Elevation Centre: audio setup?

I was wondering if any of the audio heads could help with there audio setup

it would be very helpful if you could man

My set-up

Erm let's see, mic was around £1800, pre-amp/interface was like £600, headphones £600ish, and software you're looking around 3-4k for all of the pay plug-ins I have and the pro version of cubase, Reason aint too expensive tbh. 

Just hit me up bro, you got my email and I'm always happy to help. 

Here is a cheap home studio set up that will give you good quality.. I used it back in the day and should cost you under 300 dollars...

GiliganDillinger wrote: man Fuck all that. you need...adobe audition-get yourself a tutorial on how to mix and master-need a noise reducer?Go in your moms room, steal her stockings, and put that shit over your mic.Static is fucking gone, all gone.Quality sound... +.Mic=15$....copped a random one from some chinese store.

You could get a good set up for $500 if you have a pc already

Ransom wrote: Here is a cheap home studio set up that will give you good quality.. I used it back in the day and should cost you under 300 dollars... Berringer mic I think its called a B1 or A H1 - 99.00 Presonus Audio box - 99.00 Auvio closed back headphones - 30.00 - 55.00  Your D.A.W or recording program you can get for free - Reaper, cool edit pro and a couple others are available.. With this you will have really decent sound. All this can be found at Zzounds.. everything I use now cost about 1800 dollars but this stuff will give you excellent quality...

This is actually a very legit post. Of you combine this with Dal's suggestion of a USB condenser mic you can get the same quality even cheaper. Those generally have a comparable pre-amp to the presonus box, with good asio drivers adn some decent free vst plug-ins you can get excellent quality. H4ZE will vouch for the difference a couple of decent plug-ins set-up the right way will make to your quality. If you want slightly better the basic version of CUbase which also uses free VST plug-ins is around £60 which aint too much when you consider it gives you access to VSTi's which will allow you to make realistic sounding music leagues beyond anything you'll ever do in fruity loops. For the producer inclined members a cheap £20 midi keyboard and the basic cubase can sound insane if you search for good VSTi's becaue you get the "humanized" input. Means you make a sampler have soul ;).  For the non=producers there are free VST plug-ins for nearly every modern popular peice of professional studio equipment, they might not be the same quality, but they're a damn site better than audacity. (Reaper which has a free unlimited trial or used to uses VSTs too but you don't get the graphical interface of the plug=in like you do in cubase.)  The other advantage to a cheap set-up like this is you can upgrade piece by piece. You get the money for better headphones? Upgrade. You can't afford a mic but you want to improve your sound? Maybe you pay £40 on a pro plug-in modelling a classic compressor or reverb unit. This is how I built up my gear, I just upgraded it over a long time. 

the most important thing (which i knowticed no one has really talked about) is the romm you got your mic set up in and the space between your mouth and the pop filter along with the space between the pop filter and the mic. you want about a three finger gap between the mic and pop filter same with pop filter to mouth distance and the room is the foundation of the recording so it is very important that the room is treated for acoustics in some way  ghetto or not anything is better then that ringy air filled distorted trash you get from vocal reflctions bouncing off of sharp corners and hard surfaeced walls get acustic pannels or throw a thick ass blanket over your head and mic if you cheap with it ( if you do go the cheap route throw some wide low reveber on it so there is sometype of reflection to be heard) post production tricks with editing can only do so much the recording its self has to be good to get amazing resualts and learn how reverbs, delays, compressors and equlizers work before tweaking a bunch of knobs aimlessly in hopes of a good sound