Home Studio setup help?

[carvedones]

Ok I have desided its time to start seting up a small home studio. My plans for now are to just start with doing demos.

So at present i only have :
M-Audio 2496
Digi 001
Small Behringer mixer
DI And a SM57 mic.

These are what i know i need... Extra mic pres, drum mics, Vocal mics, another guitar mic (for other options).

So i am after your opinions on what i will need plus best mic pres, mics etc for the cheapest prices. I dont wont to sell my soul for this shit.

Have been looking at a SMPro 8 mic pre for the extra channels on my digi then
add another 8 pre via adat later. Any opinions on the SM?

 

[noarin]

hey man, my advice on this one would be that you can never have to many 57's, you can use it on practicly anything with amazing sounds: guitars, bass, toms, snares and who knows what more! so if you ever want to expand it never hurts to have some 57's around. I use the presonus firepod myself and really like it; don't know a lot about other 8 pre interface's, sorry!

rob

 

[carvedones]

Well suggest stuff just to get me started with tracking a full band. So drums 2 guitars and bass... then vocals separate (just in case bands wont to do it this way).
Im guessing i will need say 5 channels for drums then 1 each for the gits and bass. Are drum mic packs descent?

 

[Kadmium]

Most drum mic packs suck. The Audix DP 7 is pretty sweet though. Features an I5 for snare, a D6 for kick, 2 D2s and a D4 for toms, and a pair of condensors for overheads, for about $900. You might want to add a hypercardiod small diaphragm condensor for hi hats, and maybe a couple more tom mics depending on what kind of drum kits you intend to mic up.

 

[TheVatican]

I'm having trouble getting started myself. I know a fair amount about some equipment, but am still unsure about a lot of things, just for example stuff like impulses/reamping and mixing/transporting. I know that Pro-tools is widely used which is why i would use it just so I can transport my tracks to a buddies house and fix it there, or a professional studio or something. But so far, out of uncertainty I haven't even made a purchase yet. I don't know if I should get a presonus product (such as the firestudio or the likes) or an mbox and hook a small mixer up to it. Any help would be appreciated!