One track Recording

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Hi Everyone! I am pretty new to recording and i need a bit of help. All of my bands recordings so far were done on the built in mic of a old computer :eek: not good sound quality at all. I do have some nice microphones though but the console used to record with them was sold a while ago. I was talking with a friend of mine who has logic and a behringer rca interface and some usb mics. My mixer has a rca out for recording. We could adjust all the settings before we record but how would this come out? has anyone tried this? and how were the results?
 
JG96 said:
Hi Everyone! I am pretty new to recording and i need a bit of help. All of my bands recordings so far were done on the built in mic of a old computer :eek: not good sound quality at all. I do have some nice microphones though but the console used to record with them was sold a while ago. I was talking with a friend of mine who has logic and a behringer rca interface and some usb mics. My mixer has a rca out for recording. We could adjust all the settings before we record but how would this come out? has anyone tried this? and how were the results?
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If you mean everybody plugging into the mixer then playing live to 2-track, then yeah...it's done all the time. It takes a lot of tweaking and fiddling to get levels just right before recording though. Once it's recorded you've got what you've got, of course.

Frank
 
Yeah, that's about as good as you can do without a multichannel interface. Takes a shitload of trial and error, but you can get decent results. Better than with 1 pc mic for sure! There's no post tracking production, so you have to nail it in tracking.
 
...but man, if you get it right. I *love* the honesty in those kind of recordings. No overdubs, no magic...it's either good or it's not.

Frank
 
I've done one track (mono) recordings,but it was of me playing solo.:D

I think you're final product will be limited but with a little trial and error you'll easily beat your previous arrangement.

Most important is the performance,because there are no do overs.

I just repeated what suprstar said,but that's it there are no secret's when it's that simple.
 
I agree, this is all you can hope for with the equipment you have.
 
I don't know if what device/program you're using for the actual recording, but if you have multi-trak functionality, you can do a decent job by recording things separately at different times.

If you're going to do drums (with more than 2 mics) you'd still wanna do the all-into-one-board and premixed route, but on most everything else you can just do individual tracks. Since you have 2 channels, you can even record someone's vocal and guitar tracks separately at the same time.
 
Go read Tweak's Guide (www.tweakheadz.com) get some recording books at Borders or Barnes&Noble. "Home Recording for Musicians for Dummies" is actually a great start.
 
thanks for the replies everyone, we might just record the line out into a field recorder or something. The mixer is pretty high end, it has digital eq, reverb, compression ect. Our band is pretty tight except for me of coarse :D hopefully we will get some good tracks down as we don't really have the cash for an interface. Are high schoolers still innocent and cute enough that people will pay them good money to shovel their driveways?
 
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