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Hi

I did have a read through the articles on SOS and it seem very good. I
have also been searching more and found a MXL1006 condenser mic and a
Yamaha MG102 analog mixer with builtin phantom power. The pair of those
seem to cost just under £150. I don't know how good the recording would
be to record the dialogues of an animation. I will mainly be using it
for voiceovers.

The main reason I am favouring Yamaha mixer is the builtin phantom power
supply.

If you are looking at mixers under 100 pounds then a Soundcraft Folio
Notepad is worth looking at. Go to http://www.studiospares.com and
browse their cataloge.


Duvets noted. I would probably raid the local market hall over this
weekend to get a few.

If you want to improve your acoustics on a tight budget then duvets are
apparently the way to go - see most of the Studio SOS articles in Sound
On Sound magazine. Styrofoam won't really help much.


Cheers.

James.

Ta
sreekant

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
sreekant wrote:

I need quite good quality sound but
after counting the amount of hours possibly needed for all the voice
chaps at studio, the bill seem to run too high, hence the home recording.


Are you aiming at recording the spoken word (as I assumed), or someone
singing? If singing, what type of music?


Hi

I am mainly looking to record voiceovers for an animation I am making.
It is unlikely that there will be any singing soon :-)

Thanks
sreekant

help setting up a recording studio at home!
 

In article ,
sreekant wrote:
Are you aiming at recording the spoken word (as I assumed), or someone
singing? If singing, what type of music?

I am mainly looking to record voiceovers for an animation I am making.
It is unlikely that there will be any singing soon :-)

Right - that's what I thought. A mic that might be ok for a singist buried
within a music mix is not necessarily going to sound good when exposed
with the spoken word. And frequently will sound horrid.

The industry 'standard' for this sort of thing would be a U87 - but even
used scruffy ones will fetch more than your budget. However, there are
several Chinese and Russian large diaphragm mics that do a similar job. I
wonder if you could find a friendly local shop that would allow you to try
perhaps secondhand ones and decide which one suits you best?

Few want this sort of mic - compared to PA type mics - so there might be a
larger selection of them available secondhand.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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help setting up a recording studio at home!
 

sreekant wrote:

Also my budget for soundcard and microphone is around £200 . If anyone
has any suggestions please fire away. It will be used mainly to record
voice.

Microphone - Superlux CMH8A
http://www.baldbeat.com/shop/catalog...roducts_id=160
62 quid including shockmount and pop shield

USB audio interface with phantom power http://www.dv247.com/invt/16189 160
quid.

So a little over 200 quid but much better results than you'll get with a
cheap internal soundcard.



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help setting up a recording studio at home!
 

USB audio interface with phantom power http://www.dv247.com/invt/16189 160
quid.

So a little over 200 quid but much better results than you'll get with a
cheap internal soundcard.




Hi there

Would an audio card with 96Khz sampling, still fall below that US122
external sampler! I remember reading that ensoniq has one of the decent
A/D Converters among user range snd cards.

Thanks
sreekant

help setting up a recording studio at home!
 

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

In article ,
sreekant wrote:
Are you aiming at recording the spoken word (as I assumed), or someone
singing? If singing, what type of music?

I am mainly looking to record voiceovers for an animation I am making.
It is unlikely that there will be any singing soon :-)

Right - that's what I thought. A mic that might be ok for a singist buried
within a music mix is not necessarily going to sound good when exposed
with the spoken word. And frequently will sound horrid.

The industry 'standard' for this sort of thing would be a U87 - but even
used scruffy ones will fetch more than your budget. However, there are
several Chinese and Russian large diaphragm mics that do a similar job. I
wonder if you could find a friendly local shop that would allow you to try
perhaps secondhand ones and decide which one suits you best?

Few want this sort of mic - compared to PA type mics - so there might be a
larger selection of them available secondhand.

I don't know - nowadays it seems like everyone wants a studio at home so
studio type mics are in demand. Maybe when home recording goes out of
fashion we'll see glut of cheap Chinese mics on the market but the
Chinese seem to be undercutting themselves already - take a look at
http://www.red5audio.com - they're selling a U87 lookalike for around 50
quid (and I've seen similar mics for $39 in the USA).

Cheers.

James.