Advice and comments welcome

[camus]

Hello. I'm a soon-to-be home studio owner compiling a final "equipment checklist". Any advice/suggestions/comments regarding me intended gear will be much appreciated.

Console: Allen & Heath GS3000, 24channels
Recorder: Tascam TSR-8 (gettin it free! heheh)
Mics: RodeNT1, SM57/58
Preamp/Comp: JoeMeek V6Q British Channel
Reverb Unit: HiWatt Guitar Amp spring rev, an empty stairway, heheh
Monitors: Mackie HR824s
2 Trk: Currently trying to decide btwn reel to reel, DAT, CDR. Any ideas??
+patchbay and cables

Am I missing out anything??

[Track Rat]

Sounds like a killer set up. Only thing (well, the first thing anyway) would be a way to get those analog tracks into a computer for editing. That would also be a good place to mix to. Then burn CDs.

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Camus:[methinks that be a famous name out there in psychology, writing, or something.]

Following the Track of the Rat's advice is good. But, if you don't want to dive into computer recording, the Yam Minidisc MD-8 is a nice box; it's digital; it can record 8 tracks at once but I never have had to do that. I like to over-dub and add tracks. It's a very creative thing when your head says,"hey, man, some strings will sound cool right here in the bridge...."

Whichever way you go, check out the "learning curve" on certain boxes; I never went for a Roland Box because of the menus, menus, and menus. It's fairly easy with and MD-8, as well as other boxes; but, the manuals all get foggy here and there. Engineers CANNOT WRITE MANUALS -- YET THEY KEEP DOING IT.

Hey, welcome and start twiddling the dials.

Green Hornet

[John Sayers]

oh yeah - one thing missing - acoustics!!
http://www.lis.net.au/~johnsay/Acoustics

very important yet always overlooked!!
cheers

[This message has been edited by John Sayers (edited 07-30-2000).]

[Sabith]

Well... most manuals do suck but I thought the Mackie manual was done quite well =)

Sabith

I just like seeing someone else use that beautiful green machine(VC6Q) Awsome piece of equip.

[regebro]

The setup looks totally awesome. And I don't see the use of going digital in the position, at all. Going to computer recording and mixing will just cost you loads (unless you already have a powerfule PC with a good soundcard) and will make all of the equipment except the rode and the Joe Meek useless...

I'd go with either a DAT or a PC with a good sound card as a 2-track recorder.

And either a good reverb, or some huge movable sound screens to damp the staiway!

[camus]

Thanks for the comments, fellas! Re mixing onto hard-disk, never thought of that! I'm a bit worried about the whole A/D conversion thing though. Are the convertors on the sound-cards out there on the market any good? Should I be thinking of a seperate A/D/A convertor? Any suggestions for s-cards would be most welcome, as I am a complete and utter neophyte on the subject!

[regebro]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by camus:
Are the convertors on the sound-cards out there on the market any good?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
That differs from soundcard to soundcard. You can pay from $0 to $thousands for soundcards. Ask in "Computer Recording" forum for which soundcard to get.