Crummy Gear Thread

[wayoftheworld]

So I've made this thread before, and thought I'd do so once again as I'm always curious whos pushing mental sounds out of ghetto rigged, crummy, or straight up broken gear.

Here's a photo of my busted laptop that's just taken the piss. This pic was taken a while back and doesn't show the hilarity of the laptop now in it's current incarnation. Now, there's no busted lcd, just the keyboard, with wires hanging out the back. The keyboard is propped up on a small miniature fan, as the cooling fan inside the laptop broke and threatens to turn to melt. The ext. monitor input jack is loose and wobbly, the headphone input is now broken. Now the thing doesn't even turn on



sacrificed to the dead hip hop gods. What you workin with?

[gnome]

How do you work with that? All my stuff is working thankfully How did you even get it in that condition?

[Ongelegen]

haha thats straight up ghetto indeed

[tripwire22]

i dont have monitors or good headfones. i mixdown blind to how it sounds. :'(

[Pedro Sánchez]

Zombie Pac & Biggie

[wayoftheworld]

How do you work with that? All my stuff is working thankfully How did you even get it in that condition?

snot what you have, but how you use it

[wayoftheworld]

i dont have monitors or good headfones. i mixdown blind to how it sounds. :'(

i feel ya man, all i've running are those cheap logitech speakers and 3" sub, and some 10 year old metal-framed sony headphones

[Depone]

Looks fine to me. what the funk are you worrying about?!

[wayoftheworld]

that pic was taken about 6 months ago, it's in much worse condition now.

[Over7hink]

For me it's:

Comp - Dimension 3100 I got in October 2006
Headphones - Philips SHP8500 snatched from the radio station I spin at.
Speakers - Logitech X-540 5.1 Speaker System

My mouse is so fucked, it goes into this weird double click mode which treats a single click as a double click. It works again by giving it a good couple of smashes....but you can imagine how annoying that is while writing a tune.




all in all it does what it needs to do...so I haven't been bothered to buy new shit. Other than the mouse business, the droning noise is the most annoying aspect.


Going to change all this by the end of 2010 though.

[nowaysj]

truly ghetto... wait, only if it was all stolen.

[Over7hink]

truly ghetto... wait, only if it was all stolen.

In some Wu-Tang article (I think) either RZA or one of those other in-house producers mentioned straight up robbing their equipment in the early years.

jokes.

basically like torrenting software.

[nowaysj]

basically like torrenting software.

Minus the crowbars, semi automatics, and hard time.

[jaydot]

My Dell was released in like 2003.

[Ongelegen]

My pc isnt the best but neither the worst out there, I take good care of my equipment so no crummy shit here

[theedman]

3.4gigz of raw power!!! and 2 badman gigz of ramalam, in a comp i nicked from my old work

Pc speakers are the ones, altho have got a decent set of cans about that we mix down on

[yoseph]

i built a desk into my closet. i have four speakers hooked up to my computer, nicked from two different boomboxes. the foam surround on the two bigger ones has suffered some pretty serious ferret damage, one of them doesnt really push any air at all but when i put my foot on it i can feel the vibrations. and i like it.
oh p.s. that keyboard is not a midi controller its a small chord organ i bought at a thrift store with the intent of sampling but have not done yet.

[yellowhighlighter]

i have a load of cracked software which makes me ghetto.

[gnome]

i built a desk into my closet. i have four speakers hooked up to my computer, nicked from two different boomboxes. the foam surround on the two bigger ones has suffered some pretty serious ferret damage, one of them doesnt really push any air at all but when i put my foot on it i can feel the vibrations. and i like it.
oh p.s. that keyboard is not a midi controller its a small chord organ i bought at a thrift store with the intent of sampling but have not done yet.

Whats that plastic bottle beside the keyboard eh?

[JFK]

i built a desk into my closet. i have four speakers hooked up to my computer, nicked from two different boomboxes. the foam surround on the two bigger ones has suffered some pretty serious ferret damage, one of them doesnt really push any air at all but when i put my foot on it i can feel the vibrations. and i like it.
oh p.s. that keyboard is not a midi controller its a small chord organ i bought at a thrift store with the intent of sampling but have not done yet.

Whats that plastic bottle beside the keyboard eh?

Interesting....... It appears to have some kind of metal straw attachment.