[Michael Wozniak]

"Chevdo" wrote in message
news:IYzYh.11613$_G.2225@edtnps89...
In article et,
says...


Chevdo, I have maybe as many as 10 good MIDI cables I'd sell you for a
good
price - email me off list if interested.

I might just do that, but mailing them to me might make them prohibitively
expensive. I can get 10 from the states for $10.99US plus another $10 for
shipping. Can you do better than that?


Where are you located? UK? I can do much better on the price end. Shipping
depends - I'm in Tucson, Arizona.

I don't use too many anymore, plus
I'm downsizing. I doubt you'd make any $ building and selling passive
switch
boxes - demand is not what it used to be.


Demand would be higher than ever before in the past. If you are assuming
demand for MIDI stuff might have dropped as people move to laptops to do
everything in software, I would suspect that would have some affect but
would
be offset by the fact that more and more people are using computers and
MIDI
to make music every year. Even though everyone had to use MIDI 15 years
ago,
and don't necessarily have to today, the amount of people using MIDI now
is
probably 100 times as many as were using it 15 years ago. When MIDI was
actually in its 'hey-day', few people were using it, the gear was
expensive,
electronic music wasn't very popular and pop music had to be recorded in
professional studios. Not to mention the fact that MIDI is being used for
a
lot of control applications (lighting, servos, etc) these days.

Anyway I don't have any need to convince you, I already know the market
exists
where I would be hawking them. The only issue is whether I could build
them
cheaply enough, with effort minimal enough to make it worthwhile. I
bought the
jacks for the one I'm going to make for myself today, and they're $1.60
each.
So if I sell a switchbox for $30 I'll be making more than $20 profit.
Yep, I'm
going to give it a try.

If you know you have a market for it, then go for it.

(BTW, I've already made several hundred dollars making
contact mics, which, if I had expressed an interest in doing so before
doing
so, I'm sure you'd have told me there wouldn't have been a market for,
because
pooh-poohing and imagined schadenfreude is, afterall, the quintessential
ingredient of rec.audio.pro)

Ah, but I didn't. I can think of lots of uses for contact mics & lots of
people who could use them.

Mikey
Nova Music Productions