Spending advise needed: High-end for house music production

decurion99 · 11th March 2007

Hi guys!

I avidly read the posts on gearslutz.com and always wanted to own a few nice analog pieces of gear.

Since I've been saving for almost a year and a half now, I can finally afford two or three pieces of equipment. I didn't buy anything before now, since I wanted to have a car - but that's out of my mind now, I just rented an apartment downtown.

My savings amount to about 10'000 Dollars, that I really want to be well spent and on porpuse for the music I want to make.

My goal is to be able to produce sonically impeccable house music in my home studio. I currently have a DAW with mainly DSP-powered plugins (2 UAD-1s with all plugins and one TC Powercore card) running on cubase SX3. As synths I own a Nord Lead 3 and a Virus TI and NI Massive and FM7.

As audio interface I use two Fireface 400s. I also have a Neumann TLM 103 for basic spoken male vocals ("Put your hands up!" etc.).

Monitors are two Genelec 1030s.

My question is:

Where do I begin when entering the hardware world?

What would you regard as indispensable for producing sonically top electronic music as for example Eric Prydz, Axwell etc.?

My plan as of now is as follows:

HEDD 192
FATSO
2 DISTRESSORS

to give my productions that analogue feel and beef up my synths.

I could get a WEISS DS-1 for about 65 Percent of the street price as well on ebay. But do I need this?

Another plan would be to get a Thermionic Culture Vulture instead of the FATSO.

So, I ask you guys, what would you think could sonically improve the quality of my DAW the most? In other words, how do I best invest my savings?

I appreciate very much any advice.

Kindest regards

Pablo

mOjO FET · 11th March 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by decurion99

My goal is to be able to produce sonically impeccable house music in my home studio.

How about soundproofing your room?

Michael

ignatius · 11th March 2007

acoustically treating the room would definitely be helpful.

http://www.gikacoustics.com/

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/index.php

also, personally, i wouldn't buy a fatso AND two distressors. not that they aren't awesome and versatile and different but you may get some overlap there if you are looking for different sonic fingerprints from things.

maybe an anlog summing box and a manley vari-mu compressor.

or perhaps just get a cranesong spider... or get on the waiting list for a cranesong spider

11th March 2007	#1
decurion99 Gear interested Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 2 Thread Starter	Spending advise needed: High-end for house music production Hi guys! I avidly read the posts on gearslutz.com and always wanted to own a few nice analog pieces of gear. Since I've been saving for almost a year and a half now, I can finally afford two or three pieces of equipment. I didn't buy anything before now, since I wanted to have a car - but that's out of my mind now, I just rented an apartment downtown. My savings amount to about 10'000 Dollars, that I really want to be well spent and on porpuse for the music I want to make. My goal is to be able to produce sonically impeccable house music in my home studio. I currently have a DAW with mainly DSP-powered plugins (2 UAD-1s with all plugins and one TC Powercore card) running on cubase SX3. As synths I own a Nord Lead 3 and a Virus TI and NI Massive and FM7. As audio interface I use two Fireface 400s. I also have a Neumann TLM 103 for basic spoken male vocals ("Put your hands up!" etc.). Monitors are two Genelec 1030s. My question is: Where do I begin when entering the hardware world? What would you regard as indispensable for producing sonically top electronic music as for example Eric Prydz, Axwell etc.? My plan as of now is as follows: HEDD 192 FATSO 2 DISTRESSORS to give my productions that analogue feel and beef up my synths. I could get a WEISS DS-1 for about 65 Percent of the street price as well on ebay. But do I need this? Another plan would be to get a Thermionic Culture Vulture instead of the FATSO. So, I ask you guys, what would you think could sonically improve the quality of my DAW the most? In other words, how do I best invest my savings? I appreciate very much any advice. Kindest regards Pablo

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11th March 2007	#3
ignatius Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2006 Location: Sasquatch, OR Posts: 4,269	acoustically treating the room would definitely be helpful. http://www.gikacoustics.com/ http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/index.php also, personally, i wouldn't buy a fatso AND two distressors. not that they aren't awesome and versatile and different but you may get some overlap there if you are looking for different sonic fingerprints from things. maybe an anlog summing box and a manley vari-mu compressor. or perhaps just get a cranesong spider... or get on the waiting list for a cranesong spider