Help me build a recording chain!

[pascalm]

Hey,

I have a small home set up at the moment consisting of a Line 6 Toneport and a couple of inexpensive but decent microphones. The Toneport serves as my interface, preamps etc.

Seeing as I bought this stuff when I was just getting into recording, I have come to the conclusion that i could improve my recording chain or change it completely. I still want to try and keep it quite 'low end' and wondered if any of you Slutz could give me a hand in recommending a whole chain that would work well or just how to improve it with about £1000 ($1600). I also do most of my mixing ITB.

Please don't mention room treatment as i will be dealing with that separately.

I am also running Logic pro on my macbook and would like to be able to have 8 ins as i do on my toneport.

I will mainly be recording guitar orientated music and recording bands.

Cheers!

[Karloff70]

I might just watch this time geezer Good luck.

[Karloff70]

Actually, bollocks....here goes...

There are old things by Altec called 1678, which go for absolute zilch on american ebay quite often. 8 pre's through trannies with separate outs, a pleasant vibe and decent quality. Feel real and untoylike to listen to. Black front. You could do worse than get one for pres with whatever interface......more fun sounding than general interface pres now. Get some sort of decent hardware eq. Maybe german broadcast stuff. Unless you're going to mix elsewhere.

[pascalm]

Originally Posted by Karloff70

Actually, bollocks....here goes...

There are old things by Altec called 1678, which go for absolute zilch on american ebay quite often. 8 pre's through trannies with separate outs, a pleasant vibe and decent quality. Feel real and untoylike to listen to. Black front. You could do worse than get one for pres with whatever interface......more fun sounding than general interface pres now. Get some sort of decent hardware eq. Maybe german broadcast stuff. Unless you're going to mix elsewhere.

Haha cheers.

Believe me I'm not trying to spark another war.

I just want to gain as much learn as much as possible!