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My Guitar Oriented Studio
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PC Wintel
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by Fart Blossom
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Feb 2004
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Want to set up a home studio ? Have no idea what to do, buy or look for?
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Here is a list of stuff I use now that might help someone new to DAW
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(Digital Audio Workstations) get started. My system is very stable, clean
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and sounds great.
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Here is what I currently use and its approximate cost:
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(I may have paid too much or too little, just my approx estimated costs)
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Items with a star are the ones I deem crucial to operation, ie can't live
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without.
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M-Audio Delta 1010LT Soundcard (used on ebay-) $200.00*
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Mackie 1604 VLZ Mixer (used) $700.00
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P4 2.0 and 512 MB PC 133 and MOBO $279.00*
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80 GB HDD with 8mb cache $120.00*
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Cakewalk Pro Audio 8 (used from friend) $ 50.00*
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Cakewalk Guitar Tracks 2.0 $ 50.00
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DVD Writer 4x (WalMart) $ 79.00
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Cool Edit Pro (got on trade from friend) $280.00
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Fostex Model 80 8 track (I like tape)(ebay used) $240.00
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100 Watt Sansui tuner with small nearfields and sub $100.00
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Fancy computer desk (Office Max) $120.00
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Les Paul Copy $600.00
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Peavey Millenium Bass $240.00
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MXL Powered Condenser Microphone (blem Musicians' Friend) $ 70.00
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5 used 8 x snakes RCA to phone $ 55.00
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Peavey DeltaFex (ebay used) $ 40.00
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Line 6 PodXT (new) $400.00*
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This is not everything, but is the core of what I consider to be
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my studio equipment that gets used often.
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Before I had this equipment
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here is a basic el-cheapo setup DAW I might have used, had I
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not been able to acquire all the current equipment:
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I didn't provide links...do a Google search for each
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All prices estimated at created time of this file.
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Modest P3 700+ PC with 256MB RAM and 40GB HDD price depending $250.00
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Audacity Sound Editor (freeware)
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ProTools Free (Win9x only) (freeware)
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Kristal Audio Multitracker (freeware with VST support)
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Freeware web downloaded drum tracks (free from samples on web)
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M-Audio Delta 410 (2 digital in/2 analog in) $120.00
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OR SBLIVE (any version) $ 40.00
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Radio Shack RCA to miniature phone sound card adaptor/cables) $ 30.00
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Cheap LO Z microphone $ 12.95
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Stomper Drum Machine (freeware drum synth)
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RRAMM Drum (freeware drum synth)
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Numerous free VST plugins from web (free to use in Kristal)
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Buzz (a weird audio tracker) (free)
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Cakewalk Guitar tracks PRO (32 stereo tracks, excellent software) $100.00
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Cakewalk Guitar tracks 2.0 (16 Stereo tracks, excellent software) $ 50.00
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Behringer Mixer, ie 8 channel cheapo $ 50.00
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CD-RW with software $ 59.00
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Headphones (cheap walkman style or better) $ 15.00
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(Guitar tracks 2.0 has a downloadable 30 day fully working trial from
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www.cakewalk.com. You can do a whole project while evaluating the software.
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I used to use 2.0 a lot because it looks just like a standard desktop 4 track
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and the interface works almost exactly the same way)
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Hope this helps someone out a little. It wasn't intended to be all-inclusive,
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just what I have done in the past. There are hundreds of other ways you could
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go. When I first started, I used a Peavey ProfexII, a SBLIVE Value and Pentium
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2 400, 10 GB HDD, CD writer, and two chopped up earphone jacks hooked with
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tape to my processor output cables (phone plugs taped in series). I had a cheeseball
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drum machine and Cakewalk Pro Audio 6. That was it. I still have some of
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the recordings I made and they are quite clean considering the cabling hack job
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I did on them.
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Fart Blossom
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