Need help-Newbie to home recording.

[trejones]

Hi there All, I'm looking to start out with home recording & need alot of advice on EVERYTHING involved! The type of recording I'm going to be doing is vocal onto backing tracks. The equipment I have at the moment is: A standard 1Ghz Celeron, with 190Mb RAM, x1 CD-ROM & x1 CDR-ROM (both 52X), x1 30Gb hard drive & standard PC speakers (Note: have also got a small mixed variety of spare hi-fi speakers ranging from 6 to 8 ohm impedance & 80 to 100Watts). As for software I recently bought the ANTBYTES Audio Mixmaster & as for peripheral hardware I have a Peavey PVi (came with XLR cable) cardioid dynamic microphone - & that's it! Therefore, to sum things up, I need to know what to add/upgrade/replace & how to put it all together step by step. Bear in mind, as mentioned before, I am not going to be using any instruments, etc, only the microphone to be used to record onto backing trackings.

PLEASE advise!!

Looking forward to your responses!!

Thanks!!

Regards,

Tudor (Residing in South Africa)

 

[flamin-gitaur]

Welcome to the forum! I would recommend doing a search of the forum pertaining to your particular needs, and doing as much research as you can. There is no "one size fits all" solution to every situation. As a suggestion I would say, try doing some recording with what you have, and when you come across a situation that just isn't working for you, or something you cant figure out, then you will have more specifics as to what exacty you need/want. Based on the info you provided about your gear, you will need a sound card, if you computer doesn't already have one, the cards that come pre-installed are not very good for recording purposes, (they have poor converters) but you will definitley need to interface with your computer. either via soundcard or USB/Firewire interface.

 

[Minion]

I would suggest that you Upgrade your PC also as a 1ghz Celeron is going to Make Multi-Tracking a Bit Slow and you will also need a Audio Interface (High End Sound Card, or Firewire/USB Interface) that has at least as Many Inputs as Tracks you want to record at a Single Time....

You will also need a Mixer or some dedicated Pre-Amps (If your Interface doesn"t have Pre-Amps) so you have something to plug your Mics and/Or Instruments into.....

This is Probably the Bare Minimum you will need to Get High Quality recordings pluss any other Outboard equipment that you might need.....

You will find a Lot of Usefull Info on this Forum that will help you out a Lot..

Good Luck