Home recording advice for aspiring musician

[Keegan]

Hi everyone,

I'm in a 3 piece rock band in Sydney, Australia.

I've been keen on getting in some studio time to record my band's first e.p, however after recording some demo's at a friend's house on his BOSS digital 8-track i was considering doing it all myself.

i'm looking to buy a new laptop (most likely an iBook) anyway, so i'm considering a software recording package, but i'm unsure as to what would be best for me and the band's "sound" (pixies, stooges, lou reed, weezer, etc...).

I've looked into DigiDesign's MBOX, but people seem to have some issues with that. What I really need is the Hardware and the software, something easy and portable to record professional sounding songs (obviously).

I know this may sound quite basic to you but i'm only starting out on the recording front. I used to use Cool Edit Pro with a Line-in to my PC, but found that there was a lot of PC distortion on the tracks.

I'm pretty cluey when it comes to getting all the sounds together to make an overall recording, but not really the technical requirements.

So, what sort of product (in the US$500ish price range) should I be looking at getting?

Thanks for your trouble!

 

[Keegan]

oh...

and i just realised there's a newbie forum. sorry!

replies would still be appreciated!

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

I love Sydney, I spent a week in Newtown a couple of years ago.

That's a fairly tight budget so I'd recommend Cubase SE for the software (which is what I use). It's a stripped down version of SX but it's still excellent and I've certainly never found it to be lacking in any departments for the purposes that I use it. A lot of what you miss out on are things like bundled vsti's but seeing as you make 'proper' music ( ) that shouldn't be much of a loss to you. And of course it's much cheaper than the full version (around $100US).

I'll leave the interface to someone else as I'm a PC user and so I'm only really au fait with the PCI type cards.

Try the search function also.

All the best

 

[capnkid]

I've got Snowey River and Snowey River II. That place looks awesome. I've been thinking of getting Delta 44, 66, or 1010LT. and a Yamaha 16/4 mixer.

 

[Supercreep]

Hi everyone,

I'm in a 3 piece rock band in Sydney, Australia.

I've been keen on getting in some studio time to record my band's first e.p, however after recording some demo's at a friend's house on his BOSS digital 8-track i was considering doing it all myself.

i'm looking to buy a new laptop (most likely an iBook) anyway, so i'm considering a software recording package, but i'm unsure as to what would be best for me and the band's "sound" (pixies, stooges, lou reed, weezer, etc...).

I've looked into DigiDesign's MBOX, but people seem to have some issues with that. What I really need is the Hardware and the software, something easy and portable to record professional sounding songs (obviously).

I know this may sound quite basic to you but i'm only starting out on the recording front. I used to use Cool Edit Pro with a Line-in to my PC, but found that there was a lot of PC distortion on the tracks.

I'm pretty cluey when it comes to getting all the sounds together to make an overall recording, but not really the technical requirements.

So, what sort of product (in the US$500ish price range) should I be looking at getting?

Thanks for your trouble!

The 500 dollar range limits your choices a bit if you want software and hardware. I'm using Sonar and a Motu 896hd and the pres and converters are good for the money -

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=rec/search/detail/base_pid/240116/

but there may be a product out there for you with less I/O for cheaper:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=rec/search/detail/base_pid/244780/


The HD comes with some MAC recording software.