Building the Studio Stacco!
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:55 pm
And I wants YOUR help!
Ok, after much’a labouring I’ve got a bit of a budget and gah! Im not gonna get more effects pedals for the time being…. so I’ve thought I’d invest in my home recording set up. As I know many (if not ALL) of you, have home recording rigs, I’d appreciate your suggestions VEWY VEWY MUCH concerning exactly WHAT goodies I shall be shelling out my hard earned cash for. So, below I’ll list what I need, and what I’ve thought I should get.
My budget is around 600-700 euros (some $1000) but I’ll have to buy most of the stuff in Europe where yup, stuff is usually more expensive.
I NEEDS
SOME MONITORS: I wanna spend around 300 € on these. Yamaha, M-Audio? I’ve got NO idea what to go for.
A MIC FOR ACOUSTIC AND VOCALS: I’m looking at the Oktava range, they’re the ones that make the EH mikes. I’m REALLY liking the look of their MK 101 Condenser. http://oktava-online.com/mk101.htm I’d also need a pop filter, mic stand… the lot
A PERCUSSION TRIGGER: TO bash out on Ezdrummer. I’ pretty much sold on the Alesis Control Pad. http://alesis.com/controlpad The M Audio Trigger Finger and Akai MPD 16 are also in my to want list, tho you have to play these “fingerstyle”. I’m a pretty accomplished percussionist if I do say so meeself (Just don’t ask my feet to do anything a 100th as good as what I can do with the hands, sigh!) but I don’t know whether I’ll, prefer bashing our rhythms with sticks or fingers…. Any thoughts on this???
A GOOD QUALITY PRE AND A/D USB INTERFACE. I’m recording thru an M-Audio Blackbox, and I’m quite happy with it, but I think a good mike deserves a more dedicated interface… and one which will allow me to split my guitar signal in two with my VHT Valvulator to feed a clean signal into my DAW for…. You guessed it!!!!
A GOOD RE-AMP box! Radial or the like…
These last two can wait, but the Mic, Monitors and perc-trigger are what I’m really achin’ for right now.
CAN YOU HELP YOUR FAVOURITE SPANIARD!!! (C’mon, I know I’m the ONLY Spaniard you know…. Apart from Iñigo Montoya, dat is!)
Ok, after much’a labouring I’ve got a bit of a budget and gah! Im not gonna get more effects pedals for the time being…. so I’ve thought I’d invest in my home recording set up. As I know many (if not ALL) of you, have home recording rigs, I’d appreciate your suggestions VEWY VEWY MUCH concerning exactly WHAT goodies I shall be shelling out my hard earned cash for. So, below I’ll list what I need, and what I’ve thought I should get.
My budget is around 600-700 euros (some $1000) but I’ll have to buy most of the stuff in Europe where yup, stuff is usually more expensive.
I NEEDS
SOME MONITORS: I wanna spend around 300 € on these. Yamaha, M-Audio? I’ve got NO idea what to go for.
A MIC FOR ACOUSTIC AND VOCALS: I’m looking at the Oktava range, they’re the ones that make the EH mikes. I’m REALLY liking the look of their MK 101 Condenser. http://oktava-online.com/mk101.htm I’d also need a pop filter, mic stand… the lot
A PERCUSSION TRIGGER: TO bash out on Ezdrummer. I’ pretty much sold on the Alesis Control Pad. http://alesis.com/controlpad The M Audio Trigger Finger and Akai MPD 16 are also in my to want list, tho you have to play these “fingerstyle”. I’m a pretty accomplished percussionist if I do say so meeself (Just don’t ask my feet to do anything a 100th as good as what I can do with the hands, sigh!) but I don’t know whether I’ll, prefer bashing our rhythms with sticks or fingers…. Any thoughts on this???
A GOOD QUALITY PRE AND A/D USB INTERFACE. I’m recording thru an M-Audio Blackbox, and I’m quite happy with it, but I think a good mike deserves a more dedicated interface… and one which will allow me to split my guitar signal in two with my VHT Valvulator to feed a clean signal into my DAW for…. You guessed it!!!!
A GOOD RE-AMP box! Radial or the like…
These last two can wait, but the Mic, Monitors and perc-trigger are what I’m really achin’ for right now.
CAN YOU HELP YOUR FAVOURITE SPANIARD!!! (C’mon, I know I’m the ONLY Spaniard you know…. Apart from Iñigo Montoya, dat is!)
I'll answer some of y'alls questions later on (In a bit of a hurry at the moment)