What Do I Need Next?

[sve]

Hello there all!
I have created a small Home Studio for myself so I can record my musical project - Iron Dragon (Instrumental Heavy Metal):
http://www.starverse.ca/irondragon
to hear the audio samples:
http://www.myspace.com/irondragon0


Ok, this is my Question:
Currently for my Recording setup, I am using this following:

ZOOM HD16CD - Digital Multi-Track Recorder / Control Surface
Shure SM57 Cardioid Dynamic Microphone
Apex 435 Microphone
x2 - Apex 180 Pencil Condenser Microphone
VOX AD30 VT AMP
VOX Wah-Wah Pedal

For mixing/editing I am currently using Audacity and just purchased CUBASE Nuendo 3

I was thinking of getting some sort of Compressor/Limiter, but not 100% of what or if it is actually Necessary.
Something like this:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/266XL/

WHAT do you guys think is a good next step for Improving Sound?

 

[aimpark]

u should probably try and get some plugins.

 

[sve]

Plug-Ins ... lol. For audacity, I have something like 50+, but I do only have a couple differents ones with Cubase - mostly effects like Reverb, delays though.

 

[dintymoore]

Actually you already have the only tool you'll ever need in a studio - a Vox Wah-Wah Pedal.

Use it on everything - guitar, bass, voice... every track waka-waka-waka!

It sounds like you've got enough gear to get going, and that compressor is for sure good, but know what you need it for before you get one - the ones in Cubase are great.

Usually when I need a piece of gear I will really know that I need it - like you know you need to take your shoe off when there's a pebble inside. So in a way, if you have to ask, then you're probably ok and I'd just record for awhile and believe me, at some point you will feel a pebble in your shoe and you'll know exactly what it is you need.

 

[sve]

Hey thanks alot for the Input!
Time to think

 

[dintymoore]

Hey thanks alot for the Input!
Time to think

There's a saying that a wise man given 3 minutes to complete a task will spend the first thinking about what he will do in the next 2.

I told that to a friend (who's a very successful musician) and he said "unlike me, who breaks it in the first minute and spends the next two figuring what to do next...".