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Originally Posted by FoxZero
Well ok, how about just under a grand for eight channels? I'm not willing set up a studio that hits the price of a nice car, I just want something decent to record an album with. My policy I don't want to buy something and regret not spending a little more to get something better. There's always something better, but I posted my limit for the time being. I am serious about recordings and I've recorded a number of other people that say I do a pretty good job with what little I have. Either way a Firepod might be a big upgrade from what I use lol.
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What's the rest of your setup? The pre's in the Presonus unit are pretty good for what they are, and are at least relatively transparent. If you're going to make the decision to spend your money somewhere, you at least owe it to yourself to ask whether or not that extra $600 would be better spent on monitors, mics, or acoustic treatment of your room. This is augmented by the fact that at the end of the day what we're talking about is computer hardware, and I'll be lucky if it's not considered obsolete 3-4 years down the road.
I'm kind of a proponent of the school of thought where the fundamentals matter way more than the gear. You could give Andy Sneap a Firepod, a couple budget SDC's and a a LDC, and a stack of SM57's, and he could probably still cut a disc that wouldn't sound too out of place next to the rest of the Nevermore catalog. You could put me in his studio, and no one would ever confuse my work for his.
I don't have a strong enough background in this stuff to make this claim and have it come off as the gospel truth, but what Chris so eloquently points out is what I was trying to get at earlier on in this thread that the Firepod seems to be a good enough peice of equiptment that if you're using it and not getting good sounding results, it has more to do with the room or the guy placing the mics than it does with the AD/DA conversion and the audio fidelity of the Firepod. I.e - if I can't get a good drum sound to disc with a firepod, then spending another grand on gear won't be the difference between what I'm doing now and an absolutely stellar sound.
So, what do you have currently that you record with?