Home recording (music)

[esselte]

Hi,
Does anyone have any experience of any home studio recording kit.I'm looking for a 8 or 16 track digital recorder with the capacity to record at least 4 tracks at once and preferably with a cd burner included.

[Marshy]

Are you looking to do this with or without a computer?

If without, you could do worse then to look at the digital village web site for an idea of what's out there.

I'm currently pratting about with:-
- MOTU 896HD firewire audio interface
- Behringer 8 channel ADAT expansion to the above
- Behringer BCF-2000 motorised control surface (bargain of the century)
- Logic Express 7
- Fat Mac to deal with it all
- More disc space than seems to make sense
- More than one screen

Which is one way of saying "watch out, it can get out of control!".

[D_Mike]

Yep... its addictive... I've got:

Music PC with Firwire I/O box thingy
Mixer
Small recording amp (tech 21 trademark 10)
3 guitars (had them already)
too many guitar fx pedals
Reaktor - amazing modular synth software package
Reason - nice sequencer/soft studio integrates well with logic/cubase
A powerbook for playing live
A midi controller keyboard
a Nord Micro Modular (amazing modular synth but hardware).

too much other stuff to list...

and a lot of cables.

Its fun though... I just need a drumkit now

[DanBoy]

If you want a wooden kit I can sell you a Pearl Export kit...

If you're after V Drums and the like, join the club!

[madmike]

I can't answer the homerecording bit (I'm investigating myself), but I can help with the drums part.

D_Mike, get an Electronic kit (e-kit.) With an acoustic kit, you will get one sound out of them, and if you aren't a drummer who really knows how to tune drums properly, that sound you get won't be great.

With en E-kit, the number of sounds at your disposal is enormous. Recording is easier too...you have audio outputs from the drum module...you needn't concern yourself with mic position, etc.

Now, not all e-kits are created equally. If you want more info, feel free to e-mail me.

I have both a large acoustic kit and a nice electronic one BTW. Both have their place.

>> Edited by madmike on Friday 28th January 23:21

[olly2000]

If you dont want to go the computer route get a Tascam Portastudio 2488 - I got Acoustic & Electric Drums, Percussion, Bass and Leads all miked into one ands its dead easy to use

[esselte]

Thanks chaps,
I already have Reason on the PC but was looking to maybe go PC- less with proper instruments I have bass,guitar keyboars but no drums.I suppose if I get a set of e drums then the need to be able to record a few tracks at once disappears. Anyone tried the new Tascam recorders?

[jimothy]

Start reading Sound on Sound. The music magazine.
Then phone Digital Village, explain what you want and they'll put a system together for you. Good guys.

[Driller]

Yay, someone else into music and recording. I'm running A MOTU 2408 into a G4 with Logic 6 Platinum. I also have a logic control and xt control surface which is the mutts nuts.

What you need all depends on what you want to do, there is a ton of gear out there. Someone mentioned SOS-go to www.soundonsound.com and ask the question on the tech forum. Make sure you ask more than "what gear shall I get" as the natives will get shirty. Give them background info as to what you have and what kind of music you want to make. There is also a good search function on the site. The question has been asked A LOTs so make sure you do a search first.



Good luck
Driller

PS for drums have you tried drum kit from hell? Superb and very realistic.

>> Edited by Driller on Saturday 29th January 23:52

[Marshy]

Damn - I'd really like a Logic/Mackie Control. Trouble is, they cost more than my Mac and Logic put together. Nice kit though...

[Driller]

Yeah but like you said Marshy it can get out of control , too many buttons! And have you seen the manual for logic platiunum? It's literally thicker than the yellow pages

Just to make you jealous though I also have a TLM103 running through a mindprint DTC (which is gorgeous-you can't fail to get beautiful sound) Mackie HR624's and a 23" ACD on which logic is like a Devinci

It's really incredible how recording is so accesible now. I'm sure you'd agree the sound quality you get with a computer is mind boggling, and when you've got 32 or so tracks running you really can sound like the real thing.

I checked out you're website Marshy, the band looks interesting. Have you recorded much and in other styles as well?

Driller