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How to get studio quality sound into my computer from a preamp?
Okay, I've spent soooo much money on improving my quality from an ADK
51 mic, Mackie 1202 mixer and m-audio audiophile 2496 soundcard and still have gotten no results. I bought a Blue Robbie preamp and nothing.... I bought a Rode K2 Tube mic and still nothing great... I bought a Blue Baby Bottle and it's pretty good, maybe a little better than my ADK 51... but nothing fantastic... I bought a Presonus Eureka...it sounded great in the store with the Baby Bottle but at home it was nothing special. I bought a Mbox with Protools, hated the software....so I'm selling that off on eBay right now... I bought an M-audio FastTrack recording interface and it added hiss to my sound, so waste of money there... I went from my Eureka into my Mackie into and with the rca outs from Mackie into my M-Audio audiophile soundcard...and no improvement... So now, I want to buy a Manley VoxBox. I've tried the Avalon 737 SP at the local guitar center and the Eureka quite frankly was just as good. Is Manley VoxBox a good buy for hip hop / r&b vocals? I liked the Blue Baby Bottle mic, should I stick with it? How would I get the sound from my Manley VoxBox or even my Eureka into my computer? I HATE PROTOOLS...so I'm not going with any Digidesign crap. I'm using Cool Edit Pro / Adobe Audition for recording and simply love it. Before I've been taking the RCA outs from my Mackie 1202 mixer and running it into my M-Audio audiophile soundcard and the sound was pretty okay. Now I want to take the XLR outs from a preamp and put them into my computer without losing any quality along the way...what do I use? I've thought about running it into a ART CleanBox and convert the XLR into RCA and put it into my M-Audio soundcard but a $4,000 preamp (Manley Voxbox) going into a $40 equipment (ART CleanBox) just doesn't seem right. Is there any other way? People told me to bypass the Mackie eq and do it, but I don't know how and I'm not even sure if it's possible with a Mackie 1202 VLZ Micro Series. So how do I get XLR outs from my preamp to go into my computer without any loss in quality? What preamps / compressors / eqs / mics do you guys recommend for vocals only? I want to record an album and I can go to a local studio and pay $2,000 for a whole CD or buy my own equipment for about $6,000. I want to buy my own. What do you guys recommend? The CD will release about 10,000 copies, nothing huge. Any comments? Any suggestions on how to get that sound that I can send to a radio station without them throwing away the CD after listening to the first 15 seconds of it? I have a $6,000 budget. I can save up more money but I don't know if I really want to spend all that money on studio equipment. My sound quality is quite nice right now with a Mackie 1202 / ADK 51 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496. It's nothing like studio quality which you hear on your everyday CDs though. So what do I need? Oh, and I have Studiophile BX5 monitors, I personally dislike them too. They aren't very helpful with bass...they actually suck at expressing the bass of the actual track. I'm looking at Mackie HR-824....good choice, good bang for the buck or should I calm down and keep what I have as monitors? Check me out at: www.HassanAnsari.com |
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