It’s June and time to fail my NGNY as I’ve done basically every time. This year it’s a bit questionable as I bought this for my shop. I like to have a basic setup of synths/stage piano, guitar amps etc. in my shop for upcoming live events, but I’m sure I’ll borrow it every now and then and take it home to play.
I couldn’t resist this as the dude was selling it for 650€ with a case and the GTs usually go for 1400-2500€ if you can ever even catch one. I have the XT at home and I’m over the moon to have the GT too. Personally I haven’t even seen the synth yet as a friend of mine picked it up from Helsinki and dropped it to my shop. I’m on a small holiday on my way to Stockholm and a Dinosaur Jr. gig there. But when I get back home on tuesday, I’ll get to fondle this beauty. Lucky me.
Hah! I hardly even drink beer anymore. But tomorrow, I might have a few listening to J. Mascis & his crew. I even ordered heavy duty earplugs just for this gig. I’ve heard they’re kinda loud.
No he was a guy who worked at the university and he had found this synth in his new study’s closet and it was supposed to go to a landfill. He took it home and put it for sale. At first it was 1000€ until the price gradually fell a hundred euros at a time every week. I lost my cool at 650€ because it was basically a steal.
I think the reason nobody bought it earlier was the fact that he openly told that he had found it for free and was asking a thousand euros for it. People don’t like things like that. He should’ve made up a story that he was the second owner etc. The second reason no one got in touch was probably that the ad was in english. Finnish people have an aversion to speaking/writing foreign languages.
The money went to funding his upcoming wedding so it was a win/win kinda situation.
I bought a used patch panel a few weeks back and finally set it up today. Ended up buying a bunch of cables from the same guy (he’s moving out and selling his entire studio).
Had to rewire everything, but now it’s pretty clean and I can finally use the compressor for side-channel w/o having to rewire everything. Plus I hooked up all the stereo instruments, before I only had them in mono to reduce the rewiring effort.
The desk is now cleaner, too!
Think I saw that go by on Muusikoiden a couple of times myself as well, where I think the average English listing is still 50/50 between a scam or not. Great pick for 650€ for sure, love all forms of the V-synth!
Latest acquisitions are a 4ms DLD and the Joranalogue Receive 2.
On the Rx 2, I have never regretted buying a utility.
On the DLD, I love that it doesn’t try to sound vintage, that it has a huge buffer and doesn’t pitch shift when you modulate the time, and that the firmware is mature.
