Hello,
two days ago I posted a question on something many should be able here to tell me, but with no feedback coming. I think that is because my post was way too long and my formulation was bad so that the actual question might have been drowned in it. Or the question was too simple to be taken serious - well, I am a newbie still in many ways, sorry. Please help me!
I am about to set up a small home project studio for my own stuff (voice/guitars/rest are VSTi), and later to take first steps into recording other musicians, and bands in their rehearsal rooms. PC based, Cubase SX 3, with UAD-1 cards, by now would choose Genelec 8040s for monitoring. The recording and mixing would take place in the \"work/office\" room in my apartment, some of the recording in band rehearsal rooms. Therefore I have a rather unprofessional acoustic environment, I myself have still lots to learn about music production, but I have a quite high budget available. I wonder how much I could spend reasonably on preamps and converters for this application.
The lower end for which I would go is something like the Mackie Onyx 400F, a Mackie mixer with FW card, one of the MotU FW interfaces or RME Fireface. The higher end would be a separate converter box, either from MotU (24 I/O, 2408MkIII or HD192), or even Apogee Rosetta 200 (2 channels I/O would be enough for my own things which is more important to me). In that case I would get a decent preamp for which there are countless choices. BUT - would I profit from going for the Apogee stuff, or is the quality of e.g. the Fireface absolutely ok for my application? Would I have an audible quality gain with my monitors and room, or does such gear only make sense in an acoustically decent studio room with the suitable monitors?
How good are the MotU converters by the way (and the pres in their FW interfaces)? Apogees reputation for sound quality seems to be beyond any doubt as far as I read everywhere.
Please, everybody who has a clue how far it is sensible to go for a project studio, drop me a line! I don't want to spend 1000+ Pound more on gear without being able to really profit from the higher quality. Thanks!
Oh - and sorry that this post is again so long...!
two days ago I posted a question on something many should be able here to tell me, but with no feedback coming. I think that is because my post was way too long and my formulation was bad so that the actual question might have been drowned in it. Or the question was too simple to be taken serious - well, I am a newbie still in many ways, sorry. Please help me!
I am about to set up a small home project studio for my own stuff (voice/guitars/rest are VSTi), and later to take first steps into recording other musicians, and bands in their rehearsal rooms. PC based, Cubase SX 3, with UAD-1 cards, by now would choose Genelec 8040s for monitoring. The recording and mixing would take place in the \"work/office\" room in my apartment, some of the recording in band rehearsal rooms. Therefore I have a rather unprofessional acoustic environment, I myself have still lots to learn about music production, but I have a quite high budget available. I wonder how much I could spend reasonably on preamps and converters for this application.
The lower end for which I would go is something like the Mackie Onyx 400F, a Mackie mixer with FW card, one of the MotU FW interfaces or RME Fireface. The higher end would be a separate converter box, either from MotU (24 I/O, 2408MkIII or HD192), or even Apogee Rosetta 200 (2 channels I/O would be enough for my own things which is more important to me). In that case I would get a decent preamp for which there are countless choices. BUT - would I profit from going for the Apogee stuff, or is the quality of e.g. the Fireface absolutely ok for my application? Would I have an audible quality gain with my monitors and room, or does such gear only make sense in an acoustically decent studio room with the suitable monitors?
How good are the MotU converters by the way (and the pres in their FW interfaces)? Apogees reputation for sound quality seems to be beyond any doubt as far as I read everywhere.
Please, everybody who has a clue how far it is sensible to go for a project studio, drop me a line! I don't want to spend 1000+ Pound more on gear without being able to really profit from the higher quality. Thanks!
Oh - and sorry that this post is again so long...!
