My Studio

It's often useful to see how people set up their recording studios especially when first deciding what equipment you need so here is a nice picture of mine (created using Illustrator, which was fun and good for procrastination).


It is a fairly simple system but is cheap and good for a small band especially as I don't often record more than two or three tracks at once. The main audio interface is a Firewire 410 made by M-AUDIO but to be honest the Line6 TonePort is amazing and really every guitarist in the world should have one. In terms of a computer it's always good to have a fast one, hence my 8-core 2.8GHz MacPro with 2GB (not enough!) RAM. I use Ableton Live 7 for recording which is a bit random as I don't really do any live stuff with it however, it was the best in my price range when I was looking several years back and I like it so haven't changed to anything more Mac-like such as Logic. I've also got Reason for any electronic/synth/piano/strings sounds that I need and using the wonders of ReWire I can record my Reason tracks directly into Live and/or play them in sync with the Live track.

No doubt I will expand on some of the bits and pieces in my studio in the coming months and may even provide some photos.