whatever

[MichaelAlan]

fdsafdsa

[joel hamilton]

The love affairs that engineers have with their gear seems to be cyclical...

Love the DBX 160.... then refuse to touch it for years, then LOVE it again....then get tired of it.... then LOVE it....

The cycle seems to be perpetuated by hearing higher caliber performances and sounds through these same boxes years later. All of a sudden you hear a great sound coming through the 160, and you like the 160 again.

It is a funny thing, for sure.

[MichaelAlan]

right

[vvv]

I have a couple cheap Chinese LDC's (MXL, Bellwanger) that I love like the girl I got, not the one I want.

But lately, ye olde SM58 has been sounding just so good, kind of like an ex from so long ago she's forgiven for her problems.

[A-Barr]

I've gotten rid of a lot of gear I thought I had matured from only to regret it later. Oh how I long for my silver faced super reverb, my eh micr-synth, original mxr envelope filter, Roland Piano Plus, that cheap bootleg strat I picked up on a whim that sounded more stratty than a strat, the technics turntable ... luckily I never got around to trashing my Realistic EQ because now I've learned that it can actually be useful! Anyway, from now on I'm determined not to get rid of anything I think I don't need, even if it's to raise funds for a supposed upgrade because I've learned that once you own a piece of gear, a situation will always come up some day where you wish you had it and you'll kick yourself for having thought otherwise.
...my 2 cents.
Oh and if I caught some piece of gear that I thought I loved making out with some dillhole at a concert, I wouldn't be too concerned about hurting its feelings.

[JamesHE]

I love a cheap date.

Just got 2 Oktava Mc-012 for $99 a piece last week. Finally I get some "bottom end" action on the overheads. The MXL 603s are zipped up, cold and lonely on the shelf. But even with my love of the oktavas, I'm still lusting after the Pelusos.