Hi,

I want to make professional voice recordings for radio and TV commercials.
Can somebody please advise me if an AKG 3000 mic and a ROLAND VS2400CD is sufficient and a good choice in order to do this. Or is there better cheaper alternatives for this.

Thanks.

Hi,

I want to make professional voice recordings for radio and TV commercials.
Can somebody please advise me if an AKG 3000 mic and a ROLAND VS2400CD is sufficient and a good choice in order to do this. Or is there better cheaper alternatives for this.

Thanks.

Howdy,

Anyone have a suggestion or recommendation for a good stereo mastering compressor. I'm a HS music teacher that makes lots of tapes of choral performances and also a number of backround tapes for vocal cabaret performances. I know things like the Manley Vari-mu is quite often recommended for this but is there something a little cheaper, if possible.

I am a musician just getting started tracking and mixing in Sonar 2.2.

Once I have songs ready I intend on doing one of two things based on my success:

1. Take tracks to pro studio and get help mixing down and mastering (not first choice.)

2. Mixing tracks down and taking to pro studio for mastering (this IS my first choice.)

So here are my questions:

Well, here's the situation. I'm doing a home studio recording. Nothing too fancy. But still going to be about 15+ tracks. Something I can look back on in 10 years and go... cool. I'm trying to be adaquitely prepared for mastering down the road later this year. I'm looking for reasonable work and reasonable prices, since I'm not a pro musician going out to make money off this... yet.

:) Hey all! I detect a lot of apprehension to the decision made to have even a few songs mastered, and sometimes even more for an entire project.

In the simplest of analogies as to why, is like when I painted the outside my whole house.

Im curious since some of the gear for pro mastering say an Avalon eq the cheap one is 12 thosand dollars, and not in any pro sumer magazine and all the gear seems to be high dollar and un available to the public how does one becomea mastering engineer?

Hi, It's way past time for me to get the necessary gear for the mastering and CD duplication section of my small recording studio. I have no computer in my studio and have very little knowledge of computer gear.

I'd like to poll the membership as to their experiences in mastering. Have you brought a project to a mastering engineer? Did the mastering process improve the final product or not? Was it worth the time & money? Was the engineer responsive to your needs? Would you do it again? Do you prefer to do mastering yourself & if so, why?