Please help :)

[joseph123]

HI! Im brand new to this whole recording idea as well as this site. Iv been in and out of several metal bands over the last 2 years but none of them went well because no one plays the drums. so i took it upon myself to learn on my brothers old electric kit. We have a few songs written and we tried to record using a program called audicity which sucks. You have to record drums then bass then guitars and it takes huge amounts of time. What i want to do (or what i think i want to do anyway) is hook everything up, and everyone play one time and still have everything on different channels. Is this how to do it or are we doing it "right"? what programs and hardware would you recommend? im so new i dont really know what questions to ask and im lost by even the most basic stuff on the newbie page haha. Thank you for your time!

 

[buzzard bass]

Unless you can isolate each channel you're gonna have a ton of bleed through.

 

[diggy_dude]

What buzzard said. Each player would practically have to be in a different soundproof room if they all played at once.

As for hardware to use with Audacity, you need an audio interface with multiple A/D converters. Most professional cards only have two channels. If you have enough slots in your PC, you can get several cards and hope they work together. I'd recommend an outboard unit though.

 

[underp]

Unless you can isolate each channel you're gonna have a ton of bleed through.

True. But since you're just starting out, you can do it just like the old school.

Hook everybody just like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5le9W4-DOmQ

Then go for a setup like this:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FireStuProj/


You're set.

There you go.

 

[diggy_dude]

Do they make something like the Firepod with USB instead of Firewire?

 

[underp]

Just like the firepod, but USB.

There you go.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/US1641/

 

[diggy_dude]

Just like the firepod, but USB.

There you go.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/US1641/

That's a great price too. Thanks for the link!

 

[underp]

It's an awesome price. Good quality. Lot of good reviews.
It comes with Cubase LE 4 (48-tracks)

It's a steal.

$217 Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-list...p?ie=UTF8&qid=1289745182&sr=8-1&condition=new
$219 Musicians Friend:
http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.co...-2.0-Audio-MIDI-Computer-Interface?sku=245002

 

[diggy_dude]

It's an awesome price. Good quality. Lot of good reviews.
It comes with Cubase LE 4 (48-tracks)

It's a steal.

I don't need Cubase, as I already have the full version of Ableton. I don't really want to go the DAW route anyway. I am in love with audio hardware. It's ironic when you think about it because I write software for a living and don't give a Rice Crispie fart about computer hardware. It's a different deal when it comes to music and audio though. I like to twist knobs and move sliders. I have several Fostex MR-8s that I want to use to work on individual tracks or stems as separate projects, then mix them down in Ableton.

 

[joseph123]

So that will record to up to 14 tracks in Audicity (or whatever program i wind up with) that i can edit and mess with separately?

 

[moresound]

So that will record to up to 14 tracks in Audicity (or whatever program i wind up with) that i can edit and mess with separately?

Take a look further down the forum and you will see daws by name, people in there can answer your questions with Audicity.

 

[moresound]

You know I could have sworn that there was an Audicity forum ..... sorry.

 

[gregsk777]

True. But since you're just starting out, you can do it just like the old school.

Hook everybody just like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5le9W4-DOmQ

Man this sucks, Lindsay Lohan sounds better then I do