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Greg_L said:
If you ever come to Houston please let me know and I will personally give you a tour of my entire house. You can plug in to my amps and sit behind my kit and we will record you on my gear. You will see that my process is laughably neanderthal and anything good that I do is because my source sounds are awesome and I play my kind of music like a professional motherfucker.

Having said that, besides my actual instruments of music, which admittedly are top drawer, the rest is average home recording consumer stuff at best. I'm not trying to hide anything. My stuff is no secret. It's the same mics and shit millions of other people use. It's all the same. When you're in the middle of consumer gear, it's all the same, and your source sounds make all the difference. The only time mics, pres, and interfaces matter is when you're using absolute shit, or jillion dollar audiophile stuff. Everything in-between is the same.
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Well, that was easier than I thought!

Seriously though, I agree and well said .
 
Win 7 / Xeon 3.4 w 16GB RAM / Reaper / RME UCX / Dynaudio monitors + shitload of guitars, VSTIs, a few amps (my weakpoint), various mics etc.
 
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Greg_L said:
the rest is average home recording consumer stuff at best. I'm not trying to hide anything.
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You've posted what you use a few times. Let's see if I can remember....

CAD drum mics.
Presonus Firepod (Or something similar)
AT2020 for vocals.
SM57 for guitars.
Bass is DI.
KRK 8's
Reaper
a really old computer with a dead cricket inside.




My own stuff:

MXL V57M mic
Studio Projects C1 and B3
Apollo Duo
Cubase
Event ALP5's
Bose bookshelf speakers with a sub.
Digitech guitar amp sim.
Homebuilt computer.
 
PC = Home-built intel i7 2.8Ghz + XP
Interface = Firepod
DAW = Reaper
Monitors = Neumann kh310
Headphone amp = Behringer
Mikes = assorted. Mostly Rode. A solitary AKG414. But not a single SM57
 
Logic 9 Pro with Waves/Soundtoys/Abbey Road Plug ins
Mackie Onyx 800R Preamp/Focusrite Voicemaster Pro
Alesis M One's/Yamaha NS10m's/DIY Auratone's
Sontronics STC20/Sontronics Halo/Rode NT1A/2 x SE X1/Many SM57&58's

I have instruments in my studio - Drums/Amps/Guitars & Keys, but I'm mainly a Producer so I don't play on those things too much.
 
Fuck it I'll join in on the fun.

Now, back home in CA it was always my friends with the home studios and I just brought my tele and played. Here in my sorry-excuse-of-an-apartment (1 bedroom, 320 square feet, with my girlfriend....not exaggerating about the size), I have room for almost nothing. But I want to save up and put together a sort of starter studio, especially if we move soon.

That said, here's what I have, followed closely with what I'm going to get in the very near future. Get ready to laugh, gentlemen:

Macbook Pro

Interface: M-Audio Fast Track (got for free from a buddy and AF editor)

DAW: Studio One 2 (I didn't have the patience for Logic and got a fully-featured license for free from the same buddy, fucking love that guy)

Mic: No-name mic that came in a bundle with a cheap, 80 dollar interface back in 2006 (I go to a friends place to record for now, since he has a fucking tasty setup and long story short it doesn't make sense to start stocking up on gear so long as I live in this apartment)

Headphones (no room for monitors): AKG K702

what I'm gonna get as soon as I move

Mics: SM57 and/or 58, SM7b, debating between CAD M179 and/or NT1a. I have nasally vocals so I'm still open to suggestions here

mic pre: Cloudlifter CL-1 (tried at my buddies studio with his SM7b, sounded amazing)

interface: At least your basic 2i2 which honestly would be fine for my current needs, at best an Apollo Twin Duo


Anyway I'm a novice compared to 90% of you guys but I've been working on a track lately to practice what I'm learning and to try and get better. It'll be the first track I've ever done more than just panning and volume automation and some poorly done EQ/compression since, back when I recorded more, I always mooched off of my friends' superior mixing knowledge and sent them my projects. Then you guys can listen and have a good laugh :D :laughings:
 
calimoose said:
Mics: SM57 and/or 58, SM7b, debating between CAD M179 and/or NT1a. I have nasally vocals so I'm still open to suggestions here
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People say the shire sm57/58/7b are all similar, but I'd avoid a 57 for a nasal voice.
The 7b might be a great idea though. It's got a much more neutral sound to me across that range, but a nice full low end if you get right up on it.
In a real bad room, definitely go dynamic and work really close to it. ;)

I'd do a comparison for you, but my 57 is in a guitar iso-box. Really awkward to get at.
 
Mics: Neumann TLM103, Neumann TLM193, vintage Beyer m160, shure sm57
Preamps: Rupert Neve Designs 511 + Audient ID22 preamps,
Monitors: Neumann KH 120a,
Headphones: Sennheiser HD280 pro,
Interface+ AD/DA: Audient ID22,
DAW: Cubase 7.5 & Wavelab 8 both legal copies,
PC: PaQ case, OS = Windows 7 Ultimate, 32 gig 2100 ram, i7 2600k 3.4 ghz, plextor SSD, + 4TB of extra storage samsung F1 disks, Plextor Bluray drives.
Cables: Custom made Van Damme + Neutrik connectors.

Acoustic Treatment: several GIK bass traps and my own DIY midrange panels.
 
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Let's get in on the fun!
Win XP 64 bit (disconnected from network) with decent hardware for 2012
Reaper 3
EZ Drummer
Tascam FW1804 interface
SM57 and Samson S12 for instruments and voice respectively.
Piles o' cheap DIs
 
Btyre2013 said:
Mics: Neumann TLM103, Neumann TLM193, vintage Beyer m160, shure sm57
Preamps: Rupert Neve Designs 511 + Audient ID22 preamps,
Monitors: Neumann KH 120a,
Headphones: Sennheiser HD280 pro,
Interface+ AD/DA: Audient ID22,
DAW: Cubase 7.5 & Wavelab 8 both legal copies,
PC: PaQ case, OS = Windows 7 Ultimate, 32 gig 2100 ram, i7 2600k 3.4 ghz, plextor SSD, + 4TB of extra storage samsung F1 disks, Plextor Bluray drives.
Cables: Custom made Van Damme + Neutrik connectors.

Acoustic Treatment: several GIK bass traps and my own DIY midrange panels.
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Damn, you've got some good gear there!

I'm about to take the plunge on some Tri-Traps, 244 and Monster Bass Traps from GIK. How's the look and performance of your GIKs in person?
 
Here's Mine

Mackie 32.8+24E mixing board
Mackie HDR 24/96 + MDR 24/96 48 channel remote
Sony CDRW 33 mixdown deck
Lucid Genx wordclock
Yamaha HS8 Monitors
Mics=Audio Technica 2020, Shure sm57, Sennhieser e604 drum pack, Samson drumkit7, Audix D6, Audix i5, 2 Samson CO2
Behringer compressors
TC Electronics M1, Alesis Midiverb4 effects units
All tied in with AP Audio patchbay units
 
I shouldn't even be posting this because my shit's not even up and running yet...but

Cheapo Win7 machine with i5 processor
Focusrite Saffire Pro40
Joemeek threeqQ channel strip
Presonus Eureka channel strip (love that thing, used it a ton before my old computer farted out)
Cubase 7.5 / Presonus Studio One Artist (got it free with a midi keyboard, why not screw around with it)
JBL LSR305 monitors / sennheiser headphones
a few rode condensers, a few audix i5s and an sm57. Think I've got an mxl or two around and a cheap nady ribbon mic somewhere...

Should have the new system up and running to it's full potential in the next few days...hopefully.
 
scorpio01169 said:
Here's Mine

Mackie 32.8+24E mixing board
Mackie HDR 24/96 + MDR 24/96 48 channel remote
Sony CDRW 33 mixdown deck
Lucid Genx wordclock
Yamaha HS8 Monitors
Mics=Audio Technica 2020, Shure sm57, Sennhieser e604 drum pack, Samson drumkit7, Audix D6, Audix i5, 2 Samson CO2
Behringer compressors
TC Electronics M1, Alesis Midiverb4 effects units
All tied in with AP Audio patchbay units
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You mix on the Mackie? (I used to, still have the 24/8. Track monitoring and phones mixes on it mostly now.

Oh- I see you have that automation package they did on it. I allmost remember that.. :>) Levels IIRC?
 
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