beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
That's a mighty impressive setupdirtysanta said:
Your studio setup
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audiotech
wav, aiff, mp3, ogg, flac
Two PC's, running Cubase, Acid Pro, Soundforge.
Ephos Pro Analogue Mixer
Yamaha O1X Digital Mixer
Lynx 2 Soundcard
Edirol controller keyboard
Casio Keyboard
Fender Stratocaster
Fender Squire Bass
Fender Accoustic Guitar
Korg Effects Pedal
Tube Pre-Amp
Wharfedale Nearfield Monitors
Sennheiser Headphones
Ghost Headphone Amplifier
Boss Dr 660 Drum Machine
Rhodes NT1-A Condenser Studio Microphone
Audio-Technica Dynamic Microphone
Mini Disc Recorder
Harmonica
Pop Shield
Ephos Pro Analogue Mixer
Yamaha O1X Digital Mixer
Lynx 2 Soundcard
Edirol controller keyboard
Casio Keyboard
Fender Stratocaster
Fender Squire Bass
Fender Accoustic Guitar
Korg Effects Pedal
Tube Pre-Amp
Wharfedale Nearfield Monitors
Sennheiser Headphones
Ghost Headphone Amplifier
Boss Dr 660 Drum Machine
Rhodes NT1-A Condenser Studio Microphone
Audio-Technica Dynamic Microphone
Mini Disc Recorder
Harmonica
Pop Shield
Mac Dual G4 886mhz (Dual screen setup)
Mac iBook G4 1ghz
Compaq AMD 1.2 Ghz (Used for soundforge mainly)
Software:
Logic 7
Ableton 5
Soft Synths:
FM8
Imposcar
Audio Realism 303
Synths:
Roland Juno 106
Roland SH101
Roland JP8000
A Sequential Circuits synth I can't remember the name of
Alesis Andromeda
Virus TI
Virus Rackmount
Emu Orbit
Samplers:
Kontakt
Akai S1100
Emu Esi 4000
Drum Machines:
Roland 808
Roland 707
Roland 606
Korg Electribe Er1
Novation Drum Station
Jomox Xbase Rack
Outboard:
Alesis Compressor
Drawmer Dual Gate
Focuswrite silver compressor
Digitech Studio Quad FX
Zoom 1201
Mac iBook G4 1ghz
Compaq AMD 1.2 Ghz (Used for soundforge mainly)
Software:
Logic 7
Ableton 5
Soft Synths:
FM8
Imposcar
Audio Realism 303
Synths:
Roland Juno 106
Roland SH101
Roland JP8000
A Sequential Circuits synth I can't remember the name of
Alesis Andromeda
Virus TI
Virus Rackmount
Emu Orbit
Samplers:
Kontakt
Akai S1100
Emu Esi 4000
Drum Machines:
Roland 808
Roland 707
Roland 606
Korg Electribe Er1
Novation Drum Station
Jomox Xbase Rack
Outboard:
Alesis Compressor
Drawmer Dual Gate
Focuswrite silver compressor
Digitech Studio Quad FX
Zoom 1201
Erm
Fender telecaster
Fender Jazz bass (5 string)
Acoustic 12-string
Zoom effects box
Old school Marshall tube amp
Unnecassarily vast Ashdown bass cab + Peavey head
Lousy drum kit
Random selection of bongos, djembes etc
Harmonicas (G and C) + neckstand
Banjo
Piano
Phonic fiddle (don't even ask what that is)
Tascam 4-track
A couple of Behringer mics
Not nearly enough leads
Fender telecaster
Fender Jazz bass (5 string)
Acoustic 12-string
Zoom effects box
Old school Marshall tube amp
Unnecassarily vast Ashdown bass cab + Peavey head
Lousy drum kit
Random selection of bongos, djembes etc
Harmonicas (G and C) + neckstand
Banjo
Piano
Phonic fiddle (don't even ask what that is)
Tascam 4-track
A couple of Behringer mics
Not nearly enough leads
dirtysanta
Original Casual
beesonthewhatnow said:That's a mighty impressive setup
Cheers Bees.
Im quite lucky really mate cos I work for a Pro Studio Sales/Installation company. I get all software/plugins/soft instruments for free as NFRs (Not For Resale). We've got to know how they work so thats why no charge. The hardware we get nice juicy discounts from manufacturers. Thats why i do the job. The pays not great but i get all my studio kit and keep it up to date extremely reasonably. I get to borrow plenty stuff to that i could never afford on my life which is
as fuck.dirtysanta
Original Casual
MC5 said:Two PC's, running Cubase, Acid Pro, Soundforge.
Ephos Pro Analogue Mixer
Yamaha O1X Digital Mixer
Lynx 2 Soundcard
Edirol controller keyboard
Casio Keyboard
Fender Stratocaster
Fender Squire Bass
Fender Accoustic Guitar
Korg Effects Pedal
Tube Pre-Amp
Wharfedale Nearfield Monitors
Sennheiser Headphones
Ghost Headphone Amplifier
Boss Dr 660 Drum Machine
Rhodes NT1-A Condenser Studio Microphone
Audio-Technica Dynamic Microphone
Mini Disc Recorder
Harmonica
Pop Shield
Those Lynx cards are fucking great.
hiccup
King of the Vagabonds
PC:
1Ghz, 512ram, XP, Soundblaster Audigy card. Desperately need to upgrade.
Plugged into two floorstanding Revolver speakers. Not ideal as monitors, but better than nowt.
Other hardware:
Evolution MK-125 midi keyboard
2 x Vestax PDX2000s
Numark mixer
Sony Minidisc deck
Yoga DM-210 mic
Revox reel to reel
Software:
Reason 2.5
Recycle Lite
Cubase VST
NI Battery
Other assorted plug-ins
Sound Forge (though using Audacity more and more)
Acid Pro
1Ghz, 512ram, XP, Soundblaster Audigy card. Desperately need to upgrade.
Plugged into two floorstanding Revolver speakers. Not ideal as monitors, but better than nowt.
Other hardware:
Evolution MK-125 midi keyboard
2 x Vestax PDX2000s
Numark mixer
Sony Minidisc deck
Yoga DM-210 mic
Revox reel to reel
Software:
Reason 2.5
Recycle Lite
Cubase VST
NI Battery
Other assorted plug-ins
Sound Forge (though using Audacity more and more)
Acid Pro
han
love is the answer
God there's some enormous kit lists out there!
I haven't made much music for about 10 years, and my setup is pretty minimal now.
Got an Apple Dual Processor G5 running Garageband (a surprisingly good bit of software!) and Edirol PCR M30 Controller.
Samson Servo 150 amp and Spirit Absolute 2 monitors.
Also a violin, viola, bass + amp, and 88-key piano-weighted Roland A90 stage controller. Gorgeous keyboard, with loads of fantastic piano sounds and Hammond organs etc. And a Yamaha Promix 01 mixer, a fab bit of kit.
Used to have an SH101 and TB303 but had to flog them about 10 years ago for financial reasons *sob*. Having said that I really do think the softsynths do the analogues a good run for their money these days, whatever the purists say.
Music-making with technology is SO much easier these days than it used to be - doing it all in a computer is a dream!
I haven't made much music for about 10 years, and my setup is pretty minimal now.
Got an Apple Dual Processor G5 running Garageband (a surprisingly good bit of software!) and Edirol PCR M30 Controller.
Samson Servo 150 amp and Spirit Absolute 2 monitors.
Also a violin, viola, bass + amp, and 88-key piano-weighted Roland A90 stage controller. Gorgeous keyboard, with loads of fantastic piano sounds and Hammond organs etc. And a Yamaha Promix 01 mixer, a fab bit of kit.
Used to have an SH101 and TB303 but had to flog them about 10 years ago for financial reasons *sob*. Having said that I really do think the softsynths do the analogues a good run for their money these days, whatever the purists say.
Music-making with technology is SO much easier these days than it used to be - doing it all in a computer is a dream!
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
han said:
*drools*
Wow, you're lucky to have the room for it too. It's a beautiful piece of kit.
I dunno if I can be arsed to list all my stuff, flogged a lot of the analogue bits years ago, pretty much all the stuff I do is on the laptop, which is a Powerbook G4 running X 10.4.8 over 2GB of RAM.
I use an M-Audio 8 channel Firewire card to split outputs from Reason V3, and I edit my raw audio using FCP video editing software, which I find performs better than any audio editor on account of the fact it's geared up to take huge HD files so doesn't blink when messing with sound, plus I know that software well so all the shortcuts and everything are just easier for me.
I use digital video machines to master and edit on tape, just what I'm used to really.
I use two controller keyboards, both are EMU Evolution, one is the (almost) full size MK461 and the other is the smaller MK225C, with two octaves, mainly for drum machine work.
I sometimes use a Technics PR60 88 key weighted keyboard which is nice but huge so it lives at my parents house.
I also have a program called Fingamidi, which turns your control mouse pad on a Powerbook into a superb X-Y dynamic midi controller, fully assignable, but you need to add a real mouse to the laptop obviously!
Anyone using Powerbooks to do music needs this software, and it's free.
Added to that a loft filled with various racks of compressors, EQ's and FX units... too many to list here... never enough though.
Here's a pic. That small keyboard under the mixer is a Novation Basstation BTW.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
han said:
I usually just export stereo 48k aif files from Reason, but I have used 4 channel DVCam decks to master on, as well as a BetaSP deck you can just about see at the bottom of the rack, which gives me 4 channels of Dolby C encoded PCM audio and natural analogue compression...
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Does it?
That's handy... At least I don't think the keyboard version has CV/Gate sockets... Never used them anyway, got rid of my last control voltage synth back in '92, an SH101 in mint condition with the mod grip, got into Korg X5 and M1, then the Wavestation instead. Flogged it all now though.
That's handy... At least I don't think the keyboard version has CV/Gate sockets... Never used them anyway, got rid of my last control voltage synth back in '92, an SH101 in mint condition with the mod grip, got into Korg X5 and M1, then the Wavestation instead. Flogged it all now though.
which I had to then haul the soundcard out of my pute and send it for reprogramming back to the US. pk said:
I just got me a Korg Mono/Poly. I dont fancy forking out for a mid-CV/gate converter when I could probably find a Bass station for the same price and get a synth thrown in for free.
Does anybody know if you can send a different midi signal to the bass station's internal synth (say on midi channel 1) and another channel into the synth but just for conversion to cv/gate?
hitechlolife
Member
My current Setup:
Imac G5
Logic Express
Motu 828mkII
Motu Micro Lite
tc electronics Fireworx
Korg Oasys
Virus TI Polar
I'm looking to go strictly hardware, no more computer sequencing, mixing or FX.
Imac G5
Logic Express
Motu 828mkII
Motu Micro Lite
tc electronics Fireworx
Korg Oasys
Virus TI Polar
I'm looking to go strictly hardware, no more computer sequencing, mixing or FX.
dirtysanta
Original Casual
hitechlolife said:
Fucking Hell . Those Oasys are almost £6000. !
hitechlolife
Member
dirtysanta said:
i paid a bit less, or rather my credit card paid less
i must say though it's worth every penny. I've been making music since the mid 80's & i've owned tons & tons of kit (just ask PK) but this beast is like having everything i've every bought in one keyboard, i know people think i'm mad for spending that amount on one keyboard (ask PK this as well) but i simply wanted the best keyboard available & the Oasys is exactly that & it has the potetial to keep getting better. I'm not a fan of computers & software for making music, not saying that software is a bad thing but i simply get on better with hardware. & just so people know, i produced detroit style techno & electro & people assume that this type of keyboard isn't capable of producing this type of music, don't listen to the demos up on the Korg website but go into a store & play with this thing for a few hours & i swear you'll be blown away whatever style of music your into.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Yeah... I can definitely vouch for Hitec's expensive taste in hardware.. 
As for Dvcam mastering... 48k not 32k ...
I must have a go on the Oasys though... Perhaps an evening of dwiddling about might result in some more tunes, though for now I have enough to deal with on Reason with my stupidly large refill collection..
As for Dvcam mastering... 48k not 32k ...
I must have a go on the Oasys though... Perhaps an evening of dwiddling about might result in some more tunes, though for now I have enough to deal with on Reason with my stupidly large refill collection..
