Any audio people or DJ's on Zilvia?

[Matej]

A long long time ago I used to cut up tracks I liked on the PC for fun and try to mix them with other songs or improve them to my liking, but then my family moved and I didn't have my own PC for a couple of years after that, so I stopped, but lately I've had an urge to get back into it, especially because I don't really like any of the new music that artists are putting out.
That's why I wanted to ask, are there any audio heads on here? Please post up what you're into, your equipment or software, some of your music, or whatever you want.

Also, I don't know anything about the current scene, which is another reason why I made this thread. What is some good software that people are using today, or some popular forums?
Thanks thanks for any replies.

[miucus]

djforums.com

im going to get some technics 12s turntables soon after i make that summer money

[Matej]

Niceee. Thanks for the link, I registered on there.

[Phlip]

Hardware:
AKAI MPD-16
M-Audio Axiom 49
Monitors:
M-Audio StudioPro 3 Desktop audio monitors
Software:
Ableton Live 6 (new weapon of choice)
FL Studio 5.0.0 Producer edition (old weapon of choice, still easier than FUCK for drums)
Cakewalk Sonar 4, Producer Edition
Cakewalk Project 5, v2
Sony SoundForge 8.0
Steinberg Cubase SX 3.2
Steinberg WaveLab Audio editing & mastering suite

... I used to use ALL of the software for some capacity or another, finishing the whole process in (the VERY non user friendly) Cubase, but I have since acquired Live 6 and abandoned the others. I still sometimes lean to FL Studio for my drums sometimes, but I been using them since like 1999 off and on

[SDS13COUPE]

2. Stanton STR-80's ( bought em when I was like 15 and still spinning)
1. Vestax PMC-06 mixer
Plus my record crate filled with battlebreaks, instrumentals, samples, underground hip hop, old school rap, and other hard to find records.
I'm really into competition battles and whatnot. Not to heavy into mixing, or beatmaking.

[delphis]

Rane mp44 4 channel mixer
1 Technic 1200
2 Pioneer CDJ-200's
2 M-audio BX8a
2 hafler m5
1 Alesis rs300
M-audio O2
FreeBass 383 (roland tb-303 emulator)
Steinberg Nuendo 3.0
TC electronics Powercore
Access Virus Powercore Plugin
tons of various VST plugins and a huge sample bank.

Partner Has
2 Mackie HR824
Alesis Andromeda
Roland Alpha Juno 2
2 Mackie UAD1 Ultra Package
TC Powercore
16 Channle Access Virus Powercore Plugin
and all of the same software


Ya I could say I am an audio head and a dj. (trance)
I have a production group that produces trance
http://www.blixcannon.com (http://www.blixcannon.com/)
http://www.myspace.com/blixcannon

then my dj site
http://www.myspace.com/delphis

my friends site who I built their studio
http://deepvoicesmusic.com/

Another Company I do studio engineering at http://www.netmusicmakers.com/WebForms/Home/NMMHomepage.aspx

so between cars and this you can say I have some expensive toys/hobbies.

[Matej]

Whoa, people on here have some hot equipment.
I just got Reason 3.0, I'm about to install it.

[drift freaq]

Hardware
17in Imac Intel Core 2 duo 2ghz 7200 rpm 160GB sata drive
13 Macbook Core duo 1.83ghz
120GB 7200 rpm firewire ext drive
60 7200 rpm ext portable firewire drive
KRK V8's Series II monitors soon to upgrade to VXT's
Focusrite Saffire Pro Firewire AD/DA converters
Yamaha FS1R Formant shaping/FM synthesiser
Kawai K5000s Additive Formant synthesiser

Software
Apple Logic Pro 7.2
Lots of incrediable soft synths and plugins!
Abeleton Live 5.05.1
Cakewalk Rapture soft synth
assorted VST plugs

assorted samples from my own (no longer own) Analog synths
Roland M100
Sequential Circuits
Prophet VS
Prophet 5
Prophet 600
Pro 1
Novation Bass Station
Roland TB303
Jupiter 6
Juno 106
JX8P
etc
As well as
Access Virus B
Various different Waldorf synths

I have owned so many I lose track
I can say at this point I have gone from mixing completely outside the box( aka computer) to inside the box and going back to somewhere inbetween. I have owned several different Mixing boards from Mackies to Studio Master big boards. I am current very interested in picking up a used Mackie D8b digital board.

I can also say that about synths. I have some Hardware machines there are a few others I would like to get.
On the real short list is the Dave Smith Instruments(ex head and owner of Sequential Circuits) Poly Evolver Keyboard.
Currently write mostly for Film and TV used to write lots of Dance music
Everything from breaks to trance to Jungle, Trip hop, Hip hop, Pop, rock
whatever you want me to write.

P.S. I am a free lance sound engineer/producer with Certificates in Pro Tools and a Sound engineering certificate I am can edit sound for film as well as do ADR.

Hehehehe and I sell 240sx's and parts as a hobby plus I love driving . Like someone said above its all about Cars and Music with women coming in third. lol

[thejapino]

Sold my:
Pioneer CDJ1000 MK2's
Vestax 05pro
JBL Eon's

I used Cooledit 2.0 to record and edit b/c you can download it free anywhere

Im out of the game now.:coolugh:

[delphis]

I can say at this point I have gone from mixing completely outside the box( aka computer) to inside the box and going back to somewhere inbetween. I have owned several different Mixing boards from Mackies to Studio Master big boards. I am current very interested in picking up a used Mackie D8b digital board.



please don't invest in the D8B board! I had one at Jeff Tamiliers (Guitar for Tower of Power) studio and it wasn't a good board, ya it had some cool features on it but didn't sound great. We currently run the Yamaha 02R96 with a PC Dual AMD 4800+ 64 bit processor with 4gb of ram and the board syncs right up with Neundo 3. with the 30 inch apple cinema display and we send the board through the RME MADI interface and it sounds SOOOOOOOOOO much better than the D8B ever did. So I beg you not to invest in these boards, also considering they are barely supported by mackie any more and are known to have problems where the literaly melt!
Also have you ever used sample robot? My friends and I are doing some work for Uberschall (german soft synth company) and we are creating a vintage synth/dance music library for them and then one of my friends is doing a reggae one and then we just started doing a new digital synth library for them as well.

Full run down of hardware list from this studio
(prepare to drool)
Board:
Yamah 02R96 v2

Sound Cards:
RME MADI interface capable of running 56 channels to and from the board.

Effects:
2 Mackie UAD1 Ultra Packs
2 TC Electronics Firewire Powercores
Waves Diamond Bundle

Monitors:
KRK E8T (these suckers weigh 65lbs EACH!) and yamaha 5 inchers

Preamps:
Neve dual channel mic pre
4 neve channel strips with compressors and eqs
Dual channel Universal Audio 2610 Mic/Instrument Tube Preamp

Mics:
Neuman u87
Neuman kmi 84
Neuman TLM 127 and 103
AKG C414buls(gold plated matched pair)

that is about all I can think of at the moment. But this is a nice studio to work in, I really love doing this stuff for a living!

plus a ton of vintage guitars that I don't really have any idea about because I am not really into guitars.

[delphis]

Sold my:
Pioneer CDJ1000 MK2's
Vestax 05pro
JBL Eon's

I used Cooledit 2.0 to record and edit b/c you can download it free anywhere

Im out of the game now.:coolugh:


cars and music are so similar, that you will get the bug again. :rawk:

[CRZY_AZN]

i got some technics 1200 mk5's, a vestax mixer, and serato

[drift freaq]

please don't invest in the D8B board! I had one at Jeff Tamiliers (Guitar for Tower of Power) studio and it wasn't a good board, ya it had some cool features on it but didn't sound great. We currently run the Yamaha 02R96 with a PC Dual AMD 4800+ 64 bit processor with 4gb of ram and the board syncs right up with Neundo 3. with the 30 inch apple cinema display and we send the board through the RME MADI interface and it sounds SOOOOOOOOOO much better than the D8B ever did. So I beg you not to invest in these boards, also considering they are barely supported by mackie any more and are known to have problems where the literaly melt!
Also have you ever used sample robot? My friends and I are doing some work for Uberschall (german soft synth company) and we are creating a vintage synth/dance music library for them and then one of my friends is doing a reggae one and then we just started doing a new digital synth library for them as well.

Full run down of hardware list from this studio
(prepare to drool)
Board:
Yamah 02R96 v2

Sound Cards:
RME MADI interface capable of running 56 channels to and from the board.

Effects:
2 Mackie UAD1 Ultra Packs
2 TC Electronics Firewire Powercores
Waves Diamond Bundle

Monitors:
KRK E8T (these suckers weigh 65lbs EACH!) and yamaha 5 inchers

Preamps:
Neve dual channel mic pre
4 neve channel strips with compressors and eqs
Dual channel Universal Audio 2610 Mic/Instrument Tube Preamp

Mics:
Neuman u87
Neuman kmi 84
Neuman TLM 127 and 103
AKG C414buls(gold plated matched pair)

that is about all I can think of at the moment. But this is a nice studio to work in, I really love doing this stuff for a living!

plus a ton of vintage guitars that I don't really have any idea about because I am not really into guitars.


well I can tell you that I have experience with the D8B and if you have the last version with the latest version software its a great board that sounds great and is glitch free. The early boards did indeed have issues as did the early software. I am willing to bet the Tower of Power studios were using a early one because they probably picked it up right after it came out. At the end though they got it worked. Your right about no support beyond matinence issues though but like I said if I do buy one it will be the last version with the latest software.
You can pick them up here in Los Angeles for 2k and for that price you can't even touch a 02R96. I have been in this game for over Ten years. I would never use the onboard mic pres for tracking and would always run the board through my outboard AD/DA via lightpipe. Plus the Massenberg EQ plug its the tits.
Plus part of your sound quality is coming right out of Nuendo because its a great sounding program. In fact the top three Native Daw Software packages soundwise are Nuendo,Logic and Sonar. Pro Tools internal mix engine sounds like shit. Yes Software can sound good due to the algorithms.
I am not dissing 02R96's they sound good but the price of admission puts you in a whole different catagory price wise. There is not a lot of choices in digital boards these days under 7-8k.
When the time is right I will probably by a Euphonix or a baby SSL digital but thats down the road.

P.S. While the equipment list you have for the studio is good It does not make me drool.
I used to write equipment reviews and have a column in Remix Magazine. :D

[delphis]

well I can tell you that I have experience with the D8B and if you have the last version with the latest version software its a great board that sounds great and is glitch free. The early boards did indeed have issues as did the early software. I am willing to bet the Tower of Power studios were using a early one because they probably picked it up right after it came out. At the end though they got it worked. Your right about no support beyond matinence issues though but like I said if I do buy one it will be the last version with the latest software.
You can pick them up here in Los Angeles for 2k and for that price you can't even touch a 02R96. I have been in this game for over Ten years. I would never use the onboard mic pres for tracking and would always run the board through my outboard AD/DA via lightpipe. Plus the Massenberg EQ plug its the tits.
Plus part of your sound quality is coming right out of Nuendo because its a great sounding program. In fact the top three Native Daw Software packages soundwise are Nuendo,Logic and Sonar. Pro Tools internal mix engine sounds like shit. Yes Software can sound good due to the algorithms.
I am not dissing 02R96's they sound good but the price of admission puts you in a whole different catagory price wise. There is not a lot of choices in digital boards these days under 7-8k.
When the time is right I will probably by a Euphonix or a baby SSL digital but thats down the road.

P.S. While the equipment list you have for the studio is good It does not make me drool.
I used to write equipment reviews and have a column in Remix Magazine. :D

cool right on didn't know I had an audio guru on here very cool shit! well a good portion of people would drool at that list and could only wish to have it in their house. :-) We are building a nice super high end facility in Sacramento and we are going with the SSL digital board, which is completely mind blowing. I have only worked on the 4000 series boards, but I loved them, the only thing they were missing in the automation was flying faders. :) I haven't been doing this as long as you, but I have been in the game for about 5-6 years now.

[thejapino]

cars and music are so similar, that you will get the bug again. :rawk:

You're right, I've sold my equipment now for over a year and I almost regret it. Where Im at right now, neighbors w/ sharing walls will not tolerate it. I'll probably get back into it sometime in my life when I have more room & funds

[TiNMAN]

a new thread like this be coming around every 6 months or so. yes, there are a bunch of ussss maanng! im going to school for my bachelors in sound/audio engineering at expression in emeryville.


myspace.com/urbansoundproductions

[bboyt3nsk]

Preamps:
Neve dual channel mic pre
4 neve channel strips with compressors and eqs
Dual channel Universal Audio 2610 Mic/Instrument Tube Preamp

Mics:
Neuman u87
Neuman kmi 84
Neuman TLM 127 and 103
AKG C414buls(gold plated matched pair)



Score for the neve and UA gear. the 414 are one of my favorite mics.

Anyways...I have PT 7.1 I need 7.3 to change my I/O colors! hahaha
Melodyne, antares Autotune, amplitube, ampfarm, SM58, Little M-Audio studiophile monitors, FL Studio, Cubase 3 LE, And I will Soon be selling my car for an 1176...well worth it. Thats about all I have now. Im currently attending Full Sail and am in Session Recording right now. Its alright. I just cant remember how to return a subgroup into the monitor path...:ugh: