help out s buddy...

[bmorris]

I am currently trying to help out a friend who is getting started with homerecording. With a budget of about 2-3 thousand dollars, what types of mixers, keyboard and mic combinations would you all recommend?

Thanks for all the assistance...

 

[mikedaul]

For someone just starting out in order to strech your budget to the max, I'd skimp on everything but monitors.

1st question - what is your buddy planning to use as a recording medium (computer, hard disk recorder, adat, etc)?

2nd question - what is he planning to record (will he ever need to record more than 2 tracks at once?) and what style of music does he plan to record (will he be doing lots of vocals or live drums?)

Help me out with some details and I'd be happy to throw some specific ideas out to ya.

 

[Dr_simon]

This is my 2c, Ive owned all of this stuff (or very similar) and it is big bang for buck !

Korg D1600 V40 MKI of eBay (~$6-1K)
Monitors (i.e. Alesis M1 Active Mk2 - 400 new)
Behringer Ultravoice pro (new one with S/PDIF out) (~$100 eBay)
POD v2 (250 eBay)
Shure SM57 ($100 new) x as many as you need
Shure SM58 ($100 new) x as many as you need
Shure KSM27 ($300 new) vox
Power conditioner ($30 new) and
some nice cables (much as you like)
Some blank CD-r and CDRWs ($40 new)
Some Auralex MoPads ($30 NEW)
Next stop stardom !