If someone could please help by posting their setup if they feel they have what I may be looking for or just give advice as to what may be good.
Looking to setup a recording 'studio' (dont know if it can be called studio, just a small setup) for use with guitar and keyboard.
Looking to mainly reproduce 80's melodic metal but would like to be a little diverse and do other things as well, maybe some soft rock, techno and hip-hop. Dont think I want to sing, unless I could magically transform my suckiness into something better.
What I have already to be used for this is my guitar which is a late 80's Charvel with emgs and a newer pc computer which I may dedicate for this (Gateway 808gm). Also have a Mackie micro 1202, dont know if I would need it for this type of setup though. Also have a couple of pa amps, again dont know if that would be usefull.
I believe I have settled on a Pod XT Live or XT Pro for giving me the tone I would like (mostly looking to reproduce the 80's hair band metal tones but to be diverse as well) Yes, I know an actual mic'd amp may be better but I felt if I was mainly farting around at home and wanted to do recordings this would be the way to go.
I would like to get a halfway decent keyboard to produce a decent variety of syth tones, pianos, ect.
Oh, and a drum track machine(know nothing about drums so should be easy to use).
The recording quality should be high, don't want to end with something that makes me feel like I just produced something that sounds second rate.
Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. Please let me know what you have or what you feel I would need to do the above. What is everybody using with good success?
Thanks much
Looking to setup a recording 'studio' (dont know if it can be called studio, just a small setup) for use with guitar and keyboard.
Looking to mainly reproduce 80's melodic metal but would like to be a little diverse and do other things as well, maybe some soft rock, techno and hip-hop. Dont think I want to sing, unless I could magically transform my suckiness into something better.
What I have already to be used for this is my guitar which is a late 80's Charvel with emgs and a newer pc computer which I may dedicate for this (Gateway 808gm). Also have a Mackie micro 1202, dont know if I would need it for this type of setup though. Also have a couple of pa amps, again dont know if that would be usefull.
I believe I have settled on a Pod XT Live or XT Pro for giving me the tone I would like (mostly looking to reproduce the 80's hair band metal tones but to be diverse as well) Yes, I know an actual mic'd amp may be better but I felt if I was mainly farting around at home and wanted to do recordings this would be the way to go.
I would like to get a halfway decent keyboard to produce a decent variety of syth tones, pianos, ect.
Oh, and a drum track machine(know nothing about drums so should be easy to use).
The recording quality should be high, don't want to end with something that makes me feel like I just produced something that sounds second rate.
Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. Please let me know what you have or what you feel I would need to do the above. What is everybody using with good success?
Thanks much