Imran500
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What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
#866374 - 06/10/10 02:42 PM
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The first thing I ever got was the Akai DPS 12, a 12 track digital recorder with a built
in hard drive. Done the job quite nicely although I always felt at the back of my mind
that a PC would serve me better.... 
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866378 - 06/10/10 02:53 PM
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Depends what you define as music "technology" First recording "gear" (as we
quaintly called it) was Revox A77 I then wondered why all my stuff still didnt sound
as good as the Beatles
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866382 - 06/10/10 02:56 PM
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I had a Sharp open-reel tape recorder bought for me when I was 10 - I was totally
smitten.
Then I bought a secondhand Thomas copy of a Vox Jaguar organ by
trading in an air rifle and handing over every penny I could scrape together.
Low-tech, but tech just the same! 
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866383 - 06/10/10 02:59 PM
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My parents got me a two tier stylophone (or similar device) when I was a nipper, but the
first proper piece of music technology was a Korg 05/RW about 15 years ago.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866386 - 06/10/10 03:17 PM
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Sound on Sound magazine, May 2001... I bought a Novation KS5 two summers later.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866387 - 06/10/10 03:18 PM
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Fostex X15.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866388 - 06/10/10 03:25 PM
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2nd hand Shaftesbury Les Paul copy in 1977, and I even negotiated the price down from £54
to £52. Andy 
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866391 - 06/10/10 03:35 PM
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A Philips N4308 4-track (old-style 4-track!) tape-recorder in 1971. Cost me £43 and my
mum told me off for spending so much money! 
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866393 - 06/10/10 03:37 PM
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866394 - 06/10/10 03:40 PM
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hmmm it's so long ago i'm not sure, and then there's the issue of whether it counts if
it's part of a guitar set up..... maybe Yamaha R1000? only parted with it a year or
two back , had it from new.....
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866398 - 06/10/10 03:48 PM
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I'll ignore any home keyboards (there were a few) up to the first "real" gear and say: Roland U20 It still holds affection in my heart despite being long
gone, and that darn keybed that kept breaking... but love it i did... 
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866401 - 06/10/10 04:09 PM
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Ignoring guitars amps and a Yammie CS01 etc One day in (1986) I popped into
tandy and bought a 4 channel mixer, 5 band Graphic, a very cheap bucket brigade reverb and
a mic (about £80 IIRC). These were all pretty nasty bits of kit, but I used to
plug these into a cassette deck to record stuff. I learned a hell of a lot about recording
and sound just messing about with that stuff.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866406 - 06/10/10 04:26 PM
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gaffer tape
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866410 - 06/10/10 05:09 PM
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M-Audio FireWire Solo.
Still use it, too.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866417 - 06/10/10 05:46 PM
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I didn't buy it, I made it - a simple dual oscillator synth, with wooden end cheeks, they
made it sound much better!
Then went on to building the Maplin ETI4600, apart
from the oscillators drifing out of tune it was a fine machine, but when the ZX81,
Commodire and of course the Ataris came along, out went the analogue stuff, but wish I
hadn't binned it!
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866419 - 06/10/10 05:54 PM
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 I had one of these in about
1988..... ....it was my gateway.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866423 - 06/10/10 06:20 PM
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866438 - 06/10/10 07:05 PM
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The one and only Tascam 244!
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866445 - 06/10/10 07:38 PM
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It was a Yamaha DX7. I didn't know anything at all about keyboards (acoustic
guitar only - until the DX7) but at the time it happened to be the anniversary of the
death of Franz Liszt. Keyboard Magazine carried an article, and expicit
instructions on how to play the 3rd consolation in Db, and I spent every waking moment at
the DX7 until I could play it. (including switching octaves when running out of keys) It remains to this day the only piano piece I can play by heart, and it started a
love affair with the music of Liszt that continues to give me great joy. I still dissolve
in tears when I hear the Petrarch Sonnet - something I'll never be able to play. 
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866457 - 06/10/10 08:39 PM
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Quested S6 and SB10
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866486 - 06/10/10 10:43 PM
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A guitar pickup in the early 70's from Ivor Mairants. I then built a guitar around that,
and an amp from the innards of a "vanity box" portable record player (single EF85 valve
job).
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866488 - 06/10/10 10:53 PM
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Philips EL3302 cassette recorder bought used for £12 in early 1972. Six months later I
had my first Radio 1 airplay. James.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866491 - 06/10/10 11:18 PM
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Great thread!
Yamaha DX-100 which I stole from my secondary school in 2001, I
then got for my birthday a Korg ER-1
I guess though the first piece of music
tech I brought with my own money though was a Novation Bass Station keyboard second hand
for 150 quid from JB's with my part time McDonalds wage back arround late 2002 lol
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866492 - 06/10/10 11:34 PM
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Depends on how you define "tech". The Grungig TX18L (somewhere in the 60s) just did
straightforward recording. The Akai 4000 could be coaxed into doing sound-on-sound, so
qualifies as "tech" I suppose. First electric keyboard was a Wurlitzer electric piano,
followed by a Rhodes. First synth, Korg Polysix. An early Tascam PortaStudio. Then it
was all downhill :-)
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866494 - 06/10/10 11:37 PM
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Depends on your definition of "tech"... a Yamaha PSR58 (I think that was the model) and a
Cheetah MIDI interface for the Spectrum...
First stuff I seriously made music with
was an Atari ST and a Roland D5.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866498 - 06/10/10 11:58 PM
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Quote Zukan:
gaffer tape
He said _music_ tech, not
worryingly kinky tech Zuke ...
Roland SH-101 for me. Early 1984-ish iirc. Long before they were popular!
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866514 - 07/10/10 01:36 AM
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Quote Zukan:
gaffer tape
That's usually the first thing
people steal not buy
Andy
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866515 - 07/10/10 01:46 AM
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Ensoniq Mirage....really dating myself!  
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866530 - 07/10/10 07:38 AM
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Hybrid Music 500 synth for my BBC micro back in the 80's. The AMPLE music language was an
amazing creation and a joy to work with if you had a computer programmer's mind. I've
never understood why nobody's ported it to the PC or Mac. So it turned out to be dead
end, eventually. Chris
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866531 - 07/10/10 07:41 AM
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Despite being advised against it, the first thing I bought was a Nord Micromodular. Turned out to be a HUGE mistake and I had to sell it later for quite a loss. Oh
well, so we learn eh ... D.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866534 - 07/10/10 08:18 AM
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Quote Darclinc:
Despite being
advised against it, the first thing I bought was a Nord Micromodular.
Turned
out to be a HUGE mistake and I had to sell it later for quite a loss. Oh well, so we learn
eh ...
D.
I loved
that little synth...was hooked on it for hours and ended up making hundreds of patches lol
Sounded pretty good too
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866536 - 07/10/10 08:31 AM
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I can't remember which one I got first, i got them all around the same sort of time. Tascam PortaOne, cassette 4-track Akai S612, Akai's first rackmount
sampler Yamaha V50, FM synth I had one of those Casio things that Desmond
linked to, but I don't really count that, it was more of a toy.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866539 - 07/10/10 08:36 AM
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Quote vinyl_junkie:
I loved that
little synth...was hooked on it for hours and ended up making hundreds of patches lol
Sounded pretty good too
That's the whole gearhead thing in one sentence! Fulsome praise for an ingenious and
pretty device - oh, BTW, it sounds quite good too :-)
have we done the "most
useless bit of gear" thread lately?
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866540 - 07/10/10 08:36 AM
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Honer Pianet. Though that isn't very high tec, is it. Actually, I still have it in my
garage, though it hasn't been played in decades. I inherited a Grundig mono
valve reel to reel and a Reslo ribbon mic. This was my first recorder. I remember it
sounding wonderful. looking at this thread.... I feel old. 
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866543 - 07/10/10 08:51 AM
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Quote MarkOne:
looking at this
thread.... I feel old.
Don't worry, you're not alone.
At one time my keyboard rig consisted of:
Thomas/Vox Jaguar organ
Hohner K4
string synthesiser
Shiny new Yamaha CS5 monosynth
All pushed through an
HH MA100 mixer amp and into any speakers I could scrounge!
I recall saving
hard to buy an Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory and a JHS Phaser to add to the organ.
Now does that age me, or what?!
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866545 - 07/10/10 08:58 AM
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A Korg M1 when they first came out. I still have it, although more for sentimental
reasons these days. If only I had realised what it would lead to and how much it would end
up costing me I might have tought twice! On the upside though, I have gained so much
enjoyment from my investments and met so many great people that pound for pound it was a
bargain.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866550 - 07/10/10 09:12 AM
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Bought new - a Cheetah Mk7va and a Yamaha TG77, an entire years wages but at least I had a
setup that would impress literally no one. In combination with my mates MT4x we recorded
tracks of such quality that they have never, ever been aired.
Bought secondhand
- a TX81z, which even at the time was literally quite [ ****** ].
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866551 - 07/10/10 09:16 AM
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Hmmm... Imran, I owned a DPS16 once... which was rather good I thought. However, my
nostalgia trip starts with (I think) a Tiesco SF110 (again I think) which was lovely! But,
it may have been a Sony TC377 reel to reel, a cheep strat copy and a Wem copycat. How time changes. It was certainly a long time ago!
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866553 - 07/10/10 09:20 AM
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A speaker mounted in a biscuit tin and a home made maplin amp was probably my first. My
first memorable purchase was a TEAC A2340SX. Gotta love the simulsync buttons. How things
have changed.
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Re: What's the first bit of music tech you ever bought?
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#866577 - 07/10/10 11:17 AM
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Quote Dave B:
Quote Zukan:
gaffer tape
He said _music_ tech, not
worryingly kinky tech Zuke ...
Oops, wrong forum.
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