Re: Studio almost complete

Lamneth wrote:
On Nov 6, 12:05 pm, "DeeAa" <deeaaREMOVE_T...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Lamneth" <rockin...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:1194355519.980326.242630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Anyone here have any recommendations for a must have item that's
affordable to complete my studio? Here is what I have so far.. The
reason I ask is I haven't tapped out the budget yet for the studio. I
have about $200.00 left. My condenser mic is kinda crappy but hoping
to alleviate that w/eq and post procesing. Other than upgrading that I
can't think of anything.
Well postprocessing will not help much if the mic really *is* crappy. For
good cheap ones, hard to beat Rode.

I didn't see an FX unit there. Even if you'd use plugins for FX. most
singers at least want to have some verb on the headphones mix as they sing.
It makes it a lot easier to stay in the right note, as you can hear it
sustained by the reverb. So I'd definitely get a small cheap reverb unit
dedicated for the monitor mix.

You don't specify what kind of tube pres you have, or what kind of players
will be there, but quite often I find that in order to get anything useable
on tape, for instance with some slap-happy or alternatively less-than
totally competent bassists - and also other instruments - a
compressor/limiter is often a must already on the input phase. My tube pre
has one, maybe yours does too? But I'd also get a small single-channel comp
just for that if you have none.

You'll probably be tracking bass D/I? Not very many recording rooms or amps
have suffcient size and such for real low end so that may be wise. Again
some sort of preamp/compressor/sound thingy would be great....we tracked the
last demo's basses thru a SansAMP PSA1.1 - meant for guitar, yeah, but a
really nice piece of gear for bass too. But expensive.

W/out knowing the mixer type hard to say...gates maybe? Hm. Are you using
the mixer just for monitoring, not recording? I suppose if you're tracking
drums or anything, and have a pair of preamps, you'd want to mainly use
those and put the 2 overheads on track thru those - that's 85% of the studio
drum sound anyway. Have the rest sorted thru the mixer then?

But I guess that's what I'd like to see...two good large-diaphragm
cond.mikes like rodes at least, hopefully AKG414 or somewhere on that level
or higher...and that small reverb unit for monitoring while recording vox &
stuff.

Cheers,

Dee

I have the FX covered with my Digitech VX400. Yeas the pre- are a
Behringer MIC200 and an ART MP-1 and I know the Behringer has the
limiter function I am not sure about the ART. Yes the bass will be
tracked via D/I with some compression. The drums are electronic so I
am not worried about micing those. I am going to look at those mic's
you recommended because the one I have is a Samson C01 and it sucks
badly to be honest.


A good trick to use with bass is to split the signal like you would with a crossover - double track it, one track highs and one track lows, and then mix the two in post. It helps, and you may find you only need to pre-compress one of the tracks, depending on how/what you're playing.

Another thing I was thinking and I'd like to know what you think is I
am running all the instruments to the mixer and then to the sound
card, currently I use the tube pre's on vox and guitar seperately.
Could or should I put another one between the mixer and the sound
card? Would it make any difference in warming up the sound at all? I
realize I am trying to make lemonade with lemons but my budget is my
budget so I am trying hard to get there.


How many channels on the sound card? Sounds like one take to two track, or two tracks at a time if you're going to use virtual tracks and work upwards on hard disk. I wouldn't bother with another stage between the mixer and the sound card - you should be fine there. Put the money into better mikes.

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- Rufus
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