Newbie questions...

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Hi, i'm new here the forum, but i'm not too terribly new to recording. right now, i'm just doing recording on my computer for fun. I do not have an elaborate set up, just basically a microphone, ACID MUSIC 3.0, a yahmaha keyboard (psr 530) and i have access to a bass/electric guitars. Also, i have the normal computer speakers (jbls) and i run my sound through a sony boombox. I have recently recorded my girlfriend (who has a cd out..no help to me lol) singing on a seperate track on acid, then i put the background music in. The music i had gotten from a tape and used line in to record. I have a few questions that i hope can be answered. first, On her voice i'd like to get a richer sound, maybe with a little bit of reverb. Acid 3.0 does not have fx plugins (ie REVERB) but i do have a "delay" feature, which will give an echo effect i'm trying to get a good sound out of her voice
2ndly, When i recorded the vocals + background music...the song is running up into ALOT!! of megabytes. Soon, hopefully, i can burn this onto CD. But i'm afraid the song is gonna be extremely large, and i don't want just one song on a cd. any advice on making these sound files smaller would be appreciaated. IN some ways i'm a newbie and some i'm not. ha thank you
 
1. There are a lot of free reverb pluggins out on the web if you search hard enough.

2. What is a lot of megabytes?
 
well so far

1) for acid music 3.0 It does not support the reverb feature or dx plug ins from my knowledge

2) so far the main voice track alone is running about 39.1 MEGABYTES. is this nomral?? of course when you record it is saved as a wav file
 
yeah, that is normal. I have a song recorded at the moment with 4 guitar parts, bass, three vox, drums, synth and it is 1.2 GB in size. Don't forget that when the mix is finalized, you mix it down to a single stereo wave track, which cuts it way down, MP3 will compress it even further. If you search through various forums on how to back up audio data, you will discover this is a biggy: before the project is mixed down to a stereo file, sometimes you have to back it up on more than 1 CD (and I am talking about a single song).

If you have a little HD on your computer, you will discover you can only work on a few songs at a time.
 
thanks for the answers , that clears it up for me. I do have another though. its about the reverb. any tips, i'm working like i said only with acid music 3.0 and this version doesn't offer reverb/fx plug ins. the main voice track sounds very flat and lifeless and i would like to add some depth but all i have to work with is the "delay " feature, but with thiss its either sounding flat, or with singing in a hole/tin can.
 
I really wish i could, but as a college student, to upgrade to acid 4.0 or even PRO costs an arm and a leg, but i was talking to my girlfriend last night, and she has a mixing board and a good mic..so i was wondering if i ran the mixing board, set the EQ that way and plugged it into the line in on the computer and recorded that way, could i then get the sound(s) i'm looking for, through the mixer?
 
Technically it isn't a good idea to track anything with effects or eq but in your situation that may have to do. It will take some trial and error.

When you get it recorded and find that you don't like the eq setting then you have to do it all over again because there is no removing it after it is recorded..
 
aah okay, but if i run a couple "tryouts" such as just listening to how the mic sounds with the added effects through my speakers/boombox ect, just tinkering around my get me a good sound, it should come out pretty good recording wise after some trial and error...i'm not sure what type of mixing board/mics my girlfriend has, i wanna say jbl cause that's the speakers she has, but it might be a mackie board, i think it is mackie...so we'll see
 
SGPianoman, in Acid, duplicate the vocal channel twice. Turn the two new copy channels down about 6 dB. Pan one hard left and one hard right. Move one track later in time about 15 or so miliseconds, move the other track 30 or so miliseconds. Now play all three together, and see if that is cool. Also experiment with different amounts of movement, instead of 15 try 40 and 80. Also try some SHORT delays on those copy tracks with a lot of feedback.
 
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