Spring... uh... cleaning?
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
So I’m renovating my little studio building, with the plan of eventually returning to my hut in the not-too-distant future. I’ve been inside our house now for a few months, and I vastly prefer it. Unfortunately my long-suffering wife would vastly prefer that I go somewhere far away. So, needs must, as they say…
In any event, in order to make the space air-tight (and thus less subject to the whims of environment) I need to _clean_ it first. Since I took out all the gear I need to work in something of a hurry, and I’ve just been using the building as a staging area for snowboarding, skateboarding, biking, and home improvement since, it is something of a disaster. So I spent the better part of today moving shit around.
The problem with that is that I keep finding fun things I forgot I had, stuff I bought at a yard sale or something, threw on the Pile, and promptly erased from the higher regions of my brain. This picture shows roughly 1% of what I’m dealing with. Everything in the photo with the exception of the little Vox amp, the guitar pedals, and the AudioMedia II card inside that IIci was purchased at a yard sale or thrift store. I’ve had no end of amusement today plugging various things in, fucking with TurboSynth, and generally getting nothing done.
(And before you ask, yes, I am _exactly_ the sort of person that would just happen to have a Mac II video -> VGA adapter just lying about in case I want to use an LCD monitor with an old Mac. I mean, you never know when that sort of thing would come in handy, right?)
But that’s about the most ghetto picture I can put together of what could theoretically be described as studio equipment. I suppose I could find some old Marantz speakers to fill out the picture; what I really should have done was stack all my Realistic effects units on top of the Sears guitar amps. What’s your most ghetto stuff? Photos if you’ve got ’em.
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Ghetto stuff?
lets see now. Radio Shack Concertmate 500(casio sk1), crate bass amp, danelectro dm-10, danelectro hornet (single pickup), recent longhorn/dc-59, casio dh-100, a mini-omnichord...
Does a clavinet e-7 in perfect condition count? I picked it up from a pawn shop for $75 (and its missing the keyboard cover.)
What about a radiosohack mg-1 that I paid $37 for in a pawn shop?
a $99 sequential six track?
Oh yeah. And atari crap. Lots of atari crap. An ste, a tt30, notator key.
A couple of DSS-1's, and a radioshack stereo mic.
O wait, here in this pile. A mosrite ventures II that I paid $25 bucks for. It looks just like the one on the back of the B-52's first album. Perfect for playing Ramone's licks on too.
Oh yeah, and a peavey spectrum synth.
What model Vox is that?
I forgot about yamaha crap. Lets see, here's a DD-5 digital drumset, an RX-21 digital drum machine, a tg-33, a pawn-bought tx81z, and the piece de resistance--a first generation DJX keyboard.
i think your IIci needs a NuVerb card!
I have a Roland EF-303 effects unit that is still in brand-new mint condition and will likely stay that way forever. They say "you can't polish a turd" well Roland managed to put one in a shiny metal box.. close enough. Perfectly good audio goes in and hideous noise spews out. Price was free, which is about 50 bucks too much.
For no good reason I just bought an 80's Roland Spirit 10 amp at a UK car boot sale for 5 quid. I figured it:
A. It would fit in my suitcase for the flight back to the US.
B. Its the perfect subject to gut and drop in a chip amp circuit I have that needs a home.
C. I could scare my friends with the monstrous plug on the power cord I cut off of it.
Having relocated to different continents and islands at different times, i've managed to shed most junk along the way, but I do revere certain junk and have kept it. Elka and Crumar synths, Roland electronic pianos (yes, plural), 2 Yamaha Electones, some oddball analog delays by Dynacord, a groovy Synare (the Sly Dunbar e-drum so often used in the early eighties),and the Hammond Extravoice which CR covets. I have one of those Vox Pathfinder amps, too, and it's the only little amp I've got that keyboards sound OK through. I've also got a Gibson Thor bass amp, Crate, Epiphone Galaxie, Squier amp, and the useful $35 battery-powered Fender Mini-Twin.
Is that an Eminee or a Magnus, CR?
They both blow (literally).
I'd say Magnus. That was my first keyboard instrument ever. I like how the it has a built in rear facing lamp at the top so you can read your sheet music in the dark!
I have a Session 8/882 rig somewhere in this apartment, no clue where. Or I think I do, I haven't seen it in like 3 moves.
And I still have a Boss se-70 though I spent this afternoon finding out my convolution reverb was good for something after all, decent job of rebuilding the 1 effect I use in the Boss.
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