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[mentalattica]

I see there have been a lot of people upgrading gear in here recently and a some people asking about others signal chains, so I figured I'd start a new list your gear thread.

I'll start with my budget setup.

Mics:
Shure KSM27
AT4040
MXL V93M

Interface:
Delta 1010 (rack unit)
Firewire Solo

Compressors:
ART ProVLA
Alesis 3630

Pre:
SP VTB-1
Firewire Solo (onboard)

Headphone Amp:
Samson S-Phone

Keyboard:
Fantom-S

Monitors:
KRK RP8's
M-Audio BX5's & DX4's
10" Altec Sub
(4 pair of headphones)

Software:
Adobe Audition 2.0
Reason 3.0
Waves Plugins
PSP Vintage Warmer
Other various plugins...

PC:
Main - AMD Athlon 3400/1gb Ram/160gb - 250gb - 300gb hd's
Laptop - Acer Aspire/Celeron D 1.7ghz/512mb Ram/40gb hd/Firewire Card


Various:
ART Powerbase Power Conditioner
Furman M-8 Power Conditioner
Mogami Gold XLR
Musicians Friend, Hosa, CBI, Radio Shack balanced cables
Auralex Roominator kits
Home made bass traps

And what every studio needs a FLASHLIGHT for digging around behind the rack

[definitesupreme]

My current setup:

Ensoniq ASR-10 (SCSI, Fully Expanded)
EMU SP12 Turbo
FL Studio 5
Adobe Audition
Vestax PDX2000 Turntables
Rane TTM 57 Mixer
Vestax 06 Pro Mixer
Shure M447 Cartridges
Fender Rhodes

vestax handy trax (for when im on the go with my laptop and need sampling done and/or for diggin' purposes)

Im looking into getting a vintage synth... that'd be nice.

but usually im just doing everything in FL.

[bknot1]

mines is simple...

Xl-7 Command Station
Akai DPS16 Multi-track Recorder
Wharfedale Diamond 8.2A PRO

and cheap $40 Radio shack mic

a G3 OS9 MAC for some editing and MP3 encoding (sometimes)

and a clickin external hard drive with all my Master of everything i done for the Artist in 2003 and 2004 and all the Music program you could think of..(ooops wasnt suppose to say that)

and i cant get to them anymore..


new mics coming one day..(when I have someone to record)...

[P. Rene]

Dope setup.

[BillyBo]

THE BOX STUDIO:

HARDWARE:
HP a220n Desktop Computer
SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum SoundCard
4 Channel Mixer (RadioShack)
MXL 990 Condensor Mic
Nady Phantom Power box
Nady Pop-screen
RadioShack Dynamic Uni-Directional Mic
(for scratch tracks & communicating w/ recording engineer)

SOFTWARE:
Adobe Audition *mixing and editing*
FruityLoops 6 XXL Producer Edition *beats and loops*
AcidPro 4.0 *loop and tempo chopping*

that's all. super simple. and i used to work at RadioShack for almost 3 years. so i got some supercheap stuff and never needed/wanted to replace it.



Bless.

[mentalattica]

Def. I love the sound of those old ASR10's, are you just using it as a midi controller?

[mentalattica]

Originally Posted by bknot1

and a clickin external hard drive with all my Master of everything i done for the Artist in 2003 and 2004 and all the Music program you could think of..

How valuable to you is the stuff on the hard drives? You can always send it to one of those data recovery labs...lol Or check into a program called File Scavenger, I saved some files off of a few bad harddrives using that before.

[bknot1]

yeah ..i gotta a program to try and get the data off..just never got around to tryin to get it(been over a year) ..i might try this weekend if im nnot busy..tryin to set up a business meet to set-up some tracks for placement with Artist in B'More for club and radio play..

we will see

[wargasms]

MXL V93M - how do you like that mic..

that was my 1st condensor, and i actually gave it away to a member of my group, once i got an at3035 but im starting to regret it lol

[L'espion Noir]

thanks for the file scavenger tool

[DesertEase]

Hardware

Casio CTK-573 midi keyboard
Korg PadKontrol
Tascam US-122
2 10" rca speakers
MXL 990s
MXL 992
MXL 3000
Tascam Pocketstudio5
Mic Stand
Pop Filter
2 Pairs of Nady headphones
Dell Xps
Software
FL6XXl
Reason3 Adapted
Abelton Live Light
Magix Music Studio Deluxe 2004

Yea I know my setup is whack but my mind has all the creativity i need until i can afford to actually build a studio

[definitesupreme]

nah man i make some beats on there as well... shits bananas once you figure out how to use it...

people say its tough to use.

i started making beats and chopping samples up on that shit in a week son. LOL

i love it.

[mentalattica]

Originally Posted by wargasms

MXL V93M - how do you like that mic..

that was my 1st condensor, and i actually gave it away to a member of my group, once i got an at3035 but im starting to regret it lol

Was my first too, I don't use it much on anything these days except maybe female r&b vox. It's too thin and bright for me.

[qb2k5]

Monitors: Wharfedales 8.2 Pro

Headphones: Cheap Koss UR-30

Mics: At4040 and MXL 1006

Cables: Monster Pro

DAW HDW: Delta 44

PreAmp: DMP3

Monitoring Mixer: Eurorack MX 602A

Recording Software: Primarly use: Protools LE and (Backup/ Notepad recording) Ntrack4 always record at 24bit/48

System: AMD64 3200+ @ 2.7ghz soon to be 4400+ X2/ 7800gt may SLI with another 7800gt/ 2GBs DDRRam/ X-FI Music Edition/ (yes I use my pc for gaming also.)

[Trumpspade]

Anyone got any opinions on the at3050???

I can cop one for rather cheap!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fyre]

My system is weak compared to some of yall's but i got

DAW- if u'd call it that
A wack compaq thats not even worth me typing the specs
EMU 0404 card

m-audio keystation e49 controller

FL6
battery 2- im loving this joint
and some other vsti

Adobe audition- recording and editing vocals (i been using this for about 8 years)

mic- AKG perception 100 (my first condenser)
preamp- m-audio audiobuddy
mixer - berry mixer that I dont use anymore

and thats about it

[DesertEase]

what program u talkin about definite?

[mentalattica]

He's talking about the ASR I believe. I almost got one used from GC for like 400 a few months ago but passed on it. The studio I used to record at had that and a Triton, we used to use the ASR10 over the Triton almost every time, it just has that 'gritty' sound to it. Almost all hop-hop producers have/had and used one at one point, especially in the early to mid 90's.

[orksnork]

this is all im rolling with right now...just got a few things to tide me over on quick projects before the live room is built (soon?? i hope...ive been in a lazy mood)

new computer: AMD Am2 64 4200+ dual core
2 gigs of ram
350 gb storage drive
50 gb OS drive
firewire etc etc...

digi002 rack
Alesis ADAT blackface
2 behringer patch bays
furman power conditioner
allen and heath GL3 24 channel (im in love)
event tr8 moniters
shure beta 52
shure sm57 x 3
naiant MSH-1O x2
Groove Tubes GT55
presonus hp4 headphone amp
sennheisser headphones
proco stage master snakes
monster and mogami cabling

assorted musical equipment from marshall, boogie, gibson, ovation


ooh!!! and some is giving me this sick organ on saturday that im sure will find a use at least once in my lifetime

[wargasms]

Originally Posted by Trumpspade

Anyone got any opinions on the at3050???

I can cop one for rather cheap!!!!!!!!!!!!

i got mine for 100 dollars from another local mc...i really like it

i was having some harsh sibilance problems with my v93m which was my main reason for getting rid of it...but the sibilance with the at3035 has been minimal if any at all.

ive gotten good results, but ive only recorded myself so far with it..

if you can get it cheap, id say go for it...its definitely worth what i paid for it..

[Mindset]

BBE 362
Composer 2600
furman 31 band short throw eq
behringer 1222-fx pro mixer
studiopro 4 monitors
AKG perception 200
MXL 990
m-audio 24/96
vtb-1 pre
bluetube pre
a couple pair's of headphones
dbx 166 comp


pentium D 930 3ghz over clocked to 3.6ghz
2gb ddr3200, about to switch out mb & have 2gb of pc2-800
5200 geforce, about to switch out with the 7900GT pcie
160gb seagate, 300gb seagate 7200rpm 16mb cache sata2
hp 16x dvd lightscribe
48x cdrw/dvd rom
new mb not installed yet is a Gigabyte SLI board that supports quad core

all mogomi wires except 1 pair of monster cables

[DesertEase]

is the asr an actual keyboard or is it a vst?

[Fyre]

its a keyboard... a classic keyboard lol

[bknot1]

Originally Posted by DesertEase

is the asr an actual keyboard or is it a vst?

here you go all the info you need http://www.vintagesynth.com/index2.html

[definitesupreme]

Asr-10 is probably the illest sanpler ever.

The things u can do with the samples on it is crazy!