Just want to record.

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Jeff Mitchell

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Just starting out in recording with a PC. I am currently the sound person for a 4 person group that does praise & workship music at our church. We have all of the needed hardware for playing, ie. 12 ch. mixer w/efx, monitors, decent mics. What we want to do is burn a CD. What I need is advice on what is the best software for digital recording? I don't need the bells & whistles since we will mix on the fly on a single take. I have used Recordit but was looking for something to record via .wav. Any takers on helping me?
Thanks.
 
Yes...

The demo version of Goldwave is fully functional and is easy to learn and easy to use.

http://www.goldwave.com If you decide to buy it, it is $40. Cheap!!!

Good luck.

I once knew a Jeff Mitchell that played on a City League baseball team I managed in Portland Oregon. I am supposing that is not you....

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No sorry. Hopefully there aren't too many of us.
 
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hey im working on a worship ablum now and im using cakewalk
but i dont know if thats what you want. just do your research and what ever software you pic commit to learning it. im using cakewalk 9.0 now because ive spent time learning it . ive got cubase but dont want to attempt to learn it in the middle of this project. there is alot of software out there it just depends on what you want.
 
Hi Jeff,
Well it sounds as though you have a pretty good handle on what you need to record your groupe. Goldwave is a super program to record and edit with. But I think that you are going to bump your head as far as trying to record live in to the computer. It has been my expeirence that things really get messed up while trying to do that. You might concidder getting a Portastudio 424 mkIII. You can get one for about $400.00 U.S. It's much easier to move around than a computer. It may just save you from some terrible thing like dropping the computer. When you record to tape you have the back up befor you start to do the mix. When you set up you can use your 12 channel mixer in front of the tape deck for controling your signal to the tape. Then take the tapes home and hook up the portastudio to the computer sound card aux in and use the built in mixer of the portastudio to mix down to the computer. This is what I do and have found that for live recording it's the nut. I end up with very good recordings this way.

GRIZ
 
Thanks for the info. I have to say that the group I am recording does a very good job and they are willing to redo however many takes it takes to get the sound they want. I discussed the idea of laying seperate tracks down but they would rather not go that way. I have played with Goldwave a little and it seems pretty neat. I think to start out though I just want something that will record wav's without adding a bunch of extras. I maybe sorry for that later. I have not looked at Cakewalk.

Thanks.
 
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