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I'm working on a demo and I have cakewalk pro audio 9 on a home pc with a cd burner my sound card is a standard 16 bit soundblaster (full duplex) can I make a half way decent demo or do I have to have a 24 bit "PRO" soundcard.

Thanks
 
yes, you can make a half way decent demo..but thats all your gonna get..is 'demo' quality. Good luck. What other gear do you have?
 
RAO,

I have been a pro player all my adult life. There is
a famous saying in the music biz, which I am about
to tell you. DONT TELL ANYBODY ELSE. Its top secret.

Its a mantra. Say it ten times a day. Say it backwards
and forwards. Say it while brushing your teeth.
Say it loud, say it proud. Are you ready? OK here goes:

"The Beatles made Sgt. Pepper on a 4 Track".

Its the worst cliche in the Biz, but hell, it is
true.

A more modern tale is of Beck and the tune "Loser".
He made that song, a hit, with tissue paper and spit.
I forget the actual details, but the stuff he used
was Prosumer garbage.

Ametth is right, of course, its not going to match
a cool soundcard, but a better question is

"can I do some cool work and record it on a
mediocre soundcard"?

FYI, I have a Darla24 card, $279. Sounds killer,
I love that thing. Cheers David
 
DavidK - Well said! To elaborate further, (and I know I'm singing to the choir), the focus should be more on content than delivery. That said, the Lynx One is also killer. Thanks to the 24bit resolution I've produced some of the cleanest sounding garbage ever. Ha! Ha! Cheers!
 
not exactly true david, they did not just record on *one* four track, they actually syncd some together..and the four tracks they used were not a cassete based four track.
 
Lambo, thanx for the compliment. I myself thought that
was a clever post, if I do say so myself!!

Ametth, I did not know this!! Dont tell too many people
that, its a classic line, Even if it is stretching the
truth ( a Gore-ism ). I of course knew it wasnt a
cassette, probably a Studer or whatever ruled in 1967.
How did they sync equipment back then?

They also had the greatest studio, engineers, producer,
equipment, mics available, and the London Symphony,
But I try not to mention that part too, its a
cool phrase meant to inspire.

My dear Colleague and Mentor, Jose-Luis Garcia,
played the first fiddle part on She's Leaving Home.
To this day, he got 40 bucks, for a song that has
a string quintet and harp, and no other musicians
(except John and Paul singing). That aint right,
but its a screwed-up biz. Cheers, David
 
A few notes on She's leavin Home

I got this info at http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beatles/var-1967.html
This site gives a lot of insight on most recordings of the Beatles




SHE'S LEAVING HOME

basic recording- 17 Mar 1967
additional recording- 20 Mar 1967
master tape- 4 track 2d generation

[a] mono 20 Mar 1967. edited.
UK: Parlophone PMC 7026 Sgt Pepper 1967.
US: Capitol MAS 3653 Sgt Pepper 1967.

stereo 17 Apr 1967. edited.
UK: Parlophone PCS 7026 Sgt Pepper 1967.
US: Capitol SMAS 3653 Sgt Pepper 1967.
CD: EMI CDP 7 46442 2 Sgt Pepper 1987.

A short amount of instrumental work between the verses was removed after the mixing was done, so both mixes are edited. Reverb had
been added during mixing, and the edits are a little more obvious in stereo , just before Paul starts singing the second and third verses. The
two mixes are at different speeds, and we believe stereo was slowed down when mixed (rather than the mono being sped up), partly
because the orchestra sounds better in mono [a]. Possibly the tape was made at an off-speed, like many Sgt Pepper songs, and was played
for stereo mixing at normal speed?
 
I believe they used 1" 4 track tape..and they synced machines by feeding a 50 cycle tone from the track of one machine then raised it's voltage to drive the captsan motor of the second.
 
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