Recording at church

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OK, I stumbled onto your site tonight ant it looks like the place to learn what I need to know.

I would like to record some songs at our church. This would not be during services so there would be an easier time setting up things.

I have a Pentium 2 500 MHz PC with 17 Gb available, a CD-R/W drive (just got for Christmas today), a cheap sound card, no microphones except whatever is at the church.

I would like to produce some simple recordings, possibly upgrade my sound card, buy a mike or two, and cabling. We would be recording using vocals and these instruments, at different times: church pipe organ, 2 different keyboards (Kurzweil Mk 12 & "Technics" piano - don't know model), an amplified acoustic guitar, Roland electornic drum set and of course the vocalists, either soloists, duet or three part harmony, sometimes a choir.

I am looking for a rather simple setup that I could record in stereo and don't necessarily want to record seperate tracks for each instrument, vocalist, etc. unless you guys tell me this is a lot easier than it sounds.

Truly - any advice on equipment to purchase is appreciated. Would like to keep the equipment cost pretty low, perhaps $200 or less? Maybe this sounds cheap - it is, I am trying to do this cheap just to make 10 - 12 CD's to pass out for practice CD's, etc.

Thanks
 
well....... if your trying to keep the budget under $200........ then U will need to rent the mic's, because U will get a LOT better sound renting some nice mics + a mixer, than U would with $200 to spend on a mic + mixer, or even just a mic would be tight.

U don't have to rent, but I would recommend it because the ones U rent will be A LOT better than the ones U could buy for $200.....

Sabith
 
and it would be a lot better when trying to record them, to record them all as one group, just plant a mic 20-30(large diaphram condenser) infront of everyone and let them balance themselves, opposed to micin them all singily and then mixin it yourself.

Have fun,

Sabith
 
OK - then what about a sound card - should I improve that? The one I have is 5 years old. Its an Avance ALS 100 (I think). It might be 16 bit, but I do not have a driver for Win '98 which I am running - it loads the drive in the startup files. Should I replace it and if so at what cost.

Mixers and microphones - can you recommend a mixer and microphines for rental? About how much to rent?

I gather I would hook the microphones into the mixer, hook the mixer to the sound card, adjust the mikes for "balance", then start recording?

Thanks, I know I am green on this.
 
I spent a few hours researching this site and also some other links, etc. Also checked into my hardware and so forth. I have an AMD K6 running at 500 MHz, 128 Mb ram, 16 Gb of hard drive space and the sound card is actually an Avance AS007.

I'm thinking for this recording project I will buy a Soundblaster Live! and possibly rent a mixer, mikes, etc. based on your input.

Any other hints would be most welcome. I recorded on a little portable cassette and then patched a stereo cassette deck into my main pc and this is the result:

http://www.siscom.net/~markf

for a couple older files. They sound like the speed was off or something. That's one reason why I want to go direct to hard drive.

Again, any hints are appreciated.
 
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