Author Topic: Home recording suggestions (PodXT?) (Read 11519 times)

Kilby · « **Reply #30 on:** October 19, 2006, 07:18:29 PM »

Quote from: carlaz

I'd love, though, to see a "SuperPod" that was actually aware of popular recording apps like Logic/GarageBand, Cubase, Cakewalk, Ableton, and would actually interact with them to record dry-tracks to disk but provide off-board DSP for recording/playback and mixdown. That oughta be possible without rocket science, but the amount of partnership required between Line6 and the various recording-app software houses would be insurmountable, I think!

I was considering one of these if I ever bought a modeller (a line 6 amp put me off modelling equipment)

Try tutorials 19 & 20 here for the digitech GNX4.

They also do a lot of mac support

carlaz · « **Reply #31 on:** October 20, 2006, 01:28:47 PM »

One of ... what? :)

Kilby · « **Reply #32 on:** October 20, 2006, 04:40:09 PM »

Quote from: carlaz

One of ... what? :)

The GNX 4 from digitech (then I looked at my bank account)

It's does all the processing for you, plugs into all the major packages, is a drum machine, and an 8 track recorder built in. Oh yeah it has power for mics and stuff too.

I guess the vague posting is what I get for posting from work before my boss has went home

Rob...

Dakine · « **Reply #33 on:** October 20, 2006, 04:43:26 PM »

I keep telling y'all support a forum bruvva's 'amp habit' and buy my MRS8, job done ROFLMAO :P

carlaz · « **Reply #34 on:** October 20, 2006, 05:58:13 PM »

I've got an old (relatively!) Roland VS-1680, which is a bit out of date in terms of having basically zero capacity to interface with a laptop/desktop computer (a problem solved in more recent VS models), but otherwise is well equipped as a "studio in a box", with a good range of inputs and effects/amp sims. It is, alas, a little difficult to use as a solo artist unless you've got it set up with all your other kit plugged-in -- something which is hard for me to manage in my currently limited living space! The iBook/GarageBand setup, with onboard software drum machine/drum loops + cheapo MIDI keyboard + USB audio interface is more compact and faster to get into action (plug in and go!), so that's working for me at the moment.

Ideally, I'm eventually gonna have a place to live with a dedicated studio space -- nothing fancy, but with everything set up a ready all the time. That'll be cool. I might get a mini-tube amp in there some day, but it'll be amp-sims for the forseeable still. But there's no reason I couldn't have a couple of different amp-sim solutions to choose from! :)

sgmypod · « **Reply #35 on:** October 20, 2006, 06:25:48 PM »

Gearbox is VST but you have to pay for that part as a plugin.....say if you have a xt, Gport toneport........but you can buy gearbox on its own and comes with interface as well(also VST plugin)

carlaz · « **Reply #36 on:** October 20, 2006, 09:36:47 PM »

Quote from: sgmypod

Gearbox is VST but you have to pay for that part as a plugin.....say if you have a xt, Gport toneport........but you can buy gearbox on its own and comes with interface as well(also VST plugin)

Whoa, I didn't know they had released Gearbox as a VST -- and now a quick Google shows it seems to have been released as AU (AudioUnit, for Apple stuff), so that ought to work with GarageBand ....

Mmmmmmmm, must investigate further!