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Originally Posted by lpettipoole  My band is piecing together a project studio. I had a little home studio before we got signed, but it was all low end stuff that I got rid of to buy guitars and synths. I'm kind of out of the loop as to what gear is hot right now.
To save money we are going to hybridize our approach. Important things that require a nice room will be done at a proper studio. Drums, piano, etc. Overdubs will be mostly done with this gear at our practice space, and then back to the studio to mix.
The room's purpose is to: a) to record/arrange demos of new songs, and b) to serve as an overdub room for guitars/keys/vox/etc. |
Sounds like a well thought out plan. Definitely good luck with it.
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Originally Posted by lpettipoole I have 10k to work with. Main focuses will be the overdubs and vox, some drums and mixing will have to be done for demo purposes. The sound we go for is in the vain of the Flaming Lips, Wilco or Clinic...vintage vibe, color, not necessarily accurate sound, but musical and harmonically rich. I think I want a mixture of 'lifetime' pieces and some of the better mid-grade stuff just to have some variety. We love Dave Fridmann and Jon Brion. Nigel Godrich is a hero. Mark Ronson has cornered those 60s tones well. |
All talented and original musicians/producer/engineers.
The two things they all have in common is that they all roll their own way and they like to use tape.
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Originally Posted by lpettipoole Here is what we have at the moment:
Digi002
Q6600 3GB RAM with PT LE 7.4 on XP
Various boring plugins
M Audio BX8s
Safe Sound P1 preamp
MXL V69me
SM7 (vox are covered with this)
Tascam M320B (20 channel board from the 80's, preamps beat the Digi) |
Sell it all...or better yet for good karma give it all away. Each piece to someone who is starting out, poor and talented or anyone deserving or just wanting.
The giving deed will come back to you ten fold.
Plus i hate looking in the GS classifeds at some ad that starts out
"Cleaning out the closet".
I think instead of trying to rob people for pennies just give the stuff away especially if its just sitting in your closet not being used. You know charity and goodwill stuff. Even if you trade it for a favor you'll get something out of it.
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Originally Posted by lpettipoole From what I've been reading, it seems the 500 series format has exploded lately, that might get us into a few different flavors of things for less dough. So many companies have thrown their hats into the ring it's impossible to know what to get. I do want an 1176 or something similar for some nasty compression. A ribbon or two? Some cool dynamics? Old weird crap that totally mangles signals?
Thanks for the expertise. |
I think since the most important thing is that you are doing the vocals at home your focus should be totally around getting the best vocal takes you can period. Everything else is just a wash. If you end up buying just one mic pre but it makes you sound like god than in the end when you sell out your shows/Itunes downloads its really all that matters. You will make some more money which you can put towards the next project and buy more stuff. Don't fall for the GAS hype!!! It only leads to unnecessary debts and credit card bills!!
Also in your $10K budget set aside a portion for a tracking engineer. Again its your vocals and you can't mess around and hope some mixing guy saves your ass at the last minute.
My 2 pennies.
