Hi, I am a newby. I'm not a skilled musician. I learned how to play guitar and enough songs to have a chord vocabulary to noodle around with, but I never put the time into becoming good. But I do like coming up with my own songs. I just don't bother to perfect them. A sketch is fine for me.
At any rate, I say this to say that the quality of the recording is not a big deal to me right now. I want to set up a basic recording studio for a mac, and presumably garageband, but it really doesn't have to be a quality finished product in terms of fidelity. What is more important to me is the sounds that come out of a keyboard/controller when I play it. The sounds I would love to be able to trigger, at least for now, would be like the instruments/sounds you would find on late 60's Beatles, Stones, Who, Zeppelin records. So though I might hear Beggars Banquet via a cheap radio with a lousy signal, though the fidelity may suck, I still like the sounds I am hearing. So while most posts from newbies about how to build their first recording setup deal with bang for the buck in terms of fidelity. I am happy to deal with improving that aspect of my set up later as long as I can trigger the sounds that inspire me in the meantime.
So I'm wondering what keyboard or packages I can buy that best approximate these-- for better or worse (if you don't like them.) For instance, I would be quite happy with being able to trigger the drum sounds off of The Beatles Let It Be (Naked) cd. Yeah, nothing flashy. Whereas, I don't want anything to do with the drum sounds of any 80's hair bands (no offense intended to those that like that). Same with guitar, base, piano sounds. I would like to be able to select from more natural, raw, basic sounds than from more flashy synthetic stuff (not to mention polka-ish stuff I'll never touch.) Yet it seems like anytime I check out a package, the music store rep will demonstrate 250 samples of the latter, vs one or two of the former.
Any recommendations? Or is there just no demand for this kind of sound so as I'll never find it?
Thanks,
Zep
At any rate, I say this to say that the quality of the recording is not a big deal to me right now. I want to set up a basic recording studio for a mac, and presumably garageband, but it really doesn't have to be a quality finished product in terms of fidelity. What is more important to me is the sounds that come out of a keyboard/controller when I play it. The sounds I would love to be able to trigger, at least for now, would be like the instruments/sounds you would find on late 60's Beatles, Stones, Who, Zeppelin records. So though I might hear Beggars Banquet via a cheap radio with a lousy signal, though the fidelity may suck, I still like the sounds I am hearing. So while most posts from newbies about how to build their first recording setup deal with bang for the buck in terms of fidelity. I am happy to deal with improving that aspect of my set up later as long as I can trigger the sounds that inspire me in the meantime.
So I'm wondering what keyboard or packages I can buy that best approximate these-- for better or worse (if you don't like them.) For instance, I would be quite happy with being able to trigger the drum sounds off of The Beatles Let It Be (Naked) cd. Yeah, nothing flashy. Whereas, I don't want anything to do with the drum sounds of any 80's hair bands (no offense intended to those that like that). Same with guitar, base, piano sounds. I would like to be able to select from more natural, raw, basic sounds than from more flashy synthetic stuff (not to mention polka-ish stuff I'll never touch.) Yet it seems like anytime I check out a package, the music store rep will demonstrate 250 samples of the latter, vs one or two of the former.
Any recommendations? Or is there just no demand for this kind of sound so as I'll never find it?
Thanks,
Zep