Professional studios: what computer-based recording do they use?

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I was wondering what would be the standard computer recording setup that most professional recording studios would use. I am inclined to say Pro Tools, but you guys may know better. I apologize in advance for my ignorance ;).
 
You assumed correct...and the mastering houses tend to go that way too.
 
I reckon 85%-90% of the time it's Pro Tools (could be wrong).
Logic would take up another 5-10% and the others would be Cubase/Nuendo/Sonar etc.

But yeah, Pro Tools is pretty much the big cheese with Logic slowly tailing them.
 
philbagg said:
I reckon 85%-90% of the time it's Pro Tools, Pro Tools is pretty much the big cheese with Logic slowly tailing them.
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This is what the poo tools markiting department would have you believe, I have nothing against Pro tools, except everyone that rings that studio asks if I have it even though they don't know what it is, but if you go down the pro tools road you will have to stay on the pro tools road.

There are many pro studios around the world that don't use pro tools.

Ever heard of Radar, Tascam x-48, Samplitude & Sequoia, etc

Sequoia being one of the best mastering packages out there.

Cheers

Alan
 
Yes, I've heard of RADAR (Otari and now IZ) and Samplitude (Mac days come back to me). Pro Tools seems a standard pick in a turn-key solution.
 
Sampitude is not Mac based.

There's Pro Tools and then there's Pro Tools.

Thing is...90% of the home PT users are running an LE version, which is just the watered down software-only version.
The full-blown PT w/hardware is a [/b]LOT of $$$ (more than it's worth IMO)...and certainly nothing to compare to the PT LE.

There's way better stuff than PT LE...some has already been mentioned.

Also...I don't think PT is used the ap most used by pros for mastering.
 
For some reason Samplitude sounded familiar; maybe I was confusing it with SampleVision, but that was about 15-20 years ago. I know about PTLE, and I wouldn't spend my money on that; I might as well get the TASCAM X48 with an advance DAW controller for mixer feeling. There's also a RADAR starter for $4,500 if I am not mistaken on their website.

miroslav said:
Sampitude is not Mac based.

There's Pro Tools and then there's Pro Tools.

Thing is...90% of the home PT users are running an LE version, which is just the watered down software-only version.
The full-blown PT w/hardware is a [/b]LOT of $$$ (more than it's worth IMO)...and certainly nothing to compare to the PT LE.

There's way better stuff than PT LE...some has already been mentioned.

Also...I don't think PT is used the ap most used by pros for mastering.
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Reaper is a pretty incredible software. It's basically a less expensive version of Pro Tools
 
JacobShah said:
Reaper is a pretty incredible software. It's basically a less expensive version of Pro Tools
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Yes, clever indeed to a point, and I am testing it right now to see if I can get away with simultaneous 32-ch recording via RBUS using dual XEON CPUs.

I just remembered that isolating CPUs for specific chores was common during the RISC cpu days. I would like to see the same function using UBUNTU Studio, Ardour, and a Quad-core setup. I believe in Windows you need to compile the app to be SMP aware but in the UNIX/LINUX world is easier to assign CPUs to a specific app as long as the kernel was aware.
 
miroslav said:
There's Pro Tools and then there's Pro Tools.

Thing is...90% of the home PT users are running an LE version, which is just the watered down software-only version.
The full-blown PT w/hardware is a [/b]LOT of $$$ (more than it's worth IMO)...and certainly nothing to compare to the PT LE.

There's way better stuff than PT LE...some has already been mentioned.

Also...I don't think PT is used the ap most used by pros for mastering.
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I meant to say something about this, I am always getting told by clients that they have a friend with protools and that they want to bring it to the studio so we can track the project on protools (so they can take it away to work on it). So what turns up? a little protools M-box with 2 inputs and protools LE. Then I ask how were are going to track 8 to 10 tracks of drums with bass and guide guitar/vocal at the same time? I then track with my gear and give them the files.

I do have some clients with full protools HD rigs, these are impressive but I don't want to switch to the protools road as I have money invested in PC software and plugins and I use a Tascam MX2424 with a 24 channel analog card to track, what I have can do the same things as protools.

What you need to decide is wether you want just software, Protools, Samplitude, Cubase, etc, or a stand alone recording system like Radar, Tascam x-48 etc that has everything on board.

I also have a friend running a great software based Pro studio and he loves using Ableton as his software.

Cheers

Alan.
 
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