Help in setting up first Sudio for Project

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I'm sorry that I posted this wrong on yesterday mess up the post for someone. I am reposting so I can get some help. SO much equipment..just wnat to hook it up correctly.

Hello….(Thank you for this site)
I really need your help!!! I know just enough to confuse and may not be able to articulate what I want to do. However I was told this is the best site to find the right answers so here I goes:

I have a vision of making CDs to give out to Nursing Homes patient when our outreach ministry go and sing. The CD will be just the instrumental music to the songs we may sing. I just want to be a blessing to those that may not get to buy gospel, and Christian music for their personal enjoyment. So I want to do a home Studio. This is all the equipment I have in my music room. I began to buy equipment as I had extra funds… so I don’t know if I have everything I need to begin this project...Please help.

I will be playing the keyboard Yamaha 2100 or Yamaha Ex5. I have it connected to my LAPTOP computer. On the computer I have this software: Power Track, CakeWalk, Giga Studio. The sound card I have is the TASCAM US 122, The Multitracker is Fostex Multitracker (VF160EX), Peavey PV6 mixer…

I want to be able to do the CD with software and hardware.. Why? I want to know both worlds. I want to be able to do midi to play in the keyboard as I direct the singers and Audio file to place on the CD so I can do a full CD and leave with the residences of the Nursing Home.

Can you tell me if I have everything and what is the best way to hook it up….

Thanks

nerakwms@hotmail.com
 
So let me clarify...

You want to record your music to a CD without vocals, and then take it with you and sing along with it in nursing homes as a ministry? Or is it that you want to record what you're doing in the nursing home and then leave it for the patients.

If you want to bring music to sing to, you need to record piece by piece the various instruments in your songs. Then you need to mix it into a stereo pre master. Than lastly you might want have your tracks mastered.The details of how to do that are up to opinion. You could record it all to computer using an interface. You can record it using a stand-alone unit. You can go into a studio and have someone else track it for you.

If you want to record all your service my best recomendation is to bring a mixing board and send it to a CDrecorder. All you do is set up your mics and instruments, run them to a mixer (eg: mackie onyx, allen and heath GL series). From the mixer you can run an aux send through an eq and a compressorto a CD recording unit like...http://mwaudio.com/product_info/CD_&_DVD_RECORDERS/DENON_DN-C615.html
I would recomend skipping the computer if you just want to leave a CD behind...There's a lot of work to mix and master and render what you're mixing down. This is pretty simple...

What's your budget? What kind of quality are you looking for?

Jacob
 
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My standard reply:

Immediately get a good beginner recording book (spend $20 before spending thousand$) that shows you what you need to get started and how to hook everything up in your studio:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...ce&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance

Good Newbie guide:
http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm

Other recording books:
http://musicbooksplus.com/home-recording-c-31.html


Plenty of software around to record for free to start out on:

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Kristal: http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/

Other freebies and shareware: www.hitsquad.com
 
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