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Originally Posted by Kiwiburger
$4000 is nothing in pro audio terms ... spend it very, very wisely.
I wouldn't buy anything purely to impress clients. Let them be impressed with your demo CD's. If they question your choice of tools, refer them to your demo CD's, and ask if they want to sound like that or not.
Your question can't be answered if we don't know what mic's or stuff you already have.
Choice of recording platform is almost the last thing to worry about.
Assume you already have:
excellent acoustics
excellent monitors
excellent mic selection
excellent preamps
excellent compressors
excellent eq
excellent reverb/delays
And all the instruments and amps you need?
This is the low budget place, right?
I currently have: Good acoustics, LSR4328P monitors, as far as mics I have an akg c414xlII ,blue baby bottle, a 57, a pair of sm81's, and a d12. Pres ISA 428 w/ digital card, comp/eq/reverb/delay: it's all covered. I have a bunch of plug ins. All I play is keyboards and I have a nord lead 2x, motif 5, and a juno 60.
So I don't have anything "excellent" but it's pretty good for lower budget and I know how to use the stuff I have, which is important. I've pretty much talked myself out of the tascam mixer.
When you start buying toys it's easy to make decisions, because you need everything. After you're kind of set up those purchases take a lot more thought.
At this point I'm thinking:
melodyne 3 studio edition
shure sm7b
royer r-122
Vintech X73i
Good choices? I think so.
I think that would help me out a lot more than a pretty mixer/control surface that may or may not be a piece of doo doo. I wasn't taking into account that my new recording space will be MUCH smaller than what I've been using here, and I won't be able to record much more than single instruments and vocals.
Hell, I probably won't even have any clients for a year or so when I can get a bigger place.