I want equipment lists!

[regebro]

OK, time to do something that I should have done a long time ago. Ask you guys what stuff you have used to record the songs on the Homerecording.comp volume II CD. Of course, anybody that wants to can give their list (I will) but there are some recordings which I wanna know more about:


Slackmaster2k: Crawling With the Ants.
Not only a great song with a cool arrangement and good lyrics, it sounds great too. Completely professional. Equipment list. NOW! And put together a CD plis.

Chibi Nappa: Speak
Except that the vocals is mixed too low this is another sonically near perfect recording. Great song too. I need details!!!

ChuckU: Morning Light
Sorry man, I totally hate this kind of bland gays ass sob-country. It makes me sick. The recording is awesome though. Equipment list, sil vous plait!

sluice: Chrysalis:
Perfect recording except for the saxophones. I hate saxophones, admittely, but these sound...plastic. I wanna know everything about recording acoustic guitars. And an equipment list, of course.

Scottboyher: Can't live without you
A bit heavy on the delay, but otherwise good. I need an equipment list here too.

Jamal Bucket: Last Hurrah
Self-deprecating songs about how nerdy you are are so 90's. But I like it.
Great recording, equipment list?

James Argo: The poetry
Excellent stuff. Equipment list again, puhleeze?

Emeric: Sunday Part 16 - Fading
Have you ever pondered writing a rock opera? Or an equipment list?

Voxvendor: In My Head
Possibly the vocals have something lacking from full-pro quality. Otherwise it's excellent. I especially like the goth-intro. List your shtuff if ya please!




And for thise interested in what mixer NOT to use here's my equipment list:

I used a Roland MC-50 sequencer and synced to the tape recorder to sequence the electronic stuff.

The synthesizer is a Clavia Nord Modular.

The percussion is a Yamaha A3000 sampler playing samplings of me slapping my knees and banging on my Behringer patchbays.

The electric is and 80's Japanese Fender strat. I don't remember how I recorded it, probably I used the Line Art preamp. There is a lot of some cheap ass analog delay that was forgotten by somebody in a rehersal space in the early 90's on it too.

The acoustic guitar is a 12-string guitar I borrowed from my sister. I think it's a washburn, the $250 type. Both the guitar and my singing friend are captured with an Oktava MK-319. The vocals with an ART Tube MP, and the guitars with a Line Audio MP-1 mic preamp. The vocals were compressed during tracking with a dbx 163x compressor and I use a bit of that analog delay.

This is all tracked to a Fostex A-8LR 1/4" reel to reel 8-track, and the mixed with a Boss BX-16 mixer that makes Behringer look professional, with an Alesis Microverb as reverb.

It is all monitored through Tannoy Active Reveals, and mixed to a Soundblaster card of some sort.

I don't know why it all sound like I have wet socks over the speakers, but I blame the mixer.

I think that's it.

[dafduc]

Hey reg,

I liked your song, but didn't understand it. Wanna explain it?

Daf (knowingly subverting the point of the thread, but I'm just a free-associating kinda guy... )

[AlChuck]

I used a Delta 66 and a POD 2.0. I forget which guitar I used, but it was a solidbody electric, or maybe two different ones. That, and the PC running ACID, is all she wrote... No, wait, I might also have used a delay plug-in, probably dB Audioware's or perhaps one of the Sonic Foundry ones...

[regebro]

Originally posted by dafduc
I liked your song, but didn't understand it. Wanna explain it?

No. What do you THINK it's about? Come on, freely associate!

(Or maybe this should be in the songwriting forum? Naaah, can't be bothered...)

[scottboyher]

My equiment was nothing special.. I am using Cool Edit Pro, drum loops, and a Digitech RP200 amp modeler. The bass was real the keys were real and all guitars were real the only sample I used was the drum loops. All the pluggins I used were stock Cool Edit so nothing special there. I have a cheap rode condencer and a cheap Yamaha keyboard. Oh and I used a 3630 for a gate effect on the vocals . I even recorded on a 20th century computer.

[Chris Shaeffer]

My tune "Woolton Street" was:

Recorded in Cubase SX through a Tascam US-428. Guitars were miced with C1's and MXL 603's in X/Y pairs, through preamps on an Alesis Studio 24 mixing board. I can't remember, but I might have tracked one of the rythm guitars through an Art Dual MP and and RNC.

Electric guitars are through an ancient Peavy Classic Chorus 212 close miced with a 603, believe it or not. I started with a 57 but like the sound of the 603's better for this tune. Guitar is mid 80's Les Paul Custom.

Vocals were either a C1 or a Grove Tubes 5sm. Can't remember. I think the GT. Again, though the Alesis.

Lessee...the drums are from a Roland JV1010 synth module.

It was mixed in Pro Tools LE with a Digi 002. Most signal processing was with Waves plugs. Final sweetening and leveling in Pro Tools with other Waves plugs. Monitors are Event PS6's.

Take care,
Chris

[VOXVENDOR]

Digi 001- Pro Tools LE- Waves Gold Bundle

Dr. 770 drum machine for kik and snare.... All cymbals and Hi hats and tambourines were real, live.

1978 Fender Jazz Bass

1996 Mexican Strat

POD

SM-57 on vocals (or as I can recall), and straight into the Digi-001...... No outboard pre... (Even though I had a $5000 Focusrite ISA-430 sitting right there.. too lazy to hook it up)

Joe

[DaveO]

I'm glad you posted this thread, regebro. I was thinking of doing the same thing but figured we were already a few months past the release and I never bothered. Love to see how everyone did it.

[regebro]

Well, I had this pet theory that you don't at all need a big tinme studio and fancy equipment. And I think the equpment lists shown so far supports it. No 2" 24 tracks or Neve desks in sight!

Although some ProTools.

[James Argo]

Originally posted by regebro
James Argo: The poetry
Excellent stuff. Equipment list again, puhleeze?

Well, sorry I've been away too long and miss this thread...

You won't believe this, but my tune consists of alot of soundfonts involved My equipments were:

Synth & keyboard:
Piano: Soundfont WST25FStein.sf2 It's the thickest I've ever tried so far for this kind of genre. It's available for free download here... Nice and warm piano. It's tuned in A=442Hz instead of standard A=440Hz, so I needed to "re-tune" it down about ~13 cents. Use it with SBLive! DE 5.1

Pad, Soft Strings, and Harp: Korg N364

Layer Octave Strings: Soundfont Intrigue.sf2

Flute: Soundfont World Combo.sf2

Percussion: mixed Soundfont Indian Ensemble.sf2 and BATA drums.sf2

Violin:
Skylark cheap violin with Lawrence Fisher transducer

Gears
Mackie 1202 mixer

PIII 866, RAM 512MB.
WinXP home edition, Sonar 2.2XL
SBLive!

Plugins
DSound simple plugins
Cakewalk FX
Timeworks Comp & EQ
Waves 3.5

That's all I can remember, buddy

[regebro]

Still missing a lot of lists....