Building the home studio . . .
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Posted on May 23, 2002 01:08 pm
BColmery
Member Since: May 23, 2002
I'm planning on putting together a home studio. I was hoping to get some advice from you guys on what/how to put it together, since my recording knowledge is pretty spotty . . .
I'm starting with a Pentium 4 1.7, a SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum, Sonar 2.0 XL, a couple Shure 58s and 57s, and the instruments (Yamaha S80, Taylor guitar, Carvin Bass w/ SWR Workingman's 15 amp)
Thus far I'd like to get Mackie HR824s for monitors, upgrade the sound card to a mAudio Delta 10/10, buy some mics . . .
What I’m hoping to get from you guys is some advice on what I might need that I have no clue about (i.e. preamp(s)?), and what I might like, from hardware to software (a selection of mics? The best mixer? a way to get some legit drum sounds? headphones?). I'm on a budget, but I'd love to know what the best of the best is and work my way down from there. In a lot of ways I’m starting from scratch, so I’d love to benefit from your experience.
Thanks for helping out a newbie guys. I really appreciate it!
Brian
p.s. -- I plan on recording mainly rock stuff -- think Train, Counting Crows, stuff like that. I also want to do some more electronic type stuff, though (My roommate made me promise him some techno in the next year or so . . . :-) Thanks again.
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May 23, 2002 01:50 pm as far as mixers go, we are almost all huge Behringer fans...Here are a few:
20 channel: service.bfast.com/bfast/c...mp;bfmtype=gear
32 channel: service.bfast.com/bfast/c...mp;bfmtype=gear
10 channel: service.bfast.com/bfast/c...mp;bfmtype=gear
Their preamps in the mixer is pretty good as well, and Line 6 makes a unit called "The POD" that is a great preamp/effects box for direct recording, they ahve models for guitar and bass, but I use the guitar model for bass with great success.
For software, well, there is a ton of it, I like Vegas and Nuendo...many others will have other advice, if you already have SOnar 2, stick with that, all you will need is a master app like WaveLab or something on that line.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
May 26, 2002 12:23 am As far as the electronic stuff goes for your roomate. You have one of the best soft-synth's around right in Sonar 2.0. And it also has a very good sampler with it as well. You will find it is very a capable of being used for the electronic stuff.
