Need Help Choosing A Good Recording Medium

[alloutdrummer]

Hey All--
I recently purchased a fairly large mixing board (16 mic inputs to be exact), and now need something to actually record onto. I am looking for something that is fairly inexpensive, but still allows me to edit each individual track once I have finished recording a certain song. Any ideas on which medium or any specific piece of equipment I should get?
--Ned, the 14 Year-Old Recording Engineer

 

[Hard2Hear]

You're using it right now.

H2H

 

[alloutdrummer]

What program should I use (thats as simple and as inexpensive as possible)?

 

[Hard2Hear]

IT depends on how you will be tracking as to how you need to go about setting up a DAW. Go over to the "Computer recording and Soundcards" forum and read around to see what people are using there. But ask yourself this first.

#1 Will you be recording a whole band at 1 time, or will you be recording songs one track at a time? If you are doing a whole band, or even live drums you will need to look at 8 input soundcards, which there are many of. If you are doing track at a time, you can get by with a 2 in 2 out soundcard, or worst case scenario, your computer soundcard.

#2 Cheap easy software. N-Track or Cakewalk Home Studio 2002. They are both good and easy to use. I like Home Studio 2002 better if you do any MIDI work, but if you're jsut recording audio for now, chech out n-track. You can download a demo free to try it out at ntrack.com .

#3 Read posts at the before mentioned Computer Recording forum here. It will give you a good idea about setup and you can search for any specific questions you may have.

Good luck!
H2H