Fab4ever
Getting better
Hi all. Another classic newbie question:
I have been learning how to record onto my computer hard drive using Calkwalk "Professional" (it's like Home Studio) for the past two or three months. I have produced some songs I am fairly happy with but looking to take the next step into better-sounding tracks. My songs are melodic rock, Beatles-influenced (big surprise there) often with Christian themes (not that that matters to the sound!) Instruments are acoustic-electric guitar (Washburn solid-top), Strat, VERY cheap Yamaha consumer-quality keyboard (which I use for rhthym tracks and piano and organ sounds), along with the odd tambourine.
My mic is a cheapo Samson dynamic, and I use my old Fostex 4-track as a mixer - not very satisfying, since there's no EQ or phantom power included with it.
Apart from a few guitar pedals, the only effects I have are those included with the software - basic reverb, flange, chorus and echo.
So where are my weakest links? Should I focus on obtaining a consdensor mic, like an NT-1? Plug-in effects? A mixer? A preamp?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I have been learning how to record onto my computer hard drive using Calkwalk "Professional" (it's like Home Studio) for the past two or three months. I have produced some songs I am fairly happy with but looking to take the next step into better-sounding tracks. My songs are melodic rock, Beatles-influenced (big surprise there) often with Christian themes (not that that matters to the sound!) Instruments are acoustic-electric guitar (Washburn solid-top), Strat, VERY cheap Yamaha consumer-quality keyboard (which I use for rhthym tracks and piano and organ sounds), along with the odd tambourine.
My mic is a cheapo Samson dynamic, and I use my old Fostex 4-track as a mixer - not very satisfying, since there's no EQ or phantom power included with it.
Apart from a few guitar pedals, the only effects I have are those included with the software - basic reverb, flange, chorus and echo.
So where are my weakest links? Should I focus on obtaining a consdensor mic, like an NT-1? Plug-in effects? A mixer? A preamp?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.