Hi, everyone!
I have been lurking for about a week, and wanted to introduce myself. I'm Suzi, and (obviously), a noob. Still trying to unravel all of the information here, but have already learned a ton from everyone!
I've got two small goals:
I play wooden flute in an Irish band, and have just been making really amateurish recordings of our gigs to send to family with a voice recorder. I use Audacity to remove some of the noise and cut the recording into individual tracks, but that's about it. It's time to step that up to something a little better, I think.
My second goal is a little more challenging (at least for a noob): I play the harp, and need to make some recordings for an online class. I also want to have something to send to local restaurants and other places to line up some gigs playing background music. These don't have to be fabulous quality, but I want them to sound halfway good. The challenge is that the harp has so much resonance and sustain that I haven't been able to get anything that I'd even find useful to play back for my own use in a practice session.
I'm starting with essentially nothing. The advantage here is that I haven't already wasted money on a bunch of unsuitable equipment.
I want to start small, and build up the right setup for my goals, one step at a time, as my skills improve.
There's nowhere to go but up from my current setup:
* an Olympus digital voice recorder (like you use for business meetings)
* A Sony T-mic
* Audacity on my laptop
* HiDefCorder (an Android app) set right now to record Wav's at 44100
* I also have a silver bullet microphone that I use on the flute for festivals, but haven't tried recording either flute OR harp with it (need to get an adapter to convert the 3-pin to whatever I'll be using to record with)
I think that my first step is to give the Olympus away and after that, to see if using the silver bullet makes any difference at all on the harp. When I"m done with those two steps, I'll certainly be here asking questions!
Anyway, it's good to meet you all -- thanks so much for the help you have (unknowingly) given me already!
Suzi
I have been lurking for about a week, and wanted to introduce myself. I'm Suzi, and (obviously), a noob. Still trying to unravel all of the information here, but have already learned a ton from everyone!
I've got two small goals:
I play wooden flute in an Irish band, and have just been making really amateurish recordings of our gigs to send to family with a voice recorder. I use Audacity to remove some of the noise and cut the recording into individual tracks, but that's about it. It's time to step that up to something a little better, I think.
My second goal is a little more challenging (at least for a noob): I play the harp, and need to make some recordings for an online class. I also want to have something to send to local restaurants and other places to line up some gigs playing background music. These don't have to be fabulous quality, but I want them to sound halfway good. The challenge is that the harp has so much resonance and sustain that I haven't been able to get anything that I'd even find useful to play back for my own use in a practice session.
I'm starting with essentially nothing. The advantage here is that I haven't already wasted money on a bunch of unsuitable equipment.
I want to start small, and build up the right setup for my goals, one step at a time, as my skills improve. There's nowhere to go but up from my current setup:
* an Olympus digital voice recorder (like you use for business meetings)
* A Sony T-mic
* Audacity on my laptop
* HiDefCorder (an Android app) set right now to record Wav's at 44100
* I also have a silver bullet microphone that I use on the flute for festivals, but haven't tried recording either flute OR harp with it (need to get an adapter to convert the 3-pin to whatever I'll be using to record with)
I think that my first step is to give the Olympus away
and after that, to see if using the silver bullet makes any difference at all on the harp. When I"m done with those two steps, I'll certainly be here asking questions! Anyway, it's good to meet you all -- thanks so much for the help you have (unknowingly) given me already!
Suzi
o) who was a big boobasaurus and jumped in with both feet, bought a bunch of gear he didn't know how to use and ended up selling a bunch of it at a loss cuz it sucked.
