Gear Preferances:

niffugcm otrebor mailliw: This blog is simply a discussion on what equipment we prefer to use, as musicians, and why exactly that is. I personally only play acoustic music, currently. Actually, my tunes only consist of my voice and my acoustic guitar. I play an Ibanez Talman. The Talman itself is not quite as large as your average acoustic guitar, per say. The feel of the Talman is almost a more "personal" feel. She sits close to the body and when playing, in my opinion I feel like the guitar is mine and I am fully in control. This is almost comparable to the feel of an electric guitar, one may say. That is all as far as my live instuments. As far as recording, I have used five different programs. I have experience in Sonar, Cakewalk, Audacity, Grage Band and Pro Tools. As far as the overall best program, I would have to say Pro
Tools would be my personal choice. The majority of Professional Audio Production today, in the music industry, is done on Pro Tools. When recording, above all else, my experiences with the Sure microphones have been most memorable. Sure microphones are considered the all-around best by most people when using anywhere from condensor to vocal microphones. Sure is the way to go as far as brands; not to mention, from what I have learned, Sure also puts forth a great live sound as opposed to any other microphone. So, to make this short, I guess you could call me a "Sure-Ibanez Talman-Pro Tools-Acoustic-Type-of-guy." P.s. For the record, I would be down with using a somewhat more expensive guitar, possibly like a Martin but I am a broke white boy, so...what I have works for now. Peace.

Sregor Kcin- When it comes to gear I am a fairly easy person to entertain, I prefer nice things but I don't mind saying "what ever works." When in come to electric guitars I am currently liking Univox Guitars, which was a company in the 60's and 70's I believe they were cheaply made and sold guitars, but the one i have is quite nice. It is light and has a great tone, like Chuck Berry sounding tones when clean. When it comes to bass guitars, I prefer Acoustic ones, they have a very raw and punchy tone and I just like them better than electrics. Plus they are very large making great contrast and some challenge for a short fella like me to play. I have a cheap Dean Acoustic Bass. When it comes to keyboards anything works as long as it has some synth and pipe organ tones. I have recorded on Audacity, which is somewhat minimalistic, but is is workable, with some effort. Cakewalk is a nice little program, which is fairly easy, and pretty nice for all you can do with it. Also tascam makes a nice 4-track recorder, if you are into that. And I use a sony tape recorder some times for basic recording, i like lo-fi sounds a lot. I no nothing about Microphones but they are helpful tools. Guitars that look nice and play well are great. I have a Johm Lennon Epiphone, feels just like the gibson but is cheaper. OH YES.

Enal elyk wehttam: So my personal opinion on most gear that anyone might use is that it is all "prefferance". I hate going online and seeing reviews about products that do the same thing as the other products but are used differently or have a different feel to the ear or the physical touch. My personal set up at my house is: Line 6 spider II 60 watt 1x12 speaker, Schecter Damian 6 diamond series. I also have a veriaty of pedals and tuners as well. For starters i prefer my amp of most because of the presets that i can choose from. it contains a tuner and contains a mix of different distortion levels and six different effects. If we would like we can also create our own settings and save them on up to four different channels. The only downfall that i have with my amp is that it doesn't not have an output, meaning i could not connect it with other speakers or cabs. I Love my Schecter guitar because of the neck. The neck is very smooth and the neck contains bat inlays as fret markers. I also like the Pick up's it has. They are EMG-Z, they are not the best type of EMG but they are still one of the best in the buisness compaired to many others. The only thing i currently do not like about my guitar is that the output is lose and needs to be retightened every few times i begin to play.

Now, for my pedals. I have a Boss Chromatic tuner showing me all the notes allowing me to tune to anything i wish, when most tuners only show the orginial six standerd notes for standerd tuning. I also have a Line 6 pod giving me the same effects plus 300 presets that i can use. This is not neccessarity a "pedal" but it is used like one, with combination with a footswitch at the end of the chain of pedals setting the channels with the different effects. Now, you are probably wondering what the point of having this is when i ahve all the effects on my AMP as well. That is because i also have a 4x12 marshall Cab with a Fender FM 100 Head which is my other amp which is much louder and much better, but it does not contain any effects except reverb and gain/distortion.