hey guys... well this was exactly the thread I wanted to start lol. Good thing I found it.
you know, I usually record keyboard, guitar (both classic and electric) and sometimes voice.
Now you guys might blame me here for doing it wrong, but I record both my midi keyboard and electric guitar through
an alesis io2 express interface. I plug the keyboard directly and the guitar I use the amps line out or simply plug it directly. I made a couple of stuff and I can say this works.
I keep hearing that people record electric guitar with microphones and I believe it may even sound better than the way I'm recording.
The thing is... and this is where my problem lies... recording voice and acoustic guitar is really though for me. I have a cheap poor man's mic (its borrowed). well it simply isn't cut out for the job.
For voice recordings - its fairly decent... will get the job done.
But for recording guitar or any sort of instrument... its horrible! you need to use so much gain from the interface to be audible the track gets filled with noise. I tried to use some compressors but its still not enough.
the sad part is that my budget is really tight and I'm already planning on buying way too much stuff (and its not gonna be enough).
If there was an all around multi use microphone, it'd be great...
but I know and I pass on the lecture, there is no perfect mic and you need to have a ton of them and use each for each instrument or sometimes more than one.
But maybe there is a mic that records guitars well and voice not so well, but well enough to apply a couple of effects and ... you know ... make it look fairly decent.
I plan on recording, acoustic and electric guitar, voice, keyboard, harmonica, kazoo, some random toy like instruments, and perhaps when possible I may build cajon out of plywood and try to get some percussion sounds out of it.
what would you guys recommend in my case.
