Subj : Careful with that Axe!
To : Paul Lawson
From : Martin Ridgley
Date : Tue Jul 25 2000 12:16 pm
-=> Paul Lawson wrote to Martin Ridgley <=-
PL> Seems there's always a shopping list. I think I've been trying
PL> to assemble my "ultimate rig" for at least 10 years now.
PL> There's always something (dental bills, basement
PL> renovations etc.) that eats up the available cash flow.
Yup... ;-(
PL> I still need a good single coil guitar (G&L at this point) and a
PL> good acoustic (looking at Taylors) and I keep watching the price
PL> of digital 8-tracks drop. I figure, at the rate I'm going, I'll
PL> have all my toys just in time for my kid to inherit them. :)
Heh, yeah... in my case, my niece or nephew....
My experience has been that you can't go too far wrong with a G&L.
A new acoustic is on my list too. I haven't played any Taylors yet,
but I've heard a number of people speak positively about them.
As for digital recording decks... A friend of mine bought a Roland
VS-1680 about two years ago and paid a fortune for it. I've been
lucky enough work with it and experience first hand just how good
they can be, while waiting patiently for the price to drop. ;-)
I've also come to realize that I probably don't need a 16-track
deck. I mean it'd be nice, but I think I could be quite happy with
an 8-track, and they're now down in the $1,200 to $1,500 range.
Do I hear a thousand? ;-)
Oh, FWIW, I read somewhere that Fostex have recently come out with
a 16-track digital deck for about $1,400. It doesn't have all the
bells and whistles (like auto-mixing) that some of the other decks
have, but if you've got to have 16-tracks, it's rapidly becoming more
and more affordable.
Martin
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