Who are you, and what do you do?
I'm John Darnielle. When I'm not delaying interview questions by three years or more, I'm the singer from the Mountain Goats. I also write novels.
What hardware do you use?
I record into my laptop, a MacBook Air. I just use the built-in mic. I listen using a DAC, the HRT microStreamer, which I consider a key part of my setup.
And what software?
What would be your dream setup?
If I had ridiculous disposable income, I'd have a studio in the backyard equipped with a 2-inch reel, probably an old Studer, plenty of tape, an RE20 to sing into and some Mojave Sound mics to point at the guitar, and an engineer on call, because I do not know how to run that stuff myself. But I'm never going to have that, so GarageBand & good playback DAC it is!