Re: [microsound] Re: microsound Digest 19 Feb 2005 17:10:31 -0000 Issue 1356

[bobby whn <golf_dragon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

i also agree, the point was made that expensive studio gear is fetishized , 
and i think also that
manufacturers such as digidesign, focusrite and others have tried to set up 
a monopoly over
'sound quality' and establish this tinted window view of the cosy 
(deluxe)home studio as some kind of norm, i tend to simplify it a little and 
see it so as sound is amplitude/phase change over time only, so what
really are you getting for all these amounts of money?   the sampling rate 
is fixed,  the bit-rate is fixed. i got GIVEN two atari 1040ste's which 
sequence midi as well as any current midi sequencer.
home-made gear is great too, i made a spring reverb for £15 recently, and am 
now much more
reluctant to spend money on any equipment, unless it was a dat recorder AND 
a hovercraft at the same time or something....for the price of a new hat.   
im lucky to even have the choice, but why waste money?


>From: sylvain solaro <ouarf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [microsound] Re: microsound Digest 19 Feb 2005 17:10:31 
-0000 Issue 1356
>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:47:46 +0100
>
>bravo!
>
>>First, I buy almost all of these cheap electronics USED.  They are
>>cheap
>>because they are obsolete.  They may not have been cheap
>>originally.
>>And people are exploited somewhere for almost every new item we buy
>>here
>>in the USA.  Anyway, new musical instruments aren't actually cheap
>>at
>>all here, at least typical gear might cost an entire month of my
>>wages.
>>
>>
>........
>
>
>I live in France, and i think as you... In my home,  my work and my
>homework, i like to use old instuments... always i feel not so quiet
>when i think i can have a good oportunity to buy new computers only
>because they are cheaps...
>
>
>Sylvain
>
>
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