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Avoiding Gear Acquisition Syndrome: When To Upgrade Recording Gear

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

After you’ve got all the prerequisite gear to make recordings, the need to upgrade mics, preamps, compressors, plugins, monitors, computers, and just about anything else you can think of tends to consume you. This article will discuss when to upgrade and why.

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