My track Paris Thru the Tears scores a whopping 7.9! :-D It was recorded on analogue synths (£1500 + £200), a HardSID slaved to an old P300 running Windows 98,

My track Paris Thru the Tears scores a whopping 7.9! :-D It was recorded on analogue synths (£1500 + £200), a HardSID slaved to an old P300 running Windows 98, an old Akai sampler (which cost £100), and 2 crappy mixing desks (£75 and £100) over the past month... The only digital hardware was my Toshiba laptop running the Cubase sequencer. But I have been making music since 1998. [My point here is that getting a 7.9 doesn't mean huge studio expenses and watered-down content]