What's your gearlist and style?

my mastering house:

Monitoring:
main monitoring my PMC
Alesis monitor 1 mk2
Peavey 652S monitors

Analog Processing:
two channels of Trident 80 with gain and EQ.
K+H UE 400 parametric EQ
Urei 27 band EQ
customised SSL 384 G series compressor
Thermionic Culture“Phoenix”varimu compressor

Digital Processing:
Waves L2 Ultramaximiser
Waves Diamond Bundle - native
Waves L3 Multimaximiser - native

Playback/Recording:
Technics CD player
Marantz CD recorder
Exabyte EX 8500
Plextor Premium CD-R drive
Revox/Studer 1/4” stereo tape

Digital Editing:
Magix Sequoia 7
Steinberg Nuendo 2
Sony SoundForge 7

Digital Converters:
Lavry Engineering “blue” AD/DA 24bit 96KHz
Echo Layla 24 bit 96KHZ

for my own music (which i hardly get anytime for nowadays, used to release techno/electronica)
TR606
TR707
TR808 with midi
TR909
SCI Drumtraks
SH101
Juno60 with midi
JX3P + PG200
Polivoks
Roland RS-09
cloned TB303
Emu ESI32
2 x technics 1210
waldorf miniworks analog filter
loads of cheapo compressors, effects, delays etc etc
Software wise, tassman, maxmsp, reaktor, kontakt, nuendo 2, ableton live 4.
was more but im selling it all off slowly and painfully.
 
i use Apple MAc G4

Yamaha 01v Mixer

Tannoy Reveal Monitors

Korg Trition

Roland EM 2000

Cubase vst 5

Logic Pro 7

E-Mu sampler

+ various software synths

and

2x Technics 1210 mk2
Pioneer Djm 600
pioneer cdj 800
 
PART 1
Keyboards
1 Moog Voyager / anniversary addition
2 Oberheim Matrix 12,
3 Triton Classic / wth dance card, future constuction loops and Moss board
4 Roland JD 800
5 Fender Rhodes Mk 2 stage piano/ customized Speak Easy Vintage music (Dyno preamp)
6 Roland XV 88 (88 key weighted synth) with Dance expansion board, Voice expansion board and Hip-hop expansion board
Modules Samplers/Drum machines
1 Roland s770 (with Synclavier Library)
2 Akai MPC 60 vs2
3 Akai MPC 3000
4 Studio electronics SE1
5 Roland JV1080 / with Orchestra 1 & 2 boards
Mixer
1 Soundcraft Ghost 32 Le (32 channel mixer)

Recorders & interface
1 Iz technology Radar 24 (I use for recording and 24 x converters) 24 track hard disk recorder
2 Digidesign 002r
3 Alesis Master link/2 track mastering Hd recorder/CD burner
4 Sony A7 DAT recorder
5 Tascam IFTAD TDIF to Light pipe converter (Going digital from RADAR to Digi002r) 8 tracks at a time
6 M Audio midi sport
7 JL Cooper midi patch bay
 
PART 2
Dynamic FX
1 Focusrite Red 6 / pre amp and EQ
2 Summit audio TPA 200b Stereo Tube preamp
3 2x Empirical lab Distressor Ex8 (with brit mod and Stereo link)
4 2x Chandler audio LTD 2 (neve style compressor)
5 Manley ELOP / stereo tube limiter
6 Alan Smart C2/stereo compressor (SSL style compressor on steroids) used for a lot of mix buss duties
7 Dbx 160a compressor /limiter

FX processors
1 Eventide Eclipse
2 Eventide 3000se
3 Lexicon PCM 70
4 Kurzweil Rumor

Computer Mac G4 dual 800/ 1gb Ram (just ordered Mac g5 dual 2.0/ with 2gb of ram)

Software
1 Protools le 6.7
2 Reasons 3.0
3 MOTU Mach5 sampler
4 Arturia Moog Modular & Arp 2600
5 Waves Renaissance Maxx bundle/& L3 limiter
6 just ordered UAD-1 DSP Card

MICS
1 2x shure sm57
2 2x Neumann TLM 103 mics
3 Soundelux U195
4 Soundelux U99
5 CAD E200

Misc
1 Avalon u5 direct box
2 Radial Stereo direct box (Jensen transformers)
3 3x Neutrik patchbays

*note I’m in the process of switching out all cable to Mogami and for Keyboards and Samples I’ll use Monster

I do R&B, Jazz, Gospel, Contemporary , Hip Hop, Some Country (that’s right some country) Pop, a few commercials and a little work with some Tv programs
 
Style = Hip-hop

Gear so far:

Yamaha Motif ES 6

Power Mac G4 + 19" Apple studio monitor

Reason 2.0

Garage Band (need to upgrade to a Protools system one day)

2x 1200's + Vestax 05 Pro 3

Generic hi-fi speakers (being replaced prob by Rokit 8's real soon...hopefully)

Peace....
 
Style Dancehall & new roots

set up (still under construction

home build amd Athlon 3000+ pc
soundcard: Tascam US-122
Monitors: Nady Audio SM250A (soon be replaced)
DAW: cubase sx 2.2
midi keyboard:an 15 years old Yamaha PSR57000 (i don't use the crappy sound, only the keyboard,, it's way better than most so called midi keyboards they sell now in stores)
vsti's: Korg legacy collection, aturia Minimoog V, NI Battery 2, Halion, Musiclab Realguitar, NI B4, NI Pro53, NI FM7,Emagic EVP73,...
vst's: Waves, E-phonic, Kjaerhouse Classic, Blockfish, TC Native bundle, T-Racks ...
wave editor: Adobe Audition
Mic: AKG C3000B (condensor), Shure SM57LC (if i got to record a guitar or percussion), Shure SM58 (for sampling sounds on the road)

but as i said, i'm just started to set up my own, i used to use other (pro tools and cubase based) studio's from friends
 
My friends(a death metal band) and I are setting up our first home studio. They are making death metal songs, whereas I do hiphop. Are these equipments enough to start for us?

(M-Audio)
DX-4 monitor speakers
Aries condensor mic (for vocals)
DMP3 Dual Mic&Instument Preamp
Audiophile 192 PCI card

(SHURE)
SM57 (for instruments)

and what are the specs would my computer need to support the above equipments. I'm planning of using a PC(XP Home Edition)

Advice is greatly appreciated...
 
Winbook J4 laptop
Akai mpc 1000
event tr 5 monitors
turntable
a ton of records
Motu 828 interface
cubase SE
waves plugins

i just copped the novation bass station VST ( ILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )
and hte edirol orchestra

and im getting a oxygen 8 any day now
 
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Well, everyone else is doing it...so here's mine:


Roland MKB-300 Midi Controller
Roland Alpha Juno-2 Synth
Yamaha CS1X Synth
Ensoniq EPS Sampling Keyboard

Roland JV1080 Module
EMU Planet Phatt Module
EMU Orbit V2 Module
Oberheim Matrix-1000
Akai S2800XL Sampler
Roland S330 Sampler (just sold)

Roland MC-303 Groovebox
Korg Electribe EA-1 Synth
Korg Electribe ER-1 Drum Module

Wide range of VSTi synths :)

Fostex FD-8 Multitracker
Mackie 1404VLZ

Yamaha MSP-5 Monitors
Alesis 3630 Compressor
Alesis Quadraverb


Not the newest of gear, but more than sufficient and I've learnt to use them well :)

lanlan
 
Kawai K3,K1r Ensoniq EPS, EPS16+r, Yamaha Sy55, Roland JD800, Cheetah Ms6, Novation A station, Roland D110 Akai SO1 Korg M1r EX800 2x Poly61's Korg KPR77, Yamaha RX11, Alesis HR16, custom built keyboard that Plays VSTis With Ni Komplete, Sample Tank and Arturia Plugs on It. A Laptop and Desktop with Komplete Arturia Collection Ik multimedia, Albina3 God Knows How many Freebies off the net and the DVD with Future Music and a couple of 61 note midi controllers Kenton control freak SE and an evolution Xs controller.

My Stuff is best decribed as "Lift Music" only Joking
 
I only have FL Studio 10 and an Akai MPK mini. I've only started learning how to produce recently but I hope to develop a larger studio in the next few years.

I currently work on techno/happy hardcore since I not very skilled yet, but I'm hoping to move on to some trance and dance music in the future.
 
-Macbook pro
-Akai MPK49
-Akai LPD8
-Korg nano control 2
-M Audio monitors
-M Audio Fast track pro (soon to be Focusrite saffire pro 24 DSP)
-Audio Technica AT2020 mic
-Sure SRH440
-Sennheiser HD 330 pro
-Reason 6
-Pro Tools 9
-Misc instruments, guitar amps..

Still need to upgrade my interface but im pretty happy with my set-up, I make mostly Trance, House and Dubstep...
 
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I was just browsing for relevant posts and I happened to stumble upon yours. Thanks for the useful information!
 
Ableton Live (Production)
MBox Pro
MPK49
Maschine
Electric Guitar
Pro Tools (Mixing)
KRK Rokit 6's
2x Technics SL1200s
Pioneer DJM400
Traktor Scratch Pro
SONY MDR-7506's
KEL-HM2d Mic
SM58 Mic
M-Audio DMP3 preamp
Komplete & other VSTi's

I'm a instrumental hip hop producer
 
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