What do you use to record?

[Gothic Sponge]

For years i worked with a Tascam board and tape. Now, i use the computer and Sonar 3 almost exclusively.

[EarlG]

1. I have a Korg D1200

Which is pretty cool, but the stuff I'm working on at the moment is done on my computer with Acid, because it's all loop-driven.

I've had good success recording onto the Korg and then transferring the audio as wav files via USB to the computer though. It's a bit slow, but it works.

[Pepperbelly]

19. so you used your pc for mastering and burning a master cd?

I am thinking of going this way. How slow is it? And recomendations regarding which software to use to master/burn?

[slutticus]

2. Tascam and tape

I can't afford anything digital right now. But hopefully soon...

[bullimiami]

3. i work in a big studio

its pretty much all protools these days. all the machines sit idle.

nice mic, nice mic pre, maybe a compressor, into the protools.

My brother had one of those pod usb guitar things, with lots of emulation processing inside the computer. for home, for just a guy playing on the computer, its pretty amazing.

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. My computer, and that's about it (for now)

I use Acid Pro 4 for editing and recording, and Fruity Loops to create loops and control VST instruments. Since I'm on a budget, I have my eye on the M-Audio Fast Track recording device so I can add guitars and other outside instruments. Right now, I record live stuff through a chat mic, and give the tracks some heavy treatment. I hate being broke...

[Beaverhausen]

5. I do my demos on a Fostex 4 track!!! and I use my answering machine

to record ideas when I write them. I used to record songs I was writing on a boombox with external mikes but they don't make them anymore. sucks!!!

[dogonarug]

6. combo a/d

Good old o/b analog front end(pres,comps)to quality o/b conversion to mackie 24 tr. dig. recorder to pro-tools...moniter w/da7 dig. board.
Started in the 2inch tape and razor blade days...I miss em

[MazeRat7]

7. Mostly Sonar for both MIDI and Audio

Of the two studios I use, one has an HD24 and the other still uses tape.

MZr7

[johnnie]

8. I use a PC

I was using ADATS, but I only had the one and 8 tracks just didn't cut it for me. Now I use a PreSonus DigiMAX with a litepipe going to a Layla and in to the computer. I use a small Carvin mixer these days, but had a sweet Soundcraft before that. It is an old British console that had 32 mics in and 8 busses. I wish I hung on to it. Between the Layla and the PreSonus I get 16 tracks in to the computer at one time.
I use Adobe Audition (The old Cool Edit Pro) and it seems to do the job Pro Tools did for me on the software end of it all.
I have a shitload of mics and processors, but do most recordings "live" with no effects on anything. Maybe a bit of compression on drums, but most processing gets done in my mixdowns. It's hard for me to use that compression on the drums though, but some kits really need them.
I have a "live" room, a drum room and the control room. My studio was there before I bought my house and i worked in it for quite a while before I bought it. It was designed by my buddies friend from Nashville and the sound is really good for a basement.
That's about it.

Here I am a few years back with my Soundcraft board.

[TrogL]

9. Videotape

I know, it's wierd, but the tape's cheap and I get awesome signal-to-noise at 20-20000. Next gig, though, I'm trying direct-to-disk.

[XNASA]

10. I used Cakewalk for a long time.

I like to MIDI the keyboards and drums and sometimes the bass.

Everything else was live though.

In the last few years I've been in and out of a few studio, mostly ProTools stuff.

I'm going to build a studio in the basement soon. I haven't had my own personal studio in about 4 years and it's driving me crazy.

[Beetwasher]

11. A Mixture of Acid, Cubase and Wavelab

I build drums by looping samples in Acid then bring them into Cubase...I use Wavelab for mastering and quick and dirty recording if I just want to get something down quick so I don't forget it later.

But Cubase is my workhorse where I do most of my tracks and mixing...

[LifeDuringWartime]

12. our drummer's imac

with the built-in microphone and garageband. yikes!!

i'd like to get a four-track for myself, but dont know which one. korg has one with effects that looks nice.

[regularguy]

13. Yamaha Aw16g

It's 16 track digital, with some somewhat cheesy built in effects and functions. Awesome for the price (slightly less than 1k). I also have one of those little mackie mixers. For years I used a fostex 4 track, and got some occasionally decent results.

[no name no slogan]

14. Used to use a Tascam Porta 03,

But I bought one of those Fostex portable digital 8-track machines last year. Unfortunately, my studio is in disarry right now so I haven't had a chance to record anything decent on it yet.

I also have a copy of Cubase VST that I got a few years back when I was teaching (education discount), but I haven't really sat down with it to learn it. Looks good, and powerful, but I program computers every day at work-- the last thing I want to do when I get home is sit down and learn yet another application environment.

"Back in the day" (1994, to be exact), my band recorded an EP on some of the first semi-pro hard-drive recording equipment. It was a hardware device called a "Session 8" which gave you 8 tracks of 16-bit digital, and connected directly to your PC. It ran on Windows 3.1 (or on beta versions of Windows 95), and was incredibly cool for its time. The whole thing was priced around $12k, if I remember. Now, you can get the same fidelity with better hardware for about $400, tops.

I suppose some day I'll go all software, but for the time being I still really like hardware. There's something about moving a slider, turning a nob, or rewinding the tape that you just don't get from a computer monitor. Give me my Alesis MMT-8 sequencer and HR-16 drum machine any day! :)

[Dukkha]

15. Macintosh

Used a Digidesign Audiomedia III
Now using a M-Audio Audiophile 24/96

Software:
Metro
Peak
T-Racks
Waves

Before the home studio I used Alesis ADAT and twice the Big old 16 track 2" Analog Tape. It's been a LONG time since I edited tracks with a razor.

[paulk]

16. right now I'm using my computer

with a cheap rk mt line mixer front end going into a creamware soundcard. I used Acid on my last project to assemble tracks, right now I'm doing a project using Cubase SX.

I've used reel to reel, hi fi VCR, dat, and ADAT in the past. Computers are the ticket these days, especially if you're doing electronic stuff.

[BlueEyedSon]

17. Can someone compare & contrast Sonar with Audition for me?

Or point me to a website that does?
thx!

[BlueEyedSon]

21. Anyone? thx!

[DeepGreen]

22. No experience with them

sorry

[DeepGreen]

18. A Roland VS-1824 CD

I like it.
If you want to get an idea of what it can do,
you can check out my CD at www.cdbaby.com/bobspencer.
This is my first release. All recording/mixing/,,
was done on the VS-1824.

Unfortunatley, the 2 minute cuts on the website
don't do justice to the actual CD sound. But, might
give you a fairly good idea.

:toast:

[PittPoliSci]

20. shitty tape deck and cassette.

for the true garage rocker who has no money what so ever.