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Originally Posted by Thee Alex
See? You're being condescending again.
I've been doing it for 17 years, but I'm not going to tell people what is good or bad. Different things work for different people.
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I'd say different techniques were more subjective than the actual gear itself, to a point. While it's true that different things work for different people, if you're serious about setting up a home studio to record some of your own music then it's a good idea to make an investment now rather than later. By that, I mean why buy a crappy preamp now, only to realise that you might actually want to get something half-decent in a year's time when you discover that you actually LIKE doing recording.
That's part of my trouble, and I wish the money I'd spent initially on gear was preserved and put towards something I'd like NOW. But people make these mistakes all the time when it comes to musical equipment; people will happily shell out £300 for a crappy guitar amp, only to realise that for an extra £100/200 they could have something that they might never need to think about changing. I've done it before, but that's because I'm a silly billy.
Home recording might start off as your typical interest in laying down some guitar tracks, purely just to have something of your own recorded to let people hear. But then, it has the potential into develop into something that you might actually enjoy doing, and if that means recording bands then you'll want as much good gear as possible in order to satisfy your clients. If you're recording people in your own home, then it's still classified as 'home recording', however much you want to spend on your setup. The difference being that better quality gear will inevitably result in you having to do less work to get it sounding 'professional'.
I would define 'cheap' in this context as whatever your willing to spend to get the sound you want. I, personally, would spend the above amounts because I've spent much more on other pointless shite in my lifetime, and I'm not a huge earner.
The point being, you could have an amazing sounding, studio quality preamp and compressor for just shy of £500 and you can't really argue with that. If you start recording bands for cash, it'll pay for itself.
Sorry Alex, but Robin's right in this sense. While your gear might work for you, it's not a professional piece of kit and its bad to recommend this line of gear for those interested in developing a good home recording setup. What you need are good workhorses that are adaptable for a variety of environments, and believe it or not, they do actually exist in this field.
Sorry if it seems like I'm coming across as a wanker, but that's not my intention.
My main point is that people more often than not will not be disappointed by shelling out a little more for the above equipment. There's a lot of hype about overpriced products floating about the musician's market nowadays, and you'd pay a lot more than what Robin's suggested above for gear that is half as good.