Hello,

I'm interested to a simple but no compromise quality recording home studio.
I'm undecided between this product:

apogee rosetta hd pack: http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/hdpack.php

apogee trak2: http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/trak2.php

digidesign 002: http://www.digidesign.com/products/d...tems/002hw.cfm

Please help me.

Thanks in advance,
Alex.

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I'm interested to a simple but no compromise quality recording home studio.
I'm undecided between this product:

apogee rosetta hd pack
apogee trak2
digidesign 002

Please help me.

No wonder you're undecided. They're so totally different that it's
apparent that you don't understand what's involved in equipping a
recording studio.

Since two of the three products are linked to ProTools, does this mean
you're planning to use ProTools? Do you already use ProTools? Are you
looking for other options?

What other equipment do you own or are you planning on buying?
Microphones? Monitors? Software? Acoustical treatment materials? What
are you planning to record?

Before asking "which one should I buy" you need to spend more time
than you realize reading about studio equipment and techniques, visit
some studios, talk to real people (not just people who answer your
anguished plea for help) and then start asking some specific and
relevant questions. At this point, with so little information other
than perhaps a ballpark budget for a single piece of a complex system,
I'd say that it doens't matter which one you choose. What color do you
like?

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lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

Thanks for your kindly reply (Sugarite, Miker Rivers).

I will try to explain my purpose:

1) register (without compromise, from an high-end front end) a lot of LP from
my personal collection in 96Khz standard (with apogee system I can upgrade it
up to 192Khz) and then burning a DVD audio. Using the A/D section, that must
be excellent.

2) use the equipment connected to an Apple PowerBook to make a mobile rec
system.

3) use the equipment to improve the overall sound quality with its D/A section
(I had a Stax X1t D/A processor, now a custom tube processor), connected to
pc, dvd audio player, cd audio player...

4) Because I'm a musician (not professional, only for hobby), I would like to
use it to register my guitars (elecric and acoustic) and some synthesizer and
voices. Today I use an EMU APS with cakewalk software, but I want to switch to
ProTools sofware.

I can't go to any studio, I can't talk with some audio engineer, and
unfortunately I cant't test any product before purchase it.

Thanks in advance.
Alex

PS: I'm sorry for bad english...

One more info:

my budget is about $3000.

Thanks.

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AlexNet wrote:
1) register (without compromise, from an high-end front end) a lot of LP from
my personal collection in 96Khz standard (with apogee system I can upgrade it
up to 192Khz) and then burning a DVD audio. Using the A/D section, that must
be excellent.

Sure, it'll be pretty darn good, but there are still better/different
choices. Also, I believe you're buying a multitrack converter set,
and from what I can tell, you only need two channels at a time.

2) use the equipment connected to an Apple PowerBook to make a mobile rec
system.

Here's the problem. The Apogee is just a converter. It won't help
you to store digital audio on your computer, it only creates the
digitized audio. If your Mac has S/PDIF ports on the back, then you
can use these to connect to the Apogee and actually do recording,
presumably with iTunes or something like that.

But if not, then you'll need an interface to let you hook digital
audio up to your computer. A Digidesign MBox is a good way to go for
this, and it's small too. Only two channels at a time, but it's
enough to do overdubs and monitoring, and with external converters, it
ought to sound just fine too.

3) use the equipment to improve the overall sound quality with its D/A section
(I had a Stax X1t D/A processor, now a custom tube processor), connected to
pc, dvd audio player, cd audio player...

4) Because I'm a musician (not professional, only for hobby), I would like to
use it to register my guitars (elecric and acoustic) and some synthesizer and
voices. Today I use an EMU APS with cakewalk software, but I want to switch to
ProTools sofware.

Well then, you either need a ProTools interface and software or
ProTools free and the sound manager hardware in your PowerBook. Only
ProTools free runs on non Digi hardware. If your Powerbook as no
digital audio IO, then you need to go the first route. The 002 is
popular and can sound good with external converters. The MBox is a
lot cheaper but it's only two channels and it has no faders for
mixing.


Have fun,

Monte McGuire

1) register (without compromise, from an high-end front end) a lot of LP
from
my personal collection in 96Khz standard (with apogee system I can upgrade
it
up to 192Khz) and then burning a DVD audio. Using the A/D section, that
must
be excellent.

Don't forget the Big Ben.
That is essential when copying LPs! G

;-)