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scooby
New member
Hi,
Well got cakewalk up and running with alot of help from James (cheers!) and i just want to see if anyone had any thoughts on best way for me to set up to record a band, with the gear i have.
Basically i have been in bands for ages so know a little about PA setup etc and have flirted with sequencers before, but my main thing is Guitar & Bass. What i want to do is see if i can produce good quality EP's etc outside of the studio - our setup is drums/two guitars/bass and a singer (shouter).
'studio 'Gear at my disposal is a
PC with onboard soundcard /cakewalk
4 track portastudio
Alesis midiverb
Practice marshall
a dodgy patch bay
loads of various leads
shure mic
band pa mixer (12 channel peavey - new this year)
Is the best way to always go thru the 4track>PC or would i be better borrowing the band mixer ? when people talk about preamp is it just getting a good signal with eq before it gets to the soundcard thats important ?
And say if i want to record something with effects on my guitar - do i just mic up the amp and play thru the mixer/4 track ? - plus when recording the drums,same again just mic him up say with three mics thru mixer then into pc ?
I have only used the midiverb for the odd delay now and then on my amp..im sure it can do more
My plan for the moment is just to hook up an old amp & speakers for monitoring to get a decent sound
Oh and please let me know if im posting in the wrong place here...i feel these are kind of newbie/basic questions
Cheers!
Well got cakewalk up and running with alot of help from James (cheers!) and i just want to see if anyone had any thoughts on best way for me to set up to record a band, with the gear i have.
Basically i have been in bands for ages so know a little about PA setup etc and have flirted with sequencers before, but my main thing is Guitar & Bass. What i want to do is see if i can produce good quality EP's etc outside of the studio - our setup is drums/two guitars/bass and a singer (shouter).
'studio 'Gear at my disposal is a
PC with onboard soundcard /cakewalk
4 track portastudio
Alesis midiverb
Practice marshall
a dodgy patch bay
loads of various leads
shure mic
band pa mixer (12 channel peavey - new this year)
Is the best way to always go thru the 4track>PC or would i be better borrowing the band mixer ? when people talk about preamp is it just getting a good signal with eq before it gets to the soundcard thats important ?
And say if i want to record something with effects on my guitar - do i just mic up the amp and play thru the mixer/4 track ? - plus when recording the drums,same again just mic him up say with three mics thru mixer then into pc ?
I have only used the midiverb for the odd delay now and then on my amp..im sure it can do more
My plan for the moment is just to hook up an old amp & speakers for monitoring to get a decent sound
Oh and please let me know if im posting in the wrong place here...i feel these are kind of newbie/basic questions
Cheers!