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Dani Pace
New member
All the advice and suggestions from the guys with all the high end gear is always apreciated and welcome. However, I have noticed lots of people (myself included) are attempting to make decent sounding recordings with a minimum of gear or on a limited budget. I'm hoping those of us who are trying to work with these limitations might pool out ideas and discoveries and by shareing them help one another. I've heard some pretty decent sounding stuff which was done on minimal gear. Even with just a 4 track cassette, a few decent mics, a PC, moderate soundcard and simple recording software a fairly decent demo can be produced. Some of the greatest recordings were made using less.
Come on guys, add anything you have done or used that worked. Things like odd peices of equipment to inexpensive mics that work well, anything that has helped you without costing much.
For example, I often use a Yamaha MT120 4 track recorder instead of a mixer/preamp. It does the same thing, although limited to 4 chanels in and 2 chanels out, still it works quite well, especially since I rarely need to add more than one track at a time. Another thing I have done is to use cheap tinny mics for cymbals and occasionaly for back up vocals, cheap mics wont take much abuse and often have weak cables but in some cases the will work just fine.
OK I tossed out the first couple of ideas, now lets hear from the rest of you and any of your tips for cutting cost while still getting a decent recording.
Come on guys, add anything you have done or used that worked. Things like odd peices of equipment to inexpensive mics that work well, anything that has helped you without costing much.
For example, I often use a Yamaha MT120 4 track recorder instead of a mixer/preamp. It does the same thing, although limited to 4 chanels in and 2 chanels out, still it works quite well, especially since I rarely need to add more than one track at a time. Another thing I have done is to use cheap tinny mics for cymbals and occasionaly for back up vocals, cheap mics wont take much abuse and often have weak cables but in some cases the will work just fine.
OK I tossed out the first couple of ideas, now lets hear from the rest of you and any of your tips for cutting cost while still getting a decent recording.