically have $6230 worth of stuff in this room. I'm sure there is other things I'm forgetting somewhere.

Posted by nec on Jan-08-2005 10:51:

Did you actually all buy computers just for music production?

Posted by nytrox on Jan-08-2005 12:24:

masterkeyboard: 650,- Euro

soundcard: 250,-

monitors: 500,-

additional stuff (controller, mic, mixer etc.): 500,-

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= 1900,- Euro

software + sample-cd's: > 2500,-

wodka-redbull: too much

Posted by DeZmA on Jan-08-2005 13:30:

tho I bought most of my stuff used I'm still above 6000 just for the producing stuff. (Dj - gear and vinyl did cost a lot too)
Just an efx module and good monitors to come and it's quite complete.

Posted by DJ Chrono on Jan-08-2005 16:30:

quote:
Originally posted by nec
Did you actually all buy computers just for music production?

I got mine for music, yes. I have a laptop I use for other things like gaming and internet.

Posted by {b.s.e.} on Jan-09-2005 05:54:

i have spent $0.00

Posted by Ken_Allen on Jan-09-2005 06:59:

Only bought fruity loops

Posted by tonkproject on Jan-10-2005 02:51:

2.8ghz p4
1.5 gbram(3200mhz)
200 hdd(maxtor)
17'' SONY MONITOR
EMU 1820M
KORG ELECTRIBE ES MK2
KORG MICROKONTROL
KORG TRITON RACK (ALL THE SOUND BOARDS)
ROLAND DM10 AUDIO MONITORS
SONY MDR V700 HEADPHONES
CUBASE SX2
KORG LEGACY
V-STATION
VANGUARD
PRO-53
REAKTOR 4
+
LOADS OF PLUGINS
==========================

5.000 POUNDS

Posted by JTZ on Jan-10-2005 04:32:

quote:
Originally posted by alanzo
Does this include things that I've sold and (basically) gotten my money back for? There is a huge difference between everything that I've owned in the past and have sold.. and what I currently own

currently own: $700

currently own + have owned in the past: $4000 (god damn )

Sounds like myself. Ive sold most of my equipment, be it upgrading or just found I wasent using it anymore...

Posted by el.maestro on Jan-16-2005 03:39:

About $2500... This year. I've been buying equipment since 1990. I'd say I've spent close to $7000.

Posted by Derivative on Jan-16-2005 15:37:

access virus b (2nd hand) - �400
alesis MEQ 230 (2nd hand) - �50
m-audio delta 1010 (new) - �259
cables - �40

so my hardware setup is looking like about �750 which is about $1,500 USD at current exchange rate. this does not include my software setup which is floops producer edition, linplug albino, reFX vanguard, g-media impOSCar and synapse hydra, superwave pro/trance pro. which is another �400 ($800 USD) all told. i use some of my parent's unused hifi equipment to monitor cuz at the moment im too skint to afford a proper monitoring solution.

approximate total: $2,300 in just over a year's worth of production.

and i dont have very much that is finished to show for it either. which is the demoralizing part. i am getting better though. just not as fast as id like to be able to pay off all this stuff!

Posted by BelgianGuru on Jan-16-2005 16:23:

My studio is very different from the ones posted here apparently, mine consists mostly of instruments, two Fenders (next to the piano my favourite instrument, will never sell those babies), a piano, a synth, gonne get brand new monitors the next couple of weeks, can't decide what to go for (I heared you can get good stuff for about 500$ ?), wasted a piano (don't ask), accoustic guitar, then my PC of course, and then about 2K just for the software. The two pianos alone were an easy 10K I think, but I only bought the first one, the second one everybody from the family pitched in. Still, not a lot of money for the amount of pleasure Not including vinyl, decks and my DJ gear. All this over about hmm 14 years, every summer-job money went to instruments. Reminds me of sending out demo CDs next week lol, time to earn a little of that money back

Posted by ErikC on Jan-17-2005 19:21:

Check my comment out.. Dont know what it is worth in dollars but I sold the Supernova today for something like 600$ so that I can afford a CS-15 analog synthesizer from 1978