Your dream studio

[vedo]

If you had $100,000 to spend on a recording studio, what would you buy

Note:
You can't make your own cable's
Everything has to be brand new.
Do not include tax.
Do not include acoustics or sound reinforcment.
Do not include cost of space (rent/ own)

Here is what I would buy:

Format: Digidesign Protools / hd 3 accel $ 14,000.00
MISC: ( 1 set )Yamaha HS8OM (active monitor's) $ 400.00
(2) Apple 30" cinema display $ 5,000.00
(2) GLYPH GT KEY300GB swappable hard drives $ 640.00
(2) ETA UPM -144ONA Battery back-up $ 2,800.00
(2) Apple blue tooth wireless mouse $ 160.00
(1) digidesign control 24 ( digital mixer ) $ 8,000.00
(1) Apple power mac 2.5 GHz $ 3,300.00





MICS: (1) SHURE PGDMKG XLR drum mic kit $ 400.00
(6) sm57's $ 600.00
(3) sennheiser e906 $ 500.00
(2) neumann u 87 $ 5,500.00
(2) akg c 414 b-xls $ 1,800.00
(2) akg c451b st $ 2,400.00
(2) shure beta sm58s $ 700.00
(2) rode NT classic $ 3,600.00
(1) sennheiser e902 $ 200.00
(2) royer ribbon mics $ 7,200.00
(2) neumann tlm 103 $ 2,000.00


Well.... what else would you buy?

Vedo

 

[Nick The Man]

do you have 100,000 to spend.. if so im gonna need your adress so i can come steal it

 

[vedo]

HA HA!!

I am a beginning recording student and pretty much no diddly about the equipment I should have. I know I want to use Pro Tools, so do I need to have the compressors, limiters, gates,reverb and so on.....Do I even need a rack mount if I'm going to record digitally?

What do I need if I wanted to record line in instead of using mic's? What do I do....remember I have a 100,000 dollars!!!

 

[JazzMang]

A shit-ton of guitars helps...

 

[Dogbreath]

I think my dream set-up would be John's @ Massive Mastering...

(Yes John, this is a suck-up cuz I'm gonna have some stuff for ya to master soon...)

 

[Creamyapples1]

If you had $100,000 to spend on a recording studio, what would you buy

Note:
You can't make your own cable's
Everything has to be brand new.
Do not include tax.
Do not include acoustics or sound reinforcment.
Do not include cost of space (rent/ own)

Here is what I would buy:

Format: Digidesign Protools / hd 3 accel $ 14,000.00
MISC: ( 1 set )Yamaha HS8OM (active monitor's) $ 400.00
(2) Apple 30" cinema display $ 5,000.00
(2) GLYPH GT KEY300GB swappable hard drives $ 640.00
(2) ETA UPM -144ONA Battery back-up $ 2,800.00
(2) Apple blue tooth wireless mouse $ 160.00
(1) digidesign control 24 ( digital mixer ) $ 8,000.00
(1) Apple power mac 2.5 GHz $ 3,300.00





MICS: (1) SHURE PGDMKG XLR drum mic kit $ 400.00
(6) sm57's $ 600.00
(3) sennheiser e906 $ 500.00
(2) neumann u 87 $ 5,500.00
(2) akg c 414 b-xls $ 1,800.00
(2) akg c451b st $ 2,400.00
(2) shure beta sm58s $ 700.00
(2) rode NT classic $ 3,600.00
(1) sennheiser e902 $ 200.00
(2) royer ribbon mics $ 7,200.00
(2) neumann tlm 103 $ 2,000.00


Well.... what else would you buy?

Vedo

5k on a display setup, but only 400 for monitors? Makes sense......

 

[pandamonk]

If you had $100,000 to spend on a recording studio, what would you buy

Note:
You can't make your own cable's
Everything has to be brand new.
Do not include tax.
Do not include acoustics or sound reinforcment.
Do not include cost of space (rent/ own)

Here is what I would buy:

Format: Digidesign Protools / hd 3 accel $ 14,000.00
MISC: ( 1 set )Yamaha HS8OM (active monitor's) $ 400.00
(2) Apple 30" cinema display $ 5,000.00
(2) GLYPH GT KEY300GB swappable hard drives $ 640.00
(2) ETA UPM -144ONA Battery back-up $ 2,800.00
(2) Apple blue tooth wireless mouse $ 160.00
(1) digidesign control 24 ( digital mixer ) $ 8,000.00
(1) Apple power mac 2.5 GHz $ 3,300.00





MICS: (1) SHURE PGDMKG XLR drum mic kit $ 400.00
(6) sm57's $ 600.00
(3) sennheiser e906 $ 500.00
(2) neumann u 87 $ 5,500.00
(2) akg c 414 b-xls $ 1,800.00
(2) akg c451b st $ 2,400.00
(2) shure beta sm58s $ 700.00
(2) rode NT classic $ 3,600.00
(1) sennheiser e902 $ 200.00
(2) royer ribbon mics $ 7,200.00
(2) neumann tlm 103 $ 2,000.00


Well.... what else would you buy?

Vedo

Hmm, that sounds like my college's setup. We've got 2 17" lcd screens tho, genelec 5.1 monitors, and i duno bout harddrives. We have lots of mics too

 

[bennychico11]

sounds like you're trying to get us to do your homework for you...??

and please let me know where you found your HD3 for 14 grand, 'cause I'll jump on that chance.

 

[Massive Master]

I think my dream set-up would be John's @ Massive Mastering...

(Yes John, this is a suck-up cuz I'm gonna have some stuff for ya to master soon...)

Did you see the new room? Just finished it Monday (Thanks, Farview and intern for coming over to take over as I slowly lost my mind throughout the day)... http://www.massivemastering.com/html/photos.html

I'll attach a photo below if I can figure this crazy thing out...

Anyway - suck-ups aside ( ) there was a phrase in there that I found disturbing...

Do not include acoustics or sound reinforcment.

The two most important things about *any* recording setup - The acoustical properties of the room(s) and the monitoring chain. Take the greatest gear in the world and throw it into a poor sounding room with poor sounding monitoring and you might as well just let it rust.

I'd start by burning a large chunk of the budget on making sure that everything else is going to be acoustically sound.

Anyway - Let's see if I can get that picture thing to work... Whatever happened to the IMG tags...

 

[bennychico11]

gorgeous John, I envy you.
Acoustically...what did you do, if you don't mind my asking? More specifically behind the walls, floor and ceiling. I can see all the bass traps.

 

[bigwillz24]

An SSL AWS900 I'll worry about the rest of the stuff later...

 

[Massive Master]

Acoustically...what did you do, if you don't mind my asking? More specifically behind the walls, floor and ceiling. I can see all the bass traps.

21 of them - 18 2'x4', 2 3-ish'x4' and one 35"x78" (covers the entire door).

Smoooooth in the lows... Freakishly smooth.

Otherwise - The attached wall is pretty cool... 6" header/footer, two staggered sets of 2x4 studs, 9" of heavy insulation lightly compacted into the 6" gap, then covered (both sides) with 1-1/2" of drywall, plus the cedar on the inside. There are two exterior walls that were slightly "beefed up" for transmission, but nowhere near the extent of the main attached wall. The rear wall goes into a "foyer" of sorts - Basic, doubled drywall on one side and insulated. I wanted that one to pass a little more low end than the rest. There were a few "irregularities" added -- a slight angle to one side wall, a bow in the rear, and two slight pitches in the ceiling to avoid any flutter echo.

The walls are completely covered in cedar planks, every plank is Liquid-Nailed front to back, top to bottom and brad nailed.

The (wood laminate) floor is floating over concrete slab except for the front 4' of the room where the speakers are - The slab comes right up to the subfloor there. The speakers are de-de-de-de-decoupled from the room. From the bottom up - There's the concrete (then the floor) then granite slabs, then "ConeCoasters" (from SoundAnchors) then spikes, then the SoundAnchors stands, then the speakers. I think the only way I could decouple them more would be with some sort of anti-gravity unit.

The gear is on a dedicated circuit, the dimmers on another. Computers & security are on UPS systems, main power goes through a Monster Pro 3500 (Instant gear on, delayed amplifier - Instant amp off, delayed gear). Shaved a few dB off the noise floor from the old room. And it's nice and even... Always had about a dB more on the right in the old room... Never could figure it out...