FinalBaton wrote:
'70s tube guitar amp
'80s turntable
'70s imtegrated amp
'70s speakers
'80s cassette deck and Walkman
plentu of old vinyls from '60s and up, cassettes from '70s and up.and CDs from '80s and up.
Crt tv in my living room and one in office room
multiple retro consoles and carts and CDs
yeah vintage is fine.
an interesting one is that I use an early 2000s Boss mini-portable recorder for recording my riffs, when I have a USB interfce I could use with a PC and pull up a DAW and amp sims. But the Boss porta recorder is so simple and quick, I love using that.
sadly I don't think I'll fall down the rabbit hole of vintage synth. a midi controller and Virtual instrument pluggins will do.
Not too far from my own 'situation'

I cannot be arsed to faff around with DAWs just to do anything - it gets in the way I find.
I use a very old Mac G5 for recording at this time as it's pretty sturdy and easy to fix - and I only use it to actually record. I can foresee me using hardware sequencers in the not too distant future.
I do agree though: you can spend way too much on audio gear: I set myself limits on what I use: 4 Synths, a few modules and usually only one Synth at a time. Mind you, using a hardware sampler makes life a lot easier. I shall get an older akai to the one I have now as it's dead easy to use, store what you need and use quickly, I find.
Keep it
hard, folks
