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AndyD2003
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Hi
I want to set up a home studio and i keep getting confused as to what i need...
I want to record good to excellent quality dance music AND "real" instruments (vocals/guitar/digi piano etc), sample and record to CD etc
What i think ive gathered so far....NB: i may have got some bits wrong here hence i need some help....
1) Macs are still better than PC as operating system
2) A G4 would prob will work ok but would need a better sound card (no idea of which one is recommended), or can wait till G5's early next year...
3) No idea of how easy it is to replace Soundcard (eg would this need to come presupplied with the eg Mac)
4) Cubase is more user friendly than Logic (though is more expensive) but both are as good as each other though Cubase chases Logic so maybe get Logic???
5) Cubase (and Logic) is fine for both dance music and recording of "real" instruments
6) You need pro-tools (there are 3 versions of this, depending on how professional you want..) to edit and "edit/produce" the sounds
7) I understand Pro-tools and Cubase should work fine with a G5
though saying that people (eg on this site) are saying are cheaper alternatives to Pro-tools
8) You can buy a keyboard with sounds on if you like (the more the merrier) or use a dumb midi keyboard (a cheap one around £100 or less is fine) and then you need an external sounds system of sorts - im really vague on this area...)
9) Do you need a midi interface? (not sure what that means...)
10) Or is the sound card may be fine in terms of giving you the sounds you need for elect guitars effects (plug these directly into system?), acoustic guitar effects etc, etc
11) Or do you need an external mixer? or can plug into computer somehow? bit vague on this too... (my main focus is me recording by myself....though if could record more than one instrument at a time this could be a bonus)
12) Sampling: you could use the computers hard drive/processor to sample (this adds an additional "drain" on the resource) or can an external sampler...not sure which is better idea....though either way you're probably only looking at sampling a few seconds of music each time???
13) You need proper studio monitors and neutral headphones that do not contain any EQ (so can judge the sound properly?)
Probably can get by with a sure mic that i use when sing live with the band (though get a "screen" for it)
My budget is about £3 - £4k ish or more even, but main focus is getting the right stuff, i want to give this a good bash and not suddenly realise i cant do certain stuff...turnkey (charing x road, london) have not been that helpful, also i have not seen a proper list of what u need to get from magainzes eg Sound on Sound., others too..so the main thing i am missing is knowing what items i need to get (and also the nitty gritty detail....what make and models etc, etc) so any help would be really , really appreciated
many thanks
Andy
I want to set up a home studio and i keep getting confused as to what i need...
I want to record good to excellent quality dance music AND "real" instruments (vocals/guitar/digi piano etc), sample and record to CD etc
What i think ive gathered so far....NB: i may have got some bits wrong here hence i need some help....
1) Macs are still better than PC as operating system
2) A G4 would prob will work ok but would need a better sound card (no idea of which one is recommended), or can wait till G5's early next year...
3) No idea of how easy it is to replace Soundcard (eg would this need to come presupplied with the eg Mac)
4) Cubase is more user friendly than Logic (though is more expensive) but both are as good as each other though Cubase chases Logic so maybe get Logic???
5) Cubase (and Logic) is fine for both dance music and recording of "real" instruments
6) You need pro-tools (there are 3 versions of this, depending on how professional you want..) to edit and "edit/produce" the sounds
7) I understand Pro-tools and Cubase should work fine with a G5
though saying that people (eg on this site) are saying are cheaper alternatives to Pro-tools
8) You can buy a keyboard with sounds on if you like (the more the merrier) or use a dumb midi keyboard (a cheap one around £100 or less is fine) and then you need an external sounds system of sorts - im really vague on this area...)
9) Do you need a midi interface? (not sure what that means...)
10) Or is the sound card may be fine in terms of giving you the sounds you need for elect guitars effects (plug these directly into system?), acoustic guitar effects etc, etc
11) Or do you need an external mixer? or can plug into computer somehow? bit vague on this too... (my main focus is me recording by myself....though if could record more than one instrument at a time this could be a bonus)
12) Sampling: you could use the computers hard drive/processor to sample (this adds an additional "drain" on the resource) or can an external sampler...not sure which is better idea....though either way you're probably only looking at sampling a few seconds of music each time???
13) You need proper studio monitors and neutral headphones that do not contain any EQ (so can judge the sound properly?)
Probably can get by with a sure mic that i use when sing live with the band (though get a "screen" for it)
My budget is about £3 - £4k ish or more even, but main focus is getting the right stuff, i want to give this a good bash and not suddenly realise i cant do certain stuff...turnkey (charing x road, london) have not been that helpful, also i have not seen a proper list of what u need to get from magainzes eg Sound on Sound., others too..so the main thing i am missing is knowing what items i need to get (and also the nitty gritty detail....what make and models etc, etc) so any help would be really , really appreciated
many thanks
Andy