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  • futurefood1

    What started as a $700 synth purchase led to a series of gear trades spanning over 2 years with countless rejections, someone finally said, ‘Sure, ok’.

    • Damn.. do tellautoflavour
    • is niceprophetone
    • @auto it would make for a lengthy blog thread post. In short, I purchased a mophoX4 long ago for about $650 or $700 years back...futurefood
    • ...Then from there, I traded that synth for two other synths. Then two synths became two drum machines and a guitar, etc. etc. I just kept trading upward....futurefood
    • ..Then this guy traded an insane fender guitar (I’ll post in guitar thread) for a moog little phatty synth. It turned out to be some +$2000 telecasterfuturefood
    • For the past year I’ve been really wanting a minimoog more than ever. So every time I saw someone selling one I would draft up this really wordy email...futurefood
    • ...talking about the telecaster. Eventually this guy responded back to me and invited me to his studio.futurefood
    • Incidentally, the man who responded was Michael Mark. Composer of the Entertainment Tonight theme, haha.futurefood
    • His studio was full of synths and this moog was sitting next to a stack of minimoogs which were in various states of repair.futurefood
    • Mines not mint, mod wheel needs some work and there are chips in the paint that need to be touched up.futurefood
    • cosmetic is irrelevant .. good workautoflavour
    • i was babysitting on of these for the past 3 years.. it was just picked up on the weekend and im already missing itautoflavour

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