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rch427
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Standard disclaimer: I don't know what I'm doing; I throw myself on the mercy of the court, etc.
Now then:
I want to play some of the instruments I have (acoustic and electric), record them on my gear, and eventually make CDs of them for my own enjoyment. I've been accumulating instruments and gear for a couple of years, but haven't used much of it yet. Here's the "studio" stuff I already have:
TASCAM Portastudio 464 4-track cassette deck w/ punch-in pedal
1970s Sunn 8-channel mixer
TAPCO 2200 equalizer
TAPCO 4400 spring reverb
Behringer MIC-100 tube pre
Nady CL-5000 2-channel compressor/limiter/gate
Furman PB-40 patchbay
Oktava MK-319 large-diaphragm condensor mic
Shure model 51 dynamic mic
pair of E-V 623 dynamic mics
tube guitar amps by Danelectro, Gregory and Harmony
Kay solid state guitar amp
decent isolation headphones
good, new computer with CD-burner
(It's probably rather obvious that I like older gear. I would prefer to keep this process as analog as possible.)
Here's the stuff I'll be adding to it in the next couple of months:
small-diaphragm condensor mic (probably an Oktava)
rack-mount or pedal chorus, an echo or trem, an envelope generator
tube bass amp
powered monitors
audio processing software
and/or better CD-burning software
--and I'll be making a little isolation booth
I made the mistake of posting a similar question to a discussion group for audio engineering and basically was told that my stuff would never produce a decent recording; that I should sell the 4-tracker and go digital, etc. The only potentially useful response I got was that the Behringer mic pre wasn't very good and maybe I should look for a better, solid state one. I can live with that.
OK, now that I've gotten all that out of the way, what I'd like to know is--am I missing anything that would be really useful for such a recording scenario? For example, should I have an external pre-amp or amp for boosting the signal through the effects chain, or does the TASCAM provide enough power for that? Would a 2-track R2R deck be a good idea for mastering, before going into the computer for burning? Will I need some sort of analog-to-digtal converter to process the output before sending it into the computer? Anything else I should be looking around for?
Any advice or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Now then:
I want to play some of the instruments I have (acoustic and electric), record them on my gear, and eventually make CDs of them for my own enjoyment. I've been accumulating instruments and gear for a couple of years, but haven't used much of it yet. Here's the "studio" stuff I already have:
TASCAM Portastudio 464 4-track cassette deck w/ punch-in pedal
1970s Sunn 8-channel mixer
TAPCO 2200 equalizer
TAPCO 4400 spring reverb
Behringer MIC-100 tube pre
Nady CL-5000 2-channel compressor/limiter/gate
Furman PB-40 patchbay
Oktava MK-319 large-diaphragm condensor mic
Shure model 51 dynamic mic
pair of E-V 623 dynamic mics
tube guitar amps by Danelectro, Gregory and Harmony
Kay solid state guitar amp
decent isolation headphones
good, new computer with CD-burner
(It's probably rather obvious that I like older gear. I would prefer to keep this process as analog as possible.)
Here's the stuff I'll be adding to it in the next couple of months:
small-diaphragm condensor mic (probably an Oktava)
rack-mount or pedal chorus, an echo or trem, an envelope generator
tube bass amp
powered monitors
audio processing software
and/or better CD-burning software
--and I'll be making a little isolation booth
I made the mistake of posting a similar question to a discussion group for audio engineering and basically was told that my stuff would never produce a decent recording; that I should sell the 4-tracker and go digital, etc. The only potentially useful response I got was that the Behringer mic pre wasn't very good and maybe I should look for a better, solid state one. I can live with that.
OK, now that I've gotten all that out of the way, what I'd like to know is--am I missing anything that would be really useful for such a recording scenario? For example, should I have an external pre-amp or amp for boosting the signal through the effects chain, or does the TASCAM provide enough power for that? Would a 2-track R2R deck be a good idea for mastering, before going into the computer for burning? Will I need some sort of analog-to-digtal converter to process the output before sending it into the computer? Anything else I should be looking around for?
Any advice or opinions would be greatly appreciated.