Spend Rendr's £30,000 on a studio.

[definity]

Through a lot of scrounging and saving with a mate I have 30k at my disposal to spend on a production studio, just thought this would be the best way to get some peoples advise rather than hijacking threads.

So far the only definite buy is an SSL Quad Compressor and two 50" screens. But i'm all for other peoples opinions... so shoot

for a start what type of music are you going to be recording mostly electronic or acoustic? or a bit of both? and are you gonna be renting it out?

[jobbanaught]

I make minimal tech house & electro house now, which does require (imo) some nice gear.

Maybe you know the german Groove magazin, it basically covers the german techno and house scene. Every month they visit one of the top german techno/house artists in their studio and do some tech talk. I swear of all the excellent and succesful producers they visited, no one owned a studio worth 30k. And 90% dont even come near to 10k. In fact, i think more than 50% worked in the box, maybe have a sub and some nice monitors, but thats it. Bottom line imho, leave the expensive gear for the mastering studios.
No offence meant, but you can make perfectly releasable tunes with a setup worth maybe 1 or 2k. Then you can pass on your tunes to a proper mastering studio and invest your 15k for mastering all the tunes you will ever produce in your life If you cant make decent techno tunes with a rather simple setup (we're still talking 1-5k here), the 30k studio wont do anything for you. Just my 2 cents....

[powerpill]

jokes, better off just pissing it up the wall and buying stupidly expensive clothes

[FSTZ1]

man just seeing images of dr. steve brule make me lol each and every

FOR YOUR WIIIINE

[magma]

I think there's a fair few posts in this a little bit clouded by envy, you know.

I have no idea how I'd even start spending £30,000 on audio equipment, but I'd fucking love to have this problem.

[FSTZ1]

seriously I'd love to have 30K

but I'd do something to make it 60K

[wil blaze]

Dynamic Mic for recording vocals

why dynamic? what sort of vocals?

this is the one area i can really spea with some authority, spent 3 years as a specialist vocal engineer a while back and still record at least a few tracks of vocals every month since about 8 years...

how much are you prepared to dedicate to your front end? you can actually get amazing results with about £1000

[djdowee]

seriously I'd love to have 30K

but I'd do something to make it 60K

this!

good luck to you though, have you decided what your going to do yet bro?

id be buying a oneway ticket to newzealand with a brand new 17inch macbook pro and a pair of akg702's

[wirez]

seriously I'd love to have 30K

but I'd do something to make it 60K

I'd love to have this money too, and the only thing I'd consider spending a lot of money on would be the area in which I would rent my studio space and then the living costs to be near by.

Good security system, not joking I think I'd be too paranoid and really have to get a gun...

Whatever you consider buying, if you're going to rent this studio out, where the studio is located is going to be your most important consideration. You want to be in a city FULL of musicians, otherwise there's going to be no reliable income!

[wirez]

Dynamic Mic for recording vocals

why dynamic? what sort of vocals?

this is the one area i can really spea with some authority, spent 3 years as a specialist vocal engineer a while back and still record at least a few tracks of vocals every month since about 8 years...

how much are you prepared to dedicate to your front end? you can actually get amazing results with about £1000

C414 is the best mic I've ever used for vocals.

[wirez]

seriously I'd love to have 30K

but I'd do something to make it 60K

this!

good luck to you though, have you decided what your going to do yet bro?

id be buying a oneway ticket to newzealand with a brand new 17inch macbook pro and a pair of akg702's

I want that new macbook on the advert, all greened out and shit

[rdubz]

not being funny, but get yourself an audiophile 2496, a pair of akgs and stick the rest in the bank man, download the rest off torrents, 30k bro!! 30 fucking k!!!

Software is so good these days, some people cant believe the sounds I get out of my shit is software, its all thanks to things like Massive, Nexus and T-Racks, decent drum samples and a bit of effort, when u start thinking about buying a house that 30k is gonna be so fucking useful!

I do have one piece of hardware which i love to bits and would buy again if it broke, Korg Triton LE61 Synth, cost me 795 quid and worth every penny, though i love it so much coz i play, have done since I was a kid, I hardly use it in my dubstep productions.

although if you had to ask me what id buy if I'd like made it in music and had a new 30k budget, id get:
Roland V-Synth GT 1,800 quid


Korg Triton Extreme 950 quid


Nord Stage 2,150 quid


Access Virus 1,700 quid (i love boards!!!)


Moog little phatty 1,000 quid


Fender Rhodes 1500 quid if your lucky


Akai MPC1000 600quid


2 x Pioneer CDJ1000 1600 quid


Digidesign 002 650quid


Mackie Onyx 32-4 2100 quid


SSL 6 Channel Compressor 4500 quid


Summit Vacuum Tube EQ 2300 quid


Gibson Les Paul LE 1800quid


Neumann U87 1,700 quid


Presonus ADL600 Mic Tube Pre Amp 1800quid


JBL Left & Right LSR Monitors 2880 quid


CV cva-118 Sub 690 quid


Rane AC 23S Active Crossover 250 Quid


takes you to just over 29k, that lot'd be nice wouldnt it! youd need a house after getting all that shit!!!

[nellon]

Get a decent PC.. 2x 20'' monitor. Buy a proper soundcard and a set of good monitors and you are set to go imo.

[wirez]

C414 is the best mic I've ever used for vocals.

Bro, you and me, I can tell. We are dead opposites. On everything. I've only seen it 4 or so times, but man, I'm sure we have completely opposite opinions on every single thing there is on this planet and in the mind of man!

I hate the 414, and AKG generally, by extension.

Lmao, you're out to get me

We both love dubstep, that's enough to keep the peace.