Diving into home recording

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Robdirt

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Hi everyone!

I've been a singer/songwriter for 10 years or more and I am looking to get into home recording. I found this great BBS and I hope to get some advice from you more experienced people.

I want to use my PC (leaning strongly toward Home Studio 2004 XL). I want to be able to record the music all on my own or with my full band. I figure I'll need 5 tracks to record the full band "live" so to speak. (btw, the drums are Roland V-Drums, so I only need 1 input for that)

Can you offer any suggestions on what kind of rig I should shoot for? I'm planning on a $400-500 budget.

I know I need a 24bit sound card, a good preamp/mixer, and some nice software (HS2004XL for its MIDI/Sequencer stuff).


What am I missing?
 
Most live bands take more than 5 tracks. Where will the band be playing and where is your PC located? How many instruments and vocalists?

What existing mics and mixers do you have now? Do you intend to mic each, or do you have direct feeds available?

$500 is not a lot of cash if you have no recording software or hardware yet.

Ed
 
Yea.. $500 won't get you far if you plan on recording a full band. What kind of mics do you have? You'll need to have the right stuff for the drums. Lots of good mics and lots of inputs. Probably a way to record at least 8 tracks at once to get drums and a scratch track of guitar/bass.
 
Using Roland V-Drums. Only requires 1 input (2 for stereo).


The more I think about it tho, I don't see the full band playing at once. So, I'll prabably doing 1 or 2 at a time, and never 2 mic'd instruments at the same time since I don't have 2 seperate rooms for that.
 
So where is your PC located relative to where teh band plays?

Ed
 
what gear do you have today? Things like mics, mixers, etc.

Ed
 
You may want to consider recording the V-Drums via MIDI, that way you can utilize the use of a multitude of different samples instead of being stuck with what comes out of the audio out on the V's sound module.

-Ken
 
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