Anyone Home Record? What's Your Set Up?

I use a small Zoom and I keep all the instruments at below the minimum volume of the levels. That way when I mix I have more accurate control over my faders. I still use unorthodox recording methods and I prefer playing the drums to a click track instead of programming drum beats. I have a Yamaha keyboard which is not the best so I resort to using a chours pedal and a digital delay to alter and enhance the fullness in sound that the keyboard cannot give me. I play a Les Paul and apply those effects when needed. After I mix everything I take the SD card to a state of the art studio and he brings the recording up to radio broadcast level. It usually costs me $250.00. I'm releasing the album next year in February or March. I am currently working on a new instrumental album about the life history of the Vikings. It involves some reoccurring themes and counterpoint arrangements combined with choir voices on keys and guitar melody. It's probably going to take me 2 years to complete it. I need to find an artist to do the cover. It's a lot of work. It sometimes takes me 10 to 12 hours a day to accomplish something decent.

Generally, I use Reaper with a Focusrite Scarlett audio interface. There are various mics, some of which I've modified - as for the amount of gear I have plugged in, well, where to start ? ;-)

Since I'm a huge fan of electronic music (particularly the Berlin-School stuff), I have been dabbling around with my own electronic compositions for a few decades now.  All just amateur stuff recorded at home with various different synths throughout the years.  Currently I just have a couple of different workstation synths (Roland FA-06 and my [sort of] trusty Ensoniq VFX-SD), which I run through a little Scarlett Focusrite 2i2 to Ableton Live on my desktop.

Edited by ProfPanglos - October 07 2021 at 08:12

that looks fab- such a shame the bands are duff. i have the x-28. again it seems to be in good condition, but not tried it in years so i may have similar issues 

chopper wrote: The old home recording I've done was on cassettes on a Fostex X-15 4 track back in the 80s. I think I still have it in the loft actually.

Edited by tigerfeet - June 10 2021 at 19:10

Currently I'm using a TASCAM 2488 portastudio 24 channel ( I only use 8 channels ). This machine has an inboard cd -burning capability. Great sound and no computer related bullsh*t to deal with. I am working as B. WILDERED (solo).Run lines in ,mike the drums... thunder road prog.

I have recently upgraded to a mac mini. M1 chip with 16gb ram. I run logic pro on it and other than the NI instruments I use my trust Korg M50, along with a Nord Stage 2. The band shares wavs over dropbox and wetransfer to sync all their respective parts and it all works well. I am really pleased with the mac mini. Recently invested in a couple of 26” gaming monitors too which really helps.

I recorded and mixed my debut album in my bedroom studio. I have a PC with good CPU specs . I record into FL Studio 20 with a Scarlett Focusrite 6i6. I have a basic mAudio MIDI keyboard, all my guitars and basses, and about 3 mid level mics (large and small diaphragm condensers and dynamic). I mixed the album using mainly Waves plugins from the Gold Bundle I got in a Black Friday sale, plus Guitar Rig 5 and a bunch of specialized plugins like Soothe 2. I built some sound absorption panels and bought bass traps for my room and use the panels and moving blankets to absorb sound in a closet when I record vocals.

Reaper DAW with an Alesis V49 keyboard MIDI controller, numerous VSTs, Goldwave sound editor, and Samson Meteor Mic. All this on an ASUS PC that's just over 10 years old now (upgraded from Vista to 7 and now 10). Just a hobbyists setup; simple and mostly inexpensive.

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