$10,000 to spend on home recording studio-your opinion please

[masliko]

Hi,as the the title states,i have $10,000 to spend on a home recording studio.I do not need anything for the room(acoustic treatment etc).I already have pro tools 9 and a good computer.Can have your opinion guys .please.Its for Rock music production.I hope i have given enough info.

I want to TT use Sup Drummer too.


Also this is my first post.I just registered but i have read this forum alot!

 

[MrWrenchey]

I'm assuming when you say you don't need anything for the room, you mean it's already treated? Because if it's not treated and you're saying that... I'm a tad bit worried. xD

But shoot, this encompasses a lot of what you may need. Assuming your room is treated really well, then I'd suggest buying decent mics and preamps over plug-ins. But then it begs the question, are you planning on recording rock bands live, or one at a time? In other words, do you plan on recording drums by themselves, then bass, then guitars, then vocals? Or do you plan on doing all at once?

Of course, if your room ISN'T treated well, and you refuse to treat it, then you may be needing to invest in some decent plug-ins to compensate for whatever issues come up from your room being treated poorly. I may note that the plug-ins will cost more than room treatment, so I really suggest treating the room if it isn't.

You also said you wanted to use Superior Drummer. Personally, I'd suggest recording live drums, but I suppose that's up to you. In my suggested gear list, I'll include gear to use for drums, but I'll put asterisks next to them with a suggested replacement if you REALLY don't want to use live drums.

I'd also have to know if you have a firewire capable motherboard, or if you can only run USB. Personally, I'd suggest running firewire if you can. You can buy a firewire PCI/PCIe card on newegg for $50 or cheaper.

Mics/DI boxes:

SansAmp Programmable Bass driver - $210
Radial JDI - $200
Radial Pro D2- $150
Radial Reamp JCR - $200
*Audix D6 - $200
Neumann TLM 103 - $1100
Shure SM7b - $350
**Four (4) Sennheiser MD 421 II - $1520
***Electro Voice RE20 - $450
****Three (3) Shure SM57 - $300
*****AKG Perception 220 - $180
Two (2) Miktek C5 - $1200

Audio interfaces (Firewire):
Focusrite Saffire Pro 56 - $1000
Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 - $500

Monitors:
Two (2) Dynaudio BM 6A MKII - $1500

Total cost: $9060

* (Audix D6), used primarily for kick drum in my example.

** (Sennheiser MD 421 II) I'd still suggest getting two of these for guitar, so you'd knock off $760 from your total if you didn't want to do live drums

*** (EV RE20) In my example, it'd probably be used for a low tom. It can also be used for kick amongst other things.

**** (Shure SM57) I suggested three so you'd have two for guitars and one for snare top, but if you didn't want it, it'd save you $100. The SM57 is a pretty good mic for $100 though, so I'd suggest keeping one just in case.

***** (AKG Perception 220) This was suggested as a snare bottom mic. You could also use it for vocals or acoustic guitars or something, but the TLM 103 would be better for most vocals and the Mikteks would be better for acoustic guitars.

****** If you didn't buy any of the drums suggested for drums, it'd save you about $1700. You could use that on a more decent mic pre, like the 4-710d from Universal Audio or the Vintech 273.

Well, there's a lot for you, and I'm sure someone will come along and disagree with me, but there's my suggestion for you if you're looking to drop about $10,000 on studio equipment. Cheers.



EDIT: Forgot to tell you, a lot of these mics you could probably find on craigslist or ebay if you were looking to save a bit more to afford some nicer preamps.

 

[RecordingMaster]

If you have no idea where to start with any gear whatsoever and are using superior drummer, I can only assume the room isn't treated properly. Chances are, if your room is so perfectly treated, that nothing out of an entire $10k needs to contribute more towards treatment, then you'd likely have some knowledge by now of what else you want to add to your setup to make it better. Hell, if you have $10k, you can easily build a completely soundproofed location either inside or outside of your house for drums and say f#ck fake drum programs. In that same soundproofed room you could also use it as a "vocal booth". Not a booth, but more like a real professional vocal booth - one with some space, proper ventilation, and isolated away from other things like computer noise, street noise etc, you could also house some guitar cabinets in said room and run some speaker wire to your CR. In the CR you could invest in some different amp heads so you can be all setup for great guitar tracking resources and re-amping later as well. However I'd focus on some good preamps and a few good workhorse mics before buying a whole slew of amp variations.

 

[chronicle]

Hi,as the the title states,i have $10,000 to spend on a home recording studio

I do not need anything for the room(acoustic treatment etc)

ummmm, in that case.....why did you post this on a studio BUILDING forum ?



The only thing I could possibly add is JHBrandts signatureline...

"Twenty thousand dollars worth of Snap On tools a mechanic does not make."

 

[GIK Acoustics]

Hi,as the the title states,i have $10,000 to spend on a home recording studio.I do not need anything for the room(acoustic treatment etc).I already have pro tools 9 and a good computer.Can have your opinion guys .please.Its for Rock music production.I hope i have given enough info.

I want to TT use Sup Drummer too.

Also this is my first post.I just registered but i have read this forum alot!

So much stuff to address, need much more info!
How much recording will you be doing? How large is the room? Do you have a separate tracking and control room? How much will be DI vs live? Will multiple musicians be recording at once? Do you have any mics? Do you have monitors? What about an interface?

Again, there are way too many questions and even then every piece of gear you could buy could have its own thread dedicated to it.

 

[matkatmusic]

if you're handy with a soldering iron, you can build a lot of amazing DIY gear. Figure you'll spend around 2-3000 for the audio interface and speakers, and that'll leave you with 7K to either build a bunch of dope outboard and mics, or buy way less equipment. i vote for DIY. groupdiy.com is the place to start for that. i built two 51x racks and stuffed them with a bunch of DIY preamps, compressors and EQs. worth every penny, and they sound amazing.