hey here's how we started out...
throw a mic on anything you need to record...
your mixer should have a line out, pipe that into your sound card. record everything as a single track. this will require you to set your levels on the mixer before hand, experiment. if you have a small budget...
hey i use the MOTU 828 firewire interface with my laptop (1.6ghz, 256mb ram). it lists for like 800, but get it from ebay and dont pay over 425 for it. just keep bidding that on an item until you win one. i use n-track solely for recording the tracks simultaneously (it supports the ASIO...
i take it you are recording a band of some sort? when my buddies and i just started out a few years ago recording, we did it all pretty low budget. hopefully you have some sort of pa system with a built in or seperate mixer. get some free/trial recording software, i used cool edit pro (now...
the first program i ever messed with, and continue to use to this day is cool edit pro 2... i believe adobe owns it now, (adobe audition is the new name i think as someone said earlier). you can just drag and drop your waveforms into the multitrack editor and "move" them left to right until...
It is my understanding that a music cd-r is required while using a stand-alone, component system style burner. I've tried to use a normal data cd-r at work on a sony burner, and a harman kardon and it gave me an error on both. on a computer burner, I've used both and have never had a problem...
i recently got the motu-828 interface and have been using it with n-track. however, im noticing some skips in my recordings. i record via firewire into my laptop (1.6ghz, 512mb ram). i first noticed it while recording 7 tracks at once, but I tried micing only the drum kit (4 tracks) and I...
good results with m-audio transit
i started out with a laptop (any computer with usb would probably do for starting out), my mixer, and the M-Audio Transit: a pretty decent cheap USB interface, (lists for 99, for it for 79 at a local shop). Oh yeah and some microphones of course. We miced the...