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Making beats vs buying gear.
"I've bought and sold a fair amount of things over the years. Vintage synthesizers, boutique modular gear, an all tube recording console, guitar pedals, and various other outboard effects. In hindsight I believe most of those purchases were driven more by the insidious affliction of capitalism than any real need. At prosperous times I've spent untold amounts of my hard earned cash on gear with the promise of new inspiration and better sounding results, and convinced myself (at least initially) that whatever new shiny toy I had just purchased provided both those things, only to realize a mere 6 months later that it was entirely superfluous, added virtually nothing to my creative process, and I would have been entirely better off putting that money into rent and food."
- I feel the same. It's taken me a good few rounds of buying and selling. Now I have Live, Push2, Arturia and Komplete Suites and a Faderfox controller. That's itmicrokorg
- I've been around for a bit, so I bought and sold too, but nothing like my friends. Now I have a Roland System8 that has 4 boards in it, only use one really...canoe
- the main synth, a 303, and Live is all I need, everything else is a distraction... I wouldn't mind having a 909 and stuff like an echoplex, but it's not requredcanoe
- look, at the end of the day you can make music on an iPad if you want.. or you can buy endless toys and sell it 6 months laterautoflavour
- somethings stay, somethings go.. some of my best tracks were made entirely in the box, some of my favourite times making music I didn't use a computer at allautoflavour
- some people spend money on cars, collectable baseball cards, drugs, sneakers.. everyone mostly have something they spend their money on.autoflavour
- that said, thinking buying hardware is going let you make better music is a farce. its just a different way to get to the same result.autoflavour
- there is always going to be a shiny new thing, some new gadget or module.. best advice is try and wait and get it second hand, at least you dont loose its valueautoflavour
- I think what you are referring to here tho is GAS.. the acquisition of hardware in lieu of actually making music. endless cycle of learning new gear etcautoflavour
- No harm enjoying the journey. It doesn't have to be all about the destination.mort_
- There is never a destination.. except down down down.. boogie on downautoflavour
- i stick with reason, spend money on a bike insteadhans_glib
- hey, no shame in reason.. I used Reason for such a long time even with a studio full of hardware.. then Ableton happened.autoflavour
- One thing ive found helps a LOT is not frequenting gear forums.microkorg
- I found NOT being on facebook groups specifically aimed at people selling second hand equipment helps.. maybe I should take my own advice LOLautoflavour