Quote:
Originally Posted by matthew.sawicki  As much as I agree with garbage in = garbage out, there are a lot of things to be covered in this $1000 suggested budget that don't afford many options. And for the most part... none of them are going to be outstanding options, but they'll be options that work and get the show on the road. Upgrading as a lot easier to do once you have a stable foundation... so I don't think that dropping almost half the budget on a mic that is marginally better than ones half it's price is necessarily a path to follow when an entire system has to be bought as well. Cables, pop filter, stands, headphones, etc.. all eat up a budget too, and it's easy to overlook in early plans. |
used apogee mini-me (preamp/ad) 700 - even cheap-ass sound cards have spdif at this point.
Karma K58 tube mic 299
-the mod, FWIW- NOS 12au7, gotham gac3
7pin tubemic cable, a bunch of wima and nichicon caps 100-150 (not including the work). If you really want to go over the top, replace the capsule with a peluso. All told, it'll be maybe 700 and the mic will perform like 2 x, 3 x that.
The key is getting the quality recorded material to the DAW. If its being mixed by someone else, everything else is peripheral. Your suggesting this dood get speakers and headphones? Naaaa, just take your old walkman headphones just to hear the beat while you record and plug your monitor outs from the DAW to a home-stereo. If you really want to hear how it came out, burn a cd and play it in a friends system or your car. It wont be a perfect reference but at least you'll know how the recordings are sitting.
Again I'll mention my experience that my client picked the modded Karma over a 1500 mic. Thats a bit more than a marginal difference. + I would imagine if dood already has a MXL LDC, he has all the accessory crap you'd need (popscreen, cables, micstand, etc).
Any way you go with that budget, eleviah, its gonna be tight and corners will be kut.
whatever...
