Your first serious equipment purchase.

a Roland MC-505, cost me 1700$.

Shitty gaming headphones.

This ....

One of these:

and one of these:

Turned out the 50 watt tube head didn't put out enough power, so I replaced it with one of these a few weeks later:

That was 12 years ago. I had to sell the cab when I moved. It was heavily damaged from gigging anyway. Still have both heads and the bass (I use the tube head as a guitar amp). The bass is in the process of being painted at the moment. I'll post pics when it's done.

I think I'm a front runner for making the biggest mistake... there was a shop selling a Moog Prodigy for a £100 and I opted instead to spend £120 on a brand spanking new Soundblaster AWE32 from out the back of Micromart. It seemed to me at the time that the fact it could take SIMMS for sampling meant it would be a great investment for the future.

  On 6/2/2011 at 12:54 AM, jeyemusik said:

I think I'm a front runner for making the biggest mistake... there was a shop selling a Moog Prodigy for a £100 and I opted instead to spend £120 on a brand spanking new Soundblaster AWE32 from out the back of Micromart. It seemed to me at the time that the fact it could take SIMMS for sampling meant it would be a great investment for the future.

I sold a mate my SCI Pro1 to fund a Zoom Sampletrax

He still has it now and the subject is kinda amusing looking back, well for him anyway

Roland SP-404, lol. Oh well, still serves me well for recording from my mixer, so I can't complain.

didnt buy any never will

If we're counting free stuff then either the Casiotone VL-1 I had when I was 6 or Jeskola Buzz (found by accident when I was 13 having never heard of DAWS before).

  On 6/1/2011 at 5:20 PM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 6/1/2011 at 11:41 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

 

  On 6/1/2011 at 4:46 AM, sneaksta303 said:

ibanez joe satriani series

i hopes this is joke, fag

 

nooooooooope. i had this one.

 

and i loved it till the day it got stolen D: Shit, one i got that, i stopped lusting after other guitars it did me so right.

I played in a band in the late 90s with a guy who had one of these. It was actually a pretty sweet guitar. He sold his USA strat to "upgrade" to this. They still cost over a grand. I kinda wanted one back then, but I HATE floyd rose tremolos now, so I wouldn't go near it anymore.

if we're including guitars, i'll say it was my samick strat clone. i've still got it and it still sounds pretty great.

in terms of electronic devices, besides my guitar pedals, it was probably a yamaha portasound, heh.

  On 6/2/2011 at 8:22 AM, MrSparkle666 said:

I played in a band in the late 90s with a guy who had one of these. It was actually a pretty sweet guitar. He sold his USA strat to "upgrade" to this. They still cost over a grand. I kinda wanted one back then, but I HATE floyd rose tremolos now, so I wouldn't go near it anymore.

i hate floyd rose tremolos too, but i'm seriously considering getting a guitar with one to use with my newly acquired early 90s roland guitar synth. so i can do all of the insane divebombs and vibratos that are present in pselodux solos, haha!

  On 6/2/2011 at 8:58 AM, modey said:

if we're including guitars, i'll say it was my samick strat clone. i've still got it and it still sounds pretty great.

 

in terms of electronic devices, besides my guitar pedals, it was probably a yamaha portasound, heh.

 

  On 6/2/2011 at 8:22 AM, MrSparkle666 said:

I played in a band in the late 90s with a guy who had one of these. It was actually a pretty sweet guitar. He sold his USA strat to "upgrade" to this. They still cost over a grand. I kinda wanted one back then, but I HATE floyd rose tremolos now, so I wouldn't go near it anymore.

i hate floyd rose tremolos too, but i'm seriously considering getting a guitar with one to use with my newly acquired early 90s roland guitar synth. so i can do all of the insane divebombs and vibratos that are present in pselodux solos, haha!

I wouldn't mind having one accessory guitar with a floyd rose, but I'll never have a main axe with one again. They are just such a pain in the ass. Forget about alternate tunings or trying out different string gauges. Doing a setup proper setup and intonation on the thing takes like 2 fucking hours. I took mine to my local tech, and he said "Yeah, we don't touch those. They come setup from the factory and we leave them alone." Fuuuucccccck.

I bought a Roland 606 from an ad in Future Music in 1999 for £100. After playing with it for about 2 days I decided it would be too expensive to integrate into my set up via Kenton Midi so I sent it back. I see they go for like £300 now.

amiga 500 and a sampler interface, first synth was a juno 106.

edit: OctaMED 4 lyfe

hi aaron

  On 6/2/2011 at 2:24 AM, soundwave said:

I sold a mate my SCI Pro1 to fund a Zoom Sampletrax

 

He still has it now and the subject is kinda amusing looking back, well for him anyway

Hey, if you've got any other cool bits of gear you want to flog now that Zoom have announced their new R8 drum machine/8 track combo be sure to let me know.

I'll guarantee you big laughs in years to come....

Boss DR-202... didn't use it much at all, tried to but I just didn't like most of the samples and no way to change them.

  On 6/2/2011 at 2:30 PM, Gocab said:

amiga 500 and a sampler interface

edit: OctaMED 4 lyfe

yeah man! this was my first set up from around 1992... had the sampler module that plugged into the back of my Amiga and used to rock OctaMED 4 (and eventually 5). fucking loved it. sampled an amen break off some rave record and made uplifting happy hardcore. good times.

Fuck yeah

Roland RX-70

I miss it.

Oxygen 8 v2 (which, due to my laptop's shitty soundcard and/or my ignorance, operates with significant enough lag that it's unusable in FL, and for some reason in FL I can't hear any playback when I'm using Edison to record), and a Korg Monotron.

When I find a job I'm gonna get a Microkorg and fuck around on that thing... or I might just jack my friend's, he never uses it

Yeah I hate Floyd Rose setups too, dear god, never again. I think my first single music item purchase over 300 was a red Gibson Les Paul Special which I later found Bob Marley played the same lookin git fiddle, It's still the most metalriffic guitar I own after installing a EMG 81 in the bridge. I have spent over 1300 hundred, repairing that guitar twice after a friend accidentally knocked it off the guitar stand (never use guitar stands anymore 10 years later) converting it from p90 soap bar to humbucker (first put in a Seymour Duncan JB, then the EMG)

  On 5/31/2011 at 11:11 PM, Berk said:

Alesis SR-16 I think, that thing sucked

I've got one with its pots going all scratchy from age, it's actually kinda funky sounding

  On 6/3/2011 at 10:53 PM, baph said:

  On 5/31/2011 at 11:11 PM, Berk said:

Alesis SR-16 I think, that thing sucked

 

I've got one with its pots going all scratchy from age, it's actually kinda funky sounding

yeah some samples weren't bad but I kinda hated the sequencer, and the fact that most of the samples already had FX on it, mostly reverb. so I couldn't fit it in the mix most of the times.

The sequencer is total ass, yes.