Pre/Post & Main Studio Differences

[Customer of Plusnet]

Hiya everyone

In my quest to become clued up on all this jazz, I have run across a
stumbling block!

If, for example I was to plan an initial recording session for a new
project, what type of studio space would I use, and why?
-ie, what ARE the differences between a Pre/Post and a Main studio setup?

Apparently "deja is my friend" (whatever that means)!!!!
Thankyou!!!!!
Matt

[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> If, for example I was to plan an initial recording session for a new
> project, what type of studio space would I use, and why?

One that suits the project. But you (and anyone advising you) needs to
know what the project is, in excruciating details - how many people
are involved, how many will be playing at the same time, what do they
play, how much do you have to spend, how good are they . . . and so
on.

> -ie, what ARE the differences between a Pre/Post and a Main studio setup?

I've never heard of a "Pre/Post" studio. That term is usually applied
to signal routing in a console, but maybe you're referring to "Post"
as in post-production. That's where you take all the assorted bits of
audio that you've managed to capture, buy, or steal, and assemble them
into something that resembles the project you had as your goal. In a
"Post" studio, there's generally no live recording facilities other
than perhaps an isolation booth to re-do vocals or add narration if
it's that kind of a project. All of the sources go into a mixer (which
may be a computer) and get assembled into a final product.

> Apparently "deja is my friend" (whatever that means)!!!!

Not if your question is that general and ambiguous. "Deja" is short
for "Deja News" which has been absorbed into http://www.google.com
("Google" for short). It contains an archive of almost all of the
postings to almost all of the Usenet newsgroups for the past several
years. However, if you try to search for "Post" there, you'll get,
in addition to messages about post-production for audio and video,
messages about hitching posts, fence posts, the US mail and maybe even
Pony Express, The Washington Post, The New York Post, and even this
message, which is about posts to rec.audio.pro. You gotta learn how to
use it to restrict what it shows you.



--
I'm really Mike Rivers - )

[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> If, for example I was to plan an initial recording session for a new
> project, what type of studio space would I use, and why?

One that suits the project. But you (and anyone advising you) needs to
know what the project is, in excruciating details - how many people
are involved, how many will be playing at the same time, what do they
play, how much do you have to spend, how good are they . . . and so
on.

> -ie, what ARE the differences between a Pre/Post and a Main studio setup?

I've never heard of a "Pre/Post" studio. That term is usually applied
to signal routing in a console, but maybe you're referring to "Post"
as in post-production. That's where you take all the assorted bits of
audio that you've managed to capture, buy, or steal, and assemble them
into something that resembles the project you had as your goal. In a
"Post" studio, there's generally no live recording facilities other
than perhaps an isolation booth to re-do vocals or add narration if
it's that kind of a project. All of the sources go into a mixer (which
may be a computer) and get assembled into a final product.

> Apparently "deja is my friend" (whatever that means)!!!!

Not if your question is that general and ambiguous. "Deja" is short
for "Deja News" which has been absorbed into http://www.google.com
("Google" for short). It contains an archive of almost all of the
postings to almost all of the Usenet newsgroups for the past several
years. However, if you try to search for "Post" there, you'll get,
in addition to messages about post-production for audio and video,
messages about hitching posts, fence posts, the US mail and maybe even
Pony Express, The Washington Post, The New York Post, and even this
message, which is about posts to rec.audio.pro. You gotta learn how to
use it to restrict what it shows you.



--
I'm really Mike Rivers - )