Hey all,
I have to admit that as an (almost) 35 year old working in an advanced niche-market tech field, and having always felt up to date on many things, I'm feeling rather humbled that my knowledge of home recording has fallen way behind since my high school days when I last had time to be doing this kind of stuff.
Over the years, I've not sold any instruments I've acquired, kept learning new ones, and I finally now have some time to put a few things together. What I'm hoping to learn here from this post is what my setup will benefit most from with my next purchase to put everything I've got altogether into some home recording.
My two electronic instrument interfaces are these:
1. Yamaha YPG-235 Digital Portable Grand piano, that has USB connectivity and a good/broad set of MIDI sounds samples (obviously the Grand Piano sample is one of its highlights)
2. Line 6 POD-XT Live for my few electric guitars, which is now quite dated (really don't know anything about current electric guitar DSPs and amp simulation, etc.), but otherwise it servers my 'sound' sufficiently well.
My next purchase really needs to be a decent microphone, to record some vocals, guitar, and sax. However, I'm not sure what the best direction is, whether I need a decent analog mic along with some better sound hardware for my computer (M-Audio or something), or something like a USB microphone like a Yeti maybe.
I won't be doing any concurrent recording, and my main concern is being able to record individual instrument/layer one at a time while listening via headphones to my existing tracks/metronome click, etc. My computer doesn't have any great sound hardware as it is, and so my main concern is whether I would be fine to use something like an ASUS Xonar for a decent playback, and get yet another USB recording device (like a Yeti microphone), or whether I should bite the bullet and maybe get something even basic like an external M-Audio device that will handle an analog mic for better recording and playback.
I'm really just not sure how latency of different devices is handled. For example, I want to make sure that when I'm recording piano via USB (to get the good Yamaha digital grand sound patch) that I'm also hearing it live with minimal latency through my computer. Same with USB audio from my POD-XT, and same for mic'd audio when I get a solution for that.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
spudz
I have to admit that as an (almost) 35 year old working in an advanced niche-market tech field, and having always felt up to date on many things, I'm feeling rather humbled that my knowledge of home recording has fallen way behind since my high school days when I last had time to be doing this kind of stuff.
Over the years, I've not sold any instruments I've acquired, kept learning new ones, and I finally now have some time to put a few things together. What I'm hoping to learn here from this post is what my setup will benefit most from with my next purchase to put everything I've got altogether into some home recording.
My two electronic instrument interfaces are these:
1. Yamaha YPG-235 Digital Portable Grand piano, that has USB connectivity and a good/broad set of MIDI sounds samples (obviously the Grand Piano sample is one of its highlights)
2. Line 6 POD-XT Live for my few electric guitars, which is now quite dated (really don't know anything about current electric guitar DSPs and amp simulation, etc.), but otherwise it servers my 'sound' sufficiently well.
My next purchase really needs to be a decent microphone, to record some vocals, guitar, and sax. However, I'm not sure what the best direction is, whether I need a decent analog mic along with some better sound hardware for my computer (M-Audio or something), or something like a USB microphone like a Yeti maybe.
I won't be doing any concurrent recording, and my main concern is being able to record individual instrument/layer one at a time while listening via headphones to my existing tracks/metronome click, etc. My computer doesn't have any great sound hardware as it is, and so my main concern is whether I would be fine to use something like an ASUS Xonar for a decent playback, and get yet another USB recording device (like a Yeti microphone), or whether I should bite the bullet and maybe get something even basic like an external M-Audio device that will handle an analog mic for better recording and playback.
I'm really just not sure how latency of different devices is handled. For example, I want to make sure that when I'm recording piano via USB (to get the good Yamaha digital grand sound patch) that I'm also hearing it live with minimal latency through my computer. Same with USB audio from my POD-XT, and same for mic'd audio when I get a solution for that.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
spudz