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Originally posted by Silver Sonya
...that an item for sale means the item is not good.
My band is about to purchase a Pendulum Quartet II channel-strip (or possibley a Wunder PEQ1 and a Pendulum ES8 compressor), a high-end tube mic (possibly the Brauner VMA or the Korby multi-head mic, not sure which), plus the Benchmark ADC -1 when it becomes available.
The total cost, somewhere in the neighborhood of $10- $12K.
The plan right now is to keep this kit as a mobile recording rig for maybe 6 months to a year. We're going to do a lot of overdubbing, vocals, etc. in various acoustic environments. We wanted to have an excellent front-end for this. Then we wanted to sell the kit when we were finished for hopefully very little markdown.
I think, in the project studio age, there are a lot of people who think like this. I think a lot of eBay sales of pro audio stuff are from people who bought something nice for one or two projects and then sold it, with very little depreciation. The trick, of course, is to buy something that holds its value (if it is good, it should) and treat it well while you have it. It's actually a fairly economically cunning technique.
So don't assume that something that is for sale (especially the kind of stuff that's sold in the gearslutz classifieds: helios preamps, soundelux mics, royers, manley, etc.) sucks.
--- Chad |
For the record I never said or implied the GTQ-2 sucked in any way, never even assumed it. I have never heard one and I have heard nothing but good things about it.
Your points about people buying and selling quickly are fair.
I know that there are not a bunch of GTQ units out there because of the production was not ramped up and there are allot for sale.
Just seems strange to me.