[sdiy] The extreme low cost of audio gear... my little comment somehow got out of hand :P

[Richard Wentk]

At 01:30 02/09/2004 +0200, Nils Pipenbrinck wrote:
>I'd also like to add my comment to nN AAt e e's rant.
>
>Sure, you make some good points.
>
>BUT:
>Those are the guys who *buy* stuff. Let's face it: All the little local 
>music shops you have right around the corner can only survive because 
>folks like the guy you've described fall in love with a $1500 guitar (or 
>whatever gear).

That's a very good point. And I think it's obvious that most of the music 
tech market caters to cookie cutter musicians like these. That's why 
romplers sell so well.

But the flip side of this is the way that everything tends towards lowest 
common denominator white bread homogeneity. Commercial synthesis stopped 
being interesting after the Kurzweil K2500 and the Kawai K5000. Everything 
since (including the various analogue revivals) has been a knock-off or a 
retread.

Richard