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as you can tell from my screen name that I am new at recording and running sound. I have adobe audition, a couple of effects processors, a large diaphram mic, a couple small diaphram mics, an SM-57, SM-58, and an electrovoice vocal mic. I have a ludwig drum set, a marshall half stack, and a music man HD-150 head going through two fifteens. How do I optimize what I have to get the best sound for recording my music? Also, any recomendations for additions to my equipment?
 
We'll need a little more information to give good advice. Specifically, what are you using for preamps, soundcard/interface, and monitors? What kind of room are you recording in? Also, what are your goals for recording (just for fun, demos to get gigs, trying to get a record deal, etc.)?
 
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I am just trying to record a good enough demo to get gigs up at college. I am just rumming into my computers soundcard (I am trying to get the money together to get a nice mixer and firewire connection). I am using adobe audition. I am recording in what used to be a den that I have moved all of the furniture out, it is carpeted and has regular walls.
 
newsoundguy said:
I am just trying to record a good enough demo to get gigs up at college. I am just rumming into my computers soundcard (I am trying to get the money together to get a nice mixer and firewire connection). I am using adobe audition. I am recording in what used to be a den that I have moved all of the furniture out, it is carpeted and has regular walls.
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O.K., I would say your options are as follows:

1) Get a mixer and a multi-input soundcard. I don't know how you record your drums, but you can get a perfectly decent recording with one to four mics. I prefer a 4 mic setup (one kick, one snare, two overheads). Ideally, to do that, you would have a 4-input soundcard (something like the M-Audio Delta 44 or 66). You could, of course, use more or fewer mics and run everything through a mixer, submix it down to 2 channels, and use your current soundcard. A small mixer, like the Yamaha MG series, will give you several mic preamps and should work for what you need. The cost of a mixer with at least 4 XLR mic pres and a Delta 44 would be around $300-$400 (less if you can get used stuff).

2) Get a Firewire interface, like the Firepod. It's more expensive, but has plug and play capability and more inputs (8) with mic preamps on all inputs. Around $600.
 
What you might do is start reading everything you can get your hands on.

For starters, you might check out www.theprojectstudiohandbook.com . Lots of good stuff there for the beginner.

Probably the best place to start is to pick up a set of decent studio monitors, and read up on room treatments so that you can get things sounding reasonably accurate in your space. Then, I would just start listening to a shitload of CDs and learn how they sound on your monitors. Then play the same CDs in other systems (car stereo, headphones, etc.) until you get a good idea of the differences between how they sound on your monitors and how they sound elsewhere. Being able to recognize what "sounds good" and what doesn't is the most critical skill you can have, so start developing it early.

From there, just start experimenting. This isn't going to be an overnight process. There is no "instruction manual," list of steps or anything like that. Your recordings will sound like crap for about the first year or so that you do this, and that's okay. It's a learning experience.
 
chessrock said:
Probably the best place to start is to pick up a set of decent studio monitors, and read up on room treatments so that you can get things sounding reasonably accurate in your space. Then, I would just start listening to a shitload of CDs and learn how they sound on your monitors. Then play the same CDs in other systems (car stereo, headphones, etc.) until you get a good idea of the differences between how they sound on your monitors and how they sound elsewhere. Being able to recognize what "sounds good" and what doesn't is the most critical skill you can have, so start developing it early.
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention monitors and room treatment in my post above, but those are very important things to consider.
 
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