Are there any other Portlanders out there? I'd like to hook up and possibly put a study club together with other musicians and engineers in my area. The purpose would be to meet and help and teach/swap ideas with each other and collaborate on projects etc.

My setup is currently all hardware, with an MX 2424 digital HD, DA7 digital mixer, several racked Focusrite and JoeMeek compressors, TC Electronics effects processor and a TC Helicon Voice Prism Plus for vocals. All this gear resides in an Omnirax Synergy desk.

I have a control room, a live room and an isolation booth and run two 8 channel Mogami snakes (Neutrix combi connectors) from the live room to the control room and a Furhman head phone system.

I monitor the control room to Event 20/20 BAS speakers with the Event sub woofer for this system. I have the room pretty well adjusted for the monitors.

The live room doubles as a rehearsal space and so has a Mackie Tri amped PA with sub woofer. I use a set of Rolland Pro V-Drums as the primary trap set and a Bass Pod for tracking bass git. I play Guitar and drums and compose all the time. I have 3 decent mic's and need more. That is my weakest area with gear.

I am planning to add a digital patch bay and hook up 24 channels of lightpipe connectivity to my system and start taking the tracks from the MX recorder directly to a PC (Windows based) computer DAW (most likely Nuendo) for editing and mastering.

I am still learning the gear and paying my dues learning recording technique. I read this chat room religiously and am learning at a fairly accelerated rate now. Let me know if you're a Portlander or are somewhere else in the North West and would like to get together.

dero@dsl-only.net

DD

HELLO DD
I TRIED TO CONTACT YOU....I LEFT A MESSAGE
ON YOUR AWNSERING SERVICE.

ILL GIVE YOU GENERAL IDEA OF WHAT I`M WORKING WITH.
I`M RUNNING A PROTOOLS III SYSTEM HOOKED TO MY DA7
MK2-W/METER BRIDGE{in hui mode} VIA ADAT BRIDGE24 FOR 16 TRACKS IN A G3 MAC. (BUT IM LOOKING FOR EITHER A DSP OR MIX FARM TO PUSH 32 TRACKS CAUSE I HAVE TWO EXTRA 882`S NOT IN USE RIGHT NOW.)

I HAVE AN IBOOK RUNNING DIGITAL PERFORMER 3 WITH A TASCAM US-426 CONTROL SURFACE.
SYNCED UP WITH THE MOTU MTP AV.
AND I HAVE WAVE BUNDLE OF GOLD 3.0
IM MORE A MIDI MAN TRYING TO GET INTO RECORDING.
MY MIDI SETUP IS WHERE ALL MY HARDWARE IS.
THE IBOOK AND DP3 TASCAM-US428
OPCODE 128X
ROLAND M24
ALESIS STUDIO 24
BERHINGER MULTI EFFECTS PROCESSOR
DIGITECH VOCAL HARMONIZER
ART SGX GUITAR EFFECTS
ALESIS NANO SYNTH
YAMAHA CLAVINOVA
YAMAHA CS1
AKAI MPC 2000 FULLY LOADED
AKAI MPC ANALOG FILTER
ZOOM 234 DRUM MACHINE
YAMAHA DRUM MACHINE
ENSONIQ ESQ-1
ART RACK EQ
I HAVE THE DA7 DESK AND ALOT OF OTHER MISCELANIOUS
PIECES OF GEAR....YOU`LL SEE WHEN I GET EVERYTHING SETUP WHEN I MOVE INTO THE NEW HOUSE ON THE 12TH.
AS FAR AS MICS
I HAVE A DYNAMIC N/D357
A PAIR OF MARSHAL MXL`S WITH SHOCK MOUNTS.
AND A PAIR OF MXL 603S INSTRUMENT PICS.

I WOULDNT MIND MEETING ONCE A WEEK OR SOMETHING
TO EXCHANGE NOTES OR WORK.
I DO POP, RNB AND HIP HOP MUSIC BUT THATS NOT ALL IM INTO.......JUST THOUGHT ID LET YA KNOW CAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE VERY CLOSE MINDED ABOUT MUSIC.
I`M MARRIED WITH A DAUGHTER AND I OWN A DONUT SHOP AND WHOLESALE DELIVERY BUSINESS CALLED ROSE CITY DONUTS JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND INFO...AND IM 26 BUT I THINK IM PRETTY RESPONSIBLE.
(GOOD KID...LOL)
REGARDS CHARLES