Hey Salvetem... if you can only be of help to newbies and guitarists at this point, then that is of great value to the newbies and guitarists, right? Head up, man.... everyone has something to offer. We're all grateful when someone, regardless of background can help out. That's one of the interesting things about the internet. Nobody knows you're 16 or 50 unless you tell them.
As far as my set-up goes.... it's actually quite modest, but I'm in the "learning how to use the tools the best I can" stage, so that I can be REALLY good when I can afford more and better gear! Here goes...
Mics:
Rode NT1 large diaphragm condensor
Shure SM 58 (plus a TOA mic which seems to be a total knock-off of SM58)
Mic Pre: Peavey TMP1 - check it out... nice little unit!
Behringer Composer Pro 2-channel expander/compressor/limiter (great little unit - particularly for the price!!)
Behringer MX802A Eurorack mixer (does the job quite nicely)
Cubase VST (24bit version) 5.1
Celeron 466 computer; 7200RPM Quantum Fireball HD, 384 megs RAM, Delta 44 soundcard (audio); D-MAN PCI soundcard (audio and midi)
Korg M1 keyboard
guitars, bass, amps....
Oh, yeah.... monitors!! I think this will be my next purchase, but in Canada, a half-way decent set of "bang for the buck" monitors (Yorkville YMP, Behringer Truth, etc.) are about $800 Canadian. I figure that's about a year or more away. In the meantime, I have an Aiwa home stereo that has pretty decent speakers (that I am getting to know the sound of pretty well) except they're a bit brittle on the top end, as my main monitors (amplified by the stereo itself, which is fed signal from the Delta 44 to the mixer to the stereo). I also have a couple of other sets of speakers hooked up (one pair I bought for $50 used that sound okay except they're a bit boomy and can sound a bit hollow, and another that are about 30 years old from a low-mid range system (even then) that are really heavy on the mid-range frequencies without a lot of top or bottom. This gives me three very different sounding sets of speakers - one of them rather good - to judge my mixes on... and headphones just for fun. Does the trick for now - until I can get a pair of serious monitors.
Chris
