Greetings,
I was going to post this in the mic section but since this questions is a bit more general I decided to include it in the newbie section... you'll also find rather newbish.
Here it goes:
I play guitar, keyboard and make some lame attempts to singing.
For recording I have an audio interface (alesis io2 express) where I plug my guitar directly (i think I should use the amp to make the sound a little better, I have a spider IV 15w) and I have a cheap borrowed mic. I try making some musics recording part by part with each instrument but cutting, looping and general audio editing are realy not my thing. I use cubase le5 btw
Every now and then I have some friends coming over to my house so we can do some jams, we use the keyboards automatic drums and each of us plays an instruments and we improvise some lyrics along the way.
So I though to ask some suggestions for an all purpose microphone, that I could use to record my individual instruments and also to record the jams me and my friends sometimes make. But I think that your answer will be that there is no such mic and my only alternative being to buy a set of mics for each purpose...that would turn out a bit expensive.
I also heard about pa's although I don't really know very well what do they do or how they work.
so that's why I chose the newbye section for this thread. Since I don't need advice for a mic but for recording gear.
So I kinda wanted to raise some discussion in this thread, if you were me what option would you take to make the best quality recordings, would you leave things as they are and blame the software or my cutting and editing skills for my bad recordings or buy some new gear, or even consider a new idea I haven't though of?
Let's consider a budget of 139 United States Dollar (USD) (100 euros +/-) but where some savings could be made.
Thank you for reading and hope to ear some opinions soon.
I was going to post this in the mic section but since this questions is a bit more general I decided to include it in the newbie section... you'll also find rather newbish.
Here it goes:
I play guitar, keyboard and make some lame attempts to singing.
For recording I have an audio interface (alesis io2 express) where I plug my guitar directly (i think I should use the amp to make the sound a little better, I have a spider IV 15w) and I have a cheap borrowed mic. I try making some musics recording part by part with each instrument but cutting, looping and general audio editing are realy not my thing. I use cubase le5 btw
Every now and then I have some friends coming over to my house so we can do some jams, we use the keyboards automatic drums and each of us plays an instruments and we improvise some lyrics along the way.
So I though to ask some suggestions for an all purpose microphone, that I could use to record my individual instruments and also to record the jams me and my friends sometimes make. But I think that your answer will be that there is no such mic and my only alternative being to buy a set of mics for each purpose...that would turn out a bit expensive.
I also heard about pa's although I don't really know very well what do they do or how they work.
so that's why I chose the newbye section for this thread. Since I don't need advice for a mic but for recording gear.
So I kinda wanted to raise some discussion in this thread, if you were me what option would you take to make the best quality recordings, would you leave things as they are and blame the software or my cutting and editing skills for my bad recordings or buy some new gear, or even consider a new idea I haven't though of?
Let's consider a budget of 139 United States Dollar (USD) (100 euros +/-) but where some savings could be made.
Thank you for reading and hope to ear some opinions soon.