what was your worst hardware purchase of all time?

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:39 am

don't feel shy to join our threads Mr Henke and fellow Abe's..

conny · Post by **conny** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:24 am

I still have a stereo eq with 12 + 12 shitty sliders, never used it.
Best hardware in those days for me was an analogue delay - adjusting the delay time during play, wobbling it - I even put an elastic round the volume and delay knobs so they could "modulate" eachother!

And that Opel, bad bad hardware - after every fourth kilometer it had to stay still half an hour to not suck air into the cylinders

// C

suie_paparude · Post by **suie_paparude** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:51 am

hey conny
nice to see a w-30 owner here !
we know what this beast can do even in these days

let's keep the secret

mihai

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:55 am

digidesign 001 ... why didn't i get the motu 828????

hmm i want nice display cases to hang my analog gear around my house
it'll kind be the way my dad is with guns!

Emissary · Post by **Emissary** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:59 am

Digi 002R --biggest peice of pants I have ever seen. It buzzed, switched itself on and off randomly and pro-tools was pants. I swapped it for a hammerfall mutliface and the pci and pcmcia cards. Which truly are the best things ever made EVER!!. Built like a big tank

forge · Post by **forge** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:01 am

I-cube midi controller - not because of the unit itself but because I paid so much money for something to sit on a shelf

I bought it online while drunk.

This is why I cant have credit cards

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:30 pm

forge wrote:I-cube midi controller - not because of the unit itself but because I paid so much money for something to sit on a shelf

I bought it online while drunk.

This is why I cant have credit cards

The i-cube is like one of those pieces of gear I've always wanted to own... I'll pay your postage if you want to give it away

forge · Post by **forge** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:44 pm

Machinate wrote:
forge wrote:I-cube midi controller - not because of the unit itself but because I paid so much money for something to sit on a shelf

I bought it online while drunk.

This is why I cant have credit cards
The i-cube is like one of those pieces of gear I've always wanted to own... I'll pay your postage if you want to give it away

he he - sorry but I already sold it! Bloody expensive you know!

Kas. · Post by **Kas.** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:46 pm

rm wrote: Actually, Herbert has used the the 612 in the studio since his early recs and has used the 612 on the aux send channel of his mixer to sample on the fly in live on stage. Good thing, the micro crowd never caught on.

Hell yeah!

That makes a lot of sense. After all it was meant to be a delay, originally. I´ve been joking that it´s the worst delay implementation in the history of electronic music....

This is a great tool for experimentation, don't forget the sliders can be modified to have input jacks, so you could manipulate the start and end points with control voltages from a modular synth.

Could you kindly, please pritty please throw me a link on this? I looked for info on it but never came across this idea.

Kas.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:56 pm

For me it was an Akai S3000XL. Bought it new and fully maxed it out, and never really used it enough to justify the cost. Got an Sp808 a few months later that was much more suited to the way i work. The Akai was a great sampler, just never really got into editing on that thing,t ook too long.

montrealbreaks · Post by **montrealbreaks** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:15 pm

MrSleep wrote:Yamaha A3000!

MAN THAT THINK DROVE ME NUTS!!!

Man, I'm glad. I was three inches from buying one!

My worst gear: Akai S-01 sampler. Total dog. It took like half a minute to load 8 seconds of mono 16/44.1 into the RAM.

Also, the Roland MC-505 was a total waste. Everybody knew the sounds, it was cheeze filled garbage when it came to patterns.

Also, I owned a behringer compressor once - never again.

Right now I'm hating my Numark PPD-9000 mixer. For digital, it's got a shitload of background noise that I can't figure out!

grantmoney · Post by **grantmoney** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:29 pm

man i always wanted an icube. i remember seeing one a fair while back on ebay.au (with a whole bunch of extras) and to this day always regret never getting it (it went pretty cheap from memory). i probably never would have used it, but still would have been awesome to have. would have been killer for installation art type stuff.

as for worst purchase, probably my nord lead 1. i always hated the sound of it and pretty much only used it as a controller. i used to throw it around a bit, so the pitchstick, mod wheel and a few keys don't work at all anymore. ohh well!

forge wrote:
Machinate wrote:
forge wrote:I-cube midi controller - not because of the unit itself but because I paid so much money for something to sit on a shelf

I bought it online while drunk.

This is why I cant have credit cards
The i-cube is like one of those pieces of gear I've always wanted to own... I'll pay your postage if you want to give it away
he he - sorry but I already sold it! Bloody expensive you know!

MrSleep · Post by **MrSleep** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:45 pm

hi MrBreaker.

what realiy pissed me off about this sampler was its working structure.. you dont set it up like your average sampler with programs and multis, its got a whole new protocol that doesnt make sense and I cant recall how it works too!

if I stopped using it for a month, I'll forget how to use the bloody thing and then have to read the manual again, its crazy. and it wasnt just me too, a lot were complainging about this.

I sold my s2000 for the a3000 just so i could get those extra outs and fx, man what a regret that was.

it was so bad they even had an A3000 hate site going too!

you would be much better off with the hospital paraphernalia lookalike akai S5/6K beast.

DJRetard · Post by **DJRetard** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:49 pm

braj wrote:The very first Akai sampler, the one with the mini disks and the separate rack mounted disk drive with the little slots to put the disks. It was a little better after I bought an AX-73 and could run it through the filters, but a Casio SK-1 would almost have been more musically useful. Makes me really appreciate Simpler!

Are you nuts. The s612 was my second sampler and was a big step up from my previous one which was a guitar footpedal with a whopping half second sample time and could only be triggered by hitting the footpedal with my foot. Even then I wouldnt call that my worst purchase by a long way.

DJRetard · Post by **DJRetard** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:52 pm

smart1123 wrote:MC-303 or W-30 both by roland

or my behringer 802

OMG, W30?? Have you lost your marbles

The W30 was the very first true workstation sampler. Many people made records with only a w30 and probably the most famous being the Prodigy. I think the first Prodigy album was all done on a W30.

Cant be that bad.