If you want to hear some examples of the surprisingly good tones you can get, listen to pretty much any song on my soundclick page. The other good thing is that it has built in amp modeling.

Hell, I run a recording studio using Garageband as my DAW. If you have, or plan on getting a Mac, Garageband is a great program for general dickaround-ery, and it's not hard for a beginner to get a good sound using it. Once you get used to that, you can always edit your recorded tracks in any PC DAW you want to use. they are hardware based.įor flexibility, portability, and a clean set up and more. My Roland 2480 even has optional Plug in's for Antares, UA and other very good effects plugins. Multitrack recorder machines are everything you need in any DAW wrapped up into one box. You can find these units much cheaper today than when they came out. The VS2000 is automated in many functions, but does not have moving sliders like the 24. Or Korg D3200! Most of these have fully automated options. No issues from the PC and they have everything you need to record great tracks and mix cd's right in the box. Or the easier way into this is buying a Multitrack recorder. Then you need good studio near field monitors. If you want to spend a grand on mic pre's have at it. A good interface will have decent mic pre's. crap interface = crap recordings and driver headaches etc. Then you need a GOOD (not POS) audio interface. Then you need a good DAW (software for recording) 2 Hard drives are a plus and in most Computer based DAW's. I used that m-audio interface for a while and recently got me a focusrite saffire 40.įirst thing you need is a good computer fast CPU and plenty of RAM. I've had an audix i-5 and sennheiser e609, but didn't care for them that much. Here soon, I'll be picking up a good DI and Re-amp interface (like the little labs red-eye) so I can record my gutiar direct-in and re-amp the guitar so I can play around with my tone without having to re-play my parts again and again. I would probably try it if I didnt like cubase so much. Reaper seems to be a very very popular DAW. Steven Slate drums would be a better sounding choice. I use easy drummer to program drums (and cubase's drum maps interface is awesome for that).

I also found cubase much easier to use and it handled the aim sims and impulses better without bogging my pc down. Once I found out about impulses and cab simulations I stopped using the pod. I then purchased a pod-xt live and started using it as the interface and still using pro tools as the DAW. I started out with a Maudio USB interface, pro tools m-powered, and an SM57.

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