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Err - I worded that quite badly - my voice teacher is the pro. He's considerably older than 25 ;) Head=falsetto Chest=normal

Post a sample somewhere (like soundclick.com) - you'll get much better suggestions.

Can I have your socks? For free?

That's it, go to you room.

Here's a second-hand exercise from a retired opera pro. Every note you sing incorporates both fundamental (your normal, or "chest" voice") and falsetto (the high, Monty-Python-guy-playing-an-unconvincing-woman voice). When we sing, we tend to think of the two as seperate, but there are...

To elaborate - all your answers are here: http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm Its worth taking the time to read the whole guide before you put down money on anything else. As ermghoti mentioned, the "whatever" you mention will be an audio interface (alternate term for sound card, particuarly...

I just want to second this - it looks like such a simple statement, and is easy to gloss over, but its been the most important lesson I've learned so far. If you have too much going on, things start fighting for space in the frequency spectrum, and you get mush.

I just looked up the Tascam online - doesn't look like it has phantom power. If you want to use a condenser mic (and you should certainly want the option availble, particularly for things like vocals), you have to have a pre-amp with phantom power. Like everything else, there's an enormous...

NO!!! Quit looking at me! Umm, well, maybe. Shuddup....

Why not record directly to the computer? Something like one of these would do that: http://www.zzounds.com/a--2676837/item--THKMIMD442 http://www.zzounds.com/a--2676837/item--MDOD1010E You have to get multi-track recording software, but you'll probably need that anyway if you want to be...

Check this thread out - its got links to tutorials on just about everything: https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=144424

I haven't used that particular interface myself - I've just heard good things from others around here. I was guessing it was as good example, but I'd agree with Jeff - come up with your list of requirements, and check out everything, then come back here with a short list of what seem to be your...

Also, consider whether some of the instrumentation that's coming in is fighting for the same frequency range as the vocals - EQ is your friend.

Well, I use a lot more tracks, synths and effects than you do, and I'm still running on a 1 Ghz machine - you should be fine there. I have twice the RAM you do, though, and I really don't know how significant that is - upgrading certainly wouldn't hurt. For my money, the best single thing you...

"Near-field monitors" are high-quality speakers that are designed to be used when you're mixing. Mixing on headphones or cheaper speakers (and even hi-fi speakers to some degree) won't help you to create a mix that sounds good on a lot of different systems - for example, phones do wierd...

I hope "pitfalls" implies a lot more than just crashes - if that's your only reason for avoiding a software setup, I'd think a bit more about it. Since you already have a computer, you can get up and running for about the same price (via something like Cakewalk Home Studio and a decent firewire...

The general response: Go to tweakheadz.com - it has a good guide to getting into home recording. It may take a few hours to get through all of it, but take the time before you start putting money into this. One possible, fairly cheap solution, is to get FruityLoops studio - its fairly cheap...

I only knew because I'd done it . . . I've done it with unconverted MP3s too - it was kind of painful since the volume was up ;)

Could be that you're recording at 24-bit resolution - CD players expect 16-bit. You can probably fix this in a menu when exporting from Cubasis - once you get it in a 16-bit wave (at a sample rate of 44.1k) you should no longer see the "not supported" popup.