Fired UP!! New Studio Gear on the Way

[Gresh]

Just excited as I finally bit the bullet and got some stuff for my modest little basement studio. After selling a few prized guitars then hemming and hawing about what to do with the cash...I managed to spend it all on my wife (never a bad choice, btw)

So now it's my turn...Just ordered a new 20" iMAC G5, m-audio 410 firewire interface and a Rode NT1A condensor. That oughta do it for a while until I get really comfortable with all of it. I still need to do some work on the noise floor in my room, but that's a work in progress (if I ever get done).

Intend on just sticking with garageband for a while rather than dumping more on software I don't know anything about. It actually appears to be quite useful from what I've seen/read.

[Gresh]

It's all here and set up. Just got my email and internet access all squared away, that was a little more involved than I thought. But it is done.

Garageband is really pretty cool. I recorded some simple acoustic stuff last night and added effects and whatnot and it was very intuitive. None of the software comes with any sort of how to...other than the normal help stuff, which is actually helpful..novel concept (wake up MS).

The firewire 410 is great, small and simple and the interface is easy and inuitive as well. It hooks up with Garageband just like peas and carrots.

Haven't had much time to experiment with the mic yet, but it was great for the acoustic last night. Not sure on vocals or electric guitar yet.

[Drew]

Awesome, I was just wondering how this was going. Can't wait to hear some of the music.

-D

[SuperJemBoy]

Cool, sounds like an excellent setup! Hope you have fun!

Joe

[TheOrangeChannel]

I pretty pretty much have the same setup...I'd add a midi keyboard like a M Audio Radium 49...you can play most of the sounds via the controller....it;s great for programming drums and bass lines and what not...

[Gresh]

Yeah, I'm interested in picking one of those up, they bang for the buck seems to be pretty high. Are you running another software package for drums...if so, what do you like?

Still getting used to the mac way of life, so far I really like it, although there are some PC things that I was really used to.

I put this question in another thread related to backing tracks but I downloaded some stuff from one the members and my mac put the mpga file type on these and now I can't do anything with them. I could listen to them right off his sight thru quicktime, but now quicktime doesn't support the file type. I'd like to get them so I can import them into garageband and use them while recording leads over them. Any ideas? I can't get iTunes to do anything with them either.

[Two hands31]

Nice choices I lived off the Rode NT-1 in the studio here at school (I'm literally at the school right now ) this year. Beautiful mic for vocals, acoustic guitar, etc.

[Gresh]

For the money, I'm very impressed with this mic. Haven't spent any more time with it as I managed to completely screw up my entire iTunes library when attempting to get if off my Dell and into the Mac. Back to manually importing each CD again...snore.

The mac's a friggin rocket ship though, bit of a learning curve for me. And I'm only running base ram at this point. Can go up to 2 gig.

[TheOrangeChannel]

I'm planning on moving up too on the ram front 2 gig will happen and Logic Pro 7 is going to be the next big ticket item, also a PreSonus FirePod...