Anyone Home Record? What's Your Set Up?

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

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 ? ;-)

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.