Here is "Suburban Din" after its Pimp My Studio makeover....
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My compliments to your pimp.
I've been on TB for a while, but never on this forum. I've been playing bass for three years, and recording for two. I started out wanting to fool around in my buddy's basement practice space and record some stuff we were doing at the time. After cutting my teeth that way, my first "recording gig" happened when another friend of mine asked if I could put a demo together for a band consisting of three high school freshmen, of which his brother-in-law was the drummer (funkiest 14 year old drummer you ever saw!). They had a great name: 1/3 Nerd. Their goal was to submit the demo and attempt to get into the High School Battle of the Bands to be held at PromoWest Pavilion in downtown Columbus.
We ended up doing seven tunes on the Korg D1200mkII I was using at the time (with some real crappy microphones unfortunately), mixed it up on my home computer and submitted the disc. 35 bands entered, only 10 were selected, and 1/3 Nerd made it off that demo, becoming the youngest band in the show. I was immediately hooked as a home recording geek. (They ended up funking up the place and came in 3rd place.) They thought I was a God. Truthfully, I had no idea what I was doing (and still don't really). But I was hooked.
For the past year I've been focusing on becoming a better bass player, but the time came for me to assemble a small rig to record some practices for two bands I have been playing in. Eventually, I will want to put together a rough demo that these bands can use to secure local gigs, share with their friends and groupies (
), that kind of thing. My primary need though was for a portable rig that I could take to the locations in which these bands practice and be able to lay down decent quality tracks with little or no frills. I have enough bass-related stuff to haul already, so one overriding criteria was that everything had to fit in a banker's box. Also, I didn't want to spend more than a $1000. So here is my Studio in a Box:
Fostex MR-8HD
Rode NT5's (pair)
Rode NT1A
ART Tube PAC
PreSonus HP4 headphone amp
Sony MDR-7506 cans
Various dynamics: SM57's, SM58's and an EV Blue Raven that band members have already
That's it for now! For recording our practices, I will go straight into the recorder with the NT5's in an X/Y to mic the room. Depending on how the vocals sound with this setup, I will have the NT1A to use if I need to mix in some more vocals.
I will then transfer the tracks to my computer (Core2Duo E6300, 2 gigs of DDR2 533 RAM) and use Audition 2.0 (been using Audition since it was CoolEdit) to do final mixing/mastering. Again, trying to keep things simple, so I will primarily use Ozone to give it an all-in-one treatment.
Nothing fancy, but great "bang for the buck" results so far, and versatile enough to do many things.
See you around here in the Recording Gear forum!
