Such keyboard fun could see me finally have a VIC on my retro wall. Hell, if a SNES can make it up there just for the two notators on Mario Paint and Fun And Games......
No matter how young or old the stuff, it all meets the leveller of the great online garage sales. If they're lucky enough to survive to old age.
Re: Reaping the Ebay harvest
Posted: 19/07/2013 - 11:33
by Chris Abbott
Makes you wonder if we have special stuff in our DNA making us care about things the rest of the world has long discarded... (though I admit 78RPMs aren't at the top of my nostalgia wishlist either... I guess it's those individual differences again...
Re: Reaping the Ebay harvest
Posted: 19/07/2013 - 22:23
by Commie_User
Well I certainly think it's ironic that our First World is now so advanced that we can revert to using old stuff for art and pleasure. And there's a great spread of both outdated and retro stuff that we can revel in nostalgia, have use of genuinely great stuff which you can't quite get today or a little of both.
Best of the ages I suppose. I've certainly filled my place so much that I impose a usefulness rule on myself. Any machine on the retro wall must immediately have something to do in the studio, for example. Or I won't buy anything I'm not really really into now. Talk about over-consumption.
Though I made a loophole for spares. With only one serial fully operable for networking, I'm really after this particular A1200. It looks pristine from here, has a hard drive and is very cheap: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 1118329519
Re: Reaping the Ebay harvest
Posted: 19/07/2013 - 23:37
by Commie_User
And after reading a meme website, I tried to find a stuffed animal as creepy as the Depression Dog.
This one has the sequencer mode with keytar, mike and drumpad compatibility. Not much in it but the step sequencer's fun and it's a cool novelty composing on your mere console.
Plugging emulated band equipment in the PS2 on top of taking sound sources, before mixing a composition and mastering via SP/DIF to your PC or CD recorder. The mind boggles at the splendour of keeping such old consoles going as rack gear. As tomorrow's 'chiptune' wonder relic.
I wanted so much to find a more pressing justification for having my Mega Drive on the retro music wall, besides Michael Jackson's Moonwalker with its samples built in. Didn't quite find it.
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And for my own reference, the sealed Guitar Hero backup spares I still 'need' are 3 and World Tour. I've got 5 sealed in the box set but want another to open.
And CERTAINLY this stringed Mustang, doubling as MIDI axe when not in the game. If the Sony's in the studio, I could go whole hog and take things full circle as I did the MIDI drums for it.
Good price cuts waiting 'til they're out of date or put on special offer.
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So chaps here know I love the improvisation. Just as I had a 15ips capstan sleeve made for my Akai and was very impressed with what it could do. Rich, full, crisp sound with a 1969 affordable domestic unit, especially impressive when the 4000D could also perform 'tricks' like superimposition and individual twin-track modes on the stereo channels.
And even now, my dub of Written In Red by The Stranglers sounds very nice compared to stuff done on the proper Tascam 34.
'Course, it wore the motor out. But for a 20 year-old, pre-Ebay me, I thought it was the only way I could have all that.
All hail it.
Re: Reaping the Ebay harvest
Posted: 24/07/2013 - 18:25
by Commie_User
And just as I think I've got the Sony covered.....
And just for the museum, I could get the DJ Hero, though it's not my genre at all. It's cheap enough. And who knows, I could enjoy it if I play with it and I could even grab some samplings.
I mean wow, look at it. And to suddenly get political from out of left field, there's a lot to thank Margaret Thatcher for. (So perhaps that should be out of right field.)
Re: Reaping the Ebay harvest
Posted: 24/07/2013 - 21:13
by Chris Abbott
Can't find it on eBay (And probably wouldn't buy it if they did, just don't have the space), but I'm going to put this here because I used it for my very first recordings and I've got a soft spot for it!
I'm amazed my mum was able to afford one, frankly!
Re: Reaping the Ebay harvest
Posted: 24/07/2013 - 21:20
by Chris Abbott
And.... I still have this in the loft... my first proper synthesizer. Played the hell out of it.
