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Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:10 pm

Urs wrote:I spent a shitload of money yesterday. The fame of those two synths better be substantiated.

Congrats on your J8 and Waldorf Wave

do_androids_dream · Post by **do_androids_dream** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:21 pm

Urs wrote:I spent a shitload of money yesterday. The fame of those two synths better be substantiated.

Hmm.. shitload of money.. fame.. I'm guessing an Oberheim of some sort? or, moving up in the money league, an ARP 2600?

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:22 pm

Mushy Mushy wrote:
Urs wrote:I spent a shitload of money yesterday. The fame of those two synths better be substantiated.
Congrats on your J8 and Waldorf Wave

Already got a J8

- and have never been so much into the Wave...

I've had a stressful time working on some really tedious und unpleasant stuff. This somehow took my defenses down. In an outburst of GAS, I had to reward myself with an early Mini and a late Synthex. It'll take a few days until they arrive. Hope I won't suffer too much through the anticipation period

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:25 pm

Urs wrote:I had to reward myself with an early Mini and a late Synthex.

That means no Dinosaur Crossgrade for you!

https://www.u-he.com/cms/zebra2-dinosaur-crossgrade

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 5:19 pm

Urs wrote:
Mushy Mushy wrote:
Urs wrote:I spent a shitload of money yesterday. The fame of those two synths better be substantiated.
Congrats on your J8 and Waldorf Wave
Already got a J8 - and have never been so much into the Wave...

I've had a stressful time working on some really tedious und unpleasant stuff. This somehow took my defenses down. In an outburst of GAS, I had to reward myself with an early Mini and a late Synthex. It'll take a few days until they arrive. Hope I won't suffer too much through the anticipation period

You lucky moogerfooger!

Congrats.

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 6:18 am

FWIW, more about a few dedicated RE's these days and less GAS. Now, with basses and guitars, GAS has subsided quite a bit but I did get this:

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Fender/Spec ... zz-Bass.gc

Terrific. I think I'm truly and honestly complete for quite some time.

werp · Post by **werp** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 6:34 am

new Gibson arrived yesterday, I ordered a guitar last week for February delivery and I'm still checking eBay for something special...sigh

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 6:58 am

werp wrote:new Gibson arrived yesterday, I ordered a guitar last week for February delivery and I'm still checking eBay for something special...sigh

Mine is not coming until late March!!!

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 5:00 pm

So far I have managed to surpress the urge to buy irig keys to get ST3 LE

Aleatoriac · Post by **Aleatoriac** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 5:05 pm

I have GAS so bad right now. WTF is wrong with me I just finished another of my dark ambient / weirdness forays and need to focus on making artwork for it... but dammit all I can do is lust after more samples, more synths (Dammit U-He and XFer...) and other things I do not need...

Dammit... It's damn good to be alive and have all these options. Serious about that.

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:36 pm

Bought Forest Kingdom II on sale, bought Heavyocity Vocalise, bought Zebra Borealis, next Payday it's an Alesis Vortex..

HELP

ME

PLEASE

lectrixboogaloo · Post by **lectrixboogaloo** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 3:46 pm

I don't think i have GAS problems so much as some kind of collector tick. If I have 2 or 3 guitar pedals of some series, I feel compelled (mildly, but eventually gets to me sometimes) to get the whole series. Which can be pretty wasteful, really.

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 3:50 pm

Alesis Vortex here as well as Forest Kingdom II

TEKing66 · Post by **TEKing66** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 4:07 pm

Brand new PRS SE Standard 24, arrived the day after I ordered it (Sweetwater works fast). It's not like I really needed it, having a Les Paul, a DOT Studio and a Strat already, but in truth, I really, REALLY, just had to have it.

Also added Waves Gold Bundle (loving this) and a few Sugar Bytes and PSP plugins (waiting on my free one from the PSP Buy One Get One Free offer currently going on, that should happen tomorrow).

And, a new PC, due to arrive after Christmas, figured it was finally time to retire the old Pentium D machine I have had for what seems like forever. Went with a 6 core Intel i7 Extreme, 16 gig or ram, 256 gig SSD and 1terabyte HHD, and a mobo that is hughly expandable ( up 128 gig or RAM, 10 HHD connections, USB 3.1, etc.). So, the wait is likely to kill me (good thing I got the PRS to pass the time with).

AegisPrime · Post by **AegisPrime** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 5:00 pm

This magpie effect we all struggle with is funny and I've certainly felt it taking my first steps into audio production - the built-in tools are so drab and the 3rd-party plugins so shiny

I was at my worst when I was working as a full-time 3D artist - I had to have every new plugin that came out and I had a collection that cost me several hundred times the cost of the 3D software that was hosting them. The funny thing is, years later having returned to do bits and pieces of 3D work for myself, I've found I really don't need most of them.

The majority of these things duplicate stuff you could do yourself if you had the know-how (which after 20 years of doing this, I guess I do) and I suspect it's a similar thing in the audio world - sure, there's always going to be things that create unique sounds that you'd have no other way of making (they're the really useful tools) but perhaps the real cure for GAS is knowledge and experience no?

On the audio front, I'm limiting myself to nice replacements to Tracktion's stock tools (ToneBoosters, TDR, Klanghelm, Valhalla DSP) plus some simple, cheap and/or fun things I can't do out-of-the-box (TAL-Sampler, Kuvert, SPL De-Verb) - I've got a small collection of interesting freebies too - Alchemy Player, CamelCrusher, the free Soundtoys plugins etc.

As a treat I subbed to Track Spark which for a newb is a great resource - loops, tuts and a shiny new plugin for $3 a month - can't go wrong with that

Let's talk about: Gear Acquisition Syndrome