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joebeezee
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yes...my band is recording soon. i have adobe udition and guitar rig......but what should i get to record professional sounding musing with my computer, a mixer or a recorder? thank you.
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Newbie dude
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..........huh?
Dogbreath
Im an ex-spurt
joebeezee said:
yes.......
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joebeezee
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lol im saying that would i use a mixer or recorder ff i wanna record with my band and use the computer
Dogbreath
Im an ex-spurt
Well, I think if your computer has a decent soundcard you'd just need a mixer for your tracks. But I don't use a computer in my studio so I could be waaaay off.
Give us some more details of your goodz and situation and maybe these guys can give you a better answer...
Peace.............
Give us some more details of your goodz and situation and maybe these guys can give you a better answer...
Peace.............
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joebeezee
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ok well i need a way to hook up some mics, drum mics, guitars, and a bass to my computer, and i need something with good efects and is compatible with an amp. i need to record each part of a song and mix them together with adobe audition.
IronFlippy
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The computer IS the recorder. It doesn't sound like you have anything other than your stock soundcard, so I'd start by upgrading that. Emu and M-Audio make good soundcards, as well as a few other brands. You're going to need a preamp, which can be a stand alone unit or part of a mixer. You're going to need mics. You're going to need cables, pop filters, stands, etc. You're going to need recording skill. I hate to be a jerk, but this is covered at least once a day.
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joebeezee
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but how could i hook up my instruments to the computer?
Farview
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You need to get an audio interface, a soundcard with a lot of inputs and outputs. That will allow you to get all the instruments into the computer separately. You would record with audition.joebeezee said:
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joebeezee
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what if i dont want to buy a soundcard, i could hoook up the instrument with a mixer or guitar port, right?
Farview
Well-known member
If you are just going to use the crappy stock soundcard, you will need some sort of mic preamp. A mixer will have several. Then you plug that into the line input on your stock soundcard. You will only be able to record 2 tracks at a time and the quality will be lacking.
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Newbie dude
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Farview said:
Assuming that his on-board soundcard has mic inputs. When I got this computer, it didn't. I've never seen one that comes with a soundcard with mic inputs.
If it doesn't, which I would assume it doesn't, I think Mackie has a line of mixers that can connect to your computer via USB and Firewire.
SouthSIDE Glen
independentrecording.net
Wow! I've never seen a Wintel computer that *doesn't* come with Mic inputs.Newbie dude said:
The Mackie Onyx mixers connect via Firewire only, and even then only if one buys the $400 Firewire option.Newbie dude said:
But more important than that, maybe you typed it in reverse by accident, but the mixer does NOT plug into a soundcard via the Mic input, it needs to go into the Line input instead.
If one is unsure just what connections they have on their soundcard, on a Wintel computer built any time in the 21st century the connections are typically color coded:
Green - Headphone/speaker out
Blue - Line in
Red/Pink - Mic in
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ausrock
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joebeezee said:
IronFlippy's answer was probably the best I've seen in this thread. The one thing you need more than anything else is knowledge, a comodity which based on your questions, appears to be lacking. I suggest you start by reading the first thread in the Mic forum here........it's a "sticky" at the top of the page.........at the same time you may wish to get up to speed on room acoustics. By the time you start to have some understanding of all this you will hopefully be capable of getting the sound right at the source before it ever hits a recorder. Then you can start worrying about what you're recording to and how to connect it all up.
dirtyp
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you need a interface so the pc understands the music this will bypass the soundcard.... most have pre amps in them theres alot of bundles that come with mics.... And that would get you started add a mixer to get more inputs/outputs.. then theres moniters you could get a bundle for them to with headphones/mic/cables/stands. go to musician friends or zzz sounds and check the equipment out, then ask for recomendations on that also your budget will help............
sweetnubs
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If you want to get a professional sounding recording I'd take the money you are going to spend on equipment and instead hire a professional to record you.
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ikon
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man i know aguy that just uses cakewalk a stocked sound card and the basic shitty preamp ,condensors that take batteries and a shitty fuzzbox for his guitar and his shit sound more professional them 90% the shit ive heard....not to mention he was in a pretty legit metal band from the 80's that toured with all the metal greats and most there shit was done like this....so i would say you sont have to go with a upgrade an still can achieve some good stuff.....i dont understand why everyone so quick to jump the gun with upgrading soundcard n stuff.....can have the best equipment in the world but if you cant get it to do what its intended then it will still be garbage....sorry for the ramblin i just tired of all the upgrade soundcard comments......i know 4 pro eningeers and they all have told me that when recording digitally the soundcard dont play as much a part as a preamp and a good preamp could make a shitty stocked soundcard do things you wouldnt think they could....everyone upgrading is just to make it easier to achieve what you can achieve with the lesser equipment not to mention is makes it faster....see what you can do with what you got and learn what everything can do then when you got that then upgrade to shit that makes it easier and faster
BigRay
New member
Yes. Twice on tuesday.
Farview
Well-known member
The great puctuation shortage of '06.ikon said:
Are you seriously saying that you are tired of good advice? So you are trying to spread some bad advice. Listen, I've worked with most of the 80's metal bands. Not all of them are terribly gear savy.
Dogman
Unkle Ticklefingers
Your hat may be the coolest thing in this thread. Besides me, of course....Sillyhat said:
