Hello everyone! I was tired of the old forum I was on and thought it was time to move on to a new one! I am a musician, music producer, sound designer, and a recording specialist. and I love anything that has to do with sound. I help local bands record there music with ableton live suite 8. I am a sound designer for a video game company called Tales of Games. Synthesizers and Samplers are my favorite thing in the whole world and i base my music off all original sound design with patches or recordings I have used. I have been into music my whole life and started producing my own music with ableton live 8 about 5 years ago. I am hoping to talk with similar users with similar interests and hopefully get good feedback when i need to ask questions about things.
My current list of equipment;
Software
DAW-Ableton Live 9 Suite with Max For Live
VSTs-Zebra2, (my favortie software synth of all time) Tim Exiles the finger (INSANE) Ambience (best freeware reverb on the market)
^ not a complete list just ones that i have paid for
Pauls Extreme Sound Stretch (crazy textures and artifacts)
Hardware
ASUS Laptop with 8GB ram 2.7 GHZ processor 600gb HDD (gets the job done ;D)
Behringer: TRUTH B2031A Studio Monitors (very decent speakers)
Beyerdynamic DT250-80 Headphones (CRAZY GOOD)
Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 (decent interface, 0 latency recording, 34ms overall latency... )
Novation Launchpad (the go to controller)
APC40 (never new how much this would help out my mixes)
MPK25 (nice but small as hell only two octaves)
Tascam DR-100mkII Recorder (great for recording anything! not so great outdoors in windy conditions)
Rode NTG-2 w/ Shotgun Mount Suspension System (best investment ive ever made hands down!)
cables, cables, cables!
I think i have a decent setup for right now I just wish I had more hardware as I am getting sick of a lot of the software plugins that i have, well except for zebra2 that shit is incredible, if they came out with hardware version of it i would be all over it.
I really need to start thinking more about future investments in my home recording setup but I am at a loss right now and I have a crazy tight budget of only about $600 that i can blow on gear. With everything That I have listed above with all my gear I have what would be the next thing that you would buy for your studio? I have a job as a sound designer right now so I guess it would make sense to invest towards that, I mean original sound design is my strongest point by far in terms of production quality's. So what would some fellow home recording artists get with $600 if you where me? Thanks in advanced
My current list of equipment;
Software
DAW-Ableton Live 9 Suite with Max For Live
VSTs-Zebra2, (my favortie software synth of all time) Tim Exiles the finger (INSANE) Ambience (best freeware reverb on the market)
^ not a complete list just ones that i have paid for
Pauls Extreme Sound Stretch (crazy textures and artifacts)
Hardware
ASUS Laptop with 8GB ram 2.7 GHZ processor 600gb HDD (gets the job done ;D)
Behringer: TRUTH B2031A Studio Monitors (very decent speakers)
Beyerdynamic DT250-80 Headphones (CRAZY GOOD)
Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 (decent interface, 0 latency recording, 34ms overall latency... )
Novation Launchpad (the go to controller)
APC40 (never new how much this would help out my mixes)
MPK25 (nice but small as hell only two octaves)
Tascam DR-100mkII Recorder (great for recording anything! not so great outdoors in windy conditions)
Rode NTG-2 w/ Shotgun Mount Suspension System (best investment ive ever made hands down!)
cables, cables, cables!
I think i have a decent setup for right now I just wish I had more hardware as I am getting sick of a lot of the software plugins that i have, well except for zebra2 that shit is incredible, if they came out with hardware version of it i would be all over it.
I really need to start thinking more about future investments in my home recording setup but I am at a loss right now and I have a crazy tight budget of only about $600 that i can blow on gear. With everything That I have listed above with all my gear I have what would be the next thing that you would buy for your studio? I have a job as a sound designer right now so I guess it would make sense to invest towards that, I mean original sound design is my strongest point by far in terms of production quality's. So what would some fellow home recording artists get with $600 if you where me? Thanks in advanced
of course, I moved away before you were even born. lol