another one of this noob q's

[Ash01]

its another one of these how i setup/start home recording posts:

my goal is to be able to lay down guitar/bass and vocal tracks. its only for demo use, so wen i write my music i can have it recorded with some decent quality. I wont to mic up the guitar amps and can I run the bass d/I?

i currently have:
a pretty good pc, with big hardrive 728ddr ram
and
SM58,Vocal Microphone 50Hz to 15kHz

Now im looking at getting a sound card, pre amp, will i need d/i box? and do i have to have a mixer? rather not.

now im looking to spend $400-500, can i do it at this price if not and the advice u wish to share cost more i still would love to here it,
also i have looked at thoes mbox things but i dont know how good they are?
so thanks

[TimOBrien]

Immediately get a good beginner recording book (spend $20 before spending hundred$/thousand$) that shows you what you need to get started and how to hook everything up in your studio:
Home Recording for Musicians by Jeff Strong - $15
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076...books&v=glance

Good Newbie guide that also explains all the basics:
http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm

Other recording books:
http://musicbooksplus.com/home-recording-c-31.html


Plenty of software around to record for free to start out on:

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Kristal: http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/

Other freebies and shareware: www.hitsquad.com

[Ash01]

i will defiantly get myself a book, i was already looking into the that thanks, but can anyone else help equipment wise?

[Kevin Deschwazi]

I think the MBoxes are overpriced - just my opinion, and of course you can't use VST effects/instruments with protools of which there are a lot of decent freebies these days.

I'd sooner get an Audiophile 2496 soundcard and a DMP-3 dual channel mic preamp (both by M Audio). That's a very respectable 2 channel recording chain for a beginner for $260 ($100 for the card and $160 for the preamp). The DMP-3 has DI inputs on each channel as well so no need for a seperate DI box (DI bass should be fine although you're wise to want to mic the amp in the case of electric guitar). For $100 Cubase SE is a great bit of recording software although you might want to see how you get on with the free stuff. So that's all well within your budget. With the surplus you could maybe look at a budget condensor mic to go with the SM58 too?

Of course if you wanted to start taking things seriously you'd have to think about monitoring, room treatment etc. as well, not to mention expanding your mic collection.

But for just getting your stuff down with reasonable quality you couldn't go far wrong with that set up imo.

Edit: Welcome to the BBS by the way!

[Ash01]

thankyou very much, anyone else got anything to add would love to here,
also how good is Behringer, its cheap but really is it woth touching?

thanks

[SoundofMind]

Originally Posted by TimOBrien

Immediately get a good beginner recording book (spend $20 before spending hundred$/thousand$) that shows you what you need to get started and how to hook everything up in your studio:
Home Recording for Musicians by Jeff Strong - $15
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076...books&v=glance

Good Newbie guide that also explains all the basics:
http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm

Other recording books:
http://musicbooksplus.com/home-recording-c-31.html


Plenty of software around to record for free to start out on:

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Kristal: http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/

Other freebies and shareware: www.hitsquad.com

Those are great links
Thanks