Please look at my homestudio gear list/setup.

[Musicman002]

Look at my list of gear for my home studio setup and tell me if im missing anything. Like if theres anything i could purchase to get a better sound or to expand my gear...My needs are becoming a young country artist producing myself in my house...my sound quality is ok...but what can i do to get a better sound...Like my playing sounds good and singing...but the audio quality is not professional. Any pro advise...

Console
DigiDesign
Digi002 Console
with Pro Tools L.E. 6.9
Reason
Adobe Auditon 1.5




wth factory plugins- from bombfactory, joe-meek, moogerfooger, sony, and lexicon. Also amplitube, & antarez auto tune,

My computer.
HP PAVILLION
AMD ATHLON 64 3.6GHZ
MEMORY 2 GIGS
HARDRIVES 26OMB MAXTOR
160GB MAXTOR
and a firewire drive external of 80gb

Monitors and headphones.
KRK ROKIT RP5 POWERED MONITORS
BOSE HEADPHONES
AND SONY C12 HEADPHONES

OUTBOARD GEAR
LINE 6 DUOVERB
LINE 6 ECHO PRO AND ALL THE DELAY PEDALS
LEXICON REVERB UNIT
and more.

Keyboard M-AUDIO MIDI RADIUM.

MICS.
1 AKG C2000B CONDENSER
1 SHURE SM57
1 SENHEISER -E609
MXL V63M CONDENSER
1 SHURE SM58
AND some old ribbon thingy lol..

 

[DonGraham]

your system is very much like mine.........I just sprung for a Neumann TLM 103 in an effort to improve my sound quality......High end mic pre and converters are next.............your monitors could probably use an upgrade,..........what is your room like? that can have a really big affect on your sound.

 

[dwillis45]

You did not say much about your recording and mixing rooms or how they are treated. That would be a good place to start. You also didn't mention whether any of your material was being mastered. That can make a huge difference provided that the original material is well recorded and mixed. Finally, as someone will undoubtedly suggest, if you want truely professional results, get your stuff recorded by a professional in a professional studio setting. Or at least begin to focus on building your engineering skills. It's a lot of work, research, and experimentation and it could take almost as many years as it takes to hone your performance skills.

On the equipment end of things. Most of your stuff looks pretty reasonable. You can upgrade to better vocal mics, better preamps, better converters, better outboard effects, etc. but I don't think any one improvement will knock your socks off. At this point, you will get small, incremental improvements in quality provided your ears can hear the difference and your monitoring enviornment is suitable.

 

[timboZ]

room treatment and mic pres

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

I know there's always time to add more mics and it's possible to make a list a mile long; I won't do that.

But I might recommend as a starter to add a second copy of at least one of the microphones or to add a different pair of mics to the list. The idea is to be able to have a matched stereo pair; right now your list is one of everything with no matched pair for stereo imaging.

G.