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Since some of you are quite knowledgable in terms of recording gear, I'd like to know if you have any suggestions for the current setup I record at home with, especially if there's anything I could add that would really help overall sound quality and process. I do a lot of recording at home, always learning new things about Logic and really want this to be the year I finally get some songs completely finished.
Setup consists of:
- Logic X
- Apogee Duet
- Good headphones and Alesis recording speakers
- Alesis Micron analog modeling synth (also use as midi controller)
- Various guitars
- Amp: Small Vox tube practice amp
- Effects - Various guitar effects, set up for stereo output. I run the Micron through the effects pedals so I have a couple delay pedals, stereo phaser, compressor, phaser, chorus, flanger, and a couple distortion pedals.Overall I get a nice sound with the Micron>Pedals>Duet>Logic path. I lean more towards recording more intricate synth parts with MIDI though, just because my audio editing skills are pretty basic, so adjusting synth audio parts to fit a rhythm is a challenge. I'm pretty efficient with MIDI editing.
The type of sounds I always gravitate to are definitely more warm, lush analog sounds. The times I try to do something that sounds 100% digital it eventually shifts to more of a warmer rich sound. Not that there's anything wrong with that. What I learned when taking some Logic classes recently was to cut back all the reverb I typically use early on, and that will give me a pure purely digital sound. The song below is something that I think my sound is similar too; I like the way the more digital sounds fit in with the more lush stuff.
Anyhow, I guess what I'm asking is: any tips on this setup? Any gear that would be crucial to add in that workflow for sound quality? Any hardware that I am better off using instead of the digital equivalent in Logic? Any good ebay finds for hardware synths/keyboards that are cheap and nice to have? Thanks guys!
- Damn YouTube...mg33
- I see what you mean by lush, but that track doesn't strike me as analog. You may not need any more hardware, just some good plugins.ltjohnrambo
- good plugins. A bit of good reverb sounds better than a lot of bad.ltjohnrambo