Equipment prices/baseline equipment

[keks]

Hi there,

it's funny (well kinda) I was just watching Rick Beato in his new video about making a living in the industry in 2019:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6c0Iy6Q65E[/youtube]

14 minutes in he talks about the necessity of buying gear to get great tones for broke musicians.
Now, he has a couple of Sovteks and Sound City amps and 10-15 years ago they would have been ridiculously cheap.

And this kinda makes me wonder:
Earnings in the industry keep on nose diving except for the few who successfully ride the moody influencer wave.
Used market prices keep on skyrocketing.
I have traded a bunch of pedals and stuff for margins around 50%.
Who buys all this shit?

OTOH, with all the fluctuations of a fashion driven gear market I have seen some prices drop again.
Older, not so famous dynamic mics have become pretty cheap at times and I blame this partly on the disappearing of Senap's thread on the Womb forums.



But that really made me wonder,
what is the piece of equipment that you guys and gals get the most mileage/return of investment/improvement of workflow from?

All the best,
the keks

[weedywet]

Is there any indication that guy knows anything?

[upstairs]

I think his claim to fame is having perfect pitch, and a song I can't stand called Carolina by Parmalee. Or maybe just his youtube channel.

I really like my magic pair of computer speakers of 2000ish vintage. My mixes sound like my mixes everywhere I play them, for better or worse. Way better than NS10s. I've gotten plenty of ROI on them. I won't say what they are, lest I start a craze

Maybe my Soundcraft 200. 500 bucks after recap and new beefy PSU. Nothing offensive about its sound compared to cheaper (mainly newer) boards I've used, and I get to push faders.

Plebeian for sure.

[keks]

Is there any indication that guy knows anything?

Not that I'm aware of.