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How many of you record at home, and what gear do use for it? Do you make your own CD's? Or do you record at places like Exile and get them to produce the finished CD for you?

[Danny Doubt]

i record acoustic demo's on my bro's computer and put them on a CD-RW an let the band hear them first before proceeding. I use Cubase 5.1 and WavLab and i use zoom's ps-02 palmtop studio as a pre-amp through my line-in 2record the gtr an vocals seperately in Cubase.
peace,
Danny.

p.s. we recorded some full band tracks in Cpt. Toms for a reasonable price, jus havent got round 2 mixin an masterin the last two tracks for a demo CD which everyone has been moanin at me 2 get finished for about a year! LOL!

Various methods, different situations.
Sometimes I record at home, straight on to pc, Wavelab 5, Sound Forge 6, sometimes record in the exchange basement, (mac with garageband)
Last "studio" recording was at Cap Toms, with The Famous Prostitute, the cd tracks from there got a little tickle with adobe audition, before getting mp3d for the net,
I have a cdrw here but I have never used it for a "production run", If listeners want DT tracks, they generally d/load them,
Some one has asked me to record a couple of ambient tracks for their own personal use, so they will get one off cds recorded and burned at the hoose.
I generally use cracked softwarez and computers rescued from skips,

You can hear The Famous Prostitute here.

[Tav]

Currently just for recording ideas it's guitar in a Korg Pandora PX4 personal effects processor for amp/cab/effects. This then goes straight into PC through the line in on my sound card. Final destination is Cakewalk Guitar Tracks or Adobe Audition.

[Alan Cynic]

I currently record straight to a 4-track Yamaha MT-50 cassette portastudio (kindly given to me by Mike Napier of the Downroads). Then I mix onto minidisc, before transferring the best mix to CD-R as a master. When I've enough songs I put out a CD-R for sale. Then I deal with the complaints from a disappointed public! (all 2 of them).

I think you can get bogged down with technology, mastering etc!

Thanks for your replies its interesting to hear how you guys go about doing things. Do you do any post-processing to the tracks like compression/limiting/eq (of the whole mix or the individual tracks...)

[delboy]

i do it the same way as alan cynic except i use a fostex XR 5 four track and i put an alessis midiverb box through the four track for some additional effects.

been mastering down some old four track stuff which was recorded on an amstrad machine! i was quite productive in the early 90!

[Alan Cynic]

Originally Posted by Stripey

Thanks for your replies its interesting to hear how you guys go about doing things. Do you do any post-processing to the tracks like compression/limiting/eq (of the whole mix or the individual tracks...)

Personally I don't....I want it to sound the way it was when I recorded it, but a couple of times some record companies have tinkered with my masters to reduce hiss, get wider range etc It hasn't unduly irritated me.







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[delboy]

this thread has prompted me to dig out 'parallel dog days' which remains an astonishing record, as lo fi as it gets!

[Hogisbald]

I use a Tascam 4 track (which we used to record the whole Spike Pile Driver album). Then get it burned on to CD by Captain Toms, Tom also uses a compression button which does something cool to the sound

I also have a digital 12 track which Im still working out how to use! (for my solo stuff)

I think for Element 106 we will simply use Captain Toms