New Studio - $35,000 for Equipment - Ideas?

[PDupre]

The studio is being built and there is a $35,000 budget for equipment. Mostly rock/pop/gospel. What would you do?

Peter

[Digital Sound Lab]

Have you ever seen "Leaving Las Vegas" with Nicolas Cage? [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[spong]

HD3 with a couple of 192's. Control 24 (this will also give you 16 okay preamps). A couple of good outboard pre's (API, sytek, neve etc). Some good mics (AKG414TLII, Soundelux, Royer etc.) not forgetting some dynamic mics (SM57, sennheiser MD421). Run it on an Apple G4/733(now very cheap).

Good monitors - (Genelics, JBL etc). Some good & cheap firewire drives (I use LaCie).

I think that lot would be about $35,000 and it is more or less what I did. So far it works very very well and apart from the control24 is pretty mobile.

[PDupre]

Thanks - keep it coming.

[Digital Sound Lab]

That is basically what we have,
Mix+, RME ADI converters x2, Control 24, Mackie HR 824, Avalons, Neve 1272, Neumanns, ect. With your kind of budget I'd go DAW. Hell, for that matter with any budget I'd make sure a DAW was included in daily business.

[5down1up]

spend the money on a party and buy a tape deck [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
do you just want to " record " music ???
or do you want to " create " music as well ???