Guitarhacker

musicroom


I love doing this kind of work - minus the drum portion. Usually once I record the basic idea. I need to get the drums right. Not a strong suit! I have various tools including ezdrummer (Nashville), Sonar's offerings, and also bought a large pro sound loops bundle a few years ago. But the one size fits all is limited for the type of songs I write, so I stall sometimes trying to get the sound right. Been tempted lately to try one of the online drummers offering to play real drums to my songs. Really not wanting to fork out $125 a song yet...

Summary, drums are my hold up sometimes for getting started on the finished product.

Try Jamstix.   www.rayzoon.com It does all the heavy lifting for you. I use it on some of the stuff I do these days and used to use it a bunch in the past. I also like Band in a Box drummers.  More money but pretty cool at times. 

Thanks - downloading the demo.

Dappa1


So I take it that most of you have purpose built studio's?

I wish.  I'm set up in a spare room on the first floor.  In a non-musical household, this room would have been a den.

So I take it that most of you have purpose built studio's?

 
It was designated as a bedroom but it was designed with a studio in mind. About 18 months ago I broke down and did built in custom cabinets to handle the rackmounted gear, keyboard/midi controllers, etc. Have to admit that being 'purpose built' has been a real boon. That space is always ready to go, I no longer have to run down to the basement looking for preamps etc.
 
Regards

While it would be nice to have a dedicated and custom studio...... nope... not here... not yet. 

My studio is at best a corner of my office dedicated to music. But the room does double duty. 

After I get my first Nashville #1 hit song, perhaps then I can talk my wife into letting me have a room and doing a custom job in it....