The Reverend wrote:
Good question. I'd like to know what other people are using, too.
Well, my set-up is pretty basic :) Studio Hardware: * Roland VS-1680 (currently USD 8-900ish on ebay, I think). Apart from its inability to swap files directly with the computer, this is a great piece of kit. It packs a powerful amount of studio power and effects into a small, even portable, package. * AKG K 240 Monitor headphones (GBP 60-70 when I got them). Ain't got money or space for monitors :P * a cheap Shure Beta Green mic (don't remember what kind!). I need to pick up an affordable workhorse condenser mic like an AKG C1000S. Instruments and the Like: * Gibson LP Standard guitar (about USD 900 second-hand in 1993). * Rickenbacker 4001 bass (about USD 500 second-hand in 1994). * Martin "backpacker" model mandolin (though I haven't recorded it yet!). * Thomas Organ crybaby wah (ancient and frankly in need of servicing). * DOD bass grunge pedal (though I haven't got good results from it with recording. * a little collection of old Boss stomp-boxes (my fave is the analog delay, mostly 'cause I like wrenching the knobs around to make horrendous "Dr. Who on acid" noises :) but I haven't been using them in recording. * _Doggiebox is my drummer!_ That should be a T-Shirt or something, no? :) He runs on a relatively new G4 iBook, using mostly ns_kit samples (because I like playing with velocity changes :) I run a little cable from the headphone jack on the iBook to a stereo splitter, and then into 2 seperate track inputs on the VS-1680. Sounds top-notch :) I also have my Laney 50w guitar combo with me, though it's been banished to the attic since there isn't room in the "house" :) and I'm playing bass rather than guitar in live settings these days (for which the DOD bass grunge plugged into a borrowed bass combo seems to work fine). I have another guitar and Marshall 8080 combo and some pedals, I think, sitting in my parents garage, but that's on a different continent and not much use :) I really want to get a something like the aforementioned AKG C1000S for vocals (and mic'ing the mandolin!), and I want to sort out something to improve amp simulation situation for my all-direct recording situation (though the guitars ain't _too_ bad even now). But I have to say that DB has made the biggest difference for me in home recording. Being able to easily program up even a basic percussion track that I can play other parts over is _fab_. It just sounds more like real music that way :) When MIDI control (and multiple kits) come in, I am going to be in very good shape on the percussion front. (I'll still need to track down more samples to build "ethnic/world" kits, but that's do-able.) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/