Recording with backing tracks

[suds_10]

Im sorry if there is a very obvious answer to this question but i am extremely new to this, I have backing tracks on cd and i want to record my vocals over the top of them, How do i do this ? Im have a tascam digital portastudio and i can record my vocals through a condenser mic but how do i then get the backing track from the cd ? Thanks

 

[JazzMasterWil]

Does you're porta studio have rca ins?

They would be the red and white plugs like you would plug your dvd player into it the tv. (Well the tv would be red, white, and yellow plugs).

If it has rca ins and you have a cd player with rca outs, then you could just......

play the cd into your recorder, and record the cd of the back vocals that way....

then record your voice over top of that.

If you're recorder doesn't have rca ins, I really don't know what to tell. About the only other thing I could think of is..... micing your cd players speakers (like they were guitar amps) and recording that...... and I can promise that won't sound good.

Hope this helps.

 

[ssscientist]

Im have a tascam digital portastudio and i can record my vocals through a condenser mic but how do i then get the backing track from the cd ? Thanks

Simple. Take the outputs of your CD player --- which as JMWil pointed out are probably RCA jacks --- and use an RCA cable with 1/4" adapters on the other end to plug the CD player into the line level inputs on your portastudio. You can get RCA to 1/4" adapters at any Radio Shack for just a few dollars...

 

[suds_10]

recording backing vocals

thanks very much for your replys it does sound simple i will try this.