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Greetings all...great forum here!
(first timer)
I’ve been an outside reader on this site for a while now and thought you all would be quite helpful with a problem I'm having...
I am in a band who has done a few home-recording sessions on a VS1680. We own a $10,000 PA system, but our recording equipment purchases have been limited--We don't own studio monitors, and only have a mediocre set of headphones.
A band member owns the 1680 and has been quite adamant about doing all of the recording/mixing/mastering on his own. He has a good ear, but isn't very experienced at recording/mixing/mastering.
We have tried for a while to convince him that we NEED studio monitors to record proper levels so that we get a more "true" response of what we are recording. Our ultimate goal is to achieve a high-quality radio-worthy product.
The rest of the band has agreed that shelling out money for outside mastering would be a good investment because we can do a good recording on our own to save some $ we can use to invest in mastering and reproduction costs.
He takes our opinion as a personal slap in the face against his abilities to do it all himself. How do you convince someone that musical talent cannot compensate for lack of equipment and resources in trying to achieve professional studio-quality recording??
He is downright ADAMANT that he can "record everything flat" using our Peavy PA speakers as "sufficient" studio monitors (both for recording levels AND mixing/mastering). I disagree STRONGLY based on the fundamentals of the PA system design.
So then...WHO IS RIGHT?!?!?!
I believe that without "real" studio-quality monitors, we are going to get a recorded mix that is untrue of the actual tones and levels that we think we are hearing during playback through our PA system, and whoever tries to master it will not be able to achieve the results we are looking for because the recorded instrument balance and initial mix-down will be inherently lop-sided.
I am hoping for some expert advice/feedback as I have used this forum as a resource for some great info quite frequently, and the knowledge base here has proven to be invaluable time after time
(really…I’m not trying to suck-up just to get you all to respond!)
Thanks for your time and feedback in advance...
(Utah Bites)
(first timer)
I’ve been an outside reader on this site for a while now and thought you all would be quite helpful with a problem I'm having...
I am in a band who has done a few home-recording sessions on a VS1680. We own a $10,000 PA system, but our recording equipment purchases have been limited--We don't own studio monitors, and only have a mediocre set of headphones.
A band member owns the 1680 and has been quite adamant about doing all of the recording/mixing/mastering on his own. He has a good ear, but isn't very experienced at recording/mixing/mastering.
We have tried for a while to convince him that we NEED studio monitors to record proper levels so that we get a more "true" response of what we are recording. Our ultimate goal is to achieve a high-quality radio-worthy product.
The rest of the band has agreed that shelling out money for outside mastering would be a good investment because we can do a good recording on our own to save some $ we can use to invest in mastering and reproduction costs.
He takes our opinion as a personal slap in the face against his abilities to do it all himself. How do you convince someone that musical talent cannot compensate for lack of equipment and resources in trying to achieve professional studio-quality recording??
He is downright ADAMANT that he can "record everything flat" using our Peavy PA speakers as "sufficient" studio monitors (both for recording levels AND mixing/mastering). I disagree STRONGLY based on the fundamentals of the PA system design.
So then...WHO IS RIGHT?!?!?!
I believe that without "real" studio-quality monitors, we are going to get a recorded mix that is untrue of the actual tones and levels that we think we are hearing during playback through our PA system, and whoever tries to master it will not be able to achieve the results we are looking for because the recorded instrument balance and initial mix-down will be inherently lop-sided.
I am hoping for some expert advice/feedback as I have used this forum as a resource for some great info quite frequently, and the knowledge base here has proven to be invaluable time after time
(really…I’m not trying to suck-up just to get you all to respond!)
Thanks for your time and feedback in advance...
(Utah Bites)