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ever bought something really expensive than regretted it? (pg. 3)
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| DJ RANN |
Pioneer DJM500.
Thankfully not my money but I had to go buy it for a mate (more money than sense) who wanted one and it wasn't even out yet. I pulled in every favor form people I knew in the industry a managed to find the only one in the UK (it was 6 months before official release). He spent £2500 and within 3 months the headphone pot was crackling. Piece of , and pioneer haven't got any better since then. |
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| clay |
basically everything ive ever bought full price i regret.
exception is my monitors and my mac. |
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| atxbigballer1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
basically everything ive ever bought full price i regret.
exception is my monitors and my mac. |
PALM:) |
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| Looney4Clooney |
I don't know if i regret buying any of it but i could of spent the money a little wiser.
I bought an original Neumann U47 which i have never used or probably never will. It is more furniture than anything. IN fact i have about 30 000 in microphones that are too expensive to use but validate my existence. Kinda like my nazi paraphernalia. I have an unused original wermatch infantry uniform and a potato smasher ( no explosives ). I've been also trying to collect all the microphones used by Furtwängler in his recordings. Most would call that a waste of money.
I bought first print originals of all of Wagner's Opera's. The problem is that they are too expensive to even open and as good as it feels having it, well you need a clean room or they will be damaged.
I also spent 40 000 on a grand piano, and 5 000 on getting it into an apartment. That purchase was hard to explain to the wife.
I once bought a 800 hardware delay unit. TC something or other.
UAD
CS6
Honestly i regret selling stuff more than buying. As a rule, i just don't sell stuff anymore. Maybe i am a hoarder but i find anytime you sell something, the money is used instantly and you miss the stuff even if you didn't use it recently. I like having old stuff i might not of used but at least it reminds me of a part of history or something. |
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| tehlord |
Send me the U47 then.
I'll record you something real special with it. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
basically everything ive ever bought full price i regret.
exception is my monitors and my mac. |
don't forget your apartment. That investment made all the other completely useless.
| quote: | Originally posted by L4C
I bought an original Neumann U47 which i have never used or probably never will.
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Fuck - You know who at work uses them all the time, and I swear, they sound so ing good on anything. The only other mic I covet more is probably the CMV3/3A. God forbid you can find an original capsule and valve version.
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| Looney4Clooney |
im still trying to find the mic used for much of Furtwangler's recordings specifically the Bruckner ones. I'm sure Alan knows. He probably knows the recording. Ask him about Brukner, Furtwangler and the 1944 recordings. Just one mic but man what a recording.
Even when the decca tree was becoming a standard, he was insistent on just one mic. He was a great conductor tho.
And yes, the one i have does have the original valve and capsule. Thats why i just wouldn't ever used it. I want to get a glass display at least.
I find mics much more sexy than synths. They just seem to have more i don't know history to them. Especially with really old mics. |
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| LoveHate |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Novation ReMote SL. I tried to tell you, but you didn't listen, did ya? ;) |
rarely do when im excited , by watching a few promo clips. :( |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
im still trying to find the mic used for much of Furtwangler's recordings specifically the Bruckner ones. I'm sure Alan knows. He probably knows the recording. Ask him about Brukner, Furtwangler and the 1944 recordings. Just one mic but man what a recording.
Even when the decca tree was becoming a standard, he was insistent on just one mic. He was a great conductor tho.
And yes, the one i have does have the original valve and capsule. Thats why i just wouldn't ever used it. I want to get a glass display at least.
I find mics much more sexy than synths. They just seem to have more i don't know history to them. Especially with really old mics. |
Christ that is a good mic. I kind of have mixed feelings about you putting it in a display case. I mean seriously, there are probably less than a couple of dozen on the planet with their original cap and valve. In some ways that mic should be used, but in another way it's just too precious.
Mics are much more sexy than synths. Got me thinking about something that happened at the studio a couple of years ago.
Al had an orignal SM-2, which is just a beautiful mic. I love that the slot in the top to turn the second diaphragm is perfectly fitted to a german crown (coin). Anyway for some reason Al doesn't seem to use it that much (and in fairness the guy has serious options) and part of it may be that you want to match pairs of them and as they are so rare you can't find two that sound the same.
The other first engineer there decides he wants to buy a new mic for his collection, and starts looking at options and decides on trying to find an SM-2. After buying one and returning one which is screwed, he eventually finds one for sale at a well known iconic studio famous for it's drum samples. He buys it, the mic itself is beautiful but we find out the PSU is buggered. Manage to find a vintage restorer and get the PSU rebuilt with original components. Set the thing up, test it, sounds absolutely stunning. Even when just using it for one channel the mic works on just about everything.
Then engineer goes, hey why don't you go grab Alan's and we'll see what a pair sound like? I take his mic then go get Al's. I nearly shat myself once I realised what I had both of them in my hands;
I'm holding consecutive serial numbers.
The fact that these two mics rolled off an East German production line 65 years earlier and had survived all this way to now be sitting next to each other in the same studio on the other side of the planet, so they could be used as a matched pair, still to this day, just boggles my mind.
Totally geeky but man, if that doesn't get your tadger to weep, then you've got no audio soul. |
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| djbruuen |
why all the hate for the novation SL? I've owned it since it came out (i guess around 2007) and haven't looked back, or even cared to replace it with their newer model, or other.
Regret: Yamaha DJX II, bought this new when I was in highschool, and thought it was amazing, until i realized afterwards you couldn't use midi to record. It does bring back some fun memories though. |
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| clay |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
don't forget your apartment. That investment made all the other completely useless.
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indeed!!
but theres light in the tunnel, moved now and got a spare room for a little studio finally only right its filled with boxes and . in a month time its probably up. |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by djbruuen
why all the hate for the novation SL? |
Well, as I stated above, I like the Novation keyboards just fine - it's the AutoMap that I (and apparently most people) hate. It's a PITA, even when it works right. Not worth the time it takes to fight with it. |
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