Gear to NOT Buy

[jnorman]

daniel - i thought that quote was:
"If at first you dont succeed, cheat until caught, then lie."

[rumleymusic]

Originally Posted by jnorman

daniel - i thought that quote was:
"If at first you dont succeed, cheat until caught, then lie."

"You see the reason it didn't turn out was because I was forced to hang the mics from that bad position, combined with the poor shell construction and the temperature variance, swamp gas from Venus,momentary paranormal convergence with transient construction of the hall.....YOU KNOW...its all very technical, long story short, it's your fault!"

[Remoteness]

I believe you completely missed my point or miss-understood me to some degree.
I never said use a Behringer for a backup.
Well, if you already have a Behringer, then I guess you could use another Behringer as your B or C rig.

Listen, if the Behringer is in the trunk of someones car, it's not a back-up, it's a possible save the day moment...

I said, if you're at a gig; the gear is set-up and ready to roll, but the console went dead and one of the musicians had a Behringer in their car to lend you; are you going to use it or not? It's a simple question, really.

I mean, some folks say they would never use a Behringer, but would you use one if it could save your arse or will you just go home with your tail between your legs because the gear you wanted to use didn't perform its task when you wanted it to?

I'm just saying...

Originally Posted by NorseHorse

Well if you're at the gig, you obviously haven't blown it off.

Which means we're talking about Behringer as a back-up, and if we're talking about back-ups, I suppose we should remember that a few folks have suggested that the only real backup is equal in quality and quantity to your main rig, so if your backup is just the Behringer, then it isn't much of a back-up at all, right? Or perhaps there is room in the world for "B rigs"?

Of course, I thought your original question was about whether or not to even take a gig, which is what Rumley addressed as well. In response to his comments, I'd say it isn't as simple as getting a job or not. If you take the job and the equipment isn't suitable, there will be a permanent record of the ill-recorded project with your name it. Like agreeing to a session in a horrible room.

Perhaps some rooms need to be added to this "Gear to NOT Buy" list. After all, they'll ruin your recording a lot quicker than a consumer microphone.

[Biber]

Well long time no hear...

but would you use one if it could save your arse

Yess. because i think my arse is worth it!!


sorry...couldn´t resist..

[b0ssa]

Originally Posted by ttauri

Pour-kwah?

Peece,
T. Tauri

Pourquoi

[daveg62]

Originally Posted by tunesmith

focusrite platinum series.

yyyuuuuuuk!

Sorry. I know there are some octopre users out there. Don't mean to offend anyone. But the focusrite platinum series should be cast into outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth and really really harsh vocal tracks.

Tunes.

I actually have the mixmaster which I find myself using quite often. Compression is nice.

[JTraverse]

Originally Posted by PlugHead

ditto the M-Audio crap - I have 2 USB keyboards (Keystation 49 and Radium 61) that've gone tits-up due to the KNOWN FAULTY USB bus - how the $%^ can they sell crap they know have faulty parts? Called tech support 3 times now, leaving messages, and no returned call, except for the intial one giving me the useless phone #'s

dfegad on crappy plastic %^& destined for landfills...fuuck

They probably didn't know until it shipped out.

But for ultimate shit, anything that's made by Apex, their MIDI cables are sometimes dead before put on the shelf. Seriously.

[Michaelrophone]

Originally Posted by JTraverse

But for ultimate shit, anything that's made by Apex, their MIDI cables are sometimes dead before put on the shelf. Seriously.

I almost agree with you, with the exception of their mic stands. They don't make a decent mic to put on one, but they make a pretty solid stand.

[ArcCirDude]

Originally Posted by DannyL

Hmm:

Blue Sky Monitors or bass mangement systems: really bad, very colored.

Cad Mics: How to make music sound like stale cereal.

Aphex Thermionic mic pre's...it would be ok for talkback, I guess

Hmm:

I find the Blue Sky 5.1 that I use to be very linear, non-colored and best of all, translates very well. But I have a well designed and treated control room.

I have a CAD VX2 and love it. It's a sleeper. Two capsules, two flavors.

I think that the Aphex 1100 to be one of the best mic pres ever produced. Incredible detail, headroom, noise floor, AD convertor, sweepable high pass, MicLim. Man, it was a leap in mic preamp technology. Too bad it's been discontinued. Everyone wants "iron" these days....

[taturana]

Originally Posted by Ruudman

Guitar strings in Norway (or anything else for that matter).
How about 15 USD for one set of Fender Super Bullets?

Welcome to my world

Same here in Brazil... sometimes even more expensive....

[praashekh]

behringer bcf2000 and bcr2000 controllers seems quite useful for the price.. though my maudio mobile pre give crazy hiss issues with nothing plugged in even.. and would go dead in the middle of a session till i restarted the DAW n reconnected the USB..

[chai t]

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these.

[audibell]

Originally Posted by doorknocker

Whirlwind splitter boxes: A few years ago I wasted roughly $ 150 for a guitar A/B box that totally degraded the sound. Later on I hooked up a second guitar amp via the second output of a cheap Danelectro Tuner pedal (made in China). Naturally this worked fine, and that's not even the intended use for that box.
Whirlwind no more.

Andi

That's a shame to hear. My multi-channel Medusa splitter has their TRSP1 transformers and I can't tell the difference from the Jensen MB-C/Ds I put in my IMPs The IMPs had a cheaper WW transformer that dropped the ISO level about 6dB but output sound wasn't noticeably degraded. Do you think instrument level into a mic splitter might have had some bad effect? I know WW makes line level splitters but I don't know about instruments.
rgds,
WalterT

[NMcDonough]

Originally Posted by not_so_new

Agree with the NT2 but got to tell ya, I have 2 NTK's and while they are not great for vox or guitar (or much else, little spitty for my taste) they absolutely ROCK for drum room mics!!!

I would agree with the Berhenger stuff as well everything I have ever tried sucked but I have to admit I have their headphone amp. It is fine for what I need it for, non critical listening.

Add to the list the stupid drum tension units (I forget who makes them, maybe DW or Tama??). Each lug needs to be tuned to "sound" good not "be at the same tension." I thought I could use it anyway to get toms close fast but it turned out to be a big $75 paper weight!!

+1 on the NTK as a drum room mic. I bought one a while back myself and hated it on vocals so I ended up trying it as a drum room mic. EXCELLENT!

[jozzafunk]

I'm speechless - this almost makes me want to try one, but I guess that's their sales strategy - Has anyone actually bought/used one of these ? - c'mon you know you want to align your space-time fear continuum

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