What's your poison?

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Post by thethingwiththestuff » Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:50 pm

drumsound wrote:Debt
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Post by nestle » Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:02 pm

guitars and mics

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Post by ;ivlunsdystf » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:14 pm

Pentium iii and G3 machines that would otherwise be discarded. I imagine hidden potential in them and have vague notions about setting up a 'computer farm' with each machine contributing something to the setup.

This is not an expensive vice to have, as I never pay for any of the machines. It's all dumpster diving and such.

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Post by Scodiddly » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:36 pm

Old engineering books/manuals. 8)

Actually I used to be a bit of a microphone slut, but then I got a full-time job at a company where we've got a U-67, some Soundulex, etc. All of a sudden it's not that big a deal. Instead I've gotten rather interested in the niceties of RF frequency issues, since we do a lot of wireless microphone stuff.

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Post by lg » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:57 pm

never thought it'd come to this, but i guess i've started collecting guitars. used to be stompboxes, 'til my tastes started running into moogerfoogers & the like (too expensive to amass a grand pile of 'em). but...i just picked up a relatively new american jazzmaster from a friend, and rationalized the purchase by telling myself i'd be selling one of my other guitars, so no net gain, just a shift. 'course, then i had trouble deciding exactly which guitar i was going to unload, and ultimately came to the realization that i truly didn't want to part with any of them- each has its own, if humble, charms. i am certain this won't be the last guitar i'm destined to be tempted by. jerry jones & gretsch come to mind...i feel kind of like the guy who pleads, "stop me before i kill again!"

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Post by ??????? » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:10 pm

anything old, unique, cheap, funky, and/or unfamiliar. I love the goofiest, rarest thing.

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Post by syrupcore » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:43 pm

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Post by standup » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:52 pm

It's not so wrong to have two of everything... is it? Two electric basses (fretted and fretless). Two electric guitars... (tele and Gretsch). Two upright basses... but that's really just wrong.

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Post by RefD » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:58 pm

pedals (used to be phase shifters but now it's fuzzes), guitars, and soon i will add welts and mosquito bites...but those are free and i don't actually want them.

...and microphones!
?What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.? -- Seneca

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Post by trodden » Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:50 am

I'm just really easy.

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Post by I'm Painting Again » Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:04 am

I have a minimal well rounded collection of instruments and gear..consciously..and out of thriftiness and necessity though mostly..

not gear realated I'm an obsessive collector of ceramic animals..my grandma got me into it when I was about five..I have 6,347 statuettes so far..a lot came from her when she died..I f I had a poison it would be 1950's elephant and horse miniatures..

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Post by trodden » Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:32 am

Toolshed of Death wrote:I have a minimal well rounded collection of instruments and gear..consciously..and out of thriftiness and necessity though mostly..

not gear realated I'm an obsessive collector of ceramic animals..my grandma got me into it when I was about five..I have 6,347 statuettes so far..a lot came from her when she died..I f I had a poison it would be 1950's elephant and horse miniatures..
That explains alot, golf.

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Post by Jeff Roberts » Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:52 am

In no particular order:

Vintage keyboards
Hammond organs
Leslie speakers
Wulitzer Rhodes suitcase

Vintage guitar amps
Fender
Gibson
Marshall
Ampeg

Vintage bass amps
AMPEG

Vintage microphones
Reslo
Gefell
EV
RCA
Shure
Sennheiser
Jeff Roberts
Latch Lake Music
Eagan, MN
LatchLakeMusic.com

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Post by apropos of nothing » Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:26 am

synthesizers and related paraphenalia

cables. dammit.

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Post by RefD » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:46 pm

trodden wrote:I'm just really easy.
hello.

want anything from the mountain?
?What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.? -- Seneca

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