New Members: Introduce Yourself Here!

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Hi everyone, I'm Jude, based in the UK. I'm part musician and part writer, and hoping to record/produce my own material, primarily audiobooks. I have a fairly powerful laptop with reaper (among others), and a scarlett 2i2 4th gen and rode nt1. I also have a tascam dp03sd that I use for piano, guitar and vocals, but which also allows narration to be a bit more portable if necessary. I've been experimenting (quite successfully) with room treatment, so I think I'll need minimal processing for my audiobooks. Still, I'd like to understand enough to go from ok results to great ones, and that's the main reason I'm here. Looking forward to learning from the experts!
 
Hi my name is Chris, I've been recording songs for about a year. I don't have a real world music community. One person gives me feedback every so often. Hah, I used to have a second friend who also gave supportive feedback, but unfortunately they just got 2 new jobs, now they're too busy. I would like to find some people who can listen to stuff at whatever stage and let me know what they hear. I love synth-based music and pop singing, one of my touchstone tracks is "Under the Wave" by Erasure.
 
Deylight said:
Hi my name is Chris, I've been recording songs for about a year. I don't have a real world music community. One person gives me feedback every so often. Hah, I used to have a second friend who also gave supportive feedback, but unfortunately they just got 2 new jobs, now they're too busy. I would like to find some people who can listen to stuff at whatever stage and let me know what they hear. I love synth-based music and pop singing, one of my touchstone tracks is "Under the Wave" by Erasure.
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Hi Chris, be sure to check out the MP3 clinic. There is lots to learn from the people who post, and reading feedback, as well as posting yourself. Even if you don't have any "improvement" comments, be sure to let people know you heard it. We all seem to like that part ;)
 
DM60 said:
Hi Chris, be sure to check out the MP3 clinic. There is lots to learn from the people who post, and reading feedback, as well as posting yourself. Even if you don't have any "improvement" comments, be sure to let people know you heard it. We all seem to like that part ;)
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Thanks DM60, great to know!
 
ecc83 said:
Welcome, I am always a bit sad when folks have an interface with only one mic input. I am sure you will find it limiting and get frustrated with it quite soon. Cakewalk is very useful but I strongly suggest you try Reaper...not all DAWs do everything or indeed very much equally well.

Speakers? Good idea, headphones can be rather limiting. As a starting point and assuming you are not flushed with cash, the Presonus Eris 3.5s are very good for around $100. No, they won't go loud nor low but the sound they do make is free from most vices and useful.

To get anything remotely "stooodio" monitor quality you have to look beyond $500 per pair and may here would say at least twice that.

Keep at it.

Dave.
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Hey! Thanks for the response forever ago. I ended up with the presonus speakers you recommended and I like em! For the price they do the trick for what I'm trying to accomplish. I haven't been working on anything really as life uh finds a way to get busy when I want to work on a new hobby.

I still need to try Reaper, I recently bought a MacBook for unrelated stuff so of course my brain keeps reminding me "ya know you can get logic now...."
 
Welcome newcomers. I'm pretty new myself, but I've found this to be a fun safe place to share knowledge, works in progress and tech or recording opinions. IMO there are some really cool songs in the mp3 clinic. Jump on in there or anywhere!
 
Hi people, newbie here looking to bend your ears so that i may unscramble my home recording confusion. Guitarist, singer, songwriter looking to get back into home recording without breaking the bank/upsetting the good lady wife. I own a DP008ex and i will be looking for advise on how i can use my laptop to download plug ins and then connect my creations to the tascam to set down backing tracks/beats and/or sounds. Being in my early 60's i am a bit of techophobe, but definitely willing to embrace all the new stuff out there, within reason.
 
Paul T H said:
Hi people, newbie here looking to bend your ears so that i may unscramble my home recording confusion. Guitarist, singer, songwriter looking to get back into home recording without breaking the bank/upsetting the good lady wife. I own a DP008ex and i will be looking for advise on how i can use my laptop to download plug ins and then connect my creations to the tascam to set down backing tracks/beats and/or sounds. Being in my early 60's i am a bit of techophobe, but definitely willing to embrace all the new stuff out there, within reason.
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Hi Paul, based on what I know of the DP, you can access the files via USB. With that in mind, you can record your tracks on the DP, then transfer to a DAW (Reaper recommended since it is inexpensive, has plenty of support, including this site). Then find free or paid plugins.

Now, here is the rub, you won't be able to hear the effects of the plugins in the DP. Not a big issue for mixing plugins like EQ, compression, etc. But for delay, chorus or any plugin that will effect how you play with the plugin, it could be an issue.

You can use the DP to track, move the files over for further processing in a DAW and do a mix down. When ready, you can get a nice little two USB channel interface and be able to record straight to the DAW. Your DP isn't a negative, just limited. It actually helps making your tracking very versatile.

You probably will have more questions, but think about how you want to go about it. If you already have a decent laptop, for less that $200 (for the expanded capabilities), you would be ready to set for using free or purchased plugins, and move the recording journey forward.
 
Thanks DM60, i was hoping to record the downloaded (and then re-engineered/tweaked) stand alone plug-ins through a USB or interface to the DP008ex. Is this not possible with updated drivers? Apologies if this sounds like a stupid question, i'm just trying to understand my options.
 
Paul T H said:
Hi people, newbie here looking to bend your ears so that i may unscramble my home recording confusion. Guitarist, singer, songwriter looking to get back into home recording without breaking the bank/upsetting the good lady wife. I own a DP008ex and i will be looking for advise on how i can use my laptop to download plug ins and then connect my creations to the tascam to set down backing tracks/beats and/or sounds. Being in my early 60's i am a bit of techophobe, but definitely willing to embrace all the new stuff out there, within reason.
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Welcome Paul!
A good starting point is to be a good musician. After that spending a fortune is not too necessary.
I bought the DP008ex for field recording my electro-classical guitar. Then I can export the track to marry it up with video.
It is a good little recorder.
I don't think you'll be using plug-ins with it.
But you can record 8 tracks, one or two at a time, to it, then export those tracks into a cheap DAW.
Once in the DAW, you can apply plug-ins.
I have Cubase Elements DAW, which is cheap and comes with a ton of bundled plug-ins.
 
Hi Ray, been using the DP008 since 2017 and writing/playing music for 48 years. I'm a newbie to this site, but not creating music. What i am interested in doing is making AI work for me in the same way other tools at my disposal work for me. Ive thought about getting a DAW, but if i can record plug in sounds through my laptop and onto my DP, without breaking that the bank, that would very much suit me. It sounds like it should be easy, but i seem to be finding out that it might not be. In which case, i'll have to consider going the DAW route.
 
I don't know that there is any practical way to process sounds out of the DP, through a laptop, and back into the DP. After working with all in one recorders (AW1600, R-24), I finally moved to the DAW and found it incredibly simple to do. It was efficient, and straightforward.

My R-24 is great as a portable recording platform. Then it all immediately gets dumped to the computer for mixing.
 
TalismanRich said:
I don't know that there is any practical way to process sounds out of the DP, through a laptop, and back into the DP. After working with all in one recorders (AW1600, R-24), I finally moved to the DAW and found it incredibly simple to do. It was efficient, and straightforward.

My R-24 is great as a portable recording platform. Then it all immediately gets dumped to the computer for mixing.
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I was hoping I could create my sounds on the plug in and then record onto the DP. Maybe it’s not possible. Which DAW did you go with?
 
I use Reaper. I've been running since V4.6, now on V7. It comes with a good selection of plugins, is stingy with your computer resources and does most everything that the "big boys" do. It's well worth the $60 fee which would get you through V8.xx (which will be several years of updates). No "365" subscription crap to deal with and if you have more than one computer, you can have it on more than one. I have it on my laptop, the desktop machine with my audio interface, and on my email/banking/document computer.
 
I had a look at my DP. There's nothing like an insert.
BUT........You could record one mono track, feed it live out of the line out, into a DAW, apply plugins, feed the live plugin-ed signal out of the DAW and into a second
mono DP track.
Using the DAW as an inserted plug-in box.
Build up further DP tracks the same way, then mix them down on the DP.
 
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