Hi,
I'm building my studio and I'm buying and building every device (daw, software, outboard, instruments) for a basic starting point.
I am an electronic engineer but I'm new to studio and recording, so I have a strong technical background but almost zero "market" experience.
Because of a relatively low budget I wanted to dig deep in commercial devices specs so to avoid spending all our money for a single esotheric preamp.
This is what I'm going to do (and what will make some people laugh...
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- NO super A/D D/A converters. 4 x terratec PCI Phase88 (3+1rack). Two PCs (two terratec each) linked by Steinberg vst system link. Phase88s are linked so that they are bit-synch'd
- NO ProTools. I hate closed systems. I develop vsts and we'll use ours (
www.sknote.it, working on a compressor, now). We'll use Cubase Sx
- (almost) NO mastering outboard
- Super preamps, but NO expensive outboard. I've built preamps (there are interesting DIY kits in internet)
- Very good mics (nothing to do, there...) but NO tube mics (trying to record everything clean and post-process or at least dry/wet double track)
- Tech-21 SansAmp for guitars. Software emulations aren't so good, midi re-callable guitar sound is the best solution...
These are point very different from what the market shows today, this is why I would like to discuss about them here.
I'll try to upload some results when I'll get some material.
Any comment/advice/cryticism/question very welcome
Quinto