Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

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Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by digitaldrummer » Fri Nov 26, 2021 7:28 am

with the 100 daily emails and other ads we've gotten all month you probably forgot it was Black Friday?

I'm waiting through the numerous website timeouts (which seems to happen every year) to get my "Free" plugins from Waves although I don't think I even used the free plugins from the last 2 years, but that doesn't stop me for some reason. I don't know, this one looked kinda interesting.

I also picked up a couple more UAD plugins (since this is one of the best times of the year to do so). I got the API Vision channel strip and the Culture Vulture (I fall for hardware emulations of hardware I would never buy in real life...). Contemplating Autotune - I hate the thing - but I could get it cheap and it would be a good one to have just in case someone wants to go all out T-pain (and with a UAD plugin I can use it in real-time which doesn't always work for most native plugins and vocalists...).

So did you get anything (yet)?
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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by The Scum » Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:24 am

I'm going to get some heavy-duty metal cabinets for organizing stuff around the studio.

Does anyone have any experience with the 2-pack of Tascam headphones that MF always includes in their holiday discounts? They look like cousins of 7506's - are they worth the $30 for the pair?
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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by winky dinglehoffer » Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:29 pm

I was/am not impressed with the cheap Tascams I picked up a while ago from MF. They're probably worth the sale price, but I never use them because, well, they sound like $30 headphones.

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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by kslight » Fri Nov 26, 2021 2:13 pm

Not technically BF, but I just got a Schecter Ultracure XIi guitar, at a pretty good discount from one of those places that lists things as “used” but then they arrive clearly new. Pretty nice, no exp with electric twelve strings to compare to.


Technically BF…got a Behringer Super Fuzz pedal…makes a few gnarly sounds and was cheap.

And ordered a cheap Behringer K-2 synth + 3 tier case to hold my synth modules.

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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by losthighway » Fri Nov 26, 2021 4:01 pm

Mojave always tries to tempt me but they only knock off 10%. I'm saving my duckets for an Overstayer sometime in the new year.

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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by ashcat_lt » Fri Nov 26, 2021 4:40 pm

Not really BF anything, but yesterday I found a pair of AT U891RCX boundary mics for like $35 a piece on Amazon Warehouse Deals, which if they actually work and include the cables is a frickin steal. Also an AT2035 for less than $100, which means I'll now have a pair, FWIW.

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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by Scodiddly » Fri Nov 26, 2021 4:47 pm

Vintage Vibe is 25% off everything all weekend. I finally cracked and bought a new amp for my Wurlie 200.

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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by digitaldrummer » Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:27 am

I did finally cave and bought that Autotune Advanced plugin from UAD. gave it a quick spin. one of these days I will torture my band mates with a hard-tuned vocal mix. :mrgreen:
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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:23 am

Was hoping Toontrack would have SD3 on sale, but no luck. So I spent the same amount of money on a reconditioned Herman Miller Mirra chair for my office, which I'm converting into "studio b", a cozy little writing/practice room. Should arrive today.

It's a sure sign you're getting old when a good chair is more exciting than a new eq or compressor.

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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by drumsound » Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:13 am

I got the Rupert Neve Designs compressor a few weeks ago, so I'm done buying for a while...

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:
Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:23 am
Was hoping Toontrack would have SD3 on sale, but no luck. So I spent the same amount of money on a reconditioned Herman Miller Mirra chair for my office, which I'm converting into "studio b", a cozy little writing/practice room. Should arrive today.

It's a sure sign you're getting old when a good chair is more exciting than a new eq or compressor.
Where does one get reconditioned Herman Miller chairs?

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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by vvv » Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:22 am

losthighway wrote:
Fri Nov 26, 2021 4:01 pm
Mojave always tries to tempt me but they only knock off 10%. I'm saving my duckets for an Overstayer sometime in the new year.
ducats?

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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:40 am

^^^^ Nice! I really liked the one I played in GC, would've bought it except the neck was just a little too chunky for my little paws.

drumsound wrote:
Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:13 am
Where does one get reconditioned Herman Miller chairs?

I got mine from this place. Just arrived, perfect condition. Yay!

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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by roscoenyc » Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:58 am

The Scum wrote:
Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:24 am
I'm going to get some heavy-duty metal cabinets for organizing stuff around the studio.
We have the Husky brand cabinets at the studio and they have been really great.
I have one at home too for bike parts.

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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by vvv » Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:47 am

I recall reading about Zappa putting a Pignose in a metal cabinet drawer, so there's that. :high:
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Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Post by standup » Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:53 pm

Actually, I bought a couple of guitar straps that were discounted about 50%. I picked up a new acoustic, and I'm running low on straps.

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