Drool over gear you want but probably won't get

Post by **Lunkhead** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:30 pm

There's probably already a thread like this but I don't have time to find it. Perhaps john82 can dig it up for me? Seriously, though, this is a place to drool over gear you encountered that you're probably not going to get, for whatever reason.

I'll start. Last weekend I made the mistake of playing a $2100 Martin acoustic at Guitar Center. It sounded like a choir of angels! No surprise, I guess, though I did proceed to try a few other similarly expensive guitars for comparison and they did not sound as good. It almost made me want to quit my job and hit the road as a singer/songwriter so I could play that guitar all the time (when I wasn't driving or begging for food, anyway).

obscurity · Post by **obscurity** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:35 pm

Yeah, this was kinda what I had in mind when I started this tread, but that seems to have died. Perhaps it's waiting in the queue for john82 or whatever his name is.

But anyway...I'm still drooling over the V-Synth XT. One day.

blue · Post by **blue** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:35 pm

http://www.uaudio.com/products/analog/8110/index.html

Project-D · Post by **Project-D** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:32 pm

I went to the Gibson store in Nashville and every guitar I picked up I wanted. They had this particular one, it looked a lot like the one you see Leadbelly playing, the 6 string, not the 12. It had a chocolately finish, kind of like the darker color on a sunburst. It was perfect in every way, except costing $3000.

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:56 pm

I want a baby grand piano, and a flugelhorn, and a baritone saxophone, and a chromatic button accordion, and a vibraphone.

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:04 pm

Steve Durand wrote:I want ... a vibraphone.

Doesn't Caravan Ray have some sort of vibrating something?

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:47 pm

Unlike you pathetic weaklings, I have the noble drive to put my comfort and financial standings second to the acquisition of gear. There is nothing that I currently want that I feel like I will never get.

But I'd really like a B3 and 147 (my M3 into B4's Leslie sim is great, but I lust), and a nice pedal steel.

Ok, now that I think of the Hammond and shit, maybe there is one thing:

ROADIES.

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:08 pm

Sober wrote: Ok, now that I think of the Hammond and shit, maybe there is one thing:

ROADIES.

Yeah, and some of these.

http://www.nortechusa.com/rollorkr.htm

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:43 am

Obv.

For the leslie, I'd like to get a 145 (shorter version of the 147) and just drill handles and tilt-wheels into it, so it'll move just like a big SWR bass cabinet.

Get me a ramp and take out the back seat in the van, and I'm good to go.

Post by jb » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:16 am

I want a tuba and a marimba.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:04 am

i was thinking it would be cool to have an organ, but i wouldn't know which kind... however, not the churchy kind but more like an instrumental rock kind.
-bill

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:11 am

I want an outbuilding on my property where I can set up the studio. A while back we looked at a house that had a huge garage that was built to house two tractor trailers. That would have been incredible.

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:27 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote:i was thinking it would be cool to have an organ, but i wouldn't know which kind... however, not the churchy kind but more like an instrumental rock kind.
-bill

Anything with drawbars instead of stops.

The Hammond M3 is often called the poor man's B3. Watch Craigslist, they come up pretty often for $100-500. I had to drive a bit, but I got my all-original 7.5/10 condition 1961 M3 for $100.

The rock sound comes from the leslie speaker and tubes, not the organ tone generator. My M3 has a pretty tame sound that can be churchy if I want, but run any of it through a leslie sim with some overdrive and it's a beast.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:04 pm

thanks sober, that's not too pricey. now i just need somewhere to put it, my studio is packed full with stuff. including a bed, sheesh, who needs that!
-bill

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:48 am

I'd like some microphones that weren't purchased at Radio Shack in 1995.

Btw, I've found a soundfont with such a good organ patch that I'm gonna use it in every fight from now on.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:52 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote:i was thinking it would be cool to have an organ, but i wouldn't know which kind...
-bill

snigger...

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:30 pm

Figured you'd bite on that one.
Ha!
-bill

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:35 pm

jimtyrrell wrote:I want an outbuilding on my property where I can set up the studio. A while back we looked at a house that had a huge garage that was built to house two tractor trailers. That would have been incredible.

We saw a brownstone in Brooklyn years ago with a little carriage house behind it. A separate two story building and not visible from the street. But we didn't get it. DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT

signboy · Post by **signboy** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:17 am

I want a band that can play some other instruments for me. My laptop is okay, but it never wants to go out drinking after recording.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:21 am

jimtyrrell wrote:I want an outbuilding on my property where I can set up the studio.

Home Depot delivers:
<img src="http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/produc ... 31_300.jpg">

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/sto ... =100018176

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:58 am

I want <a href="http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... 65010">one of these</a>, and <a href="http://www.steinway.com/steinway/specs/ ... shtml">one of these</a> plus room to keep it in, although I'd probably settle for <a href="http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2008/ ... ano/">this alternative</a> (I must get a better keyboard controller though).

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:15 am

Also, who wants a <a href="http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... rtastud</a>?