Great gear scored on the cheap
I just got a Hammond A100 for free. For those that don't know, the A100 is exactly like a B3 only with internal speakers.
Kick ass!
Kick ass!
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"This shitty room is making your next hit record, bitch!"
organissimo - Dedicated (new CD)
"This shitty room is making your next hit record, bitch!"
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- beef_wellington
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- lefuquaire
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i got my 16 channel allen & heath saber console from the eighties along with an otari 1/4" mx50 2 track deck for $200... ($100 each!)
the otari needed work, i just cleaned the faders a bit on the saber and it was up and running.. will probably spend a little to have it serviced when i can live without it for a few weeks.
the otari needed work, i just cleaned the faders a bit on the saber and it was up and running.. will probably spend a little to have it serviced when i can live without it for a few weeks.
Earlier this year, I found a Maestro electric piano at a thrift store for $12. I once got a Shin-ei Univibe (yes, the original one!) for $70. What else... an Audio Technica AT4047/SV for $100, a Kay hollowbody bass guitar from the sixties for $70, and a silverface Fender Champ for $100.
As for the stuff I got for free, let's say I've been very lucky. I've been given things like an Ensoniq SQ-R+ sound module, a pair of Tannoy Reveals, and a Korg DSS-1 sampling keyboard. But my personal favorite free score came from the Cooper/Cameo movie theater here in Denver. Just before the building was to be torn down, I went over there to take pictures of the building. In the back parking lot, I found two ancient equipment racks covered in snow. In those racks, I found five Ampex tube preamps and four Ampex tube power amps, all from the early sixties! Too bad I didn't get the preamp power supplies, but hey- five free tube preamps is still not too shabby! As I type this, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' song "Even the losers get lucky sometimes" is playing on the radio- how appropiate is that?!?
The first SM58 I ever bought cost me $80 USED- at the time, I didn't know much about audio gear (and what constitutes a good deal vs. what doesn't). I got home that afternoon and found a flyer in the mail from Musician's Friend- they were selling them for $79 BRAND NEW! Argh... but then my next two 58s only cost me $30 for both. So I figured the karmic scales were balanced after that.
As for the stuff I got for free, let's say I've been very lucky. I've been given things like an Ensoniq SQ-R+ sound module, a pair of Tannoy Reveals, and a Korg DSS-1 sampling keyboard. But my personal favorite free score came from the Cooper/Cameo movie theater here in Denver. Just before the building was to be torn down, I went over there to take pictures of the building. In the back parking lot, I found two ancient equipment racks covered in snow. In those racks, I found five Ampex tube preamps and four Ampex tube power amps, all from the early sixties! Too bad I didn't get the preamp power supplies, but hey- five free tube preamps is still not too shabby! As I type this, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' song "Even the losers get lucky sometimes" is playing on the radio- how appropiate is that?!?
The first SM58 I ever bought cost me $80 USED- at the time, I didn't know much about audio gear (and what constitutes a good deal vs. what doesn't). I got home that afternoon and found a flyer in the mail from Musician's Friend- they were selling them for $79 BRAND NEW! Argh... but then my next two 58s only cost me $30 for both. So I figured the karmic scales were balanced after that.
"Stare with your ears"- Ken Nordine
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Hmmm...
1961 Ampeg B15-N Portaflex for free, used to belong to my friends mom's cheating ex-husband... well, I did have to carry it up from the basement myself, so there was
some labour involved! It did have one of the transformers changed, so no square box on one side, but hey, chrome and light up logo still look cool.
late 60's? Ampeg Gemini 22 GV-22 2x12 combo amp for $150, not the greatest deal but better than anything new I've seen for $150
1971 Ampeg VT-40 ( notice this Ampeg trend here ) $100 I love undervalued amps!
1967 Fender Princeton Reverb $20 at a garage sale. needs output transformer.
70's Smallstone in the box new with instructions $15
1992 MIJ Fender Telecaster Custom RI banged up but a great player, FREE!!! Friend found it in the back of a closet in his apartment.
Hugh box of P&G faders and VU meters and some assorted parts stripped off an old DataMix FREE ( giant box in a dumpster )
Old set of Altec dual cone 15" speakers free from the above junk pile.
That's about it for me... but I'm always scoping out the garbage piles!
1961 Ampeg B15-N Portaflex for free, used to belong to my friends mom's cheating ex-husband... well, I did have to carry it up from the basement myself, so there was
some labour involved! It did have one of the transformers changed, so no square box on one side, but hey, chrome and light up logo still look cool.
late 60's? Ampeg Gemini 22 GV-22 2x12 combo amp for $150, not the greatest deal but better than anything new I've seen for $150
1971 Ampeg VT-40 ( notice this Ampeg trend here ) $100 I love undervalued amps!
1967 Fender Princeton Reverb $20 at a garage sale. needs output transformer.
70's Smallstone in the box new with instructions $15
1992 MIJ Fender Telecaster Custom RI banged up but a great player, FREE!!! Friend found it in the back of a closet in his apartment.
Hugh box of P&G faders and VU meters and some assorted parts stripped off an old DataMix FREE ( giant box in a dumpster )
Old set of Altec dual cone 15" speakers free from the above junk pile.
That's about it for me... but I'm always scoping out the garbage piles!
~Michael
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein
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My scores are nothing close to any of the others in this thread, but I'm proud of what I've found over the years:
Tascam porta 02 - $20 (about what it's worth, actually)
Shure sm-57 - $5
Hammond Piper Autochord Organ - $15
Acoustic Model 911 PA system w/ speakers - Free (still use the head as a power amp in my practice space)
Sony 1/4" stereo reel to reel (don't have the model number in front of me) - Free
Squier Bronco Bass - under $100 new at a guitar center of all places... It's not the best bass, but it's pretty true to fender's short scale bass history and I couldn't pass up the deal
Tascam porta 02 - $20 (about what it's worth, actually)
Shure sm-57 - $5
Hammond Piper Autochord Organ - $15
Acoustic Model 911 PA system w/ speakers - Free (still use the head as a power amp in my practice space)
Sony 1/4" stereo reel to reel (don't have the model number in front of me) - Free
Squier Bronco Bass - under $100 new at a guitar center of all places... It's not the best bass, but it's pretty true to fender's short scale bass history and I couldn't pass up the deal
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I found a 1955 tweed Bassman in a ditch along the golf course I worked at while in college. Speakers had been pulled and the obvious thief tossed it off the side of the road thinking he'd scored new car speakers. I took it home, carefully took it apart and cleaned it, and boxed up the parts so I could restore it when I got home from school. When I arrived home at Christmas in my parents' new town, I asked them where my amp was and they said, "What? That old piece of junk? We threw it out before we moved."
I did more recently find a '58 Duo-Sonic in a pawn shop for $300 and sold it for a grand.
I did more recently find a '58 Duo-Sonic in a pawn shop for $300 and sold it for a grand.
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