i have cheap gear, but i get what i want out of it...usually. my condensers are lame..mxl 990, 991 pair. sm57 dynamic. my firewire interface i'm quite proud of. its an onyx 400f. the onyx gives me really clear preamps and quality ad conversion. it has 4 preamps, and 4 other available inputs. i monitor with a stereo system. this is the bad part. i'm pretty sure the bass tone is off from what it really is. all i can do is keep it flat and not turn on any bass boost or anything to make it colored. (whoa racist...) i use acid pro 6 to multitrack. acid has to be the best recording program i've ever used. if you've used it before 6.0....yeah it wasn't that great. the newest version is nice and logical but all of my recordings are crap. that's my fault though. i am seriously ashamed of them. maybe someday i'll not suck at strings.

guitars > digitech rp50 > rocktek EQ > Crate GX-15 and/or Ibanez GT10 amps > direct line in on my computer and edit with Cool Edit Pro 2. Backings are made with Reason 2.0. Drums currently are the Drumkit From Hell samples.

For demos, I have: Akai DPS24, 4 SM57's, 2 SM58's, 4 Sennheiser e604's, 2 Audio-Technica 4050's, 2 Audio-Technica 2020's, 1 beta52, and a stereo pair of Studio Projects C4 small diaphragm condensers.

For actual studio work, I use- Neumann U87, AKG 414TLII (matched pair), AKG 414, Placid Audio Copperphone, Sennheiser MD 441 (4, vintage), Shure SM-81 (matched pair), Electro-Voice ND868, Audio-Technica atm33a, Audio-Technica atm 33r, Shure SM-57 (7), Shure SM-58 (2), Shure SM-62, API 312 mic preamps (2), Drawmer 1960 Preamp-Compressor (2), Neve 1272 preamps (2), Aguilar DB 680 bass preamp, SpectraSonics 610 vintage compressors, and a Chandler LTD-1 EQ/Pre-amp (Like a 1073, with more bands of EQ). All of this running into an RME Fireface 800, into Nuendo 3.0 with the Platinum Waves bundle, and a UAD-1 card.

I typically will throw a blanket over my Twin�, close mic it straight on the cone with a Sennheiser 421 and a 57, then to an MBox and use Slow-tools (ProTools, sorry for the sarcasm) for edits and mix down. I use the Waves Diamond Bundle for processing live instruments and Reason 3.0 for orchestral samples, piano, drums, and loops. I monitor through an old set of Alesis Monitor One's that have been alright, but the bass isn't nearly as true as I'd like it to be. For voice and nylon string guitar, the pair of Equitek E-100's have been fairly hip and for guitars, I have a '92 Les Paul, a Tom Anderson Classic Strat, a Heritage H-550, a Hirade HE-5, a Godin Nylon String Multiac with Synth Access, and a completely beat on, but audibly pleasing, Fender Mustang whose year I don't know. There's other crap lying around too, let me see, an Epiphone mandolin over here, a Midiman controller, an original POD...oh yeah, this thing I'm typing on, a Mac Powerbook G4 that I've had for a few years. I need to spring for a new mission control soon!

I stick with simplicity: Axe -> POD2.0 -> Soundblaster Live -> Audacity 1.3 Drum tracks are not happening for me. I certainly don't have a kit but I don't know what to do even with samples.

you should "get" a copy of Reason 2.0. It's great for making bass/drum/synth style backings. I got the Drumkit From Hell a few weeks ago and it's literally got like over a thousand authentic drum samples.

I use the stuff I have at school, hardly any of it is mine. Guitar goes through the Marshall something or other with a compressor/noise gate on it already. Mics are usually Shure SM-57, or on acoustics some kind of small diaphragm condensers, i don't know who makes them. This all goes into Logic Pro 7.2. Then there's Reason 3.0 for other stuff. Etc. Then I chill.

guitar>petal> amp or mixer (depends i get some tones i like out of both is its the amp its mic then mixer) >m audio revaltion 7.1 to> audiograber> Audacity

yea very anloge here............most of the time.
the mixer is alesis studio 12r

Guitar (electric) > me-50 (even with no effects) > Peavey Mixing board > Sound Blaster Live > N-Track for individual tracks. Bass added in pretty much the same way. Drums = electronic drum set > peavey mixer then the same. Pre mixing effects addition, volume levelling, eq'ing etc= Sony Sound Forge 7

Acoustic guitar > mic'd amp > cheap peavey mic > mixing board etc etc.....


Wurzel

Right now, I'm going Guitar-pedals-Digitech Genesis 3-Alesis Mixer-Soundblaster external-CoolEdit Pro 2.

I'm probably going to get a "Fast Track Pro" or some such soon, which would have better A/D converters.

For drums...I'm helpless. I've tried machines, software, you name it...I hate it all compared to a good drummer sitting at a good kit.