Newbie Setup. Opinions wanted.

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Here's my setup. I'm Looking for you hardenened vets to rate my recording setup and gear to see what i'll probably have to upgrade in the next year or two. Any advice would be appreciated. I am brand new to home recording BTW.
PRS McCarty
Schecter Omen6
Alesis SR-16 drum machine
Mesa Recto-verb 50 head W/2x12 (1) Vintage 30 (1) G-12H Anniversary
Various effects (Wah,OD,EQ.ETC..)
Basic Monster cable throughout
SM57 (Rapco XLR Mic cable)
M-Audio MobilePre USB
Dell Latitude Laptop 2GhzP4,512MRAM,12GHD(7200RPM I think)
Guitar Tracks Pro
Guitar Pro
Fruity Loops (came w/GTP)
Behringer headphones $10 street for playback
Sony 100W receiver w/ cheap ass speakers for playback

The headphones and MobilePre are on order and haven't had a chance to use them yet. Also, I'm hoping for a cheap bass for X-mas.j I play mostly speed/thrash metal and want to make some demos for friends and stuff. No vocals ( i can't sing) and at this point I am not looking to make pro sounding recording but, looking at you folks posts I probably will be soon because everything to me becomes an obsession. Be Brutal cause I am. Let me know what you think. Thanks.
 
and so on and so forth etc.... et al you know likewise etc...
 
Are you sure you want to enter the place where your life will be nothing more than filling a bottomles pit with cash...run and be a stamp collector while you still can...save yourself.:(
 
You don't have to spend a ton of money to make good home recordings, and for what you're doing it sounds like you're 'good to go'. I run a pro studio and for distorted guitars I will still typically use just an SM57 on the speaker cabinet. For your bass setup you can probably just go direct, but at some point you'd probably be happier with a Bass POD, or even just some crappy 15 watt bass amp that you could mic with your '57 to get some 'contour' to blend with your direct tone. You could probably just steal a copy of Gigastudio and some samples for some better drum sounds than the SR16, but I've heard some people do some pretty realistic sounding things with soundfonts as well. The only thing left you'd need for some quality home recording would be some good monitoring system - headphones or near-field speakers... but until then you can probably get away with just bringing your mixes with you and playing them on all your friends' speakers (thats what I used to do) which is probably a good excercise anyway.

Happy tracking!
 
Richter said:
Behringer headphones $10 street for playback
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The HPM 1000? Must be for that money.
Well, they suck heaps. I have a pair and it sounds muffled.
And you can't use it with a MobilePre because the headphones don't have a 1/8'' jack plug. Just a big 1/4''.

First thing to upgrade? You need something decent to hear what you record. Not just to make proper mixes and all of that but also for your own listening pleasure.
Listening to music is much more fun since I got me some nearfield monitors.
 
Sweet, I just took out a loan to get some Yorkvilles, the check should be here anyday now...

BTW, do you use a reference amp with those? Sorry if I've already harassed you with this question, I've asked everyone who I've found used them.

Thanx...














Cheers and here's to debt
C.D.
 
cellardweller said:

BTW, do you use a reference amp with those? Sorry if I've already harassed you with this question, I've asked everyone who I've found used them.
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If they're powered, no. If they're passive, yes.

cellardweller said:

Cheers and here's to debt
C.D.
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That's the first step to doing audio production. Acceptance.
 
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