Home Recording Setups?

Joseph Barcus · Post by **Joseph Barcus** » 3 Feb 2002 6:46 am

I have 16 track tascam D88s, 24 channel fender board after i get a mix i send it right to my hp computer. I play it all from the drums, steel, all other guitars needs, and I also use a yamaha sk 80 keyboard. getting great results from that little room

Matt Steindl · Post by **Matt Steindl** » 3 Feb 2002 7:38 am

Allen, Miking a big grand piano can be tricky! I think you might want to look for a nice matched pair of condensors for this. I dont really have a lot of experience recording real pianos, so I will have to turn this one over to someone else.

All I know, is that when a big piano is miked well, it sounds awesome!

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Joe E · Post by **Joe E** » 3 Feb 2002 8:31 pm

For Mic'ing a piano I use PZM mic's. I have a piece of Mahogany that is about 5 foot long. On one end it is about 8" wide and thins down to about 4" at the other. I place one PZM about 8" away from each end and one in the middle. (3 mic's) The big end hangs over the bass side and the thin end toward the treble side. You pan left, right and center. Move the board forward or back until you get your sound. You can buy PZM mic's at radio shack for 30 dollars each or buy a Crown for 100+, both work about the same.

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 4 Feb 2002 8:00 pm

I have used Cakewalk since the mid 80's and kept upgrading until last year I upgraded the program beyond the capabilitites of my old Pentium 266 to handle it. So I built a PC studio workstation recently, and now am actually able to record/playback more than 2 audio tracks at a time without freezing up (huzzah!) seeing as I mostly track stereo steel on top of virtual tracks, this makes me very happy. I can now accompany myself without waiting for the nasty red CPU & Disk usage indicators to max out...

My obsolescent equipment list:

Cakewalk SONAR Audio/MIDI Sequencer/"Swiss Army Knife" w/ various cheap & Free FX plugins

Frankenstein Athlon 1 Ghz, Win 98se 768MB RAM, 40GB 7600 Ultra ATA x2,Old SoundBlaster PCI 128 Soundcard,32 MB ATI Graphics, TDK CDRW drive,Old NEC 17" Monitor

Soundforge 5 (Editing)

CoolEdit96 (different editing features)

Acid Music 2.0 (fun with loops!)

Nero Burning ROM (CD Burner S/W)

Borrowed Fostex 812 Mixer

RadioShack PZM mic’s x 2

360 Systems MIDIBass (ancient bass sample player module)

Alesis D4 Drum module

Kawai K1 r (rack mount synth module) x2

Kawai K1 Keyboard (controller and playback module)

Digitech StudioQuadV2, 4 in 4 out multi FX

Line 6 POD 2.0

Peavy PLM 8128 8 Channel rack mount MIDI controllable line mixer

and more stuff...
all housed in my 10 x10 practice room/office/studio. None of it but the computer is new, and a lot (including the computer) is "obsolete"; but it still does what it was originally designed to do and I have spent countless hours tweaking patches and the like to have a basic set of sounds I can live with. Some are even actually very good. IMO

now to make time to finsh the projects I've started over the years

[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 04 February 2002 at 08:12 PM.]

Jay Ganz · Post by **Jay Ganz** » 7 Feb 2002 8:52 am

If you really want a TON of opinions
on mics, then just
<a href=http://homerecording.com/bbs/forumdispl ... d=27>click here.</a>

There's always someone who won't like
a certain mic for whatever reason, &
whatever mic they like gets panned by
somebody else. It just goes with the
territory!