Subj : Careful with that Axe!
To   : Paul Lawson
From : Martin Ridgley
Date : Tue Jul 25 2000 12:16 pm

-=> Paul Lawson wrote to Martin Ridgley <=-

 PL> Seems there's always a shopping list.  I think I've been trying
 PL> to assemble my "ultimate rig" for at least 10 years now.
 PL> There's always something (dental bills, basement
 PL> renovations etc.) that eats up the available cash flow.

   Yup...   ;-(

 PL> I still need a good single coil guitar (G&L at this point) and a
 PL> good acoustic (looking at Taylors) and I keep watching the price
 PL> of digital 8-tracks drop.  I figure, at the rate I'm going, I'll
 PL> have all my toys just in time for my kid to inherit them. :)

   Heh, yeah... in my case, my niece or nephew....

   My experience has been that you can't go too far wrong with a G&L.
 A new acoustic is on my list too.  I haven't played any Taylors yet,
 but I've heard a number of people speak positively about them.
   As for digital recording decks... A friend of mine bought a Roland
 VS-1680 about two years ago and paid a fortune for it.  I've been
 lucky enough work with it and experience first hand just how good
 they can be, while waiting patiently for the price to drop.  ;-)
   I've also come to realize that I probably don't need a 16-track
 deck.  I mean it'd be nice, but I think I could be quite happy with
 an 8-track, and they're now down in the $1,200 to $1,500 range.
   Do I hear a thousand?   ;-)

   Oh, FWIW, I read somewhere that Fostex have recently come out with
 a 16-track digital deck for about $1,400.  It doesn't have all the
 bells and whistles (like auto-mixing) that some of the other decks
 have, but if you've got to have 16-tracks, it's rapidly becoming more 
 and more affordable.

     Martin
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