Syracuse Ska Forum

speak up if you do. it'd be a lot of fun to talk about stuff like that once in a while and share techniques especially with recording ska, reggae or dub stuff. list equipment and such. any talk amongst that stuff would be awesome!

my stuff....
digi 001 running on protools 6.1 with windows xp
behringer monitors and preamp
apex, audio technica, shure mics
moog polymoog and roland juno-6 synth synthesizers
ampeg and vox amps
random effects pedals and such

Good to see someone else around here that does production. We do all the mixing and some of the recording for The Directive on my setup. Here is my equipment:

1972 Epiphone Casio w/Bigsby
1964 Hofner "Beatle" Bass
1999 Ibanez Proformance Acoustic/Electric Guitar
1996 Fender Duo-Sonic
2003 Peavy Classic 30 amp
mid-70's Ampeg SVT Bass head and B-25 cab
Midiman Radium 61 Keyboard with NI's B4 & Pro 53
Premier 90 Spring Reverb Unit (early 70's)
Digitech Digital Delay
Standard Cry-baby wah
Hohner 32 key melodica


P4 3.0 GHz w/ 800 FSB & 1meg cashe w/ Win XP
1 gig DDR2 Ram
160 gig Hard drive
M-Audio Audiophile 2496
M-Audio Bx5 monitors
Behringer 1202
SM-57
MXL 990
Vintage Shure "Work Horse" mic (pre-SM57)
Dual 17" monitors
Cubase 2.0 SX
Cakewalk Project 5 v2

stuff sounds great on the directive site. did you record the drums yourself?

Gimme a year or two. Hero knows anything and everything about recording and all that tech-y stuff, but I'm clueless. I'm planning on taking classes in college though, on top of learning what I can on my own. I'm determined to learn something in every field of music that I possibly can.. I just need time. Haha.

The secret ions recording was pretty good sounded, the "studio" stuff, not the live. All i use is guitar tracks from cakewalk, and i run my digitech straight into the computer. I used to use the microphone outlet, but now i've figured out that line in is the way to go. our old band was through there too, but i twas before i ran straight through and you can def. tell. [url][url]www.purevolume.com/theunrated[/url][/url]
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Haha... glad some one else appreciates some good old analog equpiment. Now if I could only get my hands on an Echoplex or Spaceecho...

When we recorded, we used a Fostex 8-track (16-track) digital recorder for the main setup, Shure microphones

Trumpet: Getzen 700 Special, Bb, pretty ghetto rigging: microphone sitting on top of a beanie on a shelf, with a sock for a windscreen (hey, whatever works)

Guitar: Ibanez SA160QM, Peavey Renown 212 (1984, baby!), DOD American Metal FX56 (for distortion, of course), monster cable Standard 100's

Bass: Stellar(?) 5-string, Ampdown head, " 4x10 (?) cabinet (i don't really know much about his bass gear)

Drums: you'll have to talk to Nick: that's his department

we actually used a sock as a mic screen and it worked really really good.

I've heard pantyhose and an old wire clothes hanger works really well as a wind screen; haven't tried it though.

Ghetto setups are always fun. When I first started getting into home recording back in 99', i recorded a 3 song demo for Sacrelicious with a PA system. Ha! Mic'd the horns with 57's and a few overhead mic's plus a vocal mic. Played with the EQ on the PA a little bit until it sounded okay then we played live, recording the live track on a tape deck hooked up to the tape output of the PA. It was ghetto, but got the job done.

Now days, it doesn't take much more effort and equipment to make a pretty decent demo using a PC, a few mic's, and free recording software. Learning a little about mixing, EQ, compression, & FX will also help out tremendously to a simple demo.

yeah i've done the pantyhose and coat hanger before. worked really well.