I need some advice on how to make my productions sound more professional, given the equipment I have.
I have:
Tascam Mixer (Analog)
SoundBalster Live Sound card
Yamaha MU5 tone generator
2 shure4 condenser mics
2 cheapo dynamic mics
Sound Forge 4.0
Cakewalk Pro 6
Basically, as of now, I am running everything into my mixer and recording track by track into my SB Live using Cakewalk (very tedious and time-consuming). After recording, I almost always add effects and then normalize the tracks. Then I mixdown, using the "combine tracks" feature in Cakewalk. Then I load the mixed file into Sound Forge and do a final normalize or Compress. Basically that's it. As you can see, I don't have a lot of control of the effects and recording(because everything is software based), without spending hours on one track.
What can you suggest that I do to get more professional sounding mixes? Or do I just need better equipment?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!
-- Amit Apte
I have:
Tascam Mixer (Analog)
SoundBalster Live Sound card
Yamaha MU5 tone generator
2 shure4 condenser mics
2 cheapo dynamic mics
Sound Forge 4.0
Cakewalk Pro 6
Basically, as of now, I am running everything into my mixer and recording track by track into my SB Live using Cakewalk (very tedious and time-consuming). After recording, I almost always add effects and then normalize the tracks. Then I mixdown, using the "combine tracks" feature in Cakewalk. Then I load the mixed file into Sound Forge and do a final normalize or Compress. Basically that's it. As you can see, I don't have a lot of control of the effects and recording(because everything is software based), without spending hours on one track.
What can you suggest that I do to get more professional sounding mixes? Or do I just need better equipment?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!
-- Amit Apte