Crummy Gear Thread

[yoseph]

haha i think you are referring to the bottle of "crystal head vodka"
that was given to me as a present.
http://www.wallywine.com/p-37962-crysta ... teid=10098

p.s. the vodka was terrible.

[gnome]

Haha is that what it is I thought it was drug material

[yoseph]

yeah it looks like a bong, no doubt.

[LordBid]

well everybody knows that you need your thc plus vst for optimum production!

[wayoftheworld]

yoseph, is that keyboard in yr pic a magnum or magnus? i found a similar looking "electric chord organ" at a thrift store here

[yoseph]

magnus, yeah, thats the one!

[wayoftheworld]

magnus, yeah, thats the one!

hahaha, that's great shit. that piece definetly has a place in this thread.

bigup tho man, you've got some killer tunes coming out of that setup!

[setspeed]

me & baobinga's first album was largely recorded on a dell laptop with no soundcard, no hardware, and no synths apart from the ones that come with logic 5.5. we used the headphone output.

it got album of the month in DJ mag

right now i'm rocking this badboy setup:



just remixed an Underground Resistance track on it!

[MidnightMassDubstep]

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.

dude, I love your set up!



I have monitors and a proper mixer now but this lovely little setup included a 1980s tape recorder/mixer, crappy sub, bontempi minstrel which I LOVE, a pretty big (but very colored) pair of media speakers from the 90s, a couple of drum machines I got with my electronic drum kit and a really really old guitar flanger which works beautifully.

I used the really shitty old bomtempi minstrel in the intro to this track, the drone (which is the autochord feautre which sounds pretty nice actually) and the light riff that you can hear. it turned out pretty well!

Soundcloud

[drokkr]

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.

It think it's called a Beng or maybe it's Beang. Anyways, they're used to keep flies away from cake. That's what I heard.

[doubleohno]

I produce on a pretty old gateway desktop with a 1/2 gig of ram...monitor is starting to crap out, cd burner died last month

cost us like $1800 when it came out lol

[tripaddict]

lol im gonna post a pic soon will have a tidy tomorrow n let u guys have a peek hehe

[Basic A]

So, Im jsut gonna go off on a tangent about the fact that Im poor and I think it makes me appreciate gear more then some people on ehre, particularly newbies who want us to direct them towards a bunch of really expensive gear when they arent even sure if they want to learn to produce or dj.

So.

Lemme explain how ghetto it can get.

I learned how to DJ using a combination of windows media player, and later, two modified portable CD players. Ive upgraded to real CDJs now, but I remember being a kid who just wanted to learn even if it meant learning in hard straps.

I used to have to click the windows media icon as many times as I could as fast as I could, so that my computer wouldnt block one of the instances from starting, thinking I had made a mistake. After about a half hour of trying to get it working, I would restretch them to fill my screen, 50/50. I would open the little EQ tab on each, and use the 'Toolbars' tab to set the players to jump from EQ to playback speed with a single arrow click. I would then proceed to mix with my mouse. I would load trak 1 in media player 1, and Id hit play. Id load track two in media palyer 2, use the math I had learned about BPM to get it (sorta) on beat, and Id drop track two, using the play button. I would slowly fade 2s volume in and then slowly fade tune 1s out.

Later, I would put a dimmer switch on a walkmans motor. I needed cue functioning terribly. I figured out that by modifying some cables, I could plug each 1/8th jack on the walkmans, into a single pair of aux. cables wihich would then run into my head unit. I would unplug the 1/8th jack from the one I wanted to cue, and plug a set of earbuds into it. Iw ould cue up, often having to re-tape my dimmer switch to the motor before I could play a new track, because I was to broke to even afford solder after I had bought 2 pawn shop portable cd players.

Im currently learning a bit about working a crossfade for scratch techniques, by using an optical mouse mounted over an old record. I have driven a nail into my desk, placed the record on it as it were a spindle, put the mouse over it. Now. When I turn the record, it controls my mouse pointer. I taped the left mouse button down, loaded mixxx, opened a scratch sample, and put my PC output through to my mixer so I could crossfade as normal.

I only bought FL studio recently. Most of the tunes you have heard from me were made on the Demo version. I then uninstalled the full version and sold my license to a friend. I didnt need any of what they had given me for my money.

I dont have monitors, yet you people ask me to judge your mixdowns. I have custom built boxes with sony/behringer speakers in them, and an 8 inch automotive sub. Ironically, my mixdowns are one of my stronger points.



Now, Im sorry this has been very ranty. But Im sick of people asking about what gear they should buy when they are just learning. You shouldnt buy any to learn.

I loved DJing sincerely before I bought my CDJs. I knew it was right for me cause I had fallen that in love iwth it doing it with such minimal supplies, that I knew I would only come to love it more if I bought gear.

I loved production so much after running the FL Demo for over a year, that I finally pirated, and later boguht it. And the fucked up aprt, I uninstalled the full version, and reinstalled the demo! I like it more, less bullshit in my way!

So.

If you can, share how ghetto it all was when you started.

Help me tell newbies not to buy shit they might not fall in lvoe with.

Help me explain that you dont need ANY gear at all to make music.

Or jsut laguh at me for being a broke fuck.

IDC.

Im sick of 'Help me spend mommies money' threads. These unappreciative fucks dont know what you can do with so little.

[JFK]

Big Up Basic A true example of someone making killer tracks on a ghetto set up.

Proves that it aint the Kit, but the guy sat behind it that matters.

[Basic A]

Yeah youve seen just how ghetto it stills is, lmfao... pics on the myspace if anyone really wants to see how bad shit can get, but honestly, Id rather you read the embarrassing tangent and start telling newbies they dont need to spend money then have you visit my myspace...

Im just sick of people thinking music this underground and ghetto built can possibly cost/make you much money. I mean, you can dump MAAAD cash into it and thatll be ALOOT of fun, haivng all that kit to fiddle with when you get bored, god knows I spend enoguh time playing with my rig... but still... dont need it at all. Dont make you anything either. They shouldnt want to spend it when you look through this thread...

You come ehre, you see all of us saying 'fuck spending money my shit still works good enough' and it just reminds me that those kids are fucking stupid.

Im rinsing yosephs tunes on a ghetto rig, and look, he made it one a rig as ghetto as mine ...

Please note kid who joined here with one week of 'death metal' experience, wanting to spend grands on keyboards n hardware, yeah, never dropped one of his tracks before... Meanwhile, look at whats going on in here.

Should shove his mommies 1,000$ up his ass crack a brew n make some noises damnit. Money would be better spent on cigarettes and liquor anyway.

[LordBid]

well that is a really great rant and makes me for one happy that my setup is not THAT ghetto, now if only i had the spare time to make some full songs..

[Basic A]

Yeah glad its not that bad now...

[faultier]

I learned how to DJ using a combination of windows media player, and later, two modified portable CD players. Ive upgraded to real CDJs now, but I remember being a kid who just wanted to learn even if it meant learning in hard straps.

I used to have to click the windows media icon as many times as I could as fast as I could, so that my computer wouldnt block one of the instances from starting, thinking I had made a mistake. After about a half hour of trying to get it working, I would restretch them to fill my screen, 50/50. I would open the little EQ tab on each, and use the 'Toolbars' tab to set the players to jump from EQ to playback speed with a single arrow click. I would then proceed to mix with my mouse. I would load trak 1 in media player 1, and Id hit play. Id load track two in media palyer 2, use the math I had learned about BPM to get it (sorta) on beat, and Id drop track two, using the play button. I would slowly fade 2s volume in and then slowly fade tune 1s out.

Later, I would put a dimmer switch on a walkmans motor. I needed cue functioning terribly. I figured out that by modifying some cables, I could plug each 1/8th jack on the walkmans, into a single pair of aux. cables wihich would then run into my head unit. I would unplug the 1/8th jack from the one I wanted to cue, and plug a set of earbuds into it. Iw ould cue up, often having to re-tape my dimmer switch to the motor before I could play a new track, because I was to broke to even afford solder after I had bought 2 pawn shop portable cd players.

[/i]

wow, now that is ghetto

they say if u learn to mix on belt-drive, mixing on direct-drive is easy as fuck... i guess first time you laid your hands on actual decks you felt like some superhero dj with mad mixing skills

[yoseph]

record/nail/taped mouse button crossfading is EPIC.

[continuumdnb]

record/nail/taped mouse button crossfading is EPIC.

+1, though my laptop touchpad works as an X-Y midi controller because i googled "using laptop touchpad as midi controller", pretty pleased with that.

Apart from that laptop my setup is a borrowed sound recorder and some headphones.