Upgrade Gear Advice, Gear Advice Options

[MASNYDER]

Okay...here is your chance pass on the wisdom so painfully earned to the newbie recording artist who will really listen. Here's the deal: I want to make a big investment in gear to upgrade my pitiful mbox protools setup to a Digi 002 portable mini studio. I have found a couple of bands that like the work I have done and have committed to doing projects with me pending my upgrade. What follows is the tentative list of gear that I plan to buy. I am open to any suggestions and my budget is around $8500 and the bands I plan to work with are hard rock outfits.

Tentative Gear List:

Computer:

Dual Mac G5: $3600

Recording Rack Gear:

Digi 002 USD. Rack: $1,200
Focusrite OctoPre LE 8-Channel Microphone Preamp $600
Furman Power Conditioner: $50
6 Space Rack Case: $100

Microphones:

1 Sennheiser E609 Silver Dynamic Guitar Mic: $110
4 Shure SM57s: $90
AKG D112 Large Diaphragm Microphone $200
MXL 993 Condenser Mics Stereo Pair: $180
MXL 990/993 Studio Package $130

Misc. Hardware and Cable:

10 boom mic stands: $100
2 low profile mic stands: $25 each
4 AKG M 70 Headphones $30
10 xlr cables: $50
Behringer B2031A Truth Active Monitors $340

Plug ins:

ATR1 Pitch corrector: $320
Factory Plug in Bundle: $350


Total: $7760.00 thus far

Does anyone you see any holes, redundancies, or unnecessary gear? Any suggestions at all would be appreciated.

Andy

[dangt]

Looks like a comprehensive list of gear.

I would spend more on monitors. If you plan to mix accurately then get good ones. if not, and you only need to hear your signals while recording then the beringer monitors will do.

Also, If you want your band to hear playback through headphones, look at getting a headphone amp or splitter. beringer make 4 channel headphone amp decent enough. take your main stereo out off 002 into it. set your latency to low latency monitoring.

another way to save money is to hire a set of mic's and stand's from and audio outlet. But still buy a few to have as extras.

good luck

Dangt