New Here Building Studio

[HaRRo]

New here from Belfast, About to start building a studio. Half a lot of stuff already which includes.

1 x Musicman Stingray 2008 Limited Edition Sequoia Gold Bass.
1 x One of those Cheaper Bass guitars (Cant remember the make its not here to check but was around £79)
2 x Semi accoustic bass.
1 x USB Electric Guitar
1 x Xfactor style Electric Guitar
1 x Epiphone Electric
1 x Semi accoustic guitar
1 x xiosynth 25
1 x Akai mpc1000
1 x Fasttrack USB from M-Audio
1 x CM-510 Condenser Microphone (Works by USB)
1 x Set of Red5 Audio Drum Mics. 7pc Drum Microphones w/ hardware from (red5music.com)

And ofcourse 1 Brand new iMac and a Macbook and ofcourse a ton of AMPS.

Now all i need atleast i think is something to patch them all in. The Drum microphones have not arrived yet im assuming they take 7 wires one each so i guess now i need some sort of machine to record everything to the mac.

Any ideas and things i could be missing would be amazing help. As im probably nowhere near you guys.

HELP APPRECIATED

[chamelious]

Yep you need 7 channels of preamp, and an audio interface(like your fasttrack) to get them into your pc.

Theres a few ways to do this, you can get multichannel interfaces, allowing you to plug all 7 mics into differant "ins" and have each mic recorded on a seperate channel.

Or you can use a mixer with 8+ channels, plug your mics into that, then the mixer's stereo out into your audio interface. Problem is then you're only getting a stereo mixdown of your drums.

Other things to think about are what software are you going to use, are you familer with any of them? Whats the room like you're recording in, is it treated at all? And what are you monitoring on? If its headphones or pc speakers, you could definatly benefit from actual studio monitors. Some people will say this is essential, i dont think it is, not at your stage but it will become essential very quickly.

[HaRRo]

I purchased a 12 channel mixer today, and i was planning on doing everything on different layers anyway so drums can be first then a new layer of guitars , then singing all seperate.

Im using , garageband, protools, i have 2 speakers too and 2 headphones.

[chamelious]

Is that 12 channels of preamp as well? You say you're using garageband,protools. Which is it, they're very different software in very different price ranges...

Also you said you've got 2 speakers? This is very vauge...