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Need help setting up recording studio
I'm trying to duplicate a recording studio setup that I saw in Africa
a few years back, but I'm very much a newbie and am having trouble figuring it out. The basic components are a DAW (meaning a PC with Cubase), a large analog mixer and a Tascam DM-24 + firewire interface card. I want to be able to record bands and mix them on my analog mixer and capture all of the tracks in my computer. Can somebody tell me where I can look for help? Thanks. |
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Need help setting up recording studio
Well assuming you have the means to duplicate the setup you can start with
the DM-24 and a computer, and some mics, cables and stands (musicians too). If you are doing 24 inputs or less you won't need the large mixing console. Setting it all up would require a lot of reading. You will also need to get some good books on recording (covering mic selection, placement techniques, wiring, DI of insturments, etc etc). With this setup you probably won't want to bother with a lot of outboard effects as lots of it can be done in Cubase after you record it. The DM-24 comes with lots of effects already built in but you probably want to record everything raw. Cubase has good manuals on the software but won't tell you how to "mix". Get a copy of "The Art Of Mixing". Great book on EQ, Compression, Gating and other subjects. If you really want to get into it you also want to read about room acoustics when recording everything in one room. This can be done much cheaper than a Tascam DM-24. If you don't need all the bells and whistles of the DM-24 then you could always pick up a mixing board (if your interface does not have mic preamps) and an audio interface (Check out m-audio, presonus, rme, Mark of the unicorn). This would get everything into the PC for mixing. Hope this gets you started; Steve wrote in message ups.com... I'm trying to duplicate a recording studio setup that I saw in Africa a few years back, but I'm very much a newbie and am having trouble figuring it out. The basic components are a DAW (meaning a PC with Cubase), a large analog mixer and a Tascam DM-24 + firewire interface card. I want to be able to record bands and mix them on my analog mixer and capture all of the tracks in my computer. Can somebody tell me where I can look for help? Thanks. |
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Need help setting up recording studio
Thanks for your reply and for your good advice. I already own the
DM-24 and I am hoping I don't have to buy another interface to get everything into my computer. The reason I want to use the analog mixer is just that I know how to get the sound I want using it. I guess it probably doesn't make much sense to use the DM-24 as just a really fancy interface, but is it possible to connect my analog mixer to the DM-24 so that all the tracks will get into Cubase? On Mar 26, 7:38 pm, "Steve" wrote: Well assuming you have the means to duplicate the setup you can start with the DM-24 and a computer, and some mics, cables and stands (musicians too). If you are doing 24 inputs or less you won't need the large mixing console. Setting it all up would require a lot of reading. You will also need to get some good books on recording (covering mic selection, placement techniques, wiring, DI of insturments, etc etc). With this setup you probably won't want to bother with a lot of outboard effects as lots of it can be done in Cubase after you record it. The DM-24 comes with lots of effects already built in but you probably want to record everything raw. Cubase has good manuals on the software but won't tell you how to "mix". Get a copy of "The Art Of Mixing". Great book on EQ, Compression, Gating and other subjects. If you really want to get into it you also want to read about room acoustics when recording everything in one room. This can be done much cheaper than a Tascam DM-24. If you don't need all the bells and whistles of the DM-24 then you could always pick up a mixing board (if your interface does not have mic preamps) and an audio interface (Check out m-audio, presonus, rme, Mark of the unicorn). This would get everything into the PC for mixing. Hope this gets you started; Steve wrote in message ups.com... I'm trying to duplicate a recording studio setup that I saw in Africa a few years back, but I'm very much a newbie and am having trouble figuring it out. The basic components are a DAW (meaning a PC with Cubase), a large analog mixer and a Tascam DM-24 + firewire interface card. I want to be able to record bands and mix them on my analog mixer and capture all of the tracks in my computer. Can somebody tell me where I can look for help? Thanks. |
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ups.com I'm trying to duplicate a recording studio setup that I saw in Africa a few years back, but I'm very much a newbie and am having trouble figuring it out. The basic components are a DAW (meaning a PC with Cubase), a large analog mixer and a Tascam DM-24 + firewire interface card. I want to be able to record bands and mix them on my analog mixer and capture all of the tracks in my computer. I don't know about DM-24 digital consoles, but I know what I'd do with my 02R96 if I had a firewire interface for it. I'd route all the 02R96 direct outs to the firewire interface, and use the 02R96 for real-time monitoring. Since I'm on a budget and don't have a firewire interface for the 02R96, I do essentially the same thing via some ADA 8000s running into some Delta 1010LT audio interfaces. Gratuitous round trip through the analog domain notwithstanding. |
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Need help setting up recording studio
On Mar 26, 11:30 pm, wrote:
Thanks for your reply and for your good advice. I already own the DM-24 and I am hoping I don't have to buy another interface to get everything into my computer. The reason I want to use the analog mixer is just that I know how to get the sound I want using it. I guess it probably doesn't make much sense to use the DM-24 as just a really fancy interface, but is it possible to connect my analog mixer to the DM-24 so that all the tracks will get into Cubase? You're right, it makes no sense at all to do this, but if you insist, you can use the bus outputs, or direct outputs if they're post-EQ, from the analog mixer and connect those to the line inputs of the DM-24. But if you want to mix your recorded tracks on the analog console, I'm not sure if the DM-24 has routing that will let you take an input from the computer and route it to a channel's direct output. I suspect that the input from the Firewire card comes past that analog connector. Why do you want to keep the DM-24 if you're only going to use it as an interface to your computer? Sell the DM-24 (if you can!) and buy a nice analog multitrack recording console and as many channels of Firewire interface as you need. |
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