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Home recording equipment advice

  • 21-04-2009 7:56pm
    #1
    PonderStibbons
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭


    Hi, I'm looking to get some equipment to record myself at home. It's purely for fun and the learning experience - I'm not looking to record demos or even share it with other people. I'm an absolute beginner, I've never done anything like this before. I've read all the (very helpful!) advice on this forum, and I think I'm about ready to make my purchases.

    - What you wish to record: Vocals and semi-acoustic guitar. I want something with two mic inputs so I can record the acoustic guitar through a mic at some stage when I can afford a second one. For the moment it'll have to be through an instrument input if I want to record both at the same time.

    - Where you wish to record: Haven't really though about this one much... Any advice would be welcome!

    - Whether you have a PC or whether you intend to buy one: This is one bit I do have! I have a decent PC, it's running Vista 64 bit with 4GB of RAM, and a Quad Core 6600 processor. I do have a Creative X-fi Extreme Music which somebody gave me, but I gather this is completely useless for recording - just mentioning it in case... The only other relevant thing I can think of is that I don't have firewire, only USB.

    - What your budget is: €200, for a mic and audio interface. I know it's not much but as I said it's purely for fun.

    So far I've come up with this:

    Mic:

    T-Bone SC400: for €59

    Audio interface: One of these:

    Presonus AudioBox USB: for €126 (B-stock)

    M-Audio Mobile Pre USB for €119

    Alesis IO|2 for €129

    LEXICON Lambda Studio - B-Stock

    I assume the two b-stock ones are better, but they might be gone by the time I get around to ordering, so if you could also recommend the best between the M-Audio and the Alesis I would appreciate it.

    What do you think? Any advice would be great! I'm sorry, I know this question has been asked millions of times but every case seems to be slightly different and the availability of equipment is always changing so I'd just like to get some reassurance that I'm not getting the completely wrong stuff.

    Thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    tubedude
    Closed Accounts Posts: 259 ✭✭tubedude


    I'd get one of these over that t-bone, good value mic, I've used them before.

    I could give you thisfor 50 quid. Used it for a bit before I upgraded to more inputs. Keep in mind though that if you're buying a condenser mic, you're gonna need an interface that can supply phantom power.


  • #3
    tubedude
    Closed Accounts Posts: 259 ✭✭tubedude


    tubedude wrote: »

    I could give you thisfor 50 quid. Used it for a bit before I upgraded to more inputs. Keep in mind though that if you're buying a condenser mic, you're gonna need an interface that can supply phantom power.

    Sorry I probably should have read your post before I posted that message, but yeah that would be no use to you....


  • #4
    PonderStibbons
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭PonderStibbons


    Thanks for your help! That dv247.com site seems quite a bit cheaper than Thomann. Have you used them? Are they reliable? If I ordered from them my €200 would stretch a little bit further. I could afford the Studio Projects B1 or the AKG Perception 120. Are these better mics?


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