Albatrotic
New member
I I am just becoming interested in home recording. I have a run of the mill crappy single input sound card and i am looking at getting a better one for my 18th birthday. Because my parents are particularly stingy i can't hope for anything over 500 but perhaps i can put some more money into it if needed...
I have done recording with a Roland Vs 880 and it was quite fun however i am more interested in using my computer because of all of the cool sound manipulation software that i have picked up along the way. - At the moment i am using acid with the crappy sound card and it doesn't even sound that bad but i hope to figure out someway of getting a professional sound and i am willing to spend more money as time progresses. I make most of my music by myself so its normally just one track at a time - i use things like guitars drum loops keyboards strings and voice - so I am not too sure whether i would need to get a multi track card - although if i ever wanted to record drums (which i can see being a future possibility) then i would probably like 8 tracks right? (unless i could painstakingly record each piece of the kit in a separate take, however i would imagine this to be quite a banal task!)
I have also looking (a little bit) into digidesign card/protool packages and they are quite unbelievably expensive. - Is there some good alternative solutions to the questions i am raising or is protools indeed the way to go. - I am serious about getting a very high quality in my recordings so don't be afraid to tell me that i need to spend heaps or whatever...
I also know i need a good mic... what are some really good all purpose sort of mics that you could use for vocals guitars - amps -strings basically anything to get that nice punchy hi-fi sound? I have used ones that are suspended in some elastic harness and they have always sounded amazingly good - what is the name of these and would one of these mics be a good option? I am willing to spend alot on the microphone because i am a vocalist!...
My sister is moving out finally so i am hoping to convert her room into a studio over the following months. I am considering taking out a loan and going all out!... so any advice that you can give would be so very appreciated.
Thankyou so much for braving my long winded ignorance.
I have done recording with a Roland Vs 880 and it was quite fun however i am more interested in using my computer because of all of the cool sound manipulation software that i have picked up along the way. - At the moment i am using acid with the crappy sound card and it doesn't even sound that bad but i hope to figure out someway of getting a professional sound and i am willing to spend more money as time progresses. I make most of my music by myself so its normally just one track at a time - i use things like guitars drum loops keyboards strings and voice - so I am not too sure whether i would need to get a multi track card - although if i ever wanted to record drums (which i can see being a future possibility) then i would probably like 8 tracks right? (unless i could painstakingly record each piece of the kit in a separate take, however i would imagine this to be quite a banal task!)
I have also looking (a little bit) into digidesign card/protool packages and they are quite unbelievably expensive. - Is there some good alternative solutions to the questions i am raising or is protools indeed the way to go. - I am serious about getting a very high quality in my recordings so don't be afraid to tell me that i need to spend heaps or whatever...
I also know i need a good mic... what are some really good all purpose sort of mics that you could use for vocals guitars - amps -strings basically anything to get that nice punchy hi-fi sound? I have used ones that are suspended in some elastic harness and they have always sounded amazingly good - what is the name of these and would one of these mics be a good option? I am willing to spend alot on the microphone because i am a vocalist!...
My sister is moving out finally so i am hoping to convert her room into a studio over the following months. I am considering taking out a loan and going all out!... so any advice that you can give would be so very appreciated.
Thankyou so much for braving my long winded ignorance.