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Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 2:39 pm
by mdc
Apologies if this was asked and answered elsewhere, but I’m so curious as to the use-case for the unfairchild in a school setting. What were you (sent) tasked with spec-ing out?

Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:40 pm
by seby
Mason wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:36 am You should try to convince your school to shell out for something good!!!!!!!!!
I know right??

Our building is being refurbed completely. We have well over 150 academic and professional staff plus goodness knows how many grad students and post docs, plus over 10,000 (really) undergrads - this is in compsci alone - growing at 20% per year as I write this. (We are bigger than every other school in the Faculty combined.) As part of the massive refurb - which will take five or six years to complete - we will almost certainly put in for an infrastructure grant for a proper audio recording space/studio.

This should get up. In comparison to the cost of engineering infrastructure across all of our R&D spaces, centres, hubs, labs, and other initiatives, audio stuff is relatively negligible. In all absolute seriousness, it will probably be the cheapest infrastructure grant request in our history!

Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 6:53 pm
by turnbullac
Zoom R4

Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:14 pm
by Kniferide
A friend gave me one of those Roland Midi guitar pickups for my birthday so I'm diving down that terrible rabbit hole. Ordered a Roland GR30 form Reverb. I hope the sax sound is sexy enough. What a stupid thing. I can't wait.

Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 2:35 pm
by Teacher's Pet
Kniferide wrote: A friend gave me one of those Roland Midi guitar pickups for my birthday so I'm diving down that terrible rabbit hole. Ordered a Roland GR30 form Reverb. I hope the sax sound is sexy enough. What a stupid thing. I can't wait.
I'm am seriously looking forward to this "Miami Vice music" project, it sounds like it's shaping up nicely. Inspiring.

Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2023 1:57 am
by TonyAsh
It's been a wild two weeks for me and Japanese guitars. First I drove to and from Chicago to pick up this 1984 Greco Flying V. Then the other day, completely unexpectedly, I stumbled upon this 1978 Greco Explorer in a local shop and it played so great that I had to grab it too. Needless to say, some other stuff will be going up for sale.
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Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2023 2:07 am
by seby
TonyAsh wrote: Tue Nov 14, 2023 1:57 am It's been a wild two weeks for me and Japanese guitars. First I drove to and from Chicago to pick up this 1984 Greco Flying V. Then the other day, completely unexpectedly, I stumbled upon this 1978 Greco Explorer in a local shop and it played so great that I had to grab it too. Needless to say, some other stuff will be going up for sale.
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Holy shit! Great stuff : )

Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:36 am
by Dr Tony Balls
fffuuuuuuu that explorer

Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2023 12:44 pm
by twelvepoint
Not a strictly musical item, but for me, not entirely unrelated:

3hp SawStop table saw

Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2023 3:38 pm
by ErikG
Sansamp BDDI v2 just showed up (I've had a v1 for years.)

Hope I like it.