recording equipment q

[shred me good]

i was wondering if i could have some advice on the things i should use to record my band with
this is a band endevour so i think weel have a fairly nice large budget!

basicly, instead of forking out for studio time, we fuiger it would be a decent investment to get a big lot of recording equipment. mics for everyone, maby like 7 for the drums...

but what do i use to record it with. a 10 track recorder? a 10 track mixer? whats the difference?
how many tracks?
thanks very much

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: recording equipment q

You have LOT of options open to you. Depending on budget, I would buy a new PC just for music and use a Digi02/Pro Tools rig. Just add mic's and you're set.

 

[shred me good]

Re: recording equipment q

hmm. that would need a pc in the place where we practice!
dont mixers have built in memory? i know nothing!
could somone posably tell me what a mixer is and what an "8-track" is?

 

[Fiber-Optics]

Re: recording equipment q

You have LOT of options open to you. Depending on budget, I would buy a new PC just for music and use a Digi02/Pro Tools rig. Just add mic's and you're set.

Or if anyone of use guys have a lap top get a external harddrive for a ton of extra space and it is very portable. Can you explain more about the Digi02/Pro Tools rig I was thinking about doing this for my band too. (sorry if I :hijacked: )

 

[shred me good]

Re: recording equipment q

Or if anyone of use guys have a lap top get a external harddrive for a ton of extra space and it is very portable. Can you explain more about the Digi02/Pro Tools rig I was thinking about doing this for my band too. (sorry if I :hijacked: )

hijack away!
i too have a laptopy thing. but shurly youd still need some kind of mixer on it. or sumthing anyway..

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: recording equipment q

The Digi02 IS a mixer, and then it goes firewire to your computer.

 

[shred me good]

Re: recording equipment q

ok explain this "digi02".....
i plug my mics into the digi02 and then into my computer, where i can play around with the sounds?

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: recording equipment q

Yesp, that's it!!!
http://www.digidesign.com/

Go to PRODUCTS, and check out PRO TOOLS LE and HD SYSTEMS.

 

[shred me good]

Re: recording equipment q

woah!
10 grand!
i apologise for my misleading claim that i had alot of money! alot of money to me is maby £1000.
sorry!

 

[NT02]

Re: recording equipment q

If it was me in your place, I'd get something like the Tascam 2488, a tube condenser mic, a large diaphragm mic, a matched pair of small condensers, a couple of sm57s, that set of drum mics, some good reference monitors, enough headphones for everyone in the band, one of those headphone routers, and have at it.

 

[Robert S.]

Re: recording equipment q

Recording live, micing each instrument and getting each individual instrument to it's own track is going to cost real money. The mics and cables alone will probably run $600-$1000 just for dynamic mics depending on the type of stuff you get and you could spend a lot more.

Then you need a board that can handle the dozen or so mics you'll be running. The mic preamps in the board are critical to how the mics are going to sound and good mic preamp cost money. A solid 20 channel mixer will run you another $1000 and the sky is the limit. You can spend a lot of money on a board.

Then you need a recording medium. Tape, ADAT or HD all have their pros and cons as far as price, number of available inputs and the like. It all costs money and the stuff worth having isn't cheap.

Even if you had $5000 and could get a deceint starter tape or ADAT rig you then run into another problem. All that nice gear is going to "hear" the room you are playing in so now you will want to start deadening the room to clear up hot spots and phase cancellations. Building a room to record in, and isolating the board from the band will eat up more money. Auralex aint cheap and standing waves are a drag.

After all that you have to find someone to train on all this new gear because you can't really record a whole band and play at the same time. Small project studios are vastly different from full band rigs and there is no real and practical middle ground.