I agree. You can't have too many toys if you are a musician and songwriter.

I had a nice Roland 8 track once that was stolen and I wish I still had it.

Anyway, I use a lot of the tools you mention, and each project is different. I also have a lot of instruments. At any given moment I might mic a djembe--or anything else. You just never know.

It also drives me a little nuts when people go on and on about what you have to use, or have to do and so forth. (Especially if you can find no Internet evidence that they have ever produced a song.)

I think as an artist you can whatever in the heck you want to.

smile

David Snyder
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