Dumping Home Studio into Pro Studio

Dennis Detweiler · Post by **Dennis Detweiler** » 19 Oct 2003 7:51 am

How many of you record at home on your home workshop didital gear and dump into a pro studio to add the additional musicians and analog to finish the projects/CDs? Are all of the home workshop brands capable of quality for this purpose?
Thanks
Dennis

Rich Weiss · Post by **Rich Weiss** » 19 Oct 2003 9:24 am

Many people like to record in analog and then dump to Pro Tools, or some equivilent program to edit. I record at home via Pro Tools, and I don't have the need to dump to another studio, until or unless I choose to Master something. I would never attempt that on my own.

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David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 19 Oct 2003 9:55 am

I record "at home" on Protools Mix3, but I don't have a grand piano, so I go else where for such things.
Then I bring it back and finish here.

But the situation you describe is quite viable these days.
Not all the home digital units are quite up to it, but most of them are, let your ears be your judge.

If you have a decent sounding system AND,
great mics and a room that is nice, then your all set to do your basics.

Michael Holland · Post by **Michael Holland** » 19 Oct 2003 10:17 am

The Roland VS-2480 has two R-BUS connectors that will interface with a PC or Mac equipped with the R-BUS PCI card(s) and running ASIO software. With this you can digitally transfer 8 tracks per bus and maintain their separation. CLICK HERE for more info.

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Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 19 Oct 2003 11:18 am

A lot of those hard disk porta-studio type units,especially the early ones and the low end ones use data compression which actually discards part of your sound files when storing to disk - think MP3. They do this in favor of higher track counts and more disk storage. The problem is - once the data is gone,it's gone and transferring your project to a higher end system won't bring it back. So make sure your unit doesn't use data compression or if it does it can be turned off.I've had people come into my studio and bring me the rhythm section tracks for a CD project recorded somewhere else on a low end Roland 8 track to save money and want to overdub solos,vocals,edit and mix on my system.Between data compression and amatuer recording technique they end up with rhythm tracks and overdub tracks sounding like night and day - then they want me to fix it somehow. What you'll find though is that for the price of a newer high end Roland,Korg,etc you can get a DigiDesign or MOTU hardware interface w/software,slap it into your computer and have a system that will sound great and do much more. The Pro Tools Digi 002,a G4 or Pentium laptop and an outboard 120 gig firewire drive makes an outstanding porta-studio,BTW. And now that the Pro Tools firewire Digi 002s are out,I'm starting to see PCI Digi 001s for $350 in the recycler. -MJ-