Ultimate survey ... to trust or not to trust

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Its not a pissing contest. Your measuring stick should be the sound of your recordings-- thats where you are as a producer and engineer. Spending over $1k on every item in your studio doesnt make you a pro,,,you know the drill,,, blah blah blah, etc etc etc. Get a grip here. Although there is a tendency to judge people by the gear they use, its very misplaced.
 
Chess,my boys need a house.:D MCR,if your head were on fire I would use water or toss a blanket over it or something!

Now that we're squared away on the purpose of the thread,tommorow if I have time I'll lift up my skirt and let you guys take a peek.There ain't much up there to get too excited over,but it's enough for me to play with!!:D
 
things I own and use on a regular basis

I own way to much rack stuff to list (some vintage gear gets used very little), but this is what I use on a regular basis in almost all my recording:

(2) ART PRO MPA 2 ch. tube pre's
(2) DBX 286a channel strips

(2) ART PRO VLA 2 ch. tube comp's
(2) ALESIS 3630 comps (yep I think they sound just fine)
(1) Bellari 2 ch tube comp

(1) Sony DSP V55 4 ch studio FX's
(1) Digitech Vocallist II harmonizer

(4) AB international 31 band EQ's

(2) ADAT xt's
(1) Tascam DA 30 MKII
(1) Marantz Dual well CD burner

(1) D4 drum module

(1) Roland GR 50 guitar midi synth

(1) POD

I have vintage DBX 160 VU's, 161 VU's, 119's comps but prefer the ART PRO VLA (opto) comps. (actually have a few of these for sale)

A dozen or more ea. of guitars, amps, mics etc.

I hope this helps. I think the talent your recording and how you capture it, is more important the the gear you use to do it.

JOE

PS: to anyone wanting to piss on my head to put out a fire...LET ME BURN!!!
 
Starting from the source to the end:

Fender Telecaster
Custom Telecaster
Fender Strat
Unknown Strat
Epiphone Genesis
Peavey Bass
Martin J40M
Homebuilt Danelectro
Harmony Mandolin
Sho-Bud Universal 12 pedal steel
Box of guitar effects
Box of harmonicas in different keys
Yamaha and Rodgers drums
Alsesis D4 drum module
Boss GT3
JohnsonJ-Station
Behringer V-Amp
Allen Old Flame
Modded Fender Bassman
Fender Pro Jr.
Fender Super Champ
Peavey Classic 100
Roland XP 30
EMU Proteus FX
Shure SM58
Shure Beta 57
Oktava 012
Oktava 219
MXL 57
MXL V67
MXL V93
AT 4033
ECM 8000 pair
ART Tube MP (2)
Joemeek MQ3
Behringer VX 2000
ART Levelar
PAIA Tube Mic Preamp
Behringer Composer
Alesis Micro Limiter
ADATs (2)
Mackie 1202
Yamaha ProMix1
Yamaha REV 7
Alesis Wedge
MOTU 2408
MOTU Midi TimepieceAV
Mac G4 Dual 800
Digital Performer 3.0
Yamaha NS-10 pair
Old Tascam monitors
Sony DAT machine
2 Minidisc recorders
Fostex analog 2 track
Korg mastertune tuner
I pair ears (standard human issue)

Hey, if I could just afford some cords, I could hook all this stuff up! :D
 
Hey I almost forgot about this thread.....didn't mean to leave ya hangin, MCR.

Alright....here goes off the top of my head:


The core (Plus general odds and ends):

Mackie 24.8 console in a nifty little Mackie stand
Mackie MDR 24 track digital recorder
Event 20/20 BAS monitors
Mackie 1402VLZ (still comes in handy)
Sony Minidisc player/recorder
Tascam 464 Cassette 4 track (still comes in handy...I still love it for it's lo fi simplicity...it's what I began learning on!)


The Mics:

1 X Rode NTK
2 X Audio Technica 4033
2 X Behringer ECM8000
Bunch of Shure sm57s
1 X Shure Beta 58
1 X 60's Altec Dynamic Omni (cant remember the number offhand)
1 X AKG D112
This list is growing very soon!


Outboard:

1 X HHB Radius 40 (pre, comp, eq)
1 X RNC
1 X DBX 166 (the older one)
1 X DBX 163 (also the older one)
1 X Lexicon 100 effects processor
(Have a Meek VCQ1cs on order!)


The "music" PC (nothing special...but dedicated):

intel 815 Motherboard
1G dual processor
512 meg mem.
40 gig 7200RPM drive
Radeon 64 DDR Video card
SBLive! Soundcard (hope to change soon)
Old Yamaha Burner (burns at 4X...yikes!)

Fruityloops
Soundforge 5
Wavelab 4
T-Racks 24
Nuendo
N-Track (my first daw multitrack program)
CDEX
(a friend has digi 001 that gets used here a lot for various things)

Various Plugins/synths including:
Waves Gold
PSP Vintage Warmer
PSP Pianoverb
NI B4
NI Pro Pro52
Anwida Reverb (nice!)
db Audioware Bundle
Izotope 1.01
Izotope Vinyl
Couple of various Steinberg and SF plugs as well as some cool misc. free plugs.


Instruments/pedals:

Allen Old Flame amp (the one that says bad motherfucker:D )
Old Kalamazoo Model 1 amp
Fender 52RI Butterscoth Telecaster
Guild Starfire 4
Ventura Barney Kessel copy archtop
1972 Fender Precision Bass
Danelectro 12 string
Tacoma acoustic
Farfisa Fast 4 (or is it 5?) Organ
1970 Ludwig drumset
Gretsch snare
Various percussion instruments
Cool Sesame Street noise making thing I got at wal-mart

Fulltone Fulldrive 2
Fulltone Tremelo
Boss Digital Reverb
Lin 6 Delay Modeler


I think thats it.....at least for what I own.

Yep,

heylow
 
Crawdad,

I see you got an Allen Old Flame as well....it IS a BAD Mofoko, is it not?:D
David Allen is good dude and a talented individual!


heylow
 
Heylow---You got it, friend! The amp is a Fender blackface lover's dream come true! David Allen is one of those rare people--no ego trips, just friendly and armed with knowledge. After I built mine, I decided to build another one on a SF Bassman chassis, He sold me the whole wired circuit board and all the extras for like $100 bucks. He just knows his shit cold. I can't say enough nice things about him.

When I bought mine, it came with a pair of Weber 10's. After David came out with his Allen 10's I bought a pair of them from him and they made the amp even better, if thats possible. Its always a joy to play through the Allen. Sounds great with every guitar I own, too!
 
crawdad said:
Sounds great with every guitar I own, too!
Click to expand...

I hear that! The bottom line.

Check this out....

I bought mine and built it over a year ago. I recently blew a speaker by some fluke and he was out of his speakers so he sent me a brand new Eminence something or other as a loaner until he got his in....AND he split the shipping with me. I found out he buys all the new speakers on the market just to compare and make certain he is offering the top notch speaker.

The blown one is out of warranty of course (he only gets 30 days from the manufacturer) but he felt bad and split the cost of the new speaker with as well...I only paid half price with the agreement that I send him his Eminence and the blown one for inspection so he can determine what the problem was....he said Iwas his first reported blown speaker.:eek:

Nice to see other folks out there with these amps.


heylow
 
Here is my set up.

Guitars:
Hamer Echotone
Danelectro 56-U2
Washburn D-12N
Squire MB-4 bass
1958 Wurlitzer(sp) hollowbody bass

amps:
Laney LC15
Pignose 40wt tube amp
Danelectro 15wt practise amp
Fender BXR 25 bass amp
Ibanez 60wt bass amp

Yamaha PSR 240 keyboard
Zoom Rhythm Track 123 drum machine
Johnson J-Station

outboard gear;
Art Toob MP
Audio Buddy
Peavy RQ200 mini mixer
Behringer MXB1002 mini mixer
Nady CL-5000 comp
Phillips 770 stand alone cd burner

recorders;
800mhz Compaq computer w/512 mb of ram running Home Studio 2002 w/blue line plug ins and oberheim auto tune plug in,and HP cd burner
Roland VSR-880

Electar SM-80 monitors powered by Sony TA-AV521 integrated amp(175wt per channel @8ohms)
Yamaha ATH-M2X phones
Koss Pro/4AA headphones

mics;
Samson R-11 (2)
AKG 880
Nady 7 piece drum mic set
Behringer ECM 8000 (2)
Marshall 2001p
Audio Technica 3525
Studio Projects TB-1

Some gear that I don't have anymore;
Alesis Nanoverb and Nanocomp
Yamaha 4 track cassette (MT-50?)
Yamaha MD4s minidisc recorder

My favorite piece of gear;
my bong!! :D
 
i won't post my instruments because i have several and i don't think they're as important as the recording stuff for this thread. but here's my measly but growing list:
1 rode nt1000 (JuSumPilgrim, how do you find that this mic compares to your other ld condensors?)
1 mxl 603s (another coming soon hopefully)
2 sm57s
1 audio buddy
1 yamaha mt4x

coming very soon:
soundcraft 12 channel board (200 delta or f1)
1/4" 2 track, probably otari mx5050
maybe 2 ecm8000s
that's all for the next month or so, but i plan to eventually have a 2" 16 track and a host of nice mics, pres, comps etc.
 
I have no outboard comps or preamps. I haven't needed any up until now. Maybe someday I'll pick up one or two or four. Crap, then I'll have to plug it all in and figure out how to use it. Nevermind.
I'm gettin that "bong" though (preordered it at musiciansfriend) ... I hear it makes ANY mix sound good, plus it's really easy to use. I don't own it yet, so I guess I shouldn't comment on it. I'll test it out when I get it and post mp3s. I know, I'll make it a contest, you guys can guess which mp3 has been bongolated and which one hasn't. Sound good?
 
until you get the "bong" you shouldn't be calling yourself BigKahuna ... :D
 
O.K. I'll bite!

Microphones-
Studio Projects C1
Audio-Technica 3527 omni condenser
Shure Beta 87a
Sennheiser 421 MKII
Shure SM57
Shure Beta 57
Sennheiser e835
EV Colbalt C09

Pres/channel strips-
Joe Meek VC3Q & VC6Q
Aphex 107 tube mic pre

Behringer Eurorack 802a mixer

4 track recorders-
Tascam 40-4 1/4" reel to reel
Tascam 564 minidisc
Tascam 244 cassette
(can you tell I'm loyal?)

2 track minidisk recorder (mixdown)

Compressor/effects-
RNC
Presonus Blue Max
dreaded Alesis nanocompressor
bbe model 264
Lexicon MPX200
less dreaded Alesis nanoverb

Alesis nanopiano
Fatar 5 octave Studio Logic keyboard

lots of mic and misc. cables

Various diatonic (10 hole) harmonicas

Chris

AKG 240DF & K55 headphones

Nice Sony cassette deck

Chris
 
Well I only have one bong but it's a Chills.:D The best.
 
Track Rat,it pays to buy quality.Buy cheap and you buy twice!!:D
 
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