You havn‘t wasted my time at all 😀 I like your „rundowns“. I don’t regret most of the gear I sold but one: A Roland TB-303. When this machine was hyped in the early 90s I fully missed the trend and sold it for peanuts together with a TR-606 😅
Loved this episode as I have many keys I wish I had back. You also brought back fond memories. I too spent many hours in Ace in Miami , mostly in the 90's. Bought my Korg X3 there (which I am happy to say I still have) along with my first DAW, Cakewalk Pro Audio. Thanks for the great channel.
The Stylophone was my first 'synth'. I wired it into a suitcase with a home-built phaser, a home-built ring modulator (with its own oscillator) and an octave divider. It sounded great for the small me. 🙂
I bought a Fizmo from Musician's Friend way back in the late 90s when they were on clearance (i think it was around $300, I can't remember exactly). I sold it around 2003-04, for about $500 and I thought I did really well. I don't miss it, but I certainly regret it now based on what they currently sell for.
I found 2 floor 19” rack wedges for 50 bucks on offer up once. Upon closer inspection of the posts photo I noticed they were full of rack gear, i scroll over to the next photo and one of the rack units says Emax. My blood ran cold and I immediately called the guy to see if I could pick up that same night. He says sure I’m just getting off work, mind you it was around 9pm. Which I would not advise but I took the chance. So I get there and the guy is chuckling about the floppy disk drive on one of the units. Upon pickup I also noticed a few other units inside along with some rack plate covers. I get home to unload and see what I got. It tuned out to be a Emax hd rack, Yamaha tx802, korg tuner, and something called a lone wolf midi switcher. I sold the wedges which was ok cause they were really big and I’m sad to say that I sold the emax rack too. I still think about sampling stuff onto it. But I could never get the right boot disk to get it going it didn’t have a scratch on it. I put it on eBay… it didn’t last 30min😅
In 1993, I sold my Casio CT-650 to buy my first "real professional instrument" synthesizer Roland JV-30 (yes, I know, ROMpler and so on ;-) ). Seller's remorse because of young me not realizing the difference between keyboard and synthesizer "why is there no auto accompaniment in this expensive JV-30, I want my band-in-a-box back" 🤣 (for me, it was expensive at the time) I got over not having cheesy auto-chord-recognition-band and I still have my JV-30 🤩
Man I can so so relate. My big one was a Moog 1c. Biggest regret ever. Next would be Yamaha FS1R. And third isn’t a synth but from the 90s Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro. But yeah I also learned synthesis on a concertmate MG1 went through 2 of those. Also had a Vox Jaguar I loved. Agree totally with you re: MicroQ I loved that thing.
An original Moog Prodigy I had restored from being one twitch of the foot from landfill by the previous owner in 2002 (received with a bad transformer, bad VCA, no knobs) ..sold circa 2006 for £500, sounded amazing but thought 'eh, no midi' ..and good lord, what those go for now, and they sound spot on (breaks the soldering iron out, and makes one ;).
Didn't know I'd be getting back into music a few decades later (namely, recording synthwave now) after selling my gear during the mid & late 80s. Regrets now? YES! #1: late 70s Roland SH-7 (she was mint and sounded amazing!). #2: Memorymoog. #3: Roland Jupiter-6. #4: Roland Juno-6. And #5: Akai AX-60... Among others :(
For a short stint I regetted selling a JX-3p but I got over it 😅 Roland D20 and Korg M1 were synth I do not regret selling, bit boring when used to analog gear.
There were a few instances where I regretted turning loose of keyboards, synthesizers and other equipment. In 2001, one of my band leaders sold me her Wurlitzer 200A electric piano. I want of selling it to an old friend before I finished paying for it, and I immediately was sorry for having done it. My mother threw away my Rockman X100 headphone amp without my knowledge. Around the same time, I ended up selling my Yamaha CP70 electric grand piano and Roland JX-10 synth. I accidentally damaged the piano’s sustain system and was doubtful I could have it (or whatever was generating white noise in the outputs) repaired. The JX-10 was sold because it was taking up room (the consolation is that I purchased the MKS-70 so I could have the Super JX engine again). That was all circa 2013. Lastly, I had traded my first guitar amp for my friend’s Korg 05rw module in 2005. Ten years later, he just asked for it back, and I didn’t bother fighting him. Though I get most of the sounds I generated from it out of my Roland VR-09, I still miss the module.
Nice to see a fellow Wavestation hoarder:). I have 2 Ex keyboards, the SR, the PC emulation, and the iOS versions. There isn't anything like a WS for those evolving sounds. I always lusted after an A/D model, to try and experiment with the audio inputs thru the synth engine, but never got one. Oh well...
@@JeffreyScottPetro it was actually a great little synth. It was half MiniMoog and Half ARP 2600. Op Amp circuits and duophonic capability. Sample and hold. I miss it!
The synths I have today have lots of knobs. In the 80's I had some good sounds, but the interfaces hindered my enjoyment. I regretted selling the Yamaha RX5, so I bought a Yamaha RX7 off of Ebay for $120. I use it when practicing bass guitar or guitar, but when it comes time to make music I prefer the Roland TR-8S.
The only way that the photo at 4:55 could be more eighties is if you added a saxophone. And maybe some neon light blue and hot pink. The only piece of gear I've ever sold was a Roland JD-990, and it was only ever purchased in order to make a profit. Had it been a 220/240 volts unit instead of a 120 volts one, I might have kept it. But if I'll ever purchase another (Roland) S&S module, it's going to be an Integra 7. Well, there was one other piece of gear I sold: a Yamaha EX5R. But I did so in order to be able to afford a silver EX5.
I had an Ensoniq Mirage I sold but I have never regretted it. I used the money to partly pay for a fully decked out Ensoniq EPS, Mem Expander, Scsi, 8x output expander. I could write entire songs in the EPS and with a sync drum machine, have the recording studio record the entire bed of tracks to independent channels in one shot. I still own it. From what I have seen for sale, this EPS is a very rare bird.
I should have held onto my Akai mpcs and picked up a couple more; I originally started producing hiphop music, sampling, etc. and I'm now into synths, analog and vintage. I've got that ground covered with some newer stuff but something about those older MPCs that feel and sound right to me when laying down drums. There is probably a nostalgic aspect to it too
I probably wouldn't be bothered by much of any of that except the RZ-1. I never owned one, but got a chance to play with one, and it sure was pretty awesome!
If those are your biggest selling regrets, you’re doing fine … just a few things you could have made some more bucks on now, that’s all … You should grab yourself a Stylophone - amazing nostalgia value at the low price they cost - and challenge yourself to write a track featuring it prominently. 🙂
Great series on classic gear. There is definitely something about the Wavestation. No synth selling regrets (D5, 01/W, DX27) but I really wished I had kept the 4 track . Also would have liked to have picked up a JD990 and TS10 when the prices were more accessible
God, you were at least lucky enough to be blessed by that Casio Drum machine. I've not only have drum samples of it, ive also been re-creating the patches to save as presets in my daw
I remorsed i sold my PolyMoog keyboard for 6900 SEK approx 600 dollars back in 2001. I also remorsed i didnt accept the offer buying a JP-8 for 500 bucks back in 1990. Back then i was so happy with my Akai-S1000 😧
Ensoniq ESQ-1. I bought it second hand in 1990 used it right through the 90s in a covers band for sequencing and sound and sold it around 2007. I missed it so much I recently bought another one (which I won't be selling). Also, my Dad got me a Casio Vl-1 new in the very early 80s. Somewhere along the way I lost it. so I recently bought another one of them! My takeaway from this is NEVER SELL STUFF!
That's a funny coincidence, because I have the strong suspicion that Yamaha had the same idea like you in sampling the intro snare from "Stay The Night" for their highest end ever FM-organ monstrousity HX1. I haven't made a direct comparison, but one of my organ's snares indeed sounds a lot like that
My buyers remorse list is as follows - Korg Z1 with 18 voice polyphony. Korg DW8000 Korg Triton MOSS board. Roland MDC1 Dance Module Korg Wavestation AD HK Audio Lucas Impact PA system Alesis Wedge desktop reverb FX Yamaha O3D mixer with ADAT card Kurzweil PC361 synth Ensoniq TS12 synth Korg T3EX synth Atari Mega 4 ST computer Mindprint Envoice with Digital card Alesis Monitor 2 studio monitors Roland XV3080 And there's more!!!!
Mostly I have Not Buyers remorse, for things I could have bought cheap, but passed up. Where I grew up, by the time I had my first job there were cheap synths available near me: Minimoog, TR-808, Juno 6, Jupiter 4, Korg Polysix. I spent some on synths, guitars and hi-fi. Wish I'd spent it all on instruments, not on hi-fi. But, of the instruments I did buy cheap then I regret selling: Fender Stratocaster (MIJ '69 reissue burst), Roland SH-101, JX-8P. After university, I regret selling Moog Voyager, DSI MEK, DSI Prophet'08, Waldorf XTK, Roland JX-3P, Chroma Polaris, MFB Tanzbar, Machinedrum UW, JoMoX xBase 09. I have a good studio now, but when I read that list, that also would be a great studio to have and many of those items sell for 3x what I sold them for now.
I regret selling my first synth DX7. It was in the late 80s and i bought a Roland U20(!) instead. Oh the rompler era destroyed many studios back in the 90s.
Ending esq-1; thia was the first monster keyboard I owned. Ir was a bit temramental, which probably why I originally sold it. I still daydream about that keyboard.
I know this remorse very well. Nothing worse than rebuying items you already had previously. Even worse when you can no longer find what you sold or traded.
I would like you to do a risky video trying to predict 11 new pieces of gear that that if bought today will still be treasured in 15 or 20 years As much as people treasure a DX 7 or how guitarists hold on to instruments forever
Never change the way you pronounce Moo-g. It's the correct way, I don't care what Dr.Bob thought, and it's refreshing to hear an American say it right. Names got changed during the last 150 years of migration but it doesn't mean the original way is wrong. In America some Kavanagh(Cav-an-ah)folk became Kavanaugh(Cav-an-awh) but you'd be hard pressed to find a Kavanaugh in Ireland. Liam and Noel Gallagher from Oasis say their own name wrong(it's Galla-her not Galla-ger, the G is silent) and in Australia they pronounce my own name Sheehy(She-he) as "Shee". If an Australian with my name introduced themselves to me as 'Shee' there'd be a ruckus! Anyways, purely for your perseverance of pronouncing Moog correctly in the face of constant whining from the ill informed, you got yourself a sub!
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It is so hard to get to 1000 subscribers. I have tens of thousands of views, but not a lot of subs...appreciate it.
You havn‘t wasted my time at all 😀 I like your „rundowns“. I don’t regret most of the gear I sold but one: A Roland TB-303. When this machine was hyped in the early 90s I fully missed the trend and sold it for peanuts together with a TR-606 😅
Thanks Markus, I appreciate your comment.
Loved this episode as I have many keys I wish I had back. You also brought back fond memories. I too spent many hours in Ace in Miami , mostly in the 90's. Bought my Korg X3 there (which I am happy to say I still have) along with my first DAW, Cakewalk Pro Audio. Thanks for the great channel.
Loved going to Ace and Abe's up the road a bit. Thanks for your support and comment.
The Stylophone was my first 'synth'. I wired it into a suitcase with a home-built phaser, a home-built ring modulator (with its own oscillator) and an octave divider. It sounded great for the small me. 🙂
That was mine too, and I was very young. Appreciate the comment.
I bought a Fizmo from Musician's Friend way back in the late 90s when they were on clearance (i think it was around $300, I can't remember exactly). I sold it around 2003-04, for about $500 and I thought I did really well. I don't miss it, but I certainly regret it now based on what they currently sell for.
I found 2 floor 19” rack wedges for 50 bucks on offer up once. Upon closer inspection of the posts photo I noticed they were full of rack gear, i scroll over to the next photo and one of the rack units says Emax.
My blood ran cold and I immediately called the guy to see if I could pick up that same night. He says sure I’m just getting off work, mind you it was around 9pm. Which I would not advise but I took the chance. So I get there and the guy is chuckling about the floppy disk drive on one of the units. Upon pickup I also noticed a few other units inside along with some rack plate covers. I get home to unload and see what I got. It tuned out to be a Emax hd rack, Yamaha tx802, korg tuner, and something called a lone wolf midi switcher. I sold the wedges which was ok cause they were really big and I’m sad to say that I sold the emax rack too. I still think about sampling stuff onto it. But I could never get the right boot disk to get it going it didn’t have a scratch on it. I put it on eBay… it didn’t last 30min😅
Great story, great deal. Thanks for sharing.
In 1993, I sold my Casio CT-650 to buy my first "real professional instrument" synthesizer Roland JV-30 (yes, I know, ROMpler and so on ;-) ). Seller's remorse because of young me not realizing the difference between keyboard and synthesizer "why is there no auto accompaniment in this expensive JV-30, I want my band-in-a-box back" 🤣 (for me, it was expensive at the time) I got over not having cheesy auto-chord-recognition-band and I still have my JV-30 🤩
Man I can so so relate. My big one was a Moog 1c. Biggest regret ever. Next would be Yamaha FS1R.
And third isn’t a synth but from the 90s Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro.
But yeah I also learned synthesis on a concertmate MG1 went through 2 of those. Also had a Vox Jaguar I loved.
Agree totally with you re: MicroQ I loved that thing.
Thanks, appreciate the comment.
An original Moog Prodigy I had restored from being one twitch of the foot from landfill by the previous owner in 2002 (received with a bad transformer, bad VCA, no knobs) ..sold circa 2006 for £500, sounded amazing but thought 'eh, no midi' ..and good lord, what those go for now, and they sound spot on (breaks the soldering iron out, and makes one ;).
Didn't know I'd be getting back into music a few decades later (namely, recording synthwave now) after selling my gear during the mid & late 80s. Regrets now? YES! #1: late 70s Roland SH-7 (she was mint and sounded amazing!). #2: Memorymoog. #3: Roland Jupiter-6. #4: Roland Juno-6. And #5: Akai AX-60... Among others :(
That's some great gear. Thanks for sharing. Hope your new projects go well.
For a short stint I regetted selling a JX-3p but I got over it 😅
Roland D20 and Korg M1 were synth I do not regret selling, bit boring when used to analog gear.
There were a few instances where I regretted turning loose of keyboards, synthesizers and other equipment. In 2001, one of my band leaders sold me her Wurlitzer 200A electric piano. I want of selling it to an old friend before I finished paying for it, and I immediately was sorry for having done it. My mother threw away my Rockman X100 headphone amp without my knowledge. Around the same time, I ended up selling my Yamaha CP70 electric grand piano and Roland JX-10 synth. I accidentally damaged the piano’s sustain system and was doubtful I could have it (or whatever was generating white noise in the outputs) repaired. The JX-10 was sold because it was taking up room (the consolation is that I purchased the MKS-70 so I could have the Super JX engine again). That was all circa 2013. Lastly, I had traded my first guitar amp for my friend’s Korg 05rw module in 2005. Ten years later, he just asked for it back, and I didn’t bother fighting him. Though I get most of the sounds I generated from it out of my Roland VR-09, I still miss the module.
Well son, the funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret
Something you have done than
To Regret something that you haven't done...
Oh and by the way, if you see your mom this weekend? Tell her I said ...
Incoherent babbling...
Nice to see a fellow Wavestation hoarder:). I have 2 Ex keyboards, the SR, the PC emulation, and the iOS versions. There isn't anything like a WS for those evolving sounds. I always lusted after an A/D model, to try and experiment with the audio inputs thru the synth engine, but never got one. Oh well...
I sold my EML-101. I sold for $300 or so back in the 80’s. Would be worth thousands now.
Wow, an EML-101, that's some truly classic gear. Thanks for sharing.
@@JeffreyScottPetro it was actually a great little synth. It was half MiniMoog and Half ARP 2600. Op Amp circuits and duophonic capability. Sample and hold. I miss it!
The synths I have today have lots of knobs. In the 80's I had some good sounds, but the interfaces hindered my enjoyment. I regretted selling the Yamaha RX5, so I bought a Yamaha RX7 off of Ebay for $120. I use it when practicing bass guitar or guitar, but when it comes time to make music I prefer the Roland TR-8S.
I have an RX-5 now, but haven't touched it since I put samples of it in my TR-8S (which is pretty awesome)!
The only way that the photo at 4:55 could be more eighties is if you added a saxophone. And maybe some neon light blue and hot pink.
The only piece of gear I've ever sold was a Roland JD-990, and it was only ever purchased in order to make a profit. Had it been a 220/240 volts unit instead of a 120 volts one, I might have kept it. But if I'll ever purchase another (Roland) S&S module, it's going to be an Integra 7.
Well, there was one other piece of gear I sold: a Yamaha EX5R. But I did so in order to be able to afford a silver EX5.
LOL...It's sooooo eighties.
I had an Ensoniq Mirage I sold but I have never regretted it. I used the money to partly pay for a fully decked out Ensoniq EPS, Mem Expander, Scsi, 8x output expander. I could write entire songs in the EPS and with a sync drum machine, have the recording studio record the entire bed of tracks to independent channels in one shot. I still own it. From what I have seen for sale, this EPS is a very rare bird.
I should have held onto my Akai mpcs and picked up a couple more; I originally started producing hiphop music, sampling, etc. and I'm now into synths, analog and vintage. I've got that ground covered with some newer stuff but something about those older MPCs that feel and sound right to me when laying down drums. There is probably a nostalgic aspect to it too
I sold my Echoplex tape repeater I bought for $100.00 back in 1979. Now you have to spend $1000.00 for one.
I probably wouldn't be bothered by much of any of that except the RZ-1. I never owned one, but got a chance to play with one, and it sure was pretty awesome!
Yea i miss getting rid of my DX21,
but have a Fantom X so no regrets!
my remorse is EPS 16+ from Ensoniq. I bought ASR - too heavy and bulky for gigs. EPS is now unique and expensive like hell ...
If those are your biggest selling regrets, you’re doing fine … just a few things you could have made some more bucks on now, that’s all …
You should grab yourself a Stylophone - amazing nostalgia value at the low price they cost - and challenge yourself to write a track featuring it prominently. 🙂
Yep, the Stylophone is really great. Thanks for the comment.
Great series on classic gear. There is definitely something about the Wavestation. No synth selling regrets (D5, 01/W, DX27) but I really wished I had kept the 4 track . Also would have liked to have picked up a JD990 and TS10 when the prices were more accessible
Thanks, and thanks for subscribing.
I admit to regretting trading my Micromoog for a motorcycle.
It was the practical choice at the time but I do miss it.🤔
Alas, 🎶🎹🎶Play On
That's an interesting trade. I've traded music gear before, but it was for other music gear. Thanks for sharing.
God, you were at least lucky enough to be blessed by that Casio Drum machine. I've not only have drum samples of it, ive also been re-creating the patches to save as presets in my daw
I remorsed i sold my PolyMoog keyboard for 6900 SEK approx 600 dollars back in 2001. I also remorsed i didnt accept the offer buying a JP-8 for 500 bucks back in 1990. Back then i was so happy with my Akai-S1000 😧
Wow, a JP-8 for $500.00! I've missed a few deals like that too, but I've also made some good ones, and I'm sure you have too. Thanks for the comment.
Ensoniq ESQ-1. I bought it second hand in 1990 used it right through the 90s in a covers band for sequencing and sound and sold it around 2007. I missed it so much I recently bought another one (which I won't be selling).
Also, my Dad got me a Casio Vl-1 new in the very early 80s. Somewhere along the way I lost it. so I recently bought another one of them! My takeaway from this is NEVER SELL STUFF!
Just released a VL-1 episode today. Thanks for the comment.
@@JeffreyScottPetro Awesome!
Love your vids, and I learn a lot. FWIW, I play your vids at 1.25% speed = seems about right.
LOL on the speed. Appreciate the comment.
That's a funny coincidence, because I have the strong suspicion that Yamaha had the same idea like you in sampling the intro snare from "Stay The Night" for their highest end ever FM-organ monstrousity HX1. I haven't made a direct comparison, but one of my organ's snares indeed sounds a lot like that
My buyers remorse list is as follows -
Korg Z1 with 18 voice polyphony.
Korg DW8000
Korg Triton MOSS board.
Roland MDC1 Dance Module
Korg Wavestation AD
HK Audio Lucas Impact PA system
Alesis Wedge desktop reverb FX
Yamaha O3D mixer with ADAT card
Kurzweil PC361 synth
Ensoniq TS12 synth
Korg T3EX synth
Atari Mega 4 ST computer
Mindprint Envoice with Digital card
Alesis Monitor 2 studio monitors
Roland XV3080
And there's more!!!!
Nice list. Appreciate the comment.
Doesn't the Korg Kronos have wave-sequencing capabilities of the Wavestation? Nevermind... you stated at the end of the video.
Mostly I have Not Buyers remorse, for things I could have bought cheap, but passed up. Where I grew up, by the time I had my first job there were cheap synths available near me: Minimoog, TR-808, Juno 6, Jupiter 4, Korg Polysix. I spent some on synths, guitars and hi-fi. Wish I'd spent it all on instruments, not on hi-fi. But, of the instruments I did buy cheap then I regret selling: Fender Stratocaster (MIJ '69 reissue burst), Roland SH-101, JX-8P. After university, I regret selling Moog Voyager, DSI MEK, DSI Prophet'08, Waldorf XTK, Roland JX-3P, Chroma Polaris, MFB Tanzbar, Machinedrum UW, JoMoX xBase 09. I have a good studio now, but when I read that list, that also would be a great studio to have and many of those items sell for 3x what I sold them for now.
That might be a good top 11 list. "Items you wish you had bought." Thanks for the comment.
I regret selling my first synth DX7. It was in the late 80s and i bought a Roland U20(!) instead. Oh the rompler era destroyed many studios back in the 90s.
Thanks for the comment, and thanks for subscribing.
Ending esq-1; thia was the first monster keyboard I owned. Ir was a bit temramental, which probably why I originally sold it. I still daydream about that keyboard.
It's still a great synth. Appreciate the comment.
I know this remorse very well. Nothing worse than rebuying items you already had previously. Even worse when you can no longer find what you sold or traded.
I would like you to do a risky video trying to predict 11 new pieces of gear that that if bought today will still be treasured in 15 or 20 years As much as people treasure a DX 7 or how guitarists hold on to instruments forever
That's a great idea. I'll see what I can do. Thanks for the suggestion.
Regrets: memorymoog, prophet vs, OSCar, Emu SP12, EMax 1 &2, linn 9000, Tr909, Fender Rhodes1, 2 & Suitcase 73, Wurlitzer EP200 & bench, Wavestation, EPS16+, XBase 09, Analog Solutions TH48. Non-regrets: FB01, Akai X7000, Akai VX rack, Doepfer MAQ 16/3, TR505, DX27, Octave Kitten
Some nice gear in your regrets list.
My Pro 1, part exchanged for a freakin' TR-505, worst drum machine I ever owned!
I love the 505 - has a great sound.
Waldorf XTk :-(
Wow! Hard to find now and spendy.
I'm fine I never sell no synth at all
Wish I'd never sold my MC 303. (sort of)
TX81Z for me too
My Nord Lead rack 1 omg. I regret I regret.
Not gonna sub, to keep you at 666 ; - ) For me: Juno-6, Synthex, Polysix, K5, Maplin 4600, Matrix 6-r and on and on.
LOL. Seriously? I'm trying so hard to get to 1000.
@@JeffreyScottPetro Oh alright then :)
Never change the way you pronounce Moo-g. It's the correct way, I don't care what Dr.Bob thought, and it's refreshing to hear an American say it right. Names got changed during the last 150 years of migration but it doesn't mean the original way is wrong. In America some Kavanagh(Cav-an-ah)folk became Kavanaugh(Cav-an-awh) but you'd be hard pressed to find a Kavanaugh in Ireland. Liam and Noel Gallagher from Oasis say their own name wrong(it's Galla-her not Galla-ger, the G is silent) and in Australia they pronounce my own name Sheehy(She-he) as "Shee". If an Australian with my name introduced themselves to me as 'Shee' there'd be a ruckus! Anyways, purely for your perseverance of pronouncing Moog correctly in the face of constant whining from the ill informed, you got yourself a sub!
Thanks for the comment and the sub.
If I can make a suggestion: do nt buy the µQ, but the bigger Q rack (or keyboard version) it simply sounds better than the µQ.
Yeah, but I'm a poor musician.
The biggest regret I have selling my M-audio Venom, Casio XW-P1 and Yamaha DJX 1 and 2