JimmyS1969
MOODerator
Make up your mind.
Hehe....Talk about a mood swing.
lol!
Make up your mind.
Hehe....Talk about a mood swing.
I feel like I'm missing something here.
Since you seem to be obsessing over my education and feel the need to be an idiot on the internet because no one will take you seriously in real life, my class was FREE. It was high school, I am an 18 year old aspiring musician, at some point in your depressed life you were probably in a very similar position. All my training in music has gone towards singing and classical music theory and musicology, so SORRY for asking a FORUM of musicians to help a brother out. One of the reasons I turned here so quickly was because "Banjo Mart" as you so affectionately want to call it wasn't a solid source of information. So why not try and learn from real musicians? People who will post legit help and answers and lead me to an understanding of something I know almost nothing about. People unlike you, who just feel the need to post mindless babble in order to talk down to the "noob" and feel all high and mighty about yourself. I guess a Napolean complex is in order, or maybe we should call it a Mozart Complex. He was pretty short right? Oh. But he had talent, didn't he?
Your first mistake was going to Banjo Mart.
Is the Ableton a crack? Be honest.
Take the Icicle back and get a USB-powered full-duplex interface. The Icicle is designed for podcasting and not for doing overdubs.
When you get an interface, turn off all the screen saver/anti-virus/whatever other bullshit you have running besides your DAW.
The interface IS your soundcard. Disable the internal soundcard on the laptop and route everything through the USB interface.
Also please post the name of the school where you took this recording class because they didn't teach you jackshit.
So for a while now I have been working with electronic music (took a class in school and fell in love with DAW software and the whole field of music)
I am a classical vocalist by trade, and figured that I should pick up a mic and power supply to start recording my self into electronic tracks and work on boosting my classical recording portfolio with midi accompanied recordings and the like.
Much to my happiness my old musicianship teacher decided to purchase a Neummann u87 for the school's recording studio. (As a music charter we have around 40k invested into small recording studio for the students.) Because he picked up the new mic for the school and because I asked nicely he sold me the TLM 103 we have had for only a couple of years for pennies on the dollar.
I was so excited to get my hands on it. However, I had the issue of a beautiful mic that I had used several times at school to make beautiful recordings with, but no set up to use it.
So obviously I ran down to my local Guitar Center and starting finding out a way to interface it with my laptop. When I got home is where I ran into some seriously depressing issues.
I needed an inexpensive way of interfacing (I spent most of my money on the mic) and the helpful staff set me up with the Blue Icicle as an easy way of interfacing my components until I had the money to invest in a real preamp interface and mixer station.
I found quickly (within about 15 minutes of getting home) that I had a serious issue in recording on my laptop. My sound card? Well its ****. When I try to record I get a drop off and a nice loud click to go with it about every 2 seconds or so. Basically its useless at this point. After reading on the internet for about 5 hours and trouble shooting everything I could find, I am still at a loss at what to do. I believe the issue stems from a low buffer capacity on my computers built it sound card. Basically the cache gets filled and I end up losing that moment of sound that I keep missing.
So what is my question? Well would investing in a real preamp interface fix this issue or do I need to buy a new sound card? Do interfaces come with their own buffering abilities, or is that all going to be my sound cards responsibility? If I do need a new sound card, what should I buy to fix my problem? Replacing the internal is impossible as it is intergrated (yay laptops!) so what is there in the way of reliable external sound card set ups? Or I am completely left field in my reasoning?
My software of choice is Ableton Live 9 Studio and laptop is a Lenovo model from 2 years ago (I can't find the type of sound card it has in it, sorry)
Any suggestions for trouble shooting or advice on the hardware I need going forward?
Since you seem to be obsessing over my education and feel the need to be an idiot on the internet because no one will take you seriously in real life, my class was FREE. It was high school, I am an 18 year old aspiring musician, at some point in your depressed life you were probably in a very similar position. All my training in music has gone towards singing and classical music theory and musicology, so SORRY for asking a FORUM of musicians to help a brother out. One of the reasons I turned here so quickly was because "Banjo Mart" as you so affectionately want to call it wasn't a solid source of information. So why not try and learn from real musicians? People who will post legit help and answers and lead me to an understanding of something I know almost nothing about. People unlike you, who just feel the need to post mindless babble in order to talk down to the "noob" and feel all high and mighty about yourself. I guess a Napolean complex is in order, or maybe we should call it a Mozart Complex. He was pretty short right? Oh. But he had talent, didn't he?
N00b just beat down c7sus. Nice work.
I'm back, what did I miss? LOL!
LOL! Forced hiatus!You were gone? Where were you?
LOL! Forced hiatus!
DO! Get an interface with MIDI ports.
Yes, many keyboards come equipped with USB but that just allows them to work on a computer, you still do not have a MIDI "interface". This last allows the connection of any other MIDI device, a drum machine, MIDI controller even a relatively cheap "Portasound" type keyboard which will nonetheless give you not only access to a vast variety of sounds but also allow you to learn the nuts&bolts of MIDI.
The addition of MIDI ports to an AI need not increase its cost, the Steinberg UR22 is a stonking little interface with MIDI but cost LESS than much of the MIDIless competition.
MIDI is a fantastic success story for industry co-operation, we lose its real functions at our peril and for a ha'poth of tar?
Dave.
I'm not picking on you, but just pointing out a comparison. "Honey, I bought this nice cushion but now we're going to have to redecorate the whole house." You have one part of the equation; the mic. Your laptop is not up to the task. I have an ASUS i7 laptop that i paid $500 for and it is designed for audio, video, and animation. The i6's might be a bit iffy. Go online and check about whether the sound card is the real problem, but my guess is your laptop is just not made for recording. All the other advice is correct but if you are not using a powerful enough cpu, you will always have problems. I would look online for you but I don't know what your laptop specs are. You might try a site called gearslutz. It's a forum dealing with these issues.
Rod Norman
Engineer
For being honest! LOL!Jeez, for what?