[laxdude67]

Gibson LP Custom > toneport ux2 > Guitar Rig 4/Pod Farm 2 > Logic 9

[BentonC]

laxdude67, on 25 July 2011 - 10:26 AM, said:

Gibson LP Custom > toneport ux2 > Guitar Rig 4/Pod Farm 2 > Logic 9

Nice- simple but effective.

[DonCarlos]

I have various equipment, and over the years did the computer software route of recording, but in the end now rely on my trusty Akai DPS 24 track. It does a great job.

I love seeing people's equipment so that's why I added picture of some of mine......sorry to the moderator and others if I was supposed to omit them in this thread.

[My one best piece of equipment IMHO for recording:
-Red Airplane lamp, circa Seinfeld era. (In studio picture)



Other equipment:
-Mic's I usually use a couple sm57 and a couple mxl condensers. They have been solid performers over the years.
-Speakers Pair of Events 20/20 and a set of Tannoys; both are great for reference, and sometimes blend in a set of old Pioneers to get an idea of what the general playback wilt be of a mix.
-L6 UX2 Studio, which I only have been using the mic modelers patches for some vocals and send them directly into the Akai. Never record with the thing. :Looks cool though.
-mAudio Black box is my workhorse for electrics. Great thing,very flexible since you can use it direct to DAW, or monitors, or amp or pc, but no pc required to operate. The best. (It's on a speaker by the J45 in the picture).
-small 10 channel behringer mixer, for my other individual media, such as record player, cassette deck, pc, cd/dvd, radio, ect. and the output is to a channel on my old Kenw. integrated amp. I also use it when other folks stop by just to play. It;s fun to have a setup with this type of added mixer for that purpose.
-Yamaha PSR keyboard, send it direct to Akai. Has great backing instruments voices and even drums
-Yamaha DD65. There are much better digital drums out there, but these work fine when I can actually keep a beat.
-Epi Triggerman 60 Amp. . Not the greatest amp, but clean uncolored sound without the internal DSP engaged. Very cool retro look. But rarely record with it.
-19-- Peavey something. Small amp that a friend gave me so I have kept it. I like it.
-1999 Fender stratocaster. Jeff Beck signature model. Surf green of course, My main guitar.
-1997 Epi Casino-Peerless factory with Epi Vibrato. Ebony. I have rediscovered this guitar of over a decade of no use. Upgrading now, tuners are now Gotoh SD90 MG, next the bridge and nut need upgrading. I truly enjoy this guitar and it is almost new to me. It literally sat in a case and only came out for tuneups since 1997. I am so pleased I kept it and there is a lot to be said about how good Epiphone guitars can sound..
-2008 Gibson J45. Got to have an acoustic so why not the Gibson workhorse. They make good acoustics.



-1974 Sanyo SS20 Headphones. 2 way. 3"peizo and 2"tweeter, separate level and tone controls. They look like you could use them to guide in jets at the airport. They truly do isolate sound from coming in and just as important they block sound from going out so you don't have bleed outs when dubbing a vocal. I have others, but this is what I use for dubbing. They are pretty mint condition for their age.

[BentonC]

DonCarlos, on 10 August 2011 - 02:12 AM, said:

I have various equipment, and over the years did the computer software route of recording, but in the end now rely on my trusty Akai DPS 24 track. It does a great job.

I love seeing people's equipment so that's why I added picture of some of mine......sorry to the moderator and others if I was supposed to omit them in this thread.

[My one best piece of equipment IMHO for recording:
-Red Airplane lamp, circa Seinfeld era. (In studio picture)



Other equipment:
-Mic's I usually use a couple sm57 and a couple mxl condensers. They have been solid performers over the years.
-Speakers Pair of Events 20/20 and a set of Tannoys; both are great for reference, and sometimes blend in a set of old Pioneers to get an idea of what the general playback wilt be of a mix.
-L6 UX2 Studio, which I only have been using the mic modelers patches for some vocals and send them directly into the Akai. Never record with the thing. :Looks cool though.
-mAudio Black box is my workhorse for electrics. Great thing,very flexible since you can use it direct to DAW, or monitors, or amp or pc, but no pc required to operate. The best. (It's on a speaker by the J45 in the picture).
-small 10 channel behringer mixer, for my other individual media, such as record player, cassette deck, pc, cd/dvd, radio, ect. and the output is to a channel on my old Kenw. integrated amp. I also use it when other folks stop by just to play. It;s fun to have a setup with this type of added mixer for that purpose.
-Yamaha PSR keyboard, send it direct to Akai. Has great backing instruments voices and even drums
-Yamaha DD65. There are much better digital drums out there, but these work fine when I can actually keep a beat.
-Epi Triggerman 60 Amp. . Not the greatest amp, but clean uncolored sound without the internal DSP engaged. Very cool retro look. But rarely record with it.
-19-- Peavey something. Small amp that a friend gave me so I have kept it. I like it.
-1999 Fender stratocaster. Jeff Beck signature model. Surf green of course, My main guitar.
-1997 Epi Casino-Peerless factory with Epi Vibrato. Ebony. I have rediscovered this guitar of over a decade of no use. Upgrading now, tuners are now Gotoh SD90 MG, next the bridge and nut need upgrading. I truly enjoy this guitar and it is almost new to me. It literally sat in a case and only came out for tuneups since 1997. I am so pleased I kept it and there is a lot to be said about how good Epiphone guitars can sound..
-2008 Gibson J45. Got to have an acoustic so why not the Gibson workhorse. They make good acoustics.



-1974 Sanyo SS20 Headphones. 2 way. 3"peizo and 2"tweeter, separate level and tone controls. They look like you could use them to guide in jets at the airport. They truly do isolate sound from coming in and just as important they block sound from going out so you don't have bleed outs when dubbing a vocal. I have others, but this is what I use for dubbing. They are pretty mint condition for their age.

Awesome- looks like a pretty thorough setup! BTW- I never would have guessed that those headphones were from the '70s. You really take care of your gear!

[BentonC]

DonCarlos, on 10 August 2011 - 02:12 AM, said:

I have various equipment, and over the years did the computer software route of recording, but in the end now rely on my trusty Akai DPS 24 track. It does a great job.

I love seeing people's equipment so that's why I added picture of some of mine......sorry to the moderator and others if I was supposed to omit them in this thread.

[My one best piece of equipment IMHO for recording:
-Red Airplane lamp, circa Seinfeld era. (In studio picture)



Other equipment:
-Mic's I usually use a couple sm57 and a couple mxl condensers. They have been solid performers over the years.
-Speakers Pair of Events 20/20 and a set of Tannoys; both are great for reference, and sometimes blend in a set of old Pioneers to get an idea of what the general playback wilt be of a mix.
-L6 UX2 Studio, which I only have been using the mic modelers patches for some vocals and send them directly into the Akai. Never record with the thing. :Looks cool though.
-mAudio Black box is my workhorse for electrics. Great thing,very flexible since you can use it direct to DAW, or monitors, or amp or pc, but no pc required to operate. The best. (It's on a speaker by the J45 in the picture).
-small 10 channel behringer mixer, for my other individual media, such as record player, cassette deck, pc, cd/dvd, radio, ect. and the output is to a channel on my old Kenw. integrated amp. I also use it when other folks stop by just to play. It;s fun to have a setup with this type of added mixer for that purpose.
-Yamaha PSR keyboard, send it direct to Akai. Has great backing instruments voices and even drums
-Yamaha DD65. There are much better digital drums out there, but these work fine when I can actually keep a beat.
-Epi Triggerman 60 Amp. . Not the greatest amp, but clean uncolored sound without the internal DSP engaged. Very cool retro look. But rarely record with it.
-19-- Peavey something. Small amp that a friend gave me so I have kept it. I like it.
-1999 Fender stratocaster. Jeff Beck signature model. Surf green of course, My main guitar.
-1997 Epi Casino-Peerless factory with Epi Vibrato. Ebony. I have rediscovered this guitar of over a decade of no use. Upgrading now, tuners are now Gotoh SD90 MG, next the bridge and nut need upgrading. I truly enjoy this guitar and it is almost new to me. It literally sat in a case and only came out for tuneups since 1997. I am so pleased I kept it and there is a lot to be said about how good Epiphone guitars can sound..
-2008 Gibson J45. Got to have an acoustic so why not the Gibson workhorse. They make good acoustics.



-1974 Sanyo SS20 Headphones. 2 way. 3"peizo and 2"tweeter, separate level and tone controls. They look like you could use them to guide in jets at the airport. They truly do isolate sound from coming in and just as important they block sound from going out so you don't have bleed outs when dubbing a vocal. I have others, but this is what I use for dubbing. They are pretty mint condition for their age.

Awesome- looks like a pretty thorough setup! BTW- I never would have guessed that those headphones were from the '70s. You really take care of your gear!

[Minister Marz]

I use my Epi SG Special which I run through a 90's Toneworks KORG AX30B (which is actually for my bass)but it works well for guitar. Then I run that through a Fender Rumble 100 and from there I line out to my PC.I use Mixcraft 2.0 on my PC(the older version is just easier to use in my opinion no frills with a decent amount of effects.)I have a 300w Logitech sound system set up with Technics stereo speakers. I record everything in this manner bass and guitars. You'd be surprized by the sound quality you can produce with such a meager setup. I'll put up a sample a.s.a.p.

[NoFrills]

Recording setup:-
DAW & VSTs:-Cakewalk Sonar 8.5.3 Producer, Reason 4 + some Refills, EZ Drummer + some EZX plugins, Guitar Rig 4, Dimension Pro & Camel Audio Alchemy.
System:-AMD Opteron 180, 2x1GB RAM, 1TB WD Black 2TB WD Green HDDs, HD4850 GPU, 19" Samsung Monitor, Infrasonic Quartet Pro Audio Sound card, running Window XP still since it's still more stable and not as hungry as Vista or 7.
Mixer:-Alesis Multimix 4 USB Mixer (I do not run this via USB but line out and into the sound card since the mixer sound card is crap and has no official ASIO drivers).
MIDI Controler:-Miditech iControl 61 key.
Amp/Preamp:- Sony & Sony speakers

Other than that it's my Gibson LP Studio Lite, Washburn EA22 Platinum Edition, 80'Semi-Hollow Ibanez Artstar, various stomp boxes & a Marshall Quad.

[BentonC]

Minister Marz, on 15 August 2011 - 07:54 PM, said:

I use my Epi SG Special which I run through a 90's Toneworks KORG AX30B (which is actually for my bass)but it works well for guitar. Then I run that through a Fender Rumble 100 and from there I line out to my PC.I use Mixcraft 2.0 on my PC(the older version is just easier to use in my opinion no frills with a decent amount of effects.)I have a 300w Logitech sound system set up with Technics stereo speakers. I record everything in this manner bass and guitars. You'd be surprized by the sound quality you can produce with such a meager setup. I'll put up a sample a.s.a.p.

Nice- very unusual setup. I'll be very interested to hear the results!

NoFrills, on 17 August 2011 - 11:25 AM, said:

Recording setup:-
DAW & VSTs:-Cakewalk Sonar 8.5.3 Producer, Reason 4 + some Refills, EZ Drummer + some EZX plugins, Guitar Rig 4, Dimension Pro & Camel Audio Alchemy.
System:-AMD Opteron 180, 2x1GB RAM, 1TB WD Black 2TB WD Green HDDs, HD4850 GPU, 19" Samsung Monitor, Infrasonic Quartet Pro Audio Sound card, running Window XP still since it's still more stable and not as hungry as Vista or 7.
Mixer:-Alesis Multimix 4 USB Mixer (I do not run this via USB but line out and into the sound card since the mixer sound card is crap and has no official ASIO drivers).
MIDI Controler:-Miditech iControl 61 key.
Amp/Preamp:- Sony & Sony speakers

Other than that it's my Gibson LP Studio Lite, Washburn EA22 Platinum Edition, 80'Semi-Hollow Ibanez Artstar, various stomp boxes & a Marshall Quad.

Very cool. Sounds like you're set up to do some pretty serious home recording. (BTW- Reason and EZDrummer are 2 of my absolute favorite pieces of software. Doesn't get much simpler or better than that!)

How old is the Multimix? Sort of weird that they wouldn't be ASIO compatible...

[NoFrills]

BentonC, on 22 August 2011 - 05:36 PM, said:

Nice- very unusual setup. I'll be very interested to hear the results!



Very cool. Sounds like you're set up to do some pretty serious home recording. (BTW- Reason and EZDrummer are 2 of my absolute favorite pieces of software. Doesn't get much simpler or better than that!)

How old is the Multimix? Sort of weird that they wouldn't be ASIO compatible...

I have a project at the moment which will be posted on Youtube in the near future.
It's an acoustic and vocals collab with a friend over in the US.
After that it's on to the video clip.
I think Reason has some of the best sound textures and I find it easy to make a great sound from it.
I find I am still coming to grips with EZ drummer though.
I'm not completely happy with the sound it gives and I don't thikn I have the right equipment to fully utilize it.
e.g electric drum kit.

Alesis does not provide drivers for the mixer which is the weird part.
You have to use ASIO4ALL which I refuse to use.
My sound card on the other hand does and the drivers are always being updated to perform better.
Last driver update was as recent as last month.

[jonnyg]

NoFrills, on 22 August 2011 - 06:31 PM, said:

I find I am still coming to grips with EZ drummer though.
I'm not completely happy with the sound it gives and I don't thikn I have the right equipment to fully utilize it.
e.g electric drum kit.

I hate EZ Drummer. It's one of the worst plug-ins I ever bought. If you're going to go the ToonTrack route you're far better off buying Superior in the first place if you can afford it or crossgrading to it if you've already got EZD. I've never managed to get EZD to sit in a mix. There are nothing like enough sound shaping options in the mixer and life's too short to make my music fit their drum sounds. If you're short of cash (who isn't) but willing to put in a bit of time learning how it works you're better off with the free Short Circuit sampler and some multi-sample kits from Analogue drums (who I believe hail from your own fair country). The difference between AD's Ludwig kit and EZD's Vintage Rock (Ludwig) kit is that AD's actually sounds like one while EZD's sounds like someone banging a load of cardboard boxes.

[BentonC]

jonnyg, on 01 September 2011 - 01:06 PM, said:

I hate EZ Drummer. It's one of the worst plug-ins I ever bought. If you're going to go the ToonTrack route you're far better off buying Superior in the first place if you can afford it or crossgrading to it if you've already got EZD. I've never managed to get EZD to sit in a mix. There are nothing like enough sound shaping options in the mixer and life's too short to make my music fit their drum sounds. If you're short of cash (who isn't) but willing to put in a bit of time learning how it works you're better off with the free Short Circuit sampler and some multi-sample kits from Analogue drums (who I believe hail from your own fair country). The difference between AD's Ludwig kit and EZD's Vintage Rock (Ludwig) kit is that AD's actually sounds like one while EZD's sounds like someone banging a load of cardboard boxes.

I guess if you're using EZD exclusively for drum parts I can see where it would lag behind others. I just find it easy to thicken up textures, and breaking out the tracks through the EZD mixer allows for plenty of tone shaping on Aux channels. I can't really say I've ever relied on it exclusively for any drum parts- I can see where it would definitely be a thin drum tone if you're staying in the box for your drums.

I guess the real beauty of recording now is that there are a million ways to do one thing.

[cam011235]

My setup is based around pro tools and mbox..i havw been using mbox 2 with T 8 but i am upgrading this to pto tools 9 which i am getting next week then getting a new mbox 3...i recently purchased a fast sandy bridge xps17 computer with win 7 64 but have found pt 8 even upgraded has issues with 64 bit os so i am getting updated the new gear avid has put out.

i use a line 6 spider valve amp which has a DI that i use to put straight into the mbox for guitar parts using the modelling for tonal types..this works very well i just use a xlr between the amp and interface..just leaving the amp turned on standby

i also have an axion 61 midi controller for plugins...i am doing the recording in my room which has noise from the traffic outside so i dont use a condenser at this current point in time.. but a dynamic sure 58 which is ok for me as i prefer to do alot more instrumental guitar based tracks

i am trying to upgrade the studio all the time my dream one day is to get a project studio and a dedicated space

[NoFrills]

jonnyg, on 01 September 2011 - 01:06 PM, said:

I hate EZ Drummer. It's one of the worst plug-ins I ever bought. If you're going to go the ToonTrack route you're far better off buying Superior in the first place if you can afford it or crossgrading to it if you've already got EZD. I've never managed to get EZD to sit in a mix. There are nothing like enough sound shaping options in the mixer and life's too short to make my music fit their drum sounds. If you're short of cash (who isn't) but willing to put in a bit of time learning how it works you're better off with the free Short Circuit sampler and some multi-sample kits from Analogue drums (who I believe hail from your own fair country). The difference between AD's Ludwig kit and EZD's Vintage Rock (Ludwig) kit is that AD's actually sounds like one while EZD's sounds like someone banging a load of cardboard boxes.

Cardboard boxes.....
This is the same impression I have of EZD and the EZX I've tried out.
Especially the snare....pok.....pok.....
I also believe there is a lack of sound shaping too and because of this I always end up using other effects on top of EZD to create the sound I want.

[jonnyg]

NoFrills, on 14 September 2011 - 06:25 PM, said:

Cardboard boxes.....
This is the same impression I have of EZD and the EZX I've tried out.
Especially the snare....pok.....pok.....
I also believe there is a lack of sound shaping too and because of this I always end up using other effects on top of EZD to create the sound I want.

pok.....pok LOL, that's a really good description. To be fair, a guy posted a demo song on another site using EZ with the Nashville EZX and the kit sounded pretty good except it still had "soft" crash cymbals. I wish I'd bought that instead of the Vintage Rock (Ludwig) kit because that's truly awful in every conceivable way.

[cam011235]

i got sick of ezdrummer use addictive drums now ..heaps better

[BentonC]

jonnyg, on 15 September 2011 - 02:48 PM, said:

pok.....pok LOL, that's a really good description. To be fair, a guy posted a demo song on another site using EZ with the Nashville EZX and the kit sounded pretty good except it still had "soft" crash cymbals. I wish I'd bought that instead of the Vintage Rock (Ludwig) kit because that's truly awful in every conceivable way.

The Nashville kit has a horrible sounding kick drum. I just did some demos with a local songwriter, and built the drum tracks out with the Nashville EZX. Once I had the loops in (and played around with them quite a bit), I bussed the outputs on the EZD mixer to separate audio tracks and beat-replaced the principle hits. Ended up sounding pretty great actually (after some EQ and Comp).

[jonnyg]

BentonC, on 19 September 2011 - 10:35 PM, said:

The Nashville kit has a horrible sounding kick drum. I just did some demos with a local songwriter, and built the drum tracks out with the Nashville EZX. Once I had the loops in (and played around with them quite a bit), I bussed the outputs on the EZD mixer to separate audio tracks and beat-replaced the principle hits. Ended up sounding pretty great actually (after some EQ and Comp).

The kick's a bit too "clicky" for my use but it fitted quite well in the context of the song I heard. Here's a link to the song in question. Actually, regardless of the drum sound, the song's worth checking out anyway. > http://www.reverbnat...ow/song_7115875

[Mikey Mattice]

For my metal/djent band, Yantra (http://www.reverbnation.com/4dobserver), i use a Fractal Audio Axe-FX Ultra into Pro Tools. For guitars, it doesn't get any simpler than that

For solo stuff and idea capturing I also have a BR-1600 which works great and has a lot of memory. Not to mention, its very user friendly! However, for the more polished material, I've been using Logic Pro lately and micing my Marshall JMP with SM57s, then importing it to the BR-1600 for mastering.

[Mikey Mattice]

cam011235, on 16 September 2011 - 07:55 AM, said:

i got sick of ezdrummer use addictive drums now ..heaps better

sick dude! i havent heard of that program until now. how user friendly is it? For my band, Yantra (http://www.reverbnation.com/4dobserver), we use Superior 2.0 drums.

BTW im really loving the hypercube! do you listen to TesseracT?

[hellion102792]

Was finally able to put together a mostly decent recording setup after my job this past summer. I have an Asus a35x series laptop that I wiped clean of all the bloatware and put Windows 7 Pro onto. Running FL Studio 10 Producers Edition with a ton of plugins, I was using a Numark DJiO as an external sound card as the laptops Realtek drivers we're garbage, but it couldn't record. Just got my hands on a Focusrite Saffire 6 USB however, excellent little unit with awesome sounding preamps. For monitors I was using a cheap pair of M-Audio Studiopro 3's, as well as a Logitech sub from a cheap desk speaker set that I wired into the right channel with a splitter. Nice little cheap unit but I'm looking to upgrade to a set of KRK's or Behringers. For headphones I got a pair of Sennheiser HD201's, had them for a while and they sound pretty good. I don't have a mixer in my chain but I do have my dads old Tascam 6-channel analog for mobile recording/live situations.

As far as outboard gear, synths, effects and mics go, I have an ART Industries Tube preamp, various guitar effects, my dads old Multivox MXD-5 analog echo, a Roland TB-303 for techno type applications, a Roland Juno 106 with a voice chip problem, my Peavey Classic VT for guitar recording, a 60's Shure Unidyne III that sounds amazing and a 50's Shure A88A that I have yet to get working, and a few condensers. There's a lot of old analog gear in my family from the various incarnations of my father's studio, probably worth a decent amount but hell if I'd ever want to sell any of it!