IT'S A WASHING MACHINE HUN!!!

[theroxy4]

Hi everyone

My lovely gear still hates me! Still loads of problems! Why? why? why? I think to be honest my gear feels rejected! Why you may ask? Well, you see i'm suffering from GEAR LUST! So like a first borns jealousy towards a new baby, my gear knows something is waiting in the wings to take my love and affection from them!
Now to the topic of conversation: How do you disguise that new piece of gear from the 'other half'? I thought about sticking it on top of the cd player to pretend it's part of the hifi, with long leads to the studio. How then can i twiddle with it's knobs? Maybe a Mcbeth M5 with the same wig that Thomas Dolby used to wear, would just sort of blend into the background? Or maybe I could hang it next to my paintings and pretend it's modern art?
Anyway that's the discussion! Who can come up with the most ingenious way to diquise a new piece of hardware!
Be creative, have fun! I've been caught!!!!
theroxy4

[jksuperstar]

1.) I have a back door into my house

2.) My studio is in the back of my basement, and my wife rarely visits, and then only when I'm down there. When she sees something new, I just say I've had it forever.

3.) She likes to see me when I'm excited, so I get excited over new gear, especially if it's waiting at the front door in a box when we get home from work.

4.) Never talk $$. Because then it could've been a trip to Hawaii...

5.) Always buy her flowers on the same day?

6.) Buy her a musical instrument and have her learn it.

[mosc]

I'm working on the other end of the equation - getting rid of the gear that I don't use. I suppose if gear does have emotional personalities, then my gear is probably concerned about being removed. That keeps it in good shape because of fear of being dumped as soon as a technical glitch comes up.

I suggest that you remove some of your equipment from the studio - even to another room. Then when the new stuff shows up the other rest of your gear will feel releaved.

This topic is remarkable to warrant being moved to Schmooze.

[theroxy4]

I've got a Akai analog filter, a Novation KS rack and an EMU E5000 ultra that all play unfair games! Maybe if I could put them all together into 1 keyboard (with new control panel and Waldorfian paint job), I would have space for more babies?

[blue hell]

[theroxy4]

Do you think it needs real wood side panels?

[deknow]

i met ramona by joining a band she was already in (i was the third theremin player, we soon added a forth and an accordian, and she was playing electric guitar from a drummers perspective).

for hanukah/christmas several years ago, she thought i wanted a rock tumbler (to polish rocks...i did, but just a small toy one...she was looking at huge commercial units). she wanted to check with me to make sure it was what i wanted (it wasn't)...she ended up buying me a repeater (which changed my life), and i bought her a beautiful hammered dulcimer (which she plays beautifully) ...we've been pretty happy ever since. i still have too much gear (the g2 changed my life), but we play out together at least once a month. although she isn't as interested in technical stuff, she keeps time like a clock (i don't), and has an adventous and open outlook on making music (loves punk rock, joni mitchel, plastikman, and especially the bionaut). i also do projects that don't include her, but we do love playing together. i consider myself lucky as all hell. our dachshund gwennie also sings with us often

the other key is that she owns the house, and i happily pay rent. we just had our seven year "anniversery"

deknow

[paul e.]

having your significant other in the band is great !..

leah [my 'other'] plays synths in our band ...

try that ???

[klangumsetzer]

music and marriage: for my wife and me music, both listening to and performing, is an essential part of our lives. she is a classically trained violinist guitar player and singer and i like to make 'strange noises' (i don't know if having played bassoon since i was nine has anything to do with it, a lot of the basson's lower register consists of differential tones).

music in our lives: coming from different directions but with a similar background we have (re-) introduced each other to all kinds of music and enjoy exploring what's there and what isn't there, yet. luckily, there is quite a lot of current and experimental music being played on the german public broadcasting radio stations for us to listen to...

living together: to manage our money affairs better, we have three bank acounts: one personal for each of us and one common for rent, food, car, travel... so if i purchase a musical instrument it is from my personal account - no guilt, no discussion. also: if i haven't got the money, i can't buy it - simplifies life a lot.

looking at some of the pictures of people's studios makes me wonder how any one person except maybe full-time professionals can manage and utilize so much gear. i sometimes feel that i don't use what i have (three synths and one rompler) to its full extent. Having a computer with additional softsynths and plug-ins doesn't make it any easier. organize softsynths and plugins in different folders and delete what you don't use. usually this increases stability of the host/sequencer prog as well.

now if i only could buy that theremin for my wife and a _real_ piano, then...


best regards

eike
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[mosc]

[theroxy4]

Great to hear that you all have great relationships!
Was looking more for a Baldricks cunning plan! or maybe just great pictures of synths in disguise!
Maybe the days of the happy hardware are numbered

[deknow]

i went and looked at that kyma order page. what i was most impressed with was that they had reasonably priced gig bag and fight case. why do i have the feeling that i would get along well with that system?

deknow

[klangumsetzer]