consumer level kit

anyone out there use consumer gear or hi fi kit for production? Ive always used a hi fi record player and mess with tape decks now and again. Any of you dudes mess with consumer ish? If so, what do you use and what results have they yielded? Would you ever give it a go? I know its a bit ghetto but why not? Listeners dont care what you use so if its good a guess thats all that matters but would like to hear your experiments and what you thought of the results. Peace

for me only the speakers + amp

anyone do anythin like use tape, eq or use empty radio frequencies as a source of whitenoise? Gotta be some experimental dudes out there right?

Slamming a really cheap cassette deck with really hot signal can do wonders for drums.

It can also totally annihilate your bass, so you gotta learn the machine.

I also really like setting up feedback loops...you can do that with a lot more things than you would think.

The cheaper the better, in these cases, cause you can basically try to destroy the machine and things start sounding really good as the machine reaches its limits. I've never blown anything up like this personally, but it might sound like it is about to go.

Also, just about anything with an input can be overdriven, and used as an effect. Again, the cheaper the better, generally.

I forgot to mention the xbox 360 smack talk I use for lo fi sampling viewtopic.php?f=5&t=135393

I use tapedecks quite a lot latley. Got a couple nice old 70's decks off e-bay fairly cheap. Each one sounds diffrent.
I also got this USB tape digitalizer. Sounds kinda shit though. I feel you loose a lot of sound quality that way (maybe the pic ups-or what ever they're called-are just crapp),
but it was cheap enough to try it out and it does come in handy for some things.

I'd use anything that I think is usefull. So what if it's not "pro level".
Ever see the bucket drummer on youtube?? Old paint buckets are not pro level equipment, but dude's got pro level skills

I use to use a Technics consumer equalizer to filter samples, then record the result to cassette and resample it again. Great for basslines and sampling mid to hi range sounds. Bass would rumble. I still have that eq but the tape ins are fried to time.

Just having a listen to your tracks Fung.

I likey.

It's making me want to dig out my old tape deck.

Reminds me of the tape deck I used to have to load computer games back in the day! Although it was probably a bit bigger if that's a dictaphone... hard to tell from the pic.

When my studio is back in one piece I'll dust off my old Denon for sure.