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Post by logansc on Dec 21, 2007 23:20:02 GMT -5
So lets say this is what I have/am about to have.
I've got a big concrete building and am building a sheet rocked and insulated section with a big glass window in it to do the recording in. I snake the microphones (sm57's e906's and sm58's) to a booth that contains the macbook pro, and a presonus firepod. So this is fairly nice stuff.
But I'm doing all this on cubase LE, which is a light version. Does this seem fine, or does it seem wrong? do I need to upgrade? I don't think that this by any means justifies me getting protools HD or anything, but perhaps a full version of Cubase is needed? The differences basically are that Cubase Le has a track limit of like 48 I think, and it comes with less plugins, and the interface is a little bit more bland. Is that really a big deal? Is it more the amount of professionalness you have that justifies a nice program and not really your equipment?
Next year I'm gonna take a recording class during school. I take guitar class now. But they give you some kind of smaller Protools program on your laptops. If it is Protools Le then it will be the same if not worse than Cubas LE, but if its like Protools M powered or something that would be very nice.
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Post by Pro Tools LECubase LE on Dec 22, 2007 14:00:02 GMT -5
I would say that Pro Tools LE would work great for your studio...(Im sure Cubase LE would be good for what you're doing also)
Pro Tools M powered is a lesser version of LE. You probably would not want to use that.
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Post by deathsguitarist on Dec 22, 2007 14:02:22 GMT -5
that was my post....I forgot to sign in.
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Post by Stefvorcide on Dec 22, 2007 18:10:51 GMT -5
ROFL. Cory, c'mon.... only Kev (and drunken EMP ) can forget to sign in
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Post by loyct on Dec 23, 2007 12:19:46 GMT -5
I use LE, it seems fine. Yeah, the track limitation can get a little irritating sometimes, you just gotta bounce and re-work, but troubles the mix a little.
If you got a whole building, it is probably a full blown studio, and you'd want to get something that is not limited. But Cubase LE itself is already very powerful, and it probably can produce very decent demos, and even debut albums i guess.
Just like in guitar, its in the hands, not the equipment.
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Post by logansc on Dec 25, 2007 23:18:23 GMT -5
I would say that Pro Tools LE would work great for your studio...(Im sure Cubase LE would be good for what you're doing also) Pro Tools M powered is a lesser version of LE. You probably would not want to use that. I was thinking that m powered was the biggest thing you can get besides Protools HD? Protools LE is the thing that you get for free that comes with interfaces juse like cubase LE. I've heard that its editing is more limited than cubase LE. But I don't know 3 or $400 dollars for a full version of Cubase, or $200 for protools seems like a little much, plus for protool you have to use protools interfaces, and I think you can get a lot more with presonus stuff. So unless anybody knows anything great about the protools i'm probably sticking with cubase.
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Post by The Arisen on Jan 2, 2008 13:54:14 GMT -5
m-powered is pro tools LE. With the music production toolkit it will go to 48 stereo tracks which is enough for most things.
Cubase is fine to be honest... I don't like the Firepod at all because it sucks when using more than a few of its inputs (really can't handle it on the ADC side). M-Audio (m-audio projectmix IO is a decent combined interface/surface) or digidesign 002/003 seem like good project interfaces... I know I am whoring pro tools out a bit, but it is what I have experience in...
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Post by logansc on Jan 2, 2008 23:04:07 GMT -5
m-powered is pro tools LE. With the music production toolkit it will go to 48 stereo tracks which is enough for most things. Cubase is fine to be honest... I don't like the Firepod at all because it sucks when using more than a few of its inputs (really can't handle it on the ADC side). M-Audio (m-audio projectmix IO is a decent combined interface/surface) or digidesign 002/003 seem like good project interfaces... I know I am whoring pro tools out a bit, but it is what I have experience in... I'll be running all eight interfaces if I get the firestudio which I probably am soon. But I have a macbook pro with lots of free space and ram so it should be fine right? There will be a way to combine certain ones into tracks right? I have the smaller inspire 1394 and you can do that, but only one and two together or three and four together. See I am worrying just a bit about this, because now my drums will take up more tracks since I'll use more than three at a time like I did before I may use 4 or 5 now, and I've come very close to running out of tracks with just 48 before. You know that could be up to twenty tracks of drums alone, and then guitar which takes two tracks per take, and I double layer guitar, with usually two or three parts at once, that can easily take another twenty tracks, then vocals usually take two or three tracks, and bass takes like two tracks. It cuts it really close. I had to move certain parts up to other tracks that were at the beginning of the songs. Which isn't that bad it just means you have to use the same effects as that track needed at the beginning.
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Post by The Arisen on Jan 3, 2008 13:56:32 GMT -5
That's 48 tracks stereo...so each line in is half of one stereo track. 96 mono.
The Firestudio is an all-round better product, or so I've heard - haven't used it.
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