HOw Much have you invested in your Lab?

How Much have you invested in your Lab?

  • $0.01-$500.00

    Votes: 38 22.4%
  • $501.00-$1200.00

    Votes: 35 20.6%
  • $1201.00-$4000.00

    Votes: 41 24.1%
  • $4001.00 or more

    Votes: 56 32.9%

  • Total voters
    170

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ILLIEN
ill o.g.
MacBook - $1200
MPK 49 - $400
Roland RD-150 - $1300
Mackie 1207 Mixer - $300
MXL 990 - $45
3-Way Studio Monitors - $520
Samson Servo 200 Reference Amp - $150
Furman Punch-10 Bass Enhancer - $75
Reason 4 - $400
M-Audio Firewire Solo Interface - $100
TRS Cables - $70

TOTAL: $4560
 
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The Arkitekt

Guest
axiom (i love this keyboard lol) - $300
laptop - (ebay price $680, YEA!, ebay = good) - $1000

$1300 ( $980)
 
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Griffin Avid

Guest
What's worse is when your gear depreciates over time. I mean it's the idea between how much YOU get out of it verse the overall cost. I snagged the Motif XS the week it dropped for ~$3,500. They were taking them back for ~$1,600 and turning them back around used at ~$2,400. When the XS dropped they blew them all out for (sometimes under) $1,200. After Expanded System who woulda thought they'd make an Xcessively expanded System.

Same with the Alesis Fusion. It came out like a regular workstation and was eventually blown out for as little as $400.

The opposite with the TR808/TB303. Considered failures when they dropped and went on to become classics.

Gear is truly an investment because you never know.
A company could go under...product lines discontinued.
Trends come and go. Analogs went away and now there's a re-surgence so you might see a lot of new analogs.
 

Formant024

Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
^^^ and samplers, people are paying good prices on jd800 as its considered the last true va made by roland (before the groovebox romplers), the S750/S770 is almost identical in sound and synthesis for a quarter of the price...EMAXIII, Z8, S3200, E4xt even the asrx series sound very good, all can be had for the price of a plugin. Only a few VA synths will keep their values, stuff like a mint virus B, ATC or SE fully modded, a polymorph will keep value or beasts like andromeda ( though thats a matter of taste ) or weird stuff like the hartman neuron. Shit like nordrack are getting ditched, i personally dont like the sound and the nord mini is just too electro minimalish (its really played out over here), a nordrack one over here goes for 400 bucks, 800 for a virus b desktop (600 euro mint) which i dont understand, i got the C offered to me for 1000 euro 3 months after the release...dude bought 2 spares when they came out, box never been opened...and the mpc of course, i got 2 2kxl when they just came out...ive never ever seen 1 particulair piece of gear which has been offered so much as the mpc2000xl... many brandnew 2 month old on sale secondhand for bargain prices..you just had to love it if youre starting out on hiphop producing lol
 

Formant024

Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
MacBook - $1200
MPK 49 - $400
Roland RD-150 - $1300
Mackie 1207 Mixer - $300
MXL 990 - $45
3-Way Studio Monitors - $520
Samson Servo 200 Reference Amp - $150
Furman Punch-10 Bass Enhancer - $75
Reason 4 - $400
M-Audio Firewire Solo Interface - $100
TRS Cables - $70

TOTAL: $4560


just food for thought...

macbook 1200
gen 1031a's 2500
motu traveler 300 ( 300 euro on a good deal over here )
mpk49 400
MXL 990 45

logic warez, reason warez -try before buy, lol- ...save up up for both, you're set (and portable)

btw, the ultra is also your mixer
 

Sucio

Old and dirty...
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 304
Let's see..

My laptop - free...

Software - free

Headphones - $30..haha

Damn I'm doing pretty good..

Luckily for me I have accessibility to hardware via the studio...hehehehehehehe..
 
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Griffin Avid

Guest
@Sucio: Lab must mean Little Area for Beats!

No need to throw the hardware disclaimer in there.
Not everyone needs a real studio to make tracks.
 

Formant024

Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
you have a "real" studio ? just drop it man, give the people here some food for thought in regards to "real" studio equipment hehe.
 
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Griffin Avid

Guest
It's obviously the stuff he refers to here...

Luckily for me I have accessibility to hardware via the studio

maybe you should ask him...
 

Sucio

Old and dirty...
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 304
@Sucio: Lab must mean Little Area for Beats!

No need to throw the hardware disclaimer in there.
Not everyone needs a real studio to make tracks.




I know that, smarty pants.


I just have access to a small production studio where they have a motif 8, a 4000 and a nord 2x.....So whenever I feel like going out there to make music...I just go there...

BTW the place is called "Scream Studios" located across from KDS Studios in Orlando. Rubbed a few elbows there and was granted access to the production studio as long as it isn't being occupied by paying customers.

Kontents: I spend my money on bills...lol. Unfortunately for me, I took up a little more than I could afford. But I am finally starting to get ahead of the game..... I'm currently saving up for some equipment....Not sure exactly what I want right now.
 

Rackoon

Beatmaker
ill o.g.
Emu1212m: 270$
krk rp5: 350$
krk rp10: 370$
AKG 240: 150$
hp4 presonus: 130$
M-audio 61 es: 180$
Cables: 120$
behringer ada800: 240$
numark tt200 turntable: 220$
vestax 002 xl mixer: 190$

total: 2220$
 
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eDub24

Guest
axiom 49-$250 (sick ass controller)
Tapco S.5 monitors- $300 (i got a nice deal on these)
Roland RH 200 monitor headphones- $133 rolands birthday sale like 5 days ago
edirol pcr-1 controller- $200, good for mobile production
fujitsu lifebook with vista(FUCK VISTA) $1300
ergronomic chair lol- 70 bucks
tascam us122l and a mxl condenser mic- $200

and i really want to get the motif es rack, after that i wont buy any gear for a while
thank god for summer jobs and living with parents lol
 

Sucio

Old and dirty...
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 304
A couple hundred bucks.
 
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