Here is what was used sonus, I'm copying it from another thread. It was an "I better put my money where my mouth is" thing, to try and prove that you CAN record without an acoustic environment and with very little equipment. The only concession I did make was the microphone and pre-amp, we used what Uru normally uses.
Here is what we did:
Mac, with a version of Pro Tools Free.
I/O - a Digidesign ADAT bridge. Note, this is not a cheap piece of gear, but we just used it as a means of getting in and out of PTfree.
A 2 channel Lucid A/D 2496 converter to go direct to disk (which is one of the main reasons why the vocals sound good), for playback I used the ADAT bridge's D/A's.
A (very cheap) Yamaha keyboard, I think it costs about 500 bucks. Did the bass and drums on that, WITHOUT using a sequencer, sampler or anything else. Just played parts on the keyboard, get the sounds I wanted on individual tracks, comped them down to 2 tracks, a bit of cut-and-paste and voila.
For other sounds, like the clapping kinda noise, I used a CD with water sounds, CD player analogue into the converter - tracked at 24/48, cut into bits, added reverb and inverted the result (in other words, played it backwards).
Total time for putting the track together, about 1 1/2 hour.
(which means - drum and bass basic track, one scratch vocal as a guide - then add the rest).
Then the vocals. I did go off what I proposed to use. I'm not just doing this for fun, its a song for a movie soundtrack, so we had to do it in a way we're accustomed to for Uru's voice, otherwise it would have thrown her a bit (she is unbelieveably intense, determined and accurate). So we used her normal set-up, which is a Stayne MagMike and a pre amp Stayne build especially for me, with a gigantic mother of a transformer in it and 2 large optical tubes (recipe: wrap some fresh prawns in aluminum foil, add some pepper, a few slices of onion, place it on top of the pre and 2 hours later you have perfectly cooked lunch).
Tracking ALL the vocals took about an hour. Please note that this is not normal, it could have taken a week with some other artists. She's just got perfect pitch, knows her stuff, rehearses, and is the fastest person to layer vocals I have ever encountered.
Mixing took about 2 hours.
After that I lost quality, as the mac doesn't have a network card, so I couldn't convert it to MP3 in Pro Tools and upload it, I had to go analogue out, into a CD burner, burn a CD, find a free MP3 encoder (I listened to a whole bunch that really sucked!).
That last bit took more time than all the rest. I'm sure the sound quality would be better if I had been able to make an MP3 file in PT and uploaded it from there. I had to do it on one of our network PC's, which has got really little speakers, so I more or less did it blind.
We recorded in a bedroom, the worst kind for acoustics, a cube shape, with one side consiting entirely of mirror doors. To overcome that problem I used 4 tube traps in a semi circle, with the mic popping into the center. Ultra cool things, the tube traps.
If it sounds like the song has a lot of space where almost nothing happens, its a demo, things have to be added. Apart from that, it is intended to insert dialog from the movie in some places.
