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I think the dollar scale is too low to give any useful information. Very few people are going to be less than $1,000. You buy a new computer & you're already over the top, even without buying anything else the whole year.

You have know way to know whether someone spent $1,000, or $25,000 on music gear completing a while studio this year...big difference & both would select the last choice.

icedsushi wrote:You have know way to know whether someone spent $1,000, or $25,000

exactly.


my 2011 purchases include

MBP
Slim Phatty
New Mackie HD PA
Novation SL61
Plus software and various sample packs
Maschine (bought and then sold)

I spent $1 on the Reason 6 upgrade!!!

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promised myself no new toys till i use all i have to their fullest potential, which may be never i have quite a lot

did get new headphones my b-day though...

$1500 on new monitors and $100 on Live Suite.
Promised myself no new toys, but I needed to fix my monitor problem and someone sold Live 8 Suite to me for $200 then sold Live 7 for $100.

Next year is going to be brutal as I'm going to need a new macbook pro 17". The other ones don't include an express car slot and I'm not counting on Thunderbolt considering how there are pretty much about 4 devices that support it as of now.

probably 900-1200 but i sold lots of gear too, so overall expense is peobably less than 100$ for over 1k$ of purchase

seem like a good place for my first post.

i just started in electronic music this year so i've bought so far

Ablton Suite Boxed version (i upgreded form intro Bit by bit over the year)
Sylenth
Launch pad
Zero Sl MKII
Small Aki 25key midi controller
Sylenth
M-audio sound card

Now i just kneed to learn how to use this stuff. (thats the fun part right??)

Also bought
2 Taylor GS mini Guitars (brought one and decided that value was too good so i got another to take out to work with me)
LR Baggs M1 pickup for my home Mini(might get another one i think for the work GS)
Several other guitar related bits a pices

Not sure weather to count these
I brough a new laptop to take to work for making music and playing games on. ASUS G74SX
I did a sizeable upgrade to my Car Stereo (2 amps, sub, 6x9's, pluse housings and cabling).
I could not count how much i have spent on CD's and downloads but we will go with quite a bit

OMG...I don't even wanna know.

At least $2500 for my current studio DIY computer (built in April and upgraded since).
$3,000 on other "stuff" (flat screen TV for the studio, Komplete 8, misc Native Instruments stuff, $400 on a studio chair, $1,000 on a set of V-Drums...it goes on and on). Too much!

Let's not begin to talk about marketing expenses...

I've at least made that back in booking fees. Thankfully!!

1 second hand classical guitar - £250 (Best purchase of the year in terms of personal musical development)
6 sets of Pro Arte strings - £60
Guitar Tuner, Capo, string winder - £40
Bug mic - £45
Sheet Music - £40
Casio Digital Piano £300 (for £300 it's awesome)
Lacie Disk 1GB, 7200RPM - £110 (Best purchase in terms of performance boost for my system)

Total = £845

Early next year I'll be looking to spend around 1K on a new computer. Current one is about 4 years old, only supports 2GB RAM, and the cardbus slot is broken which means I can't plug in my Firewire card,

Also next year (maybe?) will be upgrading to Live 9 which I can only assume will be mind blowing.

This year I bought

New MBP because previous was stolen. Insurance covered 90% of it.
Novation SL MKII
2x Adam A7X
M-Audio fast track
1st gen iPad

total value = lots and lots

Abelton live
Machinedrum UW
Midi keyboard
Fireface UC
Some plug ins

First real monitors, first real hardware synth, pile of rackmount stuff, several plugins, effect pedals...

Oh god where did all my money go

la scoring strings
albion orchestra
ni komplete ultimate 8
efimov and orangetreesamples guitars
vsl brass extension
some soft synths and drum plugins (u-he, ass, fxpansion, toontrack, rob papen)
2 monitors (21" to watch at)
2 monitors (jungson, to listen to)
crown amp for the jungsons
some plugins (nomad, cytomic, izotope, altiverb7 update)
probably some more...

didn't use nomad and vsl brass extension, superior drums maybe in two songs... all the rest is more or less in daily use.