Small Studio With Splendid Equipment, Need a help to manage... Options

[cabasa]

Hello everybody!

I need your help. I have to manage small DAW based on ProTools HD system. Budget: ~EUR40,000.00

I need to understand how is reasonable this compilation or not:

· I need ONE, but high class tube mic with ONE high class mic preamp/compressor/eq for recording pop-style vocals (in general). It would be very good for me to know outstanding industry-standard combination of studio mic/preamp for pop vocal recording (if it is)
· 2 or 8 ch. A/D converter for ProTools HD sound routing specially. Apegee Rosetta 200/800 is good solution (not orginal Digidesign Protools HD converters) I heard. Or anything else?
· Well, Protools HD cards + G5
· STANDALONE final compressor/limiter (like TC Finalizer etc.) for final mix processiong. The sound goes from HD digital OUT to final comp/limiter digital IN. Then it goes to the second G5 audiocard digital IN to Bias Peak (for example) to make final stereo mix bounce.
· I need 2-ch. D/A converter to send the final mix to studio monitoring interface (like Presonus Central Station http://www.presonus.com/centralstation.html ) to hear all the sound which I ugly did.
· Active acoustic monitoring system Genelec 31A or 32A. I like Genelec's hi freq "sharpy" sound.

That's all.
I ask you, gentlemen the professionals, to help and give me an advice to complete this kind of studio!
What the best indastry-standard couple of tube mic/preamp for pop-vocal recording? Converters for Protools HD? Final stand-alone compressor/limiter with aes/ebu in/out?
Neutral sounding studio monitoring interface? Active monitor system?

Thank you very much in advance and excuse me for my ugly english.

Emegical IM

[ourmanflinty]

Will you have 2 g5's? One with ProTools and one with Peak? Or one G5 with two interfaces? You didn't make it clear..

You could try a Trak 2 if you like Apogee. good mic amp, insert point for a dynamic unit then into ProTools. Acts as a D/A too, has two card slots, one for a Digi card and one for their firewire card?

Neve have recently released a mic amp, 1073dpa. It had a digital o/p option, 1073 dpd, or the 1081 channel for mic amp and eq section.

A Neumann will be good, m147,149, u87, u47!, akg c12 or even telefunken 251 if you absolutely must have the best...I had the chance to hear a telefunken once, we checked it against a u47 and it stood head and shoulders above the u47 which is a pretty hard thing to do! They are truly amazing for clarity, accuracy, detail, presence etc etc but it costs half your budget so forget it! . The akg c12vr is fantastic but perhaps too expensive. Go for a u47?