Re: [Protux-devel] Re: Protux based studio

[David Bain]

 Thanks Luciano for the info.
Based on your input I have created this summary

Midiman Sound Card Delta 66
http://midiman.com/products/m-audio/delta66.php 
PCI Digital Recording Interface:
 $400 (20bit so that I won't need compressor)
Mackie:$500 (second hand at ebay)
Mic:$200
Earphones:$100
Computer with good Speakers: $1200
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Total cost:US$2400

note this price does not include sound proofing a room
or cables


--- Luciano Giordana <address@hidden>
wrote: > First of all, sorry by the delay in this
reply,
> David
> 
> somehow, the mails from the list is not coming to
> me, although I can send. I
> saw you messages in the archives. Im checking what
> is going on
> 
> so, the reply:
> 
> well, it depends on the state of protux. For now, it
> can handle just half-duplex
> recording, which means, you can record in a time,
> and playback in another time.
> It also has support for just one dsp device. 
> 
> For a full studio you would require this :
> 
> 1 soundcard / dsp card with at least 4 ins and 4
> outs (midiman has great cards
> and 100% linux compatible)
> 
> 1 mixer . I recommend Mackie always. They have
> brains there, and the XLR preamp for mix
> are just amazing. A minimum mixer would have 4
> balanced ins with canoon jackets, 4 
> ins for hi-level signals (such CD players, and so
> on) and 4 outs. This mixer
> should have a phantom power system too (because of
> the mic, the next point)
> 
> 
> 1 good Mic . Use condenser mic, not directional
> (they are better for stage, not studio)
> and should work with phantom power. AKG provide good
> mics but I prefer seinheiser
> 
> Lots of good cables. Make them your self. Avoid
> reconnections and "extensions". user
> the short cable you can. The shorter the cables, the
> lower the noise
> 
> 
> A good valve compressor. If your soundcard works
> with 20 bits or 24 it is not that needed
> but if you work with 16 bits, you will need this, or
> you will get many distortions
> on the input.
> Put the compressor in the mixer as a send/return
> system
> 
> Good ear-phones
> 
> A good computer. Avoid big Monitor screen, because
> they interfere very much 
> on the audio signals. Prefer LCD monitors.
> The computer should have at least 20Gb of HD, 128 of
> RAM (the more, the better)
> a 600Mhz CPU and good installation (Ground-cable,
> Stabilizer, AC filter, and so
> on).
> 
> Good speaker with a amplifier oriented to audio
> production. Yamaha has
> good cheap audio-monitor-systems. Plug the monitor
> system at he sound-card
> outputs. If you soundcard has many outputs, use
> another mixer as a monitor mixer.
> 
> 
> For the software, you will need Linux and Protux ,
> of course.
> 
> A good place to build the studio. Use a room for the
> capturing room
> and another, acousticly isolated to the
> computer/mixer/compressor stuff.
> 
> A good isolation is a matter of doctor-grade in the
> univesities. But I got
> a good one here at home by doing this
> 
> I built a not-square rom, put a material called
> "sonex" here in brazil that
> is little pieces of sponge-similar fabric, in 3
> walls. The 4th wall I covered 
> with wood. The walls has 3 layers. the 1 and 3 (the
> outer layers) are made of
> wood, carpet, and rubber, in THIS SEQUENCE, for
> outside to inside. The 2nd layer is a 
> 10cm layer of AIR  (thats exactly what you read)
> 
> I can play a acoust guitar inside this room withou
> beign heard outside. It worls fine
> 
> For the production, remember :
> 
> DO NOT record anything with effects (such reverb,
> chorus). Apply them in 
> the post production
> 
> Avoid recording many things at a time. You loose
> control of the production.
> Only in big studios, with independent isolated rooms
> it can be done safely.
> 
> 
> Well this is it. I hope it helped a lot. 
> 
> Remember. Photo-camers, before 1970s, was a
> photographer's exclusive thing.
> Now everybody take good pictures with a $5 camera.
> This is the "banalization" process
> of the tecnology. Audio Studios are coming into the
> same phenomenon.
> The thing is not the tecnology anymore, but it is
> WHAT YOU PRODUCE with this.
> 
> So get inspired, and show your creativity to the
> world :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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