General Music Chat

I used a tascam 488 (for most of my recording years) and now adobe audition which I like very much even tho it is pc based.

My old 4 track tape player was a tascam...they make good gear! That thing went through the wars before it finally succumbed to too much beer being spilled on it by a drummer I used to play with that thought of life in terms of "Kieth Moon"....what a great drummer he was though-and Kieth too!

Hello all and Blues Catastrophy, I use a Boss BR1180 it sounds very similar to your 600. It is basicly an eight track with an additional 2 tracks for the drums so you have all eight tracks for recording. It also has an onboard cd burner with all of the guitar sounds I could imagine and a powerful mastering tool software. I am not that crazy about the guitar sounds that are in there but they will do as I am not trying to record my album on there, just get the best recordings I can for shyts and grins and for copyrite, the last 5 songs on my site were recorded using this, the first 12 were recorded at Sugerhill Studios (a real studio)

Hi J

I considered buying the model you have...it was a money decision that made me go the way I did...and also the drums were explained better for the BR600 in the add....it was the only one that described exactly the drum machine I thought I was looking for. Do they have the same capabilities there do you know? Also-is that the one w/ a bass generator on it too? If so-tell me about your impression please. I will definitley check out your tunes-I'll be doing a lot of that around here this weekend I think!

Take care

Oh yeah-a few of you were talking about Roland Cubes?

I have to agree-I don't have one (my little amp is a vox ad15-the rest tube honkers) but a buddy of mine brings his over to the house when we jam and that thing is SO surprisingly good sounding-to a tube amp snob like myself. I think Vox does a good job of the modeling amps as well-that's why I picked mine up; wanted to beable to leave my pedalboard and 80 pound beast behind when appropriate. IMO the Cube and Vox AD series are the best modelers out there. Can't beat the price and portability and BIG, GOOD sound! I still prefer my tubes, but am more open minded then ever about hybrids and solid state from my experience with these two products.

Hello BluesCatastrophe, it has a massive amount of preset drum programs but it also came with a royalty free Discreet drums c.d. that I just love. You can build your drum tracks very quickly as this is a real drummer digitized so you can literally place the drum sequences on the track buttons and arrange them to fit your songs seamlessly thats the drums I used on those recordings. Did yours come with Discreet drums?
I am not sure if it has a bass generator I will have to look and get back to you, I have a P-bass and used it to record the bass parts (I am not a bass player) I play guitar and sing but I did write some simple bass parts. I just prefer using a real bass instead of my guitar because this way it forces you to think more like a bass player. My idea of writeing and arranging is the parts need to weave together sort of intermingle if you will, in a symphonic way not just have the bass player always playing the same thing as the guitar. So I figure if I play a real bass it will force me to write these parts this way. I realize everyone can't spend the $ to buy a bass for recording I just chose to do it this way. I have since given the bass to my son (thank god he lives at home 13 years old) that way I can borrow it from him when I record

Hi Blues Cat and Kramerguy,
This 24 track digital is fine and doesn't as you ask make me feel obliged to use all 24 tracks... typically I think my songs use five to eight tracks: guitar, vocal, lead, bass, percussion, second vocal... that sort of line up.

Thanks for your thoughts re my studio Blues cat... this early in the spring it is still cold most days with no heating and quite often a frost, and though it has a big window out onto a field, that is kept shut for now... in the summer it will be permanently open when I go out there.
As it gets cold next autumn there will be heating introduced and I hope to keep it useable through the winter.
A few weeks ago I started going out to play the drums, but never touched a guitar; now I play bass too and when it's warm the six-string!

I have a rock ballad to try to record this weekend if I can get clear of kids etc!
Cheers guys,
Mark D Phillips..............

Me, I record on my pc, using wavlab. It's pretty cool. It comes with a 12 track lay out, plus a mixing section. Plus I also have Nero, and Pinnacle sound recording software on my pc. And for making additional cd's I have a software that just does that. This stuff works for me now, yet I do plan in the future to purchase a custum made pc that only is used for my recording songs and stuff. I have a keyboard also that I attach to my pc when needing extra background music.

I'm using Sonar Cakewalk home studio 6.0 and running a Tascam US-144 USB interface.

I like Cakewalk because it's got almost as much going on as Protools and it's much cheaper. It's very easy to use, has a bunch of on board plugins for EQing, Compressors, delay... you name it. Also runs really well with my drums plugins. I'm using Drumkit from Hell for midi drums.

I'd like to upgrade to a full studio one of these days but living in Santa Barbara ain't cheap! hahaha...