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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Listening to Bobbo's Christmas jukebox got me to wondering about recording. I figure there is probably as wide an array of recording kits on this forum as there is talent. Here's mine, such as it is.
I use this rig I at my office. I always have at least one guitar handy for my lunch hour. I rotate them now and again, but at the moment my resident instrument is my Custom Legend "Flag" guitar. You can't tell from the photo, but that's a Zoom H4 recorder. I can completely close off the the little hallway to minimize noise, as long as one of the phones doesn't ring or a fire truck doesn't whistle by, it works out OK.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Well I haven't done any recording since moving out to the Pacific Northwest, but that will be changing soon I hope.
Control Room
Tracking "LostArt" Studio not quite finished in the picture, but thought it would be fun to share for the content :)
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Location: NJ | that was about a million years ago |
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Location: Flahdaw | Funny that this thread popped up. I just got back to my desk after reworking my "studio" all afternoon. I have converted the walk in closet in our guest room into my studio...roughly 4.5'x 5.5'. It's fairly tight, but big enough for a keyboard on the short wall and a shelf on the other wall with a Tascam recorder, a Zoom A2 for guitar, a TC Helicon vocal processor, and a Zoom Q3. I also have a Fishman Loudbox acoustic amp and twin KRK studio monitors. My challenge is wires and cords. I HATE THEM!!! I can't stand seeing wires and cords, I hate tripping over them, I hate trying to figure out whether to plug in direct or run through the amp, etc. HATE CORDS!!! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | ...but what do you think about the cords? |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Hmmm...nobody noticed? Not only did I post a picture of a wax cylinder, but I POSTED a picture of a wax cylinder. With THAT great technological leap, maybe I'm ready to move up to reel to reel? |
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Location: Route 66, just east of the Cadillac Ranch | Alison,
I saw it and started to reply but couldn't think of any response worthy of your post. Priceless. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I noticed and wish I was so technologically advanced.
I've tried recording my "performances" less than a handful of times. Once was just audio and I forgot to turn the machine on. I was thankful that my screwups weren't preserved for posterity and the wedding I performed at ended in divorce, like most.
More recently I have a couple of videos of me fouling up the melody of a song I practiced only once and making a face when I messed up a guitar part that no one else may have noticed. My most recent attempt was on video, but sounded so bad that I erased it. Any further attempts will involve significant editing, but I appreciate the saying, "you can't polish a turd." |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I appreciate the saying, "you can't polish a turd." Mythbusters actually disproved that idiom, so there is hope for us all!
Alison, when you record do you hit the "Wax On" button?
"Wax Off" for audio out? |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Actually, what I was so excited about is, after three and a half years and, ahem, THREE THOUSAND POSTS, I finally figured out how to post a picture here! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | OK, I could have SWORN I was coming up on three thousand. Twenty-one hundred ain't bad I guess. I've been up since two AM. Yeah, that's my excuse... |
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Location: Delaware | How do I record? Not very well. It always sounds like s@#t ! But this polishing a turd thing gives me some hope !! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I loved the cylinder Alison but it's a little advanced for me.
You can polish a turd, just freeze it first....
Actually when I want to record I go over to Davis' house and we do it there. Pam makes great venison stew and is a great bass player. What more do you need? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Now to follow up on that,
In the last few years I have taken seriously to learning the guitar. I have avioded any of the recording stuff because you can get just as wrapped up in that, and more so, that just the 6 strings and where your fingers go. Learning one thing is enough.
Fortunately Davis is wanting to get into the protools and that whole side of it. Works good for me! |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | That venison stew-thing sounds REAL good right now, as the wife has been gone two weeks to NC. helping my daughter with the son-in-law accident thing. She did it in a crock pot once and added curry ... MMMMMMMmmmmmm... I think I'm getting that crock pot out today.
And PATCH ... you just HAD to show the picture of that flag guitar I have coveted for so long didn't you? That is just outright mean. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | When Pam cooks it she leaves the bullits in.
Just don't fart afterwards....... |
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Location: sitting at my computer | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
Oh, and congrats on your first pic posting! Ain't technology fun?! |
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Location: Utah | I enjoy the recording process. It also makes a good excuse to do something with music.
My current setup is an iMac running Logic Express software. The interface is a 2 channel Lexicon Alpha via USB. We have a number of mics, one quite good, the others passable for home use.
The extra bedroom is now the music room. The laptop has been replaced with the iMac, otherwise this is what it looks like.
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Location: Flahdaw | No offense, but I could never concentrate in that room...it looks like total chaos. There's wires and cases and shoes, and stuff just everywhere. I'm sure I'm just WAY too anal |
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Location: Tennessee | Then you REALLY don't want to see mine. Conversely, there's no way I could record in a 4'x5' closet. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I guess I am the amalgamation of you two guys when it comes to my recording area.
Can't stand to have cables and wires everywhere but need to have it clutter free in a large area....currently about 800 sq ft dedicated in the basement studio. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I like the blanket and pillows on the floor idea. That way when I get bored, I can just crash out right there on the spot. |
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Location: Tennessee | I like this one :
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How do you record?
