Hi, been using a Roland VS840 for my recordings. I have hit the wall, so to speak, in terms of the quality I can achieve. At best (musicianship aside) I can make a passable demo, but barely passable by todays standards (seems a demo has to be as well recorded as a platinum record of 15 years ago to be worth bothering with). Have decided to go to a PC based system and Cakewalk (in all it's many versions) seems most promising. Now, I have to confess, I am a recording/computor idiot.
I am not looking all sorts of fabulous options and effect - wouldn't even know what to do with them - all I want to be able to do is to make truly professional studio quality recording - you know, rich, hi fi vocals with depth and presence, acoustic and electric guitars that don't sound compressed beyond recognition, keyboards that don't sound like something from Casio. Am I correct in thinking, talent aside, that I will be able to do this using Cakewalk without going to engineering school?
Since this is the Cakewalk forum, I am assuming you are all Cakewalk devotees. Is it fair to assume that cakewalk offers the best package? I notice that some cakewalk packages cost almost nothing while others cost a pretty penny. Do some come with the appropriate soundboard? With the appropriate inputs for plugging stuff in? Some, it appears, come able to create a whole variety of sound formats and the ability to burn CDs. I must say, I find the whole business very confusing.
The way I figure it, I need a fairly potent, stripped down PC with 2 harddrives and a really good soundboard and some decent monitors and cakewalk and I am ready to kickass, ie. make recordings as good as anyone can in any studio (withing the limits of my engineering abilities). Is this true? I don't mind being limited by my abilities as a musician and a recordist, but I hate being limited by my equipment.
Please share any thoughts you may have. thanks, BK
I am not looking all sorts of fabulous options and effect - wouldn't even know what to do with them - all I want to be able to do is to make truly professional studio quality recording - you know, rich, hi fi vocals with depth and presence, acoustic and electric guitars that don't sound compressed beyond recognition, keyboards that don't sound like something from Casio. Am I correct in thinking, talent aside, that I will be able to do this using Cakewalk without going to engineering school?
Since this is the Cakewalk forum, I am assuming you are all Cakewalk devotees. Is it fair to assume that cakewalk offers the best package? I notice that some cakewalk packages cost almost nothing while others cost a pretty penny. Do some come with the appropriate soundboard? With the appropriate inputs for plugging stuff in? Some, it appears, come able to create a whole variety of sound formats and the ability to burn CDs. I must say, I find the whole business very confusing.
The way I figure it, I need a fairly potent, stripped down PC with 2 harddrives and a really good soundboard and some decent monitors and cakewalk and I am ready to kickass, ie. make recordings as good as anyone can in any studio (withing the limits of my engineering abilities). Is this true? I don't mind being limited by my abilities as a musician and a recordist, but I hate being limited by my equipment.
Please share any thoughts you may have. thanks, BK
