Curious about forumite's home recording setups

[gtrman66]

Hello all!
I'm finally getting around to setting up my home recording DAW and was curious to see what y'all may be using in your personal studios such as studio monitors,interfaces,headphones,recording software etc. So far all I've settled on is a new 27" iMac and my pod x3...everything else is up in the air. Any help,comments,advice etc would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Scott

 

[metalmarty]

I'm using a pretty basic setup. Laptop (Windows XP) with Cakewalk Sonar for recording, Toontrack The Metal Foundry for drums, Roland VG-99 for guitars, bass and interface for vocals if I want to record 'em. For monitoring I use a pair of insanely expensive MB Quart headphones I got to buy relatively cheap when I was working for a wholesaler, a Sony DE-545 receiver/amp and a pair of Pioneer CS-990 speakers. If it sounds good on this setup it'll sound good everywhere . All set, though I can't record real drums, only one input

 

[PaoloGilberto]

I just finished the aquisitions for a small amateur "home studio" :
- Intel I 5 760 - 2,8 Gb, 4 cores, 8Mb cache; 4GB Ram; 1 TB HDD; Acer 23'' monitor - OS:Win 7
- line 6 UX 1 - which almost got me nuts, with all the software problems
- KRK Rokit 6 G2 - studio monitors
- Shure Sm 57
- blackstar ht 5 mini stack and some pedals...
Software: Cubase 5, EZdrummer,POD Farm- just because the interface is working only with pod farm running

 

[Slingy]

My setup is really basic but at least my guitars are awesome.

Line6 UX2 - For modelling or micing amps and acoustics
KRK Rokit 5's for monitoring
Sennheisser 280s for monitoring
SM57 for recording acoustics
Various plug ins

Im going to add a midi controller/keyboard next

 

[fsmith]

A very simple and minimal system for me...

Rokit 6 Monitors
PodXT
Blackstar HT-5
Riffworks Standard
Various Drum plug-ins
Ernie Ball Musicman guitars...

fred

 

[dhalif]

this is mine

Ableton Live 8
POD STUDIO UX2
Korg M50 88
POD X3 Live
ToonTrack
Krk
Neuuman

 

[kdj771]

pro tools 8
mbox 2
krk rockit 6s
windows 7
sm 57
dbx 166xl compressor

getting a midi controller soon and upgrading to pro tools 9, so i can run any interface since 003s are damn pricey

 

[ScoobySteve]

ElevenRACK
ProTOOLS 8 LE
Mackie MR-5 Monitors


Super simple and super affordable!

 

[njhammer]

Reaper
Tascam 1641
M-Audio SP3 monitors
Yamaha RH-5Ma headphones

 

[njhammer]

...and Drum On Demand

Reaper
Tascam 1641
M-Audio SP3 monitors
Yamaha RH-5Ma headphones

 

[bkrumme]

Logic Studio 9
Apogee Ensemble
Yamaha HS80M monitors
Sennheiser HD-280 headphones
Axe-Fx Ultra (in transit from Fractal)

 

[GoKart Mozart]

My setup is pretty minimal:
Dell laptop (Windows XP)
M-Audio FastTrack Pro USB interface
Reaper
Toontrack EZDrummer
Cheap Sony headphones for monitoring (I've got some M-Audio Studiophile monitors on my wishlist)
Main mic: AudioTechnica AT2020
If I'm not in the mood for miking an amp, I use a demo version of GT Express that came with the M-Audio interface. Works great for getting a decent sound with minimal hassle.

 

[Colin]

I'm using ProTools 9 on an i7 27" iMac with Glyph drives. I have mostly waves plugins (ssl 4000, Gold bundle etc) and complete production toolkit. Event Opals monitors, presonus monitor station, axiom keyboard, akg headphones Rode and Shure mics with the Eleven rack and my guitar rig. I've probably missed stuff but that's the main stuff.

 

[Music Man]

HP Tower w/intel quad processor
Dual 23 inch HP Monitors
M Audio Monitors
Cubase 5
Liquid Safire 56 Interface
Vox Tonelab LE and XT

 

[Sweat]

My brothers house

 

[Tung]

ElevenRACK
ProTOOLS 8 LE
Mackie MR-5 Monitors

One word, bro: Axe Fx! Get rid of the Eleven rack

 

[mr.b]

thats 2 words

 

[bkrumme]

thats 2 words

Supposed to be hyphenated, like this: Axe-Fx

 

[browndog]

Actually Axe-FX is 1 word and an Acronym separated by a hyphen.

 

[Colin]

One word, bro: Axe Fx! Get rid of the Eleven rack

There is an update for eleven coming in March