Yeah, I wish more people would post about recording stuff aswell!
What are you using?!
At home I've got a dekstop running cubase 5, with an audiophile 192 soundcard going through a little phonic mixer. Got some pretty nice little studio monitors a couple of weeks ago too - samson MediaOne 3A's. Great speakers for the price.
Use a røde NT-1A for anything that needs be mic'd, also have a small diaphragm Røde (cant remember name) for acoustic guits.
What do you like about your rig?!
The best thing would be my instruments. Am lucky to own a 1963 Martin, a nice yamaha acoustic and a nice acoustic bass. But I guess you would rather know about the recording hardware!! Well, there is nothing I have really that couldn't be upgraded for something much better as it has been bought on a budget, begged and scrimped. But the best value item is probably my mixer which I got 2nd hand off ebay for £16 and it still works a treat 5 years later. The single purchase that made the biggest difference to my recordings was either:
1. Getting proper studio monitors. Even the cheaper ones are 1000000 times better than standard pc speakers
2. In two minds as to whether to put buying a condenser mic here or putting in the time to properly learn about compression and reverb.
What do you not like about your rig?!
The room. Being young and not that rich at all, I naturally have not much of a nice room acoustically or spaciously. But in the next few months I should hopefully be going into a nicely treated room and a large one at that, provided contracts/funding and boring stuff works out!
What do you dream of having in your studio someday?!
Being more interested in the music side of things, I dream of having the opportunities to go into other peoples wonderful studios. Although if I really had loooads of money, I'd built a super studio in a barn or old church in the country, equipped with a totally awesome retro mixing desk, some of those crazy old plate reverbs like the EMT 140, some neumann mic's and lots of pianos, keyboards and guitars
