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phxbluesman
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Greetings,
Although I have spent my share of time in studios from spare bedrooms to commercial studios and as a musician have a decent grasp on the equipment and process this is the first time I have made a foray into home recording since the cassette 4 track days. Santa brought me a new computer for Christmas so I figured with all the gear I have acquired over the years plus buying an audio interface I could hopefully lay down some decent quality tracks.
Of course realizing that even the best equipment in the wrong hands can make for a poor sounding recording and knowing that my gear is far from the best, I was hoping for some thoughts on the equipment I have available.
Here is my gear
Compaq Presario w/ 3.2 ghz AMD Phenom II Quad core
4GB RAM
500GB System Drive
1TB internal storage drive
750MB external USB storage drive
1 M Audio 1010LT 10in 10out PCI Interface
1 Audio Authority AD converter for inputs 9 & 10/spdif on interface (up to 24bit 96 kHz)
Yamaha EMX 5000 20 channel mixer
10 hosa DOC 106 direct out cables (steals the preamped signal from mixers i/o)
1 Sennheiser e602
3 Sennheiser e604
1 Shure sm57
3 Shure sm58
1 Shure rs130
2 VocoPro mics 50hz 16khz (sound pretty good IMHO)
1 V-TECH vt1080 80-120 HZ
3 Star Audio mics (cheeeep)
50ft 16/4 channel snake
4 sets of reference speakers and switcher
Plenty of amps, headphones, cables, connectors, extensions and adaptors.
3 bedroom house with 1 room as my office /man cave/rehearsal space/studio
1 very cool girlfriend who supports the music and has volunteered her walk-in closet as vocal booth. It is STUFFED clothes and is in the center of the house so it is a quiet as any fancy vocal booth I have ever been in! Other rooms offer excellent isolation options for amps.
I know I really should get some condenser mics for overheads and vocals but this is what I have.
Questions:
Signal processors during recording or mixing.
Noise gates y or no?
Compressors? y or no
My drummer has 4 piece...micing seems obvious except for the OHs
Kick: e602
Snare: sm57/top e604/bottom
HH: sm58
RT: e604
FT: e604
OH1/Cymbals: sm58?
OH2/Cymbals: sm58?
Bass: use balanced XLR from bass player’s amp into mixer?
Guitar amps: sm57?
Vocals: sm58? (Until I get condenser)
I have heard the sm57 and sm58 share the same guts. Unscrew and remove the ball from a 58 and basically you have a 57?
Assuming
A: My PC can handle the bandwidth/processing and...
B: hard drive space isn't an issue for me
Is there any downside recording at 24bit 96 kHz
88.2 kHz...Does being able to simply divide in 2 really have a benefit when converting to the final 16/44.1 for CD?
Thanks for the help!
Although I have spent my share of time in studios from spare bedrooms to commercial studios and as a musician have a decent grasp on the equipment and process this is the first time I have made a foray into home recording since the cassette 4 track days. Santa brought me a new computer for Christmas so I figured with all the gear I have acquired over the years plus buying an audio interface I could hopefully lay down some decent quality tracks.
Of course realizing that even the best equipment in the wrong hands can make for a poor sounding recording and knowing that my gear is far from the best, I was hoping for some thoughts on the equipment I have available.
Here is my gear
Compaq Presario w/ 3.2 ghz AMD Phenom II Quad core
4GB RAM
500GB System Drive
1TB internal storage drive
750MB external USB storage drive
1 M Audio 1010LT 10in 10out PCI Interface
1 Audio Authority AD converter for inputs 9 & 10/spdif on interface (up to 24bit 96 kHz)
Yamaha EMX 5000 20 channel mixer
10 hosa DOC 106 direct out cables (steals the preamped signal from mixers i/o)
1 Sennheiser e602
3 Sennheiser e604
1 Shure sm57
3 Shure sm58
1 Shure rs130
2 VocoPro mics 50hz 16khz (sound pretty good IMHO)
1 V-TECH vt1080 80-120 HZ
3 Star Audio mics (cheeeep)
50ft 16/4 channel snake
4 sets of reference speakers and switcher
Plenty of amps, headphones, cables, connectors, extensions and adaptors.
3 bedroom house with 1 room as my office /man cave/rehearsal space/studio
1 very cool girlfriend who supports the music and has volunteered her walk-in closet as vocal booth. It is STUFFED clothes and is in the center of the house so it is a quiet as any fancy vocal booth I have ever been in! Other rooms offer excellent isolation options for amps.
I know I really should get some condenser mics for overheads and vocals but this is what I have.
Questions:
Signal processors during recording or mixing.
Noise gates y or no?
Compressors? y or no
My drummer has 4 piece...micing seems obvious except for the OHs
Kick: e602
Snare: sm57/top e604/bottom
HH: sm58
RT: e604
FT: e604
OH1/Cymbals: sm58?
OH2/Cymbals: sm58?
Bass: use balanced XLR from bass player’s amp into mixer?
Guitar amps: sm57?
Vocals: sm58? (Until I get condenser)
I have heard the sm57 and sm58 share the same guts. Unscrew and remove the ball from a 58 and basically you have a 57?
Assuming
A: My PC can handle the bandwidth/processing and...
B: hard drive space isn't an issue for me
Is there any downside recording at 24bit 96 kHz
88.2 kHz...Does being able to simply divide in 2 really have a benefit when converting to the final 16/44.1 for CD?
Thanks for the help!
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