rotren
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I need some suggestions for a home recording system for a singer/songwriter. Both hardware and software.
Here's the scenario. I have been asked to give recommendations to a friend regarding what recording gear to buy. The person is someone who is not experienced with doing recording on his own, but is a good musician with many years of playing professionally. This person has $5,000 to spend on recording gear.
He is a songwriter, and plays acoustic guitar well, but he plays honk tonk piano and boogie woogie piano like a true genius. He can play other styles on piano too of course.
He will be recording vocals (mostly one at a time), acoustic and electric guitars. I am guessing he might need up to 4 inputs at once (2 vocals, 2 guitars).
For drums, I'm thinking Ez Drummer, Addictive Drums or similar. I will play bass for him, just plugging straight in via a preamp, or with a Line 6 Toneport.
Regarding hardware, a MacBook Pro with all the RAM it can fit, is the idea. He will need an audio interface with about 4 inputs, a good condenser mic for vocals, SM57 or similar for recording guitar, and mic preamps. Perhaps a dual mic preamp for when he wants to record both vocals and guitar a the same time?
Some decent studio monitors is of course also needed.
For DAW, I think Logic Studio should have all the bases covered? I will be helping him, and I know Logic Express fairly well already. He's talking about Pro Tools, but I don't have experience with it. Does it have some distinct advantages over Logic in the scenario described?
The recording room is being built this summer, so I don't know what it will look like.
What recommendations would have for me? Thanks a lot.
The $5,000 will not include building the recording room itself. That's being taken care of separately.
Here's the scenario. I have been asked to give recommendations to a friend regarding what recording gear to buy. The person is someone who is not experienced with doing recording on his own, but is a good musician with many years of playing professionally. This person has $5,000 to spend on recording gear.
He is a songwriter, and plays acoustic guitar well, but he plays honk tonk piano and boogie woogie piano like a true genius. He can play other styles on piano too of course.
He will be recording vocals (mostly one at a time), acoustic and electric guitars. I am guessing he might need up to 4 inputs at once (2 vocals, 2 guitars).
For drums, I'm thinking Ez Drummer, Addictive Drums or similar. I will play bass for him, just plugging straight in via a preamp, or with a Line 6 Toneport.
Regarding hardware, a MacBook Pro with all the RAM it can fit, is the idea. He will need an audio interface with about 4 inputs, a good condenser mic for vocals, SM57 or similar for recording guitar, and mic preamps. Perhaps a dual mic preamp for when he wants to record both vocals and guitar a the same time?
Some decent studio monitors is of course also needed.
For DAW, I think Logic Studio should have all the bases covered? I will be helping him, and I know Logic Express fairly well already. He's talking about Pro Tools, but I don't have experience with it. Does it have some distinct advantages over Logic in the scenario described?
The recording room is being built this summer, so I don't know what it will look like.
What recommendations would have for me? Thanks a lot.
The $5,000 will not include building the recording room itself. That's being taken care of separately.
