Setting up question

[Timmay]

Hi All, New to the board this is my first post,

I am just gettting into this whole recording thing with a start knowledge of 0.

So far in my nice foam padded room I have, a Ramsa 16 Channel Mixing desk, Computer with Standard Line in, Sonic Foundry ACID 4.0 & Sound Forge 6.0, Sampson Studio Amp, 2 Monitors, Behringer MODULIZER PRO.

At the moment I just plug the guitar into the modulizer then that runs into the mixing desk, then from the REC OUT on the mixing desk to the line in of my computer and record it with ACID.

Now what I was wondering is how I should set this up and what I might need to make it better? Also how can I make it so I can record 2 channels playing at once as 2 seperate .wav files? (I realise I will probably have to but another sound card with multiple input channels).

Below is what I get recording with how that is set up above.
http://simchamp.m4driving.sm/musicpage/test.mp3

Cheers
Tim

[Stealthtech]

Originally posted by Timmay
(I realise I will probably have to but another sound card with multiple input channels).

Exactly....better card with multi input and some better multitracking software will work wonders.

[Ethan Winer]

Tim,

> how I should set this up <

See "Using a mixer with a DAW" from EQ magazine, first in the list on my Articles page:

www.ethanwiner.com/articles.html

It explains all of the issues in great detail.

--Ethan

[Timmay]

Thanks a bunch, this is a great article, will be reading as much as I can from your site. To be honest I didn't even really know what a preamp did till yesterday, and still not exactly sure what one is.

Cheers