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tpaul87
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I hope I'm posting this in the right forum, if not someone please redirect me.
I've worked as the Production Director for a radio station for over 3 years and now that I miraculously have finished college I have the funds to finally start building my own home based studio.
My PC, which I built last december anticipating to start on this project sooner, has an AMD64 athlon dual core processor, a Gigabyte motherboard( that I can't currently remember the specs on but I know it has the ATI Radeon onboard), 4gb of ram, a designated Raptor WD drive for my OS which is XP Pro SP3, and 2 seperate TB drives for various applications and whatever my heart desires.
Currently my production duties at work consist of voiceovers, recording clients, mixing in SFX and beds, creating station imaging, etc. This is all done in our in-house studio which consists of a radio systems millenium digital board, dbx 286a Mic Preamps and a pair of RE20 mics. My prod pc at work has an Audiosciene ASI4300. We still use Cool Edit Pro V2, I know its a dinosaur but it does get the job done well and is not a killer on system resources.
My question after telling a little about myself, I want to not only set up a voicework studio but also a recording studio for myself and whoever wants to record; if it's not obvious I am working on getting a business off the ground here. I am looking at purchasing a Mackie Onyx 820i as a starter board. Any advice as to if this is a good idea or if I am digging down the wrong rabbit hole would be greatly appreciated. From what I have read on Tweak's site USB mixers are a no-no and my current budget doesnt really give me the slush to afford a good mixer and a really good interface so I thought I would do this as a get by until I can. Also, I've read a lot on here about REAPER and would like some feedback from a previous Cool Edit Pro user as to the learning curve from one DAW to the next.
Thanks to All!
I've worked as the Production Director for a radio station for over 3 years and now that I miraculously have finished college I have the funds to finally start building my own home based studio.
My PC, which I built last december anticipating to start on this project sooner, has an AMD64 athlon dual core processor, a Gigabyte motherboard( that I can't currently remember the specs on but I know it has the ATI Radeon onboard), 4gb of ram, a designated Raptor WD drive for my OS which is XP Pro SP3, and 2 seperate TB drives for various applications and whatever my heart desires.
Currently my production duties at work consist of voiceovers, recording clients, mixing in SFX and beds, creating station imaging, etc. This is all done in our in-house studio which consists of a radio systems millenium digital board, dbx 286a Mic Preamps and a pair of RE20 mics. My prod pc at work has an Audiosciene ASI4300. We still use Cool Edit Pro V2, I know its a dinosaur but it does get the job done well and is not a killer on system resources.
My question after telling a little about myself, I want to not only set up a voicework studio but also a recording studio for myself and whoever wants to record; if it's not obvious I am working on getting a business off the ground here. I am looking at purchasing a Mackie Onyx 820i as a starter board. Any advice as to if this is a good idea or if I am digging down the wrong rabbit hole would be greatly appreciated. From what I have read on Tweak's site USB mixers are a no-no and my current budget doesnt really give me the slush to afford a good mixer and a really good interface so I thought I would do this as a get by until I can. Also, I've read a lot on here about REAPER and would like some feedback from a previous Cool Edit Pro user as to the learning curve from one DAW to the next.
Thanks to All!