You've been given £5000 to spend on music gear - what do you buy?

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You've won an hypothetical £5000 to spend on gear, anything musical or studio.
How do you spread that money around?
It could be one item or several.
Whats your dream?
 
Upgrade my Arcam CD player, buy a valve amp, and decent speakers.

The rest would go on a decent piano, maybe a digital mixer of some kind.

Can I have some more money for a drum kit, some guitars, and funds to build a sound proof studio?
 
I'd buy myself a guitar a fell in love with a couple of years ago - A custom model, sunburst with rosewood fretboard telecaster. It's slightly different from the original telecaster because of the scratch guard etc

This guitar is about £2500 - £2700 IIRC.

The next thing i'd be would be a top of the range acoustic, probably something like a Takimine I saw a while ago and knew I wanted.

I would also like to upgrade my current telecaster to it's proper fender equivilant.

With the money left over i'd probably buy another electric guitar. Either an Ibanez, SG or Les Paul - not quite decided.
 
Ibanez UV777PBK ~£1400
Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier head ~£1800
Mesa Boogie 4x12" Cab ~£800

then i'd probably try and get a semi-good home recording setup with the other grand.

now its your turn dave, already shown you have looooads of gear, but if you had £5000 to just throw at some more gear without worrying about where you would have to scrimp in other parts of your life, what would you buy?
 
I'd proberly buy a silly guitar with a locking trem to have fun on, so proberly an Ibanez JEM or something similar (Yes I know its a serious guitar, just I won't take myself seriously with it!)

Failing that, I'd blow it on this, a parker fly supreme:


A small short story - This picture was taken on my camera phone, I spent two hours putting the guitar through its paces in tin pan alley (Denmark Street of course!), it was on sale for £1800, bargain alert! I saved up by working in a fast food restaurant for 6 months and got the cash. Went back to buy it and it had been sold to a japaneese buisnessman. However... I believe one still resides in that area... at around £2500 :(

*Cries himself to sleep*
 
SidewinderINC said:
now its your turn dave,
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Right at this moment I would buy -
a pair of Mackie SWA1501 bass bins £1500
a pair of Mackie SRM450 tops £1000
Line 6 Variax 700 £900
Line 6 Variax bass £600
Line 6 Toneport UX2 £150
Marshall TSL122 £789.00
 
Mixer
Mackie Onyx 1640 = £999

Outboard
Lexicon MPX-1 = £429

Mics
Shure SM57*5 (already have 1) = £345
Sennheiser MD421*6 = £1206

Monitors
Mackie HR 626 = £1995

Total - £4974

Enough left over to pay for delivery and a large supply of coffee :cool: :p

Or if i'm giving recording a miss...

Guitars! (and basses)

Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster FMT HSS - £1099
Warwick Corvette Std 6 - Bubinga Active - £1079
Music Man John Petrucci 7 String, Mystic Dream Finish with Piezo - £1599
Custom Emerald Guitars Acoustic 7 String - £1196

Total - £4973

:)
 
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Probably an armada of keyboards and drums. (probably a mixer as well) I can't say precisely what, because it would need a little bit of research.

A Yamaha VSS30 (wonderful little keyboard), and DW kit would be in there.
 
Music gear?

Ricky 4003, Mesa Boogie Cab and Head, large amounts of cocaine; the musician's gear of choice. ;)

*n
 
£1000 on a new laptop
£200 on a soundcard

£1500 on 2 x CDj 1000s
£500 on a mixer
£200 1 x turntable
£600 on vinyl/cds

£1000 on the best damn amp and speakers i can find
 
This one's easy for me.

PRS Custom 24, 10 top, bird inlays. Preferably Black Cherry, or vintage yellow with zebra bobbin pickups. That should cost about £1500-£2000 from a private Ebay seller. I would have course collect it. I've been so close to buying one so many times, and i would have gone for it if they'd taken my PRS CE24 as part-ex.

I'd buy a Fender Iron Maiden signature strat, or a US Fender Strat special (the Floyd Rose one) in vintatge white. That should be about £600 ish, unless i can find brand new ones. I would buy more Strats, but i already have two Japanese ones, which are awesome.

Peavey 5150 2x12 combo £600 maybe?
Boss GT-8 £220 ish. I used to have the GT-6, but i replaced it with a Pod XT live. In some ways, i wish i'd waited for the GT-8 to surface. I don't really care about rack mounted effects.
Marshall Stack. Probably a JCM 800 head for that classic 80s metal sound. No idea what that would cost, as i've never looked.

I'd also get some stand alone pedals.
Boss MT-2 Metal zone
Boss Super overdrive
Boss digital delay
Boss chorus
MXR Distortion
MXR Phaser
Ibanez Tube Screamer
a good tuner

If there's enough left, i'd buy one of the Ibanez RGs with the double edge bridge. An RG2020 maybe.
 
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