http://bruceamiller.us/bamaudioschool/audio_course/00_req.html

One of the course requirements is having access to some form of audio system.

Use this topic to write about your system.

"some forum of audio system"

"form", I think you mean, Bruce

Anyways, I have recently purchased a DIGI002R system which includes Pro Tools LE6.4.

I have this rig in a spare bedroom with an iMac G4 20" and various attachments.

I'm monitoring on a pair of Yamaha MSP3 actives, which are small speakers that are probably OK for the environment I'm in, but I'd want to upgrade if I build my own room.

I have no sound treatment in my room...yet. This is an important part of the audio "system" I believe. Very hard for me currently as the room serves double duty. When I stop taking these overseas holidays I'll get my shit together with a studio

Good cabling is also on my list.

I'm happy with the 002R, it is now very stable on my mac and provides 18 inputs. It also works with garageband, iTunes etc. so I'm cool for the time being.

cheers
Tube

Tube, you are already ahead of the game. And although you do not have sound treatment, speaker placement can be a great way to make sure your room sounds better. I frequently mix in (GASP) untuned rooms, and sometimes move the speakers to where they sound better before starting.

During the course I intend to demonstrate a complete production using only a laptop and a pair of headphones...in an attempt to show that it's not WHAT you have so much as HOW you use it.

-B

Thanks Bruce, I'll be looking forward to that for sure!
T

Hi,
I am running a
P4 3.0GHZ PC
Recording on two 75GIG Raptor SATA drives run as one
A 250GIG for storage and Sample libraries
A 40 GIG for Operating system
An 80 GIG for more storage
Creamware Pulsar and Luna TDM cards 96KHZ
32 I/O's
AKG SolidTube Mic, Shure SM 57, EV Mic
4 Sony MDR-7506 Headphones
Nuendo 2
Wavelab 4
Waves Diamond 5.0
Antares Mic Modeler & Auto Tune
A ton of vitrual instruments and other plug-ins
Plextor Multi-CD & DVD Burner
I have a Sountracs board
Urei 809 monitors
Yamaha NS10's
M-Audio Studiopro 4 active monitors
I also just got a Dual Xeon PC I am gonna try to link the two systems together or use the Xeon to Master and the P4 to record. I am still in the learning stages. I am a keyboard player/ writer / remixer / tour musician who wants to learn more about engineering and how to complete a mix. Also I esploring options for good vocal Mic's and Mic Pre's this studio thing is getting real expensive.
Oh, by the way I am running the Recording PC with
Triple-Head-Diaplay (3 19" monitors) I can break up my projects over the 3 screens. It's cool.
Oh and guys, if I this is too much information, I'm sorry.

I mix in a bedroom. I presently have:

Intell P4 2.4Ghz
512mb Ram
80gb Seagate
40gb western Digital
Sonar Pro Studio
Sonic Foundry SoundForge
Fruity Loops
Alesis Mk2
Sm 57 & 58
Epiphone Lp Special
Yamaha Psr-240
Generic Bass Guitar
Loads of plugins

Computer:
Athlon/64 3500 MSI Neo-4 Mainboard
ThermalTake Big Typhoon Heat Sink & Fan ( extremely quiet, outstanding product)
Lian Li Aluminum Case with a Startech Silent 460W PS ( the power supply uses 120mm Fans for low noise)
I have moded the 6 80mm case fans to run at 5 volts opposed to the regular 12 volts, fans run slower, much less noise.
Lined all of the case panels with duct tape to dampen vibrations.
2 Gigs OCZ DDR memory with copper heat spreaders.
I use Western Digital 7200 8M cache drives.
160G for OS and applications and regular stuff
200 GIG for Audio storage
200 GIG for Samples
LG DVD-RW
I use a PRomise TX2 133 IDE controller so that I can have each drive and the DVD on it's own cable for more band width.
I also have installed a Promise S150-SX4 SATA Raid controller and 4 WD 120G SATA drives in a RAID 5 configurations for storage of projects, MP3 collections and other stuff I don't want to loose. THe raid is pretty cool, one drive can dy and the data is still accessable with reduced performance, replace the drive and in an hour or so the raid rebuilds itself and it's good to go, I tested this by removing drives and replacing them with new drives, worked without a hitch.
Dual 19" Samsung CRT monitors ( Dual monitors are the greatest thing for Audio work, three would be even better but...)
ATI Radeon X300 Dual head video card
APC Smart 420 UPS (country life is great, power is a bit spotty)

I spent a lot of time trying out different stuff to get a quiet computer, she is a beaut, quite proud of the box.

Gear:
M-Audio Delta 1010 Interface
M-Audio BX-8 Speakers ( Love them) mounted on stands
Alto L-16 Mixer
Behringer Patch Bay
Behringer Composer Pro Compressor
4 Port Headphone Distribution Amp
Alto Effects Unit
Apex 430 Mics
Shure SM57
Evolution 61 Key Midi Keyboard
AKG Headphones, a few models.

Newest Toy:
Eridol R1 Portable Wave Recorder. Built in stero mics records 24bit 44.1k to Compact Flash, having alot of fun with it.

Software:
Cubase SX3
Halion 2
Sampletank II
Wavelab 4
Ableton Live 5
The Grand
Groove Agent
Assortment of Reverbs ( present fax is the Cakewalk Sonitus Reverb)
Band In a Box

Room:
12x14x9.5 Room. Used to be the dining Room in an old, old farm house, middle of no where, loud as you want it location.
I have done some ad hoc room treatment using egg crate type foam and have a couple of floor to ceiling curtains anout half of the floor carpet half wood.
Pretty un scientific about the room design but sounds pretty good to me

How I got all this stuff:
I manage a computer store so I get the computer gear to "evaluate", the pay is low but the fringe benifits are great.
After I got into the recording thing I started to carry computer audio gear and software in the store so I get NFR copies for most my software and deals on anything I need for my system. SO I am very lucky that way.

Been putting this stuff together for the past 5 years or so, didn't happen over night.

i have a small bedroom system built around a roland vs-1880.

no other software or computers.

recording:
roland cdr-2 burner
A Designs Audio Mp-1 mic pre
ART DPS pre and digital convertor
DBX mini-comp
Furman power conditioner
Hafler TA-1100 monitor amp
KRK Rokit monitors (on stands)
AT ATHM40fs headphones, Sony MDR7502 headphones
yamaha natural sound cd player w/digital out
Zoom 123 drum machine.

mics:
SM57, AT4033, ADK Hamburg

instruments:
Carvin DC-200K
Williams Hybrid Strat
USA custom guitars strat
Carvin TL-60 Koa
Ibanez SRX-500 bass (active)
Taylor 414 auditorium
Casio keyboard/synth
various percussion pieces
sansamp bass di
Mesa Boogie Mark2b 60 watt tube head
Demeter isolation cabinet w/12" celestions v-30(2) roland 1x12 enclosures with celestion 30 watt speakers

room:
2nd bedroom!
LOL
hardwood floors, hard untreated ceiling.
i've added 12"X12" wedge foam treatment around the immediate area of my mixing setup, but have found that pulling the monitors out away from the walls, at an odd angle, gives me the least coloration of the room. i need to add bass traps in at least 3 corners.
as it is, i use low volume, very close monitoring to dial in levels and pans, then crank em and compare...
use the cans as well....
burn test cd's, compare in the truck, home stereo, pc stereo w/sub, and jambox.
My room, is my achilles heel.

Hey Gonzo-X, I see you have a sansamp bass di. I hear they are the cat's ass. How do you like it?

G

Delta 44
Pentium 4 PC
Sonar 4
Guitar Tracks 2
Fruity Loops 4
Waves
Antares Mic Modeler
TC Electronics
Various Free Plugins
BBE Sonic Maximizer
Amplitube
Pi Warp
Ionizer
Powered M-Audio BX8s
Sony MX-16 mixer(yeah really really old)
Art Tube MP
Samson C01
Spector NS 5 string
Zoom 506II pedal
one broke ass Kustom II bass combo from before I was born
so basically I'm totally lacking in the hardware dept. I try to get the best deals on everything, but I'm saving for an Ampeg which I will prob buy from the music shop. All my software except for Sonar FL4 was bought second hand from people upgrading or whatever. Anyone have the new Ozone and wanna sell the old version for cigarette money? Seriously.

Room:
The Family Room (my family just loves it... lol) and a small drum room we built off of the back of the house. The back portion of the drum room is sectioned off with carpet and the entire section is carpeted on the walls and ceiling for recording vocals in a more "dead" space. Reverb is then added during mixing.

Computer:
AMD Athlon XP2800+
Asus A7N8XE
2GB DDR RAM
Windows XP Pro

Recording:
Samplitude Professional 8.2
Aardvark Q10
Various plugins and VSTi's (Voxengo, EWQL Symphonic Orchestra, and a ton of free VST and VSTi plugins)
Behringer Eurorack MX 1602A (never used for recording, main use is for playback of windows media files from my onboard sound and sometimes for feeding headphones while recording)
Small 5-Channel Radio Shack Mixer (only used for headphone feeds)
Speakers/Monitoring: Aiwa CD-Player speakers (lol) and Audio Centron PA speakers. But will be upgrading to the Wharfedale Diamond Pro 8.2a's very soon. A pair of old beat up headphones.

Mics
Peluso 22 47...... "IF" I win this month's giveaway!
ADK Vienna
Rode NT2
Red5 Audio RVK7 Drum Mic Set:
* RVD1 Kick Drum Mic
* (4) RVD9 Snare/Tom Mics
* (2) RV4 Small Diaphragm Condenser Mics
Shure SM57
AKG D112
(3) Radio Shack 33-3032 Tom Mics (had 4 but one broke)
A Radio Shack Small Diaphram Condensor Mic (don't know the model)

Instruments:
Tama Rockstar Drumset
Zidjian and Sabian Cymbals

Cort CL1000
DeArmond M-65C
Washburn Double Cutaway
Lyon (by Washburn)
Fender DG20CE Acoustic
Yamaha G-65A Spanish/Classical Acoustic
Digitech RP14 Effects Pedal
Zoom 505 Effects Pedal

DeArmond Pilot V 5-String Bass

Technics SX-PR303 keyboard

Misc:
Mackie 1400i Power Amp (didn't really fit under recording so I gave it its own catagory )


Ok, I think that's pretty much everything.

-tkr

flutedude -

i like the sansamp.
it doesn't have any mid control though...
just low and hi....

what i do, is run a second signal out of it (bypass out) and process that more traditionally (compressor, mic preamp, straight in)... and then mix the 2 signals together to blend one track.

then you've got the real character of the bass (the direct line) mixed in with the very tweaked sansamp signal, works pretty good.

the sansamp also has a "blend" knob, that lets you blend in the direct sound with the processed sound.

xlr's out in addition to 1/4", it's a nice unit.

OK, here is my rig:

Once Upon A Time In The West Studio:

Room:
My garage! LOL! As sound conditioned as it can be, and covering one whole wall is an 8'x 28' hand painted canvas billboard for the Sergio Leone classic Spaghetti Western "ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST" (It was a billboard in Calcutta India in 1969). I got it from a guy in a little bar on the Western slope of the rockies in Colorado -what a find! musicians love it! There is just something about having Claudia Cardinale's face staring at the drummer, all 7' tall of it!

OK -Back to business!

Computer:
Pentium P4 3.2 GHz
Dual Boot -Boot Magic (I also like to game)
Dual 160 GB SATA Drives 7200 RPM
Maxtor 200 GB External Druve (Firewire)
Gig Ethernet network
1 TB Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Radeon x800 (I said I like to Game)
Sound:
Recording boot: TASCAM US122 USB Sound -for MP3s
Gaming: Audigy 2 (I disable this in recording boot)

Also
Alienware Area51m Mobile Workstation
P4 3.4 GHZ

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Event Tuned Reference TR5 Active Monitors
Peavey 215 PA Cabinets /1600 Watt Power Amp
Lincoln Aviator (For automobile tests)
Sony Boombox
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Recording Hardware:
Digi002r (Protools LE 6.9)
Aphex 207D Mic Pre Dual Ch. S/PDIF out
Behringer AD8A000 Mic Pre 8 Channels
-All rack mounted and mobile as hell. 18 Channels anywhere in minutes! (I record live shows for local bands).
100' 16+4 Snake
Lots of cables
On Rack Mixer: -Behringer UB2442FX-PRO Mixer (Cheap and Mobile)
In Studio Mixer: Mackie 24*8 Bus -got it used for a couple hundred bucks!

Mics:
1 MXL 990 (came with an MBox I hve since sold)
1 MXL 993 Stereo Pair
1 MXL V63M (Came free with another order from Musicians Friend)
1 Behringer B1 (Yes, I am on a budge t and whent he bucks start rolling in I will get some btter mics)
CAD Drum Mic Set (1 kick, 3 snare/tom mics with clips)
1 Sansom Q Kick -for Bass Amp
1 Shure 55SH Series II
3 Shure SM57s
1 SM58

Behringer HA4700 Headphone Amp

Amps/Instruments:
Fender Tele -American standard -Boss Digital Reverb and Compressor Susationer and Overdrive
Mesa Boogie Satelitte60 -60 W Amp This thing screams!
-The best sound comes from crankling it, so, to avoid complaints from the neighbors, I place it in an old freezer I lined with carpet and run an SM57 into it -works like a charm!

Basses: -I am a bass player
Fender Jazz Bass
Fender Zone Bass
Dean Acoustic Bass Guitar
Yamaha BB300 (This thing can fall of a truck, get run over, get rained on and you pick it up, tune it and it still sounds great!)
Ampeg SVT3PRO Head
Fender 4x10 and Fender 1x15 cabinets
Sansamp Bass DI
Practice Amp: Fender Rumble60

Our studio is a cooperative which came together between myself another musician friend of mine and an engineer whom I have worked with since 1997.

We are recording To Nuendo 3.0
Our computer is a custom made rack mount unit which is PC based
(don't ask me specifics on this as we are always upgrading something)
Two MOTU 2408's
Our board is a fully loaded Mackie D8B though this is used primarily for tracking drums. We mix inside Nuendo for the most part
We have an array of plug ins. We have lots of Waves stuff. The UAD-1 plugs.
TC electronics Powercore system.
An old TL Audio stereo mic pre/EQ
Focusrite green pre/EQ
Pre Sonus Eureka
Eight channels of Aphex 107 tube pre's
A nice old tube compessor
DBX 160x
DBX 1066
Lots of other assorted rack gear
Adding a Vintech Audio 473 soon!

Microphones:
A pair of AKG 414B XLS
A custom made tube microphone LDC with variable polar patterns
Royer R-122
Studio Project C-1
Eight Shure SM 57's
1 Vintage Sennheiser 421
2 Vintage Sennheiser 441's
1 Vintage Telefunken dynamic TD11 which was modified from a DIN connector to XLR
1 Audix i-5 (a great snare mic)
2 Shure Beta 52A's
2 AKG D-112's
2 Shure SM 81's
I'm sure I'm forgetting something LOL
We will be adding a Soundelux E250 very soon!

Monitoring (Audio)

1 pair Sundholm nearfields 8" woofer
1 pair Sundholm stereo subs
1 pair Tannoy Reveal
In our live room there is a pair of 8" KRK rockit monitors mounted
Benchmark DAC1
Hafler Amplification
Assorted headphones
Furman headphone amp and three personal monitor mixers (The bigger system)
model numbers escape me with so much gear

Monitoring (video) One 37" LCD and two 23" LCD monitors

We have 3 rooms and a separte control room with windows into the largest live room and the vocal room.

The big room has a live end/dead end set up. One wall is Elm hardwood flooring, the other end is assymetrical and treated with 2"Auralex foam.
All corners have Auralex Bass traps installed. The ceiling is slanted.
We are currently installing stone of varying sizes and depths on the paralell surfaces to create diffusion.
The room sounds good now but, there are some issues with flutter echo.
The vocal room is basically a dead space.
A long wide hallway is currently under construction and when finished will have cherrywood floors and a combo of cherry and koa wood walls.
The ceiling is about 10' and will when finished be slanted as well.
We plan to use this space for tracking and as an old school style echo chamber.

Lot's of guitars (acoustic&electric;) and basses
Marshall JCM2000 TSL 100 watt head with 4-12 cab
Roland JC 120
Crate V58 Class A tube guitar amp With EL84 power 12AX7 pre. (Sounds like a Gibson GA5)
This one's nice for warming up modeled sounds.

I know I'm forgetting some gear here but this should give you an idea of what we are working with.

I'm putting absorbers and traps in the new room. Everything is done in the basement! My gear at this point:

Mixer/recorder


A&H; Mix Wiz 16:2
Athlon 2700+ homemade computer w/ Samplitude Classic 8
Alesis Masterlink
Alesis HD24XR with Jim Williams mod
RME ADI 4DD

Mics

2 Sennheiser 845s
2 Sennheiser 609 Silver
1 Sennheiser 421u-5
1 Sennheiser 421mkII
1 EV635a
1 Beyer Soundstar x1n
1 Beyer m160
1 Beyer m260
1 Beyer m201
1 Beyer m88GT
1 Shure beta 58
1 Shure 58
3 Shure 57
1 Shure sm-7
1 SP C3
2 SP B1
2 Octava mc012 Dorsey
1 Audix D6
1 AT 3035
1 mxl v69
1 Brauner Phantom C
1 AKG 414 B-XLII
1 Peluso 2247


Power Supply

MGE Pulsar EX 1700

Effects

Kurzweil Rumour (A/D D/A)
Kurzweil Mangler (A/D D/A)

Pres

2 channels M-Audio DMP3
2 channels RNP
1 channel Great River 1NV
2 channels Brent Averill 312A
2 channels A-Designs MP2

DI

2 Countryman fet 85
A-Designs Reddi

Compression


4 channels RNC
1 channel Ashly SC-50
2 channel Art Pro VLA retubed
1 channel dbx 160xt w/ Jim Williams mod
2 channel dbx 166 comp/gate

Monitoring:

Dynaudio BM6A
Sennheiser HD280 Pro Headphones
Sony MDR 7506 Headphones
Ultrasone 650 proline
Rolls 4 channel headphone amp
2 Extreme Isolation Headphones

Guitars and amps

Guild D25
Alvarez-Yiari Silver Anniversary
PRS McCarty
Mexican strat modded w/ Seymore Duncans, w/independent coil splitting and volume controls,
Tom Rein Tele (only one in the world made by luthier, Tom Rein)
Yamaha SR400 Bass
Carr Slant 6v
Dr. Z Carmen Ghia
Dr. Z 1x12 cab w/ Weber
Fender Silverfaced Vibrochamp

Other stuff

Roland Juno 60
RMV Concert series drum kit w/ various Zildjian symbols

The Goodz...
Akai DPS 24
2--M-audio Tampas pre
2 ART power conditioners
TC Electronics Triple C comp
Behringer MDX 2600 comp/de-esser
Yamaha QY100 sequencer
Belkin UPS
Pioneer SA9100 monitor amp
Yamaha NS-A638 speakers
Shure...57, 58, Beta 52, (2)KSM 109's, CAD E200, Marshall V67G, AT 3035
Ibanez...Bass, 6-str acous, 6-str elec...Carvin DC400 6-str elec...Fender 12-str acous...Infinox 6-str elec
Roland keys...cheap drums w/ good heads...
And a fairly decent, treated room with 10' vaulted ceiling...
Now I just need a little more know-how.......
Peace..........Kel

Wow...looking at some people's gear lists...I'm almost embarrassed. I have:

TASCAM 2488 (24 track..I don't think I've ever used more than 12 for a song)
Strat
7 piece Milestone drum kit
SM57
D12
C3000B
C1000 X2
Alesis micro-verb X2
Roland ME-16 mixer
Alesis 3630 compressor (sorry)
Various other dynamic mics barely worth mentioning
Ibanez Soundcaster bass
Yamaha DG STOMP
Peavey Studiomaster amp (just use the cab to mic)
various percussion instruments

In my PC:
ACID 4.0
Waves Bundle and various other software effects.

And last but not least...Mediocre talent but all kinds of desire.

Hey Rami,
There's no need to be embarrased. Gear doesn't make good recordings anyway man, people do.

Thanx Lz. I like to think I make the most with what I got, and always learning.

Howdy! I'm have a small basement studio with some real traps installed at the ceiling to wall corners on oposite sides of the console and a couple more out in the room. Also some home made gobos. I built a drum booth with a plywood floor and about 8 inches of fiberglass stuffed in the ceiling above with wood paneled walls. Ceiling's only seven ft high.

Equiptment

Yamaha AW4416 recorder with automix, 20 gig drive, Y56k card with adat lightpipe, Rennaisance suite
Mackie 624s on Mopads
mono auratone on a Crown amp
Focusrite 428 pres with digital option
Demeter H series pres
Focusrite Penta pres/comps X 2
Aphex parametric
DBX 166 comp
Symetrix 625 comp
Yamaha rev500
Lexicon Alex
Sony cd burner

Mogami, Monster, Proco cables
Four mic runs upstairs to the living room

Mics
Rode K2
Blue Baby Bottle
AKG c3000
Senheiser 441
Senheiser 421 X 2
AT 4031 X2
Josephson C42 match pair
SM 57
Shure 545sd
Beyer 201
AT 25
AKG D112
Sony ecm 22 X 2
Shure beta 58

Tama Starclassic drums
Fender Jazz bass special
Fender American Standard Tele
Fender Squire Tele
Gretsch Tennesee Rose
Martin M36 acoustic
Martin D35
Collings OM1A
Alvarez 12 string
Washburn banjo
Weber mandolin
Accordian X 2
Selmer clarinet
Kalamazo lap steel
Steinway grand (Upstairs)

When I croke the kid's gonna have to sell this stuff, hey not my problem.