where do I go from here??

[Meshuggah]

Hello!

First post after some intense lurking around these great fora. It's nice to see that most of the gear I own so far is thought highly of by most members here :-D

My goal is to start up a good demo-studio in our town since the only one that I know of is expensive (IMO) and run by a dork who doesn't give a donkeypoo about his costumers wishes.

The equipment I own:

- pIII 650, 256MB, HP CD-R, SBLive! Platinum, Cubase VST (haven't learned anything about this yet....)
- Mackie 1604 vlz pro
- 2x dbx 266XL
- Roland GP100
- Rode NT-1
- Rode NT-3

Equipment I have long-term borrowed :-D

- 2x Alesis ADAT
- Behringer Ultracurve

You'll prolly advise me to buy some more microphones, right? But I have another NT-1, some SM57/58/91's and some C1000S's just a phonecall away. So I think I'll buy my own when the prices are right.

Is there anything you'd recommend me to go buy right away?

gotta run.

- Mesh

 

[Wide Awake]

Direct boxes are good to have, for D.I. bass guitar and electric/acoustic. BSS Audio makes a good one for about $170 and Behringer DI100 is only $55. A good dedicated reverb would be good. Yamaha and Lexicon come to mind. Mic pre-amps, mic stands, headphones for cueing, extra cables, power conditioner, UPS in case of a power outage or power surges. Just get ahold of a good catalog and start buying things !

 

[Cooperman]

I think a POD would be a great addition... if you are recording demos for bands then I'm guessing some of these bands won't have geat gear - because of a POD's versatility in dialling up practically any guitar tone I'm sure it'd come in handy.

 

[John Sayers]

have to say it meshuggar - acoustics. The gear will only the record the sounds you make and if you make muffled bass heavy sounds you will only record bass heavy muffled sounds - check out my site and read a bit of it to learn how acoustics can effect your sounds.
cheers
john

http://www.lis.net.au/~johnsay/Acoustics