What About This Setup

[thcng]

If you're at the point where you can actually tell a difference in your recording/monitoring chain between a $10 and a $50 cable then you're probably sitting on a couple hundred grands worth of profession studio gear and so the extra $40 on cables really wouldn't be an issue

I clearly said I had a budget if you had to had read the other posts instead of just posting that and trying to be funny and failing horribly

 

[thcng]

Did you email them?

nah I'm just going to wait till I order my microphone and stuff from Musicians Friend and get a cord from there

 

[Bristol Posse]

I clearly said I had a budget if you had to had read the other posts instead of just posting that and trying to be funny and failing horribly

Just making the point that cables are really the last thing to worry about especially on a budget

Numerous studies have been done with blind tests of folks on the street and audio guys alike testing recordings made with "High end cables" setups vs stuff using cheap crappy cables and in every case no one was able to pick which was which.

in future I'll try not to be funny so as not to offend you

 

[thcng]

Just making the point that cables are really the last thing to worry about especially on a budget

Numerous studies have been done with blind tests of folks on the street and audio guys alike testing recordings made with "High end cables" setups vs stuff using cheap crappy cables and in every case no one was able to pick which was which.

in future I'll try not to be funny so as not to offend you

I wasn't offended I was just saying. I didn't know if the cables are really important or not, but I seen a couple videos of this guys studio and he said cables are important and Everybody said it so I thought it must be true. But can you give me your answer to the questions I have asked?

 

[Bristol Posse]

I wasn't offended I was just saying. I didn't know if the cables are really important or not, but I seen a couple videos of this guys studio and he said cables are important and Everybody said it so I thought it must be true. But can you give me your answer to the questions I have asked?

Personally I have a Profire 610 and it's the second Interface I've used from M-audio. It's a decent piece of kit for the price range and I have no complaints about it.

I'm not a Fan of a condensor mic for vocals in general in the home recording scenario. they are very often hyped on the high end and pick up way too much background and room. I like the Shure SM 7b. Nicely flat response and a dynamic cartoid setup that can take a lot of the "Bad" room out of the mix

You don't physically need a mixer you can do this with the computer but you will need some kind of mixing software,
reaper is fairly well liked and CHEAP!! ($50) I'm a Sony ACID PRO Man myself. Started out with Studio and always liked the workflow it just makes sense to me. Most of the software manufacturers will allow you to download and use a trial version of their programs for 30 days so you can get an idea of which one is best suited to you (Sony ACID, Reaper, Cubase, Sonar, Pro Tools etc)

In terms of Monitors again there are a lot of them and if you ask 10 different people which is the best you'll get 10 different answers. Ideally if you can get a good music store that will let you try them for a couple of days and return for a refund if they are not to your taste then you can audition a few

M-audio, KRK, Behringer, Yamaha, Alesis, Edirol, Makie, tascam all make entry level monitors, none of them are perfect but will likely be a little more acurate than computer speakers my own choice at an entry level would probably be KRK RP5s but that's just one mans opinion.

Headphones. Should be closed back other than that really whatever you like.

No one is making audio gear specifically for a genre of music.
you want mics that accurately carry the vocal to the interface, You want an innterface that gives a transparent conversion of the audio to a digital signal, Software that you can effectively manipulate the captured sound with and then monitors that enable you to accurately hear and mix your tracks whatever kind of stuff you make.

 

[thcng]

Personally I have a Profire 610 and it's the second Interface I've used from M-audio. It's a decent piece of kit for the price range and I have no complaints about it.

I'm not a Fan of a condensor mic for vocals in general in the home recording scenario. they are very often hyped on the high end and pick up way too much background and room. I like the Shure SM 7b. Nicely flat response and a dynamic cartoid setup that can take a lot of the "Bad" room out of the mix

You don't physically need a mixer you can do this with the computer but you will need some kind of mixing software,
reaper is fairly well liked and CHEAP!! ($50) I'm a Sony ACID PRO Man myself. Started out with Studio and always liked the workflow it just makes sense to me. Most of the software manufacturers will allow you to download and use a trial version of their programs for 30 days so you can get an idea of which one is best suited to you (Sony ACID, Reaper, Cubase, Sonar, Pro Tools etc)

In terms of Monitors again there are a lot of them and if you ask 10 different people which is the best you'll get 10 different answers. Ideally if you can get a good music store that will let you try them for a couple of days and return for a refund if they are not to your taste then you can audition a few

M-audio, KRK, Behringer, Yamaha, Alesis, Edirol, Makie, tascam all make entry level monitors, none of them are perfect but will likely be a little more acurate than computer speakers my own choice at an entry level would probably be KRK RP5s but that's just one mans opinion.

Headphones. Should be closed back other than that really whatever you like.

No one is making audio gear specifically for a genre of music.
you want mics that accurately carry the vocal to the interface, You want an innterface that gives a transparent conversion of the audio to a digital signal, Software that you can effectively manipulate the captured sound with and then monitors that enable you to accurately hear and mix your tracks whatever kind of stuff you make.

Thanks for the help. I was going to get a Profire 610, because I wanted to use Pro Tools, but people on here told me it was no good and I read some bad reviews. I really want to use Pro Tools, is the Profire 610 as good or better than the Firebox?

 

[Bristol Posse]

If you want reviews take a look at Profire 2626, The problem with finding reviews for the 610 is it is a very new piece of gear and it really hasn't been reviewed much yet. The 610 uses the same convrters and preamps as the 2626, just less of them so in terms of audio quality it is the same. Most of the 2626 reviews I found were favorable.

You're not going to find many people here who can give you a side by side comparison of the 2 interfaces you mention as people in the home recording setup aren't going to get a whole variety of interfaces. They're going to find one they like and stick with it. People who like Presonus are going to tell you the firebox is great people using m_audio are going to tell you they like it.

 

[thcng]

ok I see. Yeah I understand what you mean about the comparing both of them. But the Profire is $100 more, so I was just wondering

 

[Bristol Posse]

ok I see. Yeah I understand what you mean about the comparing both of them. But the Profire is $100 more, so I was just wondering

just as an FYI the sister site to this one (Audio fanzine reviewed the profire 2626 (like I said Same preamps and converters just more of them) and rated it a best product of 2008

http://external-audio-interface.m-audio.en.audiofanzine.com/products/reviews/index,page,5,idproduit,124019,mao,profire_2626.html