Further DAW Questions.

[Ghazi]

I must admit first off that I'm a newb, and I need help creating a small home studio. I'm trying to setup a small home studio for making hip-hop instrumentals mainly through MIDI. I need them to be very professional and sound very clean. I'm buying a MIDI-controller (was possibly thinking about an Evolution, hearing they are better over the Radium), I have an MPC2000XL, a Technics 1200 turntable, and a P4 computer that I want to operate as the DAW. I want to bring all this equipment together to work together through a program such as Sonar. I'm not going to be recording vocals. The soundcard I got with my computer was an Audigy, so I'm looking to buy a low-latency professional soundcard that will be best for the DAW. I'll need advice in that area as well. Eventually I want to be able to hookup several sound modules (like a Mo Phatt for example) to my setup and be able to use them as well.

This is quite confusing for me. I see things like the MOTU 828 firewire audio interface, what exactly is it? Do I need anything like that for my setup? What type of mixer would be good for bringing all my equipment together? Would something like a Mackie 1402 VLZ Pro be good for what I need? Is there anything else that I will need for my setup? Will I need preamps, what exactly do they do? I realize my question is very in-depth, but I'm a newb. ;-p

 

[bgavin]

I'm a newb also.

I suggest reading. Lots, and lots of reading here. By immersing yourself in the threads, you will learn. The search feature on this board is excellent. Use the search feature and learn.

There are folks here that really know their stuff. Asking them questions equivalent to "why is the sky blue?" is irritating because they have seen this question 10,000 times already.

The expert level skills on this board are more than willing to answer good questions, but they won't spoon feed anybody.

 

[christiaan]

Excellent post, bgavin!