I have seen the light...

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I went to record a song I was working on with a local emcee at his producers house the other day.
Ive heard this guys previous album, and the quality was great.
I was expecting a really nice studio.
I walk in, and was caught way off gaurd.
This guy had Acid running on a somewhat old PC, A $60 condensor mic running through a cre-A-tive soundcard. and a crazy makeshift pop-filter, made from an old radio speaker covering.
no monitors, just nice computer speakers.
but better quality than I get with my 5 thousand dollar setup.
I realize a lot of their quality comes from mixing, but still.

Im moving out soon, and Im gonna need to start buying equipment. (I dont own any of the equipment i use at the moment).

Ive decided, im gonna have a set up like his.
fuck spending tons of money on high end equipment.
buy cheap shit and learn it. Ive heard people say, "it's not the eqipment, its the person using it" a million times. but this was my first time seeing this in action. shit was inspiring.

anyway, this is a fairly pointless post. just felt like typing out my new found way of recording music.

.peace.
 
LOL, It would, except my plan of spending thousands of doallars on equipment I thought I needed has gone out the window. Im happy about that.
 
yep...good mics, a good interface, a good recording program,a great sounding room, good monitors, a good preamp and a ton of knowledge is really all you need. :)
 
Reminds me of my friends set up. He had a digital track,mixer,beat machine, with a radio shack mic plugged into a stereo. and it always sounded perfect at first i thought it was cuz it was done on hardware vs pc based recording. but i soon releazied when i tried doing my own recording it was he knew how to use his equipment, one thing that i do think is a mixer is easier to mix with then a program. and since it is already being played on a stereo you just give it a listenthen burn it
 
Your mixing ear is the most important piece of equipment.
 
Crazy right.... If more people would take the time and learn there environment and equipment they would be able to create solid demos and even records depending on the genre....


I learned this when I went diggie at home and compared it to results to stuff I did at my analog studio....

I think you can go cheap for most pre-production work.... But when it comes to getting a finished product you will need to step it up...

Raticus
 
From being in high dollar studios to cheap home ones, it made it easier to tell which components were better to spend a little money on and which ones were just put there to make the studio look good.

You can tell by taking note of which pieces of equipment is being used while the track is being made. So if you see an MPC and a Triton/Motif combo in the studio, yet they're using Reason or Fruity Loops throughout the whole session while the beat's being made then you know what's up.
 
So if you see an MPC and a Triton/Motif combo in the studio, yet they're using Reason or Fruity Loops throughout the whole session while the beat's being made then...
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... you ask them for the MPC & Motif/Triton in exchange for some plugins.
:D :D

That's what I'd do.
 
But you slip them rohypnol first.

It's the "yes, I'll do anything you say" drug

LOL
 
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