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I am indeed using creatures. They're definitely not flat monitors, but I've mixed everything I've done through them and my proper AKG headphones and just made sure to test it on a whole bunch of other things to be sure. They're a hella lot better then normal PC speakers but I would still recommend proper monitors if budget allows. I'm planning on getting some soon. And yeah <3 valve store, I have an aperture mug too :D.

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Damn it, I'm trying to remember what that keyboard's called. I've played with one and it is pretty damn cool but way out of my price range. It's the pitch-bend knob on the top-left that is totally distinctive....

Nord Stage

Clavia is one of the few companies who I dig everything they've put out as an instrument, favorite keyboard company by far, all of their stuff is total quality.

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I actually prefer the joystick-style bend & mod on the Korg TR beneath it, but the stage is fantastic. Not wild about the synthesizer on it though, but I don't know of anything else that does organs that well and also does good piano and electric piano sounds - usually, it's one or the other, or you don't have drawbars for the organ.

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I paid $2,800 CDN when I bought it. Due to the economy, prices have gone up in Canada for virtually all music gear this year, plus they released a newer version with double the sample memory. It'd be $3,270 CDN to buy it now. The only way I could afford it was that I lost vacation time when switching jobs last year, and the vacation pay they owed me covered most of the price. The Korg I got free by trading in the sax I never play anymore.

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I have a pair of BX5as, a FastTrack Pro, an ART Tube Preamp, and AT2020 and an SM57. Just today I added the two Marantz speakers in the corners and an Onkyo receiver to check mixes on / etc. I use REAPER for all my recording and mixing.

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These were put away in the photos above, but I've got a little Frontman 25R for guitar and a Rumble 100 for bass. Both work wonderfully for live and recording.

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I have a pair of BX5as, a FastTrack Pro, an ART Tube Preamp, and AT2020 and an SM57. Just today I added the two Marantz speakers in the corners and an Onkyo receiver to check mixes on / etc. I use REAPER for all my recording and mixing.
Do you hear a difference with the Art pre over the preamps in the Fast Track? Nothing wrong with having more pres lying around, especially a tube preamp; I'm just wondering if it gives you any additional capabilities.
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Do you hear a difference with the Art pre over the preamps in the Fast Track? Nothing wrong with having more pres lying around, especially a tube preamp; I'm just wondering if it gives you any additional capabilities.

I have an ART Tube PAC that I use quite a bit. I also have one of their little Tube MPs too. Despite being fairly cheap, they actually sound pretty damn good. I prefer using them over the preamps in my Digi 002r.

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I can't hear a difference myself but I can record some comparison samples later for the curious.
I'm curious, but I'm more curious to hear how you'd go about doing comparison samples. I've been trying to think of a way to compare the preamps in my new ProFire 2626 to those in the FastTrack Pro and I can't think of a good objective test. From just playing around with it, I can't hear a difference in vocals, but I swear my direct-in guitar sounds cleaner and more...realistic(?).

In fact, it would be really cool if we had a way of equally comparing EVERYONE's preamps in this thread so we could try to hear the difference between a $100 pre and a $2000 one :)

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Off the top of my head I'd probably position the mic in front of a monitor, play back a sample of some sort, then switch what the mic is plugged in to and play the sample again without moving anything else. That's the only way I can think of, really.

EDIT: Here's a quick test:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=507c82cc226f7aef0c814df2efeadc50e04e75f6e8ebb871

Raw is the sound I played, ART is through the preamp and FastTrack is straight into the audio interface. What do you guys think?

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Ah, so you bought the Profire, then? Welcome to the family :)

How's it working out for you so far?

Thanks, I'm loving it so far! Very very sexy. Check out my last response in this thread to see why I went with it over the Lexicon. Pics to come :)
Off the top of my head I'd probably position the mic in front of a monitor, play back a sample of some sort, then switch what the mic is plugged in to and play the sample again without moving anything else. That's the only way I can think of, really.
Yeah, that would work, but you can't compare it to the original sample since you've got D/A converters, speakers, a room, and mics changing the sound before it hits the preamp. Better might be to take a sample and route the output directly into each preamp for comparison.
EDIT: Here's a quick test:

What do you guys think?

I don't hear a difference, but I think the source has a fairly limited frequency content. That may have been on purpose, but I bet there would be more discernible differences in something like an acoustic guitar
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hmm well im not too sure what has changed since the last time I posted, but here goes anyways :P

I tried to do one of them panoramic shots, but it didnt turn out that well (especially the last pic :P) (click on the picture to view a higher resolution pic)

So I have:

Drumset

Rokit 5 Studio Monitors

AKG 240 MK II Studio Headphones

Focusrite Saffire Firewire Audio Interface

Axiom 25 Midi Keyboard

2 Sweet ass monitors

1 Shure SM 58 Microphone

My yamaha keyboard that I barely use anymore :(

and uhhh... I guess thats it.

Also, My set up is Reason 4.0(or Record 1.0) rewired in to Ableton Live. Left screen is for Reason/Record, and right screen is for ableton :D

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