Starting From The Begining

[blueman9]

I am totaly new to home recording and I need all the help I can find.
I am a Native American Flute player/performer and I want to create my own CD.
I have 3 computers, a Gateway desktop with 160 mgs of Ram, running at 450 MGh, 13 gig hard drive. Don't know what sound card is in here and the mother board is made by some unknown maker?
2. A Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, 300 MGh, 4 gig hard drive, 128 mgs of Ram. Don't know what else is in there?
3. An IMac with a G3, 400 MGh, and 128 megs of Ram.
I need to know which computer to use? and everything else needed to start recording my music.
I do have an AKG c1000s mic and that is it.

 

[regebro]

The GATEWAY should do nicely. You can download a software called n-track and start off really cheap!

But you will have to put doen a LOT of effort in it, as except if you rent a studio and do it there. But that of course takes more money.

[Edited by regebro on 10-26-2000 at 14:38]

 

[AlChuck]

blueman9,

A good place to start is to read through the tutorials, FAQs, or whatever-you-want-to-call-thems at this website:

http://www.homerecording.com/newbies.html

Rather strangely organized, but there's a lot of good general material to read, and pointers to more.

I actually would advise against the laptop as a platform -- there are really only a few audio interfaces to choose from and, besides, it's the least capable of the machines in your list in speed, amount of RAM and disk space. Maybe regebro meant to say "the Gateway should do nicely," but his typing fingers slipped

You are in the enviable position of having a real choice between the Mac platform and the PC platform (though the iMac is not as expandable as other Mac are). Read up on both.

Good luck!

-AlChuck