You can’t just pluck music out of thin air, you need stuff to capture the ideas. While more/better gear doesn’t automatically mean better music, generally the more ideas you have and the more you want to do, the more gear you need. I tend to DIY a lot of my gear – why, you ask…?
- Fun!
What more reason does anyone need to do something? I love building stuff and I love creating stuff! It makes me feel good. - I can build the sounds I like
This might be stretching things a little, but bear with me. I’m really picky about sound, and building my own gear makes it possible to craft my signal chain exactly the way I want. Case in point: I couldn’t find a tube amp with a pentode in the preamp within my budget, so I built one. I had to design a lot of it, but with the help of some wonderful people on DIY electronics forums, it turned out just as I’d hoped.
- It’s cheap
Well, sort of. Compared to buying all my gear, it’s much cheaper. Unfortunately for my bank balance, I can now disguise my gear addiction as a hobby. Stick to guitar pedals, though, and the cost is pretty low. For example, just yesterday I ordered the parts for a (nearly) studio-grade compressor. Metal film resistors, polyester caps, and lots of other good stuff. The price? $30AUD including shipping, plus a couple of extra components I’ll use to power-scale my amp. To buy an equivalent compressor new would cost around the $250 mark. When you get to pro audio gear (preamps, mics, etc.) the cost goes up dramatically, but the relative savings are still huge. - It’s a hobby
As much as it’d be great to cram music-making into every spare second of every day, sometimes you just need to chill out. DIY music gear projects mean that when I need a bit of a mental break, I can stream a movie and poke about with a soldering iron for a few hours. I still need to concentrate (DIY is fun, troubleshooting problems is not!), but I’d get bored if I was just sitting around. - You understand your gear better
Some circuits are pretty simple (you can build a great fuzz pedal or buffer with around 20 parts, and that includes the box, jacks and
knobs!), but others take some figuring out. In the process, you’ll get to know what a low pass filter is (the same as a high/treble cut, it allows frequencies below a certain cut-off to pass through), which helps you to understand EQ better. It also gets you comfortable working with your gear, so you can do things like setup your own guitar, rather than taking it to a tech. - Real gear is better than plugins
While the rest of the world is streaming a digital future, I’m going analog. I’m finding that I can dial in the sounds I want much faster when I have real gear to use, rather than plugins and patches. I do have some digital gear that I absolutely love, like my digital delay and reverb pedals, my e-drums and synth. I love them because they’re powerful and versatile, but the reason they’re so useful is that they’re real instruments in their own right. Interacting with real gear inspires me to create, whereas staring at a screen and
moving a mouse to tweak a plugin doesn’t. Touch screen-compatible DAWs might change this, though (Presonus Studio One Version 3 has launched recently! Woohoo!!).
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