Panterachat

Guitar: Sennheiser e609, SM57
Bass: AKG D112, Audix D6
Acoustic: Whatever condensers are laying around, but hopefull 1 large & 1 small diaphragm
Vocals: SM58, Audix OM5, OM6 or OM7, Audio-Technica 4050
Drums: Kick-Audix D6 or AKG D112; Snare-SM57 top + AKG 414 bottom; Hats/Ride-Shure or Audix condesers, MXL 993; Overheads-any decently matched pair of condensers; Toms-Audix D1, D2, D3, D4,, F90 or Sennheiser 421's.

Anyone else got some cool REAL-WORLD faves? I know Neumans sound great but I don't happen to have the bank account of an oil magnate.

direct in to my SWR Workingpro 700

only thing I use that goes through the front end.

Shitty PA mic.

BassPhemy wrote:Shitty PA mic.

I'm not familiar with the brand "Shitty".
Are they any good?

mic prices are fucking ridiculous

Lord of This World wrote:mic prices are fucking ridiculous

Very true.

Lord of This World wrote:mic prices are fucking ridiculous

$13,999.99
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SolutionDS/


$5699.99
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/M150Tube/

PABassPlayer wrote:

BassPhemy wrote:Shitty PA mic.

I'm not familiar with the brand "Shitty".
Are they any good?

You're marginally more funny than cancer.

BassPhemy wrote:

PABassPlayer wrote:

BassPhemy wrote:Shitty PA mic.

I'm not familiar with the brand "Shitty".
Are they any good?

You're marginally more funny than cancer.

thanks!
and everyone said you were mean spirited and hard to get along with.

Lord of This World wrote:mic prices are fucking ridiculous

And totally fucking overblown. I'm sure there is merit to a $6000 mic, but I think $ is better spent on good preamps and cheaper mics. MXL & RODE make some really, really good sounding cheap condensers, and that leaves some $ left over to get a good mic pre or 2.

I don't know if that's advice or observation...

SB, it sounds like you know a bit about recording. What outboard gear to you own, sound card, monitors, control board? I already know that you run Cubase.

I have 1 AT3035 and 1 SM57, 1 ART Tube Studio MP and a Delta 44 sound card. I have a few pieces of crappy outboard stuff but I won't ever use them. I plan to get more equipment soon.

BassPhemy wrote:

PABassPlayer wrote:

BassPhemy wrote:Shitty PA mic.

I'm not familiar with the brand "Shitty".
Are they any good?

You're marginally more funny than cancer.

SuicideNote wrote:SB, it sounds like you know a bit about recording. What outboard gear to you own, sound card, monitors, control board? I already know that you run Cubase.

My audio interface is a PreSonus Firebox. Soundcard is SB Xfi Fatality which is cool because in addtion to having a game dork mode, it also has optimized modes for recording & entertainment.

My monitor is pretty stock & shitty, a 17" Compaq flat panel. I plan to upgrade to two 19" or greater widescreens soon.

I recently sold a bunch of outboard gear because A) it was old, B) it was Behringer, who makes good gear but it doesn't really have any "personality" to it, and C) I just, um, acquire a shitload of plug ins, and I find using them to process a good dry signal gets me results I'm happy with for now. My remaining outboard gear includes a Raine 5-band parametric (pre-Mojo series, when they were still making good gear), an Alembic SF2 bass superfilter (short of a vintage Neve eq module, this is the SICKEST bass eq I've ever heard. Sounds great on guitars, too), and I use my pedalboard when I want to print effects as I record.

Most of the time, I just go straight in thru my SansAmp bass driver DI to the Firebox. I don't like to record w/ compression because I'd rather use a shitload on the back end to make up for none on the front end as opposed to accidentally overcompressing before I even hit the hard drive. You can't un-fuck.

personally for the price I think SM57's are pretty fuckin dope. They do toms, cymbals, and guitars.