A Sea Of Red

I've been playing guitar off and on since I was 16, ( I was a volunteer guitar player / leader with Young Life for about 12 years) and now that I have an iMac with garageband...I was wondering if there are those who might be able to share their experiences.

I've recorded stuff using GuitarPro and Cool Edit Pro and messed around with it but not too much. I thought about going into music engineering for a while. It's something I'd love to do but is just too expensive to get all of the stuff you need.

I owned and operated a small recording studio with a friend for a few years. I could go into a lot of detail, so I'll try to keep it simple for now. We recored with Logic Pro on a PowerMac G4 at the time. We used a MOTU 896 audio interface and the MOTU mic preamps. We had a lot of mics and other gear that were important to recording, but that was the heart of our setup. They have a 192kHz version of the MOTU 896 out now. It's pretty sweet. I'd love to have been in it long enough to stack a few of them together, actually.

I'll answer anything I can if you have something specific you want to know about.

I'll take you up on that offer. I've been buying and re-selling my guitars over the years to get what works for me.
Here’s a list of stuff that I have that I hope will get me started:

ACOUSTIC

Raven Labs PMB-II http://www.raven-labs.com/mainframe.html
Zoom A2.1u http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/a21u/ (with Cubase LE)
Huss & Dalton CM cutaway http://hussanddalton.com/model_com.htm
Gibson J100 Xtra http://www.gibson.com/acoustics/1996/jumbo/j100.html
Larrivee J19 http://www.laguitarsales.com/pages/3329 ... ee_J19.htm (no longer made – mine is similar except more inlay on the neck and headstock)


ELECTRIC

Jay Turser JT-200 http://reviews.harmony-central.com/revi ... T-200/10/1 (Chinese Les Paul copy...bought on ebay. Had the stock pickups replaced with Gibson Classic 57s – Tyler played it for awhile)
Line 6 Floor POD http://line6.com/floorpod/
Fender Princeton Chorus PR82 http://www.apachepawnofmesa.com/product ... nts/03.asp
Behringer V-Tone GM108 http://www.behringer.com/GM108/index.cfm?lang=ENG

What sort of interface would you suggest? Any good tutorials on the web? Decent inexpensive mics?

bbrothers224 wrote:What sort of interface would you suggest?

How many tracks do you need to record simultaneously? That makes a big difference when shopping for an audio interface.

bbrothers224 wrote:Any good tutorials on the web?

Can't say. Haven't looked recently. Recording magazines offer a ton of useful information though. We learned a lot about mic placement and acoustics from just reading magazines.

bbrothers224 wrote:Decent inexpensive mics?

Yes. Get a matched pair of Oktava MK012's. With the 10db pads in, they're perfect overhead drum mics. They make cymbals sound dark and airy. Without the pads, they're really great acoustic mics. Aim one at the body and one at the neck around the 12th fret and it's magic. I like Sennheiser drum mics, but prefer the Shure kick drum mics. Other than that, keep around several SM57's and spend the money on one good vocal mic. If you're not recording live drums, you'll save a lot of money. Good drum samples are cheaper than drum mics. (That's a fun joke to tell drummers.)

For the rest of us....

huh?

can you suggest any magazines?