Reccomended Hardware For a Studio????

DJ Enta-T

Didnt get much reply from the other post. Ill try again. With a flexible £5000 budget wot equipment would your reccomend. High end essential gear first, then the niceties please.
Cheers

Stylis

start off with a p.c. with a good processor, P4, 2.5gig should do. with at least a 60 gigs hard drive. Then Purchase Reason 2 by Propellorheads and Steinbergs cubase VST. A Good soundcard (maybe a motu. Then a Nice digital mixing desk. Then obviously a good amp and monitors, and any thing else you personally need. You can do alot with Reason 2, so you don't actually need too much equipment.

NASTYBASTARD

Im gonna say this

get a mac pcs and audio are an absolute peice of $$$$ look for the spec on any decent studio and theylle be running a mac they do a 1.25 ghz dual processor now but you dont neceserilly need that much i hav a 1ghz dual proccesor and its great
logic is the $$$$ but theres just something about the layout that isnt very clear so id recomend cubase sx is cool but any would do.

im noyt too up on soundcards as i use an interface a motu 828 i prefer this to soundcards

you dont need a desk but id say if you went for cubase get a houston controller the pric has come right down from 999 to about 500 in the last month or so.
youll need a keyboard ive only got a roland pc-300 but thats all you need

youll need some sound sources the emu proteus 2500 is a really nice peice of kit pretty much every sound youd ever need in there and infinately tweekable. it sounds that your like me and a hard ware man so i wont go into the softs and a good couple of softs will take up half your cpu anyway.

a decent pair of moniters (speakerrs) tanoy do some fairly good budget ones but this is really up to you .

if you go for cubase get the hallion too its a software sampler theyve got an offer on at the moment where its 199 for that and a few sample cds

you can go for a hard sampler at a later date as getting used to this lot first will be hard enough but if you do go for one id say any akai or yamaha is a good bet

youll nedd some kind of midi interface t. steinberg do a midex 8 its basicly 8in 8out

ill put prices and pictures if you want of all those as a guide and anything ive missed out

Big$hot

Mac Dual G4 867Mhz-£1400
Emu E5000-£700 (Sampler)
Yamaha 01v-£850 (Digital Mixing Desk)
Yamaha MSP5-£300 (Active Monitors)
Digi 001-£600 (Soundcard with Pro Tools 5.1LE)

For these pick whatever...
Korg Triton-£1500 (Keyboard Workstation)
Rolanad XV5050-£630/Emu Proteus 2000-£500 (Sound Modules)

[agx]

use an elastic band rewired or midi'd thru to a trash can like the rest of the peeps, ull make bare moola

DJ Enta-T

Thanks for the replies. Cheers Stylis but i got a similar set up atm, thanks for the advice Nasty ill keep it in mind. Thats wot im talkin bout Big$hot. Im lookin for peoples opinions on what they think is really worth buying.

AGUK your way too angry bro.

NASTYBASTARD

Yeah i will say this tough
the proteus 2500 is the mother of all synths and goes for like 50 more than the 2000

you need to get what you feel comfortable using.

all the big retailers have demo rooms where you test any peice of equipment and if they think your gonna spend 5000 theylle hapily show you everything in there

oh yeah and tritons suck

DJ Enta-T

niceness. ok ill speak to some more people. ill b postin back in the comin months if u could keep locked and nudge me in the right direction it would b appreciated.
cheers

Big$hot

“	Originally posted by NASTY$$$$$$$ oh yeah and tritons suck	”

Timbaland, Neptunes and Rodney Jerkins didn't seem to think so?

That's your opinion anyway?

Paul Rose

“	Originally posted by NASTY$$$$$$$ pcs and audio are an absolute peice of $$$$	”

This is not true. PCs are catching up with Macs all the time for Audio, and they're a LOT cheaper.

Morph

Emu Sampler (esi 2000-E4 Platinum) any will do

http://www.emu.com/

the emu range has powerful filters and a nice strong clean sound if you go for any of the E4 range put an internal hardrive inside say about 20 gig and buy that at a computer shop coz where you get the sampler from they will charge you about 250 at a computer store they will charge you about 40

Roland XV5080 (syth)

http://www.roland.co.jp/

this is an all round powerhouse it has about 1500 standard preset and about 1600 wav genarated sounds 4 expansion slots GM modes as well as drumz

RME (Hammerfall or Digi Series Soundcards)

http://www.rme-audio.com/

i just been testing it

the $$$$$ will do anything you demand with 0 latency you will need a digital link or buy the expansion board with analog in outs or both

software

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/

this site has ever thing well most things just need a fast connection and a site with (serials/cracks) and your away

i hope this helps

Morph

Morph

if you need to know more from me just pm me

Big$hot

“	Originally posted by NASTY$$$$$$$ get a mac, pcs and audio are an absolute peice of $$$$	”

That's right nasty! Just the thought of PCs and Audio gives me the shivers!

90% of *professional* studios run their ish on Mac, because it's more *reliable*, none of those Unknown error bull-ish! Digidesign only recently started to make Pro Tools for Pcs as they're only *recently* catching up.

Pcs are only good for Essay's and play Half Life!

DJ Enta-T

biggup every1 who replied. Im shoppin in the january sales

ill b pm-in u lot if i do need help.
thanks again

enta-t