Seeking advice on setting up a home studio

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Member Since: Aug 09, 2007

Hi guys,

Need some real help here as I am stuck on basics. I am planning to setup my home studio for which I have all the material ready. However time not permitting my stuff has been lying around for a while. Recently I was given an advice to use Visio to draw the schematics and finalise the overall layout and then go ahead installing the setup which is what I am presently doing, alongwith an excel table that would help me easily connect wires which are numbered.

My scheme is built around the folowing:

Hardware:
- 2 PCs and a laptop.
The laptop is strictly for office files, organisers, excel spreadsheets, visio etc and the two PCs are the real music making machines connected by LAN.
- Huge hard disks and memory + external backup drive (WD)
- Display cards (one of them with dual monitor support)
- I have 5 main softwares - Sonar 5, Adobe Audition 2, n-Track Studio, Reason 3, Cool Edit 2000 (2-track).
- Sound cards: EMU 1212M, Echo Mia, ESI's WAMI Rack 192X, Montego II Home Studio.
- Hardware synth: Korg X5DR
- Two analog consoles, one a fully-balanced (Studiomaster Club 2000 102) and another a fully unbalanced (Behringer UB1002FX) for tertiary connections or unbalanced connections. The UB goes into the Tape In of the 102.
- Two patchbays, one fully balanced (Proel PBR48) and the other Behringer(PX2000)
- Control instrument Edirol PCR30
- Creative MIDI keyboard (unpowered)
- Yamaha PSR275
- 2 MIDI interfaces Pocket Express and RomI/O
- Guitars/Marshall amp/ Zoom effects
- IMG Stageline 400W power amp
- Tannoy Reveal passive monitors
- External CD Recorder
- Behringer Virtualiser Pro (both series and parallel effects and MIDI)

My suggested scheme:
I was thinking to put Mia and EMU in PC1 and the WAMI Rack and Montego II in PC2. The Korg goes to PC2 as well.

I was planning for Adobe Audition, n-Track Studio and Reason to go to PC1 and Sonar 5 alone to go to PC2. While n-track does its sequencing functions using two soundcards EMU and Mia on PC1(Reason could share Mia's virtual outputs with another soft synth) Sonar could do the same with WAMI Rack, Korg and Montego II (limited).
Finally the submixes in the two PCs could be mixed down to go into PC1's EMU for mastering. On the way it could go through the effects processor for mastering + host of software effects.

The mastering could be done using the Adobe Audition on the EMU.
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I would love someone to please comment and advice me a far more better scheme of working than what I suggest, of course using no more than the above equipment. I shall be really glad.

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Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Mar 19, 2008 08:46 pm

Well it is s decent list. But there is one small problem I can see.

You cannot run two different sound cards in the same PC at the same time without some flaws. The timing characteristics of each may vary and cause some problems.

It may not though so it is worth a try. But don't panic if it does not. Cards from the same maker usually play nice together but odd pairings some times do not.

Member
Since: Aug 09, 2007

Mar 20, 2008 12:49 am

Thanks for the info. I knew it but was hoping it wouldn't happen. In any case I understand from the Mia point of view that Mia co-exists peacefully with other makes of cards but Mia suggests that the two are synced by SPDIF. So is it possible to sync the Mia and the EMU together using SPDIF cable?

And what about the scheme as such? Do you find flaws?

Member
Since: Aug 09, 2007

Mar 20, 2008 12:49 am

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