genejhsn - It's all in the rhythm...
Member Profile - 11/23/2007
About genejhsn
I live in NW PA, am 60 years old, have been involved in music for 50 of them. Instruments played include guitar, bass, drums, harmonica, fiddle. First recorded professionally in 1976 (John Altman Recording, Clement St, San Francisco, CA). Bought a TEAC 4 track reel-to-reel in 1977, built mixers, EQ, noise reduction, processors & patch bay, and a console to hold all of it, used it until switching to digital in 1999. I did a lot of demo recording for bands with it. I don't miss tape recording at all!!
My present studio is a cramped 8'x12' room. I record my own material there, plus do songwriter demos for others. I use MIDI & soundfonts for anything that is not vocal, guitar or harmonica.
I regard my studio is a tool for digital composition. I score the MIDI parts in the staff view of Sonar. I *love* the versatility & flexibility of digital recording!!
My setup is basically low budget. I direct record everything that I can. And it just BLOWS my mind that I can sit at my computer and generate CD quality recordings, especially after growing up with the pop & crackle of vinyl records, then decades of tape hiss and assorted analog nightmares. I could build 4 or 5 top quality DAW with what I had invested in my 4 track setup.
The advantage of having worked with 4-track for so long is that it taught me to carefully plan my recording. I would record 4 tracks and bounce them on to a single track on another machine, put that reel on the 4-track and record 3 more tracks. Preproduction planning is everything!
2.6GHz pentium homebrew computer
Digitech Vocalist VR
2-PB40 Furman patch bays
el cheapo JVC mixer
Casio CTK 491 keyboard (used for a MIDI controller)
Audigy Platinum
M Audio Delta 1010
Sonar 5 Producer
Digitech GNX 4
Roland GR33
'94 Strat w/GK3 pickup
assorted microphones
Contact Info
Email: [email protected]