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Good Quality Budget Music Gear

Music Gear that Gives the Biggest Bang for the Fewest Dollars

Occasionally I encounter some equipment that I think provides a lot of bang for the buck. The following list contains a few things that I think is a hidden gems for both the home recording artist and the club musician. Consider bookmarking this page as I’m always finding new stuff.

The Best Outboard Compressor
The FMR Audio RNC-1773. Called the “really nice compressor”, this unit rocks! This is a great compressor for front-end use while laying down tracks or as a mix-bus compressor.The RNC can do everything from gentle compression to heavy squashing.The manufacturer provides setting examples that will get you started without ruining your tracks. Now how much do you think this compressor costs? Only 0! Believe it’s difficult to find another compressor that delivers the same quality for under 00, let alone 00.

Some Fantastic Mics:
You can’t go wrong with the Shure SM-57. You can find one for 80 dollars. It’s not sexy but if I had to make do with only one microphone, this would it. One thing about this mic is that you do need a a good preamplifier. This can easily offset any cost savings over some other more pricier mics, but I still think everyone should own at least one.If you’re looking for a condenser microphone there are several that The Shure SM-57 is a good deal and you can find one for about if you look reasonably hard. It does need a good preamp if you want to get the maximum oomph out of it, so overall it’s not exactly a bargain deal. But every semi-serious musician should have at least one.

Other Super Microphones
One of my favorites is the Rode NTK. This is a big diaphragm tube (valve) condenser microphone. Any sound source you pick, it will sound tremendous. On many tracks, such as a male baritone vocal, hand drums (and I record a lot of them), and percussion instruments (I record a lot of them too), this microphone sounds out of this world. Pricing is about 0 for the microphone and a shock mount it’s a bargain.I find that I use it more often than some mics that cost a thousand dollars or more.Sometimes it’s a little bright for some applications, however overall this microphone delivers the goods.

Some more great diaphragm condenser microphones: Studio Projects C1 and C3. The C1 has a cardioid pattern only while the C3 has cardioid, figure eight and omni. Both of these mics sound very nice – low noise and clear, pleasing tones. They are not as good as the NTK nevertheless at their prices (about 9 for the C1 and 9 for the C3) they are great deal for amateur.But you can’t beat the sound you get from these microphones at these price points.The T3 condenser mic by Studio project is supposed to be very good.

Preamplifiers
If you’re in the market for a top quality tube preamplifier at a good price I’d recommend the Peavey VMP-2 (yeah, that Peavey, but it does sound good). This is the only all-tube preamp that you’ll find for under a one thousand (street price around 0). It’s a tiny bit noisier (very little) than most of the pricier all-tube preamp, but at less than half the cost you won’t be disappointed. Tip: to get the most out of this preamplifier don’t record all your tracks through it. Use it on percussion, bass, or vocals and use a solid-state preamplifier for the remainder of the tracks. Using it on every track will add some mud to your mix.
Thinking about making do with a transistor amplifier? For about 0 you can get a 1202 VLZ that has four channels- that’s 0 a channel, plus you get a mixer to boot. Some people say that they make the tones brittle.This occurs when if you crank them too much. But keep the trim pads below the 1 o’clock position and you’ll be rewarded with some nice, clean sounds.

If you can spend some more bucks on a preamplifier and you don’t want a many channels try the Grace 101. For about 0 for one channel you get a no frills, clean and open preamplifier. This preamplifierhas a very musical sound and I love it on percussion (shakers and stuff) and instruments like acoustic guitar. One thing however: If you want “warm” this preamplifier won’t give it to you. The Grace 101 will duplicate the sound source exactly like the original. You must get your mics positioned just perfectly. Once you get the hang of placing your mics and finding the good source sound, you’ll be amazed at the ability of this preamp to capture a performance
The Vintech 1272 can give you Neve sound without the 00 price tag. For half price, you get two channels that will let you play classic Neve.

Walk Away – James Gang Cover. Watch it track through as it plays on CEP. I have had this one on my hard drive for some time now uncompleted and so I finally put the finishing touches on it and decided to put it up. Everything was done in my home studio Using CoolEdit Pro 2.0. All vocals, instruments and drum machine tracks were done by me. A friend of mine did the guitar solo. You can find his channel at www.youtube.com Some of the gear used: Piece of shit Fender Squire Strat through a DigiTech Genesis1 Amp/Cab Emulator Mackie 1202-VLZ Pro interfaced to the computer through USB via the Behringer UCA202 U-Control USB Audio Interface (forget that M-Audio BS – Get your self a mackie and a USB interface) Alesis 3630 Dual-Channel Compressor Rocktron Intelifex-ONLINE Effects processor (to monitor vocals w/effects) NADY TCM-1050 Tube Condensor Microphone The Audio going to the UCA-202 is sent from the board from the ALT 3-4 which is then split using a RCA Splitter cable. One signal going to the UCA202 and one signal being sent back to the mixing board into another channel so I can monitor my vocals with effects without them being recorded onto the vocal track. I can’t seem to figure out how to do that any other way using Cool Edit Pro or using any computer-based recording software for that matter. If any one knows if this is possible, please let me know. This way works the best though, I find. Other gear I own: Fostex DMT-8vL Digital 8 track Recorder Boss DR-660 Drum Machine …
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