Please help a newbie!

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I recently decided to get into some light home recording, just so I could have a "scratch pad" to present song ideas to my band. So to that end, I purchased the new Line 6 guitar port (NOW it wont be shipping until Feb 13th. When I ordered it, it was shipping on Jan 26th *grrr*), Cake walk Sonar 1.2, and fruity loops.

That being said, I know NOTHING about using these items. I am pretty good with PCs (what i do for a living actually) but not in a frame of reference for recording. When I say I know nothing, I mean NOTHING.

To make it worse, after reading a lot of posts, this has become intimidating for me. I don't even know what you guys are talking about half the time.

I have an ASUS A7V, Tbird 800, 384 megs of PC133 RAM, geforce 2, Seagate Barricuda 30 gig 7200 RPM hdd partitioned into 3 hdd's and a live sound card. Would I need another sound card? For light recording? If so, since i also play a lot of games, i would need to keep my Live card. How could I run both? Why do people use external mixers? Can't the software do that? :(

So I guess I'm asking if you have any general tips or know of any good sites with extreme beginners info?

Thank you for your time!

Darian S. Kovach (justcrash)
 
For demo/scratch recordings your SB Live will be fine. You might want to get a cheap mixer though just to control the POD a little better and give you the option of adding vocals.
 
TexRoadkill said:
For demo/scratch recordings your SB Live will be fine. You might want to get a cheap mixer though just to control the POD a little better and give you the option of adding vocals.
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Wel, I have a live drive 2 which i can plug a 1/4 jack into. Couldnt I do vox with that?

Also, the Line 6 item is USB, so I would plug that into the mixer? Do you know of a cheap decent one?
 
The live drive will be passable for the POD but vocals will be pretty weak. You just wont get a strong signal especially if you use a dynamic mic like a sm58.

My basic feeling about recording is that it doesnt take a lot more effort to make a really good recording than it does to make a pretty crappy one.

If you get the basics covered equipement wise you will have some pretty good recordings. If you could spend a few bucks for a Mackie 1202 or equivelent you will get a lot more mileage out of the system. But you can always add that later.

Check out the Roland Studio Pack for $700. Mixer, Card and softare.

Start with just your POD and the SB and get a feel for how it sounds to you. Then when you are ready to upgrade you will at least have a reference to compare the new equipment to.

I would recomend CoolEditPro as a pretty basic, easy Multi track software. If you want to have MIDI capabilities go with Sonar.
 
I'd say to research the soundcard a little more. You'll probably want something better.

I havn't used the new line 6 setup yet, so I have no comment about it.
 
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