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TalismanRich said:
Saides, you might also look at Reaper. While Audacity is free and good for quick and dirty edits, Reaper is much more capable as a full fledged DAW. It's a 1 time purchase of $60, and that covers 2 full versions. Currently at 6.77, you would be covered through 7.9999 which is probably about 3-4yrs away. V6 started in 2019. Plus it will continue to work even after V8.0 hits, I'm still running 5.99 happily on a Win10 4th Gen Core I5 system with no problems.

Also, there is excellent tutorial support on Youtube with Reaper Mania.

It's free to try for 60 days, and will continue to operate with just a nag screen upon startup after that point.
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I agree with this. If you need more of a DAW then Reaper is more useful than Audacity. You'll find features you might like such as the ability to quantize audio to a different BPM. But if you're doing more of editing audio files, then Audacity works fine. It just depends on what you're doing with it. Since Adobe Audition started life (way waaaayy back) as Cool Edit, you may be doing more of the latter and you will find everything you need in Audacity in that case.

Each DAW has a particular target niche e.g. doing EDM and all music is composed in the box? Maybe FL Studio. Need to perform live with your tracks? Maybe Ableton. etc. etc.

My $0.02
 
Manlikechez said:
Hey I'm Andy I'm primarily a hiphop MC but branching out into production and building a home studio, especially interested in home recording of vocals. Have Ableton Standard, an MPD, a set of decks and am looking for a cheap SM58 on ebay :)
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Hi @Manlikechez welcome to the forum. I have a couple eBay tips I use.

1. You can use "Advanced Search" to find Sold listings which gives you an idea of what the price range is for whatever you're looking for. This helps you not to overpay which is a real danger because some sellers list items above the top end of the range just because there are buyers who don't really pay attention.

2. eBay is a very temporary marketplace. If you see that an SM58, for example, sold for $68 recently using tip #1, you may still find that none are listed for less than $80 right now. In this case, you could set up a search for keyword = "SM58" price range = $50 to $75 condition = Used (and/or add any additional criteria like located only in US or only listed as an auction) and then get an email alert whenever something new gets listed. Doing this, I've often found products for cheaper than when I first looked.

Another good one to know is that auctions which end at odd times (like sunday morning at 2am) are more likely not to get sniped at the end of the auction and therefore will usually sell for lower, so it's good to keep your eyes on those.
 
so-awesome said:
Also watch out for Shure SM58's online ... been seeing some discussion recently on Reddit about counterfeits
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YES....YES....there are TONS of SM58 fakes out there....especially on Ebay. For the cost of a new original....it's not worth cheaping out on this most important item in your studio. BUYER BEWARE!!!
 
TalismanRich said:
Saides, you might also look at Reaper. While Audacity is free and good for quick and dirty edits, Reaper is much more capable as a full fledged DAW. It's a 1 time purchase of $60, and that covers 2 full versions. Currently at 6.77, you would be covered through 7.9999 which is probably about 3-4yrs away. V6 started in 2019. Plus it will continue to work even after V8.0 hits, I'm still running 5.99 happily on a Win10 4th Gen Core I5 system with no problems.

Also, there is excellent tutorial support on Youtube with Reaper Mania.

It's free to try for 60 days, and will continue to operate with just a nag screen upon startup after that point.
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All good Rich but I have always had the impression that Audacity was in fact a very GOOD editor? That being the main reason it was developed. I agree Reaper is a vastly more useful DAW.

Dave.
 
ecc83 said:
All good Rich but I have always had the impression that Audacity was in fact a very GOOD editor? That being the main reason it was developed. I agree Reaper is a vastly more useful DAW.

Dave.
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Audacity is a great editor, for what it does. I use it all the time, but it's like comparing MS paint to Photoshop (actually I prefer IrfanView to MS Paint, but it's still not as good a a full fledged photo editor).

What I was illustrating was that sometimes people take a quick and easy means of accomplishing a task, but cause other problems in the process. Both the examples were done in Audacity. It's just that one gives a better result.
 
I am 75 years old and have been playing guitar since 1957. I began recording in about 1959 (Christmas gift) with a Voice Of Music 1/4" stereo reel to reel recorder. It was the first to be able to do sound on sound. You could play and record on one of the stereo tracks and then play and record on the other track while listening to the first track. Pretty amazing at the time since stereo itself was a very new thing. A long way from where we are now with home recording. I did do a lot of recording of my old garage bands back then.
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Welcome Caddy65. I used 'separates' cassette decks for recording initially. I found that by disconnecting the erase head you could imprint a new recording on top of a previous recording. A very rough and ready mixing scheme. Things have come a long way.
 
Hi, I am here because I like recording my own music and thought it would be great to get tips and chat to other like minded people. I am from East London/Essex in England. My loves are music and dogs and I have a beautiful Rottweiler girl, my love! She is nearly twelve now.

I play guitar, drums and write my own stuff and first recorded with a friend of mine back in '92 who had a 4 track Fostex. Then, I had a 4 track Tascam Porta One but the band kept coming off. In October 2019, I was talking to my old friend who I used to record with in '92 and he suggested getting myself a cheap acoustic. Well, that was it. I bought a six string electric Ibanez, a 12 string Danelectro, a Zoom R8, then a Rode microphone. I started recording just before the pandemic started and recorded all through lockdown, all my own material. Some songs were recent, some I had written about 20 years ago. I called my album Lockdown Blues and it started with the title track of the same name. The friend I recorded with in '92 added the bass remotely for me. I'm a novice with recording and mixing and still have lots to learn. Same with writing and recording but the main thing is, it's fun and I enjoy it.

After that, I also bought a Tascam DP32 and a Yamaha keyboard. I can't play keys but I could pick bits out to add to my recordings hopefully.
I am mostly into rock/indie/60s music and some of my favourite bands are The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Doors and Love. More modern music favourites are Kings of Leon, Kula Shaker, Oasis and The Foo Fighters.
 
Welcome Blue Wolf. Looks like you're a veteran already. The only way to get good is to do lots of recording. You have a good set of skills there.
 
Caddy65 said:
I am 75 years old and have been playing guitar since 1957. I began recording in about 1959 (Christmas gift) with a Voice Of Music 1/4" stereo reel to reel recorder. It was the first to be able to do sound on sound. You could play and record on one of the stereo tracks and then play and record on the other track while listening to the first track. Pretty amazing at the time since stereo itself was a very new thing. A long way from where we are now with home recording. I did do a lot of recording of my old garage bands back then.
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Hi Caddy65, Those tape machines make me a bit nostalgic! I'm kind of new here also, but welcome! These guys are all great and very helpful!
 
Hello everybody!!
My name is Patrick (Artistname: Kreisläufer)
I've been making music intermittently for many years. I come from Germany.
My style of music is minimal house, electronic, deep house and everything in between.
I am happy to be here to meet new people and ideally to learn from each other.

viele Grüße

Patrick

https://soundcloud.com/patrick-kistner1
 
Not sure how old this site is or if anyone's listening, but here goes...

Dabbled for many years in my teens with home recording. Time flies and now in my 50/60 s I've returned to try again.

Managed to get hold of an old DP-01FX but don't know where to start. If anyone has any idiots guide I would much appreciate. I just want to get tracks out of my head and work on them. Nothing pro.... The DP-01FX has an old 40gb disk drive. It this upgradeable to a new SSD. I would imagine this may improve quality. Where is operating system stored? I.e. would a drive change need software mirroring. Could this be done via pc/laptop disc mirroring software?


A guide to a simple step by step workable setup would be gratefully received. I am new born in terms of newbies. Ma last experience was with analogue reel to real and cassette decks (Yep I'm a dinosaur 🦕).

Any help or guidance much appreciated.
 
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