Your first "studio" setup?????

shredded · Post by **shredded** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:51 pm

Mine was an Ensoniq EPS
http://www.vintagesynth.com/ensoniq/ens_eps.jpg
an 808
http://machines.hyperreal.org/categorie ... es/808.jpg
my boy lent me (he got a Boss drum machine with MIDI and 808 samples so he "had no use" for the 808 any longer).... a Yamaha PSS-780 my grandma had bought cuz she plays keys. I taked her into giving me that Yamaha, which had a cool beat machine and great 2 oscillator FM synthesis engine, a generic DX7 really, purchased from SEARS in 1989 (I went shopping with her and convinced her to buy it....

http://users.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/ ... S-780.html
) about 6 tape recorders with a tape cutting/splicing tool I bought from Radio Shack. A few guitar FX pedals left over from my guitar days: Morley Wah, Boss delay, flange, chorus, alesis microverbverb
http://www.videoson.fr/Microverb-Alesis-small.jpg

with cool small room and gate effects. Realistic (Radio Shack) electronic reverb, great for Skinny Puppy Back and Forth era vocals, now emulated by AudioDamage as Ratshack Reverb http://www.audiodamage.com/l33t/product ... ducts_id=2
cheap Radio Shack condenser mic ($20.00) and another crappy mic, and my good old Gibson SG sunburst, as well as my Crate Amp with overdrive, vitalm feature that distortion was.
No mixer, I used a bunch of Y-audio adapters from Radio shack in a series as a mixer, and found that they naturally compressed the sound really interestingly.....All recorded in my basement,

I would get cool reverb by recording onto tape from across the room. Tape recorders were used to mixdown (and I would play them as instruments) I would "sync" the tempo of the Sampler sequencer to the tape when adding layers, usually having to continuously manually raise and lower BPM slightly to keep it in sync as the tape recorders never played back at exactly the same tempo as I recorded the songs in.
The sequencer built into the EPS was my Master, the Yamaha was the slave. No MIDI to CV on the 808= lots of work!!!!

mosca · Post by **mosca** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:01 pm

give us some audio

mosca

shredded · Post by **shredded** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:13 pm

I wish. I made many copies of tapes of my "releases" and gave them to friends, I know of one dude who still has it if I can get it I can record it fukk around with the EQ and convert it to wave.
I moved to New York City years ago and had all of my tapes and CD's (tons of old school techno and drum and bass/jungle mixes) in the trunk of my car. I must have attracted attention in the East Village (2nd St. between 2nd Ave. and Bowery right by where that New NYU dorm is that they built a few years ago, around the corner from CBGB's) with my Pennsylvania liscense plate cuz it all got jacked!!!!!!!!!!!!! Two milk crates full of mixes and my original tapes. I was pretty detatched about it, I figured the Universe was trying to help me transform and advance to a new stage, like shedding skin. Like the Pheonix.
http://www.alcander.net/art/rising.jpg

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:15 pm

heh. I had a 333mhz pc with a SBaweGold - "a whopping 4 megabytes of ram!"... Man, it's amazing the amount of stuff you can do with 4megs.

I later upgraded to an s900+rm1x. Sweet...

shredded · Post by **shredded** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:18 pm

After the Eps got a $$180.00 upgrade (you need special EPS memory cartridge) I had I think 4 MB!!!!!

shredded · Post by **shredded** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:23 pm

http://www.myspace.com/errfatale
just sketches nothing fancy I know the mix is shit I my speakers are blown I think....

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:25 pm

Machinate wrote:heh. I had a 333mhz pc with a SBaweGold - "a whopping 4 megabytes of ram!"... Man, it's amazing the amount of stuff you can do with 4megs.

I later upgraded to an s900+rm1x. Sweet...

I had a 80286 256k ram 16 MHz with pro audio spectrum 16 bit card and later upgraded to yamaha QX-7 2 track sequencer

i used it inbetween a roland r-70 and a Korg poly-61 midi (both of witch i still have, but i think the sequencer went in the trash

smart1123 · Post by **smart1123** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:37 pm

Quadra 840AV (66mhz), 280meg HD, 56meg RAM
Logic 2.6
Roland W-30
Roland MC-303 (very first piece)
Opcode Studio 64X
DJM-500

ishimaru · Post by **ishimaru** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:53 pm

lol you guys are old school. This thread is the equvilant of my grandpa talking about how he "walked 6 miles, in snow, uphill" to school.

dm_hawk · Post by **dm_hawk** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:05 pm

studio #1 (circa 1991):
-yamaha sy22
-alesis mmt8 sequencer
-ART multiverb
-casio sk-1 sampler ($50 from Wal-mart) and every cheap plastic keyboard I could borrow or find at a garage sale (these were mainly for performing live, so that i could be surrounded by endless stacks of "synths" and sometimes even play two at a time!!!)
-"modular mixing matrix" made from y-adapters going into the tape input on my stereo

studio #2 (circa 1998)
-mc-303
-numark 4 channel dj mixer
-2 sony discmans for playing "samples"
-a sharp minidisc player for recording it all, then chopping it up (which i used trouble-free until last year, when it was crushed in my luggage

)
-dj mixer
-$100 JVC belt-drive turntable modified as such to allow scratching: layers of aluminum foil, wax paper, and a proper felt slipmat between the platter and the record, and coins, rocks, and various other small, heavy objects duct-taped to the top of the cartridge to keep it from skipping, and a rubber band to keep the stylus from bending under all the weight (this actually worked really well for scratching, but i was happier than a dog with two peters to get my first set of direct drives)
-a microcassette recorder for vocals

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:24 pm

Then a dinosaur stomped by and ruined your take...

ishimaru · Post by **ishimaru** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:27 pm

hambone1 wrote:Then a dinosaur stomped by and ruined your take...

dm_hawk · Post by **dm_hawk** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:33 pm

..back when dirt was new

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:57 pm

Started off with an MC303 a few moons ago.

shredded · Post by **shredded** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:23 pm

My first official upgrade was simultaneous splurge purchase of: THE Kurzweil k2000
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... f%26sa%3DN

and the almighty EMU E6400!!

And an Akai