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Hey Everyone:
I decided to put together a digital home studio after reading a few articles about how to do it with very little money. But I'm stalled at about the most basic part.
I have a 3.0 meg Dell 4600 with 1 gig of RAM and the best sound card Dell offers... I think it was the SoundBlaster Audigy Pro (obviously not a pro sound card, but I thought I could get by with it). I've got a firewire port and several USB ports available to me. I also installed a second hard drive for the audio files.
Now I'm stuck, because I don't understand how I'm supposed to connect the microphone (Shure SM57) to the computer. I just want to record my solo stuff, so I only need to record one track at a time. It would be nice to be able to record two tracks at once (guitar & vocals), but it's not mandatory if that's really expensive.
What do I need to do that? The guy at the store suggested the m-audio duo, but that's a couple hundred dollars, and the articles about budget studios led me to believe I wouldn't have to spend that much. And quite frankly, I don't understand what it does. A friend suggested the m-audio midiman, but when I checked their website, it didn't look like it had an XLR input.
So, do I need a piece of hardware, or should I just get a different sound card that has more inputs? If it matters, I'm going to either use shareware software or start with the bottom-end of cakewalk or sonic foundry or something like that.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
I decided to put together a digital home studio after reading a few articles about how to do it with very little money. But I'm stalled at about the most basic part.
I have a 3.0 meg Dell 4600 with 1 gig of RAM and the best sound card Dell offers... I think it was the SoundBlaster Audigy Pro (obviously not a pro sound card, but I thought I could get by with it). I've got a firewire port and several USB ports available to me. I also installed a second hard drive for the audio files.
Now I'm stuck, because I don't understand how I'm supposed to connect the microphone (Shure SM57) to the computer. I just want to record my solo stuff, so I only need to record one track at a time. It would be nice to be able to record two tracks at once (guitar & vocals), but it's not mandatory if that's really expensive.
What do I need to do that? The guy at the store suggested the m-audio duo, but that's a couple hundred dollars, and the articles about budget studios led me to believe I wouldn't have to spend that much. And quite frankly, I don't understand what it does. A friend suggested the m-audio midiman, but when I checked their website, it didn't look like it had an XLR input.
So, do I need a piece of hardware, or should I just get a different sound card that has more inputs? If it matters, I'm going to either use shareware software or start with the bottom-end of cakewalk or sonic foundry or something like that.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob