What gear does everybody use?

Apple G4 w/Digital Performer + a ton of plugins
MOTU 2408 mkII
Arturia Softsynths
Sequential Pro-One
Roland Jupiter 4
Yamaha DX-7
Akai S1100
E-Mu SP-1200
Roland JP-8000
Roland TR-606
Novation Drumstation

I've also got an Alesis Ion that's getting zero use right now since I'm not doing any recording, but I would like to get an amp and have the space to set it up.

though I should say I "have" this gear more then I "use" it these days.

:-(

http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/arptronics/arp2600.htm

Bass Sansamp- bass DI box
Marshall JCM2000 TSL100- using DI output, with the amp muted
Good Lord, the Marshall is way too loud for the bedroom, but the DI really works great. Both the Sansamp and Marshall are hooked to an ART Tube Compressor then the recorder. I will sometimes run my 1960V cabinet down the hall and run a second track of guitar with a mic also on the amp.

TC Electronics M1- Multieffects on send/return from recorder
Dell PC w/Delta soundcard -- recorder going digital into soundcard.
Wavelab to record mixdowns on PC.

Stuff I have and used, but right now not hooked up:
Yamaha A3000 - sampler
Yamaha AN200 - virtual analog synth
Roland XP80 - workstation

I've also got a remote recording rig to use with my recorder when recording a band with:

2x Behringer stereo tube preamps
1x Behringer quad compressor/limiter
1x ART Tube Compressor
1x Alesis 3630 Compressor/Gate
& 4x ART Tube Preamps

Mics-
2x Shure SM57s
4x MXL cheapy condenser mics
2x AKG C1000s

- A computer
- This one acoustic guitar
- A Fender Squier
- This one Casio with like eight sounds
- This toy keyboard I bought for $10 that can play Gymnopedie #1
- Reason and Cakewalk and stuff
- I don't have a host for VST plug-ins
- But I have a couple Radio Shack mics
- And this Washburn metal-looking practice amp
- And a flanger and this one early-80s delay pedal and stuff
- Etc.

http://www.theminorthirds.com/concert-040626-cp-sweat.jpg

http://www.theminorthirds.com/concert-040626-cw-accordion.jpg

I have a few other little instruments lying about (banjo, harp, bass, etc.) but I rarely use them. I have a weird old amp/PA that is yellow and in need of a new paint job, but I haven't used that in a year or so and have no pictures about it or info about it -- it is surely several decades old. The keyboard that I used to play in the other band died, and I borrowed a keyb (and a volume pedal, and a few other pedals that I didn't really do much with) for our last show, but we only play one show a year so that issue remains unresolved.

SWR Basic 350 Amp Head
SWR Goliath 4 by 10 Cab
SWR Big Ben 1 by 18 Cab

Line 6 Bass Pod
Line 6 Delay Modeller
Korg AX Bass Multi FX Floorpedal
Alesis Air FX
Bel Delay Unit

Cramer of London Harmonium

Stuff that other people use in band:
Sparkly Danelectro bass
Ampeg Rocket bass amp
Drums (?) (belongs to drummer, obv.)
Tambo
Maracas
Egg shaker
Farfisa (belongs to drummer, used for recording/"jamming")
Wurlitzer (ditto)
Casio SK-5 (not sure why this is at the practice space, we never use it for anything)

Other stuff that we have around:
Awesome-looking, shitty-sounding green no-name Japanese electric guitar
Alvarez acoustic
Sarah's old Lotus electric guitar
Sarah's old cheapo classical guitar with 4 strings
Two old '80's Peavey basses that weighs 150 pounds each and the strings haven't been changed in 5 years at least
Korg keyboard of some kind
Tascam 488II cassette 8-track, mostly used as mixer/input into computer these days
Powerbook
Logic Audio
Garageband
Harmonicas
Thrift store xylophone
Alesis HR60 (?) drum machine
Shitty old Korg multi-effects stomp box
Other crap

i also have but haven't used for years
rickenbacker 610
alesis drum machine
roland strings keyboard
fender musicmaster bass

my drummer has this awesome pump organ from the late 19th century. the condition and sound of the thing is staggering. it will definitely feature on our next record..

Gear that I've constructed:
Polypentagonal tonefaker (oscillator combo rig)
2 Scarab Oscs (deep range oscillators)
2 Rebote Delays (modified for infinite repeats)
Jawari pedal (crude sitar/banjo emulation)
Generic gain/distortion pedal

Gear that I've partially constructed:
x0xb0x (reverse engineered TB-303 clone kit)
Ampeg Scrambler clone
Foot Pedal voltage controller
ADSR module
8083 IC LFO + oscillator

Peavey Basic 60 bass amp
GK 800rb bass amp

Tascam Portastudio 424
Shure SM57 (just got my first mic!)

EH bass micro synth
Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Octave Fuzz
Crybaby Wah (borrowed)

Pots & pans

I don't have that much gear at the moment, as I can only fit so much in my apartment. I have:

A bunch of MXL mics (the 2001 is prevalent)
Edirol UA-1000
Roland A-90 (a way too heavy synth)
Roland Ep-7 Mark II
Drum set with Zildjian cymbals
Ableton
Sonar
Kontakt
FM7
Lots of other crap

Me:

Waldorf Micro Q
Kawai K5m
Rhodes Chroma
Yamaha SY77
2x E-mu Proteus 2000
E-mu E6400
Korg S3 (drum machine)
Alesis Ion
Korg Wavestation
Viscount Cantorum 3 (digital pipe organ)
Analogue modular synthesiser
Korg KPR77 drum box (currently stripped down awaiting new keyswitches)
Korg DDD1 drum box
Daisy Rock "retro H" 12-string
Daisy Rock "Elite"
Rickenbacker 620-12
Rickenbacker 350SH
Kawai KS11XL
Shergold "modulator" bass
Roland SH09
Kork Lambda
Epiphone doubleneck 6/12
ergh, other stuff as well. Too much stuff (40yo packrat) I'm clearing stuff out a bit at the moment.

Here's my half-finished guitar & pedal fx page:

http://www.vietgrove.com/nguit.html

travelling light these days. this system is ok for demo-ing stuff to a very rough level, but it's gonna need a bit more. it's certainly broken me out of option anxiety...

2006 should see a G4 1.42 ibook + interface and posh focusrite studio channel (producer pack prob) and some stompboxes.

*drools*

And yes I have been known to knock out a version of 'The River Bends' or 'I'm Going in A Field'.

Software:
Ableton Live 4
Reason 3

Fender Telecaster American Std
Marshall MG100DFX w/ footswitch
Sound City Distortion pedal
Aria Flanger pedal
Yamaha keyboard (don't know model number)

I have cleared a fair bit of stuff out recently including my 1981 Fender Bullet and some FX pedals.

For a law student, this is pretty much the stable I can justify. There will be more when there is a bigger paycheck.

That said, the newest addition - the Martin - is making all others very jealous. It is getting a lot of love from me.

Adrenalinn, latest revision
SansAmp Classic
Hiwatt Custom 50
Blackbox Oxygen compressor
Holowon Static Egg
HBE UFO Octave Fuzz
Option 5 Destination Overdrive
Nick Greer Black Fuzz
SG Les Paul Custom
Les Paul Jr.
Yamaha SBG
some Danelectro bass

Whatever the latest version of Cool Edit Pro was before Adobe
bought it

Diamond Cut Audio Restoration and Editing suite

Various other random bits of gear, broken old analog synths, cheapo acoustic guitars, alto sax, pocket trumpet, tablas, bongos etc. Plus Ableton Live.

I can give you a ballpark from the datecodes on the speaker(s), tranny or pots, assuming at least one of them is original to the amp.

I have trouble answering these threads because I usually have stuff coming in and out of the studio all the time so any definitive "list" is kind of pointless. That said...

The core of my recording set up doesn't change all that often. I run Sonar 4 Pro with an API 3124, FMR RNP and a Peavey Tube Sweetener as the 8 input channels feeding an Echo Layla 24. I have a boatload of compressors, most of which are vintage models I bought broken and fixed (DBX 160VU, Orban 424A et al.) or cheap crap I've modded for fun (Alesis Microlimiter "of Doom"). A few exceptions are genuinely good stuff I bought working (Meek SC2.2, Distressor) or cheap stuff that doesn't need mods to sound great (ART Pro VLA).

I sing and play guitars and amps into a Blue Dragonfly, Shure SM7, SM57, SM58, MXR V67, AT 3035 and some weird old vintage dynamics I have found in various places that manage to sound good in some contexts.

The only non-stompbox outboard effects I have are an Electrix Filter Factory, MO-FX and a Digitech Studio Vocalist EX.

I used to use a Proteus 2000 with a Kawai K4 as a controller, but I have since replaced both with an E-mu PK-6, which is basically just a Proteus 2k in a keyboard anyway.

Everything "in the box" is controlled by a CM Labs MotorMix and everything in the studio is routed automatically about by a CM Labs Sixty-Four. I switch between monitor systems with a Presonus Central Station.

At the moment I'm in the market for a Dangerous Audio 2-Bus (or some other analog summing box) and a UAD card, but I've only recently started a new job, so it's gonna be a little while before I drum up the scratch to get something in those price ranges.

I play mostly cheap guitars through a lot of different effects and amps. I've got nothing against expensive stuff at all, but I really really like Japanese Squiers (more than current run American Fenders), and I also usually end up changing out parts on everything and redoing guitar electronics myself anyway... Mostly I play a (Mexi) Strat with pickups from a 70s American Strat or a Squier Supersonic. (My Strat is also "Roland-ready" so I can use it as a synth controller or with my VG-88ex.)

My pedalboard varies from being 4 or 5 pedals to being the size of a door. At the moment:

Frantone Creampuff Fuzz
Weird old "Wau Fuzz" wah/fuzz pedal. (I really don't use the fuzz much though.)
MXR Sustain (from that poor-selling plastic Commande series in the
early 80s right before MXR went down in flames because they couldn't
compete with Boss. I keep meaning to rehouse it in a smaller aluminum box and give it a cool paintjob, but I have been lazy.)
Frantone Hepcat Overdrive
DOD Attacker (modded so it's not so noisy... the compressor circuit in this thing just kills)
Danelectro Fab Tone (If you ever need to generate feedback on command)
Boss CE-2 Chorus
Akai Intelliphase (I'm a total phaser snob and junkie, and this cheap phaser is just amazing)
Early 70s Univox Micro Phaser (I repainted the case)
DOD FX90 Delay (used for runaway delays and other things digital delays won't do)
Danelectro Dan Echo (runs as a slapback)
Boss HF-2 High Band Flanger
Toadworks Mr Squishy Compressor

Yes I have three compressors in my rig and yes I put the flanger after the delays.

I record most through a '70 Vibrochamp, a '65 Danelectro DM10 practice amp and one of the blackface Deluxe Reverb reissues from the mid 90s. (If you're into the lore of all this crap, I've got one of the Deluxe reissues with the Jensen speaker in it rather than the Fender-branded speaker.)

I collect and build effects pedals too, but I only collect in really nice shape so the ones on the pedalboard and the ones in the collection are never the same (except in some cases where I actually own more than one).

I play trumpet too, but all I have is the trumpet I learned on back in the day.

I sound like a proper gearhead now, don't I?

"All I need is one mic (one mic, one mic, one mic)"

that's it, yo. unless i break a string, then i bust out a sub guitar (epiphone les paul or SG)

-- Dan I. (w1nt3rmut...), October 25th, 2005.

nah, it was actually his guitar, sort of. he didnt use it anymore, and more or less 'permanently loaned' it to me...until one night he decided to smash it. i think in his drunken mind he thought it would impress his girlfriend or something. i was kinda pissed, but it was a beat up piece of shit anyway.

homemade Rat
homemade fuzz face
homemade tremelo (EA)
homemade tremelo (commonsound)
modified dunlop crybaby
EH memory man
Digitech digiverb
danelectro tremelo
homemade compressor (flatline)
korg 301dl echo

homemade fender tweed deluxe clone
homemade marshall 18W clone
old noname fender champ clone that matches the lap steel

sm57
2 homemade condenser mics
behringer eurorack 6 channel mixer
MAudio 2496 card
crappy version of Ableton Live

i think that's about all.

Maybe now if I'm feeling ambitious I will upgrade to something more powerful than Reason 1.0.

-Ensoniq ASR-10 Sampler
-MIDI keyboard
-Boss Dr. Rhythm

-Cakewalk Sonar

USA Fender Jazz (recent issue)
Boss Blues Driver distortion (x2)
Akai Headrush looping delay (x2)
Digitech Whammy with dodgy, apparently irreplaceable power supply that keeps cutting out
Ampeg Portaflex combo
Ampeg SVT2 head I need to sell

Other stuff :

Vox AC30 reissue that needs fixing
USA Fender Strat that I want to sell and replace with a Gretsch when I can be arsed
Squier Strat
Weird old rackmount digital delay
Boss OC2 Octaver
Boss Harmoniser that needs fixing after I plugged the wrong power supply into it
Original Arbiter Fuzzface (not working?)
Original MXR Distortion Plus (also not working?)
Probably some more crappy old pedals that have been sitting in a box for years
Roland JV1080 with "Vintage 60's and 70's" card
Hammer dulcimer, zither and bowed psaltery that I haven't got round to learning how to play properly yet

Plus a load of my brother's gear I can borrow whenever I want : Mellotron, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, Minimoog, Moog Taurus (x2), Moog Rogue, Roland Jupiter 8, Sequential Circuits Pro-1, Logan string machine, Roland JX3P, probably a few more!

and i play a casio porta-something tha ive had for 20 odd years, and some other old yamaha keyboards, cheap guitars like an ovation that i pretty much hate but keep on playing and a crap korean fender that i love love, boss eq,phaser,loop pedals, other pedals, alesis qs7, korg ea-1 box, shelf full of toys/noisemakers, portastudio 4track, adobe audition, free drum sample stuff like hammerhead, panasonic and radioshack tape recorders, and i'm gonna sell it all for a harmonium.

My wife got me this PPA tube mic for my birthday and it is amazing. So far I've used it on acoustic guitar and vocals and they both sound really really warm with way better low-end than the mics I usually record with (which to be fair are generally like sm-57s and a shitty drum mic kit I got off Craigslist).

Now I'm trying to figure out how to write, play, and record songs where you can you can hear every tiny mistake I make (which you can now, thanks to this mic). It's like a whole different style for me.

nice. I did some vocals this last weekend on an sm-57. can't imagine what a decent mic might sound like.

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Did a double take when I got to the end of that lol

Also big lolz at capitalizing Blues Artist.

i bought some gefell and royer mics and a couple of new preamps since my last post

I did some vocals this last weekend on an sm-57.

The best mic I have is an SM-57. And it rapidly goes downhill from there: some £20 mic from Maplin that's been dropped onto a hard wooden floor and has a busted pop shield and capsule support, an old Philips karaoke style mic, and a few others. Also today I recorded some vocals using the built in mic on one of those "QwikTune" guitar tuners - sounded like it was recorded down a telephone.

bought a kalimba on ebay today, after meeting a dude over the weekend who offered to wire it up with a pickup & jack for me.

Wow, my gear has really improved since I last answered this question. I've added Ableton Live, PodXT, Telecaster and Ibanez semi-hollow, cheapo preamp and condenser mic set, Squier bass, ukulele and tiny steel drum ... and also stopped recording stuff very often. Apparently it was all just a quest to get something to sound reasonably decent, and now the job is done.

congratulations!

Man my gear situation is in shambles: I sold my old Twin to pay for a plane ticket (dead center of an ebay selling frenzy at the start of the recession and only got $500 for it), my SuperSonic won't stay working, my drums got demolished, I ran out of money and sold nearly all my pedals, I had this vicious sounding solid state Sunn head that may or may not be missing(?), still need to fix the neck on this one bass, man!

But my Telecaster and Jazzmaster are fine, I have two excellent fuzz pedals left, I've got a cheap old short-scale Ampeg bass that was laundered to me that I like a lot, oh and the same guy gave(?) me a crybaby he never uses right before I left, some other odds and ends I guess, I just have nothing in terms of a functional live setup which is what I'm most concerned with. F!

borrowed epi sheraton
borrowed ac15 (I have no idea how old or which model, sounds good to me though
boss distortion and compressor
...thats it. I do want a good fuzz pedal though.

1965 Fender Jazzmaster
1981 Ovation Viper
60's Teisco ET100
70's Yamaha FG-230 12 String
a nice cheap nylon string guitar from Paracho, MX
Moogerfooger Ring Mod
90's ProCo Rat
MXR Blue Box
Oberheim VCF-200
Electro Harmonix Q-Tron
MXR Time Delay
Electro Harmonix Memory Man
Cry Baby 535 Q Wah
Digitech Modulator multi-fx
80's Peavey Classic Combo
80's Peavey MTX
Akai MPC 60
AKAI MPC 1000
Ensoniq EPS 16
Roland JX3P

Hey how's that Viper play/sound? I've seen pics of a lot of old Ovation guitars and they look rad.

http://www.ovationelectricguitars.co.uk/_wp_generated/wp1b185735.png

Like I reeeally want to dismantle that lead pickup to see how it's constructed--and what a neat bridge!

Any odd thing that doesn't look like a direct knockoff of all the basic Fender/Gibson flagships catches my eye, anyway.

seven million Italian guitars to thread...

my viper looks almost exactly like the pic you posted! well, except for the fact that a chunk of the pickguard around the jack broke, so now there's a bit of duct tape over that. i traded an epiphone sheraton II for it in 2001 (when the ovation electrics were still going fairly cheap). the viper is really bright (even strung with flats), but not thin or twangy sounding. the pickups are pretty hot, and yeah, the bridge design is something else. i love the thing. would love to get my hands on a breadwinner or deacon. i think ovation's electrics were really exceptionally crafted guitars that are just now starting to get their due.

]seven million Italian guitars to thread...

― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, September 18, 2009 2:49 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

Haha, I welcome them!

That happened to the pickguard on an old Teisco I have, whole thing broke off around the jack; you can't really buy replacement pickguards for thing so I mounted the jack to a ball mason jar lid I cut for it, which wasn't as ideal a solution as I'd hoped.

God now I really want one of those.

i've been neglecting my teisco lately, but man are those things fun.

loving my kalimba, although it's kind of a pain to tune. i got a really nice sound recording it using a 57 and a kel hm-1, so now i've captured it's soul in cubase and don't have to actually play it.

does anyone have any good suggestions for a decent loop pedal? something cheap and useful rather. i'm using a line6 DL4 right now so i'm not looking for more functions than the loop mode on that, just something to record fast and random loops with live. so not the kinds where i can only record in a certain tempo.

Second hand Akai Headrush maybe?

They are about £125 brand new I think.

hey thanks, that looks perfect! any personal experience with it?

To be truthful no, I've got a Boss one and the Line 6 one. I know Matt#2 has two of them, maybe he could weigh in.

Matt#2 to thread. i'm thinking the old E1 model should suit my needs for a reasonable price.

the Boss looper isn't that much more expensive really, but from what i understand it's a lot more complicated? seems to be more about doing serious overdubs and bluesjamming with yourself

I prefer my old Line 6 one compared to the Boss, I don't know if it's just because I'm far more used to the Line 6, but I find the Boss one quite clunky by comparison. I mainly use the Boss for triggering samples.

http://www.outboardanywhere.com/

very cool for paupers

whoa. that is crazy.

Haven't used it yet. Might give it a go if there's something I can't hire/borrow. Apparently the guy built the automation into the gear and is controlled remotely.