secret pieces of gear under 200.00

[newfuturevintage]

Originally Posted by beruang

any of the Fostex "printed ribbon mics".

If you can find one of these for under $200 please lemme know! Been looking for one on ebay for years, can't find one under around $450. Yikes!

+1 on the apex / carvin tube mics. Have both, great for the cash.

New contribution: Peavey's TBraxx bass pre. Late '80s, early '90s one rack space tube pre, usually cost around $125. Very good sounding unit live and recorded. Ditto that for the furman PQ3 when used as a bass pre.

[somedude74]

Danelectro FAB TONE guitar pedal.

These can be had for <$25 on Ebay. Amazingly usable distortion pedal (low and high tone controls). Great for leads that cut through!! Take my word for it, this pedal ROCKS!

I use it just as much as my Pete Cornish SS-3, which cost over $600!!

[willerichey]

How about a DIY wind screen?

Ba dum pish!

[Weasel9992]

A Cascade Fat Head II ribbon mic. Wow. That's all I can say...wow. I actually got a matched pair for under $400, delivered.

Weez

[joshelevator]

reamp

[octatonic]

Originally Posted by GTR

Danelectro FAB TONE guitar pedal.

+1

I rackmounted mine.



Last on the end of the unmarked black rack.

[andremattos]

Originally Posted by Robzilla

FMR Audio RNC seems like a great comp for 200$. I haven't used it myself yet, but i did hear some great things about it. I'm going to check it out soon, it seems like a very good deal!

FMR Audio - Home of the Really Nice Compressor and Preamp (512) 280-6557

+1

thumbsup

[raal]

not a pre or comp but i find more uses for the ATTY than it's even advertised for. real gem.

[Nu-tra]

CAD M177, CAD M179, ATM 450, ATM650
SCA C84

[bob greenwood]

I'd have to say my samson resolv 40a active studio monitors. I can trust them in any room, in any scenario, and my mixes come out how I intended. I also have the JBL 4328's and mackie 824's which I love but my samson's have never failed me and I picked them up for only $120.

[studiodunn]

fethead

[dkelley]

Originally Posted by studiodunn

fethead

jerk





.... oh sorry, you're talking about a piece of gear LoL :-D

fethead (or fathead, I've seen both) sounds exactly like something a former friend of mine used to call anybody who didn't agree with him.

cheers :-D

[soul&folk]

Cad e70 SDC mics - they have served me well as drum overheads, acoustic guitar and sometimes even vocals

for a bass preamp, my little secret is an ART TPS rackmount. One channel is broken. It's probably worth around $30 the way it is now but I love what it does on bass.

Symetrix SX202 preamps. 2 channels of nice clean gain. I think they have a nice musical sound, even if they're clean. They are not sterile. Very worth the $. I have 2 of them.

EH12AY7 preamp. Great for an inexpensive but convincing tube preamp. No frills. Not very high gain though. Best used with mics that have high output.

Someone else already mentioned coffee! :-)

[ryanbfast]

+4 on the ART pre.
i picked one up for $100 used and upgraded el tube in it. thing sounds like it cost much more than it did...

[GordZilla]

Some of my fave sub-$200 secret low-end gold... all were each respectively purchased for less than 200 bucks per.

- Kel Audio HM-1s (both of them)
- Kel Audio HM-2D
- Sabra SOM Shockmounts (x2)
- Rane HM-6 Headphone amp
- Audix i5s (x3)
- Six (6) 80GB IDE hard drives for my Alesis ADAT HD-24
- Ikea JERKER desk

Fun fun fun... for a couple hun!

[Bob Moore]

DBX 262X
DBX 163X
behringer composer mdx 2100
Lexicon MPX 100

b...............

[Earthling]

...lava lamp?.....I just wanted to subscribe to this post....sorry.....o_O

[funkycam]

+1 on hm-2D
similar flavour, but much better than MXL V67

[DisforDorian]

Tough question as there is so much gear under that price range! My favourites are:
Sm57 of course tho this is the most obvious but the best £75 quid you will ever spend, (that's how much I got them for from thomann.de)
Senn md 421 £ 200 each from eBay I have 3 in my collection and want more lol I love these kicks toms guitar amps bass cabs great buy very versatile mic
Akg d12 eBay £200 not everyones favourite drum mic but I low the sound, against the d112, beta 52 and Audix d6 which again are all under 200
Beta 58 for the vocalist that just performs better in front of a dynamic
Oh yeah an a good pop sheild ... Priceless lol

Those mics are my go to I can mic up a kit and guitars and bass cabs and track voxs (depending on the vocalist) but they are all cheap mics great additions to any collection

I know these mics aren't very secret sorry but 75 quid for a sm57 is a great deal especially from a legitimate source

[baskervils]

Alesis iPad dock + 99 cent Animoog (and Mellotronics Mellotron if you want to splurge):

[baskervils]

[Earthling]

Coolness....

[RedWallStudio]

Almost any of the old Orban Parametric EQs. If you watch Ebay close enough, you may be able to pick up a stereo unit for around 200.00.

[Dervish Riff]

Sonuus G2M v2 pitch to MIDI converter--$99.00 Fripp in a box

[cargojon]

Originally Posted by DeeDrive

You've already said to much.

But seriously, MXL makes some pretty decent mics for cheap. Some are garbage, but a few a great. The V67 is a good one.

I love my V67g.

[omtayslick]

Originally Posted by Earthling

...lava lamp?.....I just wanted to subscribe to this post....sorry.....o_O

No apology needed, perfectly valid I'd say. You're old school aren't you?

[Earthling]

Originally Posted by omtayslick

No apology needed, perfectly valid I'd say. You're old school aren't you?

I don't want to 'muck' up this post but 'old school'? Um? Like 'Old' yes? Lava lamps are ....like.... um....... cool...... ee.... yeah Bevus...that's cool ehe yeah cool...he ee he ee heehe he eehe

[ProfessorNick]

Guitar pedals as external processors. Just set up an effects loop in your DAW to send and receive through your interface and patch in the analog goodness/mayhem. Especially the Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff. I circuit bent one and get all sorts of cool analog dirt, clipping
and dirt.
Check out my vid: http://carillonaudio.wordpress.com/d...-2/diy-pedals/