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Atterion
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You'd be eligble for a dope-slap if you didn'tfraserhutch said:
tone_aot
Owner of ToneJonez.com
Home Recording Setup
Thunder33
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Thunder33 said:Casio Casitone C100
Fostex X-12 four track
Nady Starpower mic
some guitar I bought at Walmart
Manley Slam mic pre to sweetin it all up a bit
Well hell, I was kidding buy my edit button is gone!!!!
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Agent47
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My home set-up:
DavidK
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fraserhutch said:
I know this may be a lil forward of me, but:
Will you marry me?
I'm not gay, but I can learn
My meager setup:
One badass violin worth as much as a small house
Mark Wood electric violin
J-Station
Yamaha and Soundcraft mixers
Alesis SR 16 drum machine
Alesis NanoSynth
Roland JV1010
Shure SM57
MXL 990/991 combo
Avlex c133 condensor
Sonar3
Wavelab
Waves gold
Sibelius notation Software
Finale
A bunch of softsynths ( minimoog, prophet, FM7 etc)
Out of tune piano
ido1957
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DavidK said:
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ablethevoice
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You think your gear list is a joke...
This one will make you all laugh!
Anyway, I'm brand new to this forum; this is my very first post. I've been reading this thread for about 25 minutes now and all I can say up front is you are all nuts! Certifiable! I love it!
As to my preposterously small gear line up-well here it goes:
Ensoniq ESQ1 with as much seq memory as will fit
Ensoniq Halo with nothing special except what came straight from the factory as far as RAM voice chips.
A small Radio Shack mixer
The most expensive mic Radio Shack sells (not saying much, I know)
Both keys and the mic run into the mixer and the mixer then feeds into a custom built AMD based PC 1.9 gig with 1 gig ram and 160 GB hd. I use a Soundblaster Audigy E400 soundcard. For recording, I use Cool Edit Pro v1.0 (plenty versitile for my needs!)
The Halo is driven by the ESQ (MIDI OUT from the ESQ to the MIDI IN of the HALO).
I do have a few pieces I've done with this comparitave cave-man lineup posted online. Just ck my profile: my "homepage" is really just the podcast site where you can grab my stuff for a listen.
Maybe this isn't the exactly appropriate place for a tech question, but forgive the noob-
Does the ESQ1 transmit MIDI on more than one channel? I'm trying to set up the ESQ's seq track 1 to play drums on the HALO, and seq track 2 to play...ohhh say strings on the HALO, but if I assign different sounds to different tracks and try to transmit both at the same time, I'll get both tracks playing either drums or strings... any advice?
OK that's it... going back to read more posts.
This one will make you all laugh!
Anyway, I'm brand new to this forum; this is my very first post. I've been reading this thread for about 25 minutes now and all I can say up front is you are all nuts! Certifiable! I love it!
As to my preposterously small gear line up-well here it goes:
Ensoniq ESQ1 with as much seq memory as will fit
Ensoniq Halo with nothing special except what came straight from the factory as far as RAM voice chips.
A small Radio Shack mixer
The most expensive mic Radio Shack sells (not saying much, I know)
Both keys and the mic run into the mixer and the mixer then feeds into a custom built AMD based PC 1.9 gig with 1 gig ram and 160 GB hd. I use a Soundblaster Audigy E400 soundcard. For recording, I use Cool Edit Pro v1.0 (plenty versitile for my needs!)
The Halo is driven by the ESQ (MIDI OUT from the ESQ to the MIDI IN of the HALO).
I do have a few pieces I've done with this comparitave cave-man lineup posted online. Just ck my profile: my "homepage" is really just the podcast site where you can grab my stuff for a listen.
Maybe this isn't the exactly appropriate place for a tech question, but forgive the noob-
Does the ESQ1 transmit MIDI on more than one channel? I'm trying to set up the ESQ's seq track 1 to play drums on the HALO, and seq track 2 to play...ohhh say strings on the HALO, but if I assign different sounds to different tracks and try to transmit both at the same time, I'll get both tracks playing either drums or strings... any advice?
OK that's it... going back to read more posts.
ssscientist
Info you can use...
Does this mean I'm eligible for a dope-slap for selling it to him?Atterion said:You'd be eligble for a dope-slap if you didn't
DavidK
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Hi, welcome to the forum. By now you must know about the $50 user fee, just mail it to me and I will take care of it.
Actually, your setup is pretty decent. You could probably do some cool stuff with what you have. When I was starting out 20 years ago, it was a 4 track cassette if you were COOL, for the rest of us it was two tape players for overdubbing. I actually kinda miss those days, it was more fun.
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ablethevoice
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DavidK said:Hi, welcome to the forum. By now you must know about the $50 user fee, just mail it to me and I will take care of it.
Actually, your setup is pretty decent. You could probably do some cool stuff with what you have. When I was starting out 20 years ago, it was a 4 track cassette if you were COOL, for the rest of us it was two tape players for overdubbing. I actually kinda miss those days, it was more fun.
Thanks for the welcome!
Before I picked up keys, I was a drummer for almost 20 yrs but alas, I shot out my wrists from all the hard playing and ended up needing many thousands of $$ of surgery. I was told by my doctor that I had to quit playing because I could actually face losing the use of one or both hands!!!
Well, hell... you can drag the musician away from the music, but you'll never take the music out of the musician. After going nuts with no artistic output for several years, I finally decided to grab a keyboard and I lucked out with the first one being the ESQ. I found that the sequencer/quantizer combination made composing much easier when I didn't have to try to LEARN to play... as in coordinate my left and right hands. I admit, I cheat my ass off
- recording slowly and speeding the seq up afterwards... but I feel that it's what is coming out of one's mind and soul that counts... not necessarily hammering out stuff like Keith Emerson or Rick Wakeman can (though I'd almost give up a gonad to play half as well as either one of those guys!!) When you get a chance, check out my meager output on the podcast... I'd really like some feedback. As you all know, its really difficult being objective about one's own art... whether that art is a piece of music, a story, a poem... a painting... you get so close to it that you either end up thinking it sucks, or believing it should be hanging in the Louvre.
As to the "old school" recording techniques... yeah. God, yeah. I cut my teeth on actual TAPE recording... Besides playing drums, I also did a number of years in radio, recording and producing shows and commercials in the station's production booth and occasionally recording other bands in a small recording studio run/owned by my guitarist.
Anyone who has mastered recording on SoundForge Audacity, or Cool Edit Pro without knowing what it was like to handle actual analog tape are, frankly, errrm.... spoiled. They have no idea what it used to take to synch a 6 or 8 or 16 track session! That was an art as well as a science! In a way I miss it too. The smell of the eqpt and tape, the faint humming of old tube amps, threading 3/4 inch tape thru an old Ampex or Dokorder recorder...aligning heads... demagnetizing... azimuth adjusting...tape tensioning...replacing reel brakes... well-now that I think back on all of it, maybe there is something to be said for CEP and digital recording after all! Hehe.