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Elijscott
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Hello,
I'm pretty new to this.. and here's my situation: We want to record basic demos (live) for our band, and we also want to leave room to expand our system in the future. We are a little confused as to what some of the i/o definitions are, but we are starting to grasp most of it. Basically, we have a standard pc, and an analog mixerboard that has only mic and 1/4 outputs. (It's old) .. and cakewalk home studio. We are trying to figure the best options for buying at this point.. We have looked at most everything, and basically decided that the best option is the m-box. However, we don't know how much capacity that leaves us for expanding. Basically, if I understand it correctly, since the mixer isn't digital, then the 2 mic inputs coming off the soundboard will go into the box, giving us a rough mix of all of our tracks combined off the board into only 1 track into the computer. The only mixing controls (and this part is mainly for drums, obviously the guitar and bass would generally be 1-2 tracks at a time) that we would have would be before the recording, basically.. (this is my dense understanding at this point). How can we record more (8-12, hopefully) tracks simulataneously and individually with an analog mixer and a pc? What are the shortcuts, etc. I know these are dumb questions.. but you have to start somewhere. The problem we're faced with is that we are working on a serious budget, because we just really want to use this as a tool to hear, re-write, and hopefully improve our songs before we go into the pre-production bit with a producer and a "real" studio. Our last Cd turned out pretty good, but if we had spent more time listening to the songs, they would have been better. Obviously. Anyway.. thanks to anyone who answers.. if you would rather email it, just send it to Elijscott@bellsouth.net
Thanks!
I'm pretty new to this.. and here's my situation: We want to record basic demos (live) for our band, and we also want to leave room to expand our system in the future. We are a little confused as to what some of the i/o definitions are, but we are starting to grasp most of it. Basically, we have a standard pc, and an analog mixerboard that has only mic and 1/4 outputs. (It's old) .. and cakewalk home studio. We are trying to figure the best options for buying at this point.. We have looked at most everything, and basically decided that the best option is the m-box. However, we don't know how much capacity that leaves us for expanding. Basically, if I understand it correctly, since the mixer isn't digital, then the 2 mic inputs coming off the soundboard will go into the box, giving us a rough mix of all of our tracks combined off the board into only 1 track into the computer. The only mixing controls (and this part is mainly for drums, obviously the guitar and bass would generally be 1-2 tracks at a time) that we would have would be before the recording, basically.. (this is my dense understanding at this point). How can we record more (8-12, hopefully) tracks simulataneously and individually with an analog mixer and a pc? What are the shortcuts, etc. I know these are dumb questions.. but you have to start somewhere. The problem we're faced with is that we are working on a serious budget, because we just really want to use this as a tool to hear, re-write, and hopefully improve our songs before we go into the pre-production bit with a producer and a "real" studio. Our last Cd turned out pretty good, but if we had spent more time listening to the songs, they would have been better. Obviously. Anyway.. thanks to anyone who answers.. if you would rather email it, just send it to Elijscott@bellsouth.net
Thanks!
