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

[keefer.k]

>....since you're quite obviously one of the fanatically religious types there.

Wow, just because I use Macintosh and PC DAWs and like analog tape as a pre-DAW capture format? I'm ready to investigate the next great thing, but not to give up what has and does work.

I'm still hoarding a pair of SoundDesigner II/AudioMedia II systems because they work. Ready for a museum, but working.

Maybe I wasn't clear with the background. Most of the time when we are in studio/mastering facilities, the point is "the project". We HAVE to get it done on-time and (fingers crossed) under budget. This is not a time for A-B subtle comparison of signal paths.

With pre-planning, and investigation of several options, future projects may sound just a tiny bit better at no additional cost to the client. Under pressure is no time to make those choices, the producer/engineer has to Know.

> I LIKE editing, I think it's a lot of fun. If it's done for the right reasons (namely: music).

I totally agree with you that editing on a DAW is fun. It's non-destructive, doesn't wear out a master tape, and uses pretty inexpensive gear.

>Anyway, just wanted to say that I think it's slightly uncool of you to patronize

Not degrading your experiences, not patronizing. Hoping to hear success stories and ways that things worked.

>someone you don't know by implying that my experience isn't up to par just because I (along with something like 95% of all other engineers in the world, mind you!) don't agree with you. Not a great way to make new friends! :-)

I bet some of the listees are already my friends. We don't have to agree on everything to benefit from each others experiences. My favorite people aren't much like me at all :-)

Cheers.

Karl