The oldest gear I use with any sort of regularity are my pile of Game Boys, oldest one of them is from the first production run from 1989.

 

Oldest gear - '93 Fender Strat
Oldest software - I believe it's Edirol Orchestral, and some of the early Waves plugins from the late 90's

 

Almost my every track I start with Hypersonic 1...it's just a working horse...the same about both Edirols (Orchestral and Super Quartet), plus RolandGroovesynth and TTS-1 (built-in, comes with Cakewalk Sonar) -
it's about software,
as for gear - Chekhoslovacian electric guitar Star IX (1974) even that country doesn't exist for now as well as DDR,
whose "Musima" Classic (nylon string guitar) I own too (1984)

 

I guess it is my 1950's Sennheiser MD21 which sounds great on a guitar cabinet, a voice or even on acoustic guitar. It is an omni and so there is no proximity effect to utilise. I also have other mic from the 50's, a pair of very early Beyer M100's which were used for picking up dialog on live television and which make awesome overheads or a spaceed pair on string instruments. And yet another great dynamic, the Beyer M610 which can be chosen to be voiced for instrument or vox at the turn of a collar. It is a tribute to these German microphone manufacturers that they still sound fine and dandy after over 60 years.

 

A German contemporary from about the same year, a Framus 5/3 parlor guitar in Black Rose, a short scale 12 fret to the body with Maple top, sides and rounded back with a rosewood fingerboard. It can sound somewhat like a banjo if you capo it up. It has a flat radius fretboard. The second owner was a little girl hence the Disney sticker on the headstock.

 

My oldest gear was electric guitar, Yamaha SE110....

 

Kool. My friend.
I do not use the R8 MKII. much these days. Since I have VST overload. LOL
I do like it thought. It had a great pattern editor with the flam / human feel stuff before anyone did.

 

Wow I remember the Ensoniq Esq1, It was really kool.

 

Yes those are nice. Here's the Musima Jazzer I've got, from around 1956. Gets played every day.



I fitted the OBL pickup and the controls. It was acoustic when I was given it, in 1990 or so.

 

wait , you no girl ?

 

HOHNER Automatic Rhythm Player

 

pretty sure there is a MD16 drum machine in the loft to go with it.

 

I still have a Powermac 7100 (NuBus) with OS 7.5... which I run Protools 4.2. Also hooked up is a Digidesign Expansion bay which holds 4 TDM farm cards and 2 Samplecell cards. An 882 i/o (8trk) has an ADAT link breakout box in sync w/2 blackface ADATs. Everything locks up, transfers... and runs good. When I use it I always try and push the 'original sought after vintage digital sound... much warmer than the current digital systems'

 

I don't have hardware synths or drum machines since my musical journey started a lot different. But if anything besides a typical musical instrument counts, my game consoles are my vintage hardware.
I have NES, Gameboy Pocket, PlayStation, PSP, a PDA, and a 2nd gen iPhone. the oldest is NES.

When I was a kid, I wanted to learn the piano but my parents couldn't afford it so finding a way to use my videogame console as an instrument was like the only way for me to explore the world of music.
I still use that PSP all the time. its actually far more capable than what you might expect with a pcm synth, fm, granular, physical modeling, clean digital filters and a dedicated dsp chip.

 

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I just got a request for a picture of my 1962 Epiphone Casino. Good idea, I'll cheerfully oblige:



This guitar, serial # 99835, basically a Gibson ES-330 issued under the Epiphone label, came home with me from Arlington, Texas in 1995 if I remember correctly. Pickup configuration & layout is the result of a customization job designed by me and carried out by a leading boutique Gibson luthier, using only (era) authentic parts.
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Sylvia Massy? Is that you?

 

the oldest and longest in my studio

 

Original SPS-1. I owned one. It is better sounding in the lower frequencies than the SP1 MKII.

 

honestly i wouldnt know, i do know that it made it impossible to roll a joint anywhere in that old abandoned church i once played at...