Basic help wanted, Please

[FURY1940]

Firstly I'll just go through the equippment that I have, A Tascam 788 Potastudio, an Alesis 3630 Compressor, and an AKG 3000 B condenser microphone, Oh and a pair of small monitor speakers Behringer MS16.
I am very interested in home recording, and would love to make my own cd's, Just as an hobby, I've alway's wanted to do it and now that I've got the gear, I dont have the first clue where to begin, All I want to do is to record myself singing to backing track's, it's as simple as that,
If there is anyone out there who could point me in the right direction with a few tips on how to get started and how to make various settings for reverb etc, I would be very grateful, I have tried to teach myself a little over the past few day's, just by having a mess around but to no avail.
I look forward to any replies.
Thank you.

 

[LfO]

Set aside a couple of hours and read Tweakheadz guide:

http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm

You can skip sections that are clearly of no use to you, but reading everything wouldn't hurt. This will give you a good intro to all the fundamentals.

Welcome to the boards.

 

[FURY1940]

Thank you

Just wanted to say thank you for the advice, I'll give it a try.

 

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Furious One:

I'll give you an easy step by step set-up to get to the CDR or RW.

First, put your backing music into your recorder. I've run backing music from my tape deck or CD player out of the cans input right into my 2816.

You won't have to mess with tweaking the back-up music most of the time because it's got reverb usually and is usually balanced. You just need to deal with how loud the music is piped into your recorder.

Next, overdub your vocal, vocals if you are doing your own harmony. Basically, you now have two tracks or three tracks.

I'm assuming your recording box will produce a stereo track?

So, now you play back your voice/music and add reverb to your voice and, maybe some dynamics if you have that capability on your recorder?

Then, play it back and see if you like it.

Finally, you put your stereo track into a CD and finalize the tracks when you have all the tunes you want on the CD or have filled up the 60 of the 80 minutes.

I just looked up the 388 and it is a tape machine of high quality.

You might want to check out a mic preamp for the vocals. The Grace 101 is a good buy if it fits your needs.

If you 388 does not have a built-in CDR, then you will have to either add some gear to make your CDR or stop at a friend's studio to finish your CD.

Green Hornet

 

[wheelema]

Enroll with your local JC long enough to score a copy of Sony Sound Forge. Impressive.

 

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Wheels:

At only nine years old, you sure know your stuff.

Sound Forge sounds pretty nice. I might just buy a PC and set up another studio in my lower living area.

It's the learning curve that always worries me.

Can you set some music to: Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers?

Green Hornet