musician vs. engineer...wheres the cash go?

[ryangobie]

i know a buncha ya'll out there play instruments and such, but i was wondering how you divide up your funds...cause well, i keep buying amps...

hmm...i told myself i'd live at home so i wouldn't have to pay rent/food etc so i could buy stuff and it just all gets funneled into cabs and heads and stuff...i think i buy it cause i find deals on the stuff...like impulse buys kinda...anyone else run into this problem...am i just not finding deals on recording gear? i dunno

[soundguy]

at one point I had at least 35 guitar amps.

I feel your pain man, just say no. Horrid addiction. I started building my own, that has worked out to be a pretty good cure. Good luck.

dave

[ryangobie]

yeah i wanna learn to do that...i'm in the middle of some super old book on radio but it's got a lotta info on tubes and audio amplifiers and stuff...i read and read and read but i dunno...i wanna apprentice somewhere or intern or do something...but that's a whole nother subject

[ryangobie]

ohhh and i wish i was into combos...that last 2 things i bought were both 8x10s

[joelpatterson]

Well, there's always that microphone that I probably really need... maybe a nice Marshall V67... no, a good RE20... no, no, an ADK for Christ's sake...

But the really serious sickness I have is ordering from office supply catalogs when they offer me a free attache case/duffel bag/lunchbox cooler. I cannot resist! I can't find the ROOM to stash any of these bags anymore and still I keep ordering more, I've got enough envelopes and printer paper and staples to last me to the next millenium...

Help me!

[soundguy]

ryan, if you want to build an amp, go build one. Thats what I did and I sure as hell dont know anything about it. Just learn how and what in there will kill you, how to avoid being killed and then just find a commonly built amp from one of the oinline forums and go build it, big fun.

dave

[Slider]

I practically had a music store at one point.
Old Marshalls, Ac-30's, Tweed and Blackface Fenders, ect.
It's an obsession.
Now I have 1 Fender, 1 Marshall, and one little Ampeg.
I also now only have a Tele, a nice old gold top Les Paul, a jazz bass, and a nice vintage acoustic.
I can get just about any sound I need pretty easy,
and I don't need a storage space anymore.

Yeah I see what Tweed Twins and AC-30's go for now and I can't believe I sold them.
But I like the simplicity of just having what I need.

[Bedouin]

I tried building my amplifier (www.ax84.com), but half-way through it I just decided that electronics are not fun. I let a professional finish it, and I built the housing for it. It sounds alright, basically a Fender Champ with whatever changes the guy did to the circuit (www.voodooamps.com).

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It's usually about only 10% of my album project rate that goes toward new gear. If I'm working daily or hourly, then I'll usually choose to eat and buy gas instead.

The gear could be amps or could be recording equipment.

[Kilroy]

i always end up buying stuff for my guitar rig, my next thing will be some new pickups for my lespaul, but i need a new audio interface for my compy. but i play live way more than i do any serious recording

-chris

[jspartz]

I keep trying to save up for a new pair of speakers. However, I find that I need the arion SAD-3 analog delay pedal and a few mic stands, then some spare parts from digikey. That all adds up to a great shock when my wife looks at the visa bill.

I tend to reinvest most of what I make doing recording (it is a side thing from my day job). I just worked out a deal with a musician for his Trace Elliot Vellocette amp. It will be a great match for my Gibson ES-330!

It is like a never ending treasure hunt for me.

Jason

[Electro-Voice 664]

I was always into the odd good deal, like Teiscos for $25 Silvertones for $40 ect ect. Well eventually I had all sorts of cool weirdo guitars amps pedals and such. I loved all that stuff, but I sold most of it to pay for recording gear and a couple nice old guitars and amps.

But when I see a cool piece of gear, locally, for a resonable price, man is it hard to say no.


Do you guys and gals find that there are certain items that you just can't sell, because you know, you will never find that good of a deal again?

Maybe if I was looking for Hummel figures and musical gear I could sell the Hummels and just keep all the cool gear.