You did your new album (Piece & Love) on a really low budget. What gear did you use to do it?
Not much. A home-built Pentium II 333 PC customized for recording audio with 128 meg RAM, 2 SCSI Barracudas, a Ricoh CDRw and an Event Gina pci card. Yamaha Pro Mix 01 desk, TLA preamp/compressor with Langevin CR-3A (by Manley), AKG 451 and C1000 mics. Tannoy PBM 5.6s with a Quad 303 power amp. Peavey DPMSP sampler for piano, organ, synth and drum sounds. Digitech Valve FX preamp for guitars. For mixdown I would either send the basic tracks to Martin Atkins (Invisible Records owner & in house re- mixer) to mix on his (better) gear, or persuade a friend, Steve Critall, to come by with his vintage Alice 8 channel analogue desk (which had built-in compression on 4 groups) and his Roland DEP 5.
You can make a grown man weep with your recording equipment bargains. Give us a few secrets to buying second hand gear cheaply!
