ISDN in USA - questions

[LoneGunman]

Does anyone here have experience in ISDN in the US?
If so- here's the basics:

I'm needing to assemble the gear for a home studio set up,
with ISDN (for vocal recording sessions - not music)
and being a total n00b as far as sound/ISDN/tech goes - I have
zero clue as to where to even start.

This home studio thing is normal here in the US, unlike SA, where
ISDN recording seems mostly to occur inside pro recording studios.

As far as I can tell, I need an 'ISDN modem thingy' an ISDN connection
from one or another ISP, (and a landline) then I guess some sort of
halfway decent mike, and assorted acoustic material to damp sound..

Next dumb question - how the hell do people connect to you if you
have ISDN - does one get a fixed IP addy, and then when a recording
session's about to happen, they dial to you or you dial to them?

How automated is all this?
As usual, unlike SA, I'm swamped for choice here - I see ISDN modems
going from $100 up to scary prices like $2000+ - what would I need to
have a decent ISDN connection that can provide solid connection to
recording studio's..

anyone on forum have experience in US based assembling of home studio?

[bekdik]

ISDN is very old technology. It was quite big in Europe when initially launched in the '90's, but AFAIK not too popular in the states.

I suggest you investigate other ways of connecting.

[ic]

LG, send antowan a p.m. - I'm sure he knows quite a bit about ISDN links [albeit from Telkodemonopolies] where outside broadcasts etc are done...

:eek: @those ISDN modem prices - maybe buy one from Telkodemonopolies - it might be less expensive - j/k :D.

[LoneGunman]

re the ISDN modem prices - well some of them are like the equivalent of professional recording studio gear
- stuff you'd buy in SA if you were building a pro studio..

re it being old tech, yeah I know - but for the next year or two, it seems to be still the industry
standard (at least in the voice-over biz)
unlike SA where if you get a voice job you go to a studio, here the route seems to be to have the
studio at home, they link up with you, you record the thing via their direction at your home, then
either they record it on their end - or you record the audio as a file, and dump it to an ftp for
them to grab and fiddle with..
the sorta stuff that in SA, is done by professional studios - here it seems
every sit-at-home voice over person does it themselves..