Hey All,
This is going to be rather long - so brace yourself. I have a lot of questions...
So, a little background in of my situation. I just finished making my first record with an engineer/producer. Great experience, but I am at the point where I want to produce and engineer my own work exclusively. I am very well versed in my DAW, mixing, compressing, EQ, etc. My issues are more hardware based...I have come to the conclusion that I have to slowly but surely upgrade my home studio equpiment. The issue is - I have no idea what's right for me...
Here's my current set up: My DAW is Logic Pro. I have 4 mics.
-Blue Mic (Blueberry)
-AKG Perception 220
-AKG C1000S
-Shure SM81
I have an old Axiom 61 for a keyboard.
My mic preamp is an M-Audio Profire 2626.
I forget the brand, but I have adequate monitors too. I'd like to upgrade those at some point, but they're passable for now.
So my biggest question is regarding mic preamps. My profire 2626 is fine for basic home recordings - but I need something that is SUPER clean sounding. I guess I'm not sure if I should continue using digital hardware, or if I should go to something analog. However, I have no experience at all with analog equpiment or mixing boards. I guess my question is - how much of a sound quality difference would I notice if I changed over? Do I even have to use a mic preamp if I get a mixing board and just run all my equpiment through that? See - lots of questions...
Here's a better way to put all my questions into one question: I have $10,000 to upgrade my equpiment - how should I prioritize my purchases? What's most important that I don't have now and why is it so important?
Thanks, guys!
This is going to be rather long - so brace yourself. I have a lot of questions...
So, a little background in of my situation. I just finished making my first record with an engineer/producer. Great experience, but I am at the point where I want to produce and engineer my own work exclusively. I am very well versed in my DAW, mixing, compressing, EQ, etc. My issues are more hardware based...I have come to the conclusion that I have to slowly but surely upgrade my home studio equpiment. The issue is - I have no idea what's right for me...
Here's my current set up: My DAW is Logic Pro. I have 4 mics.
-Blue Mic (Blueberry)
-AKG Perception 220
-AKG C1000S
-Shure SM81
I have an old Axiom 61 for a keyboard.
My mic preamp is an M-Audio Profire 2626.
I forget the brand, but I have adequate monitors too. I'd like to upgrade those at some point, but they're passable for now.
So my biggest question is regarding mic preamps. My profire 2626 is fine for basic home recordings - but I need something that is SUPER clean sounding. I guess I'm not sure if I should continue using digital hardware, or if I should go to something analog. However, I have no experience at all with analog equpiment or mixing boards. I guess my question is - how much of a sound quality difference would I notice if I changed over? Do I even have to use a mic preamp if I get a mixing board and just run all my equpiment through that? See - lots of questions...
Here's a better way to put all my questions into one question: I have $10,000 to upgrade my equpiment - how should I prioritize my purchases? What's most important that I don't have now and why is it so important?
Thanks, guys!