[Studiotalk] External: Re: studiotalk Digest, Vol 14, Issue 1

Wed Jun 12 14:41:43 CDT 2019

We had Chris Mundy work with us to get our studio, which sounds a lot like yours, up and running due to all his good advice. Once we had everything in place, Phi Carbo spent time with us.
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Hi Ilia

I'm sure you will get a lot of replies to this message with a lot of suggestions about equipment, most of which will read like Greek to you if you are not an audio person.

My advice is to consider using a little of your budget to have a consultant 'create' the studio for you, put together a package of equipment which will work together.

In order to get professional-quality results, you ideally will need some kind of sound-proof booth, a decent 'desktop' computer with plenty of storage memory, a DAW (digital audio workstation) of some kind, ie software like ProTools, Logic or HABC, a decent microphone, cables, and an interface (for example, a Scarlett 2i2) to turn the sound into digital information, and professional headphones for the monitor.

You might consider asking Chris Mundy at Multi State Center East for advice - his email address is msce1 at iac.net<mailto:msce1 at iac.net>

Chris is extremely generous with his time, knowledgeable and helpful. He will likely point you towards Hindenburg Audio Book Creator (HABC), software developed for NLS which can be used as a one-stop-shop for recording and authoring NLS Digital Talking Books.

I'm happy to help in any way I can - jameslangton at nypl.org<mailto:jameslangton at nypl.org>

Good luck and best wishes,

James
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We have been presented with a grant opportunity for a recording studio to record local books, can anyone suggest what we might need? We currently have a room, about 8 ft. by 8ft, it has a window and ceiling tiles on the walls for sound (It was a rough recording studio a few decades ago). We've used Audacity in the past for short newsletters. I'm thinking we would need maybe 2 or 3 microphones, a filter, not really sure what else. Can anyone suggest a list of items?

Thanks!

Ilia Desjardins

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