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 Mac Newbie, I Want To Switch!, Some concerns about audio hardware. |
 Wed 15 Jun 2005, 21:19
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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 15-Jun 05 From: Kingwood - US Member No.: 66,847  |
Here's the dealio. I'm moving soon, and I think I'll take the opportunity to buy a new computer and set up some recording hardware. I want it to be based around a shiny new 20" iMac.
 I'm going to use Garageband, and I just need to know what extra hardware I need to record using an electric guitar, a bass guitar, a MIDI keyboard, and maybe a mic. The $2000 computer is going to leave me hurting, so I hope I don't have to spend a bajillion dollars to set all this up. I'll be playing my guitar through a Line6 POD. My keybaord is an M-Audio Radium 49, and I usually plug it in to my PC's USB port. Don't have a mic yet, but would like the support. This post has been edited by poochie: Wed 15 Jun 2005, 21:29 |
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Wed 15 Jun 2005, 22:06
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 Member  Group: Members Posts: 79 Joined: 12-Nov 04 From: Stepaside - UK Member No.: 54,891 |
Well you're gonna need a good Audio-Interface. A good one is M-Audio Mobile Pre, this is the best place I have found for it price-wise.
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Wed 15 Jun 2005, 22:21
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 15-Jun 05 From: Kingwood - US Member No.: 66,847 |
Cool, that looks like it'd work really well for me... It would be completely compatible with Garageband 2.0, right?
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Thu 16 Jun 2005, 10:09
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 191 Joined: 17-Aug 04 From: London - UK Member No.: 48,982 |
You got any speakers yet? A set of powered monitors will work nicely. What about Harmon Kardon iSub and sattelites.
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Thu 16 Jun 2005, 10:09
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If you are going to get an audio interface for a HOME studio, stay clear of M-Audio 'mobile' products. They are geared for the laptop musician and consequently they are designed for use with headphones only. Once you use one of these in a studio with your speakers you'll get annoyed having to turn off the speakers each time you want to record an acoustic instrument or vocals - The reason being that there is no separate monitor/headphone output knob.
Get yourself a Mackie Spike - Comes with Traktion which is a step up from GarageBand but just as easy. -------------------- ________________--==:: Watch The Skies ::==--________________
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Sun 19 Jun 2005, 19:53
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 19-Jun 05 From: San Diego - US Member No.: 66,983 |
I personally have a MOTU Traveler. It is a firewire interface that has 4 mic pre's with phantom power. The pre's also double as a DI. It also offers 4 line ins, 8 line outs, S/PDIF, AES/EBU, wordclock, TOSLink, MIDI. It can be bus powered, DC powered or external battery pack powered. The sound is great and it can be expandable. It also offers Cuemix which allows 4 bus mixes within the Traveler itself and zero latency monitoring. They also provide a simple recording program called AudioDesk. I personally didn't install it because I use Logic. Give it a good look.
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