bands ready and i bought new toy's plz help

[Fishistic]

OK so here's the deal my band is finally ready to record well not really we'd jus like to hear ourselves. i had some money from some jobs i did and decided to buy some things being the only one knowing about mixer's and stuff but not to much. so i drove down to guitar center and bought some new toy's.

2 mics cheap Audio-technia mics and cables
Yamaha MX12/4 mixer
and cables to hook the two outs into a regular size jack to fit into the record of a computer.

i'm currently using my laptop with two mics and a guitar plugged into the mixer and running that into my laptop i'm using sound forge XP cuz thats what i got on here now i got a copy of Cakewalk Home Studio but it will not record. might have to put it on my PC and try not sure.

ok the problem when i listen to what i have recorded all through the mixer i hear the guitar fine but when the vocals come in it will cut out the guitar instead of recording laying over it. and everything has a distortion to it like my speakers are blown. which disapoints me becuz after all this i've done i thought having the mixer would let it all be recorded at the same time without having one mic record vocals,drums,guitar and all at one. i have everything put into the mixer then into the computer and i hit record it records but it cuts things out.

Any way i can stop that or is that a software problem. What is a good beginning software to use? Am i connecting everything right? or is my laptop not good enough for this recording just using the mic input?

 

[seryozha]

Ill try to answer with the best of my knowledge.....

When you record with homestudio, are you recording on 2 seperate tracks or just one? usually, the way i do it, you can record two tracks at once (Left and a Right in your case) which can either be a mix of the mics that connect to your mixer or they can be a single instrument (guitar ,vox) when you record , dont record over those same tracks unless you want to change something. If you want to add some vocals, make a new audio track in homestudio and then record so that it wont affect what you have already recorded.

Its probably just an software thing you have to change.

 

[adam_in_audio]

hi,

I don't know the specs of your pc or laptop...but it just doesn't cut it these days by plugging into that 1/8" line in jack. You should think about getting a soundcard with at least stereo recording. For the laptop try the Echo Indigo I/O and for your desktop check out the E-mu 1820. The software should be fine. Although I've never dealt with Cakewalk home studio myself, I'm assuming it's based off of the Sonar engine. Do what seryhoza said and make sure you're clicking on different tracks each time you lay a new instrument down.

Adam

 

[adam_in_audio]

hi,

I don't know the specs of your pc or laptop...but it just doesn't cut it these days by plugging into that 1/8" line in jack. You should think about getting a soundcard with at least stereo recording. For the laptop try the Echo Indigo I/O and for your desktop check out the E-mu 1820. The software should be fine. Although I've never dealt with Cakewalk home studio myself, I'm assuming it's based off of the Sonar engine. Do what seryhoza said and make sure you're clicking on different tracks each time you lay a new instrument down.

Adam

 

[TripleJ]

My guess is that the cut comes from clipping - ie. you are putting too much volume on it.

I think you may be going throug the Microphone In instead of a line in. That would explain the cutting and the distortion.

 

[Fishistic]

thanx for the help i realized wut it was it was using the internal mic instead of the line in . so the fuzzy sound was the sound of the fan and such ..but thanx i have now figured out how to use cakewalk and recorded a demo