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Kikkomen · 29th July 2010

Hi,

We are 2 engineers/musicians/producers and 1 composer/musician who have teamed up to make a music release company. We have been involved in all parts of releasing music before, but we dont have extensive knowledge of mastering and new media.

Here are our setups/ideas:

2 studios:

studio 1: for composing. laptop running cubase with reason and waves etc. Line 6 TonePort KB37 will be used to record mainly an el-guitar.

studio 2: for mixing and mastering. yes, we know its not ideal to mix and master in the same studio, but we dont have a choice.

rogers ls-88 monitors for front, rogers ls-66 for surround, paradigm dsp 3200 v2 subwoofer, i7 running cubase and wavelab, two 1tb HDs in RAID0, one 1tb HD as backup disk, oxford native plugins, arc calibration system, yamaha rx-v1900 surround amp. penguin spektrum analyser running on a seperate pentium machine. PreSonus FireStudio Mobile 10x6 interface.

we have a pretty big recording room, 26x13ft. SE electronics 2200a mic. the room will primarily be used to record vocals.

the concept: master, release and market everything ourselves. develop different packages for different groups using new media. make and maintain a website with a store ourselves, currently looking at squarespace.com for this. plan is to not make any physical cds, but try to master as if we were, in regards to quality.

what formats to make available?
what will people pay for? we think audiophiles will pay for higher quality, but which format? cubase uses 32-bit, we could dither to 24-bit and release some mixes in this format. we think this area will move fast, and want to be a part of this progress. as an example, the new oppo players can play 24-bit. Or is our setup not good enough for thinking audiophile music?

we have a 5.1 setup and some of our music is fit for film. how can we get into this market?

our references for this plan is websites like 2l.no, our own desire for better but affordable digital audio and trying to think how we can be pro musicians in the new media.

comments highly appreciated!

29th July 2010	#1
Kikkomen Gear nut Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 129 Thread Starter	help me make a plan for a small music release company Hi, We are 2 engineers/musicians/producers and 1 composer/musician who have teamed up to make a music release company. We have been involved in all parts of releasing music before, but we dont have extensive knowledge of mastering and new media. Here are our setups/ideas: 2 studios: studio 1: for composing. laptop running cubase with reason and waves etc. Line 6 TonePort KB37 will be used to record mainly an el-guitar. studio 2: for mixing and mastering. yes, we know its not ideal to mix and master in the same studio, but we dont have a choice. rogers ls-88 monitors for front, rogers ls-66 for surround, paradigm dsp 3200 v2 subwoofer, i7 running cubase and wavelab, two 1tb HDs in RAID0, one 1tb HD as backup disk, oxford native plugins, arc calibration system, yamaha rx-v1900 surround amp. penguin spektrum analyser running on a seperate pentium machine. PreSonus FireStudio Mobile 10x6 interface. we have a pretty big recording room, 26x13ft. SE electronics 2200a mic. the room will primarily be used to record vocals. the concept: master, release and market everything ourselves. develop different packages for different groups using new media. make and maintain a website with a store ourselves, currently looking at squarespace.com for this. plan is to not make any physical cds, but try to master as if we were, in regards to quality. what formats to make available? what will people pay for? we think audiophiles will pay for higher quality, but which format? cubase uses 32-bit, we could dither to 24-bit and release some mixes in this format. we think this area will move fast, and want to be a part of this progress. as an example, the new oppo players can play 24-bit. Or is our setup not good enough for thinking audiophile music? we have a 5.1 setup and some of our music is fit for film. how can we get into this market? our references for this plan is websites like 2l.no, our own desire for better but affordable digital audio and trying to think how we can be pro musicians in the new media. comments highly appreciated!