What was your best gear purchase?

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:54 am

pabloaugustus wrote:
D K wrote:i suppose you never leave the house now....
practice makes perfect!

Guess your boyfriend will thank you then

pabloaugustus · Post by **pabloaugustus** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:14 am

Tarekith wrote:
pabloaugustus wrote:
D K wrote:i suppose you never leave the house now....
practice makes perfect!
Guess your boyfriend will thank you then

no..............

..................but your momma did!!!

JAMM · Post by **JAMM** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:02 pm

sequintial circuits PRO1 for 150 euro,s
2x elka,s synthex and a lot of other roland analog stuf.

Sold everyhing, and kept my AN1x as a midi controller.
there is also an emulator 3 somehere lying around in my house but forgot where it is.

I never looked back after i bought my apple Tibook and started using ableton/reason and other VST stuff.

landrvr1 · Post by **landrvr1** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:03 pm

pabloaugustus wrote:
Tarekith wrote:
pabloaugustus wrote: practice makes perfect!
Guess your boyfriend will thank you then
no..............

..................but your momma did!!!

+1 on the Yo Mama jibe. We can never have too many Yo Mama jibes around here IMO.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:48 pm

oh and I just lugged this one back home after being borrowed out:

sooo much hotter than the Space Echo, it's not even funny.

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:58 pm

Machinate wrote:oh and I just lugged this one back home after being borrowed out:

sooo much hotter than the Space Echo, it's not even funny.

What is it that you like sooo much better than Space Echo?

What are their differences?

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:31 am

oblique strategies wrote:
Machinate wrote:oh and I just lugged this one back home after being borrowed out:

sooo much hotter than the Space Echo, it's not even funny.
What is it that you like sooo much better than Space Echo?

What are their differences?

Longer delay time (after a mod), better sounding spring reverb, totally free way of toggling the taps, better audio quality - still grungey and tape-like, but smooth as butter. Better build quality overall, and a really nice mix knob to tweak what signal reaches the spring. Oh, and it's easier to change the tape.

It also has rubber feet on both the side and bottom, so it can be placed upright.
... OH, and if you happen to have an MS-20 this will match right up to it.

And so on and so on.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:55 am

pabloaugustus wrote:
Tarekith wrote:
pabloaugustus wrote: practice makes perfect!
Guess your boyfriend will thank you then
no..............

..................but your momma did!!!

Burn. I admit it.

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:57 am

chaircrusher wrote:EMS Putney Synthesizer for $750

/thread

Nothing beats a synth with Battleship built in for down time!

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:07 am

Machinate wrote:
sooo much hotter than the Space Echo, it's not even funny.

What is it that you like sooo much better than Space Echo?

What are their differences?[/quote]Longer delay time (after a mod), better sounding spring reverb, totally free way of toggling the taps, better audio quality - still grungey and tape-like, but smooth as butter. Better build quality overall, and a really nice mix knob to tweak what signal reaches the spring. Oh, and it's easier to change the tape.

It also has rubber feet on both the side and bottom, so it can be placed upright.
... OH, and if you happen to have an MS-20 this will match right up to it.

And so on and so on.[/quote]

Thanks. I have heard more than one person express their preference for the Korg Stage Echo. I'd really like play with one of these.

I'm still after a Space Echo in the quest for the Lee Perry Black Ark studio sound. I have a Bi-Phase & a vintage spring reverb, so I have a couple pieces of the puzzle.

Didn't know that these tape echo units had spring reverbs built into them. Very cool.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:56 am

oblique strategies wrote:Didn't know that these tape echo units had spring reverbs built into them. Very cool.

Yeah, some of them do. I think the Roland RE-150 (?) doesn't have it, but the RE-201 does. Or something. It's really stellar on this one.

In favour of the Space Echo though, I'd have to say that the input gain just adds soooo much dirt and warmth to the signal, it's really lovely, even while bypassing the tape altogether.