Marshion
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The thread 'Where does your Marshall sit in your home studio?' got me thinking about posting a more complete tour of my little basement studio. I'm blessed with some nice equipment; my most recent addition is the Nord Stage 3. I started off running it through a QSC CP12. Its output is stereo, however, and adding a second powered speaker really makes a difference. The Stage 3 has organ, piano, and synthesizer panels and can make just about any sound I can imagine. I'm having a grand time learning its capabilities. It will keep me busy until the day I die, which is hopefully at least a couple decades away.
The mixer is a Yamaha MG10XU 10-channel with a nice bank of FX. I run a Boss RC 10R for drums; it sounds good through the QSCs. I'm too lazy to set up a drum track in Logic Pro (or EZ Drummer, both of which are on my workstation). It's just easy to click around the drum machine and find a groove I want to play with. I don't keep any of my pedals on the floor as I mess with the settings enough to not want to get on my knees.
Speaking of the workstation, its an iMac 24. The computer has enough processing power to handle my recording. I'm still a complete noob with recording, mixing, mastering, etc. I used Garage Band long enough to convince myself to go with Logic Pro. It is a powerful software package and the value is hard to beat. I use two different headphones for recording. When I want to concentrate on a single track, I use a pair of closed-back Sony MDR 7506 and when I want to mix I go with the open headphones (Byerdynamic DT990 Pro). Both are comfortable for an hour or more. The DAW is a Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 and the studio monitors are ADAM Studio T5V. Both get the job done well. I never try to record more than two instruments at a time so the DAW is adequate.
My microphones are the venerable Shure SM58 and SM57. The 57 is for recording my guitars through the Marshall. I've not been able to duplicate the growl of my DSL 40CR running the guitar clean into the DAW and then adding effects later. I can get highly satisfactory results with reverb, chorus, and all the other 'clean' effects. But the dirty growl is best captured through the microphone. My other microphone is a Shure Super 55. That thing makes me look like a star but it is basically an SM58 in a fancy chrome housing.
Oh, the workstation table is a Husky workbench. It is height adjustable but I always have it at the highest position. The drawers hold all my extra cables, batteries, picks, tools, and other doo dads. The white board enables me to capture my ideas. I'm sure you'll appreciate my musical genius if you look at what I've written there.
The amps and pedals are framed by a skinny little table I found on Amazon. As I mentioned, I don't like bending over to mess with the pedals so I keep them up there. The Boss DS-1 I've had forever. The Hendrix Fuzz Face by Dunlop is a little touchy; not very sophisticated but if I'm patient I can find some nice tones with it. The Sidekick is a rich pedal with reverb, delay, and a flanger/chorus. It's really versatile and I have barely scratched the surface of it; my son knows it much better than I. He can make some otherworldly sounds from it. The trio+ is another creative tool that I love. Before getting the Nord, this little pedal was my source of inspiration for bass guitar tracks. It is a terrific machine; play rhythm guitar into it and it prepares bass and drum tracks in 16 different genres with 8 variations per genre; it also offers 4/4 and 3/4 time. There's a bit of a learning curve; I was highly motivated when I got it and have managed to hang onto the knowledge needed to use it.
The Marshall amp is well known to members of this forum. I find it to be highly versatile. The two guitars I bang into it can go anywhere I want them to. Despite the Crybaby and Fuzz Face, I don't sound like Hendrix. But a boy can dream. The Fender Tone Master Twin Reverb is a great amp as well. The built in attenuator is nice.
These guitars are sublime. The strat is an Eric Johnson signature model. The color is the weirdly named Lucerne Aqua Firemist with Rosewood Fingerboard. The Gretsch is the Brian Setzer Smoke 59 model. Both guitars are a thousand times better than I am. My son will inherit them.
The Taylor acoustic is a 214 (base) model made in 2004 in their California production facility. It's a great little acoustic. I keep it in my home office and play it a little every day.
Thanks for taking this little tour of Clean Tone Studio! I hope you enjoyed it.
The mixer is a Yamaha MG10XU 10-channel with a nice bank of FX. I run a Boss RC 10R for drums; it sounds good through the QSCs. I'm too lazy to set up a drum track in Logic Pro (or EZ Drummer, both of which are on my workstation). It's just easy to click around the drum machine and find a groove I want to play with. I don't keep any of my pedals on the floor as I mess with the settings enough to not want to get on my knees.
Speaking of the workstation, its an iMac 24. The computer has enough processing power to handle my recording. I'm still a complete noob with recording, mixing, mastering, etc. I used Garage Band long enough to convince myself to go with Logic Pro. It is a powerful software package and the value is hard to beat. I use two different headphones for recording. When I want to concentrate on a single track, I use a pair of closed-back Sony MDR 7506 and when I want to mix I go with the open headphones (Byerdynamic DT990 Pro). Both are comfortable for an hour or more. The DAW is a Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 and the studio monitors are ADAM Studio T5V. Both get the job done well. I never try to record more than two instruments at a time so the DAW is adequate.
My microphones are the venerable Shure SM58 and SM57. The 57 is for recording my guitars through the Marshall. I've not been able to duplicate the growl of my DSL 40CR running the guitar clean into the DAW and then adding effects later. I can get highly satisfactory results with reverb, chorus, and all the other 'clean' effects. But the dirty growl is best captured through the microphone. My other microphone is a Shure Super 55. That thing makes me look like a star but it is basically an SM58 in a fancy chrome housing.
Oh, the workstation table is a Husky workbench. It is height adjustable but I always have it at the highest position. The drawers hold all my extra cables, batteries, picks, tools, and other doo dads. The white board enables me to capture my ideas. I'm sure you'll appreciate my musical genius if you look at what I've written there.
The amps and pedals are framed by a skinny little table I found on Amazon. As I mentioned, I don't like bending over to mess with the pedals so I keep them up there. The Boss DS-1 I've had forever. The Hendrix Fuzz Face by Dunlop is a little touchy; not very sophisticated but if I'm patient I can find some nice tones with it. The Sidekick is a rich pedal with reverb, delay, and a flanger/chorus. It's really versatile and I have barely scratched the surface of it; my son knows it much better than I. He can make some otherworldly sounds from it. The trio+ is another creative tool that I love. Before getting the Nord, this little pedal was my source of inspiration for bass guitar tracks. It is a terrific machine; play rhythm guitar into it and it prepares bass and drum tracks in 16 different genres with 8 variations per genre; it also offers 4/4 and 3/4 time. There's a bit of a learning curve; I was highly motivated when I got it and have managed to hang onto the knowledge needed to use it.
The Marshall amp is well known to members of this forum. I find it to be highly versatile. The two guitars I bang into it can go anywhere I want them to. Despite the Crybaby and Fuzz Face, I don't sound like Hendrix. But a boy can dream. The Fender Tone Master Twin Reverb is a great amp as well. The built in attenuator is nice.
These guitars are sublime. The strat is an Eric Johnson signature model. The color is the weirdly named Lucerne Aqua Firemist with Rosewood Fingerboard. The Gretsch is the Brian Setzer Smoke 59 model. Both guitars are a thousand times better than I am. My son will inherit them.
The Taylor acoustic is a 214 (base) model made in 2004 in their California production facility. It's a great little acoustic. I keep it in my home office and play it a little every day.
Thanks for taking this little tour of Clean Tone Studio! I hope you enjoyed it.
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