Newbie who needs advice...

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I recently purchased a Boss RC-3 looping station which got me interested in home recording. At this point, I am using Fruity Loops to create loops to record, via my speaker connection on my PC, onto the RC-3 and then dub/record over the recorded drum loop. I then save and bring it into Acid 3.0 to fiddle with if I need to. As you can expect, this is long and tiring to record-- is there a better way? I just want to record drum loops, guitars, and bass. Also, I am playing it all over a guitar amp-- because the RC-3, my recorder, is playing through it..

How/what do I need to make a less tiring setup?

A mic that goes straight into Acid 3.0 or another recording program?

thanks in advance!
Skold
 
Seems to me you could save your FL loops as WAV files and import them into Acid instead of recording them on the RC-3.
 
diggy_dude said:
Seems to me you could save your FL loops as WAV files and import them into Acid instead of recording them on the RC-3.
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Ok. And then mic my amp? That way I can have the drums and just DUB over via record(button) with Acid 3.0?
 
What kind of sound card do you have? If it's the one that came with the PC, you need either a recording sound card and a mic preamp to plug into it, or a USB audio interface with mic preamps built in.
 
Does your RC-3 have a PC/USB connection? I have the RC-50 and you can drag individual phrases from it via Windows Explorer, and they are, as suggested, WAV files...

That said, I'd never actually use the looper to record unless I wanted a particularly low-fi sound... I just play the damn thing over and over again and build up loops that way...
 
diggy_dude said:
What kind of sound card do you have? If it's the one that came with the PC, you need either a recording sound card and a mic preamp to plug into it, or a USB audio interface with mic preamps built in.
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I have an ATI Integrated soundcard but I was planning on buying a USB Condenser mic to record my guitar amp.

I am thinking this will work.
 
Armistice,

Yeah, you can drag and drop via the PC/USB connection and it is lo-fi sounding, hence my wanting to get something alittle more pristine sounding, but with th4e ability to dub/record over drum loops I've created.
 
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