Musicians and their Tools

[Jihadjoe]

Well, you probably alreayd know the first bit... I play drums and percussion of various types.

As for recording... It depends largely on what gear I've left at work, borrowed from work, or lent to people... But generally:

Mics: dependant on instrument, eg AKG D112 for kick drum, or a shure SM57 on a snare.

Other stuff: if I'm recording stuff at home, I'll normally run guitars and so on through a DI box rather than mic up the amp. I expect the reason you get a slightly scratchy sounding recording is partly due to the fact the signal coming from your guitar is 'unbalanced' (unless it has an inbuilt DI) and will need the overall amplitude of the signal to be within microphone range, for most things at least.

Input device: I have a crappy sound card on my desktop, so I use a little 8 channel mixing board which connects to my PC via firewire, and acts as an audio device. Essentially my sound card is my mixing board.

Software: Currently using Cubase 5, although I'd much rather be recording on Protools.

But I can explain more of this over skype if needs be.

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