I'm not quite there yet, but was looking for opinions on what gear people around these parts used to record their own music. I've enjoyed the heck out of watching and listening to the videos here and would like to do some of my own at some point.
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Hey Ron it an endless search, I record my music with Presonus studio one through their Fire studio mobile $250 they give you a basic version of studio one with the interface the upgrade is $150 i think. I use Adobe Premiere elements for video editor $ 150 with photoshop. And it grows from there, monitors, keyboard, on and on.........
I've got a couple of halfway decent digital cameras around here that have record sound and video. I wonder if I could work something like that into the mix?
One of them is a big body Sony Cybershot DSC S70 that professes "MPEGMovieHQ" what ever that means. I still use it a lot but don't recall ever trying to record any video with it I think I paid $800 or $900 for that thing back about 12 years ago when I single and wealthy ;)
Well, back in the day, I made a mess out of it...tried everything but nothing would fix my vocals{lack of that is lol}
Now that's something I could probably pull off in some fashion or another.
For videos I use a Flip HD. Nice picture, easy to transport. Lousy zoom, but you can't have it all. For the "Tree Frog Blues" video I used the picture from the Flip and synced it (sorta) with the audio from my recording setup.
For audio recordings I use a collection of stuff I've acquired piecemeal over the last decade or two. The main unit is a Tascam DP-01 digital 8-track from around 2004. I run all my mics through a Nady preamp into that. The main mics are a Shure SM57 and an AKG D5 (mostly for vocals). I've got a stereo digital reverb and a delay pedal that I use entirely too much. Other instruments besides cigar boxes and cookie tins include a Samick P-Bass copy, various parts of a Tama Swingstar drum kit (rarely all five pieces at the same time), and an electric washboard.
I want to graduate to a dedicated computer recording system someday, but that costs money. You can spend $5,000 and have a setup that will rival a top-shelf professional studio from 1992, but you still gotta have the five thousand bones in the first place. That's kinda the barrier to that.
Holy Moley! I don't think 5 g's dropped into something like that is going to happen around here anytime soon either. sure would be fun though.