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pabster
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HI - Looking for some advice please.
I play live as part of an acoustic duo through a Bose L2 which works great. We do functions, parties etc and its all good fun. Recently I wanted to submit some recorded material to some entertainment agencies - to get more gigs - but we dont have anything recorded - we have really only concentrated on our live work. Some of the stuff we do towards the end of the evening is with MP3 or WAV backing tracks - standard party stuff - and I wanted to record some of it for the agency work.
So, I have a Yamaha AW16G desk and my theory was to record the backing track to one track and layer up the guitars and vocals on other tracks and burn it all to cd. Although I have recorded personal stuff on other desks in the past - I'm a newbie with this desk but was able to record some test stuff to get my head round the basics.
Firstly - is my theory above sound as far as trying to reproduce what we do with these backing tracks?
Also when I tried it -I played the backing track out from my computers standard sound card to the yamaha desk via a single cable with 3.5mm jack at the pc end and a quarter inch jack adaptor at the other end - and hit 'Record' on the track that it was going in to - but the result was a mess -distorted rubbish - you could hear the track being played but it was unusable.
Do I need different kit to do this or what mods do I need to make to my setup or is my idea just not going to work with what I have got - -your advice would be much appreciated..
thanks
I play live as part of an acoustic duo through a Bose L2 which works great. We do functions, parties etc and its all good fun. Recently I wanted to submit some recorded material to some entertainment agencies - to get more gigs - but we dont have anything recorded - we have really only concentrated on our live work. Some of the stuff we do towards the end of the evening is with MP3 or WAV backing tracks - standard party stuff - and I wanted to record some of it for the agency work.
So, I have a Yamaha AW16G desk and my theory was to record the backing track to one track and layer up the guitars and vocals on other tracks and burn it all to cd. Although I have recorded personal stuff on other desks in the past - I'm a newbie with this desk but was able to record some test stuff to get my head round the basics.
Firstly - is my theory above sound as far as trying to reproduce what we do with these backing tracks?
Also when I tried it -I played the backing track out from my computers standard sound card to the yamaha desk via a single cable with 3.5mm jack at the pc end and a quarter inch jack adaptor at the other end - and hit 'Record' on the track that it was going in to - but the result was a mess -distorted rubbish - you could hear the track being played but it was unusable.
Do I need different kit to do this or what mods do I need to make to my setup or is my idea just not going to work with what I have got - -your advice would be much appreciated..
thanks