ok,

I'm opening a recording studio for business. What do you recommend for my recording studio? So far I only have Roland VS2480DVD and Roland DS-30A Monitors. Two rooms, one for recording,one for control. I'm aiming for good quality. you guys can help me out?

Well, do you want talk about room structure, acoustic treatments, isolation and separation, gear, mics, snakes? Where can we start? A studio needs more than a console and speakers

Yeah I agree with my uncle , you can also add this to the list

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recording studio for business

What type of business? - lots of difference between recording a band and creating radio voice-overs or example.

Looking forward to your inputs.
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Recording Studio Suntans

It a bit late for me to ask about the room structure and acoustic treatments, my boss has already get the 2inch thick foams and the room is already fixed. So I can't talk much towards this.

Sorry for not being specific. 'open for business' is in terms of band recording, sequencing, live band recording, demo recording,etc. Lets go for 'not too expensive, not too cheap' equipments

My boss wants me to handle/take control of the recording room. So the good part is, I can get equipments that I need for the recording room. But he said "Make sure its not very expensive,all equipments are in use"

I know a Roland and a pair of monitor speakers is not the only equipments. So for now, I would like to know what other equipments are needed. Such as do I need audio processors? Is it FMR Audio RNC1773? What else? Mic Preamps? I need to buy the right equipments before I start wasting money for buying equipments that is not in use and get in trouble. All these equipments will be ordered by the company and shipped to my country.

So basically I need to know what equipments are needed for the control room. you get what Im trying to say? hehe. Sorry the language is not that good.

Thanks for the help and advices

Microphones

Mic Preamps

DAW:
-Hard disk
-Sequencer
-DSP

Headphones

Cables/Snakes:
-mic (lo-Z)
-instrument (hi-Z)
-patch
-adapters...

DI Box

anyone else jump in on this...

Swivel chair
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Recording Studio Suntans

studio monitors
a pen or two
couple note pads

AC wrote:

Swivel chair

never take those for granted lol
very vital for manuvering around your gear

uncle_jerr wrote:

AC wrote: Swivel chair never take those for granted lol very vital for manuvering around your gear

For sure!


A PPM is always a good option, particularly if working for broadcast.
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Recording Studio Suntans

Hey if your going on a low-budget studio, go try some Behringer equipment. Good quality yet cost-effective.

visit www.behringer.com

impol wrote:

...go try some Behringer equipment. Good quality....

Since when?

samutrock - you say it's too late for the room structure & acoustic treatment, and yet you say you want "good quality sound." Sorry friend, but room structure and acoustiics is THE FIRST thing you need to worry about... if the rooms sound bad, no amount or quality of gear will ever sound good.

And if you're serious about operating at a commercial level, then cheap and budget-oriented gear is NOT going to cut it if you expect any level of sonic quality.
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Bruce Valeriani - Mix Engineer

I have to agree with Bruce, even though your boss already isolated the room its never to late to look at the acoustics. Get an expert to do some measurment in there and find out what kind of baffles and stuff you want to have. You will deffinately regret it later on if you dont put enough time and MONEY into the acoustics of your live AND control room.