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[pllcoolj]

Hi all,

This ? is similar to others i've seen on here, but your advice is still needed. I've worked with live band for awhile doing their mixing. Instead of going into studio, they want to cut some tracks with eq they buy and they want me to help. I'm a little shaky on recording stuff. I'm not interested at this point in a full education, just some training to get me started. I've asked this question before and everyone says to buy books. Is there not an inexpensive course that someone offers, preferably on the web, that I can get some basics down with?

Also, are there any other sites like this that anyone knows about?

Thanks

 

[Folkie]

Hi all,

This ? is similar to others i've seen on here, but your advice is still needed. I've worked with live band for awhile doing their mixing. Instead of going into studio, they want to cut some tracks with eq they buy and they want me to help. I'm a little shaky on recording stuff. I'm not interested at this point in a full education, just some training to get me started. I've asked this question before and everyone says to buy books. Is there not an inexpensive course that someone offers, preferably on the web, that I can get some basics down with?

Also, are there any other sites like this that anyone knows about?

Thanks

Partly, answers to your question will depend on what you're recording to, e.g., analog tape, stand-alone digital, computer, etc. as well as what they play.
I'm new to this to, and am recording direct to computer. A british magazine called Computer Music has some good tutorials on the computer side, although it may not be what you want or need (probably isn't, but you might find something to help.) Here's a link: http://www.computermusic.co.uk/tutorial/features.asp
Good luck.....

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

There's a good resource here, lots of good articles:

http://www.theprojectstudiohandbook.com/directory.htm

I'm not aware of any online courses, the best thing to do would be to spend some time with a pro engineer somewhere if that's possible.

You really just have to read a lot and then spend a lot of time putting the theory into practice. Even 'the basics' of recording is a pretty broad area.

Do you have any idea what type of recording setup you'll be using?

 

[tourettes5139]

I would also check out www.emusician.com It is a magazine, but they have a large number of articles on their web page. I just like it.

 

[Westy]

Help me please!

I have recorded a 3 guitar riffs and put them 2gether on cubasis using the audio 1 2 and 3 lines but when i save it, it only saves them as seperate wav files. Can someone please tell me how to get it to save as one file. i need it to play on windows media player. Thank you

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

Westy, you need to mixdown your seperate tracks to one stereo track. I'm not familiar with cubasis but In Cubase SE you go to 'export' in the file menu.

 

[Westy]

Nice one mate it works i cant move my right locator line any ideas ? i can move left fine but my Right one wont move.

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

Nice one mate it works i cant move my right locator line any ideas ? i can move left fine but my Right one wont move.

Got me there, should be just click and drag?

 

[Westy]

Nah i would of thought of that lol. Ive done it now tho mate cheers.