As far as performing equipment goes, I try to pay for a new piece with one recording (sound score) job. They are 30 hour marathons that pay at lease $150.00 per hour.

If I can't pay for equipment in a job or two (I usually book an extra job when I get the equipment "Jones"), I don't need it.

I don't have much of a studio...)use a large one in Louisville), I'm not constantly updating. All I need is enough to output client roughs.

In the future, it will be, sell or trade an existing piece for something new, or do without. With over 300 stringed instruments, 45 amplifiers and over 50 keys, I "ain't sufferin".

Russ (equipment junkie) Lay

R.