Hi Matt,

For me, and I assume for you also, there is a limit to what is logical in a home studio.

If I have a serious project to produce, it will certainly not be me on the other side of the glass in the control room. I am going to a professional studio with professional engineers and the best studio musicians I can afford.

Home studio equipment is just fun stuff for me to mess around with. It is advantageous to generate new ideas. There are a thousand good reasons to own it. But spending two times the money to get .003 as opposed to .004 THD is not logical to me in a home studio.

I can see no possible use for even a new Neumann U47 vocal mic which costs around $4500, must less a vintage one at $30,000 for a home studio. Yet, people buy this stuff every day.

I do have a couple of high-quality guitars. Both cost less than 5K, which is expensive to me, but nothing compared to the cost of many guitars.

I guess all this depends on what you like to do and what you can afford.

I would prefer to be a super-talented horn player than a super-talented studio engineer. Those two people may work together but live in very separate worlds.

Billy

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