Ok then musicians post your rig. be it a pa setup, a guitar setup, a recording setup, a drum setup. tell me it all.
This is mine:
Computer Spec:
Pentium 4 1.4GHz
512MB RAM
Standard Sound
GeForce FX 7700 Graphics Card
Cubase SX3
Reason 3
Ableton Live 5
(Upgrading anytime to duo core turion 1.6 w/ 2gb RAM anf 256 mb graphics 
)
Studio/ Monitoring Equipment
Kenwood KA-3020 180W Amplifier
Kenwood Stereo Speakers
Mics:
2 x AKG C1000s Condenser
4 x Shure SM58 Dynamic
1 x Shure SM57 Dynamic
1 x JTS NX2 Bass Drum mic
4 x Sennheiser e604 tom mic
Effects:
Rack Mount:
Alesis Midiverb 3 Multi FX
Alesis Micro Nanocompressor
Vesta Ge31 Graphic Equaliser
Electrix Filter Queen Filter Factory
Roland GI 10 guitar midi interface
Stompboxes:
Boss DS1 distortion
Sovtek Big Muff fuzz
Ibanez PH5 phaser
Danelectro Milkshake Chorus
DHA Valvetone Valve Overdrive
ExpAn Sandwich Echo (w/ delay time expression control)
Electro Harmonix Small Clone Tremelo/Chorus
2 x Ibanez DE7
Crybaby Wah Pedal
Behringer EQ
Electro Harmonix Hogs Foot Bass Booster
Stereo Signal Splitter
Amps:
HH Electronics 100Watt Head Unit
Hartke Transporter 1x15" Bass Cab
Marshall MG15CDR 15Watt Guitar Amp
HH Electronics 100Watt PA Unit
Guitars & Basses:
Guitars:
Custom Fender Squier Stratocaster (w/ humbucker in bridge and modified electronics)
Custom Telecaster Copy (w/ fender squier stratocaster neck)
Basses:
Ibanez Ergodyne EDB600 4-string
Synths & Keyboards:
Roland Juno 6
Korg X5 Dr Rack Mount Module
Hammond Organ
Assorted Midi keyboards
Yamaha Upright Piano
Misc Other:
2 x ATR DI-Box
4 track stereo/mono mini mixer
Airband Radio Wow, that's a ton. I don't have a huge arsenal... Yet.
I just got a Macbook (too lazy to post exact specs), I use a Washburn X-50 electric guitar, a Marshall 50 watt guitar amp, a Zoom multi-effect pedal, a powerful (but old) stereo system, an M-Audio midi keyboard. I also have a nice PC desktop computer, but haven't used it much as of late.
In software I mainly use Reason and Ableton 5/6. I'm buying 6 this week. I'm also looking around for a firewire or USB audio interface. Any reccomendations?
Whoa...i feel like pov cheap bastard haha! 
well... im just a guitar player...i have a ... squire strat guitar, marshal MG amp and a digitech rp80 pedal! not a bad set up for what i need...and it gets the sound i want out of it...hoping for a new amp soon! 1. Jazz Bass
2. Big Amp
3. The bassline from Give it Away
YEAH!!
My guitar rig:
Guitars
Jackson DKMG (cobalt blue swirl)
Jackson King V (black)
Random old Samick which I did a custom paint job on (piece of shit, but looks sweet)
Amps
Crate GLX212 120 W (wish I had known more about amps when I bought it...looking to sell so I can buy an all-tube)
old-school Mako Piranha 25 W
Effects
Dunlop Crybaby
Boss DD-6 digital delay
Boss GE-7 EQ
I believe that's all..
Computer:
Pentium 4 - 1.6ghz
Windows XP Pro
256 Ram
300GB External HDD
20GB Internal HDD
Programs: (What I use when recording)
Audacity
NERO Wave Editor
LeafDrums 2.0
Frooty Loops Studio
Rhythm Rascal
Guitar Pro 4 & 5 (Sometimes extract the drum track)
Bass/Guitar:
4 String Ibanez SR200TR
4 String Fender Squire
5 String Aria Pro - Series II
Monterey Acoustic Guitar
Amps:
100 watt HARTKE Stage Amp
10 watt Drive Practice amp
Misc:
Digitech BP200 Bass Modulator Pedal
KORG Digital Tuner
BC Rich Strings
Basic Computer Mic (Does a really good job!)
Wow...some of you have really impressive setups. I have more of a music workstation than a recording studio at this point, but it's slowly starting to get there 
Controllers
M-Audio Oxygen8 V2
Akai MPD16
Turntable Related
Numark TT200
Numark DM1050
BBE Phono Preamp
Vinyl Records
Instruments
Squier Stratocaster
Various VSTs, which I won't name specifically
Thinking of adding a bass and/or drumkit...
Microphones
Shure SM58 Beta (x2)
Control Surface
Tascam US-428
Monitoring - probably where I'll be upgrading next
Old logitech HiFi speakers
beyerdynamic DT770s (Headphones)
Computer
Acer 3003 WLCi Laptop
15.4" WXGA LCD Screen
40 GB Internal HD
250 GB External HD
DVD/CD-RW Drive
1 GB RAM
Windows XP Home
Sequencing/Effects Processing
Sony Acid Pro 6
Sony Soundforge 8.0
| Scott wrote: |
| I'm also looking around for a firewire or USB audio interface. Any reccomendations? |
If your computer has firewire compatibility I'd definitely go firewire over USB...aside from that, the interface that suits you best will depend on a variety of things. Like:
How many inputs you need, what types of inputs you need, and the features that suit you best...i.e. preamps (Y/N), phantom power (Y/N), effects (Y/N/Which ones)
tweakheadz.com has a lot of really good information about various interfaces
http://tweakheadz.com/soundcards_for_the_home_studio.htm
http://tweakheadz.com/audio_interface_fw_comparison_chart.htm
Also, if you don't already have a mixing console and you have a compatible sequencer, you might want to look into control surfaces. A lot of them function as control surfaces/audio interfaces in one. I personally am gonna start using the Tascam US-428, but really good ones include M-Audio's Project Mix I/O, or Mackie's Logic Control Universal. | Scott wrote: |
| I'm also looking around for a firewire or USB audio interface. Any reccomendations? |
hmm what amount of channels you looking at and what kind of quality anything in particular you wanna record? If your looking into large amounts of channels you can spend about 400 and get a good 16 track firewire/ usb desk like the alesis ones although the alesis multimix usb does not support large multitrack recording. unfortunately with the usb you can only record stereo onto the pc whereas the firewire goes into the pc with all 16 tracks and then back out in stereo. they have 16 track, 8 track and 12 track ones iirc.
If you are simply looking for a simple but easy way of hooking up guitars, basses, synthesisers to a pc then your prob best with something like an m-audio mbox or the line 6 guitar port. These are both excellent quality products. the line 6 especially has great preamps and is built for exactly that. Also if your only after 1 track in then you can probably get a decent sound card to do it for you. 90% of people will not even notice the difference in quality until you get to pro quality stuff and as much as a lot of people will say otherwise im sure most of the people on here wouldnt have a clue if you showed them something you did with say a soundblaster or similar.
| deStructuralized wrote: |
| If your computer has firewire compatibility I'd definitely go firewire over USB. |
hmmm i disagree there. as far as i am aware usb 2 is now a faster data transfer than firewire is it not? maybe im wrong but thats what i seem to remember. Although i also seem to remember there being only the possibility to transfer a stereo track over usb. anyways someone else can clear that up.
Some good links there destructuralized also those tascam jobbys are pretty neat. Used one for a good few years and they are pretty smart and work v well with cubase and digital performer. Good cheap little interface and worth every penny if you ask me | The Mitchell wrote: |
| Scott wrote: | | I'm also looking around for a firewire or USB audio interface. Any reccomendations? |
hmm what amount of channels you looking at and what kind of quality anything in particular you wanna record? If your looking into large amounts of channels you can spend about 400 and get a good 16 track firewire/ usb desk like the alesis ones although the alesis multimix usb does not support large multitrack recording. unfortunately with the usb you can only record stereo onto the pc whereas the firewire goes into the pc with all 16 tracks and then back out in stereo. they have 16 track, 8 track and 12 track ones iirc.
If you are simply looking for a simple but easy way of hooking up guitars, basses, synthesisers to a pc then your prob best with something like an m-audio mbox or the line 6 guitar port. These are both excellent quality products. the line 6 especially has great preamps and is built for exactly that. Also if your only after 1 track in then you can probably get a decent sound card to do it for you. 90% of people will not even notice the difference in quality until you get to pro quality stuff and as much as a lot of people will say otherwise im sure most of the people on here wouldnt have a clue if you showed them something you did with say a soundblaster or similar. |
^ very good, detailed advice...props!
What you said about most people not noticing the sound quality difference is very true...what people need to remember is, your rig can only sound as good as your worst piece of equipment. A soundcard will not automatically make everything sound better if you have shoddy mics/uninsulated cables/poor noise reduction, etc...but a great soundcard can be a good foundation for a solid studio if you remain committed to improving your setup over time.
| The Mitchell wrote: |
| deStructuralized wrote: | | If your computer has firewire compatibility I'd definitely go firewire over USB. |
hmmm i disagree there. as far as i am aware usb 2 is now a faster data transfer than firewire is it not? maybe im wrong but thats what i seem to remember. Although i also seem to remember there being only the possibility to transfer a stereo track over usb. anyways someone else can clear that up. |
I'm pretty sure Firewire is faster than USB 2 in terms of read/write speed...
http://www.usb-ware.com/firewire-vs-usb.htm
I've never heard of the stereo issue, so you're probably more knowledgeable on that front...since both types of cables transfer digital data I'd assumed there would be no difference in mono/stereo recording capability. What're the specific differences that cause that? I'm kind of curious.Fair play on the usb firewire thing. I'd always been told firewire was faster than the usb 1 but slower than usb 2. Also the stereo thing seems to be on the alesis desks only as far as im aware. not seen it on other desks although it seems a little odd to have a firewire with 16tracks and usb with only stereo out if there is another way around this.
Are you an engineer yourself destrucuralized?
| The Mitchell wrote: |
| Are you an engineer yourself destrucuralized? |
I wish, haha
Enthusiast, been working with music for about a year now...I hope to have enough knowledge & experience to consider myself an engineer someday though.
What about yourself?Just
Gibson Faded SG Special
Fender amp from a "Strat pack"
Digitech RP200Artist pedal
I want a new amp, not sure what though.
| deStructuralized wrote: |
| The Mitchell wrote: | | Are you an engineer yourself destrucuralized? |
I wish, haha
Enthusiast, been working with music for about a year now...I hope to have enough knowledge & experience to consider myself an engineer someday though.
What about yourself? |
Studying and looking for work. Im half way through my second year at uni and ive been kind of in and out of part time jobs and experience for about 6 years now and doing education in it for about 4 years. Trying to find work at the moment but its tough goin.
