Retired Gear |
Retired Gear
all the gear that I stopped using for one or more reasons
Digital
Audio Interfaces
Digidesign Digi-001 - Damn you Digi for not supporting this with later versions of OSX
Digidesign MBox - wanted an interface with higher level AD/DA converters
MOTU 828 - incompatible with my 9600's firewire card
MOTU 2408 mk II - a pain to program
Presonus FirePod - complaints of mLAN drivers scared me off
Drum Machines
Boss
DR-5 - the original analog drum machine
Boss DR-660 -
sounded good, but I wanted more sounds
Sequential Circuits Drumtraks
Effects
Boss Metal stompbox - lent to a friend's son, never returned
Boss Grunge stompbox - lent to
a friend's son, never returned
Digitech distortion - lent 2 different pedals to this dude's kid, never saw them again
DOD wah/volume control - Carter busted this, never fixed it like he promised
Line 6 Bass Pod - Traded up to the Bass Pod Pro
Line 6
Pod - Traded up to the Pod XT
Line 6 Pod XT - Traded up to the Pod Pro XT
Small Stone Phaser - sounded great, but it died
Tube Works Tube Driver - traded it for a rack synth after upgrading to the Pod Pro XT
Guitars
Fender Squier Stratocaster - pawned by my buddy Carter before he died.
Harmony Bass - sold to Surf Dave's wife, but she ran off before paying for
it in full
Synthesizers and Samplers
Alesis Micron - fun to play but could use a bigger screen
Casio VZ-10M - was not that impressive
Clavia Nord Rack 2 - not great interface but it was fun while it lasted
Emu Proteus 1XR
Emu Proteus 2
Emu ESI-4000 Turbo - great
sounding sampler, but I wanted Mac control
Emu E5000 Ultra - uses big
hard disks, but very inefficiently.
Ensoniq ESQ-M - has an interesting dirty character but didn't like Sounddiver.
Farfisa Compact Deluxe - brought up from New Orleans in 1995, retubed, then sold
Hammond
XB2 - great sounding digital organ, terrible MIDI response
Kawai PHM - traded to a buddy for his extra Alesis NanoBass
Korg 707 - really misses the digital delay unit on the DS-8
Korg CX3 - the
original non-MIDI version
Korg DS-8 - sold my original, then purchased another to refurb, then sold both
Korg EX-800 - bought to replace model II, but could never get to work right
Korg EX-8000 - nice rack, have a lot of sounds for it.
Korg N5EX - great sounds, completely unorganized and difficult to find
Korg Poly-800 - upgraded to
Poly-800 II
Korg Poly-800
II - wouldn't read original Poly-800 sounds
Kurzweil K2500X - bought and sold for parts
Kurzweil
PC-88mx - good sounding piano controller, no synth functions
Red Star Darkstar XP2 - 4 voices of virtual analog, incomprehensible
Roland Fantom-S - sold at a huge loss to my buddy so I could get the X8
Roland JV-2080 - great
sounds, but I needed keyboard control
Roland MC-505 - I'm not really a dj type producer but it was fun
Roland
P-330 - rack-mount piano not terribly realistic
Roland XP-30 - great
sounds, but I wanted a piano-weighted controller
Roland XV-88 - great sounds,
but I needed a lightweight controller
Roland VariOS - I bought it solely for running the VC1 virtual D-50
Yamaha TG77 - didn't work after I tried to change the battery
Yamaha TX802 + RAM card - 8 voice multitimbral but a huge pain to program
Microphones
Radio Shack SM48 knockoff
MIDI
Controllers
Evolution UC33 - did not load parameters like the later UC33e model
M-Audio Oxygen 8
- got good reviews, I don't know why
M-Audio Revolution 49 - cheap piece of crap
MIDI
Interfaces
Altech MIDI interface
Emagic AMT-8 serial
M-Audio Midisport 8x8/s
MOTU MIDI Timepiece AV serial
Opcode Studio 3
Mixers
Fostex
X28 4 track cassette
Kawai 8SR stereo line mixer
Radio Shack 4 line mixer