Do you play music? Do you have a setup? Post pictures! I make deep house. and dub techno. little hardware only setup. only oldschool shit! Peace!!
I know, software's boring...not as cool as big fat tape machines, mixing boards and delay units. And I only have one good mic, my trusty Astatic 335-H
It's a pc windows based system. I'm running Cakewalk/sonar 7 on XP Pro, a 24 bit soundblaster card (not the greatest but it does the job) Altec 3841 monitors, Pioneer Se-305 cans, and my monitor amp is a (very transparent) 70's era JVC Super-A receiver.
Was wondering for a bit... "Where'd he get a PC case with an EQ built into it." Either that or it was some kind of ADAT with video monitor output.... Big near field monitors... Nothing wrong with an XP system, except for the latest Microsoft BS. One of my systems is running XP (Quad core Intel in a rack case) I use this with a Line6 interface running Gearbox, among other inputs, for playing through. (Amp sims and stuff) Actual recording and mixing is done on a different system, but that's not finished yet as is the room it's going to be in.
Ha ha , yeah that would be pretty slick, an ADAT with a monitor out. I hear XP is still preferred by a lot of AV professionals. Yeah probably the most important thing for a home studio is having a decent acoustic environment to record in, which I don't, so I struggle getting good live guitar sounds playing through my combo amp. It's a great sounding amp with my guitar, surprisingly good actually for solid state (peavey 112 special), and this is coming from a lifetime tube amp purist! lol. I really need to find a good amp sim. I of course have sims in cakewalk, but I can only apply it in post-production, I think the next thing I really need is an external sound card with balanced inputs, and a decent mic preamp.
I have one old reel to reel 1/4 that needs rebuilt... It's a tube unit, clean but I never saw it run. I'll only use it for effect when I get it working. Well I have to find some tape too... Got an old Fostex cassette unit that might work also, Goodwill find... Those things do a great backwards masking. I'm mostly recording digitally now but I will take that recorded track and do some analog processing in production at times, again as an effect. Still have a few rack units, two ART units actually survived the fire with just some smoke damage. I've replaced some stuff with similar units to what I had before and some stuff I just had to say goodbye to... like no more rack of 8 channels of compression. Okay, quantify "now" as once I get things setup... I'm mostly rebuilding this house and maintaining the property at the moment. Haven't recorded anything since 2010-2011. 2010 was the flood... 2012 was the fire... Lost most of my gear both times. The fire took my handmade guitars though along with everything else. That hurts the most.
