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Looks like a great forum so far, thought it was time I jumped in.
For the time being, I am all about being as direct and clean as possible on a tiny budget and in a severely 'one-take' kind of way -- kinda like eschewing oils and pastels in favor of charcoals. Here's my present setup:
- My voice and my acoustic guitar (strapped high so the mic catches both)
- Marshall MXL 2003 mic (2 when my friend plays along)
- 25' XLR cable (from, I dunno, 1985?)
- Little 4-channel Behringer Eurorack mixer (and its phantom power)
- Direct onto a CD-R in my Tascam CD-RW4U.
I occasionally run the effects loop through my practice amp for a touch of reverb.
This all happens in my master bedroom, with me standing at about the 1/3 point of the diagonal between the corners of a 15' square room, pointed at a point a little off center from the far corner. The room is full of all sorts of stuff, some of which dampens and some of which reflects.
So my question is, given the next $200-250, what's the best thing I can do for my sound? Real preamp? Real mic cord? Real reverb box? Create a retractable 8' enclosure with quilts and pulleys?
Just to be clear, I do have some solid experience with 4-track cassettes, and I do intend to return to multitracking, digitally, in 8-12 months, perhaps as part of my next computer purchase. Thanks in advance for any opinions!
For the time being, I am all about being as direct and clean as possible on a tiny budget and in a severely 'one-take' kind of way -- kinda like eschewing oils and pastels in favor of charcoals. Here's my present setup:
- My voice and my acoustic guitar (strapped high so the mic catches both)
- Marshall MXL 2003 mic (2 when my friend plays along)
- 25' XLR cable (from, I dunno, 1985?)
- Little 4-channel Behringer Eurorack mixer (and its phantom power)
- Direct onto a CD-R in my Tascam CD-RW4U.
I occasionally run the effects loop through my practice amp for a touch of reverb.
This all happens in my master bedroom, with me standing at about the 1/3 point of the diagonal between the corners of a 15' square room, pointed at a point a little off center from the far corner. The room is full of all sorts of stuff, some of which dampens and some of which reflects.
So my question is, given the next $200-250, what's the best thing I can do for my sound? Real preamp? Real mic cord? Real reverb box? Create a retractable 8' enclosure with quilts and pulleys?
Just to be clear, I do have some solid experience with 4-track cassettes, and I do intend to return to multitracking, digitally, in 8-12 months, perhaps as part of my next computer purchase. Thanks in advance for any opinions!