Buying used is a great way to bag a Black Friday music deal without having to spend loads, particularly if you’re looking for an upgrade to your own setup. Over at Reverb, you can bag yourself massive discounts of up to 80% off all kinds of gear, including brand new, b-stock, mint condition, and used items in their early Black Friday sales event.
It’s unlikely you’ll want to gift something that’s already used, but as it’s the time of the year when many musicians save to buy something for themselves, it’s not really that big of a deal if you’re getting used gear. Buying used is a great way to save even more money at this time of the year, offering you discounts even bigger than the regular ones you can get during the Black Friday sales.
Currently the cheapest deal on the Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 3rd Gen, we spotted this excellent audio interface available brand new for just $149.99 at the Focusrite/Novation store on Reverb. It’s the cheapest price we’ve seen it in the Black Friday sales so far, and an absolute bargain for a top-quality 4-input interface. In our opinion 4-inputs is perfect for home use, giving you a little extra wiggle room over the typically more popular 2-input interface.
Over at the Warm Audio B-Stock shop, you can bag yourself a massive $420 saving on a pair of Warm Audio WA-87 R2 condenser microphones. Down to just $979 for the pair, they’re based on the legendary U 87 which is a classic vocal mic, but with a pair you can do a lot more than that, using them as drum overheads, stereo room mics, or multi-mic a variety of sources. They’re currently over $400 cheaper than we could find anywhere else, and as B-Stock it comes with the same 1-year warranty as a brand-new piece of gear would.
Available from the official Arturia Reverb shop, you can grab a massive 42% discount on the Arturia Keystep 32 MIDI keyboard. It’s a B-Stock item and much cheaper than you’ll find anywhere brand new, making it great value if you need a new controller for your recording setup. We love the Keystep for its small size and great MIDI, CV/Gate, and sync connectivity, letting you hook to up a variety of gear whether it’s drum machines, analog synths, or soft synths in your DAW.
