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Steve White
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11/18/2015 4:36:32 PM
What do you use for recording gear?
I use the iPad Po and the iPad Air 2. I also have three or four acoustic guitars, a 77 Fender Jazz Bass, a Roland Octapad and a Yamaha Motif 8.
How bout you?
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Chris Hance
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11/20/2015 7:05:12 AM
Home built Windows 7 PC, M-audio Delta interface, Sony Acid Pro, Fiesta Spanish Guitar, Tanglewood Les Paul, Two Yamaha Synths, Senheiser Mic, Tapco Mixer, Korg Legacy Soft Synth, Alesis Midiverb, Roland TR505 retro drum machine.
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Steve White
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11/20/2015 7:27:29 AM
Wow Chris!
That's a pretty nice setup you have there. :)
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11/20/2015 9:35:45 AM
Two tin cans and a string.
Boy I handed that one out gift-wrapped;
now everyone can say 'yeah, and it sounds like it!'
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Steve White
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11/21/2015 7:30:35 AM
Funny B :)
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Stoneman
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11/21/2015 3:13:37 PM
Hardware Rack: Tascam Adat 24 TRK linked to a Tascam Adat 16 trk (older model) Presonus Preamp, emagic EMT 8 midi interface, Yamaha 01V Digital mixing console. 2 Rocket 8 KRK monitors, 2 Rocket 10-3 KRK monitors. Maudio Fast Track Pro audio interface, AKG 414 Condenser Mic, Neumann TLM Condenser Mic, Blue Dragonfly Mic, Assortment of effect rack mounts.
Instruments: Korg X50, Korg N356, Yamaha DX7(still working), Yamaha DX 21 (still working), Yamaha Arius Piano, Olympic Bass Guitar, Olympic Electric Guitar, Fender CD-60 Acoustic guitar, Allora Tenor Sax, Allora Trumpet, Roland TD 30 Drum set
Software: Logic Pro, Reason, Pro Tools, Sonar, Fruity Loops, Acid, Cubase, Presonus Studio One, Abelton, Cakewalk, Soundforge, Izotope Ozone, Izotope Nectar 1 & 2, Izotope Stutter Edit, Lexicon Native Reverb, Over 300 Waves Plug-ins.
I think that's it but I may find more if I look around this crazy studio. It looks the way my mind looks. In total disarray but strangely, I know where everything is. I won a lot of this stuff in songwriting contests.
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Steve White
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11/22/2015 9:59:41 AM
Wow Stone!
That's a lot of cool stuff ya got there!
When you say you won a lot of it in songwriting contests? Do you have to pay a fee to enter these contests or are they free submittals?
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Stoneman
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11/22/2015 10:53:32 AM
There are fee's ranging from $10.00 to $35.00 per song. So far I have placed or won in 44 contests. In 9 music genres. Some are repeat wins and others are just one time wins. The prizes are usually cash, gear, and services. How much depends on the contest. I have been very lucky. My last one was this year when my Reggae song "To Love" won Best Reggae Song in the Hollywood Songwriting contest. There are other pending but I may not win. I usually compete in about 5 contests per year. Genre usually depends on whatever genre I am working on at the time.
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Bryon Tosoff
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11/22/2015 11:00:25 AM
sheesh, I got nothing much. and so wont post it here., : )
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Steve White
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11/22/2015 4:59:19 PM
Bryon
It doesn't matter how little or how much you have, it's what you do with it, :)
I really don't have a lot, my Yamaha Motif 8 is so old I forget how old it is.
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Vincenzo Pandolfi
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11/23/2015 1:05:13 AM
Very very old iMac G5 with old version of Logic (7)
MAudio USB keyboard, old donated Korg SP-100 , NT1-A Rode mike. Occasionally I use an ancient Beale upright piano, romantically out of tune....
Vincenzo
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Shoe City Sound
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11/23/2015 6:57:45 AM
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Like Bryon, pretty simple here. Old Tascam board, Old Ensoniq work station keys, iMac with Logic Pro, and a bunch of boxes with lights on them - only DJ Julio knows what they do ....
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Steve White
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11/23/2015 4:22:49 PM
Ancient Beale upright piano
Do you have any songs on your page that uses that piano?
I'd love to hear how it sounds.
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Steve White
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11/23/2015 4:23:44 PM
Logic Pro
I've heard nothing but good things about Logic. Boxes with lights on them. LOL!
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Stoneman
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11/23/2015 5:04:23 PM
I sold some boxes with lights on them because I could not figure out what they did and why I needed them. Fortunately, the people who bought them seemed to be pleased! Geesh! Those things were giving me nightmares..............
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Bryon Tosoff
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11/25/2015 10:37:55 AM
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actually I have a number of instruments of course old 4 track tascam porta 07, a mackie 1202 mixer , couple of crappy mics, more keyboards then I like to admit, one is a 40 Year old Solina String Ensemble. lovely sound- I guess it is either outdated or antique. still use it on occasion, bunch more things and I do have 3 guitars which i hardly play and dont do much but strum out some chords. one is a real nice Seagull performer series
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Two Silo Complex
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11/25/2015 6:02:49 PM
Right now I use a Tascam dp01fx and then import the 24 bit wave files to my daw and edit them using reaper with various instruments and mics.
You can hear the results of that setup on my song Dream away.
Over the years I had many different DAW and interfaces this is the current incarnation it gives me 24 bit quality at 8 tracks (but only two at a time) then import those and add more tracks if I feel so inspired. I like this setup because can track quickly and get down jam Ideas that I might otherwise forget. Someday I would like to upgrade to dp24 for 8 tracks at once and 16 true tracks or 24 if you want to double up on tracks. Today you can get pretty good gear on the cheap Tascam makes a 8 input bus that is usb that can be used with any daw for like 299.
Tascam Us-16x08 Usb Audio.
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Chandra Moon
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11/26/2015 2:08:26 AM
Depends what I'm doing - rough recordings nothing better than a little Yamaha Pocketrak which renders brilliant quality Mp3s from quick takes. Guitar Fender acoustic, M-audio keyboard, Roland amp - for my really proper recordings I go to the studio with my lovely producer but he's moved to France - boohoo!!!!!!!
I also use very simple software that's idiot proof such as Audacity.
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Andy Broad
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11/27/2015 6:28:12 AM
For my most recent CD (the one I just posted about on my blog) I used a MAudio FastTrck Pro 8x8 Usb soud module attached to my laptop running linux for recording, then a itransfered to my SAM 440 Flex, running AmigaOS 4.1, with a terratec sound card for mixing.
Mics wise I used two Rode condensor mics for the vocals and guitar plus a scattering of SM58s for stompbox, micng the keyboard amp etc. Would have DI the keyboard but we got some odd earth loop nopise we couldn't eradicate.
Software wise I used Ardour on the laptop and Audio Evolution 4 on the Amiga machine.
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Steve White
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11/27/2015 7:09:07 AM
I've read all of these posts and it's really cool to see how you all get your sounds.
I'm still looking for a new recording interphase for my iPad Pro but the thing is so new I haven't found anything yet. Right now I'm using a Focusrite iDock but with the Air 2 but the Pro is too big in size to use with the dock so yep I'm looking.
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Two Silo Complex
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11/28/2015 3:10:27 PM
Hey Steve,
I think appogee makes an interface for apple it might be the idock you have I was curious why you would be using an ipad instead of a full mac then you could get the firewire thunderbolt.
My latest song Cordial Melody done on my current setup of Tascam dp01 and reaper for editing.
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Steve White
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11/28/2015 5:43:43 PM
Hi TS
Right now I have a Focusrite iDock but too small for the Pro.
I first went with an iPad as a toy but then I started finding some cool music apps and virtual instruments that I really liked so the next one I bought was the Air 2 because I had found a cool recording app called Auria.
I went with the iPad because of the size. I can play the virtual instruments easily on the smaller screen. I went with the Pro because of the new chip and that will be my replacement at some point.
I'm looking at the iTrack Solo so far and it looks ok but just ok.
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Two Silo Complex
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11/28/2015 7:00:51 PM
Hi again Steve, yes the iTrack Solo was what I was thinking of I don't have any information about it and hate apple in general so I won't be much help in your quest. I find it interesting that you are using vst on your ipad I have heard about it and seen commercials for it but never meet anyone who did it until now. There is a lot of great VST out there but they are in general pricey.
I have seem some interesting setup over the years lo-fi \ hi-fi pricey and cheap in general you do get what you pay for and recording closest to the source is best. I prefer to record dry then add effects through vst for the cleanest sound.
Tsc
Ken
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Steve White
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11/29/2015 8:45:18 AM
Hi Ken
I was never an Apply fan and still use a IBM Laptop, a Sony Ultrabook with an SSD Drive.
But the iPad? Yep I really love it.
All the virtual instrument apps I got were about 5.00 a piece and sound great. I use a lot of them in my songs. I'm still deciding on that Solo. :)
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