Steve Scott
July 31st 04, 09:27 AM
"Handywired" > wrote in message
...
>
> Find a decent used Neotek Series I, II, or III (OK, so it's a little more
> complicated than that); they sound amazing and I think can be had at
pretty
> reasonable prices considering what you get! On the II and III at least
you
> get, per channel strip, a pad, a good mic and line pre amp section, a
> powerful and musical-sounding 4-band parametric EQ and then the other
normal
> board stuff, FX sends and bussing etc. Anyway, they sound great; you
could do
> a very nice acoustic recond on one. The top end is real open and silky.
So on
> a 24-channel board you'd then have 24 good mic preamps and 24 good EQ's!
That
> covers a lot of bases though outboard preamps are always nice to have.
>
> For a recorder if it needs to be tape-based-digital I'd snag a D-38 or
two.
> You can get them cheap and they are good machines. For analog the Tascam
> MS-16 is a steal at what you can get them for. They can sound good and
are
> generally workhorses, though go into any reel to reel tape recorder with
your
> eyes open.
>
> I know personally that the above combos work fine; I've used them. You
can
> certainly do better but then, you have 5K to spend! These are things i
know
> have a good bang-to-buck ratio. Pro Tools 02 sounds good into the Neotek
too.
>
> Alternatively, that 5k would buy some serious time in a good studio where
some
> other person would be hustling his/her ass off to make you happy and
grease the
> wheels and free you to just play music... just a thought...
>
> -jeff
OK, good stuff Jeff. I don't know about Neotek, this is what I'm needing to
learn... Recorder doesn't have to be tape, I'm open to opinions. Those
sound like good choices though. I've considered getting an open reel just
for occasional "fun" experiments, I used to have an old (60's) Akai, don't
know if it was any good or not <g> I'll definitely check into the MS-16.
Other r2r recommendations, anyone?
$5k is an arbitrary number. I'd like to go less, but need to be realistic.
And for studios -- done that, but I'm not into professional recordings at
this time. It was fun though, someone else was paying the tab! I'm a
musician, and really more interested in setting up a "Craft" type system
that I can enjoy at my leisure, no real production volume.
The Akai DPS24 is a fantastic system for what it is, I just want to learn
more options as well. I can stay with this and make recordings easily, but
I'm always exploring... keep em coming
Steve
...
>
> Find a decent used Neotek Series I, II, or III (OK, so it's a little more
> complicated than that); they sound amazing and I think can be had at
pretty
> reasonable prices considering what you get! On the II and III at least
you
> get, per channel strip, a pad, a good mic and line pre amp section, a
> powerful and musical-sounding 4-band parametric EQ and then the other
normal
> board stuff, FX sends and bussing etc. Anyway, they sound great; you
could do
> a very nice acoustic recond on one. The top end is real open and silky.
So on
> a 24-channel board you'd then have 24 good mic preamps and 24 good EQ's!
That
> covers a lot of bases though outboard preamps are always nice to have.
>
> For a recorder if it needs to be tape-based-digital I'd snag a D-38 or
two.
> You can get them cheap and they are good machines. For analog the Tascam
> MS-16 is a steal at what you can get them for. They can sound good and
are
> generally workhorses, though go into any reel to reel tape recorder with
your
> eyes open.
>
> I know personally that the above combos work fine; I've used them. You
can
> certainly do better but then, you have 5K to spend! These are things i
know
> have a good bang-to-buck ratio. Pro Tools 02 sounds good into the Neotek
too.
>
> Alternatively, that 5k would buy some serious time in a good studio where
some
> other person would be hustling his/her ass off to make you happy and
grease the
> wheels and free you to just play music... just a thought...
>
> -jeff
OK, good stuff Jeff. I don't know about Neotek, this is what I'm needing to
learn... Recorder doesn't have to be tape, I'm open to opinions. Those
sound like good choices though. I've considered getting an open reel just
for occasional "fun" experiments, I used to have an old (60's) Akai, don't
know if it was any good or not <g> I'll definitely check into the MS-16.
Other r2r recommendations, anyone?
$5k is an arbitrary number. I'd like to go less, but need to be realistic.
And for studios -- done that, but I'm not into professional recordings at
this time. It was fun though, someone else was paying the tab! I'm a
musician, and really more interested in setting up a "Craft" type system
that I can enjoy at my leisure, no real production volume.
The Akai DPS24 is a fantastic system for what it is, I just want to learn
more options as well. I can stay with this and make recordings easily, but
I'm always exploring... keep em coming
Steve