What's Your Gear?, what are you using to do your thang Options

[King Bonk]

listening to all these podcasts gets me wondering, just as a status check, where everyone is at in the gear dept - think this should be intersting to the old hands and newbies alike

ill start - King Bonk is fightin gravity (i.e. makin shows) with

Podcasting mixer/recorder: Audacity 1.2.4 (just crashed on me)
Microphone: Radio Shack Uni-directional mic ($15 - yeah, i hear you laughing)
Pop filter: Panty hose wrapped tightly around a small, handheld spaghetti strainer! ($4.50)
Digital multitracker: Fostex MR-8 (used very rarely)
Computer: HP Pavilion Laptop zd8000 (hot and heavy)

any comments, opinions, why-the-heck-are-you-using-that's, welcome...

This post has been edited by King Bonk: Jan 30 2006, 12:02 AM

[El Nacho]

im fighting the current...
well not really.

Logitech Pro 3000
Audition
popfilter from pantyhose and embroidery hoop
dell XP home

[jack]

+





I now use an ifp 899 and never use that little headphone volume adjustmet (noise creating p.o.s.) and ccasionaly a 25 dollar omni mono lapel mic from radio shack


sometimes I record directly into my PC, using SF8. For skype shows, I record my guest/cohost onto my ifp899 and record myself through my cpu via SF8. Works pretty well. Always Directly encode at the IFPs best level can range from 44/160 to 44/320.

Fun with pitchers!



Jack

This post has been edited by jack: Jan 30 2006, 01:18 AM

[Dismay]

A Dell notebook I purchased four years ago, Audacity and a microphone made from a company I can't pronounce nor read because it is in Chinese.

[Josh]

yay! the picture! jack put up the picture for this month!!!!

MXL 990 condenser mic

Behringer UB1002 mixer

Yamaha RH-5Ma headphones

Internal sound card on my Toshiba Satellite Pro

Adobe Audition

ID3 Tag It

FileZilla

[Ghada]

I think our setup takes the cake...After trying out many of the different lapel mics, etc...that we had laying around, we found our Playstation Singstar microphones did the best job. Not only can we both be talking at the same time, but it gives this cool effect where each of us comes into a separate headphone. Everyone who has listened so far says it is a really interesting effect - - you always know where to expect to hear each person (i.e Ghada in the left ear, Chris in the right ear). It was also the easiest setup as the playstation mics have a USB converter for easy plug into the the ole G4 Powerbook.

We use garageband to record and for minimal post-production and to create our intros and outros with the Apple Loops

Recently got an iRiver T30 - amazing is all I can say! This little thing is inexpensive and has amazing sound quality even w/o a line in attachment (but you could add a mic if you wanted).

Check out our podcast - to hear our "out and about segments"

Cheers


ghada@iheartnz.com

[Spartacus Roosev...]

How about some overkill here. I have an hour show where I speak less than 5 minutes.

Samson C01 Condensor Mic
Korg D1600 Digital Hard Disk Recorder
Soundforge to cut the vocal track up
Acid to arrange voiceover and songs played.

[King Bonk]

coupla questions:

spartacus - how do you like acid. thinking of buying it as a upgrade from audacity

iRiver model - which to get?

[Kinky Sex Radio]

Behringer UB802 Eurorack Mixer

D&M Professional PMD660 Portable Solid State Recorder

Adobe Audition 1.5

MXL 990

Nady Pop Filter - 6"

Dell Dimension Desktop

[King Monkey]

m-audio firewire 410 interface box
audio technica digital ref condensor mic with pop screen
califone 1620 record player
imac g5

[Dismay]

m-audio firewire 410 interface box
audio technica digital ref condensor mic with pop screen
califone 1620 record player
imac g5

haha now I know why my voice is so low in my recordings. sigh. need new hardware . . . oh the dismay!

[Spartacus Roosev...]

coupla questions:

spartacus - how do you like acid. thinking of buying it as a upgrade from audacity

I use ACID, SF and Audacity. Soundforge has a lot of little bells and whistles and an interface with a loooong evolution, so I find it easier to use than Audacity. ACID can feel somewhat limiting as a compositional tool when compared to the higher end product, though some people swear by it. It feels like a step up from fruity loops to me. But as a piece of software to drag and drop sound clips and order them up with all sorts of fades, it is great.

[King Monkey]

haha now I know why my voice is so low in my recordings. sigh. need new hardware . . . oh the dismay!

Dude your doing fine even if you got lousy gear you still have more lisnters then me

[switched_on]

Well we have 2 setups... so I'll give them both as 'kits'.

Current Primary:
Shure SM58 Mic (Jerry)
Audio Technica Model not available at the time of typing w/ actual popstopper (Rob)
Audio Technica Pro 60 w/ actual popstopper (Bryan)
Audio Technica Pro 40 (Guest)
This dumps into an Alesis Multimix 8 FireWire
Firewire audio is routed to my Apple 1.25 GHz G4 iBook
Peak 4 is used for Capturing audio, recording through VST plugins
VST plugins running in real-time: Compressor and Limiter
Skype Audio and other live audio from Apple 1.67 GHz G4 PowerBook (Rob)
Additional Apple 1.25GHz G4 iBook used for audio playback, backup and audio capture
Sound Byte OSX on that machine to trigger audio
Live Music done primarily on the Roland XP-60 (Jerry)
Monitoring is done via Headphone/Control Room jack on Alesis to
Rolls 4-way Headphone splitter amplifier
Both Jerry and Rob are monitoring on Sony Studio Monitor Headphones
I am monitoring on Memorex $30 Noise Cancelling headphones, but am on my way to getting the same as them.
Encoding is currently done in iTunes, though it sucks.
Album art and ID3 tags are also being done in iTunes.
RSS feed being done with Dreamweaver 8.

Second setup (and previous primary)
Same Mics
Audio put into Behringer MX64A mixer
Then 2 stereo channels routed to M-Audio 410 FireWire interface
Firewire audio is routed to my Apple 1.25 GHz G4 iBook
Recording done via Peak 4 (previously into Logic Express)
VST plugins running in real-time: Compressor and Limiter
Same Monitoring setup, attached to Behringer mixer
Same Encoding, ID3 tag, and RSS feed input.

Mobile Setup:
Sony MiniDisc MZ-NF810
Sony One Point Stereo Microphone
Cleanup and Edit done in Peak4 on the iBook

imac g5

Does yours have that high-pitch fan whine? I really liked my iMac other than that problem, and it was totally audible on our recordings. I sold it just because of that problem, and found that up to 1/3 of iMac owners could be reporting this problem. I wonder if the Intel Macs do it.

[Random]

Same gear as every time this topic comes up.

iRiver 790, Plantronics AUDIO .70 headset (just bought a second one, should be at the mailbox today, woot, going to carry it in my backpack so I can record podcasts AT ANY MOMENT), then to edit and mix I use Audacity under XP. That's it. I own a Giant Squid lapel mic but haven't used it for podcasting. Oh, yeah, I use Gizmo Project for the interviews. El Nacho and others tell me it sucks, as if I'd started caring what other people think at some point.

-R

[Big E]

Digital Reference DR-CX1 Condenser Mic

Pop filter (couldn't bring myself to bring my mouth so close to old panty hose)

Behringer Eurorack UB1202

dbx 266XL Compressor/Gate (I have a lot of background noise that needed to go away)

All this into my good ol PII 450mhz Acer with a Creative Soundcard

Creative Zen Xtra 40GB MP3 player

[starcom]

Toshiba Laptop for recording.

Software: Audacity for recording (free)

Post production software: Pod Producer (free)

Mic: Shure PM 58 ($58.00)

Mixer: Kustom 4 channel with amp and speakers (I use this for my speaking engagements) $150.00

Mic: Technics Lapel mic (also used for my speaking engagements) $100.00

Graphic Equalizer: Realistic model that I received as a gift back in 1983, value approx. $100.00

Speaker Phone: Panasonic with answering machine. Also received this as a gift back in 1990. It's an old tape style answering machine that I replaced with a digital style a couple of years ago, but kept in around because the phone still worked. I'm glad I kept it around.

Headphones: Koss Porta-Pro.

Record the interviews on Audacity.

Mix all the interviews, live liners, and music in real time using Pod Producer.

[jack]

I know this issue of gear is a bit geeky, but I just love reading what everyone is using

yay! the picture! jack put up the picture for this month!!!!

ROFL
Hahah! You have inspired me to come up with somethig new!



I often remove certain components depending upon what I need. But this is alot more realistic of a representation of what the KAPC uses.


Jack

[El Nacho]

hey fosco
hey jack...now lets untagle this..
lets see...i take this one...watch the cord
ouch...oh god, now you've unplugged this one
stop stop put that under here...over...

is it like htat?

[jack]

Well, if you need the 3rd mic, its kinda of a pain, but we've only used that while standing and one of us would hold that crappy logitech mic and point it in the direction of the interviewee.

It looks worse than it is, fortunately its really free of noise and when you just sit down on a couple couches in the living room or something, theres about 5-6 feet of slack per component, I just bundled the cords for that picture. Basically you put on the headset and the other guy puts on the lapel mic and phones or another headset of preferred, and then you plug in, you don't, make no mistakes, EVER, under any circumstances, do you try to start with everything plugged in and then attempt to "mount" the setup, that just doesn't work and tends to be messiers than coathangers on monday.


but its a good question. If I do a show by myself, all I really need is 1 headset or the lapel mic and i'm good, but, its customizable and I wanted to display in the most pimp-my-cheap-iriver style I could for the photo. When walking or whatever, one guy can easily wear the iriver around the neck , use the lapel mic and phones, there is 6 feet of slack for the other guy with whatever headset/mic combo he wishes to use. God how I wish my iriver had a line in AND seperate external mic input. I could then patch in all songs while recording, think of the components and wires I could get into trouble with then!

Peaceout-


Jack

This post has been edited by jack: Jan 30 2006, 05:35 PM