<div dir="ltr">Hi Ilia<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>You might consider asking Chris Mundy at Multi State Center East for advice - his email address is <a href="mailto:msce1@iac.net" target="_blank">msce1@iac.net</a> </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm happy to help in any way I can - <a href="mailto:jameslangton@nypl.org">jameslangton@nypl.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck and best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>James</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">James Langton| </span><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#ff0000">New York Public Library</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Manager, Audio Book Studio</i></span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=40+West+20th+Street+%7C+New+York+%7C+NY+%7C+10011&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">40 West 20th Street | New York | NY | 10011</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">T: <a href="tel:(212)%20621-0620" value="+12126210620" target="_blank">212-206 5403</a> | <a href="mailto:jillrothstein@nypl.org" target="_blank">jameslangton@nypl.org</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://www.nypl.org/" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BuZnDYa0katHldlElm__IhQ44Ydy-BIFkx6ASsr83G6YF7Fy6jH4osiPD1ToPzrrRFjmz_lZL2qzhavi1FLpcEdT_b_7qvGQFFzPBcwOqJarzvZ2fBu40BDFrrFbnnlGpEULoQFu" width="294" height="92" style="border: none;"></a></span></p><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inspire Life Long Learning</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Advance Knowledge</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Strengthen our Communities </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 1:00 PM <<a href="mailto:studiotalk-request@islemail.org" target="_blank">studiotalk-request@islemail.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send studiotalk mailing list submissions to<br>
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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?<br>
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