home recording studio for animation

[kypsahara]

I am new to this site, and I have a question pertaining to studio design. Myself and a friend of mine are beginning to do independant animation- commercially and other. Since we are just beginning, and have little funding, we are looking for information and pricing on all the equipment that we would need to build a studio. We are starting to do this piece meal, and are still learning, but we also want equipment that can provide high quality grade audio in the future for broadcast quality voice overs. You know something that doesnt become outdated when we buy it, even though that is the norm these days. As far as equipment - mics, mixers, computer,dat recorders,portable dats for field use,keyboard, audio cards, software, building supplies -sound proofing. I do plan on purchasing the cakewalk pro audio 9 to get started. Also, I have been checking out ebay and there seem to be some good deals on some equipment/software, I noticed a tascam portable dat msrp at $2060 sold for @$1100. Any information in this area would be great.

 

[Fishmed]

We would need to know more information pertaining to your studio needs:

1) how much money are you looking to spend?

2) What kind of recording other than voice overs are you going to do? Any music?

 

[Layth]

Hey, a fellow animator! I got into this about six years ago. Most of our jobs in the beginning were, "here is a six week project, can you do this in one?" We always said yes and then didn't sleep for a week.
Keep your audio pretty basic in the beginning. Almost all of our jobs had the audio provided and those that didn't we just rented time in a studio and tacked the cost to the final invoice. Save your real money for those fancy plugins. Have fun!