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Hey guys, recently bought a USA Strat and I'm wanting to do some professional-sounding recording.

I've tried disastrously with cheap mikes and the line out jack on my little Marshall modeller, one didn't work at all and the other was terrible sound quality.

What is a good, within a reasonable budget (say £150) way to make some professional quality tracks?

Cheers!
 
If you just aim for a decent quality first set up to do no more than 1 or two tracks at a time try something like this. all prices are GBP and thomann deliver to the uk. If you can spare the cash tho I'll post better options.

M-AUDIO FAST TRACK USB - Thomann UK Cyberstore £58.47 or
LEXICON ALPHA STUDIO - Thomann UK Cyberstore £58.47

THE SSSNAKE SK233-0,9 XLR PATCH - Thomann UK Cyberstore £3.57

MILLENIUM MS-2005 - Thomann UK Cyberstore £8.08

THE T.BONE MB75 - Thomann UK Cyberstore £27.51
 
Stratman24 said:
I'm wanting to do some professional-sounding recording.

make some professional quality tracks?

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I sincerely don't mean this to discourage you. But, honestly, I think you need to lower your expectations quite a bit. It's not only about money. It's about knowledge, experience, patience, trial and error, talent, ears, room treatment, mic placement, and many many other things.

You can realistically make "decent" and maybe even "good" sounding music without one or more of these things. But, you'll need to get "professional quality" out of your vocabulary for quite a while.
 
Okay, so if I were to rephrase my question a little bit. I've got 11 years of guitar playing under my belt, but very little with recording.
What I really mean is reasonable quality audio that's devoid of background noise and interference and that sort of thing.

Cheers
 
Do you have an amp? If so, what?

Do you have any other microphones lying around you'd care to tell us about?

To start with I'd say you need an amp, a decent cab mic such as an SM57, and an interface.

I'm assuming you're using some form of recording software already.

This all depends upon what sort of music it is you're trying to record....
 
Ok sorry guys, I've got

Amps:

a Marshall Mg15 FX (modeller referring to a little modelling amp)
Peavey USA Bandit 75
and a Peavey Triple X (not the head, the full amplifier)

No microphones

Guitars:

A 1988 Fender USA Std. Strat
A custom Ibanez Js100 style thing with Wizard 1 Neck and original Edge trem.
Ibanez Radius Series

Pedals:

Marshall Bluesbreaker II (Cheap but reliable)
Ibanez DPL10
Crybaby GCB-95 Wah


Very very basic recording software

Cheers
 
For $150 if you really want professional tracks:

1) Practice like hell until you are so prepared you are playing the riffs in your sleep and you are able to consistently turn in a great performance
2) rent studio time for 3-4 hours and have a professional engineer set up and record you in a real recording room

Result: professional tracks for $150

If you want to do it yourself, practice like crazy and save up more and then be prepared for a several year learning curve until you get half decent results

I don't want to discourage creativity but what you are asking is akin to saying you want to become a professional chef with a restaurant in Vegas so you bought a hot plate and some chicken nuggets
 
Hey,
So you have Guitars and Amps and some good Ideas well thats great .... Go for it! Get yourself some recording gear and do it!
I wouldn´t spend the money on Studio Time at this point. Spend it on a Mic. Cable and a Recording Interface. See post above for some Tips. Spend the better part of the dough on the Mic. Sure SM57 is great all arounder and you will use this often over the years to come. The Interface will probably get swapped out at some point. The Mic will stick with you.
 
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