help a newbie out...

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new to this site...not new to recording but new to trying to record professionaly if that makes any sense...i guess its safe to say that i want to take recording to a more professional level and not do it just for personal pleasure....i appreciate your most sincere answers i'll even take the negative ones into consideration..

ive read a few posts so i want to prepare my question(s) as much as i can. let me start by listing what i am working with to give a future helper an understanding of what i am working with.

genre: hip hop, rap, r&b..
mic: technica at 3035
mixer: soundcraft spirit m12
keyboard: triton music workstation/sampler
computer: pc
soundcard: M Audio Delta Series
recording program: nuendo 3

i know im somewhat out dated but i would like to get the very best out of my equipment without having to totaly upgrade every single thing. i'm willing to download anything i need to even read anything i need...a nice link would be sufice....

first off....i make my beats on my triton only once done and mixed in the keyboard i record it into the the nuendo (i can not track out the the beat because i do not have the expansion on my keyboard...is there another way to track out the beat on nuendo so i can eq each sound in nuendo??)

second...i record my verse in a untreated room...ive read some cool tricks on recording at home on here which im sure will be very helpful but when im done recording i do not have a clue on what compressors, reverbs, noise gates or anything for that matter to use...i understand there is no one answer to this because it depends on what the person wants....i guess im trying to get a regular hip hop sound...nothing outragous something clean and vibrant (im talking vocals here)....if there is an almost basic routine that i can learn from and take it from there that would be great...

if i sound everywhere i apologize this just seems like a helpful forum....

any tips on what plug ins i might need would be greatly appreciated as well...THANKS IN ADVANCE HOMERECORDING!!!

i'll upload a recording if i need to just to get some more feedback as to what is it i need to do to get a better sounding quality...
 
Unless you're doing x.1 multimedia, I'd sell the Nuendo license, get Cubase (same thing without all the extra BS that you're never going to use anyway) and take the extra $1500 or so and invest in a nice mic, a nice preamp and (???). The most important thing in *any* studio (home, pro or otherwise) is the monitoring chain and the treatment of the space. If that's not under control, you know where to start.
 
thanks for the response master....the nuendo i can not sell since it is a crack...so i am trying to get the best out of the audio portion of it since i have been reading that it does the same as cubase....i appreciate the response though...spending is not much of an option for me right now...like i said im just trying to get the best out of the equipment i currently have...

since i posted i have downloaded a few plug ins that have worked nicely for me...as far as cleaning up the vocals...now im just trying to find some info on how to sharpen the beat a lil....any more suggestions???
 
That's a pretty fair guess. The board is heavily populated with industry professionals, some of them suffer directly from software theft. You won't receive "customer service" for cracked downloads here.

Fortunately, the web is crawling with good free and low-cost software, so there's no real reason to steal.
 
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