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luapleba
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This is going to be a bit long so I'm apologizing up front. Sorry.
I am looking for advice on my rack and routing setup. Since I went into this fairly blind, I believe that I have made some miscalculations/stupid ass mistakes and I want to fix those before I move forward to phase two of my studio (which is upgrading equipment).
Currently I run a 16 channel snake through the wall and into a rack of Behringer mic pre's. Using a the patch bay I can route the signal to an hardware based compressor then the computer, or let the signal go directly to the computer from the mic pre's. For monitoring I have the patch bay half normalized so I insert a jumper in the output of the mic pre and run that directly to the input channels 1-16 on my mixer. The beauty of this is that I have control over the monitoring of each channel through my mixing board, while allowing the signal to go to the computer un-affected. I do not know if this is correct or not. This is just how I have done it up until now.
Here's where I need your advice.
I want to upgrade the system, but I'm not sure what direction to go. I would like to upgrade the mic pre's because I believe that is my weak link right now. I don't need as many channels this time around. I could get by with 10-12 instead of 16.
Should I look into throwing out the idea of mic pre's and just upgrading my desk then using the desk's pre's, or maybe go to something like a pre-sonus octane, or just get a couple of nice channel strips... I know this is vague, but I'm unsure of which way to go because I am so uneducated in this right now. I do know that I want to upgrade my sound quality.
Second question: Is my routing scenario completely whacked? If so, how should it work?
I have posted a description and photos of my studio here:
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=154762
Thanks
I am looking for advice on my rack and routing setup. Since I went into this fairly blind, I believe that I have made some miscalculations/stupid ass mistakes and I want to fix those before I move forward to phase two of my studio (which is upgrading equipment).
Currently I run a 16 channel snake through the wall and into a rack of Behringer mic pre's. Using a the patch bay I can route the signal to an hardware based compressor then the computer, or let the signal go directly to the computer from the mic pre's. For monitoring I have the patch bay half normalized so I insert a jumper in the output of the mic pre and run that directly to the input channels 1-16 on my mixer. The beauty of this is that I have control over the monitoring of each channel through my mixing board, while allowing the signal to go to the computer un-affected. I do not know if this is correct or not. This is just how I have done it up until now.
Here's where I need your advice.
I want to upgrade the system, but I'm not sure what direction to go. I would like to upgrade the mic pre's because I believe that is my weak link right now. I don't need as many channels this time around. I could get by with 10-12 instead of 16.
Should I look into throwing out the idea of mic pre's and just upgrading my desk then using the desk's pre's, or maybe go to something like a pre-sonus octane, or just get a couple of nice channel strips... I know this is vague, but I'm unsure of which way to go because I am so uneducated in this right now. I do know that I want to upgrade my sound quality.
Second question: Is my routing scenario completely whacked? If so, how should it work?
I have posted a description and photos of my studio here:
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=154762
Thanks