Here is a list of the gear we currently use.All the rack gear is Behringer and has proved very reliable and while in some quarters they have a bad rep and looked down on,we've never had any trouble and it does offer a very good 'bang for yer buck'.Sure with a very healthy bank balance there's plenty of drool-worthy high end gear to be had and desired,but on a tight budget it gets the job done.
Steve's guitar is a 50's Classic Series Tele,the original saddles have been replaced with brass compensated ones from Stewmac.
Gary's guitar is a '63 strat which apart from a respray and refret about 5 years ago has all the original hardware.
For acoustic parts we use a Crafter FX550 electro-acoustic and the bass end is taken care of by a Squire P-Bass.
The mixer is a Behringer Eurorack 1804 which is ample for our needs as we usually just lay down one track at a time.
The rack itself consists of :- a 'Berry' DSP 2024P Virtualiser Pro multi effects unit
a 'Berry' Ultra-Graph Pro 2x31 band EQ
a 'Berry' Ultrafex Pro EX3200 sound enhancer
a 'Berry' Composer Pro MDX2200 compressor
Monitors are Alesis M1 Active Mk2's.
Other various bits and pieces include a Marshall DRP recording preamp,bluesbreaker pedal,a Zoom 505 multifx pedal,Alesis SR-16 drum machine,various mikes and a home-built pc,the specs are :-
Athlon 64 x2 processor
Asus M2N mobo
2 gig ram
Nvidia 7600GS
2 x 250gig sata hard drives
EMU 1212m soundcard
Windows XP
One of the hard drives is used for general use and the other is used solely for audio.For recording we use Cakewalk Sonar 6 Producer Edition which comes with a nice selection of soft synths and plug-ins.
IK Multimedia's T-RackS mastering plug-in suite is used for a final polish on a track if need be.
We recently got turned on to guitar modelling software and for this we use Native-Instruments Guitar Combos and IK Multimedia's Amplitube2 which allows us to get a nice sound down without rattling the windows (or the neighbours)
.
In fact for more and more tasks everything can be done 'in the box' so outboard gear isn't used as much.
Click the camera icon below for pics of our various bits of gear.
Steve's guitar is a 50's Classic Series Tele,the original saddles have been replaced with brass compensated ones from Stewmac.
Gary's guitar is a '63 strat which apart from a respray and refret about 5 years ago has all the original hardware.
For acoustic parts we use a Crafter FX550 electro-acoustic and the bass end is taken care of by a Squire P-Bass.
The mixer is a Behringer Eurorack 1804 which is ample for our needs as we usually just lay down one track at a time.
The rack itself consists of :- a 'Berry' DSP 2024P Virtualiser Pro multi effects unit
a 'Berry' Ultra-Graph Pro 2x31 band EQ
a 'Berry' Ultrafex Pro EX3200 sound enhancer
a 'Berry' Composer Pro MDX2200 compressor
Monitors are Alesis M1 Active Mk2's.
Other various bits and pieces include a Marshall DRP recording preamp,bluesbreaker pedal,a Zoom 505 multifx pedal,Alesis SR-16 drum machine,various mikes and a home-built pc,the specs are :-
Athlon 64 x2 processor
Asus M2N mobo
2 gig ram
Nvidia 7600GS
2 x 250gig sata hard drives
EMU 1212m soundcard
Windows XP
One of the hard drives is used for general use and the other is used solely for audio.For recording we use Cakewalk Sonar 6 Producer Edition which comes with a nice selection of soft synths and plug-ins.
IK Multimedia's T-RackS mastering plug-in suite is used for a final polish on a track if need be.
We recently got turned on to guitar modelling software and for this we use Native-Instruments Guitar Combos and IK Multimedia's Amplitube2 which allows us to get a nice sound down without rattling the windows (or the neighbours)
.In fact for more and more tasks everything can be done 'in the box' so outboard gear isn't used as much.
Click the camera icon below for pics of our various bits of gear.
