Apogee Duet 2-for Voice Overs?

[Audiogeo]

Hi guys,

Im in the Voice Over business. Im trying to complete a home "portable" studio because I don't have that much space.

I usually work with a Mac Book Pro , and a Neumann TLM 103.

What else would you guys recommend ?

Im thinking on getting the Apogee Duet 2 (or the Apogee ONE) as an interface but not sure if they are the appropriate interfaces...

So is the : "Mac Book Pro-Neumann TLM 103-Apogee Duet" sufficient to get good quality audio, or do you guys recommend and additional gadget ?

Thank you so much!

 

[wheelema]

Hi guys,

Im in the Voice Over business. Im trying to complete a home "portable" studio because I don't have that much space.

I usually work with a Mac Book Pro , and a Neumann TLM 103.

What else would you guys recommend ?

Im thinking on getting the Apogee Duet 2 (or the Apogee ONE) as an interface but not sure if they are the appropriate interfaces...

So is the : "Mac Book Pro-Neumann TLM 103-Apogee Duet" sufficient to get good quality audio, or do you guys recommend and additional gadget ?

Thank you so much!

As the board is working again I'll post my response where it was intended.

Albeit for slightly different reasons I needed an extremely portable... and robust... setup and chose the Sound Devices USBPre 2 over the Appogee Duet 2 ($650 vs. $600).

Better pres, better converters (though at this level of quality it's pretty much moot), extremely portable, MUCH more robust, more I/O, not limited to Macintosh, no pigtail, no software switches/configuration (uses DIP switches), and can be used standalone (no computer required). It also has, hands-down, better meters then any of it's competitors which was important as I'm vision-impaired. Note that it does not provide MIDI.

I'm using the Sennheiser MK4.

If you need MIDI you might also look at the RME Babyface though that is a bit more expensive and still uses a pigtail, software configuration, and requires a computer to record.

 

[DaleVO]

So is the : "Mac Book Pro-Neumann TLM 103-Apogee Duet" sufficient to get good quality audio, or do you guys recommend and additional gadget ?

I know of others using this rig for their portable rig. Boils down to your recording environment. On-the-road hotel room, VO recording using pillow forts and such, to knock down the ambient noise. YMMV

Check out this rig:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zIbFRhIdxs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

And here is Joe Cipriano doing an A/B with his Senn 416/Avalon and this Apogee/iPhone rig:
http://soundcloud.com/ptvoicesforchildren/sen416-micapogee

Pretty awesome sound from a very accomplished voiceactor.
Dale