For sale: home recording gear

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Jon Boyes

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Joined: Jul. 10 2003

For sale: home recording gear

Before I put this on Ebay, thought I might see if any of you guys are interested.

For Sale:

Shure 16AM condenser microphone: boxed with clip, pouch, instructions etc. This mic comes with its own phantom power (battery). £55

Behringer Eurorack MX 602A 6 channel mixer. £35

..or 80 quid for both!

This is an ideal budget set up for anyone wanting to start home recording. Condition is as new and you would be saving roughly 70 pounds on the retail price.

To hear some stuff recorded with this gear, go to the audio section of my website and download my demo.

The reason for sale is that I've upgraded my gear (Rode NT1A and M Audio DMP3 mic pre) and I'm saving up for a decnt guitar.

Email me if interested, or post questions here.

Ta.

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Spanish Guitarist in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 31 2004 11:41:02

Billyboy

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Joined: Aug. 18 2003

RE: For sale: home recording gear (in reply to Jon Boyes)

John just wonderd if and what gear you use for your resturant gigs.
Thanks
Dave

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 31 2004 15:13:11

Jon Boyes

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Joined: Jul. 10 2003

RE: For sale: home recording gear (in reply to Billyboy)

Hi dave

Takamine Acoustic/electric EG522SC
Fender Passport PD150D
Sharp Minidisc player (for the numbers w/backing)
Zoom 504

Cheers

Jon

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 31 2004 15:57:10

Thomas Whiteley

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Joined: Jul. 8 2003
From: San Francisco Bay Area

RE: For sale: home recording gear (in reply to Jon Boyes)

Jon;

Good price and fine gear. I have a Behringer Eurorack MX 602A, and when I got my ART TPS Preamp I thought I would never use the 602 again. However, I found a need when I bought my M-Audio Delta 44 card. I had a choice of using software or hardware for audio editing and began with software. I ended up with hardware and I am happy.

To make things work the way I want I use the MX 602A as a mixer. It works perfectly. The preamp goes to input channels 1 and 2 of the Delta and the remaining two go to the 602. I feed Output channels 1 and 2 from the Delta through my hardware chain and into the 602. Delta Output Channels 3 and 4 are fed directly to the 602. My audio amplifier/speakers are attached to the 602.

I can then create one or more tracks, play them and set the editing hardware as I like to attain the desired sound. When I am satisfied I record a final track through the 602 to Input Channels 3 and 4 of the Delta. That way I always have the original tracks and then a “final track” and can revert to the original whenever needed.

I hope the above is clear! After reading it I see why Katy says it looks like a Spiders Web behind my equipment rack!

You will really enjoy the NT-1A!

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Tom
http://home.comcast.net/~flamencoguitar/flamenco.html

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 31 2004 18:14:40

Billyboy

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RE: For sale: home recording gear (in reply to Thomas Whiteley)

Thom If I want to speed a track up slightly after recording it, I find it sounds a bit speckly and obvious, just wondered how they do it in Hi tech recording studios, woud it be a sound card thing, or a ram, ot CPU thing.
Thanks
Dave

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 1 2004 2:26:26

Jon Boyes

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RE: For sale: home recording gear (in reply to Thomas Whiteley)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Thomas Whiteley

Jon;

Good price and fine gear. I have a Behringer Eurorack MX 602A, and when I got my ART TPS Preamp I thought I would never use the 602 again.

Hi Tom

yeah, I did wonder about keeping it, and using it to utilise outboard gear, but I think I'd rather have the money towards a flamenco guitar.

Cheers

Jon

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 1 2004 8:16:01

Thomas Whiteley

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Joined: Jul. 8 2003
From: San Francisco Bay Area

RE: For sale: home recording gear (in reply to Billyboy)

Dave;

I worked for the company that developed the first commercial audio recorder – Ampex. I would marvel at the sound engineers who could edit tape with their eye and cut it at the right spot to remove a bad note and then add a corrected splice to the original. Master tapes were full of splices and tape.

With todays equipment in addition to the techniques used with tape, pitch can be changed with the use of software or hardware. Some people think it is amateurish for a guitarist to use a capo.

Take Britney Spears as an example. She cannot sing in key and the recording studio engineer has to make corrections before they release a cut. When Britney sings on stage she lip syncs to one of her edited recordings.

I have been in recording studios and seen the software and hardware at work for “professional artists”. The list of untalented singers is long. Excuse my critique of singers as I am from the old school and was taught to sing on key. Who needs a singing voice when you are someone like Britney? You have top hits, get married for a few hours or whatever you like. Life is good. Fame is good. Lots of money is good.

Yes, it is amazing what a recording engineer can do. Now when it comes to something like an instrumentalist that is also an interesting story. It often takes the instrumentalist of today two years to complete one CD. That is taking into consideration the first session until the final product is available. When mistakes are made the sound engineer punches out the wrong note or notes and punches in the correct ones.

I am still amazed at the stories of Sabicas walking into recording studios and doing a complete album in one take. Even popular singers of the past like Bing Crosby and others had such a reputation and that was the norm of the day.

The moral of the story is things may not be what they appear. You have to go for what you like and it is better to not know the details!

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Tom
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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 1 2004 16:02:13

Paleto

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Joined: Jul. 29 2003
From: San Diego, CA

RE: For sale: home recording gear (in reply to Thomas Whiteley)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Thomas Whiteley

You have top hits, get married for a few hours or whatever you like. Life is good. Fame is good. Lots of money is good.

Was that top hits or another *its?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 3 2004 1:30:10