What your pride and joy piece of equipment??

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60's guy said:
Congrats, Rami! 16 bass traps?!?!?! :eek: You record in a geodome? (wink)
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:D

Actually, 16 traps might sound like a lot, but it's barely half of what I need. It's only a 19X24 foot room, but I see exposed corners all over the place. :)
 
Your seeing as many exposed corners as butt cracks at a plumbers convention RAMI. :p
 
I'd have to say my Kel HM7U, it just always works on what I'm recording. It surprises me, always works and never sounds bad on anything. Even hi hats!
 
IK Obi said:
I'd have to say my Kel HM7U, it just always works on what I'm recording. It surprises me, always works and never sounds bad on anything. Even hi hats!
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That's a great microphone within it's price class!
 
RAMI said:
:D

Actually, 16 traps might sound like a lot, but it's barely half of what I need. It's only a 19X24 foot room, but I see exposed corners all over the place. :)
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Are you creating more corners with your bass traps? You might have to make smaller bass traps to cover them, and then even smaller bass traps to cover off the new corners you've made with your smaller bass traps... then even...:eek:
 
I had to think long & hard as I read through all the posts.
The most important part of my studio/gear isn't in my studio.
This may sound tuggish but...
Strangely, the thing I need most is the internet. I collaborate with people around the world & my songs are now built with them in mind so that their participation has become essential.
I don't have my recording comp connected to the net or a network. With the upstairs computer & a thumb drive I'm able to work with the net & people plugged into it.
They'd be:
Greg L, Ido1957 & JoeyM for Pygmy Beat Augmented;
Terry, Ido1957, RAMI, Faderbug & Greg L for Pygmy Beat PLUS
Eric for the revived No definite Rhyme or Reason team from the mid 70's...
My fav/signaturetone guitar was stolen &, against all odds, replaced with 2 of the same model, vintage & condition. I've replaced my comp so often in the last 3 years it's just a thing. My beautifiul amp is just that but under utilized. & the only piece of outboard gear that I use regularly is a Yamaha FX500 unit for the synthy stringy guitar effect in the last 8 songs & I have a spare.
 
Well, unlike some of you, I've moved so much in the past 12 years that I can't possibly say "my room". Since 2000, I've been in five houses (and an RV), two countries, and 4 towns/cities.

Nope, my treat to myself when I got a lump sum at the beginning of my pension was a Yamaha DM1000 digital mixer:

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I use it both for live (up to 48 channels on 3 layers) and in my studio (up to 32 channels though I rarely go more than 16). The 16 main pre amps are very nice sounding, I have a compressor and gate on all 48 channels, 4 frequency fully parametric EQ on every input and output, 4 SPX-style effects engines.

I love it to bits...best $12,000 I ever spent.
 
Man, I don't get to my Super/Pension for at least 5 more years. Everyone else I started work with is female and got to take the 55 & out option. Sexism - I'm stuck 'till 60.
 
I shouldn't have got it until 60 but a mix of a corporate buy out by a competitor, and some health issues for me got me my pension nice and early.
 
A lot of different things really made a huge difference recently in upgrading gear. The pieces that I love the most are probably the JDK Audio dual preamp and dual compressor. Clean, transparent preamps and the compressors can be driven pretty hard before the audio starts to sound unnatural (which is what I was looking for - workhorse pres and comps).
Beyond that, got a Roland electronic drumkit which sounds great and plays very well - finally let me start recording rock and other genres in an apartment.
I also highly recommend the Line 6 POD HD Pro for amp modelling - sounds great.
Turns out I just love gear....
 
My Alesis HD-24 recorder is my favorite, followed by my Mackie 32x8 w/24 channel expansion board. However, I agree with chronicle in that my rooms are very important to me (control, tracking and drum rooms and my musician's lounge)
 
The two biggest differences in my mixes were the 18 OC703 panels I built and my adam A7X monitors but then those made me appreciate my ISA one which led me to love my K2, it's kind of an accumulation of things all starting with acoustically treating my room. Treating my room was really the downfall of my bank account because when you hear things super clean you realize where you gear is really lacking doesn't matter how much critical listening you do in a crap room.
 
My third guitar.
It's a Fullerton ST4 I picked up back in 2007 for $60 from music123 because I wasn't allowing myself to buy another xbox game :D.
I had been playing for a year at that point but nothing serious just noodling around.
Once I got that guitar though it made me want to play. And that ultimately opened me up to everything else. Drumming, recording, etc.ing.
 
rayc said:
Man, I don't get to my Super/Pension for at least 5 more years. Everyone else I started work with is female and got to take the 55 & out option. Sexism - I'm stuck 'till 60.
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If you're 55 now, you can retire now - anyone born before 1 July 1960 has a preservation age of 55... you just have to pay tax on your superannuation until you're 60... (I work for a superannuation company...). Don't remember the old age pension rules, but I don't think it's as low as 60, so I'm assuming you're talking about your own funds..

Do it! If you can afford to...
 
I know I am one of those, I was counting down to 55, however somehow I am still working ????

Alan.
 
Armistice said:
Are you creating more corners with your bass traps? You might have to make smaller bass traps to cover them, and then even smaller bass traps to cover off the new corners you've made with your smaller bass traps... then even...:eek:
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:laughings:

I can't say one piece of gear is more valuable to me than all the others, although I am rather proud of having been able to acquire not one but two PE-40s at very reasonable prices.
 
One of these snares which I own:

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It was the first snare I went out and bought and have played ever since, it's just "my" sound.
 
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