Members Geoff Grace Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 Is the current economic downturn affecting your gear purchases, or is it business as usual? If you are making purchases, what are you buying? Best, Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Billster Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 I'm planning to get a new acoustic guitar next week. The upside of the acoustic is that if the entire planet fails, I won't need an amp. Depending on which end of my price range I end up selecting I may have some money left for some other accessories I'm eying, like an eBow and a stompbox compressor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Music Calgary Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 No way Jose, just paying off what I have and then taking a break from buying gear for a while until I can see what sort of impact we're going to have here in Boomtown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 10, 2008 Moderators Share Posted October 10, 2008 If that purchase is going to make me money... I'm buying. As far as fun or dream type purchases. I'm on hold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cavadge Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 Was shopping for some new mains and subs. Not now. Stuff I have bought in the last couple of weeks - MREs, energy bars in bulk, water storage containers, gas cans, beef jerky in bulk, cartons of toilet paper and paper towels, and ammo. Just in case. I'd actually like to ditch some guitars, but am not willing to give them away, or sell them for a great deal less than I paid for them (and almost all I bought used.) Tis hard times ahead, I believe. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bbach Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 The upside of the acoustic is that if the entire planet fails, I won't need an amp. Maybe I should go that way as well. I am actually purchasing a rather spendy "boutique" guitar simply because I'd like to own one before I die and my brother's recent passing made me realize that could be any time now. However, I can pay for it without using credit of any kind. I have been wondering if maybe I should hold off and take my 25% restocking fee loss and hold on to the rest of the money. I'm also thinking of getting a Digitech Jamman because my old Radio Shack cassette recorder I use to lay down practice sessions is crapping out on me. Funny thing, but I worry more about spending $299 on a jamman than I do a bunch on a guitar. I think it has to do with perceived value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geno_xl Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 nah, I'm in the process of picking out and buying some studio foam and stuff from my little project studio. It's not the most expensive purchase I've ever made but I'm not holding back any. oh, and I'm buying a house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 10, 2008 Moderators Share Posted October 10, 2008 oh, and I'm buying a house. That's the best gear purchase you can make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 I don't (and never have) tied gear buying to the economic issues of the nation. If I need gear, I get it. If I don't, I don't. Illustrating the point, there have been plenty of times where I've felt very financially sound, and still didn't buy gear because I was happy with what I had. It's more about my needs as a musician. Of course, if it came down to a choice between eating and a new guitar, I'd eat. I can live with whatever gear I have at the moment. But I can't eat guitars. Mahogany gets stuck in my teeth, and pickups give me indigestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geno_xl Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 That's the best gear purchase you can make. Well it sorta is since one room will be for my home studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 10, 2008 Moderators Share Posted October 10, 2008 ...and pickups give me indigestion. Dimarzios I bet. You obviously need to upgrade your pickups. Try Duncan Antiquities. Yummy. Easy on the tum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitzilla Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 I want a new mini guitar rig. I have an ADA MP1. I want to buy a rack-mount, low wattage tube power amp (Mesa 20/20?). I'm also thinking about the TC electronics G-system, and a pair of 2-12 cabs...now that I look at it in writing, it doesn't seem quite so mini! I just have to find stores with the Mesa 20/20 and G-sytem in stock so I can hear them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Billster Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 Stuff I have bought in the last couple of weeks - MREs, energy bars in bulk, beef jerky in bulk, cartons of toilet paper and paper towels, and ammo. Just in case. Tis hard times ahead, I believe. Steve I feel sorry for your plumber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 In the next few months, I'm replacing my ancient Mac that blue2blue likes to ridicule ( )with a new computer. I've purchased a couple of small odds and ends already. If I need something and I have the money, I'll still get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 In an economy like this, cash is king... at least on a minute to minute basis. But I'm a cork bobbing on the waters of the general economy... as much as I'd like to be snapping up distress-sale guitars and foreclosed houses... I'm just looking to get across this trough to the next swell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 I may have an eight-year old computer with OS9.2.2 to sell you in a couple of months, blue2blue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 10, 2008 Moderators Share Posted October 10, 2008 Well it sorta is since one room will be for my home studio. I know what you mean. I wasn't being sarcastic. I use my home as a studio and it's an important part of my income. It is gear to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 In the next few months, I'm replacing my ancient Mac that blue2blue likes to ridicule ( )with a new computer. I've purchased a couple of small odds and ends already. If I need something and I have the money, I'll still get it. Whoa, there cowboy... I admire the kind of guy who can milk a single computer for a decade or more... ... that said... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geno_xl Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 I know what you mean. I wasn't being sarcastic. I use my home as a studio and it's an important part of my income. It is gear to me... oh, ok, gotcha. I knew it was a stretch though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rackzilla2037 Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 i'm out of the GAS mode at the moment. I'm having trouble paying all my bills month to month... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bp Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 I bought a generator and a bunch of surplus fuel cans. I already have plenty of soup, beans, water, butane, propane and other essentials. If they're not needed for bad times they'll be used for tailgating. Hail to the Redskins!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 Whoa, there cowboy... I admire the kind of guy who can milk a single computer for a decade or more... ... that said... I don't like upgrading, updating, doing all those things. I want to sit down and create. If it works, it works. But there's a point of no return, and I've hit it. I need a faster computer, and I need stuff that's more modern now. That this happens to be during an economic meltdown is besides the point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 Business as usual... ...which means I'm too poor to buy gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Inazone Posted October 10, 2008 Members Share Posted October 10, 2008 I've been restraining myself quite a bit already, having bought a house around this time last year, but I needed to pick up an inexpensive seven-string guitar for a new project, and a couple of small items for my home studio. I tend to find specific pieces of gear that I really like and then buy every one of them that turns up, which is a bit of a curse since one of my favorite guitar models is up on eBay as we speak for quite cheap. Generally speaking though, I'm taking it easy on the spending. With winter coming, and me not being much of an outdoorsman, I can keep myself occupied inside with things that I already own. With the economy tanking, I look at it as yet another opportunity to spend time learning how to use things I've acquired over the past year . . . and enjoy what I already have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 If I need it, and it will make me money, I'll get it, but considering I just spent a ton of money upgrading stuff over the course of the last year, I don't see many large ticket purchases in the immediate future. One thing I did add in the last month was a new Kurzweil SP2X to replace my aging Fatar Studio 90 - I really like it a lot. :phil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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