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Those RadioShack PZM's a are fuckin legendary.
Mind you, not for those of us with cheap Soundcraft mixers, with global phantom power.........their name then becomes "PPPPzzzzzzzzzzz, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?"
I'm really not a mic junkie, when serious miking for recording is needed, I have a man that comes in to take care of it for me, can do my own live miking though.
here's what i got: fast pc nuendo 3 lots of vst such as Absynth, Akkord, Akoustik Piano, B4, Battery2, Fm7, FM8, Pro52, Pro53, etc Roland XP-30 basically as midi controller although i like to use its sounds as well Yamaha Digital Mixing Processor (DMP) 7 Akai S950 sampler (don't use it) Korg O5R/W (used to use it now i don't) Boss DR-550 (idem as above) Yamaha RX21 (idem) Fostex R8 8 track recorder (idem) patchbay Tascam PB-32R Technics 100 speakers electric guitar Epiphone Sheraton electroacoustic guitar Faim (argie) electroacoustic bass Fernandez (argie) pedal effects Zoom Player 200 Amplifier Technics double deck (!) mic Shure 58....
...i think that's all. here's a pic of it all. very humble spot. that's my living room! :p
How's the Fernandez to play.
For ages I had use of a Fernandez P-bass clone (nobody would let me play my Aria because it's a pointy heavy metal bass, and it hums a lot through anything but the very best amps). It sounded brilliant, but it left me fookin crippled cos the neck was SO thick (and it had been set up with insanely high action).
well, mine is like this one but in burgundy color:
it plays well. like all electroacoustics it takes more strength to play it than a regular one but overall it has a good sound. not great but i like the attack and the 3-band eq it has. it has a nice 24 fret range although it tends to detune a bit on very high notes. i used it in both almanso's NewDawnFades and Glasnost's Turn of Community 2 so you can hear it's got a good performance on both acoustic and electric songs. i like it because it allowds me to play unplugged wherever i want and not having to turn everything on to do it. but to be honest i bought it because i couldn't find a better option for 300 us dollars ;)
Gnu Odor wrote:
Farrell Hamill wrote:
I will probably jam this evening and will write down some other plug-in's that I use- check out AudioDamage Reverence it emulates the LXP1/5 series. I have the LXP 5 and it does a great job emulating it. At $40 it is a great buy. Easy on the CPU too. They are a small company but are very responsive and offer their wares at a very low price imho.
I heart AudioDamage plugs. I mean, their first product was the Ratshack Reverb, a virtual Realistic "Reverb" (actually an analog bucket-brigade delay). That $40 box was my first "mixer" -- you could mix the cassette inputs with the "effected" mic input and track to another cassette. I also love PSP Audioware; they really capture that authentic Polish sound in software. (They've gotten all uppity though and now use iLok protection
.)
I envy you your Oktava mic: I'm nostalgic for Cold-War era gear and can only sate that desire by dropping Sovtek tubes in my ART preamps. I'd have bought one by now, but check oktavausa.com -- you can only find their mics at, like, two dealers in the States, both in central Missouri.
I love cheap stuff. My Radio Shack PZMs are my "secret weapon." Would I trade 'em for a matched pair of Schoeps? Hell yeah... but for the price, they're killer.
Inexpensive Amazing Reverb Plug-in Alert!
60 day demo license... AMAZING sound for a reverb plug in... only $99 dollars. I was using it last week against my Kurzweil KSP8 and an Eventide H8000FW and it won out in several instances. I generally despise most plug in reverbs but this thing is great and has several programs designed after more famous Lexicon untis. Definitely worth checking out.
Audio Damage is a great company as well.
almansoglasnost wrote: here's what i got: fast pc nuendo 3 lots of vst such as Absynth, Akkord, Akoustik Piano, B4, Battery2, Fm7, FM8, Pro52, Pro53, etc Roland XP-30 basically as midi controller although i like to use its sounds as well Yamaha Digital Mixing Processor (DMP) 7 Akai S950 sampler (don't use it) Korg O5R/W (used to use it now i don't) Boss DR-550 (idem as above) Yamaha RX21 (idem) Fostex R8 8 track recorder (idem) patchbay Tascam PB-32R Technics 100 speakers electric guitar Epiphone Sheraton electroacoustic guitar Faim (argie) electroacoustic bass Fernandez (argie) pedal effects Zoom Player 200 Amplifier Technics double deck (!) mic Shure 58....
...i think that's all. here's a pic of it all. very humble spot. that's my living room! :p
nice set up. im envious.
Bentley wrote: Inexpensive Amazing Reverb Plug-in Alert!
Thanks, man, That sounds great. (AudioDamage's ADverb (née Reverence) sounds nice too.)
Logic's built-in Space Designer can sound amazing... but just switching it in ramps up my CPU meter to 80 percent and my Mac starts sweating. So it's right back to the old days for me, tracking with a crappy sounding plug and bouncing offline later with the hard stuff and hoping it sounds good.
just incase you have everything you ever wanted and still have money to burn, sae are now running a course for setting up home studios http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=11524
I can think of a lot of things I'd rather spend the money on.
I dug up an archival photo of my totally rad home studio, circa 1986. All analog, baby!
Gear Fisher and Realistic cassette decks (for bouncing) Realistic 5-band graphic EQ Realistic six-channel mixer (with real faders and VU meters) Mattel Synsonics drum synth Stradolin 0.5 watt (!) amp (It went to...get this...13.) Dunlop Crybaby wah Ibanez Tube Screamer (one of the good ones) Arion flanger and SAD-1 stereo analog delay Roland RS-202 String Machine
(It occurs to me that that thin white slab might be some sort of Casio keyboard.)
Gnu Odor wrote: I dug up an archival photo of my totally rad home studio, circa 1986. All analog, baby!
Gear Fisher and Realistic cassette decks (for bouncing) Realistic 5-band graphic EQ Realistic six-channel mixer (with real faders and VU meters) Mattel Synsonics drum synth Stradolin 0.5 watt (!) amp (It went to...get this...13.) Dunlop Crybaby wah Ibanez Tube Screamer (one of the good ones) Arion flanger and SAD-1 stereo analog delay Roland RS-202 String Machine
(It occurs to me that that thin white slab might be some sort of Casio keyboard.)
You're my hero!
I don't think I personally owned anything remotely musical until 1990. I do recall programming melodies and noise sequences at some point in the early 80's on my trusty TI 994a home computer...
Bentley wrote: I do recall programming melodies and noise sequences at some point in the early 80's on my trusty TI 994a home computer...
Hell yeah! The machine of choice for the discerning home computer enthusiast. Did you have the awesome 16K upgrade cartridge? No wonder we both have such a solid foundation in L33t hacking skillz.
I don't think I ever programmed a melody on that thing. I just remember typing in some code from the pages of 99'er magazine that made something slightly resembling swords clashing.
Gnu Odor wrote:
Bentley wrote: I do recall programming melodies and noise sequences at some point in the early 80's on my trusty TI 994a home computer...
Hell yeah! The machine of choice for the discerning home computer enthusiast. Did you have the awesome 16K upgrade cartridge? No wonder we both have such a solid foundation in L33t hacking skillz.
I don't think I ever programmed a melody on that thing. I just remember typing in some code from the pages of 99'er magazine that made something slightly resembling swords clashing.
Don't remember having the 16K upgrade but did have the "Extended Basic" cartridge. I do recall 99'er magazine! Used to program stuff out of it all the time. I can still remember some of the code it was "call sound (note, duration,volume) or something like that. I was doing early glitch by randomly sweeping the noise fx running in a loop. 
Of course, all this knowledge was lost when I realized they had a good version of Donkey Kong for it...
Never have I been more glad to be a euroweeny, our crappy 80s computers were much better (errm less crap or errrrm something). two computers lasted me from 1982-2000, a spectrum and an Atari STe (OK, there has been more than one atari in my "band" but there is only one "STElla"), since 2000 I've been through 6 entire PC's and dozens of incremental upgrades. Progress? While I always yap about software being much less fun than hardware, it has to be admitted, my Casio CZ3000 could not double as a racecar simulator (could SOUND like one mind you), and my JV90 cannot allow me to assault a pacific island.
http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html
At the opposite end of the scale from all of this (ie where I live) this links to a site where you can pretend to play.
And even more basic toy, similar to the thing that Little Boots is currently mesmerising G with:
anyone here use MAX/MSP, Super Collider, or Pure Data? No GUI, just pure command line interface or a modular, object-oriented environment. There are academic music and audiovisual departments geared solely to these languages:
Max/MSP: http://www.cycling74.com/
SuperCollider: http://www.audiosynth.com/
Pure Data: http://puredata.info/
There is a higher learning curve involved with these applications but well worth it.
Here is a screengrab of a MAX patch from Autechre:
Just found this thread, so I'm a little late to the party, but it's interesting to hear what other people are messing about with. That's a great setup you have Mr. Bentley, I'm very envious, but since all I do at the moment is noodle it'd be wasted on me anyway.
I've been using Max since '92, and love it. It's like a Lego kit or erector set or Swiss Army knife, but for MIDI and audio. Very much looking forward to Max 4 Live.
I had a TI-99/4A as a kid, too. I remember trying to program music on it and being really disappointed at the boring sounds I got out of it (this was long before I knew what a sine wave was...) No memory upgrade or disk drive, unfortunately, but I did have Extended Basic and the speech synthesizer (the novelty of which wore off quickly).
My gear:
kinetic instruments: Reverend Daredevil electric guitar (Gibson-y stuff) Schecter Hellcat electric guitar (Fender-y stuff) Schecter Hellcat VI six-string bass Shergold Marathon 6 six-string bass Yamaha BB1200S electric bass DeArmond Starfire semihollow bass
electronic instruments: Korg Wavestation EX keyboard Access Virus b synth E-mu XL-7 Command Station sequencer/drum machine (ROMs maxed out)
Fractal Audio Axe-Fx preamp/effects processor ElectroHarmonix Clone Theory (I've got 3, for some reason)
Soundcraft Compact10 mixer (mostly for running things through the stereo)
MacBook Pro running: Ableton Live 8 Cycling 74 Max/MSP Logic (don't use it much) Soundtrack Pro (ditto)
I need a vocal mic, if anyone has any recommendations, and will probably be getting a MOTU Firewire interface and an Akai APC-40 in the near future. I'd like to add a Virus TI and a Prophet 08 at some point, but I can't really justify those at the moment.
Other than Sampler and some "LE" versions of a couple software synths I haven't tried yet I don't have much of anything in the way of plugins - like our good Doctor here I like using hardware, at least for the sound-generating part of the chain.
If anyone is interested in trying out Record, the new DAW from propellerhead, I've got a few codes for a free trial, which I think will last a few weeks, I've downloaded it and it seems fairly good, but I doubt I'd be ditching Cubase for it, if you have reason already it will detect it and let you use the instruments in Record.
Download from: http://www.recordyou.com/
the trial codes are:
2LVZ-2QTZ-MT39 CUF9-MG92-TUZ2 U3FJ-PGLZ-EKPJ
If you use one, post on here which has been used so people know not to try it again.
Chase
I use a Shire microphone for vocals. Works a treat. I mainly use Kristal Auditor Editor which is fab and free (it s a recorder and mixer in one).
NO Regret wrote: Chase
I use a Shire microphone for vocals. Works a treat. I mainly use Kristal Auditor Editor which is fab and free (it s a recorder and mixer in one).
So fucking what?
Boatraceface wrote:
NO Regret wrote: Chase
I use a Shire microphone for vocals. Works a treat. I mainly use Kristal Auditor Editor which is fab and free (it s a recorder and mixer in one).
So fucking what?
Dont hijack thread if youve nothing constructive to add. You twat!
