Equipment Check

[Mick_Watto]

so ive been doing some research over the past few weeks and have devised a plan and spoken to a few people i know and have a good connection with in the recording industry and i was thinking of starting my own... hence why first post would happen to appear in the newbies section...

mind you i have been recording for a few years just never thought of doing it myself in my own house for my own profit and benefit really...

no degrees under my belt rather a partial completion of a sound engineering diploma so ive done my thoery and alittle practical time and have little experience... i have done it in the big wide world and it worked...

either way i was setting up something similar to my uncle in my home... just with a well endowd PC (a must have in my mind) running adobe audition Ver3. and running usb to a mixing desk.

so really recording the dry sound of the instruments and using the processing power of the PC to add enhancements and the likes (does anyone here know of this method and us it???) my uncles setup works very well in my opinion, well enough for it to be a nice sounding mix and all that...

so any help would be a great help... thinking that i would by a 16 channel desk with USB interface on it... any ideas of a good one... will to pay around 0-2000 bucks.... and mic ideas... ive been a big fan of the NT1000 for a while... but then yea i would get drum packs and that when i decide to do bigger bands....


so yea.... any help would be great... thanks

 

[dementedchord]

(does anyone here know of this method and us it???)

thinking that i would by a 16 channel desk with USB interface on it...

no... nobody here uses computers for recording....

be careful with the usb mixers.... most dont record individual tracks but rather just a 2trk mix...

 

[Nightfire]

1) Do you want to use the mixer to mix? In that case, you want a control surface, not a mixing board. It will control your virtual mixer in the computer with actual faders that send a signal via USB or Firewire.
2) How do you want to get the tracks into the computer? I suggest an audio interface that has Firewire rather than USB.

The Tascam FW1884 combines the above two mentioned points.

So does the M-Audio Project Mix I/O.

They are both about $1200.

OR you can wait until the Allen and Heath firewire mixer comes out, it has 16channels of analog input, synchs to your computer via firewire, all faders can also work as controlling your virtual mixer in the software, it looks cools as heck and can also be used as a standalone mixer.
http://emusician.com/controlsurfaces/allenheath_zedr16_0612/