Hi all,
I finally purchased a home, and will have a dedicated room for my recording studio.
Up until now, I've always used my bedroom for amateur recordings. Now since I'll have a room, I need a studio to accomadate the following needs...
-record electric guitars
-record acoustic guitars
-record vintage synthesizers
-record eurorack modular synthesizers
-record drum machines
-have everything hooked up/synced to one another where applicable
Here's what I currently own...
studio computer - mac desktop
DAW - logic pro x
audio interface - Universal Audio Apollo
studio monitors - yamaha HS8 (x2) (thinking about upgrading to the biggest size available...currently experience a lot of "crackle" and "fuzz" with these)
guitars - fender telecaster, acoustic guitar
guitar amp - crappy line 6 amp I purchased in high school
synths - minimoog model d (monosynth), prophet 6 (polysynth)
drum machines/samplers - elektron analog rytm, octatrack
various other electronics - eurorack modular synth, roland tb303 clone
Up until now, I've pretty much been recording everything straight into my computer via ua apollo, including my telecaster. here's what I think I need...can you let me know? PS - I do NOT skimp and purchase crappy cheap gear, but not looking to get insane. Here's what's on my list, can you send recommendations?
Mic preamp - thinking about the universal audio 2-610
Analog compressor - thinking about the 1176, Empirical Labs Distressor (x2), or both
(also thinking about the universal audio 6176 channel strip)
mixer - looking for recommendations? no idea where to start
MIDI - looking for a midi patch bay...I think there's one by MOTU?
Audio Patch bay - so I can have everything hooked up at once. Recommendations?
Guitar Amp - thinking about the Fender Deluxe Reverb 65' Reissue OR the Vox AC30 (or both)
Guitars - some sort of hollow-body (used to own a Gibson ES335), Fender American Strat
Guitar Pedal Board - looking for good pedals...spring reverbs, delay, compressor, looper (good for writing on the fly)
Mics - SM57, SM58 for sure, looking for other recommendations for acoustic recordings. I don't sing, but thinking about recording my electric guitar thru an amp and my acoustic guitar, and if a project gains a vocalist...obviously a mic that can do vocals will be good
Samplers - thinking about some sort of MPC, maybe the new Pioneer sampler
Drum Machines - Tempest, Linndrum MK2, 808, 909 are all on my wishlist, but won't be immediate
Synths - Juno 106, always expanding my eurorack
Basically, I would like all my electronics all synced together, absolutely everything hooked up for ease of access, I would like to focus more on making music and nerding out on eurorack than obsessing over microphones, recordings, mixing/mastering, etc.
Any help and suggestions and pointers is much appreciated, thanks!!!
I finally purchased a home, and will have a dedicated room for my recording studio.
Up until now, I've always used my bedroom for amateur recordings. Now since I'll have a room, I need a studio to accomadate the following needs...
-record electric guitars
-record acoustic guitars
-record vintage synthesizers
-record eurorack modular synthesizers
-record drum machines
-have everything hooked up/synced to one another where applicable
Here's what I currently own...
studio computer - mac desktop
DAW - logic pro x
audio interface - Universal Audio Apollo
studio monitors - yamaha HS8 (x2) (thinking about upgrading to the biggest size available...currently experience a lot of "crackle" and "fuzz" with these)
guitars - fender telecaster, acoustic guitar
guitar amp - crappy line 6 amp I purchased in high school
synths - minimoog model d (monosynth), prophet 6 (polysynth)
drum machines/samplers - elektron analog rytm, octatrack
various other electronics - eurorack modular synth, roland tb303 clone
Up until now, I've pretty much been recording everything straight into my computer via ua apollo, including my telecaster. here's what I think I need...can you let me know? PS - I do NOT skimp and purchase crappy cheap gear, but not looking to get insane. Here's what's on my list, can you send recommendations?
Mic preamp - thinking about the universal audio 2-610
Analog compressor - thinking about the 1176, Empirical Labs Distressor (x2), or both
(also thinking about the universal audio 6176 channel strip)
mixer - looking for recommendations? no idea where to start
MIDI - looking for a midi patch bay...I think there's one by MOTU?
Audio Patch bay - so I can have everything hooked up at once. Recommendations?
Guitar Amp - thinking about the Fender Deluxe Reverb 65' Reissue OR the Vox AC30 (or both)
Guitars - some sort of hollow-body (used to own a Gibson ES335), Fender American Strat
Guitar Pedal Board - looking for good pedals...spring reverbs, delay, compressor, looper (good for writing on the fly)
Mics - SM57, SM58 for sure, looking for other recommendations for acoustic recordings. I don't sing, but thinking about recording my electric guitar thru an amp and my acoustic guitar, and if a project gains a vocalist...obviously a mic that can do vocals will be good
Samplers - thinking about some sort of MPC, maybe the new Pioneer sampler
Drum Machines - Tempest, Linndrum MK2, 808, 909 are all on my wishlist, but won't be immediate
Synths - Juno 106, always expanding my eurorack
Basically, I would like all my electronics all synced together, absolutely everything hooked up for ease of access, I would like to focus more on making music and nerding out on eurorack than obsessing over microphones, recordings, mixing/mastering, etc.
Any help and suggestions and pointers is much appreciated, thanks!!!