Not having to haul all my gear to the studio

I have an Fantom-S, MPC 2000xl, and a Roland 3080. I never want to have to haul this stuff to a professional studio. I want to be able to record to something and then be able to take it to the studio where they can do the final mixing and what not. I was thinking about buying a recording workstation but I wanted to ask you guys' opinion?

Medic wrote:I have an Fantom-S, MPC 2000xl, and a Roland 3080. I never want to have to haul this stuff to a professional studio. I want to be able to record to something and then be able to take it to the studio where they can do the final mixing and what not. I was thinking about buying a recording workstation but I wanted to ask you guys' opinion?

yes do that...thaz what i do.....saves alot of trouble.....if you are looking for suggestions......aw16g has been rated the best 16-track workstation recorder in it's class.......

Hey Prah, when you take your workstation to the studio and do the tracking, do you do one track at a time or how does it work? do you ever have more than 16 tracks?

(sidenote: how do I get an image below my id name? I went to "profile" and put in a link under avatar and the file met the specifications and it still didn't work. whats up?)

The easies way i would say is to but something like pro tools or sonar cubase type program and do all your recording in one of those programs when it comes time to go to the studio and you dont want to carry everything just mix down each track to a wav file and save it to a external harddrive or just save it on your computer so that you can burn the tracks on a cdr. I would say that this is a good way too.

young_keyz wrote:The easies way i would say is to but something like pro tools or sonar cubase type program and do all your recording in one of those programs when it comes time to go to the studio and you dont want to carry everything just mix down each track to a wav file and save it to a external harddrive or just save it on your computer so that you can burn the tracks on a cdr. I would say that this is a good way too.

true..... it is very universal and it would be less to lug around.......but if you work with all ranges of ppl(local cats to signed artists)....some of these clients might not have these programs or even like them....if you still wanna supply them with heat you have to be prepared....

Medic wrote:Hey Prah, when you take your workstation to the studio and do the tracking, do you do one track at a time or how does it work? do you ever have more than 16 tracks?

(sidenote: how do I get an image below my id name? I went to "profile" and put in a link under avatar and the file met the specifications and it still didn't work. whats up?)

to be honest i try to do as much as i can on my own a lot of the time these ppl like when you are ready to go so I might two-track beforehand.........as for the avatar....it has the be a link that is strong...i forgot what they call it but basically it cannot be from geocites....yahoo...and those page group because those arent strong links......


for example this should work for you:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000 ... ZZZZZZ.jpg

put that in your line and see what happens

Thanks for the avatar tip.

As far as two tracking beforehand, I guess you do all your own mixing and effects and the engineer just records and mixes the vocals . . . how does that work? Do you feel the your mixing and effects sound professional because I'm stuck between mixing myself or letting the engineer do all the mixing and effects.

Medic wrote:Thanks for the avatar tip.

As far as two tracking beforehand, I guess you do all your own mixing and effects and the engineer just records and mixes the vocals . . . how does that work? Do you feel the your mixing and effects sound professional because I'm stuck between mixing myself or letting the engineer do all the mixing and effects.

you should let the engineer do it if you don't feel comfortable about your sound.......but be specific of what you want.....how you want it to sound....and he should be able to recreate that for you.......as for me I say this is Hip Hop where we use sp-1200's,turntables,MPC's,8-track recorders,16-track recorders...old school budget sh*t and make it sound good....a lot of the time someone who is not familar on how rap should sound will mess up your mix.........YOU should know how YOU want YOUR music to sound.........sometimes we do need assistance though...but you have to learn to be self-sufficent.....ya dig???

yo prah the aw16g was rated the best in it's class huh. do you have one? i'm looking to get a multi-track and kinda had my eye on that one or the fostex v160. which do you think would be a better buy? peace

Skratchmo, whats got your eye on these two multitrackers as opposed to like a Roland or Korg.

Medic wrote:Skratchmo, whats got your eye on these two multitrackers as opposed to like a Roland or Korg.

one of my guys i know has the fostex and he was saying it was the ish and nothing really special about the yamaha other than i had previously heard they were a quality piece. plus they are both in the $1000 dollar range. whats up with the roland or korg?

I use the computer to record on a daily baisis. Now it is not as easy to set up if you are not use to dealing with these, or if you don't regularly defrag. But if you decied to go for a computer solution, Find out what system the studio uses and see if it is compatible with OMF. Sonar, Steinberg and Pro Tools (added option) all have this capabuility. That way your transfer is easier.

one of my guys i know has the fostex and he was saying it was the ish and nothing really special about the yamaha other than i had previously heard they were a quality piece. plus they are both in the $1000 dollar range. whats up with the roland or korg?[/quote]


I have heard that roland and korg were high quality multitrackers especially Roland. I haven't used them or heard them so I don't know personally. Roland has a steep price tag on some of there stuff though.


Personally I don't like to use computer recording because my system crashed a couple of times and it got on my effin nerves. Erased all my ish. If I had a Macintosh I might consider computer software, I heard mac's don't crash that much.

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