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ebladeboi123
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Hi all, new to the forum, but not that new to recording (although I'm fairly new I suppose...)
Brief history, I had been using a Motu 896HD firewire into my Macbook Pro 2008 with snow leopard (10.6.2?) but that did not belong to me, it was guitarists. While I am able to borrow if I need to, I'm going to inevitably be tracking things more than he'll want to loan it out to me since I'm preproing atleast 2 albums.
I have the following mic set up- akg d112, 2x akg cs 1000, 3x sm57, 1x radial JDI, 1x whirlwind DI, and 2x sm58 (not ideal but were talking pre pro). I have ways of getting audiotechnica clip on tom mics but I'm not that worried about that. The singer in one of my acts has his own mic he had designed for him through audio technica through a sponsorship but that is meant for live use- regardless it'll work for prepro. I feel like I'm pretty set in the mic department. But now I need a way to get it into my computer.
For software I have logic pro 9 as well as the newest version of garageband. So I also feel set in that department. I don't do my own mastering, and generally if I'm going to make a full album which we did once I prefer to not mix it myself especially if I'm in the group.
My current group I'm most worried about is bass, drum, guitar, keys/trumpet (never both in the same), sax, and vocals. The sax has his own mic that he will use not sure what it is. But with that I feel like I need at minimum 8 tracks (bass, snare, overhead, bass guitar, guitar, vocals, key/trumpet, sax). However, I am graduating college, and at this point unemployed pretty much (kinda long story there). So I have to do this on a budget. I do not see myself being able to drop more than 200 into a system. The options I've laid out are as follows (all would be purchased used)
Alesis io26
Presonus fp10
Tascam US-1641
And my personal favorite which I'm not sure how works...
Motu MK I and Behringer ADA8000.
I feel like I could cop that combination for relatively cheap from ebay since both go for around 50-75 + shipping pretty normally? And it would give me the most options I think? I just don't know how this works. I saw the back of the MK I and it was mainly 1/4 inch ins. How does this work when you're trying to record a mic? Are you supposed to use a preamp before it? In that case, couldn't I run the ADA8000 as the preamp for each channel? I also saw that there is the ADAT connection, where I could connect the behringer via an ADAT connection to the motu, which if I can figure out how the motu worked would give me 16 ins/outs?
Other than that, do people have recommendations for cheap full band recording? Like I said I'm trying to keep this second hand and under 200. I'm not sure if it's even possible, but it's worth a try.
If this has been searched a billion times sorry, I wasn't sure what to search for,
Danny
Brief history, I had been using a Motu 896HD firewire into my Macbook Pro 2008 with snow leopard (10.6.2?) but that did not belong to me, it was guitarists. While I am able to borrow if I need to, I'm going to inevitably be tracking things more than he'll want to loan it out to me since I'm preproing atleast 2 albums.
I have the following mic set up- akg d112, 2x akg cs 1000, 3x sm57, 1x radial JDI, 1x whirlwind DI, and 2x sm58 (not ideal but were talking pre pro). I have ways of getting audiotechnica clip on tom mics but I'm not that worried about that. The singer in one of my acts has his own mic he had designed for him through audio technica through a sponsorship but that is meant for live use- regardless it'll work for prepro. I feel like I'm pretty set in the mic department. But now I need a way to get it into my computer.
For software I have logic pro 9 as well as the newest version of garageband. So I also feel set in that department. I don't do my own mastering, and generally if I'm going to make a full album which we did once I prefer to not mix it myself especially if I'm in the group.
My current group I'm most worried about is bass, drum, guitar, keys/trumpet (never both in the same), sax, and vocals. The sax has his own mic that he will use not sure what it is. But with that I feel like I need at minimum 8 tracks (bass, snare, overhead, bass guitar, guitar, vocals, key/trumpet, sax). However, I am graduating college, and at this point unemployed pretty much (kinda long story there). So I have to do this on a budget. I do not see myself being able to drop more than 200 into a system. The options I've laid out are as follows (all would be purchased used)
Alesis io26
Presonus fp10
Tascam US-1641
And my personal favorite which I'm not sure how works...
Motu MK I and Behringer ADA8000.
I feel like I could cop that combination for relatively cheap from ebay since both go for around 50-75 + shipping pretty normally? And it would give me the most options I think? I just don't know how this works. I saw the back of the MK I and it was mainly 1/4 inch ins. How does this work when you're trying to record a mic? Are you supposed to use a preamp before it? In that case, couldn't I run the ADA8000 as the preamp for each channel? I also saw that there is the ADAT connection, where I could connect the behringer via an ADAT connection to the motu, which if I can figure out how the motu worked would give me 16 ins/outs?
Other than that, do people have recommendations for cheap full band recording? Like I said I'm trying to keep this second hand and under 200. I'm not sure if it's even possible, but it's worth a try.
If this has been searched a billion times sorry, I wasn't sure what to search for,
Danny
