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Old 30th October 2006   #3
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If you're comfortable with PT, got with PT.

IMHO, there are less expensive ways of working, (IE, Behringer ADA8000 and M-audio Firewire 410 plus DP, total around 800 and that's 10 channels in)

You'll need mics, stands and cables

MAKE SURE TO BUDGET FOR STANDS AND CABLES

I've seen THAT scenario too often.

As for Mics, 57 or i5 for Snare is standard 609s are also nice (either double these or add a C02/NT5 SD Condensor for bottom of snare).
D112, D6 or Beta 52 for kick (Add and RE20, 421 or any of the previously mentioned if you want in and out mics)

Overheads...Really big can of worms. Low end wise, I like the NT5 pair personally (I roll out the lows on them anyway) For LD condensor, you can use basically anything so long as you like em.

Toms, You can use many things, Sennheiser makes great clip ons (No need for more stands there) I THINK (don't quote me) they're 603, someone correct me if I'm wrong. 57s work well, 421 are great, or even put triggers on em and trigger some really nice samples if that's the sound you're looking for.

If you want to mic the hi hat, use a SD condensor like an NT5.

Make sure to phase invert the bottom snare and kick out

So let's cover this again, to do close mic stuff you prbobably need 10 channels (I assume you want kick out and Bottom snare)

Let's go really really cheap and say you spend 100 each on mics (I'm REALLY being cheap here) That's 1000
Your Digi 002 is another 1500
200 in cables
let's say you use a stereo bar and clip ons 5 stands (3 if you opt out of kick out and snare bottom) Let's say that's another 150

Grand Total:
$2850 Plus any additional plugins.

Otherwise, you could go uber-cheap and buy like a Samson 8Kit for $300 instead of $1k on mics

It all depends on your needs, wants and sound.

The vagueness of your post is probably why noone's touched it...


That and there's already been about 1 billion posts about this already and a quick search would have helped.
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