Starting a studio with a head start

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Hi, anyone who has experience with home studios or pro studios this ones for you!

I am new to recording in my home. I usually go with my band to the studio, but id rather invest that money into something i can really have fun with like my own studio.

Ok well basically i need to know what i need to start!

I have a computer thats really fast and up to date with performance, and i have protools and Sonar XL 2.0,
but my main question is, when i get my mic's, how am i going to hook all of those into my computer?
i can run the programs, but i cant get anywhere until i can get the mic's to run into my computer.
Are there any special preamps or rackmounts that i need?

Any one that has suggestions for any thing i mentioned (or anything youd like to suggest in general of recording equipment) then please let me know what you think. I am not looking for the best in equipment, but equipment that will get the job done in an alright quality.

thanks
Greg
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Get a good mixer and a decent soundcard.
That way you can plug your mics into the mixer and then come out of the mixer into you soundcard.

Depending on how many ins/outs the soundcard has will determine how many tracks tracks you can record simultanously and on seperate tracks.

Tukkis
 
Um...if you have the "Real" version of Pro Tools you should have also recieved an "interface" which would take care of all of your problems...
Suggestion...if you like the pro tools free...go and get the real thing...its alot better (bug and problem free) than the free version. OK the real version might have bugs too but they are way fewer than the Free Version...OH and it also comes with a good soundcard (PCI)
 
What do you all think of the Aardvark sound card, that contains the external box that has the 10 inputs and outputs?

I was thinking about running a mixer into each input (well for instruments that have more than one mic, like drums)

does anyone else run a similar system??


thanks

-Greg


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I have the Q10 and like it...drawbacks are only four channels with phantom power and only 2 have the EFR chips...but I've onl;y uses then one at a time and only have 2 condenser mics :)

also.. it seems there is no way to run inserts on the EFR channels...but if you control your levels thay do come out really nice.

2 of those 10 inputs are digital... so it is essentially an 8 in/out card.

It doesn't exist well with soundblaster cards on XP...freaked a lot of people out...including me :)

I got mine for $700 before the price went up and plan on buying another
 
I have some experience with mixing and quasi-mastering, but now I'm getting into recording and tracking and all that jazz (previously we did it other people's "studios").

I have a good computer, my instruments, an SM 57 (:p ), and soon will get Cubase SX (based on recommendations by members of this bbs).

In terms of hardware, I plan on adding the following over a period of time (hopefully a short one!):
  • M-Audio Delta 1010 OR RME Multiface
  • Soundcraft Spirit M8 (or M12) Mixer
  • Good/affordable microphones!
  • Joe Meek VC3Q (or whatever that specific model # is)
  • Any other "clean" mic-pre
  • Lots of cables :D
Hope this helps you somewhat. Also, I'm curious as to what others on here think. Based on my extensive research (and my budget), I believe that the essentials/cores of the setup (soundcard and mixer) are hard to beat.

H.J.
 
Now when you guys talk about mic preamps, what exactly is the benefit of using a mic preamp over just plugging it direct into your sound card?

Also what do you guys think of Sonar by cakewalk as a recording interface?
Id like to use protools, but with a budget it makes it very hard to go that way... unless you guys know of a good protools interface thats not more than 500 dollars.

And do you guys suggest running the bass direct through my mxr preamp, or mic'ing the cabinet. (i heard you have more control over the sound when going direct?

thanks

-Greg
 
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