Constantly turning on and off gear will shorten their life span, so you have to replace the gear sooner. Keeping them on all the time increases your electric bill. Either way, it costs money to maintain a working HW setup. I personally turn off my gear when I don't use it, unless it's just a short b...

sell the vinyl and the mixer if making your own music is more important to you than mixing other people's music. I hadn't paid for music for years when I was building my studio, it was only when my studio was like 80% finished that I decided I had spare money for vinyls and turntables. or get an ex...

I learned that I can't live without making music. Sold all my gear last summer and while I don't miss my setup (the workflow wasn't the greatest), I miss the buzz you get from creating new music. No idea how to fund a new setup though. it's a myth that you need a lot of expensive gear to create mus...

Hades wrote:
then what did you do with the money you had from selling your gear ?

Bought a pair of turntables, a mixer and a bunch of vinyl records. The rest went on living expenses and stuff.

I learned that I can't live without making music. Sold all my gear last summer and while I don't miss my setup (the workflow wasn't the greatest), I miss the buzz you get from creating new music.

No idea how to fund a new setup though.

Telegraph was really cool! Minimal but really funky.

I always start by putting a four on the floor kickdrum in there. Doesn't have to be a great kick, basically just a metronome so that I can start building the track. I'm not a melodic guy, I don't think I could, with my current understanding of music theory, start a track with the melody first. There...

Nothing especially bad about them that I could pinpoint, they just weren't very interesting to me. I'd personally let them be and focus on new tracks, or developing the 3rd track further. I've made tracks like that a LOT myself too, tracks that are neither bad or good. I view them as lessons to be l...