| Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion | 
| Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments | 
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER | 
| Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 | 
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 3280 | 
| Total number of notes: | 61432 | 
    
    		What are the most essential pieces of electronic equipment
    	required for home recordings, and why?
    
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3216.1 | My two cents still adds up to about $3K! ;-) | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | The moment is a masterpiece | Tue Jul 09 1996 09:24 | 21 | 
|     Really depends on WHAT you're trying to do: record your band, write and
    record tunes on your own, create high quality audio for release versus
    just demos, etc.  Also depends on the kind of music and
    instrumentation.
    
    But...
    
    Multi-track recorder - Essential because you can't play everything
    	at once
    
    Drum machine - Essential if you don't have a drummer
    
    Keyboard - essential if you want to put down any instruments you
    	can't play 
    
    MIDI sequencer - if you don't play keys, is a good way to help you
    	create keyboard parts.  If you do play keys, is a great way
    	to do the entire production yourself.  If you also buy a
    	synchronizer (allows sequencer to sync to tape) you can also
    	save tape tracks by avoiding having to put the keyboards down
    	on tape.
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| 3216.2 | Press KP7, etc | SSDEVO::LAMBERT | We ':-)' for the humor impaired | Tue Jul 09 1996 10:49 | 5 | 
|    See also KDX200::HOME_STUDIO for more info on equipment, techniques, etc.
           (^^^^^^ where else?  :-))
    
   -- Sam
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| 3216.3 | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | The moment is a masterpiece | Tue Jul 09 1996 11:34 | 1 | |
| And KDX200::COMMUSIC | |||||
| 3216.4 | THEMAX::SMITH_S | I (neuter) my (catbutt) | Tue Jul 09 1996 17:07 | 1 | |
| Just a plain old tape recorder works real nice for me. | |||||