No problem Rami,
Learning is a good place to always stay IMO.
Gear is gear and it is very cool stuff but, in the end it's always going to come down to who's using it. I believe that you can have the best song in the world, a great performance of it and the worst gear in the world won't hide the power of a great song played well. On the other hand, give the best of the best of the best the worst song and lousy performances, and with the world's best equipment they will not be able to make that lousy song anything that it is not already.

Here's what I have now in my rec room in the basement 24' x 19'-

Apple G5 1.8 single 1.25gig ram
DP 4.6
UAD-1 card
Furman PL8 power conditioner
MOTU 828MKII
Focusrite ISA 428 with ADC into the 828's ADAT port
Sebatron vmp-4000e into ISA ADC
Apogee Rosetta AD into spdif on Motu and clocking the whole system
2ch Brent Averill 312a or similar (on wish list)
JBL/UREI 7110 comp
Aphex Expressor comp
Alesis Quadraverb 2
Dynaudio BM6A monitors
Yorkville 12" sub foot switchable in and out of chain (out disables the crossover on the sub, so the BM6a's are full range)
Ultrasone 650 headphones
Behringer HA4700 phone amp
Extreme iso phones
2 x Apex HP90 phones
18- 2' x 4' x 2" fabric covered Owens Corning 703 panels DIY. 14 mounted on walls and ceiling and 4 on portable stands
3 x DIY bass traps 2' x 6' x 5" mounted in corners

Mics-
SM7B
D112
ATM25
PVM520i
MD421U5
e604
M201
RE-15
2 x SM57
Apex 120
T3
C1
B3
2 x B1
2 x GT-44
2 x ADK TL
MXL V69M
2 x Peluso CEMC6 with cardioid and omni caps

Hi all,

I have my studio in a small open ended den. I can't seem to find the right placement for the reference monitors... they sound...dry..right now. My den has a patio door... any ideas here?

I have a digi001/protools 6.4 setup with Waves Platinum. I'm using some KRK Rokit 5 monitors for reference... i'm saving for the sub.. i'm missing the sub..low..end with these speakers.

I have a rode NT1 for vocals

I'm using a Korg Triton Studio for the rest.

My studio gear page

I have a small basement studio that actually make a little bit of money. I hope to make it the real deal in the future.
Here's my list...
Mackie 24 x 8 Console
Alesis HD24 24 Track Harddisk recorder
Crown D150 Power Amp
Yamaha NS10 reference monitors
Edifier Powered Monitors
Audio Technica ATH-M30 Headpones
Furman HA-6 Headphone Amp
CAD E-200 Condensor
AKG D112
Shure Beta 56
(2) Shure SM57's
(2) CAD PMP 522c Drum Mic Pack's
(2) Behringer Composer Pro Compressor's
Behringer Ultragain Pro Tube Preamp
Symetrix 501 Compressor
Symetrix 525 Compressor
Samson Scom+ Compressor
Lexicon MPX 110 FX Processor
All Monster and Mogami cables and snakes
Custom built PC (Strictly studio...no internet)
2.1ghz AMD Processor
1GB DDR Ram
Delta 1010LT Sound Card
Steinberg Wavelab
Izotope Ozone
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier
GK 800RB
12" Foam Bass Traps with corner fills
1" Foam wedge panels
eggcrate
There's some gear on this list that I will definatley be replacing in the future but for the time being...it get's me by.

I record a live band from the direct outs on the FOH mixing board and remix on computer.

mics:
Vocal and instrument -
Shure Beta57a
Shure Beta58a
Drums -
Sennheiser

board:
Midas Venice 320

Recorder:
Alesis HD24

PC:
P4 3.0ghz
1gb of ram
M-Audio 2496
Yamaha MG10-2

Software:
N-Tracks 4.05
Sony SoundForge 8
Ozone 3.08

Monitors:
Event TR8
Event TR5

Room
acoustically challenged 2nd bedroom with no treatment as yet. house move on the cards.

Computer
Windows XP
Overclocked Athlon 2500
1Gb RAM

Gear
digi002 Rack
Samson Resolv65a Active Monitors
Sennheiser HD580 headphones
Roland TD-6 drums
Roland XP-50 synth
AT4040 and SM57 mics
Yamaha BB04 bass
Washburn elec guitars (4 x N4's and 2 x P4's)
Yamaha APX-5A acoust guitar
Cornford Hurricane and H&K; Triamp MkI guitar amps

Software
Protools 6.9
Waves Platinum
Amplitube
+few others

My gear list is pretty embarrasing, but I remember when records started being sold in
(((S T E R E O))).


Analogue
Fostex 450 8X4X2
Tascam 238 8-track cassette
Tascam mk424II 4-track cassette

Digital
Amd Athlon 1.3ghz
512 ram
20g and 40g hardrives
80g Iomega external HD
Gadget Labs 8/24 8in/8out breakout box
Win98SE


Processors/sound reinforcment
Yamha MU100R midi module/REV500 processor
Yamaha MU10 (same great stereo processing)
Roland GR50 guitar synth
Alesis NanoComp
Behringer UltraVoice Pro
(yeah, I know)

27 guitars
6 amps
Johnson J-Station
Behringer V-Amp Pro

Sure SM57 (1)
Sure SM58 (1)
AKG C3000 (1)

Software
Sonar 2
SoundForge 5

Monitors
Event active PS6
DW 8" active subwoofer

My "room" is 9X16X9 and is untreated.
(Boy howdy do I have NODES!)

Schoeps CMC6 MK41 pair
Beyer M160
Great River MP-2H
Lucid 9624 AD
RNC compressors
Other mic's & pre's but rarely used
I usually record just unamplified guitar

Recording room 31'x15'x16' with an 8' wide opening to another room creating an L shape, irregular wall surfaces, peaked ceilings at two different hts, moveable rugs

Wavelab, Cubase and N-Track
Waves Linear EQ and multiband comp, L2 (I do minimal processing)
Sonic Timeworks ReverbX, SIR convolution reverb

Windows desktop machine w/RME Digi96.

Windows Laptop w/Digigram VX Pocket for mobile use.

Monitor w/Yamaha NS-A636 and Realistic Minimus 77 stereo speakers, Kenwood 100w amp. Monitoring room 16'x12'x11', treated.

Tim

NICE!

I do all my music in a spare room which my wife and I use as an office. I have a very basic setup for composing and recording:
Athlon 2400xp
Radeon 8600XT (I also game a lot, but plan to make a separate, netless system for music only)
Audigy Soundcard
Altec Lansing 2:1 speakers (I'll get proper monitors for the new system)
Fruity Studio 4.5
Various Free VST plugins
Behringer 5 channel Mixer
Tube Ultragain Mic100 preamp
MXL Condenser Mic
Shure SM57 Dynamic Mic
Behringer Bass V-Amp effects/amp simulator
A few guitars and basses
A small USB keyboard

I'm a rank novice when it comes to recording and mixing, up until now I've just been experimenting to get the sounds I want without really knowing what I'm doing- good to finally learn from someone who knows! Thanks, Bruce...

OK, my current rig:
Digital Performer running on a dual 1.25G G4, MTP/AV, 2408
Mackie d8b console
Mackie HDR24/96
Mackie HDR824 monitors
Yamaha NS10s
Auratone C5 crackerboxes
JBL 4311s
Gigastudio 3 on a P4 1.8G single-space rack computer dual 80G drives, Echo Layla24
P4 3G VSTi player - Gina I/F
Neumann KM184 x 2
Neumann TLM103
AT 8033
AKG C1000 x 2
Equitek E-100 x 2
SM57 x 4
AKG D-112
Studio Projects C4 x2
Roland XP-80
Roland XP-30
Korg 01W
Roland SC-88
Roland M-20
Alesis S4
Alesis Quadrasynth Plus
Yamaha DX7IIFD
Yamaha VL-70
Hammond A-100 with Leslie 122
Hammond A-103 with Leslie 147
Yamaha C3 grand
Atmosphere, Trilogy, Stylus RMX
QLEWSO SIlver
GPO
NI B4
Hammond XM1 with controller
Voce V3 with controller
MidiOverLAN
plasq Wormhole 2
ADAT (one left, sold two more)
plus amps, fx units, plugs, free softsynths, multiple monitors and KVM switches, gigbit Ethernet network

Studio is former 2-car garage, one room - double wall/double ceiling (5/8" sheetrock over 1/2" sheetrock for resonance control, Auralex foam and diffusers according to an Excel spreadsheet I wrote to calculate absorption and resonance.

See it at: Soundsmith Studios

Dasher

~
Location Jazz Recording

The upstairs of our house is being taken over...

Generic Pentium P4 computer running XP
2g memory
80g hdd (system, software)
120g hdd (audio)

Tascam US428 interface
Behringer Truth B2031A monitors
Behringer B1 mics (2)
Shure SM-58

1968 Gibson Melody Maker
1986 Fender MIJ Stratocaster
2005 Stellar Les Paul copy
2005 SX P/Jazz bass
2000 Yamaha Compass Egyptian

Alesis QuadraSynth Plus (as MIDI controller)
Native Instruments B-4 (organ)
Groove Agent 1.0 (drums)

Tech21 Trademark 10 guitar amp
SWR LA-10 bass amp

Cubase SX v2
assorted plugins

other misc (Alesis and Behringer mixers, DI, etc)

I mostly record acoustic and traditional music on location. I try to find good sounding rooms in rural areas where the musicians and I can hang for the duration.

For listening at home I run a mac into a Metric Halo 2882 into Rockit 8s. I have a small room treated with compressed fiberglass. I alternate with beyerdynamic DT770s and then bring mixes around to the usual suspects (car, jambox).

Eric

My mobile rig so far:
Digi 002
Powerbook G4
Rocstor HD
FWR RNP
ADK Vienna
SM57s & 58s
Samson C-que 'phones amp
Sennheiser 'phones

As of this past Sunday we have added a Rode K2 variable pattern tube condenser mic to our list. Very nice

...and somehow I forgot to add a new Fender MIM Telecaster and an Epiphone Valve Junior amp

I have an Akai DPS24
A Rode NT2

Mics:
2 Shure SM81s
2 Shure PG81s
2 SM57s
3 PG56s
1 PG52
1 Beta 52

Monitors:
Event ASP8s

That's it.
This place is pretty rad.