What's your setup?

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DanielJohn

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I'm really curious to know everyone's setup! Computer-based or non-Computer-based, please let me know....
If you want to post a picture of your setup that would be awesome too!

Mine is as follows (just starting out!) :

Tascam TM-D1000 Mixer
Shure SM58 Mic (planning on getting more better ones soon)
SoundBlaster Live! Platinum with SPDIF and Optical Inputs
CakeWalk (May switch to Sonar or Cubase 32 soon)

Thanks! :)
-DAN
 
My setup: (I've been collecting for a few years...)

Sony Vaio PCG-fx250 PIII Mobile 800mhz laptop.
- 512M ram
- 20 Gig internal 7200 rpm drive
- External 80Gig firewire drive

Cubase VST/32 and SX
Wavelab 4.0
T-racks (yeah, yeah...shut up)

Tascam US-428

2 SP C1's
2 MXL 603's
2 Behringer ECM8000's
2 Shure SM57's
2 Nady SCM900's
2 AKG c1000s'
1 Groove Tubes 5sm

Alesis Studio 24 mixer
Event PS6 Powered Monitors
RNC
ART Dual MP
2 Art Tube EQ's (which have gathered much dust...)
dbx 166a compressor/limiter
Digitech MM4 Guitar Preamp/Processor (which has more dust than the eq's...)

Take care,
Chris Shaeffer
 
My setup:

Computer:
AMD Athlon XP1900+
Soyo Dragon+ Mobo
Noblesse Case
Enermax 350W (Whisper Quiet)
512MB Kingston PC2100
64MB Abit Siluro GeForce4 Ti4200
Maxtor D740X 40GB 7200RPM
Pioneer 16X DVD (Slotload..! whoo hoo!!)
AOpen 24x10x40x CD-RW
Altek Lansing Spk.
Windows XP Pro

Rec Gear:
n-Track (24-bit)
Delta 44 24/96 Sound Card
SP C-1 (soon)
Oktava MK012
Behringer 602A (soon to be replaced by...)
Joe Meek MQ3

Still looking for a good (read "cheap") set of near-fields.

WATYF
 
PC:
PIII 800MHz 256MRAM 20G HD SBLive! card
Audiophile2496
ASUS CDRW drive
CWPA9.03
SF4.5

Gears:
Roland JV1010
Joemeek VC3Q
RNC
Yamaha DG Stomp
Panasonic keyboard (for midi)

Mic:
APEX110 SD mic
SM57
SP C1(real soon!)

Monitoring:
Yamaha MSP5 active monitors
Behringer 602a mixer (only for monitoring)
 
Blue Bear Sound said:
I'm just starting out too --> My Gear

;)
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huh?

:D

OK, don't laugh too hard:

Computer:
Mac 8500
XLR8 G3 400
320 RAM
2GB Micropolis
18GB Seagate
Plexwriter 12/10/32S
Pioneer 32X CDROM
Zip 100
Voodoo 5500
Epson 740
17" & 13" monitors
ProToolsFree

Tape machines:
TASCAM 414 & Porta 05

Front end:
Behringer MX802A
McIntosh C-11
Peavey Unity 1000

Mics:
2 Behringer ECM 8000's
Shure 57
Shure 58
2 Radio Shack 33-1070D's (Shure omni dynamics)
Unknown dynamic mic (AT?)

Amps/Monitors:
Near field: Harman/Kardon A-401 into JBL HLS810's
Room: Carver PM 1.5 into early '70's Altec Concept 12" 3-ways. (My McIntosh 240 is being rebuilt)

Instruments:
'84 Gibson V
'81 Gibson V2
'82 Ibanez V
'70's(?) Korean acoustic
'99 Applause acoustic/electric
Aria bass of unknown vintage

Instrument amps:
'76 Super Reverb
'80's (haven't bothered to check) JCM 800 50 watter
'88 Mesa/Boogie MKIII Simulclass
Late '60's Sivertone 10XL
Fender Mini Twin

Speaker cabs:
Marshall 1960 Vintage
2 Hollywood 2x12 w/vintage 30's
Misc. thrashed PA cabs

Effects:
Roland GP 16
Yamaha E1005
MXR analog delay pedal
Ross flanger pedal
Morley Power Wah Fuzz
Original Ibanez TS-9
MXR Phase 90
Ibanez Flying Pan
Boss DM-2
Boss HM-2
Boss HR-2
Demon gain box
DeArmond volume pedal

I though you guys could use a good laugh!:D
 
OK, I'll have a go. This is my current home-studio:

Computer (just build it last month):
- Dual AMD MP2000+
- 512 Mb Ram
- 60 Gb 7200 RPM HD
- Matrox G550 dualhead videocard
- two 19 inch IIyama monitors (black trinitron)
- Audio card not yet decided

Recording/editing Software:
Orion Pro/Orion Platinum
Vegas 3 LE
Sound Forge 6

Plugin instruments:
- NI FM7
- NI Pro52
- NI Kontakt
- NI Battery
- Linplug Drumstudio
- Linplug Delta III
- Linplug CronoX
- VAZ 2010
- Waldorf PPG Wave 2.x
- Sync Modular
- RGC Triangle II
- Big Tick Rainbow
- loads of other (including free) stuff

Plugin Fx:
- NI Spectral Delay
- PSP VintageWarmer
- PSP Mixpack
- PSP Lexicon 42
- SilverSpike Reverb.It
- dB-audioware pack
- Ohmforce Ohmboyz (delay)
- loads of other (including free) stuff

Hardware (in use):
- Behringer Eurorack MX802A
- Roland DP150 (wooden clavier)
- Yamaha WX5 (wind controller)
- Nordmende A79 monitoring
- SM58 mic
- Roland A880 MIDI patchbay (2x)

Other hardware lying around:
- Yamaha DX7
- Ensoniq ESQ-1
- Kawai K1rII
- Kawai R4 multiFX
- Ibanez DM1000
- Alesis D4
- Tascam 488
- Sony DAT recorder

Peter.
 
Alesis HD24
Two Type II ADATs
BRC remote
Sony A-7 DAT
Sony MD-512 mini disc recorder
Tascam A-7010 reel to reel (10 1/2" NAB reels)
MOTU 2408 mkII
Lucid GenX6 Word Clock Generator
700MHz PIII Coppermine, 640Megs of RAM with two 7200RPM
40gig Quantum Fireball drives
Cakewalk Pro Audio9/Vegas Pro Audio/SoundForge5/Acid 3.0 and a shit load of plugs
HP CD writer
StudioMaster Eight Buss console
2 Mackie 1604VLZ Pros
HHB Radius 10 mic pre
HHB Radius 5 mic pre/compressor
DBX 386 mic pre
Envoice MindPrint mic pre
2 FMR RNC compressors
DBX 266 compressor
Behringer Composer Pro compressor
3 Radio Design Labs compressors (one of my secret weapons)
DOD R-866 compressor(pretty much retired now)
2 Lexicon MPX-200 reverbs
Alesis Midiverb II
ART DR-X
ART LT-X
Crate GFX-2000
Yamaha E-1005 analog delay
3 Switchcraft series 2600 52 point patchbays
3 Switchcraft series 2600 48 point patchbays
Octava MK-319
2 Octava MK-012's with all the capsules
Neumann KN-184
Groove Tubes AM-52
Apex-420
AKG C-3000
2 AT-4033's
2 Earthworks SR-71's
2 AKG C-1000's
2 Tascam PE-80's
6 Shure SM-57's
2 Shure SM-58's
2 AKG D-112's
Paridigm Mini mkII monitors
Yorkville YSM-1 monitors
Bose Room Mate monitors (think Auratones)
POD
J Station
Rockman
Rockman sustainer
ART SGX-2000
Hughs & Kettner B.A.T.T. (all tube instrument pre amp)
Line6 AX2 & foot controller
Peavey Bandit
2 Acoustic 450 bass/guitar amps
Alesis SR-16 drum machine
DR-770 drum machine

Old stuff
2 Tascam 238 Syncassettes
Gina 20 bit card
A slew of reverbs and such that were really cool befor electricity was inveted.
 
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this is always fun....

DAW:
Pentium II 700mhz
512 mb ram
40gig 7200rpm drive
delta 44
SBLive! Platinum
Cubast VST32 5.0
Acid 2.0
FruityLoops
Soundforge 5.0

Mics/Mixers/Etc.:
(2) Rode NT3s
(2) Behringer ECM8000s
AudioTechnica Drum Mic Kitpac
(1) Shure SM57
Behringer MX1604A
Presonus Bluetube

Other Stuff:
6 piece Yamaha Beech Custom
Pearl 3x13 brass piccolo snare
Pearl Omar Hakim signature snare (5x13)
13" NewBeat hats; 16" A Zildjian medium-thin crash; 17" A Zildjian medium-thin crash; 20" A Zildjian medium ride; 10" Sabian splash; 12" A Zildjian splash; 20" Sabian china
various percussion goodies (dholak; maracas; cowbells; mixing bowl; train whistle; etc.)
Fender Precision Bass (early 80's Japanese made)
Aria Pro Bass
Peavey Basic 112 bass amp (75w)
Charvell ~20w bass amp (bet you didn't know they made amps!!)
Fender Stage Lead guitar amp (on the fritz right now, unfortunately)
Cortez 6-string electric geetar

monitoring right now through a Harmon-Kardon power amp powering crappy Sony bookshelf speakers.....however - I should be picking up some new monitors within a week or two!!!! (down to 20/20s powered with my Harmon-Kardon; Behringer Truths; Midiman SP5Bs; any other ideas?)
 
  1. Joe Meek VC3Q
  2. MXL V67m
  3. Behringer ECM 8000 (2)
  4. Shure Unisphere
  5. Radio Shack PZM (2)
  6. Digitech DSP 256 XL (hey, it was cheap)
  7. Pod Pro
  8. Allen & Heath Mix Wizard 16
  9. Re'an Patch bay
  10. Boss SE50
  11. Delta 1010
  12. MOTU MIDI Time Piece II
  13. Hombuilt system, Athlon 1800 XP, 1 gig ram, XP Pro, Iwill MB, Geforce 3 card, Wireless mouse and keyboard,
  14. Sonar XL 2.0
  15. AKG D310 dynamic mics (4 or 5)
  16. 1959 Hammond C3
  17. Motion Sound R3-147 leslie sim
  18. Rhodes Suitcase (late 70's, not Fender)
  19. General Music Real Piano Pro 1
  20. Akai AX80 synth
  21. Waldorf Microwave XT
  22. Casio FZ10M Sampler
  23. Roland U110 module
  24. Casio Midi Horn
  25. Shure green bulet Harmonica Mic
  26. Teac qrt inch reel to reel, I forget the model
  27. Tannoy Reveal Active monitors
  28. Electrovoice Stage keyboard cabs(2), 18", 6" VMR, and a CD horn in each, when I want to get really loud and piss off the neighbors
  29. Old beat up AMP brand power amp, to drive the piss of the neighbor speaks
  30. Old Atlas boom stand I found in a antique store in park cities Utah
  31. Fostex T20 headphones
  32. JVC Wireless headphones
  33. A whole bunch of power strips that I am sure that the fire marshall would have a coronary if he saw thm
  34. A bunch of other crap I am probably forgetting
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Puter:
Athlon xp1600
40 gigs 7200
168dimm
Vegas and sound forge
Interface: Echo Gina

Carvin SM162 board
Alesis sr-16 drum machine
ART sgx200express+ ultrafoot
ART Sge
DOD D3 (standard time related effects)
Digitech legend pro
Presonus Bluetube
Ross noise gate
DOD Compressor
Nady GEQ 231 EQ
Carvin 600 watt power amp
Alesis Point seven monitors (mega suck by the way)
 
First, I have these...

One heart.
One head.
One brain.
Two hands.
Ten finger hands to play.

Better than your gear... :)
 
Comodore 64 with 1 megaram of Memory and 2 milligrams of dust!
1 printer ( the kind you tear the dotted sides away and make necklaces out of)
1 joystick
Olympic summer games
Frogger
jumpman junior
 
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