Maybe you guys can suggest what I possibly need. Many, many years ago I was a full time touring solo singer-guitarist and did it for a living for 13 years but gave it up to be with my young family in 1980 and never touched another guitar seriously until a year or so ago but have since got the urge to play for fun and have built up a home recording studio.
I have a pair of quite large Samson Resolv A8 75 watt active studio monitors, a Zoom R24 ( 24 track recorder) and I feed my guitars ( including bass) through my Yamaha THR10 amp and into the R24 via the amp's headphone out. I have a collection of guitars ranging from Fender to Gretsch and a couple of bass guitars so I really want for nothing except for one thing. I have four other amps including Fender but playing a guitar through my THR10 patched through the R24 and fed into the AR8s gives fantastic guitar sounds suitable for recording and comparable to just about any amp in a studio.
It's been a long time since I sang and I'm just beginning to get back some of my old vocal ability but still have a fair way to go but I imagine I can get there with practice.
I have a couple of Shure SM58s for vocals ( very similar to my old stage days mikes) which suits me vocally and a couple of Shure SM57s for acoustic recording. I have some decent sets of headphones which are ideal for recording too.
I also have a TC Harmony Singer pedal so I have most of what I want but before I get fully back into recording my vocals, I'd like some means of modifying my initial vocal output before it actually reaches the R24 recorder.
There really isn't much that I need apart from early stage mic modification.
I'm thinking that something along the lines of a pre-amp/graphic equaliser/mixer/compressor would be what I want as I'd rather modify any vocals before the final recording WYSIWYG style rather than use a computer to do the mods so have you any suggestions for what gear I might need?
If I go down the mixer/graphic equaliser/compressor route it wouldn't need many channels as it would essentially only be for modifying vocals and possibly the occasional single guitar at the same time.
Any advice or suggestions welcome.
I have a pair of quite large Samson Resolv A8 75 watt active studio monitors, a Zoom R24 ( 24 track recorder) and I feed my guitars ( including bass) through my Yamaha THR10 amp and into the R24 via the amp's headphone out. I have a collection of guitars ranging from Fender to Gretsch and a couple of bass guitars so I really want for nothing except for one thing. I have four other amps including Fender but playing a guitar through my THR10 patched through the R24 and fed into the AR8s gives fantastic guitar sounds suitable for recording and comparable to just about any amp in a studio.
It's been a long time since I sang and I'm just beginning to get back some of my old vocal ability but still have a fair way to go but I imagine I can get there with practice.
I have a couple of Shure SM58s for vocals ( very similar to my old stage days mikes) which suits me vocally and a couple of Shure SM57s for acoustic recording. I have some decent sets of headphones which are ideal for recording too.
I also have a TC Harmony Singer pedal so I have most of what I want but before I get fully back into recording my vocals, I'd like some means of modifying my initial vocal output before it actually reaches the R24 recorder.
There really isn't much that I need apart from early stage mic modification.
I'm thinking that something along the lines of a pre-amp/graphic equaliser/mixer/compressor would be what I want as I'd rather modify any vocals before the final recording WYSIWYG style rather than use a computer to do the mods so have you any suggestions for what gear I might need?
If I go down the mixer/graphic equaliser/compressor route it wouldn't need many channels as it would essentially only be for modifying vocals and possibly the occasional single guitar at the same time.
Any advice or suggestions welcome.