Need advice about new home studio..

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Home Studio Project

Hi, I'm a young singer and I am new to the forum. I wish to buy some stuffs so as to get my own home studio. I have a budget of about $10,000US. I know what to buy, I mean mics, interface, monitors, etc.... but, I don't know which Makes and Models of these products to buy.

I've been in live sound for a while and I know how a JBL or Peavey stage monitor sounds like, for example. However, concerning studio recording, I don't know how the different Make sound like. I know, one would say that I should experience different stuffs so as to choose the best. The thing is that I live on a small Island called Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean and there is only one operational recording studio. Where to get experience?

So, I thought that a generally quite good gear would be OK for me. So, what is the "generally quite good gear"? Can someone help me please.
 
Larsen said:
Hi, I'm a young singer and I am new to the forum. I wish to buy some stuffs so as to get my own home studio. I have a budget of about $10,000US. I know what to buy, I mean mics, interface, monitors, etc.... but, I don't know which Makes and Models of these products to buy.

I've been in live sound for a while and I know how a JBL or Peavey stage monitor sounds like, for example. However, concerning studio recording, I don't know how the different Make sound like. I know, one would say that I should experience different stuffs so as to choose the best. The thing is that I live on a small Island called Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean and there is only one operational recording studio. Where to get experience?

So, I thought that a generally quite good gear would be OK for me. So, what is the "generally quite good gear"? Can someone help me please.
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Behringer are cheap....but can be nasty, best to stay away from Behringer if you want decent quality!
 
Larsen said:
Hi, I'm a young singer and I am new to the forum. I wish to buy some stuffs so as to get my own home studio. I have a budget of about $10,000US. I know what to buy, I mean mics, interface, monitors, etc.... but, I don't know which Makes and Models of these products to buy.

I've been in live sound for a while and I know how a JBL or Peavey stage monitor sounds like, for example. However, concerning studio recording, I don't know how the different Make sound like. I know, one would say that I should experience different stuffs so as to choose the best. The thing is that I live on a small Island called Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean and there is only one operational recording studio. Where to get experience?

So, I thought that a generally quite good gear would be OK for me. So, what is the "generally quite good gear"? Can someone help me please.
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Is the $10k budget for everything, including construction? What's the room(s) like? Do you need sound isolation? You'll need acoustic treatment, so that's probably the best "gear" you can get.

I'd suggest reading around and seeing what everyone likes. Typically writing a company off for a few crap bits of gear is a bad idea. Behringer are generally pretty crap, but they do have a couple of things which can be used, and used well.

The TRUTH monitors for one. Headphone amps are another. And another is their BCF2000 control surface. So don't write these off simply 'cause they're Behringer. Obviously some people have had problems with them. But i doubt there is a company which makes perfect, unfaulting, gear.

There's so many good brands, it's difficult to list them all without missing a bunch of others.

I'd suggest telling us what you need: isolation, how many channels, what you want analogue or digitial, if you want a control surface, work on the computer or through an analogue mixing desk, etc, etc, and draw a plan of your room(s), we'll critique it, and suggest how it can be improved.

If you give us all this info we can suggest what we think would be best, and the types of things you should be looking for.
 
*EDIT: this post is direct at Cohn, not the other singer dude from the Indian ocean :) *


Yanno, i'm gunna go out on a limb here, cause what i'm going to suggest is basically going against the grain of this forum:




If you only want to record your band and don't really have a real passion or an interest in the process, go rent a studio for a day. You'll achieve much better and more satisfying results and spend much less time doing it.

Thing is, it takes months (and years and decades!) of practice before you're stuff will sound remotely like anything releasable - or even something you'd want to sell after a gig.

My point is, if the buying the gear is simply a means to an end - don't bother! If you're not interested in it and are looking for something which is fairly quick and easy, you're looking in the wrong direction!

A few days in a "commercial studio" (used in the broadest possible sense) will get you a demo of sellable quality (if it doesn't, you went to the wrong place!). Buying the gear will get you hours upon hours of frustration and fairly poor results for quite a while. Now most people here accept that - in fact it is this that we take pleasure out of (somehow!) - but as I said if this is simply a means to an end you're looking in the wrong place.



But if you're determined to go this route, or genuinly have a passion for recording music, then great! I'll let the other guys recommend gear for ya :)
 
MessianicDreams said:
*EDIT: this post is direct at Cohn, not the other singer dude from the Indian ocean :) *


Yanno, i'm gunna go out on a limb here, cause what i'm going to suggest is basically going against the grain of this forum:




If you only want to record your band and don't really have a real passion or an interest in the process, go rent a studio for a day. You'll achieve much better and more satisfying results and spend much less time doing it.

Thing is, it takes months (and years and decades!) of practice before you're stuff will sound remotely like anything releasable - or even something you'd want to sell after a gig.

My point is, if the buying the gear is simply a means to an end - don't bother! If you're not interested in it and are looking for something which is fairly quick and easy, you're looking in the wrong direction!

A few days in a "commercial studio" (used in the broadest possible sense) will get you a demo of sellable quality (if it doesn't, you went to the wrong place!). Buying the gear will get you hours upon hours of frustration and fairly poor results for quite a while. Now most people here accept that - in fact it is this that we take pleasure out of (somehow!) - but as I said if this is simply a means to an end you're looking in the wrong place.



But if you're determined to go this route, or genuinly have a passion for recording music, then great! I'll let the other guys recommend gear for ya :)
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I agree... :D
 
MessianicDreams said:
*EDIT: this post is direct at Cohn, not the other singer dude from the Indian ocean :) *


Yanno, i'm gunna go out on a limb here, cause what i'm going to suggest is basically going against the grain of this forum:




If you only want to record your band and don't really have a real passion or an interest in the process, go rent a studio for a day. You'll achieve much better and more satisfying results and spend much less time doing it.

Thing is, it takes months (and years and decades!) of practice before you're stuff will sound remotely like anything releasable - or even something you'd want to sell after a gig.

My point is, if the buying the gear is simply a means to an end - don't bother! If you're not interested in it and are looking for something which is fairly quick and easy, you're looking in the wrong direction!

A few days in a "commercial studio" (used in the broadest possible sense) will get you a demo of sellable quality (if it doesn't, you went to the wrong place!). Buying the gear will get you hours upon hours of frustration and fairly poor results for quite a while. Now most people here accept that - in fact it is this that we take pleasure out of (somehow!) - but as I said if this is simply a means to an end you're looking in the wrong place.



But if you're determined to go this route, or genuinly have a passion for recording music, then great! I'll let the other guys recommend gear for ya :)
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Hi, there is obviously a misunderstanding. I love playing with these things and it is my dream to run a home studio.
Up till now I’ve recorded straight in to the mic input on the crapiest laptop sound card, recorded using Audacity and edited using Acoustica Mixcraft.
The thing is that I want to move on and start recording with quality and with professional tools and eventually be able to run a proper studio.
Computers and music are my greatest hobbies and it is recording which brings them together.
The passion and frustration I get from sitting in front of a computer trying out a new program causes great joy to me.

Hope I made my point and ambition clear…
 
cohn said:
Hi, there is obviously a misunderstanding. I love playing with these things and it is my dream to run a home studio.
Up till now I’ve recorded straight in to the mic input on the crapiest laptop sound card, recorded using Audacity and edited using Acoustica Mixcraft.
The thing is that I want to move on and start recording with quality and with professional tools and eventually be able to run a proper studio.
Computers and music are my greatest hobbies and it is recording which brings them together.
The passion and frustration I get from sitting in front of a computer trying out a new program causes great joy to me.

Hope I made my point and ambition clear…
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In which case, ignore my post.



Well don't ignore it, but know that it therefor doesn't apply to you :)
 
Final answer..

Now that point is clear, could I please get an honest answer.
As my budget is around the price (up to that price or 20$ more) of the ESP1010 is it what I should get or should I go for something like the QuataFire? And please. I don’t want to save up and get a better one. I would like something to start with now and I will get a better one later on…
 
I suggest:

Alesis MultiMix 8 FireWire($300)
TASCAM VL-X5 ($300)
 
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