The Used Guitar Market Update
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Securb
One of Jerry's Kids
We are lucky to have a bunch of Mom & Pop shops and pawn shops in the area. The Mom & Pops have that 3rd-tier yard sale gear he is talking about. Along with plenty of vintage stuff. The pawn shops are carrying guitar gear less and less, saying they can not move it. That is where I got my Carvin 4x12 for $150, the guy was sick of looking at it and wanted it out of the shop. I am lucky to have 3 music stores and a pawn shop on the same strip. There is also a GC if I want to take a 15-minute drive.
Chris Pile
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That YouTuber has made at least 3 vids on the state of "the market". I see a lot of videos on the same subject on YT, and for me - they are simply making "content" in an attempt to get clicks and make some money. Right now the entire guitar market (used, vintage, and new) is so muddled no one person can view it all with clarity and make definite statements. The best we can do is simply keep at it in whatever corner of the world we sit on. If you quit, don't complain or explain. Make room for the next guy, and hope for the best.
Chistopher
malapterurus electricus tonewood instigator
I appreciate anything that helps me stay out of the used guitar market. I don't need any guitar gear, at this point I'd rather just play my instrument.
same. i should really offload some stuff i got. too many unused pedals, too many pups sitting in boxes, guitars that havent been out of a case in years, and amps that havent made noise in as long. oh, not to mention a damn good pa system that takes up a ton of space
Securb
One of Jerry's Kids
PAs are hard to get rid of today. There are less people playing live music and even fewer places to play it. Add to that, PAs are getting lighter, smaller, cheaper, and more powerful because of class D. I just turned down two free passive Carvin 2x15 speakers with horns. They ended up in the dumpster because no one would even take them for free.
I am always trying to get our PA to be smaller. Speakers and poweramps are 1/10th of the weight they were 20 years ago, and sound a whole lot better.
yeah, mine is a passive setup. four 1x15" for mains, four 1x12" and two 1x10" for monitors, monitors get class d power, mains get old school crown. i can definitely hear the difference. its bulky and heavy, but man it sounds great. it would be a good installation in a club. we almost never haul pa anymore, either the club has it or the festival hires sound. it does get used once or twice a year, and as you said, it isnt worth much if anything.
I hear that. Even tour level PA wont move. Companys have moved to class D amps and line arrays.
Whilr most musicians have no idea what specs on a spec sheet mean.
For instance bands would pass up a set of tour level 18" subs backed by a tour level amp and outboard dsp for a set of MI level powered cabs cause they are less things to haul and " these babies are 2000w each"....at the point the limiter is squashing the death out of the music and even then the peak effeciency negates having twice as many of them as the tour level stuff cause they have a lower peak efficiency. Whatever Im keepin my shit.
Chistopher
malapterurus electricus tonewood instigator
You are dangerously close to re-inventing the silent disco
At one time I was getting heavy into live sound. I was doing local shows but got sick of the local rockstar TUDES so I stopped.
Im using that system for my band now.
But I get my ball broken. Im running 4x EAW SB subs and 2x FR tops backed by Crest Pro200 and 01 amps and all I ever get is. This rack is heavy you can get powered speakers now blah blah.......my answer is equivelent quality in powered is gonna cost about $18k to $22k at new price for just the cabs in powered if you wanna pay for it ill take my stuff home....hasnt happened yet. Lol
Im also still running analog out front. All Klark Tek Ashly and BSS....why?...cause I dont want to give every fillin engineer an our course on scrolling through menus and if soneone is fucking up and I have to stop and fix it I want slap bang boom and back to the stage.
But yea I literally just gave away a couple consoles and 6x EV TL 18" cabs just to not have to store them cause I couldnt sell um and I was sick of paying storage.
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