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acousticmaniac
Joined: 21/11/04
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Console Suggestions
#313114 - 19/06/06 12:25 PM
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Hey,
Last year, my fellow band member and I began to build a premises with the
intention to create a small recording studio and tution space. Its come to the point in
the build project where we need to decide upon the equipment.
We will only
every be recording a maximum of 16 inputs into either a Pro Tools HD system or something
based around Logic (yet to decide) but we still have a selection of outboard equipment to
use.
What do people recommend for this sort of set up with a budget of around
£3000 for the console?
Cheers
Adam
Five Ways Studios
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Dave B
Joined: 03/04/03
Posts: 4511
Loc: Maidenhead
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Re: Console Suggestions
[Re: acousticmaniac]
#313148 - 19/06/06 01:48 PM
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Obvious question : do you in fact need a console? You could do everything in the box and
use a control surface, with outboard being added through the interface. It's an option
anyway...
In the sort of price bracket that you are talking about, a quick look
at Larkings or Gear Online shows that you could afford :
- Soundtracs Mega
- Soundtracs IL
- Soundcraft 6000
- Allen and Heath GS3000
- Soundcraft
Ghost
All of which are good desks with the first three being older desks which
mean that they are easier to service, but have a greater risk of going wrong.
The GS3000 has a few fans round these parts and the Ghost is considered to be about the
first 'usable' desk by some pros that I know. They both can be automated to a degree
(mutes) which is nice.
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Mixedup
active member
Joined: 03/09/03
Posts: 2502
Loc: London, UK
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Re: Console Suggestions
[Re: acousticmaniac]
#313158 - 19/06/06 02:04 PM
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you could get a nice second hand console with that budget (wanna buy my TAC Scorpion... 24
channels, 16 buss to tape...?  ?) but I have to agree with Dave: In your position I'd be asking myself
if I really needed a desk for anything other than to look good in front of the punters...
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acousticmaniac
Joined: 21/11/04
Posts: 4
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Re: Console Suggestions
[Re: Dave B]
#313159 - 19/06/06 02:05 PM
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Cheers for the suggestions. I was aware of the GL3000 and Soundcraft consoles as an
option an I will look into these a little more.
With regards to actually
needing a console, we decided that we wanted to give ourselves plenty of options with
regards to recording and signal routing.
How would you go about setting up an
in the box system, any particualar interfaces you'd recommend?
Thank you very
much in advance
Adam
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tyler durden
Joined: 24/09/04
Posts: 160
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Re: Console Suggestions
[Re: acousticmaniac]
#313163 - 19/06/06 02:15 PM
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I would recommend buying a used console as you will get something that originally cost
much more than £3000. As already mentioned the GS3000 is a good desk. I would also
recommend checking out some of the other soundtracs consoles such as the solitaire or jade
(though you may struggle to find a jade for around 3k). On these consoles you get a
compressor and gate on every channel which is a useful bonus! Check out
studiosystems.co.uk for used soundtracs consoles.
I personally prefer mixing through
an analogue console with nice eq and nice outboard.You don't have to worry so much about
maxing out your computer with loads of plugins and I find it sounds better (I'm still yet
to find an eq plugin that sounds as good as a quality analogue eq).I also find it a
quicker way to work but maybe that's just me .I also find it much easier for setting up
headphone mixes for musicians.
The downside is you don't get total recall ,so if you
want to slightly adjust something in the mix and the mix isn't still set up on the console
your screwed. Consider how you wan't to work and what sort of work you will be doing, if
total recall is important then you may be better off investing in a rack of nice preamps
and a control surface. If digital summing concerns you then you could look into getting a
summing box . If total recall isn't imortant get an analogue desk.
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