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Originally Posted by sobriquet
Depends what he wants. For some solid durable monitoring headphones go for Beyer DT100 or any number of " Senn's " range (HD650 are good but expensive). For mixing, really, on a budget? Save your money, use whatever headphones/speakers you're used to listening to music on ( a friend of mine uses some shit computer speakers and his mixes are sometomes better than mine ). Otherwise I'd buy Tannoy Reveals (again if on a budget but quite good anyway, actually). I have many different speakers, but in all honesty I use a pair of Panasonic's consumer range headphones mostly ($9).
As for a PC recording machine? I'm not too sure.I've only ever used a 'homebrew' cubase machine once in my life and I hated every fucking second on it. There's just no kineticism - it distends my rectum.
Depending on how serious you are, I'd 'pop' for something like this :
http://cgi.ebay.com/Mackie-HDR-24-96-Hard-Disk-Recorder-No-reserve-As-Is_W0QQitemZ370042073438QQihZ024QQcategoryZ41784QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Then get a small desk and the other required bits to accompany it. It has a 'Pro-tools-like' interface built in when you plug in a monitor and mouse. You can get a load of problems with home built computers loaded with Cubase. It can be highly annoying.You want something sturdy and reliable to use as your 'multitracker'. |
thanks for your suggesions, but I'm pretty much set up as of now (I need a really simple little studio).
I have a fostex digital multitrack recorder with hd
A lem rd82fx mixer
I'll use the pc just to make some electronic bases/noises and mix the separate tracks transferred from the recorder. So the pc is hardly a proper "recording machine" in this scenario, more like a "mixer that keeps track of the changes/effects for each track"
I have yamaha Hs 50m studio monitors, will mix with them.
I'm just trying to decide what's the most cost-effective cpu "future-proof" for a couple years.
