new equipment advice??? :)

[metalboy458]

hey im fixing to get a ton of money to buy some studio equipment. im getting some mics and i already know which mics im going to get. but im not sure on the rest of the stuff. we are going to be running pro tools and logic pro 9. i need atleast 24 inputs. any ideas for consoles, interfaces, preamps, etc;.

thanks in advance guys/gals.

[Massive Master]

Motu's 24-I/O is a pretty safe bet for an interface if you need that many I/O's... Up to you if you want a console (maybe a summing mixer?). A rack full of RNP's is a wonderfully cost-effective way to get a whole bunch of great preamps without breaking the bank, throw in a few "more flavorful" units (API, Great River, some sort of 1073 clones, etc.).

Obviously, put the most you can into monitoring and PROPER room treatments (etc., etc., blah, blah).

What sort of budget are we talking about here anyway...? "A ton of money" seems to have some significantly different meanings that can trigger significantly different answers...

[metalboy458]

yeah some rack gear would be really awesome. i was thinking about maybe getting a board for the drums and getting some rack preamps for everything else. a focusrite isa whatever and maybe 2 1073 clones. but im definitely going to look into the stuff you said.

oh and theres some kind of deals that are going through with the person thats funding all this (im not sure what they are and i dont ask questions lol). but he told me that the budget is going to be somewhere between 5,000-15,000.

so im just getting an idea of what i can get for 5 grand and what i can for 15 grand lol.

[metalboy458]

oh and the acoustic treatment is already taken care of. and they already have some mackie monitors. they just dont completely know what theyre doing and asked me to kinda figure everything out. i had an idea of what to get just wanted to know everyones opinions on things.

[Justsomeguy]

Motu's 24-I/O is a pretty safe bet for an interface if you need that many I/O's...

That's we we've got in our main studio space at work and we've never had any problems with it whatsoever. just bare in mind that it's PCI so, and i may be wrong here as i've not looked at the newer iMacs, but you'd need a Mac Pro rather than just an iMac or Macbook to use it. If you don't have an PCI slot then the Motu 828 has 8 analogue in's and 16 digital in's so that coupled with some extra converters would do 24 in's and out's comfortably.