Andres Guazzelli; question for you about setting up a recording studio

[Ripper]

You're a "Recording and Mixing Engineer, Musical Producer, Music Theory Teacher" and, as I mentioned above, I need to set up a digital recording studio, a very basic one, based on a computer, a sound card and a mic. It would be used to mix and record shows for radio station use. Each of these would be part musical and part talk shows. Most of the music will be coming from pre-recorded CDs. A very small portion would be recorded at this studio. So, I need to record quite a bit of talking and a little bit of music. And I need to mix all of that into one constant gapless recording, on a CD. The highest quality possible, without having to spend on ultra expensive equipment, is needed. So, I'm thinking about not using lossy audio formats. They're not needed, since I'm talking about 1 hour shows and CDs can hold up to 80 minutes of audio. 1 show per CD is what I want. Ok, I think that's enough info (was hoping to not make this too long). My question is the following: Do you know if, for this specific use, there's any advantage to using a Mac over a Windows system or viceversa? Anyone else who knows about this stuff is free to comment. Thanks in advance.

 

[Andres]

Pros about Macs, regarding to audio: It's a a lot faster at processing audio signals, and it's 100% more stable than a PC. But it's damn expensive.

Now, it depends on how many inputs, and how many signals you want to record. If it's just a couple of mics, then a 'two in' soundcard is perfect for it... but, why don't you go a little further, and you won't have to update it later?

With 200 bucks, you can pick a professional soundcard, 24 bits and 96.000 hz frecuency rate, and for 100 bucks, you can get an excellent condenser mic, so you won't have any audio loss, and and excellent audio quality.

Email me for further info, about brands, models, and prices

andresguazzelli@hotmail.com

 

[Ripper]

Thanks Andres. I'll e-mail you, tomorow.

PS: I'm assuming I can write to you in Spanish.

 

[Andres]

Thanks Andres. I'll e-mail you, tomorow.

PS: I'm assuming I can write to you in Spanish.

Yup, sure. But english isn't that big deal, either

 

[Ripper]

Te mandé el e-mail antes de ayer.

 

[35ft6]

And add some compression to the vocal recordings.

In theory, you could probably do this all on really basic software like Micrologic AV, which I bought for my Mac for only $80. I just used my regular line-in on the back of my computer with a cheap dynamic mic and it actually sounds really good. Better than a lot of podcasts I subscribe to.

Also, I've seen places now trying to sell equipment packages for podcasting, which is basically what you're doing...

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail~dpno~625022.asp

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail~dpno~600357.asp