With all the “what gear did you hate/regret/love” posts, I was inspired to post this as I was cleaning out my studio to sell some things.
I have an Access Virus C, PAIA Fatman and Kaoss Pad 3+ that I will never sell, but don’t use as often as I should (especially the Virus).
The KP3 is hella cool (at one point, I had a KP2, KP3, KP3+, MiniKP, and MiniKO all at the same time), but my iPad has replaced it in a lot of ways. The Virus was my dream synth when I started out 20 years ago and I got an amazing deal on it used in NYC back in 2006. I don’t really enjoy programming it all the time, though, so I rarely touch it. The Fatman was a DIY kit that I built myself, so that’s a no-brainer that I never sell it. Unfortunately, it isn’t really all that useful.
Neither of them will ever get sold though due to a mix of nostalgia, and the benefits they do have in the studio occasionally.
What gear is collecting dust in your studio that you’ll never sell?
Akai APC mini. It is not worth the effort of selling, both financially and physically, it is small, and I might need it someday in Ableton (he never used it and died)
For me, some guitar pedals that carry a sense of nostalgia from my days of playing in a band with my grade school friends Since getting into synths, I’ve started to sell a few of them but am still hanging on the a Black Forest overdrive and a little Xotic compressor.
My Micromonsta (v. 1), it never gets used now that I have a Peak but it was my first hardware synth so carries sentimental value, and I still have dreams of putting together a small live setup with it.
Ah, my old Rat (v2 circa ‘89) pedal falls into this category. Couldn’t bring myself to sell it even though I rarely use it (I have a Jam Rattler that I default to now) and the prices for LM308 Rats are pretty punchy these days.
My Waldorf Streichfett. It sits on a shelf. Once a year I clean shop, pull it out to take photos, and plug it in to make sure it still works before listing. And I get such wonderful sounds out of it in those two minutes that I think “I can’t sell this! Also I need to use it more!” and then put it on the shelf until next year.
I’m using my mmt8 less and less all the time. It’s been sitting on a shelf for months now but I doubt I’ll sell it.
I also still have boxes of circuit bent gear I doubt I’ll bother selling. I sold off tons and tons of it years ago but it’s not worth the effort.
Octatrack
It mainly became my liveset machine - but these are generally rare, and non existent for the last 1,5 years
Won’t ever sell it since it was a birthday present from all my friends, and since there is no other machine that does realtime sampling/playback like the OT does
I feel that. I think the other piece for me, is that I reached a point where my guitar setup was so complete - I was GAS-free. I’m cautious to oversell some of the extra now because I don’t even want to go down the rabbit-hole of needing something, doing tons of research, and deciding to buy some new shiny toy.
Whatever I thought I’d never sell was sold at some point… Except my first technics 1200. I go through long periods of not using it and then occasionally I binge listen to records and sample.
Things that I thought I wouldn’t sell include:
My mpc2000xl
Roland jp8080
Akai mfc42
Yamaha tenori On
DSI tempest
DSI evolver
First two because I’ll just never sell my whole record collection and I still love to DJ occasionally.
Second two because they’re DIY and I’d never get for them what they are worth to me, especially the x0x now that the TD-3 exists. I paid $350 for that kit
Since getting into synths, I’ve started to sell a few of them but am still hanging on the a Black Forest overdrive and a little Xotic compressor.
