Depending on how long you've been reading this...whatever-this-is, you may or may not know that I tend to collect vintage gear which gets used heavily in my work. Unfortunately, it is becoming harder and more expensive to keep some of this stuff running these days due to a combination of parts becoming scarce and/or obsolete, lack of skilled techs around who are versed in the care and feeding of these devices and a number of other factors. It's on the verge of becoming a crisis now though, and there are a lot of people using a handful of industry-standard "staple" pieces for which this situation is the case. Strange as it may seem, as advanced as modern software has become lately, the sound of these older hardware machines (from the 80s and beyond) simply hasn't been replicated by plug-ins, at least not yet. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, but for the moment it looks a bit grim.
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