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mjhigg
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I've got a technical question that I'm sure has been covered in the BBS somewhere, but I haven't been able to find it, so here it is...
I am a singer/songwriter/guitarist type who has been recording on a Tascam cassette 8-track for years, and recently, I started sending the stereo mix from my Tascam to SoundForge on my PC, where I compress, EQ, and add reverb. Then I open the tracks in Cakewalk, and mix to a single wave file. Then I reopen the wave file in SoundForge again for some final normalizing-type stuff. It's working out pretty well, except...
I have only been able to record two tracks using this method because of synch problems. When I send the mix from the Tascam, I pan the acoustic guitar hard one way, and the vocal hard the opposite way. Then when I get them into SoundForge, I separate them and I've got two tracks that I can modify individually, and are in synch. I've tried adding other tracks, and lining them up, but it never seems to work out, and two tracks of audio gets pretty boring, I gotta tell ya!
So I guess I probably need one of those soundcards that you can play and record at the same time on, no? I've seen some of those high-end soundcards with a number of separate inputs, and all. But really, I'd only be adding one track at a time, so I'm not sure if those are really for me. Basically this is pretty much new ground for me, so any input would be greatly appreciated!
I am a singer/songwriter/guitarist type who has been recording on a Tascam cassette 8-track for years, and recently, I started sending the stereo mix from my Tascam to SoundForge on my PC, where I compress, EQ, and add reverb. Then I open the tracks in Cakewalk, and mix to a single wave file. Then I reopen the wave file in SoundForge again for some final normalizing-type stuff. It's working out pretty well, except...
I have only been able to record two tracks using this method because of synch problems. When I send the mix from the Tascam, I pan the acoustic guitar hard one way, and the vocal hard the opposite way. Then when I get them into SoundForge, I separate them and I've got two tracks that I can modify individually, and are in synch. I've tried adding other tracks, and lining them up, but it never seems to work out, and two tracks of audio gets pretty boring, I gotta tell ya!
So I guess I probably need one of those soundcards that you can play and record at the same time on, no? I've seen some of those high-end soundcards with a number of separate inputs, and all. But really, I'd only be adding one track at a time, so I'm not sure if those are really for me. Basically this is pretty much new ground for me, so any input would be greatly appreciated!