Need Good Equipment Rec Urgently!, need help with high end recommendations Options

[juicefriend]

Hello MacMusic!!!!

I'm in a band who is being asked by their indie label to rerecord and make some new tracks for an album--we've been using reaktor and reason and logic and whatnot--the label recommended a recording guru who recommended the following products:

-----clipped from his email------

Really Nice Mic Preamp (STEREO)--
http://www.mercenary.com/fmrrnmp.html -- this is the best
price/performance pre I've heard.
Sytek--might get a 4 channel on ebay for 750$.
API 200 or 500 series, TUBE TECH MP-1A, NEVE, Great River...These are
higher end and more expensive.

A to D converter possibilities:
Lucid AD96/24 (never used this, I've heard good things)
Apogee Rosetta AD/DA (not heard, pretty standard but you get the DA as
well for monitoring)
Mytek AD or DA(these are around 1000$ for a stereo unit, really good)
Lavry AD or DA
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The problem is, said guru is now in the middle of a recording session and hasn't responded to our follow-up emails... and we have even more basic questions like, what mic should we get? should we use a mac laptop? can that even work with these a/d things and whatnot... etc....

Can anyone please please shed some light? we definitely need to use better recording equipment... and we'd like to switch over to protools but really have no clue where to start... any advise would be great!!!!

thanks!!!

JF

[ourmanflinty]

Hi Juicefriend

Pro Tools / Logic, the two often go together, people use logic software with their Pro Tools hardware, you should stick to Logic, it sounds as if you've got experience there so make the most of it.
Logic is mac only unles you go for an older Emagic version so that rules out PC's and anyway who needs the technical overhead of trying to run multiple programs on a pc and keep all the virii out and the whole thing together, use a mac and just let it all flow.
You get a lot more power with a the 64 bit goodness in a new imac, a surprising amount, reaktor, reason and logic all going hammer and tong without a hiccup., just fit plenty plenty RAM, the drawback is that you can't do it on the move like a laptop can.

good luck!