STUDIO SET UP

[ranking trevor]

Irie Ites; Roots Archive Crew

im thinking of setting up a studio to record some artists and digitalise my reggae collection of vinyls

can anyone recommend any eqipment i can use or would require to produced good material

Thanks

Jah Bless - Respeck

[IrieMystic]

1 thing is you do not need a studio to "rip" vinyls... just pick up a book and read... everyone has a different opinion on the equipment use for recording artist.. theres magazines out there for you to read

[leggo rocker]

I use a Sony tunrtable plugged into the MM phono stage on a Technics Power amp. I use the record out phono sockets from the Amp and plug that into the line in on a MAcBook Pro using a phono to minijack lead. The Macbook is running OS X 10.4 and I have been using CD Spin Doctor but am considering changing to Soundtrack as I've had so many problems with Spin Doctor - like recording stuff and finding the file is empty?!?! No idea what causes that but it wastes so much time.

Record the vinyl at the highest possible sampling rate for the best possible quality and then use something like Switch to convert them down to whatever format and file size, such a MP3 at 128, you need to use on your iPod or your CD burner.

I store the big raw files as Aiff format on an external Lacie hard drive, then use the Mp3s on my computer or iPod. I rarely burn vinyl to CD except for friends who want to listen to my tunes, as I don't really listen to CDs anymore.

And to IrieMystic, strictly speaking you don't 'rip' vinyl, that term applies to copying CDs to MP3 format. Or at least so I am told by my 21 yr old son who knows much more about stuff like this than I do!

[searcher]

an apple mac with an M-Box and ProTools LE software will give you a powerful startup system - the M Box uses professional quality pre-amps & if you're recording vocals you want to get the best quality you can going in. also buy the best quality microphone you can afford. if you've already got a PC then you'd have to look at some other soundcard option

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?nav ... emid=23596