Low End Project Studio Show and Tell

[Laniko]

Hey now that us low enders have our own little page on the Forum, I think it's time to do a little show and tell thread. I'll start off first.

Small modest project studio

DAW: Dell 8200 P4 2.0 gig processor 1 gig RAMBUS RAM Silent X Modified Cooling system (Super Quiet)

System: XP Pro SP1 (Not connected to internet)

Sequencer: Cubase SX 2.0 Wavelab 4.0

Pluggins: 1 UAD-1 Card Studio PAck plus Pultec Pro, Waves, many others

Hardware: Roland XP60 Expanded with three cards. Roland XV5050, Emu Proteous 2000, Emu Mophatt , RME Fireface 800
Midi 8x, Roland 840EX.

Arriving soon: Presonus central station, Presonus Eureka


Resized picture in post below Labs

[Laniko]

Originally posted by Laniko
Hey now that us low enders have our own little page on the Forum, I think it's time to do a little show and tell thread. I'll start off first.

Small modest project studio

DAW: Dell 8200 P4 2.0 gig processor 1 gig RAMBUS RAM Silent X Modified Cooling system (Super Quiet)

System: XP Pro SP1 (Not connected to internet)

Sequencer: Cubase SX 2.0 Wavelab 4.0

Pluggins: 1 UAD-1 Card Studio PAck plus Pultec Pro, Waves, many others

Hardware: Roland XP60 Expanded with three cards. Roland XV5050, Emu Proteous 2000, Emu Mophatt , RME Fireface 800
Midi 8x, Roland 840EX.

Arriving soon: Presonus central station, Presonus Eureka


Resized picture in post below Labs

Thanks Labs

I don't have any phot editing software. Which one do you use?

[Laniko]

My Mic Rode Nt2

[Laniko]

More artwork!

[Laniko]

My lowly rack!

[Bowisc]

Neat pics guys.
Here are a few of my setup.

Houston Control


The Rack


Close-Up, top rack


Close-up, bottom rack


photoshop pics

[StefanColson]

Here's my newly upgraded setup:

[djui5]

Originally posted by StefanColson
Here's my newly upgraded setup:

The focusrite pic is nice!!!!!!!!!!


Nice places you all have....clean and organized...I like em..

[JuicyFruit]

Studio
2.8gHz P4 Computer
Cakewalk Home Studio 2004
Fruity Loops 4
Asorted Free Plugs

ART MP Pre
Composer MDX2200
Yamaha MG/10 Mixer
Audio Technica Dynamic Mic
B1 Condersor

Instruments
Fender Stratocaster
Fender Acoustic
Rouge Bass
Tamberine
Line 6 Spider II
Mashall MG15 Stack
Fender Champion 30
Boss DS-1 Distortion

Not the highest quality of equipment.

[alphajerk]

Originally posted by djui5
Nice places you all have....clean and organized...I like em..

no kidding, mine is a dump riddled with piles of cables, books, gear and other assorted shit i can barely walk in here.

[Laniko]

Originally posted by Bowisc
Neat pics guys.
Here are a few of my setup.

Houston Control


The Rack


Close-Up, top rack


Close-up, bottom rack


photoshop pics

Man Bowisc,

I hardly consider what you have as low end gear. I see some Lavry Converters, Apogee, a Benchmark DAC-1. All I see is gear I wish I had. Lucky you. Do you have any samples of the music your making with that stuff?

[Bowisc]

Originally posted by Laniko
Man Bowisc,

I hardly consider what you have as low end gear. I see some Lavry Converters, Apogee, a Benchmark DAC-1. All I see is gear I wish I had. Lucky you. Do you have any samples of the music your making with that stuff?

Oh, that's a Mytek there on top, not Lavry. I did almost take the plunge for the Blues.

Well I think my Behringer headphone amp at least qualiifies me right?

I'm still low-end at heart.

Masterlink, Hardy M-1, Specks, Rosetta I just acquired in the last two weeks... and wiring just came in. I'll either post some old stuff I want to re-mix (using the Folcrom), or post some new I'm in time. Nothing major-league, just local talent.

[DanV]

Looking forward to hearing some jams Bowisc!!! thumbsup

[DeadPoet]

No pictures here because I'm in the middle of moving (...to a house with space to build my own place !!! )


Gear:
(I try to niche into the mobile market)
RecRack:
Alesis HD24 recorder
Mutec Smart Clock

PreRack:
2x LineAudio OMP 8ch pre's
Behringer ADA8000

DAW with SX2 and RME 9652

Soundcraft ghost 32 LE mixing/summing
Genelec 1031 monitoring


4 D&R comps and 3 gates
Lexicon aLex 'verb

Small mic assortment (57's, 421, Behr ECM8000's, KM184's, D112,...)


Just wired the Ghost and recorder to 4 TT patchbays. Will put up pictures when moved.


Herwig

[manning1]

running amd daw here. use my own diy mic pre's.
work for me. varaiety of mics. used to run a bigger studio but got fed up with maintenance costs.
main recording software is powertracks by pgmusic.
gives me 48 tracks. and magix music studio.
between these two i'm set for years. and i'm v happy.
been recording for years.(eons?) . but dont consider myself
an expert. just like to have fun and make songs in all styles.
if anyone wants to hear my stuff. i'll post the link.
got a bunch of other stuff i wont bore you with.

[bobby_z]

manning1 -- you're 100% DIY micpres? Hats off to you, that's pretty cool.

[manning1]

my approach bobby is simple. ive used and bought the hi end stuff in the past , and its fine; but i save a bunch of money my way. also i love the FUN of it.
people are taking it all too seriously imho.
if you want to hear one of my comical songs
soundclick.com/bmanning click on music.
try "limeyrap" and also "i'm too old to rock and roll",
and listen to "take my love", and the last line in the "siamese cat song". all comical songs for fun. had lots of plays.

labs , my old place was nice. treated rooms etc.
now i'm just as happy. no pics as i might be moving.
sorry.

[rynugz007]

here's my rinky dink studio. The room needs quite a bit more treatment but im probably moving shortly so its staying as is for now.

www.blackwateraudio.com

[manning1]

bobby - i forgot to mention - i posted some nice diy mic pre links in the geekslutz forum. if you wanna check them out.
i'm always building something.

[RichT]

manning, I certainly had fun listening to your mp3s, thanks!

[Jax]

Here's the control room at my studio, Cauldron Audio.

Note the vacuum cleaner...

Stole the garbage bag over the console idea from Jules. It's a lowly 32 ch Ghost w/midi.. don't get excited.

[Jax]

Art shot...

[manning1]

thanks rich.
portsmouth . great place. many times felt like moving there.
or generally devon or cornwall. nice and peacfull.
thanks for listening.

loved that garbage bag just posted pic.
makes a ton of sense. - just joking - that picture isnt a low end studio. with a ghost ?
low end is when you fish things out of the garbage,
use speakers as microphones, modify foreign terrible sounding mics, and build your own cables.

[Laniko]

My rack is growing!

I just got my Centralstation and Eureka. I'll be taking it through a series of tests and let you guys know what I think.

[PaRaNoId]

excuse the poor web design and pics, but here is my studio as of a month ago...(have since added a patchbay and more room treatment)....FUZZYWALLZrecordings

[djui5]

Nice little spot Jon.....

[PaRaNoId]

a thank-you! Now I just need some better pres and some sort of control surface....

[AIRChoco]

Paranoid, i see you have two Q10. I have one of this. The pre's sound a little unclear to you, whitout definition? or are you using another pre's? wich device you use for AD convertion?

[manning1]

ive tried pre's built into soundcards. never been too impressed.
think its best to seperate the pre's. the reason i like diy pre's is one can swap around components. easily. and i'm more in control
of component selection.
now if only i could figure out how to build a sound card thats simple and clean !

[DrDeltaM]

Try to stay on topic everybody! Pictures and links please

You're all welcome to start a new thread about certain gear you've questions or info about, like the Q10 or DIY mic pre's etc.

Thanks