Gear Aquisition Zone [buy/sell/swaps]

[Surfr]

W00p. MiniNOVA GET!

Well I've given it some time and I'm not really getting on with it. I'm still learning what I like and what I don't get on with, but it seems I have a preference for having a control for everything. The drumbrute is definitely staying but, having added a Circuit to the collection last month (which I LOVE) I now effectively have 3 nova engined synths and I can do with out the little bits which the mini adds like extra voices, vocoder etc. So I'm looking to move it on and get the monologue I've been promising myself since December. Anyone want to buy a mininova?

[RiK]

Moving my studio space into my downstairs office, which is currently the general household dumping ground..

Going to use the opportunity to rationalise the hardware setup to what I really need, and will likely pass on some of the past 12 months impulse purchases..

Not 100% certain what I'm going to sell yet, but the following are likely to be on the list:

Synths:
Arturia Microbrute SE (White)
Alesis Micron
Korg R3

Akai Max49 controller (not sure, may keep this)
Novation remote SL
PadKontrol
Arturia Beatstep
Arturia SparkLE (Drum controller, works with their VST or iPad app)

Will make a proper thread with Youtube demos etc. soon

[(o)(o)]

Possibly interested in the Micron.

Look at the state of this one I found on ebay OMG lol

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alesis-Micron ... 3ae5104cbe

[(o)(o)]

I required a new guitar.. so grabbed this 2007 Schecter S-1..



Schecter are made in South Korea then shipped to USA for finishing. Can't be bothered photographing the back but it's obviously high end finish, quality on a par with a Fender or Gibson (if not better than the latter, so many Gibsons 'suck ass'). No cracking anywhere to be seen. Grover tuners, Duncan designed pickups (will up swapping out for EMG) with pull up coil-split. Electrics seem good but I'll be going over them. Locking tune-o-matic, abalone / mother of pearl inlays, lovely straight necks with level frets from the factory and perfect intonation. Mahogany body and neck with rosewood fingerboard. Very playable indeed. It is wood though so I'm about to do a full setup. The previous owner had the action set at 0.93mm which is too low, but that it didn't choke at that level is impressive. Put a different brand name on it you've got a grands worth RRP of guitar but they occasionally turn up for a couple hundred used.

[gribbles]

Picked up a Korg M1R today for £50.

Can't stop playing the Show Me Love riff using the Organ 2 preset.

[Portland]

I required a new guitar.. so grabbed this 2007 Schecter S-1..



Schecter are made in South Korea then shipped to USA for finishing. Can't be bothered photographing the back but it's obviously high end finish, quality on a par with a Fender or Gibson (if not better than the latter, so many Gibsons 'suck ass'). No cracking anywhere to be seen. Grover tuners, Duncan designed pickups (will up swapping out for EMG) with pull up coil-split. Electrics seem good but I'll be going over them. Locking tune-o-matic, abalone / mother of pearl inlays, lovely straight necks with level frets from the factory and perfect intonation. Mahogany body and neck with rosewood fingerboard. Very playable indeed. It is wood though so I'm about to do a full setup. The previous owner had the action set at 0.93mm which is too low, but that it didn't choke at that level is impressive. Put a different brand name on it you've got a grands worth RRP of guitar but they occasionally turn up for a couple hundred used.

Nice acquisition. That is crazy low action, says a lot for the quality it's not buzzing like a wasp in a jam jar.

[(o)(o)]

Cheers.. I'm dead chuffed with it..

Decided to get a guitar tuner. I've always tuned by ear.. *

Well occasionally to tuning fork or with a plugin/app.

Couldn't resist this cheap Korg with strobe simulation (mode 2)



* Sometime seem to get better results by ear tuning to compensate for neck variance

[Governmentyard]

I finally have a modern PC, Chillblast audio workstation with an i7, SSD and 32gb ram. So this is what it feel like to be able to use two plugins at once!

A good comparitor to my outgoing mainbox is this: I bought the Arturia V Collection last autumn, and spent most of an evening downloading and installing each synth. Done in about fifteen minutes today and most of that was the machine waiting for me to click something

Not the most exciting purchase, but the most vital thing in the room.

[(o)(o)]

Picked up this cheap LAG acoustic. French brand, made in China, but the factory is overseen by an American. This isn't your typical Chinese effort the attention to detail and quality control is exceptional. What impresses most is the neck.. it's truer than any USA Gibson or Fender I've owned.. it's so musical it's hard to resist picking the thing up and having a quick strum.

Well .. strum and a pick.. it's auditorium size.

Great fun!

[(o)(o)]

Set a goal of learning John Williams arrangement of Cavatina.



I think I'm going to find that bloody difficult.

Whilst exercising I did manage to play this chord and get ALL the strings to ring clean..


The next day pinkie was sore..

[(o)(o)]

Gordon Smith 1998 GS1:60

Spoiler: show

RIP Mr Pete Shelly

[Baggypants]

I soldered together a Zynthian, Raspberry Pi based synth over the last couple of week. Quite pleased that it all works as I've no done anything like that level of soldering for 20 years. Hoping now I can get my self organised to hack into some of the code.

You can see it here: https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/zynthi ... baggypants

And a brief sound excerpt https://soundcloud.com/baggypants-1/zynthian