| Thanks for all the replies. I have been away for awhile working.
The room I am building will be in my house that I am going to purchase in May upon graduation from school. I am allotting $12,465 to construction costs of the studio. Weird number, I know. I am well schooled in construction, so I will save a lot of money doing it myself. I've been reading Gerv.'s book about studio acoustic/construction.
To comment, I have a lot of great instruments, I just don't list them because I didn't find it necessary. I collect amps, I'm a guitar player at heart (orange, hiwatt, vox, mesa, marshall, fender, etc). I have several amazing drum sets (dw 80's kit being my favorite). I just wanted to expand my passion for music engineering not the playing side.
I understand I'm getting flammed for the 500 series preamps, understandable. But for the price I paid for them I couldn't get anything to come nearly as close and I have had a lot of bad bad bad bad pre's in the past. I did demo all my units, I never buy anything blindly without first researching, in addition to getting a demo in my own recording environment.
As for the plug-in's I was unaware of the student thing for commerical use. I am a music student as well (triple major: finance, economics, and music technology). I appreciate the comments on this.
I am unsure as to why I am getting some ppl saying "Not one nice microphone on the list..." Am I crazy, because I thought all of the mic's I have can make and have made some really great records (for me and many others). Obviously I understand that my vocal mic selection is lacking, but thats why I'm hear to evaluate options and try things out.
If I had to get some LDC for vocal what are some other choices. I'm hearing Peluso 2247se, Tele ak47, but I have not tried them (and can't comment until I do). The Bock Audio was based on a recording done for a roadrunner records band (sinch) by a gearslutz member (drew maz.) with a Soundelux 195, the reason I wanted to get a Bock Audio because it is the original/remake of that mic.
Any thoughts on LDC's beyond what i've gotten from many posters. I am going to try and get a bunch of choices and then demo them out.
Thanks,
Sean |