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My Dream Studio Equipment List (well almost)

Guys,

I am trying to build my studio and this is the list of equipment I came up with. Feel free to throw in suggestions, or make changes to the list... Am I missing anything?

Thanks!

-Nektarios

Studio Equipment


1. Microphone

Rode K2 Tube Microphone OR
Rode NTK Tube Condenser Studio Microphone

2. Monitor Speakers

Event 2020bas V2 Bi-Amplified Studio Monitors

3. Party Speakers

Mackie's SR-1530

4. Amplifier
Mackie M1400i FR-Series High-Current Pro Power Amplifier

5. Mixer
Mackie 1604VLZ PRO Professional 16x4x2 Compact Mixer

6. Reverb Unit
Lexicon PCM91

7. Delay Unit
TC Electronics D-Two

8. Computer Card
TC Electronics Powercore - Access Virus Package

9. Effect Unit
TC Electronics FireworX

10. Second Effect Unit
Eventide Eclipse

11 Vocal Transformer
Boss VT1 Voice Transformer

12. USB Recording

Edirol UA5 24/96 USB Audio Interface OR
Aardvark Direct Mix USB3 Audio Interface with Cubase LE

13. Hardware Synth

Roland V-Synth
Virus C

14. Pitch Correction
ATR-1a Auto-Tune Rack

15. Headphones

Sony MDR7506 Large Diaphragm Foldable Headphones

sits back and waits for the first one to say its not about tools but about the ideas in your head

cant fill in your list as i'm not quite awear of all gear on the market

I totally agree! Its all about the ideas. You can achieve wonders with even cheaper equipment. Heck, even no equipment...

But I need these gears to achieve my "IDEAS"... :-)

No sense in having like 10 effects proccessers that do essentialy the same thing..... Not to mention USB audio interfaces are junk in comparison to the firewire ones... Then comes sound quallity its pointless to have all these awesome effects and then have a crappy bass signal, so you need a good a/d converter.... Maybe a nice midi timepiece aswell to control some of the effects....

a good studio should look like this

Protools TDM
cubase/logic
Multieffects(fireworx, eclipse, kurzweil, etc.)
Reverb (Lexicon, etc)
Use the digi audio interface
apogee a/d converter or digi
Soundcraft ghost console or protools
mic pre
blue mics are generaly good all around
far as synths go
andromeda(for analog goodness)
Virus or waldorf q( for VA goodness)
Microwave XT (wavetable synth for squeeks and what not)

Then id say spend a lot of money on nice plugins the compressers and stuff for protools cant be beat....

nice list frost

quote:

Originally posted by fr0st Virus or waldorf q( for VA goodness) Microwave XT (wavetable synth for squeeks and what not) Then id say spend a lot of money on nice plugins the compressers and stuff for protools cant be beat....

Oh yeah baby love me Waldy's....and oh yes the orgasmic protools plugins....moogerfooger, bombfactoy...man thats sexy!! I might look into to PT one day.

Be looking forward of ur stuff one day.
But I prefer s/w plugin then hardware unless I had bunch of money.

You may have a good monitor speaker, but do u have a good acoustic room?

Idea is the point and creativity counts too. Having good stuff but idea aint there kill urs money.

I still produce sh*t!

youv'e forgotten completley about the computer

add something like this:

1 x Athlon 64 3200+
2 x Kingston 512mb DDR sdram (400mhz)
1 x MSI NEO-FIS2R motherboard
2 x Western digital raptor 74gb SATA 10000rpm (raid 0 of course)
1 x Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 200gb SATA (for storage, very silent)

I won't bother to list things like CD-rom and that stuff because it's not as important to the production as theese parts are

thoose parts listed together should land somewhere between 800$-1000$ here in sweden. I suspect it's cheaper in the US

true viz good point the comp does make alot of the production possible,

How about this studio then?

Syntecno TeeBee
Juno-60
Korg MS-20
Jupiter-6
CS-15
JP-8080
Supernova
SidStation

And then some rarer stuff like:
OB-8
Prophet 5
Prophet VS

And ofcourse some nice effects and stuff.. That would be my dreamstudio

quote:

Originally posted by ErikC How about this studio then? Syntecno TeeBee Juno-60 Korg MS-20 Jupiter-6 CS-15 JP-8080 Supernova SidStation And then some rarer stuff like: OB-8 Prophet 5 Prophet VS And ofcourse some nice effects and stuff.. That would be my dreamstudio

id rather have gear thats all midi its a bitch to sync up not midi gear........ a alesis andromeda can replace a moog and a oberheim..... the their is a software ver of the sidstation and the rack mount jupiter is far superior to its keyboard counterparts imo..

quote:

Originally posted by fr0st id rather have gear thats all midi its a bitch to sync up not midi gear........ a alesis andromeda can replace a moog and a oberheim..... the their is a software ver of the sidstation and the rack mount jupiter is far superior to its keyboard counterparts imo..

Yeah, well the Syntecno TeeBee has 4 CV/Gate connections so it isn�t that hard to manage all those analogs.. The moog and Oberheim is much easier to program then an Andromeda, from what i�ve heard. Then the sidstation contains the original sid chip wich is fun to have. And the rackmounted jupiter is really a bitch to program.

I'm not sayn' vintage gear is bad, infact I love em...but you have to remeber that old gear like moogs need maintenace...and technicians will charge you up the ass for servicing moogs, just because they can. Thats the price you pay for vintage gear.

amen to that limted

i figured i share this its not a dream list but its Johnson and Corbetts current studio list and it works awsome thought were thinking on getting a few more items for it.

Computers & Midi
3 Apple G5 Mac
Dual 2.5GHz
1 AMD 3000+
M - Audio Radium 61- Key midi controller
Motu 8x8 MIDI Timepiece AV
Motu 828mkII
Motu HD192

Software
Reason 2.5
Cubase Sx 3
Protools 6.2
Sonic Foundry Soundforge

Mixer
Soundcraft LX7ii 32-Channel Mixer

Monitoring
Mackie HR824
Event Electronics Studio Precision 8

Synthesizers
Novation Supernova II
Roland JP - 8000
Roland TR909
Clavia Nordlead 3
Alesis Andromeda
Alesis Ion
Access Virus KC
Waldorf Q

Hardware effects
TC Electronics Fireworks
TC Electronics M.One
Drawmer Dl 241 compressor
Ensoniq DP4 Effects Processor

Samplers
Akai S5000 with 16 channel output

Recording and playback
Midiman Digital Patchbay
Tascam DA45

Do any of you actually have enough money for any of this?

yes , everything on the list i posted is what we have actually right now in the studio

I guess having two producers makes it more economically balanced to buy gear...thats quite the setup you got there.

I'm currently running

Synths
Waldorf Qkb
Waldorf Microwave XT
Yamaha TX81Z(my only vintage synth)
MAM MB33 MarkII(my only true analog beast)
Novation Drumstation
Nord Lead 2
Novation K-Station
Yamaha CS1X
Yamaha Foot Pedal(Mainly for the Q)

Outboard
Mackie 1402(need a bigger one..in the works)
Alesis M1 Active MKII Monitors
Electrix EQ Killer
Alesis 3630 Compressor
M-Audio Delta 1010

Computer
PIII 500mhz(yes I know i need a new one)

Effects
Waves Master Bundle
TC Native Bundle
I also use the Ext Inputs of my synths
Lexicon MPX1 (coming soon)

Software
Cubase SX 2.0
Recycle 2.0
CDXtract
Native Instruments Kontakt(sampler)

cool limt ya it does help some.

Guess ill post mine w/ stuff id like

Powerbook 800mhz 1g ram(logic 6 pro)
amd something 1.5 gb of ram
emagic amy8
motu 828mk2
waldorf q 32voice
waldorf xt 10voice
elektron machinedrum
novation drumstation
mackie 824's


wish list
andromeda
fullsize mac
firworx
+ maybe some other multi efx
soundcraft ghost 24
oberheim xpander(will always hold a place in my heart)

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