Goldfilter Virus goes on sale

[Timo]

Originally Posted by ten

There are going to be a a bunch of mugs out there where money is not an object and who desire such items like this. If there is people willing to pay a premium for it and who have the money why not let them?

I think that's it, it's probably no doubt gonna great in some bling bling american rap/hip-hop studio outfit (if that's your thing), especially the bigger artists, and they'd certainly have the money to do so. Gold is where it's at.

It's a strange beast. I guess everyone is thinking what they would have done with it. It's weird, I think if I won it I'd have kept it, but otherwise wouldn't pay any more for it than the current Polar if it were available to buy. Certainly has a bit of an 'ugly duckling' factor, perhaps looking kinda out of place in a working studio, but would fit in just right in a top-name hip-hop/rap studio. And that's definately where the money is, I think.

What other people would or would not have done with the Goldfilter has no consequence, and you absolutely have the right to do exactly what you want. It'll certainly be interesting to watch what happens. ... I predict ~£2000, purely for the status/bling hip-hop/rap factor. Sure, anyone can customise their synth using third-party companies, perhaps, but this one is different in that it's an official release and unique in that there is just one.

Any photos of the 'filter when its on, with all the LEDs and LCD etc.?

Nice well thought out website, too. The photos perhaps seem a little over-processed, though. Would like to see what it looks like in a neutral light, no post-processing/filters.

Good luck!

[Gopal]

To be honest if I'd have won it, I would sell it for as much cash as I can get, buy a TI desktop and hopefully have enough cash for a Vsynth XT as well :P

[Scielence]

Originally Posted by Timo

Any photos of the 'filter when its on, with all the LEDs and LCD etc.?

Nice well thought out website, too. The photos perhaps seem a little over-processed, though. Would like to see what it looks like in a neutral light, no post-processing/filters.

Good luck!

Sorry Timo, no photos with the LED's on ..

Thanks for the comments about the site. Basic, clean and to the point, that's all I wanted, really. You're actually the first person to mention anything about it, so thanks.

I had to process the photos seeing as that it is nearly impossible to get good photographs of the unit without good lighting, so most of them came out in an orangey color. Besides, I don't have a digicam and the pics we took were at my work in the office boardroom. It currently spends its days under my bed in a box at the moment, until auction time ...

Originally Posted by Timo

Good luck!

Thank you, I'll probably need it !

[The girl next door]

Whats the link to Harmony central slagging off posts ??

[nvisibl]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...8407&rd=1&rd=1



a generally expensive lesson

[Tomer=Trance]

So he got about the same amount of money as for a used or B stock standart TIK ?

[Onkel Dunkel]

F*** me!!! I just checked (for fun) that shipment to Denmark is 165£... You could bloody almost rent an entire shipping container or do a fully ensured helicopter same day worldwide delivery for that price

[ten]

Dont think a heli-copter would make same day Cape Town to Denmark

ten

[Onkel Dunkel]

Then a jetplane

[Rusty O'Hara]

Originally Posted by 3o3

What I meant in my first post; I'd never pay more just because someone famous owned the synthesizer before _but_ as I heard rumours about Liam's TB303 got sold for an _insane_ amount of cash I'd betcha there are loads of people that acctually do pay more because of this.

Apparently my µWave XT used to belong to C&C Music Factory... apparently... that's what the geezer told me after he'd posted it to me.

Made no difference to the price. Probably only worth paying extra if you know they're a programming gun and have left their patches on there.

Originally Posted by Scielence

... spending it on cheap booze, drugs and hookers, ...

No, no, no. It's cocaine, hookers and a hotel room.