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[MrFigg]

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@MrFigg There was a time when you were helping — okay, attempting to help — me curb my spending on plugins and sample libraries. Now I look at your posts and it’s pretty much clear that we’ve both fallen off the wagon (and American expression when an alcoholic starts drinking again; and ftr, I’m not an alcoholic, but I definitely do have a plugin/sample library buying habit, and posting deals isn’t exactly helping me with it) and have some similar tastes, although I think you’re actually a guitarist, and while I played beginner guitar, my tendinitis makes that completely out, so I’m purely using guitar sample libraries.

Clearly M-Tron is one of our shared weaknesses. I love the thing. I was going to write that I’m a sucker for Tron libraries, but I’m also a sucker for piano libraries, for Wurly libraries, guitar libraries, bass libraries, acoustic drum libraries, glockenspiel libraries, and string libraries. I tend to not use synth, brass, woodwinds or full on orchestral libraries as much, so I’m significantly stronger in that area.  For the most part — except for the strings — I’m going after the instruments in my home growing up that I loved to play and record on multitrack reel-to-reel and cassette.

Maybe I should create a forum or subforum for us to work on strategies for buying LESS stuff? I’m serious. If you want me to do it, let me know. Obviously, I would have a good deal of humility in creating and posting there, as I’m pretty terrible about managing my GAS. Except that I MOSTLY only buy inexpensive stuff when there are ridiculously good deals. Stuff like UAD Signature V2 for $124 back in August, Musio 1 for $179 on 2024 Black Friday  (sure, it went lower, but I still think that was an amazing deal; now it’s only available for $399)…. What could we call this subforum? GASoholics unanimous?  We could just use it to make a lot of jokes about this habit most of us share. Seriously. Let me know! We need to inject more fun into the site.

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Haha. Yeah, we’re strong together. I’m not sure where my GAS has gone really. I have a few strategies which more often than not take away the impulse buy. Would you like me to list them? They may be of use :). And yeah, those Tron tapes are becoming an obsession. But they’re way too expensive I think. I wouldn’t mind so much if there wasn’t VAT on top and that the price is in £s.