Mics, Pre's and more...what's in your studio

[james]

Tracktion 2? Sure, sometime and I'm sure Jules will manage to please most of us.

Meanwhile, we all know there's more to this than software. Why not share some of our choices for mics, pre's, outboard boxes, guitars, keyboards etc? I'll go first:

Powerbook Wallstreet, Mackie 1202 vlz, RNC compressor, Macman, Fatar keyboard, Rode NT-1000, Philips condenser (vintage akg), Shure sm57, EV RE-15, Realistic PZM, Roland GP16, Rat, Boss compressor (2 knob), 90 Fender sea-green strat-plus, Dano DC-59 (copper reissue), Dearmond (Guild bluesbird), 70's Epiphone short-scale bass, 80's Yamaha country-jumbo, 60's? Barclay (plywood top Harmony OM), Silvertone archtop (modified to a tres guitar), assorted drum kits w/ sabian cymbals, 1864 upright grand piano, assorted children's musical toys and a handful of homemade instruments (percussion to styrocello).

All this is forced into a small corner of my painting studio - a very large room with lots of plaster, wood and 10 ft ceilings in my 1880 home.

So have at it. Who's using what and why.

[james]

...
80's Yamaha amp, Fostex Rm900 reference monitors, old tape machines for echo and distortion.

How cathartic.

[Karbon L. Forms]

Bugger all apart from PC with Delta66 omni studio, an oxygen8 and a les paul!

But I'm going up to my new bosses studio next week which has shiteloads of hardware, a pro-tools system, a cornicpia of really expensive guitars and some kind of amp called a VHD or something that's apparently going to kill me.

[sebo]

Hi:
My Setup at the moment is:
Rode NT-1
Shure SM-58
ART MP (Tube Preamp)
Behringer Eurorack MX 1604A
Lexicon LXP-1
Ego Sys Waveterminal 192L (Soundcard)
Ego Sys Miditerminal 4140 (MIDI Interface)
M-Audio Oxygen8
Kawai MM-16 (MIDI Fader Box)
Roland Alpha Juno-1
Roland Juno-106
Korg MS-10
Korg Electribe EA-1
Novation BassStation Rack
Yamaha TX81Z
Ensoniq ASR-X Pro Turbo
Yamaha CS-50 (Not working right now)
Big Briar Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter
Big Briar Moogerfooger Ring Modulator
2 x Technics SL-1200 MKII
Numark DM2000X
AKG K-70 (Headphones)
AKG K-55 (Headphones)
Alesis Monitor One
Samson Servo 120 (Monitor Amplifier)
PIV 2.66 MHz - 1Gb of RAM

[opiadream]

2 puters
m-audio w/mic pre
2 oktava mics
behringer eurorack
event speakers
soon to be replaced yamaha psr-gx76
squire strat
hartke bass
yamaha acoustic
sony minidisc

[unknown user]

Equitek E-100
ART Tube PAC
1999 Fender Am Std, black, maple neck, roller nut, locking pegs
Ibanez SDGR 5-str bass
POS Alvarez acou
Roland PAD5
Yamaha DJX (yes ick but suits my lack of kbd skillz)
CASIO CZ-101 (not used, I just keep it nearby for ambience)
Sony MDR 7506 headphones
Several species of small furry animals, gathered together in a cave, and grooving with a pict.

[Scot Solida]

I just love the "What's in yer rack" threads.

Mine?

Neumann TLM103
CAD E-200
Couple of Oktava Mk012s and Shure 57
Some assorted EV drum mics
Manley Dual Mono Mic Pre
TC D-Two delay
TC M300
TC Powercore PCI
MOTU 828MkII
M-Audio Midisport 8x8 and 4x4
Symbolic Sound Kyma
66 space Synthesizers.com analogue modular
Oberheim Matrix 6R
Roland Alpha Juno 1
Moog Rogue
Arp Omni II (dead...for now)
Nord G2 Modular
EMU ESI-32
Kawai K5000W
Korg Prophecy
Roland SPD-6
Roland Octapad II
A mystery box that aint out yet (it's blue...)
Hammond Baby B
Hammond Chord Organ
Hammond M-103
Lowrey dual manual organ
Homemade Theremin
Assorted stringed instruments: Fretless bass, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, hammer dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, violin, sarangi, rainsticks, didgeradoo, lots of bamboo flutes, dumbeks, bongos and such. Tibetan bowls and bells.

All of this stuff goes into an AMD XP1900+ or more often these days, a dual 2 Ghz Mac G5. Got Tracktion on both, along with most everything else.

Soon, there will be a Microwave Xtk added, and the unused synths in the next room will be gone (Jupiter 4, Yamaha CS-60 and CS-40M, Prophet 600). There are some synths out there that are dead or dying, too: CZ-101, DX100, Roland S-10, Alesis HR16...some others.

See some older pics here:

http://www.olscratchrecordings.com/prayercapsule.htm

[garret]

Crikey, Scott... you sure you know how to use all that stuff?

My "studio" includes:

the dog's kennel
the dog's tub o food
the dog's water and food dishes
a brick wall and 8 windows (it's a converted porch)

and some music gear...
a lovely 30 old acoustic guitar (NMI martin copy)
a hagsgrom bass, on permanent loan from a friend
a dearmond/guild archtop electric guitar

a couple of marshall mics (1006 and 603s)
a studio projects VTB-1 preamp
a homebuilt pc (athlon xp1700)
m-audio BX5 monitors

I have some more stuff upstairs in the official music room (which I don't use cause it's lonely up there)... a wonky old casiotone keyboard with fake wood grain and sounds to match... a couple of bad amps, and too many stomp boxes...

-Garret

[Scot Solida]

Crikey, Scott... you sure you know how to use all that stuff?

Still learning Kyma, but other than that, yeah. Mind you, I suck real bad at some of it (the geetars, f'rinstance)...

Man, you oughta see the list of the stuff I've gotten RID of in the past coupla years...LOL.

[Lunch Money]

Zoinks! I have bugger all compared to that--

-Computers: Athlon XP1700+ based computer, Toshiba Satellite laptop (measly 1.6 Celeron)
-Cheapest mixer with phantom power I could find (Behringer Euroracks UB802)
-Marshall MG-30DFX (The DFX are crap) amp
-Yamaha PSR-290 consumer-grade keyboard... no mod or pitch wheels, but at least there's MIDI keys!
-3 guitars -- Guild acoustic, Godin LG electrc, Yamaha Pacifica (the tele style, not the strat) electric
-1 bass guitar -- Fender American Standard Jazz. OK, OK... this one's my dad's, but it's on indefinite loan!
[edit: oh yeah, and a Shure PG-58 mic]

And in the basement, but I never use for recording--

Garnet 50W head (the tubes need replacing badly)
Roland 250W PA/Mixer
Analog Echo/Chorus machine (why can't I remember the brand name?)
Tascam Portastudio (woo-haw! Where I cut my teeth!)

Greg

[Gwydi]

Hardware synths: Roland JD800, Roland JD990, Kurzweil K2000S, Roland SC8850, and an Evolution MK149 controller

Software synths: Reason, Reaktor, Cameleon 5000, VSampler3, DR008, M42 Nebula (my favorite), and probably about 50 others (what can I say, I like to shop )

Other hardware: Shure SM58, Rode NT1, Art OPL Tube MP pre (just lovely), Boss MX-10 line mixer, Phonic MM502 mixer, ESI nEar-05 monitors (fantastic monitors)

Computer: P4/2.4, 1G, 80G. Egosys Waveterminal 2496, Egosys Miditerminal 4140, Roland UA100 (for the extra midi ports), Wave Idea Bitstream Pro

"Real" instruments: Ibanez AEG10N thinline acoustic guitar. I might even learn to play it one day. Small shaker (I can play that one ).

You can see a picture of my mess from a link off my main music site - http://listen.to/gwydi - who else has pics of their studio online?

[IIRs]

Ageing home-built Athlon (1.4GHz)
M-Audio Delta 66
M-Audio Oxygen 8
Midisport 2*2
Evolution UC16

Nord Micro-Modular
Yamaha A3000 V2 sampler
Jen SX1000 (very dusty & un-used!)

Gibson Les Paul Custom plus
Squire Strat copy
EKO acoustic (bought for £30 when I was 15yrs old!)

Digitech Valve FX (Rackmount guitar pre-amp/fx)
Mesa Boogie 20/20 Valve power amp
Home-made mahogany spkr cab with vintage "greenback" Celestions.
ART X15 MIDI foot controller

Mackie 1402 VLZ PRO
Mackie HR626 monitors (pair)
Joe Meek VC3 mic pre/compressor.

Shure SM58 * 2
Shure SM57
Beyer M88 (old silver ex-BBC model)
Stagg MC07 (condenser with 2 switchable polar patterns)

Stuff thats not plugged in any more:

Spirit Absolute 2 monitors
Roland VS880

These formed the core of my first home recording setup.. I'm too fond of the Roland in particuar to sell it for the kind of money it would fetch now (best not to think about how much it cost new!)

[Karbon L. Forms]

Platinumears! You c**t!
You got a boogie and that les paul? What the f**k you need all the other shit for?

[IIRs]

Platinumears! You c**t!
You got a boogie and that les paul? What the f**k you need all the other shit for?

Had to get all that when I sacked the rest of the band

[simpletim]

I'm with Lunchmoney.

Home Built Athlon 1700xp
Behringer ub802 mixer
Behringer B-1 Condenser
Yamaha and Fender Acoustics
Squire P-Bass
Ibanez GX10 electric (not bad for $100)
Soundblaster live running KX drivers

I'm looking forward to making lots of money somehow and buying lots more stuff.