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CJ1973 · 28th December 2009

I have an SE1X for Analog Bass and some lead. You can pick up a great condition SE1X for about $1200 on Ebay. Obviously the SE1X has banks of sounds and room for creating your own and saving those. Great value. For me, it doesnt have color say as a Minimoog, but its so nasty!!
That leaves you $2800. For that, you could buy a fantastic condition Xpander and Juno 106. For analog, these are fairly reliable. Juno is usually an easy fix too. Since you dont want to have any repair issues through college, I think you may be safe with these. An Omega 4 voice would be great but obviously you are limited to that 1 unit. I also have an OB8 and that is fantastic too and different to the Xpander. So I could recommend this too, but the filter options on the Xpander are great. My next purchase is going to perhaps be a Jupiter 8 (just because!) and for a great poly with fast envelopes. That I think would really complete my set up but I am not really short for sounds. Some cool VST instruments sit nicely (and sometimes on top of the real analog to give it a modern flava) so don't count your VST's out...!!

28th December 2009	#78
CJ1973 Lives for gear Joined: May 2007 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,110	I have an SE1X for Analog Bass and some lead. You can pick up a great condition SE1X for about $1200 on Ebay. Obviously the SE1X has banks of sounds and room for creating your own and saving those. Great value. For me, it doesnt have color say as a Minimoog, but its so nasty!! That leaves you $2800. For that, you could buy a fantastic condition Xpander and Juno 106. For analog, these are fairly reliable. Juno is usually an easy fix too. Since you dont want to have any repair issues through college, I think you may be safe with these. An Omega 4 voice would be great but obviously you are limited to that 1 unit. I also have an OB8 and that is fantastic too and different to the Xpander. So I could recommend this too, but the filter options on the Xpander are great. My next purchase is going to perhaps be a Jupiter 8 (just because!) and for a great poly with fast envelopes. That I think would really complete my set up but I am not really short for sounds. Some cool VST instruments sit nicely (and sometimes on top of the real analog to give it a modern flava) so don't count your VST's out...!!