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Less is More

2004-12-21 by cormallen

Hi there, all.

I've just been taking a look at Dave's site after his last email and
ran across his (very 
impressive) gear list.  I used to have a similar amount of stuff in
my studio, but about a 
year ago, I started stripping back to a much more basic set-up.  Now
I have just four 
synths left: a big MOTM, a Prophet T8, a Prophet VS and a Juno 6
(which I've only kept 'cos 
it was my first ever synth and I'm sentimental).

The reason was that I found that the gear was getting in the way of
me actually writing 
music - I'd play with synths instead of writing tunes.  I get way
more done these days...

Anyone else had a similar experience?

Harry

p.s. For the synth-spotters amongst us, in the last year I've sold
off two Oberheim 
Xpanders, a PPG Wave 2.3, a Kawai K5000s, a Korg MS2000R and a
MemoryMoog Plus.   
The only one I occasionally miss is the Moog, and I had some of those
for a LONG time 
and did good stuff with them.   (That might just be praise for the
MOTM, though - it's 
become my first choice synth for just about everything but pads).

p.p.s. I will admit to still wanting a CS-80 :-)

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