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kikling
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You all know I'm 14 and am very dedicated to this forum. But what you dont know is that I have beeen studying homerecording since April, reading posts from this site, making my own, buying, checking out books all about home recording. But the funny thing is, I havent started to record until last week! Yep i had no recording equipment. I just learned everything their is to know. But know i got my computer with Cool Edit pro, standard cheap soundcard, a tiny Behringer 802a mixer i picked up for $119, 1 sm57, xlr cord and 2 cheap $15 r.shack microphones. I had been saving up money for a whole year just for this. Well i finally started recording! It took forever to get the right levels on my guitar, friends bass and drums and doing everything. One of the problems I encountered was that my sound card only has 1 input (i dont see stero inputs) so on the behringer i had to use only one channel of the stereo out. The left one. but luckily it still recorded center wise. but it meant i couldnt use the pan option on the mixer. Well what i really want to say is that ive beem studying a great deal of info about h. recording, (%90 of the info from this site) and that when i finally got my equipment, I was ready to record and i learned all the tricks to recording with the least amount of equipment, a comp. mixer and 1 entry level mic and home made mic stands (mainly drum cymbal stands). But you should see my spoiled friend (also my age). He's got a Mackie mixer, (forgot model) about 24 inputs w/direct outs, a Roland digital 8 track, 5 sm57s and sm58s, all the mic stands expensive guitars, basses, computer programs that he never uses, all the cables etc. and he never studied recording. So i compared one of my songs i recorded with his and guess who blowed the competition away, the one with the $3,000 or more equipment lost to the one microphone, cheap sound card from his dads computer. Just felt like sharing this story to ya all. I like to thank all you in this forum for helping me.
[This message has been edited by kikling (edited 07-29-2000).]
[This message has been edited by kikling (edited 07-29-2000).]