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mikethekiwi
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Have just recently been pointed in this direction by a mate to your forum - wow, I never knew that this existed – its dam amazing!!! A wealth of information - have enjoyed reading through the various threads. I would like to pick your brains if I may for a tick to try and clarify a few things for me. I am relatively new to recording on a PC so please excuse my lack of knowledge.
I am a musician, into all sorts of music and have recently started up a hip hop recording project. I am currently playing around on a basic set up - a nasty pc with reason and a cheap version of logic, house speakers etc but am now wanting to upgrade to some decent gear that would enable us to record to a semi profssional quality with the view of then getting someone to do the mastering it for us. Our budget is about $8000 to $10,000 NZ (including computer) which is about $5000 to $6000 in US dollars.
While the genre of choice is hip hop based, we will be placing a large emphasis on the recording of guitars and bass guitar, vox, and other instruments so audio recording quality is just as important as midi – and will be doing other genre of music also. We would like to continue to use Reason as we have been, and we could look at getting other instruments added later on.
I have basically been given 2 options by our local retailers – Pro Tools with the M Box soundcard, and Cubase SL. Based on what I have been told, this particular version of Protools is not that good compared to Cubase, is apparently a bit of a toy - we have been told good things about Cubase so Cubase seems to be way to go.
With the audio recording in mind, soundcards/pre-amps - where to go??? Is it best to get a soundcard/preamp combo similar to the M Box, or seperate standalone soundcard and preamp?? Iv’e been told that 24 bit souncards are the way to go? We will only be recording 2 audio tracks at once maximum, so two audio inputs would be plenty. Any advise on this is appreciated.
Monitors – we have been given 2 options both around the $1000US mark. Yamaha MSP5’s (I think) and some new Fostex monitors. Someone mentioned it might also be worth getting a small sub also, as bass is an integral part of hiphop. Is this worth getting? Or would basic monitors be sufficient?
And we will also be purchasing a new computer – what are the minimum specs required?? We would like to think that we could have up to 50 tracks per song if we wanted to. And, we will be using Reason alongside Cubase. The computer and the soundcard/preamp are the two things that we want to make sure we get the best out of – we want to be sure that we have plenty in reserve.
Thank you if you have read this far – any advise whatsoever is very much appreciated – It really is hard to get good advise down hear in NZ as I don’t really know a lot of people who are using this gear. I can’t wait to get this all set up – should be a whole heap of fun.
Thankyou and have a good new year all.
Mike.
I am a musician, into all sorts of music and have recently started up a hip hop recording project. I am currently playing around on a basic set up - a nasty pc with reason and a cheap version of logic, house speakers etc but am now wanting to upgrade to some decent gear that would enable us to record to a semi profssional quality with the view of then getting someone to do the mastering it for us. Our budget is about $8000 to $10,000 NZ (including computer) which is about $5000 to $6000 in US dollars.
While the genre of choice is hip hop based, we will be placing a large emphasis on the recording of guitars and bass guitar, vox, and other instruments so audio recording quality is just as important as midi – and will be doing other genre of music also. We would like to continue to use Reason as we have been, and we could look at getting other instruments added later on.
I have basically been given 2 options by our local retailers – Pro Tools with the M Box soundcard, and Cubase SL. Based on what I have been told, this particular version of Protools is not that good compared to Cubase, is apparently a bit of a toy - we have been told good things about Cubase so Cubase seems to be way to go.
With the audio recording in mind, soundcards/pre-amps - where to go??? Is it best to get a soundcard/preamp combo similar to the M Box, or seperate standalone soundcard and preamp?? Iv’e been told that 24 bit souncards are the way to go? We will only be recording 2 audio tracks at once maximum, so two audio inputs would be plenty. Any advise on this is appreciated.
Monitors – we have been given 2 options both around the $1000US mark. Yamaha MSP5’s (I think) and some new Fostex monitors. Someone mentioned it might also be worth getting a small sub also, as bass is an integral part of hiphop. Is this worth getting? Or would basic monitors be sufficient?
And we will also be purchasing a new computer – what are the minimum specs required?? We would like to think that we could have up to 50 tracks per song if we wanted to. And, we will be using Reason alongside Cubase. The computer and the soundcard/preamp are the two things that we want to make sure we get the best out of – we want to be sure that we have plenty in reserve.
Thank you if you have read this far – any advise whatsoever is very much appreciated – It really is hard to get good advise down hear in NZ as I don’t really know a lot of people who are using this gear. I can’t wait to get this all set up – should be a whole heap of fun.
Thankyou and have a good new year all.
Mike.
