Who is also an audio recording geek?

Who is also an audio recording geek?

  • Obsessively

    Votes: 10 35.7%

  • Casually

    Votes: 10 35.7%

  • Barely

    Votes: 2 7.1%

  • Absolutely not

    Votes: 6 21.4%
  • Total voters
    28
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Personally, I've got an embarrassingly elaborate home studio, half a dozen guitars, a modular synth, a couple of tape machines, five amps, a drum kit, a dozen microphones, and a very tolerant spouse. I'm an even bigger recording geek than photo geek.

I know at least a few other forum members are with me. How about you?
 
I have two studios. One started life as a writing studio but is now a tracking room and the other is a Pro Tools room. 8 guitars, 3 amps a large pile of keyboards and assorted other stuff. The studios compete with photography for my disposable income.
 
AshenLight said:
I have two studios. One started life as a writing studio but is now a tracking room and the other is a Pro Tools room. 8 guitars, 3 amps a large pile of keyboards and assorted other stuff. The studios compete with photography for my disposable income.
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Nice! Do we perhaps already know each other from the TapeOp Messageboard? I'm inverseroom over there.
 
Down basement I've got a digital 8-track, effects rack, and the instruments, plus an old G4 Tower running Pro-Tools that I really only use for mixdown. My hobby.

http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgYFGyZGk

Sorry, I can never get these garage band links to work, just paste that line into your browser window to get to a song.

I play Fenders: CIJ Jaguar, Jazz Bass, 1980 American made Bullet, a Yamaha FG330 with a Baggs pickup and a Gretsch Hawaiian Acoustic electric. No drums, but a drum machine I can play with. I've got a microKorg that I'm trying to learn to play...
 
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Bought a Zoom H2 a few months ago to record location sound for web based slide shows.
Great little unit with 4 microphones.

Olympus recently released a very compact unit that is getting very good reviews.
 
I track to a laptop running Reaper..good, cheap, fast program. My guitars are also mostly Fenders...plus a Gibson acoustic and a Tokai Love Rock goldtop. I'd post some stuff but my ftp got hacked...it should all be back up tomorrow...
 
From where I sit surfing the web instead of working on the song I was supposed to be working on I can see three acoustic guitars, two Ibanez guitars, two Fenders, only *one* bass (albeit 5-string), a drum kit, a 88-key controller, a smaller Korg synth, a workstation a mixer and several racks full of ... stuff. In the closet are stacks of stuff I can't see.

That said, I'm not using the studio as much as I ought to, partly because I've been preparing for an exhibit. Maybe I'll get back to it now... (except the kid woke up and we're going out).

j

Oh, there's a band to go with the studio (http://www.momzermusic.com) although I'm working on different projects these days.
 
Mac Pro with Logic Studio, Reason, numerous softsynths, etc. Controlled by a Novation SL.

Analog instruments: American Strat, Schecter 6-string; Epiphone acoustic. Warwick bass.

But, i haven't touched any of it in over a year. Too frustrating. I've been trying for years, with various arrangements of gear, and never produced anything worthwile....
 
Sepiareverb, I like the tracks you put up. It reminds me of a few different bands that I enjoy. Great lyrics. Where do you play ?
 
Me too

Me too

I have a Mac Pro Tools set up, and a pretty well equipped home studio with a Motif work station, drum kit, countless amps and too many guitars. I write and do small video production for the tunes and have work in the fire as I type. I've been at it since the multi track reel to reel days and I soldier on.
 
Well yeah, I guess I am a geek. I started playing guitar and built my own stompbox effects in high school. That ended up in an EE degree rather than music. So now I'm still doing that, plus making some microphones, and whatever other gear I feel like as funds and time allow.

And then there's the people that visit my basement workshop and ask "why do you need so many woodworking tools?" and the answer is: "So I can build my own guitars someday..."

I don't do much digital, but I do have one of them neato Zoom H2 recorders. I generally leave it in my camera bag for trips to jazz clubs :D
 
In a previous life I was a record producer and recording engineer. The former obsession with subtle qualities of obscure tube microphones and germanium-transistor compressors was reborn as an obsession with uncoated lenses and grain structure. Neither are particularly healthy.
 
memphis said:
would someone have the ability and inclination to dump my old band's master tape (ampex 456 reel with track notes) to a format such as cakewalk / protools / or some such so that I can tweak the recordings myself (I'm wanting to remix and add instruments) -- I just need what is on the tape to be layered into separate digital tracks
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I don't have analog tape facilities anymore but possibly someone on my recording forum may be able to help. Can you PM me with details regarding the tape, like the format and original machine type it was recorded on like Ampex, Studer or Otari?

Ash
 
Brennotdan said:
Sepiareverb, I like the tracks you put up. It reminds me of a few different bands that I enjoy. Great lyrics. Where do you play ?
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In the basement. Sometimes on the front steps.

But I digress. To get back on topic, I shoot more film with a rangefinder than I play.
 
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retnull said:
In a previous life I was a record producer and recording engineer. The former obsession with subtle qualities of obscure tube microphones and germanium-transistor compressors was reborn as an obsession with uncoated lenses and grain structure. Neither are particularly healthy.
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They are definitely similar, though. And the film vs. digital "debate" is very much like the tape vs. digital "debate" in recording-land...
 
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