The gear thread for people with no gear.

[signorMars]

my setup is so low end... i can't actually record anything. i just tell people what is sounded like. "and then this part comes up that's like DA DA DA DA and then it goes NEEEEEEEEEoooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhooooooooossshhhhh!"

[black ark]

my setup is so low end... i can't actually record anything. i just tell people what is sounded like. "and then this part comes up that's like DA DA DA DA and then it goes NEEEEEEEEEoooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhooooooooossshhhhh!"

i wet my pants

anybody else with a mixing board made by Peavey (sp?)

-paul m.

[XXGABEXX]

I'll work backwards...

MOTU 828 into iMac w/ MOTU's free software

Studio Projects C1
2 SM57s
2 or 3 various cheap dynamics with on/off switches
Stolen PA speaker for my bass drum mic
I've been using the 828's preamps for years, but just last week I dropped $100 on a tiny little Yamaha mixer that so far looks great sitting there.

'67 Fender Dual Showman w/ 2x15 cabinet - on lay-a-way for over a year, literally.
Marshall Plexi reissue w/ JCM900 4x12
Vox Pathfinder - arrives Thursday - Thank you mpm and all you TapeOppers

'72 Gibson SG - I call it the "plain" model
'66 Fender Musicmaster II
'6? Fender Muscimaster bass
Washburn acoustic - some cheap model, but I did find a pre Page-Plant reunion ad with Robert Plant endorsing it!!
Mystery archtop I found for $75
1948 Supro electric lap steel - nobody wants these old things unless they say Fender or Gibson on them, so hurry up and buy one before they become hip and expensive
MicroKorg
Roland MC-303
Kawai KC-20 - on permanent loan from co-worker
Farfisa mini-compact - just got eBay for a song!

Ludwig drum kit - put together via the various pawn shops 'round town

A crate full of various pedals that I "inherited" from some friends - a bunch of which need fixing
And last, but not least, my coveted RE-201 Space Echo

Out of all this stuff I only saved money and flat-out paid full price for the MOTU interface. Everything else was a trade, was left at my house, was bought on lay-a-way, still resides on my credit cards, was a gift or was just bought for extra cheap over the past 10 years or so. I think I've finally got everything I want. Now I need to just put it to use.

-GABE

[mjau]

Behringer Tube Ultra-Q two channel EQ...I took out the cheap Sovteks, put in some Groove Tubes, and it actually sounds fairly decent. And my midi controller...Casio all the way, baby. Behringer Truth monitors, Cakewalk Sonar2, and the best mic I've ever used...Shure Beta 57.

[wing]

i finally get around to answering this thread... i've had to make do with a lot of junky gear, but it's fun!

dbx project 1 266 compressor/gate
midiman fineline 24 ch line mixer
tascam unbalanced patchbay
digitech 256 xl effects processor
behringer autocom mdx 1000 compressor/limiter
alesis M-EQ 230
tapco 2200 EQ (this is actually a cool unit i got for like $50, it's just pretty noisy, at least mine is )
bellari RP503 tube pre/compressor/eq
lexicon core2 (well, no longer in my rack or in use, but it's my first DAW and still sitting around, i'm meaning to sell it)
palatino violin
starsun mandolin
fender 400 pedal steel (apparently crappy for a pedal steel )
lots of weird old broken instruments

[bobbydj]

It's actually a pretty cool thread to resurrect though. I'm going to put a list of crap on here later. Now though I have to go make some useful suggestions to a band that's recording in a studio with floor-standing hi-speakers as the main monitors and the only comp's a 3630.

[wing]

oh yeaaa, and i also have...

casio DG-20 digital guitar (really wacky sounding)
fender squier stratocaster WAYNE'S WORLD EDITION! (with emblem on back) - this was made around the time of the movie release and sold to kids suckered in to playing guitar with dreams of being a dude with a guitar and a basement tv show

[bluetarp]

ctmsound, dude, I don't think I could afford your [i]cleaning bill.[/i]

[trashy]

I'm glad this thread is back up. I always felt bad about not posting to it, and I've really needed to get some things off of my chest.

The nicest thing I own is a Mac g4 400 mhz with an m-audio Delta 44. Sold to me for WAY under its value by fellow tapeopper thearnicasync. Thanks, Kelly!

I also own a pretty nice Ampeg tube guitar amp. It's at the practice space so I don't remember the number. I've seen pictures of Keith from around the time of "Exile on Main Street" playing through one. I love it. I love all of my stuff. The rest is as follows:

Studio Projects b1
DIY Tape Op Omni (2)
Shure sm57 (2)
Shure sm58
Radio Shack Omni boundary mic

Tascam 106 Six-channel mixer with two channels that don't work

Fender Telecaster (squire from like '92)
Checkmate 16 solid state amp (as sold by Montgomery Wards. This amp is bitchin' when coupled with the tele and turned up LOUD)
Peavey kb 60 bass/keyboard amp
Lotus bass
Roland Juno-60 (actually this should have gone in the "nice stuff" section: it cost over $100)
Norma Drum set ('60's japanese Pearl knockoff, in blue sparkle)

Phew, I feel a lot better. Thanks!

[Echos Myron]

There are a few more things I'd like (a small mixer, a D112,...), and I could lose a few things, but here it is:

600mhz iBook w/mBox--Tascam Porta 07
RNC
Line 6 Echo Pro
Alesis Microverb II (power supply not working)
Audio-Technica 4033a
Studio Projects B3
SM57, SM58
2 Oktava MK012's
ECM8000
Realistic PZM
Epiphone Acoustic
'69 Reissue Fender Telecaster Thinline (love this)
Fender Blues Junior
1963 Ludwig Drumkit
Korg MA-30 Metronome
Kawai Keyboard
Various guitar pedals, a tambourine, a shaker

[bobbydj]

Current set up (i.e., the one I use and which therefore excludes a 1604 and a R Eight):-

Akai S20

Tascam 424

POD II (*wields garlic and crucifix at self*)

Berhinger Comp Pro (*chops and fries garlic and pleasures self with crucifix*)

Marlin State of the Art Series lead guitar

No Name Prec copy (like Dee Dee's early white one)

Axl analogue echo pedal

Tube Screamer (gathering dust)

Grado SR60s (dude)

Cry Baby

Rode NT1 (the sound of true crispyness; kinda like the C1000S - only more so)

Party pack of 3 party coloured Maplins karaoke party mics (ideal for parties)

Tiny 3 channel mixer (?10!!!)

Various DIY shakers

Sundry other shite that's also crap

[dungeonsound615]

Well here goes nothing tell me what you think please

Yamaha aw4416 hard disk recorder

presonus mp20 mic pre

rnp pre-amp

sytek mpx4a11 with burr browns on channel three and four

dbx 266xl

rnc compressor

behringer power play pro headphone amp

royer r121

beyerm88

sm57(2)

sm58

beta 52

oktava mc012 (2)

marshall mxl2001

shure ksm32

two shure cheap mics i got from somewhere

a de armond les paul copy

an epiphone junior

old beat to hell ludwig set missing hardware and cracked cymbals

marshall 100W valve state and fender 15 watt frontman

just realized this is really long sorry
Mike

[CabreeToe]

This I can dig.

The most humble set-up


No Mixer.
Computer (a real Frankenstien built over two years)
One Digidesign Mbox for PTLE 6.1 with a few plugs
two mic stands
One Studio projects B1
One Sennhieser e845
One Rode NT1a
One FMR audio RNC

Moving blankets for acoustical treatment
and a Bathroom/live room

And I have been able to make enough for rent on television work.

[I'm Painting Again]

some cheap gear I love ;

Gemini Echorder -free, left over
first danelectro delay
sony 196? VU hi-fi cassette recorder (secret distortion amp) free, my dads old junk
sears silvertone guitar free, well on loan
mexican strat -100$
cut, tuned pvc pipes and a padded ping pong paddle (tube-a-ma-phone!)
eggstatic mic (thanks tapeop) -20$
no name kalimba -free, gift
wooden frog percussion thing- free, gift
remo spring drum - 15$
casio sk5 - got for xmas when i was like 10
mattel/synsonics drum machine of death, also xmas when i was a small fry
bent speak and math
boss ditortion/feedbacker - free, left over
this other cassette player that plays tapes too fast free my moms old junk

[jajjguy]

In some ways my favorite setup remains my second one, a hot-rodded 4-track setup.

Tascam 244 (old kind, big and chunky with colored knobs)
Mackie 1202 connected to the Tascam's effect returns & direct tape outs
AKG 414, C1000

Basically, I had the 4-track and a basic dynamic mic, and decided to upgrade the mic instead of the record deck. Got the 414, but then needed phantom power, eventually got the 1202. Pretty amazing, really, how well that setup worked. The deck itself sounded really good as long as you didn't rely on the preamps and mixer. The thin, cutting sound of the Mackie sorta worked well with the mushy sound of cassette tape.

Of course my current computer setup is way better in lots of ways, but i definitely had to give up certain great qualities to get certain other ones.