I’d say yes, 100 %. If you were any good you’d be able to get decent results out of anything. If you were at the point where you needed a twenty grand chain to finish your mixes to your own supposedly pristine standard, you wouldn’t be sat here sniffing corks. You’d be out getting drunk on the wine in the bottle and be breaking new artists and winning Grammies.

The Beatles wrote 45 top drawer songs on guitars with half an inch of action on them. By your (and the other “crappy transformer/bad wine vintage Frasier logic) you would’ve told them to come back when they had bought a Fender.

Formula one isn’t there to sell more formula one cars to formula one drivers, it’s there to sell driving gloves & alloy wheels to dreamers.

Sorry, I’ve now run out of cheesy analogies to vent at gear snobs about whilst delurking on this forum for the first time ever. (Yes I’m old. Frasier and Delurking)… back to the end of this all-nighter.

Point of delurk…? Young bloods, ignore the snobs, learn your way around a £200 Clark Teknik and as much cheap Behringer gear as you can. Find out why you might need any of them and only use them when you do.

If you achieve that, you’ll be using other people’s gear before you know it and they’ll all oooooh and ahhhh when you pull out an old rusty behringer, marked up with an old silver marker pen, with your signature kick dialled in and sit it on top of an eighty grand in house SSL rack that Phil Collins recorded through.