I just had an idea:

It would be great to have a list of the gear that we instructors and most active members use and here's why:

Often users need to choose interfaces for themselves, and often they don't know what to chose. Well, wouldn't it be great to have the gear that we use for recording here on GMC listed all in one place. That way, people can come and see the list and check who uses, Toneports, Korgs, Pods, preamp, amps, and everything else. All this data in one place can later mean a lot when listening to collabs so people can see what type of sound they can expect from gear that most active members and instructors use.

I thought this list can be started here, in a separate topic or on wiki, or later transffered to wiki after we get enough data.

Ooohh yeah, that would be really useful! Great idea!

Sounds cool , I think it can fit to wiki perfectly ..

I think you can just write it if you want in you'r profile

I agree but I thought of something little different, I thought about a list where all the data would be in one place.

Sounds like a good idea,to have it all together.

Hmmmm...yeah, definitely. It would be a lot easier to access and you can also see if instructors have the same gear and compare them.

yeah, it's an excellent idea !!! now I'm upgrading my rack so when I finish to configure it I'll write some advices and info

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I'm glad you like the idea guys

So anyone have an idea how to begin collecting those valuable informations? I think Andrew can help us out with that, but I can take the job of collecting the gear list over PMs if needed. Later it can be all put donw on wiki, and could be editable or something, so we can update the gear if we change it etc.

Maybe a sticky in the gear section too?

Great idea Ivan, had I read your review on the UX1, I would have bought the correct mic for my interface and saved some time and money going back to a local music store.

I'm with Deep on having a gear sticky

I really like this idea

So I made the article on Wiki about this idea and I invite everyone to come there and write the gear they use for recording on GMC.
Little note to post only the gear you actually use for recording so there aren't any misleading info.

here's the link http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/wiki/inde...rs_Gear_Listing

For those of you who doesn't know how to add your name and gear - there's a small button that says "EDIT" in the upper right corner of the screen. After you edit your post, please put one horizontal line.


Then, when we gather all the data, I will rearrange it by products.

That's great , I'll write mine tomorrow !

Excellent idea and initiative Ivan! Having all this info gathered would absolutely perfect. If we can turn into a cool looking wiki article we could feature it on a prominent place (perhaps frontpage, video lesson page or wiki startpage!)

I'll do my best to turn it to a great article, after we gather a lot of info there. Currently don't know exactly how Wiki works in order to create good layout, but I will do my best and read the tutorials

I added mine. It's making me think of ways to rearrange the information. I'll let you know if I come up with anything.

Just a note, I remembered that the wiki has a Discussion section.

Work on how to arrange the information should be there.

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/wiki/inde...rs_Gear_Listing

I just wanted to add my equipment to the list, but for me there is no edit button on the page It only shows buttons named article, discussion, view source, history and watch, can anybody help me with this and tell me what to do?

Hmm, I can't tell why is that, perhaps Kris can shed some light on the subject

Is it giving it to you in German?

The "Edit" button is where between "Discussion" and "History" in English. If you're getting it in German, I'm wondering if there's a translation error in the wiki app.

Well guys, the list is starting to form itself, I'm so glad.

From now on, this topic can serve for discussion about this project. Some ideas on how to transform all the data that we eventually get in some order that people can read it easily would be great!

I've added my info

Cool thanks man!


For those of you who happen to load only this page, here's the info:

We're building a gear list on Wiki. You can enter the gear that you use ONLY for recording here on GMC.
Here's the link: http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/wiki/inde...rs_Gear_Listing


Also Organized had a nice formatting template, so I did similar with his, it would be great to all follow similar formatting if possible

The more wiki-oriented way to handle this would be to put it on the page discussion part of the wiki, but attribution can be difficult there.

I linked my name to my forum profile.

Also, I linked each item to its product page with the manufacturer for now. What I was thinking on more of a longer-term thing would be that each piece of gear mentioned should actually have a page in the wiki dedicated to it. The page for the piece of gear would link to the manufacturer's page, link to reviews (at GMC and/or Harmony Central), sound clips attached (from those of us that can record), and maybe a tips/tricks section for things that would be good to know about it.

The physical layout needs some thought. I know the way it is is temporary to make it easier for people to get their information in, but I think there's a bunch of different ways for the layout to be done and there are a lot of bad choices to make...

UPDATE: Just to be clear, this is just my suggestions. Except for the actual list of who has what, the rest can be done after the fact by any one of us. I'm not suggesting that we all have to do any of that when adding our stuff....it's just easier later on if the info's there when it's entered in.

I agree Scott, currently let's just build a list so we have all the raw data, later on there are numerous possibilities how we can format the list, and give references.

for now, it is not a rule to do everything similar, the goal now is to collect as many as data possible, later we will definitely do as you say, and reference everything, to be connected to the forum, our wiki, and external links for more info of course!

Added mine This will be a very useful list!

Argh.... Can't seem to figure the wiki "edit" out to the format that OC came up with Ivan so I'll post my gear here if anyone cares to put it in the wiki page.

skennington

Gutars: Jackson's, Dk2m, Rx10d
Ovation C24 Celebrity Acoustic/Electric
Washburn Lyon
Amplification: Marshall Mg100hdfx Half Stack
Peavey Rage 158 Transtube practice amp
Interface: Toneport UX1
Monitors: KRK RP5's
Mic: Samson Q7
Pick: Dunlop Jazz III

That is a great idea! One question what exactly is a wiki?

Marcus you have to log into the wiki. if u go toward the bottom of the page you will see something called personal tools with some links underneath it. to log in click the log in button and then u will be able to see edit and all those other bars.




its where u can write articles on topic (for us its guitar related) and other people can edit it or add to it

It's one of those things where it's a little weird when yo get started, but eventually it starts to make sense once you work with it a bit.

I put your stuff up.



Here's the official answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Nick325's answer's pretty good too.

Thanks Scott, my patience was a little thin this evening.

Excellent work Scott! The list already looks pretty slick, I imagine what would be look like when we gather around all the data! Can't wait!


Little edit, if somebody can't edit the Wiki article properly, he can put the info here and some of the members will put it there! Hooray for Wiki!

I think it is best if people post there info in here Ivan and one person adds to wiki as if you are both editing same wiki at same time as another and save then it will override what they have done when the other person saves and their list will disappear.

strange, now it worked immediately... well, I won't complain My stuff is added too.

OK mine are:

Guitars: Gibson LP Standard; Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion MkI; Andy DeMitriou custom made electric; Lowden L27FC acoustic.

Amps: Matchless Lightening 15; Engl 530 Preamp.

Effects: Eventide Eclipse; Keeley Compressor; Keeley BD2 mod; Roland GT8.

Recording: home made music pc, twin 19'' monitors, Sony VGN CR 31 laptop; 2xRME HDSP5236 internal audio cards; Neve 5032 preamp; RME ADi AD/DA converter; Behringer DDX3216 desk; Yamaha 01V96 desk.

Monitors: Tannoy Reveal 6D.

Mics: Rode NT1A; Shure SM57 and 58.

Cheers,
Tony

I've added tony's gear

is everyone sposed to put their recording gear down or just very active members?

Everyone. Doesn't matter if you have 1 post or 7000 posts.

Good idea Paul. That's exactly what happened to me. Had everything the way I wanted it and boom, it was gone

I would say anyone can put the gear, as long he recorded something with it on GMC, it's pretty logical.

Thanks Ivan - much appreciated mate .

Cheers,
Tony

Actually, wikis don't really work that way, oddly enough. Wikis are pretty tough.

It should be smart enough to know if we're adding our own gear simultaneously to be able to resolve the multiple edit and put them in. If you have multiple people making changes to the same piece (say, me and Ivan editing the same words in tonymiro's list) only one of our edits will show in the doc, but if you go to the History, you can seen both edits and then make one or the other override later.

At least that's how it should work.

I'm going off the grid in a couple hours and won't be touching any of this til Monday so you won't have to worry about me goofing with anything.

I was thinking that in the mean time, we should probably come up with some kind of date...like next Friday (20 June) to start working out how to reformat/reindex/categorize the data that we have. We can stick up a "draft" page somewhere where we can mess with the formatting and then when we come up with something that works, flip it into the live page. From that point on, new additions should be added into the new formatting.

Just a thought.



I have my recording gear up there and I haven't posted any sounds yet. I'm working on it. Other things get in the way..

I see thie page as providing a list of people that are actually familiar with certain pieces of equipment. If I'm looking at a particular mic or a mixer and I see that Ivan has it already, I'm going to get in touch with him and ask about it.

There are probably a lot of other ways the info could be useful (wikis are funny like that) but that was my first thought.

Also, I've always wanted to do a rundown of the basic sounds of all my gear. Kind of a direct compare of the sound of my guitars through the same amp, walkthrough of the sounds in a pedal, stuff like that. I spend a lot of time listening to sound samples of stuff online because CG tends to not have what I'm looking for and reviews of sound gear without samples aren't very useful to me.

Those are pretty interesting thoughts Scott. We shall discuss the new format more thoroughly before we go ahead with the changes.

Do you you have to type out all the code that you see in the above entries or is there an easier way?

Well you can post your gear here and I will put it there properly formatted.

The list look great guys,great job Ivan.

oh ok kewl:

Guitar: Ibanez sa260
Amp: Laney LV300t(current amp) ; Ibanez 10 Watt(all colabs before smoky blues)
Mic: Akira cardoid(Duno wat model; very cheap;$9)
Effects: Digitech RP50( all colabs before smoky blues)
Interface: Mic straight into laptop input with Reaper and ASIO4All
Pick: Jazz iii's


As you can see i have a very budget recording system, how badly does it show?

That'd be awesome! I know a lot of the instructors use the Steve Vai JEM (the white one), and there are a lot of people that own a parker fly. That's really influenced me to look at those guitars. Theres also a lot of Les Paul studios.