Little help please for a new band =)

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Me and my band have been playing together for a while, and we're trying to figure out exactly what we need to get a good quality recording of ourselves (a tape recorder just isn't cutting it anymore). I've got a pretty expensive computer that I'd like to make use as much as possible too, to maybe eliminate some of the expensive equipment required for the job, but really any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

13ri
 
I would suggest that since you are not into setting up a home studio you find a small recording studio with good rates and do your demo there. Do your homework before going in to save time;
that is, which songs you will do, you only need two or three, have the parts down tight and ready to go etc. There should be a certain amount of set up time that you do not pay for.
 
I agree. For you to get even demo quality recordings you have to invest many times the amount of money it would take for you to record a couple of songs in a cheap studio. Not to mention that not any of you have any experience recording (assuming by your post). Plus there are other issues: Does your drummer have good drumset? If not then you'll need to loan a set that will already cost you $. And you cann't get a good quality recording from a beat up set. Same goes for the guitar amps.
But if you really want to set up a homestudio be prepared to spend thousands of $ to get any kind of recording done. I'd say a minimal setup will cost about $10 000.

Keijo
 
hi

I agree with the studio thing, but I can also give you a taste of what we are doing sometimes... We record new songs "raw" in our rehearsels. I use a portable MD with our shitty old low-fi mixer. Few microphones: two for the drums (kick and snare) some for guitar amps and for vocals and one Audiotechnica stereo codenser mic for a overhead "room" thing. If things are well balanced you mighth catch quite interesting LIVE stuff in this kind of method.

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peace

Riku
 
If everyone but the drummer goes into the board direct and you use headphones you can keep everything seperate(pretty much)
and have a good solid time forum to work with. You can then go back and rerecord anything you want live with amps, rerecord the vocals, etc, this will prevent bleed through from channel to channel and give you the freedom of having each insrument on a seperate track and the vocals sepreate for editing and mixing down. Just record to a new track or the guitar over the original track etc. You wont have all the instruments on the drum tracks and if you keep the vocals far enough away you can pretty much keep them out also. Alot of the time the bass will be good enough to not need rerecording and you may be satisfied with the overall results alltogether. I do this all the time with a bunch of friends.
You would need a headphone distribution amp to accomplish this.
A Sampson or Ross would work, 100-200 dollars.
 
I would say don't rush things!

Hang around here for a long time and ask questions.

Having a great sounding mix comes from talent and experience. Plus great equipment can help, but it anin't no cure to the mixing blues.

Invest you money in a good recording book like "The Recording Engineers Handbook".

And finally help me out and check out this link. Thanks.
It's this link I'm talking about....

Maybe this one too...
 
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